This is the podcast of Jonathan David and Melissa Helcer.

In this podcast, Jonathan shares a message about the way that Mary, the mother of Jesus,

courageously prayed in changed history.

I want to read tonight out of Luke.

And I love that Philist started the night reading out of Luke.

And she read the song that Mary sang when Mary and Elizabeth encountered one another,

and they were both pregnant.

And I want to just go back a few more verses to the moment that Mary encounters an angel

and startling wild, crazy news.

And she says, let it be unto me, God, according to your Word.

So let's look at Luke 1-26-41.

Jesus, thank you for this story that is above every other story.

God, would you call the familiar blinders to fall off our eyes tonight where we've heard this story our whole life?

Would you walk into this room tonight, Jesus, and show us who you really are?

A God that would come so close that you would wear our flesh and you would be our bone,

that you would come and live inside of a teenage girl, born into this world,

to wear our sin, to take our mess upon yourself, to become the lamb who would be slain,

and take the sins of the world to make us a brand new creation.

Would you call us this Christmas season to be completely fascinated by the gospel all over again?

Sweep us off our feet and open up the eyes of our heart, God.

I want to know you, I want to see you, I want to hear you, I want to experience all that you were born for

and all that you died for and all that you rose for.

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