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December 15, 2024

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Sermon Notes

The Waiting || A Child’s Trust in God || December 15, 2024


  1. GOD IS IN CONTROL
  2. Israel had been waiting for God to deliver them
  3. God had been mostly silent for 400 years.
  4. They were still expecting God to show up and deliver them.
  5. They were definitely people of FAITH
  6. God sent Gabriel to Mary
  7. This is not Mary’s story. This is God’s Story that God graciously invited Mary into.
  8. God invites us into His story and we are given the privilege to live it out WITH HIM!
  9. When we do, we experience blessing and life to a degree we never could expect.
  10. There will also be hardship along the way
  11. I can’t imagine what Mary felt and experienced as she watched Jesus grow and fulfill His calling.
  12. Mary had no idea God had already began the plan by sending Gabriel to Zachariah to tell about Elizabeth being pregnant with John the Baptist.
  13. This is God’s Plan
  14. Mary is God’s choice
  15. 12-13 years old.
  16. Luke makes it clear that we understand that Mary is a Virgin.
  17. GOD USES WHO HE CHOOSES
  18. God could have brought deliverance and salvation in any way He chose but this is how He chose.
  19. A humble, poor young girl
  20. From a small, insignificant town.
  21. She was open, available, faith filled.
  22. God desires to use you. God desires to work through you and fulfill His plan through you.
  23. Do you believe it?
  24. Are you open to it?
  25. Are you in a place in your relationship with Him to be able to hear it when He chooses you?
  26. FAITH IS A DECISION, NOT A FEELING
  27. 12 years old
  28. An angel in your presence
  29. You will become pregnant
  30. What will my father think?
  31. What will my betrothed think?
  32. Will I be seen as an adulteress and possibly stoned to death?
  33. This is not what I had planned for my life.
  34. How will this happen?
  35. I haven’t known a man
  36. Yet, she believed
  37. How will this be?
  38. She didn’t ask for a sign
  39. She didn’t stay in her feelings - SHE TRUSTED GOD!
  40. Gabriel told her a sign would be that Elizabeth was also pregnant which shows God can do whatever He desires.
  41. Gabriel says, “FOR NOTHING WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD.”
  42. Elizabeth being pregnant seems impossible. Girl, you haven’t seen nothing yet!!”
  43. Maybe God’s decision in working through Mary had to do with her childlike faith. 
  44. There doesn’t seem to be any doubt.
  45. There is tremendous TRUST
  46. She believes it can be done even though she is not sure how.
  47. Matt. 18:3-4
  48. And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
  49. SHE TRUSTS AND COMMITS
  50. I am the Lord’s Servant
  51. Bondslave: one who voluntarily sells themself into slavery. She was fully committed, by her choice, to commit herself to this service of the Lord.
  52. Mary said, “LET’S DO THIS!”
  53. In your waiting, what do you need to believe God for?
  54. Are you seeking God in your life?
  55. Are you expecting Him to interrupt your life with His plan?
  56. Are you open to it?
  57. Are you humble and trusting in His plan?
  58. Do you believe that there is nothing impossible with God?
  59. What is God asking of you that may seem impossible but with Him, it is very possible?
  60. Are you looking for those things in your life?
  61. Are you open to them?



Reflection/Application Questions

  1. What can Mary’s faith teach us about trusting God when His plans seem overwhelming or unexpected?
  2. How does Mary’s story challenge your view of what it means to live a life of faith?
  3. What are you waiting on God for today? How can you trust Him in the waiting?
  4. How does Mary’s willingness to say “yes” to God inspire you to surrender to His will in your own life?
  5. In what ways are you allowing God to use your ordinary life for extraordinary purposes?
  6. How does Jesus, as the light of the world, bring hope to your darkest situations?
  7. What does Mary’s story reveal about God’s ability to work through people regardless of age, status, or background?
  8. How can you cultivate a childlike faith that trusts God completely?
  9. What promises from God’s Word give you hope in this season of waiting?
  10. How can you share the light of Christ with others during this Advent season?


Time of Response

Take a few minutes of silence. Allow your own thoughts to quiet and be still. Where does the Holy Spirit want you to decrease so that Christ could increase in your life? What part of your life, if reduced, would make more room for you to thrive spiritually?

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QUESTIONS TO ASK WHILE READING SCRIPTURE


What does this reveal about God?

What does this reveal about you in relation to God?

What do you need to do about it?

The Covenant Prayer from John Wesley's Covenant Service, 1780 (adapted)

I am no longer my own, 

but Yours. 


Put me to what you will, 

rank me with whom you will. 


Put me to doing, 

put me to suffering. 


Let me be employed for You or laid aside for You, 

exalted for You or brought low for You. 


Let me be full, 

let me be empty. 


Let me have all things, 

let me have nothing. 


I freely and heartily yield all things 

to Your pleasure and disposal. 


And now, O glorious and blessed God, 

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, 

You are mine, 

and I am Yours. 


So be it. 


And the covenant which I have made on earth, 

let it be ratified in heaven. 

Amen. 

 

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How Can I Be Intentional When Reading Scripture?

One Method To Use When Reading Scripture: 

The S.O.A.P.S. Method

S.cripture: Write down the Bible passage you will be studying.

O.bservations: Examine the text and write down what you notice and see. Start with the obvious and move to the deeper.

A.pplication: Apply God’s Word to your life in a practical way. What is God saying about Himself, about you and about what He is calling you to?

P.rayer: Respond to God’s Word with your own words.

S.hare: Commit to share what God is showing you with someone else.



  • Inductive Bible Study: 
  • Observation (what does the passage say?)
  1. What is happening in the passage?
  2. Who is involved in the passage?
  3. What happened before and after the passage.
  4. Where are they located and how is that influencing the passage.
  • Interpretation (what does it mean?)
  1. What is the passage saying considering everything I have observed and what I know from the rest of Scripture
  2. What does the scripture say within context of the entirety of Scripture?
  • Application (how does it apply to my life?)
  1. What does the passage say about God?
  2. What does the passage say about me and to me?
  3. What am I being called to DO because of the passage of Scripture?

How do I talk with God?

WAYS TO PRAY


One Way to talk with God is to:

Pause.

Rejoice.

Ask.

Yield.


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