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Isaiah 9:6-7, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
7-Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His Kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”

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A BIRTHING WITHOUT AND WITHIN:
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This was a prophecy given by the prophet Isaiah, and it meant that God would give His only begotten Son to the world as its Savior. “In the beginning was the Word...” (John 1:1). God’s Son was with Him from eternity, where there was and is no beginning and no ending.. Only forever. God gave His only begotten Son, Jesus, to be born “unto us.” Or rather, to be born “in us” when we receive Him into our hearts as Savior.

Isaiah’s prophecy also meant that the Son of God was to be born of a woman. Not just any woman, but a virgin. The very fact that Jesus was to be born of a virgin was in itself a miracle about to be witnessed by the whole world. The prophecy had gone forth. God Himself had prophesied this first in Genesis 3:15, when He said, “Her seed shall bruise your (Satan’s) head.” Jesus defeated Satan on the cross at Calvary.

Then, you look at that prophecy again that God spoke in Genesis 3:15, “Her seed...” and it hits you. Wait a minute! A woman doesn’t have “seed.” Well now, don’t that just snap your beans? When the angel Gabriel came to Mary, he reminded her of God’s mighty power. “For with God, nothing shall be impossible” (Luke 1:37). Prior to this, she had asked the question, “How can this be?” The angel gives her a quick reminder to have faith by saying, “For with God, nothing shall be impossible.” In my paraphrase, the angel could have said to Mary, “Come on, Mary, get your faith in gear. This is no time to be asking questions of doubt and unbelief. BELIEVE, girl!”

The question is, do we believe? Like Mary, God will often ask us to believe for the seemingly impossible. He will ask us to stretch our faith out farther than ever like you would a rubber band. And once we just get used to that level of faith, look out, don’t get too comfortable because God is not going to let you sit there long to become complacent. He’s going to be saying, “Arise, oh sleeper and come up higher!” I have certainly found this to be true in my own life. How about you?

When Mary was told that she would conceive a child, despite the fact that she was an unmarried virgin, it meant that Jesus would be born without a biological father. He was, and He is the Son of the living God. God was, and is His Father. And so, six miles outside of Judea in a town called Bethlehem near Jerusalem, the Christ child was born.

Lets see how all this came about in Luke 1:26-38, “And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth.
27-to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David: and the virgin’s name was Mary.
28-and the angel came unto her and said, Hail, you are highly favored (very fortunate), the Lord is with you: bless are you among women.
29-And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation (greeting) this should be. 30-And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for you have found favor with God.
31-And behold, you shall CONCEIVE in your WOMB (physical, spiritual), and BRING FORTH a Son, and shall call His name, JESUS.
32-He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord shall give unto Him the throne of His father, David.
33-And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His Kingdom there shall be no end.
34-Then said Mary unto the angel, how shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
35-And the angel answered and said unto her, the Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God. 36-And behold, your cousin Elizabeth, she has conceived a son in her old age: and this is the six month with her, who was barren (childless).
37-For with God, nothing shall be impossible.
38-And Mary said, Behold the handmaid (servant) of the Lord: be it unto me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.”

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YOU'RE GOING TO CONCEIVE:
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Not only was Mary literally carrying Jesus, her own Savior in her womb, but she was carrying the worlds Savior also. If you look at verse 31 again and hear with your spirit the voice of the Lord here. He said, “You’re going to CONCEIVE IN YOUR WOMB. For some, that can mean physical conception but for all, it means spiritual conception of the Holy Ghost. But not only that, the angel told Mary, you’re going to BRING FORTH--but Mary’s gone. That means, this is what God is saying to us today. Mary BIRTHED the fruit of her womb, imparted there by the over-shadowing of the Holy Ghost when she agreed to receive. You have to be willing to conceive and birth those things that God is asking you to birth in this season of your walk with Him. In the physical, Mary’s birthing was the child, Jesus. And true to prophecy, they called His name, Jesus, which means, Savior.

Everything God brings to us through revelation of the Word and applied by the Holy Spirit, is a SEED. God is Almighty, and He is awesome and powerful, but He’s also a Gardener. Jesus said in John 15:1-”I am the true Vine, and My Father is the Husbandman,” which means, ‘gardener.’ God plants. He sows SEED, and He reaps a harvest. Jesus was a SEED that was sown into this earth realm as the incorruptible seed of God (1 Peter 1:23).

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THE SEED SOWER:
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In the very beginning as we know it, God began sowing seed. Genesis 1:3, “And God said, Let there be light...” He sowed His Word. “...and there was light.” He reaped His harvest off that seed---He got light. In Luke 1:31, through the angel Gabriel, who appeared to Mary, God spoke out of His mouth and sowed the seed of His Word by faith saying, the virgin Mary would conceive and bring forth a Son.

As we look at Luke 2:7, we can see where God reaped a harvest from SEED He had sown. “And she BROUGHT FORTH her firstborn (this indicated she would bear other children) Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. On this day, Jesus was born into the earth realm---”the Word was made flesh and dwelt among men” (John 1:14). And He came to redeem mankind from sin through the shedding of His blood later on in a humiliating cross, where He gave His life to reconcile mankind back to the Father.

Father God, as the Gardener, sowed Jesus, the incorruptible seed, into the world so that He could reap a harvest of MANY children. John 3:16, “For God so loved the world (people) that He gave (He sowed) His only begotten Son, that whosoever (the harvest of children) believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

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CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF GLORY:
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If you take the time to look a little bit closer at Mary’s conception of Jesus---when she RECEIVED the Word of God, she conceived the WORD in her womb (literally and spiritually). This is a picture of “Christ in YOU the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). It’s not enough for us to hear the Word of God, although that’s very important. “So then, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God” (Romans 10:17). You can hear God’s Word all day long and still not RECEIVE it in your heart (the womb of your spirit). You can let it roll off you like water off a duck’s back and still be the same as you were---unchanged. Romans 12:2 tells us not to be conformed to this worlds ways but to be TRANSFORMED (to God's ways) by the renewing of our minds. This can only happen when we hear God’s Word and we RECEIVE it with gladness.

If you look at those verses again in Luke 1:26-38, you will see that the angel of the Lord gave Mary the Word first in verse 31. Then in verse 35 he said, ‘the Holy Ghost is going to work WITH the WORD to bring to pass what has been spoken. This is the same thing that happened when God created the heavens and the earth, when He said, ‘let there be light.’ The Holy Ghost, the Anointing Himself hovered over the face of the deep, waiting for the spoken Word. And when, by faith, God released His seed---His Word, the Holy Ghost took the Word, breathed life on it “And there was light.” “And she conceived.”

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DON'T ABORT THE 'BABY':
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A lot of people right now are in the RECEIVING stage of the seed of God's Word. God has been bringing many of you His ‘in season’ Word that’s pregnant with promise. A lot of you feel you’re between a rock and a hard place, trying to make a choice---‘do I want the responsibility of receiving this seed, or do I want to wait a while for something better to come along?’

There are other's of you who are in the CONCEIVING stage. You’ve said to the Lord, "be it done unto me" and you've received the Word, whereby God has revealed His purpose and plan for for this season of your life. And now you’re in the first stages of carrying this ‘word.’ The Holy Spirit would say to those of you who have been chosen to birth the purposes of God in the earth, “Don’t abort the baby before it has the chance to be born.”

The Lord would have you to learn to “rest in faith” while you get more comfortable with the 'pregnancy.' Let the Holy Spirit teach you all the things you need to know in order to BRING FORTH that baby of promise. To bring forth the music ministry God told you He’s giving you. A ministry of worship in song that will bless people and be a powerful tool to drive back the enemy in key places all over the nation. Be ready to receive because in the nighttime, the Holy Spirit will drop songs of heaven into your spirit that when people hear, they will weep and be set free because of the Anointing (Is.10:27). God's people will recognize the sounds of heaven, sounds from the very throne of God and long for the Bridegroom to come NOW! People will begin more fervently to cry out from the depths of their hearts, “Even so, come Lord Jesus!”

And still yet, there are many more of God’s people who are growing heavy with the weight of that SEED in your spiritual womb that nearly full term. “Don’t grow weary in well doing, for if you faint not (don’t give up) you will reap in due season.’ Many of you are now reaching your season of deliverance. You’re nearing the time when you’ll BRING FORTH the manifestation of the purposes of God you've been pregnant with. Some of you are even now in labor and are about to go into actually BIRTHING the Word of God that He planted deep in the womb of your spirit.

You’re about to BIRTH that healing ministry God’s called you into. You're about to see the manifestation of the dream He gave you of teaching young children, being a youth pastor, or for some of you, its going into the marketplace with a new business, and ALL of it to the glory of God. ALL of it done to further the Kingdom of God. ALL of it done to reach out and touch the lost, to touch every person with compassion as you share the ministry of reconciliation to all those in need of our blessed Savior Jesus Christ. Praises to the Lamb of God! Glory to God in the highest, for He’s worthy of ALL praise and honor. Let us all be quick to say as Mary did when God comes and asks the impossible of us, “Be it done unto me, according to your Word.” We can do this and have confidence that nothing is impossible with God, and to them that believe that nothing is impossible with Him.

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THE REASON FOR THE SEASON:
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Let us rejoice this Christmas season like we never have before because we’re coming into a new season of the Spirit of God. A time when we're going to see an acceleration of the moving of the Holy Spirit's power across our corporate and personal land, as well as our national land.

Let us not forget the REASON for the season of our celebration. Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God is the reason that we celebrate. And what's the celebration about? LIFE! "For unto us a child is born." He’s our hope of glory, the risen Lord, Who sits on the right hand of the Father, ever LIVING to make intercession for you and me. And because He not only went to the cross to die and pay the price for our sins with His blood, lets don't forget that He also arose alive from the dead by the resurreciton power of almighty God.

Therefore, because HE lives, when we RECEIVE Him and He's BIRTHED in us, we are eternally just as alive as Jesus is. Hallelujah! Let us celebrate the life we have in Jesus Christ, our Lord. And may we not forget to be thankful unto God for each and every blessing He’s already given us and is giving us and will give us in the days ahead, according to His plans for our good and not for evil. Let us give the Lord Jesus Christ our ALL, as He has given His all for us and the whole world. Let us be thankful that Jesus chose to set aside His glory to come down to our level because we couldn't come up to His level except He come and lift us up with Him. Let us be thankful that He didn’t come to condemn the world (all people) but to save it.


Plain As Day Ministries

Shirley Williams

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