Mary trusted God even when when she didnt fully understand how the plan of God would be played out in her life and didnt fully know how the baby inside her would change the world as He did. She gave up her life as she knew it as in her time to get pregnant without marriage she could have been stoned to death. She knew when she said yes she could have lost the love of her life , Joseph. Joseph was going to leave her until God intervened and an Angel showed up. She knew she would be rejected by society. She trusted that God would go against all odds and do the impossible with her and her cousin Elisabeth. God did exceedingly abundantly more..What has God told each of us that He would do and Hes waiting for our Yes and yielding fully to Him so He can birth the baby inside of us and do exceedingly abundantly more than we can dare ask think or hope for ... Just BELiEVE... To a girl never having been married and a virgin engaged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of the house of David; and the virgins name was Mary. And he came to her and said, Hail, O favored one [endued with grace]! The Lord is with you! Blessed (favored of God) are you before all other women! But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled and disturbed and confused at what he said and kept revolving in her mind what such a greeting might mean. And the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found grace (free, spontaneous, absolute favor and loving-kindness) with God. And listen! You will become pregnant and will give birth to a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus. He will be great (eminent) and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to Him the throne of His forefather David, And He will reign over the house of Jacob throughout the ages; and of His reign there will be no end. [Isa. 9:6, 7; Dan. 2:44.] And Mary said to the angel, How can this be, since I have no [intimacy with any man as a] husband? Then the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you [like a shining cloud]; and so the holy (pure, sinless) Thing (Offspring) which shall be born of you will be called the Son of God. [Exod. 40:34; Isa. 7:14.] And listen! Your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is now the sixth month with her who was called barren. For with God nothing is ever impossible and no word from God shall be without power or impossible of fulfillment. Then Mary said, Behold, I am the handmaiden of the Lord; let it be done to me according to what you have said. And the angel left her. And blessed (happy, to be envied) is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of the things that were spoken to her from the Lord. And Mary said, My soul magnifies and extols the Lord, (Luke 1:27-38, 45-46 AMP)
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