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Awkward: causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with; causing or feeling embarrassment or inconvenience.

Luke 1:26-27
26In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

God uses

Romans 9:18
Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

Isaiah 55:8-9
8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Luke 1:6

Grace is

Luke 1:28
28The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

Exodus 3:12
Joshua 1:9
Judges 6:12

BiG Idea: God turns awkward into

Luke 1:29
29Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.

Acts 10:34-35
34Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.

Jesus isn’t the reason for the season,

Luke 1:31
31You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.

Matthew 1:21
21She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

Luke 1:32-33
32He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

Luke 1:34
“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

Luke 1:20
20And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”

Hebrews 11:1
1Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

Luke 1:35
35The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.

Genesis 1:1-3

1Timothy 2:5
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,

Luke 1:37
37For no word from God will ever fail.”

If God says it, I can

Psalm 86:5
Psalm 91:14-15
Joel 2:32
Acts 2:21
Romans 10:13

Luke 1:38
38“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.

Next Steps:
Memorize: Luke 1:38
This week: I will look for the awesome in the awkward
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