The Power to Deliver 

 Joseph went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.

Luke 2:5-7 (NIV)

God wants you to deliver, even if in inconvenience. Don’t you ever accept the lie that suggests otherwise.

• You can be great for God in spite of mounting pressure and weighted responsibilities.
• You can produce for the Kingdom.
• Even if you start with a deficit, you can juggle a busy schedule.
• You can raise kids alone if you have to.
• You can walk with a limp and still live with power.
• You can grow in barren places.
• You can be loving in hostile environments.
• You can demonstrate the strength of faith.

Even if ou are standing in demonic strongholds and everybody is telling you that your journey is too long or that your journey is too hard or that your journey is too threatening, you ought to be able to say, “You know what? You might be right if all you are assessing are the facts, but I don’t live just by facts. I live by faith. And faith suggests that I’ve got to make the trip. And if I have to make the trip, if I have to show up, if I have to be great, if I have to exercise gifts, then I’ve got to be ready to deliver.”

If God could give Mary the power to deliver against the backdrop of all of this threat and inconvenience, God can give us the power to do the same. You can turn any setting into a place for Christ to emerge. He can be born, revealed, and shared in any setting, any situation, any circumstance.

A pregnant woman, ready to deliver, walked 90 miles against a politically corrupt census when she was ready to push her baby out. She arrived there and delivered, deciding to be great for God. Why? Because she was full of Christ. She could deliver because she was full.

What is it she had to deliver? She had to deliver Jesus Christ. And in many ways, when Christ dwells in us, when we have Christ inside of us, and we are full of the hope of glory, we can be ready to deliver for God as well.