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

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

Good morning, you guys.

Good morning, and Merry Christmas, everyone.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas indeed.

We are back in our new morning Mercedes devotional, so we're super excited about that.

And today's also the twelfth and final day of our Christmas giveaway,

so stay tuned to the very end of the devotional for the winner.

Yes.

I'm going to go and jump on in.

It says,

the words you're about to hear should be included in every celebration of Christmas.

They express the glorious result of the coming of the Christ child to earth.

He experienced the manger, the flight to Egypt, the daily suffering of hunger and homelessness,

the rejection of religious authorities, the disloyalty of the disciples,

the unjust trial, the cruel death, and the tomb so that you would have what these words express.

He came and endured all things for you and for me so that we would have forever what we never

could have earned, deserved, or achieved on our own.

Romans chapter 8 verses 31 through 39 says,

what shall we say about such wonderful things as these?

If God is for us, who can ever be against us?

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