Christmas Anticipated

Verde Valley Christian Church
Dec 11 – 17, 2022

Series: The Story Of Reality - Christmas
Title: "Christmas Anticipated"
Speaker: Jim Hammond

Psalms 27:14
Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

I. While you are WAITING, God is WORKING

Matthew 1:20-23
But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: "The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" (which means "God with us").

When God is silent, it doesn’t mean he is absent. 

Galatians 4:4-5
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.

II. God's DELAYS are not necessarily God's DENIALS

Isaiah 64:4
Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.

Psalms 27:14
Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

Psalms 27:8
My heart says of you, "Seek his face!" Your face, Lord, I will seek.

Next step 

Lift your eyes from your problems and look to the Lord and say this: “Lord, I will seek your face, anyway.”