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hey everyone welcome to Wednesday's with cristela
I'm crystal Sparks I'm so glad that you are here on my channel hey whether you
watch this every single week or maybe a friend shared this video with you or
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Wednesday I put out a new video and my channel's purpose is this is to help
grow your faith and to help equip you to accomplish your dreams and your goals I
want to talk to you today about passionately pursuing God my family and
I we went to New York this summer and we had the best time just making memories
and doing all kinds of fun stuff and one night we were going to dinner and this
we were walking along we're having this conversation and it was our last night
in New York and as we were walking to the restaurant I noticed there was a man
and he was standing outside of this restaurant and he had a bouquet of
flowers and you could tell he was like excited anticipation waiting for this
girl to come out and so the kids and I had been watching him and he was
nervously shuffling his feet and watching as the cars went by and every
time somebody would come out of the restaurant his shoulders would roll back
and he was standing with anticipation so the kids and I were like oh my goodness
like where is this girl gonna come from like who is he waiting for him what is
her reaction gonna be so we walked a little ways and then we decided to stand
and look down the street to watch him because we wanted to see what would
happen when the girl came up cuz it was so sweet it was just in a nice suit you
could tell like he had been planning this moment and so there he was standing
with the flowers and out comes the girl and I had pictured it being like a scene
out of a love story she dives into his arms and like he sweeps her up and
they're so happy in the kiss right no she walks out and she kind of just
does her arms up and gives him like a friendship hug and shrugs at the flowers
and kind of dips him to her side as they walk along and the kids and I looked at
each other and we're like oh man we really thought that that was gonna be
like more exciting than what it really was and when it the other day I was
thinking about that exchange and I just felt in my heart I never want my
relationship with God to be like that and if we're not careful and because if
we'll just be honest like life gets busy things get crazy and it's really easy to
be the girl that's just kind of coming out and just barely greeting God instead
of the one who's waiting for him with this incited anticipation that dives
into his arms that's passionately pursuing him and I think if all of us
are real honest we can get so busy with everything that's going on in our life
that we could very easily become that girl and the truth is is that God is
excitedly waiting for us every single day
he's passionately pursuing us he's planning these moments to surprise us to
overwhelm us to show us his love and his goodness and if we're not careful then
we'll just be real passive about it and dismiss him off just like that girl did
in Luke chapter one it tells us about Jesus and the birth of Jesus and I love
this in Luke chapter one verse 42 it says and she cried out with a loud cry
she just found out she's pregnant with the Messiah right and then exclaimed
blessed above all other women are you and blessed favorite is the fruit of
your womb for how have I deserved that this honor should be granted to me that
the mother of my lord shall come to me for behold this is Elizabeth telling her
this right for behold the instant the sound of your salutation reach my ears
the baby in my womb leaped for joy and blessed happy to be envy is she who
believed that there would be a fulfillment of the things that were
spoken to her from the Lord you know I love that because Elizabeth is
responding to Mary and she's so excited and I love what she's saying there Matt
how blessed are you that you're here and how blessed are we that God has
fulfilled all these great things and so a few things I want to talk to you about
as we focus on and passionately pursuing God and that's number one is don't let
fear have the last word you know here Mary was and she was in a really scary
time she found out she was pregnant she's not married and in that day
time she could have been like oh my goodness like overwhelmed with fear
overwhelmed with worry anxiety but instead she chose to not let fear have
the last word she decided that she was going to be filled with excited
anticipation and she rushes over to her cousin Elizabeth's house and shares with
her the good news she didn't passively just dismiss it she
didn't just kind of act like oh my goodness this is terrible and let her
mind start to wonder with all the worry as if we're not if we're not careful
what will happen in our lives is we get so preoccupied with the anxieties of
today the worries of today that we miss the blessing that we have and here Mary
is in her passionate pursuit of God she decided to not let fear have the final
word the second thing I want you to tell you is that every day and in every way
you are in the middle of a miracle every day in every way you're in the middle of
a miracle and here she is she was told that she was gonna get pregnant I want
you to think about this and and she hasn't even started showing yet she
hasn't even had to buy maternity clothes yet she doesn't even have proof that
she's actually in the midst of a miracle right but she decides every day in every
way she's in the middle of a miracle and I want to declare over your life that
every day in every way you're in the middle of a miracle it doesn't matter
what things look like it doesn't matter what circumstances say it doesn't matter
if anything showing in the natural if God said it then it's done our job is
just to press passionately pursue him while we're waiting in the process and
when we begin to just be faithful right where we are then all of a sudden we're
going to be so aware of that miracle in the making every day in every way
there's a miracle in the making the third thing that I want to tell you as
we passionately pursue God is this prioritize your calling above all else
prioritize your calling above all else see here Mary is a young girl no doubt
she had lots of things to do she had lots of chores lots of social events
lots of things that she could have been doing but she prioritized her calling
above all she knew that God had just put a big
dream and a big purpose in her heart and in her life and she knew that if fear
wasn't gonna have the final say and then if every day and every way a miracle was
in the making she had to begin to prioritize the calling and in her doing
that she surrounded herself with people who were gonna be faith-building and
encouraging to her right where she was see Elizabeth was experiencing a miracle
of her own here she was at her old age she was pregnant with John the Baptist
and so she knew that going to Elizabeth was going to be a safe place for her to
prioritize the calling she knew that they would be able to build each other
up and I love the next verses in the Bible it has a long thing of what Mary
goes on to say in fact it's one of the longest prayers ever recorded in the
Bible from a woman and she's exalting God talking about how good he is and I
think about how different this story probably would have played out if she
would have kept herself isolated if she would have let fear have the final say
if she didn't realize that every day and every way there's a miracle in the
making and she didn't prioritize her calling friend let me tell you I can see
the things that you value most by where you're spending your time and who you're
surrounding yourself with if you want your faith to start to grow and you want
to start passionately pursuing God it's where are you spending your time with
well are you prioritizing the things that are the most important are you
letting the urgent things of your day run you over I posted recently on my
Instagram account and I really do believe that this is true that seeking
the kingdom first wasn't a suggestion it was a command and the reason why it was
a command is because all these things will follow right and when we seek the
kingdom first when we prioritize the calling when we're passionately pursuing
God then all of a sudden all the things that we could be fearful about all the
things that we're needing a miracle but they all start to fall into line so hey
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