1. “CHRISTMAS REFLECTIONS ” GOD COULD NEVER WORK THROUGH ME!

2. 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (The Message) Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families.

3. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”?

4. That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have— right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start

5. —comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God…

6. 1. GOD WORKS THROUGH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DO HIS WILL  ENTHUSIASM Luke 1:46-47 (NIV) “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour.

7. 1. GOD WORKS THROUGH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DO HIS WILL  ENTHUSIASM  HUMILITY

8. Then she says (Luke 1:48 NIV), "Thank you for thinking of your humble servant girl." Matthew 6:33 NCV "The thing you should want most is God's Kingdom and doing what God wants. Then all these other things you need will be given to you."

9. 2. GOD WORKS THROUGH PEOPLE WHO DECIDE TO PAY THE PRICE  Luke 1:38 Mary said "I am the Lord's servant, and I am willing to accept whatever he wants. May everything you have said come true."

10. 2. GOD WORKS THROUGH PEOPLE WHO DECIDE TO PAY THE PRICE  Her reputation  Her security  Her future  Her comfort

11. 3. GOD WORKS THROUGH PEOPLE WHO DARE TO BELIEVE HIS PROMISES  Luke 1:45 TLB "You believed that God would do what he said. That's why he has given you this wonderful blessing."

12. APPLICATION