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Christmas 2014Mary: Highly FavoredDecember 21, 2014Michael\u2019s Personal Goal: to walk in full confidence that God is using me to make a differencePlease turn to Luke 1: 26-46:1. Mary was highly favored and so are you (ref. Luke 1:28)Charis: grace (charitoo: endowed with grace)For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith\u2014and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God\u2026Ephesians 2:8App: Walk in full assurance of God\u2019s favor over you2. If God can use Mary, God can use you (ref. 1Corinthians 1:27-31)App: Walk in the assurance that God will use you despite yourself and your circumstancesThree times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But He said to me, \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ\u2019s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ\u2019s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2Corinthians 12:8-10 (ref. Matthew 12:46-50)For my Father\u2019s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.\u201d John 6:40For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith\u2014and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God\u20149 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God\u2019s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:8-10Two things that God wants from you:1.Put your faith in Jesus Christ (see John 6:40)2.Lay your life down for Him, just as He laid His life down for you (ref. Luke 9:23-27Suggested Prayer: \u201cI am the Lord\u2019s servant\u2026May it be to me as you have said.\u201d Luke 1:38What is God\u2019s Spirit speaking into your life today? How must you respond?