Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

We either believe the Bible that Jesus is ours and he's the greatest possession,

or we don't believe that.

Being blessed and highly favored does not mean living a life without suffering and bad situation and parking spaces miles from the mall.

It means having the presence and unalterable promises of God in those situations. Hello and thanks for joining us here on Summit Life with Pastor J.D Greer.

As always, I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

All right, Christmas Day is inching closer and we pray that your week has been full of joy and anticipation as we celebrate with family and friends this season.

You know, as Christians, we tend to use the term blessed pretty loosely.

When something good happens, we say that we're blessed.

Or when we start on a new venture, we pray for God's blessings.

But what do we actually mean?

Is our understanding of that word actually biblical?

Those are the questions we are tackling today

as Pastor Jady continues his short teaching series

called God with us.

We're looking at how Mary talked about blessing

when she was pregnant with Jesus in Luke chapter one.

verse 46, Mary sang, this is in poetry.

My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices and God my Savior.

For he has looked on the humblest state of his servant,

for behold from now on all generations will call me blessed.

For he who is mighty has done great things for me and

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