Do we have the guts to stand before God and go, I'm in?

With all the complications ahead, amen.

Because I'm going to tell you something.

If we knew what we'd be missing, we wouldn't have the guts to miss it.

Where is it we're going to exercise our courage on saying no to God

or saying yes to him

so Y'all, I mean, come on.

Let's remember, this is weird stuff.

This is glorious.

We're acting like we got better things to study than the scriptures.

I love reading books.

I read all sorts of books.

But there is nothing more exciting than this.

It just doesn't exist.

We just have lost our edge to it because now we read it just in our human flesh instead of pressing into the spirit.

So in those days, Mary set out and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah, where she entered Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth.

When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaps inside of Elizabeth. Elizabeth

was filled with the Holy Spirit. This was before the Holy Spirit was poured out in Acts chapter 2.

She's filled with Holy Spirit because the baby inside of her, six months inside of her, is filled with the Holy Spirit.

He's so filled that she's filled.

And she says, with a loud cry, blessed are you among women, and your child will be blessed.

How could this happen to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

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