Latest / The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey / Today's Word 06-20-25 Focus on the Purpose and the Promise
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- 0:00Speaker 1: At your early morning praise party. I am Sherry Mackie
- 0:04Speaker 1: and it's time right now. Four Today's word focus on
- 0:10Speaker 1: the purpose and the promise. Luke one thirty and thirty
- 0:17Speaker 1: one says what the Angel said to her. Do not
- 0:21Speaker 1: be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You
- 0:25Speaker 1: will conceive and give birth to a son, and you
- 0:27Speaker 1: are to call him Jesus. You know when Angel, When
- 0:35Speaker 1: the Angel Gabriel told Mary that she was going to
- 0:38Speaker 1: give birth to the Messiah. Y'all, she was an engaged woman,
- 0:43Speaker 1: engaged to a fine young man. This had been the
- 0:46Speaker 1: best time of her life. She was preparing for her wedding.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Then came the amazing news that, out of all the
- 0:53Speaker 1: women in the whole world, she had been chosen by
- 0:57Speaker 1: God to do the miraculous, to care read the savior
- 1:01Speaker 1: of the world and give birth to Jesus Christ. Oh,
- 1:06Speaker 1: but what Gabriel didn't tell her were about the difficulties ahead.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Gabriel didn't tell her that her fiance Joseph, was so
- 1:16Speaker 1: upset thinking she had cheated and gotten pregnant by another man,
- 1:19Speaker 1: that he was about to break off the engagement and
- 1:22Speaker 1: put her away. Privately, Gabriel didn't tell her that there
- 1:27Speaker 1: would be gossip, the slander, heurful talk by neighbors and
- 1:32Speaker 1: even people that she called friends. Gable didn't tell her
- 1:37Speaker 1: there would be a painful ninety mile trip to Bethlehem
- 1:42Speaker 1: on a donkey while she was nine months pregnant, and
- 1:45Speaker 1: then only to have to give birth in a manger.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Mary had to go through so much and handled so
- 1:55Speaker 1: many things in order to deliver the promise and the
- 1:59Speaker 1: savior of the world. See, when God gives you a promise,
- 2:04Speaker 1: when he puts a dream in your heart, you got
- 2:07Speaker 1: to realize, yes, there will be difficulties, and you'll face
- 2:12Speaker 1: some wrong situations. You'll face some things that seem hard
- 2:16Speaker 1: and like, man, this couldn't be God. But you got
- 2:19Speaker 1: to realize the steps of the righteous are ordered by
- 2:23Speaker 1: the Lord and they're all a part of his plan
- 2:25Speaker 1: to bring it to fulfillment. So you keep honoring God,
- 2:29Speaker 1: you keep him first place, and you stay focused on
- 2:32Speaker 1: the purpose, and you'll see the promise come to pass. Father, God,
- 2:37Speaker 1: thank you for your promises that you will bring to
- 2:41Speaker 1: fulfillment to your plans for our lives. Help us to
- 2:45Speaker 1: stand firm even in difficult times when everything seems to
- 2:49Speaker 1: be going wrong. God, we declare that we're going to
- 2:52Speaker 1: keep honoring you and doing what is right, no matter what.
- 2:55Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Hey, now that's your word for today.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Take it apply to your everyday life, and you continue
- 3:02Speaker 1: to be encouraged and inspired. It is your early morning
- 3:05Speaker 1: praise party. I am Sherry MACKI