Christmas At The Window

As many of you well know, the main message that I bring across from “Waiting At The Window” is the importance of taking time each morning with the Lord to receive from His Word to help equip us for the day or days to come because we never know what they may bring.

As I sat at my window this Christmas morning and opened up the window of the Word and began meditating on the Lord of what this day was really about, the Lord shone his light of understanding into my heart. I would like to pass on to you this day the wonderful truths of His Word that He shared with me. This is quite different than the Christmas Story that you all probably read today.

I opened the Word and began to pray, “I wait for you Lord, my soul waits, and in your Word I put my hope. Tell me Lord, what is the meaning of Christmas? What is the meaning of this day? What is your message that you want to share for my life today?”

It all began with a young girl, Mary who was chosen by God.

You see, God created man and gave him dominion over the earth, but because of the sin and disobedience of Adam, the power and authority was given over to the enemy, satan who then became the god of the world. But...

Through the plan and the spoken word of God, Jesus came and got that power back for us. Jesus, God's Word, came and took flesh upon Himself. And this is how God did it. The power to do it was in the Word! The Bible tells us that “...(He is) upholding all things by the Word of His power...” (Hebrews 1:3) It didn't say by the power of His Word. It said by the Word of His Power! It is not impossible for God to perform His every declaration. He can declare and do exactly what He says he's going to do! And we find that God created man with the ability to operate in the same kind of faith. We need to control the words that come forth out of our mouth and bring them into the obedience to the Word of God.

The way that Jesus got the authority back, He was born of a virgin. The way it happened was the same way that God created the universe. He spoke it! When he found a woman who agreed with Him, it was done. “Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?” (Lk 1:34)

Mary didn't doubt it could be done, she just asked “how?” and He said, “...the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee:...” (Luke 1:35) Then in verse 38, Mary spoke, “...be it done unto me according to thy word.” She agreed with the Word, establishing that fact upon the earth, and it came into being!

God said in his Word that we are...”born again, not of corruptible seed , but of incorruptible by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.” (I Peter 1:23) The Word of God implanted in our spirit caused us to become a new creature that never existed before, born again of the Spirit of the living God. The re-birth of the human spirit took place when the Word of God lodged in our spirit. It caused us to act upon the Word and we were born again. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word of God.

The Word of God came unto Mary and said “it will be so” and Mary said “I receive it, be it done unto me according to your Word.”. She first received the Word into her spirit (heart) then it was manifest in her physical body. The Word of God was implanted into her womb, it was the embryo, the seed, and it took upon itself flesh, just as the living Word of God placed in your spirit took upon itself new creation – life. The Word of God literally formed within her womb and took flesh upon it. The Word of God became alive, living , walking, and talking on this earth. He came here to destroy the work of the devil that was done in Adam. You see, the work that was done in Adam was destroying the creation of God and the ability of God to work through man. But through God's Spoken Word born through Mary, Jesus came and got that authority back (through His death, burial & resurrection) and He delegated it back to man, to the believer.

Jesus stood on the mountain before He ascended and said, “...All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (Matthew 28:18). He had it ALL. Then He turned to the believers and said. “...these signs shall follow them that believe....cast out devils, speak with new tongues, lay hands on sick and they'll recover (Mark 16:17,18) He was saying, 'now you go in my name and do these things'. This is where God's power, God's authority was delegated back to man.

The enemy knows that there is power in our words. That is why he tries so desperately to get us to confess doubt, fear, and unbelief. It is very important what words we allow to come forth out of our mouth. They need to be faith filled words, words that line up with the Word of God, so that we can begin to see great things happen in our life and the life of others and start living that victorious life in Him.

The Word tells us how to develop our faith in Romans 10:17. Our faith comes by hearing the Word. We need to begin speaking the answers instead of our problems. Quit praying the problem and start praying the answer.

If you feel that you have been living a defeated life or maybe things have been okay but you know that you've been settling for less instead of God's Best that He so desires for you, then take notice of what has been coming out of your mouth. Death & Life is in the power of the tongue. Have we been speaking life or death?

Let us all determine that we are going to be more conscious of what we speak this coming new year. Begin to speak good things into your life and the life of others.

Ponder this thought: What if Jesus came up to you and touched you and said, “From this day forth, everything that you speak will come to pass for your life”, would the words you speak become more important to you?

Let it be for us as it was with Mary and tell the Lord this Christmas....“Let it be done unto me, according to your Word. Let YOUR WORD be birthed in me that I might then share YOU with the world just through the Words I speak that will bring LIFE not only to MY LIFE but to theirs as well.”
Thank you all so much for your encouragement and support. My prayer for you all is that you will receive God's Best this coming year and that you won't settle for Less! My prayer for those of you who have not yet opened up your heart and life to the Lord Jesus, this Christmas I pray that you will allow your heart to be the vacancy for the Lord to Be Born in You!!
Have a Blessed Merry Christmas and a Happy & Changed New Year!
Connie Schmoll
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