I’ve been wanting to share my new word for the year since October, but that seemed too early. The anticipation has been building ever since and I’m more convinced that it is the right word. This is where I would have the big reveal, but you’ve already guessed it’s “more” since that’s the title of my post. 😂

The thing about my word is — it belongs to everybody. Let me bring you along in my revelation. For me it started with a song and has been growing ever since. If you haven’t heard this song you can click the link and listen: Made for More.

One song wasn’t enough. Here is the second one: Make Room, because when God has more for me, I need to make room.

The first scripture I have to support my word is:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭10‬ ‭ESV‬‬

God has prepared good things — more good things — for me to walk forward into. Reading this again I feel the intention of an artist or sculptor, he has a vision in his mind and he is working with his medium to create his vision. God already has a vision in mind for my life and it is better and more complete than where I am at this moment.

We had a guest speaker at church and she must have been there just for me. Her message was working through the historical account of the angel speaking with Mary.

Gabriel appeared to her and said, “Greetings, favored woman! The Lord is with you!”

Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what the angel could mean.

“Don’t be afraid, Mary,” the angel told her, “for you have found favor with God! You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. And he will reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom will never end!”

Mary asked the angel, “But how can this happen? I am a virgin.”

The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God. What’s more, your relative Elizabeth has become pregnant in her old age! People used to say she was barren, but she has conceived a son and is now in her sixth month. For the word of God will never fail.”

Mary responded, “I am the Lord’s servant. May everything you have said about me come true.” And then the angel left her.
‭‭Luke‬ ‭1‬:‭28‬-‭38‬ ‭NLT‬‬

God had more for Mary. Her first response is one of fear and confusion. She thinks the messenger is mistaken, how could she possibly bear a son, it was physically impossible. In her mind, she couldn’t imagine how she would fulfill the angel’s message. At this point, Gabriel lays out how it will be God’s own Spirit that will accomplish this, and tells her how God has already worked the impossible with Elizabeth, her cousin. Mary’s response is echoed in the song above, “I surrender. I will make room for God to work in my life.”

I can tell you there is a part of me that responds with a refusal to believe God wants to use me. I’m nothing special. If anything I’m too faulty. I don’t always figure out the way forward or make the perfect decisions. I think He’s got His work cut out for Himself if He plans to move me into bigger and better things.

The guest speaker said there are three conversations going on; God with me, me with God, and me with me. It’s the conversation I’m having with myself that is the one I shouldn’t be listening to.

Over the next few posts, or at least the next post, I want to share more about “more”. In the meantime, I encourage to contemplate the possibility of more in your own life.

Grace & Peace,

Sandy

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