I want to call our attention to a gospel narrative in the book of Luke chapter number one,

beginning at verse 26. And we're going to read a couple of verses there. Hey, I want you guys to welcome

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Luke chapter 1, verse 26, says this. It says in the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy,

God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, which was a town in Galilee. He sent Gabriel to a virgin

virgin that's pledged to be married

to a man named Joseph, who's a descendant of David.

The virgin's name was Mary, and the angel went to her and said,

greetings, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you.

I want to pause the reading of scripture there, and I want to share as a subject for this sermon, a statement that was released by Pastor William McDiol during our Miracle

Week prayer call on Wednesday morning. He said something that resonated with me so strongly,

I felt the need to unpack it in the context of a sermon. So the topic of tonight's teaching is inspired by that conversation

and the title is this, Lord, make me a sign. I need a better amen than that.

Lord, make me a sign.

This passage here in Luke family, I think is a powerful picture of a principle I've affectionately entitled the principle of exposure.

And this principle, for those of you who are unfamiliar with it or who may have forgotten,

simply suggests that God uses exposure to what he has done with others as an avenue to increase your expectation of what he can do with you.

I'm going to read it one more time. I want it to sink in your mind. God uses exposure to what he has done with others as an avenue, as an instrument, as an

impetus to increase your expectation of what he can do with you. In other words, there are times

when God gives us a front row seat to what he has done with

others not to make us jealous but to make us hungry jealousy is the feeling you get when you mismanage your exposure.

Jealousy is the consequence of an individual allowing exposure to drive them to comparison when exposure should produce

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