Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning.

Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another mornings with the masters.

We're devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We are going to be picking up with day five of our devotional in the Bible app titled

in want and in plenty, but before that, we're going to do our seven days of our Advent

calendar, which is just becoming a very sweet tradition.

So I'm going to read that.

Then I'll read the scripture, and then the devotional will take it from there.

Okay.

God sent the angel Gabriel to Mary in the village of Nazareth. The angel said, greetings. The Lord has blessed you and is with you. You will give birth to a son and you are to name him Jesus. He will be called son of the most high and will reign forever. His kingdom will never end. The angel also said, the holy one to be born to you will be called God's

son. Even your cousin Elizabeth is going to have a child in her old age. Nothing is impossible with God.

I am the Lord's servant, Mary answered, may everything you have said come true. Then the angel left her.

Mary hurried to visit her relative Elizabeth.

At the sound of Mary's greeting, the baby inside Elizabeth jumped for joy.

Elizabeth told Mary that she was blessed because she believed that what the Lord said to her would really happen.

Mary was engaged to a man named Joseph, but before they came together, an angel of the Lord

appeared to Joseph in a dream. The angel told him that Mary was to have a baby from God.

Joseph was to name the baby Jesus because he would save his people from their sins.

He would also be called Emmanuel, which means God with us.

At that time, a decree said everyone had to go to his family's town to register. Joseph was from the

family of David, so he and Mary went to Bethlehem, which was David's home. In day seven, which

sounds really crispy, says, while Joseph and Mary were in Bethlehem,

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