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An Assignment Only She Could Fulfill Though it’s true that Mary’s moral and spiritual quality is worthy of great recognition, her life bears testimony to a greater message that specifically impacts our lives. There’s a lingering idea that God searched and searched all over Israel to find a woman who could be worthy enough to be the mother of His Son, and that her worthiness created her opportunity for greatness. But the beauty of it is that we do not create our own destinies, we are simply privileged to discover and fulfill them. God had an assignment, an appointed plan for Mary that literally only Mary could fulfill. That plan was initiated when He created Adam and followed a bloodline down through the centuries (Luke 3:23-38). Think of all the family infighting, wars, displacements and general craziness in the Old Testament. Think of the odds He had to overcome to produce a little girl in Nazareth with the perfect, royal DNA, with ideal stamina and fortitude, with the right parents to teach her to love God and hear His voice and to be the mother of our beloved Savior. Only He could see to it that everything that was necessary for Mary to fully complete her destiny was instilled within her. By divine design she was born fully equipped to carry out the plan of God for her life. The good news is: So were you! Thank God she yielded to His plan and thank God, we can too! None of us can live a life so good and so holy as to earn our destiny. Your destiny is set, before you ever arrive here. And it, like Mary’s, is a destiny of greatness. Jeremiah 29:11 tells us that God has a plan for us, and it is for good, not evil. There’s no need to ever try to embrace another man’s destiny. Yours is wonderful and everything you need to fulfill it is in you. God made it to be that way. In Luke 1, the angel told Mary she was highly favored of the Lord. This doesn’t just mean He liked her a lot. The word favored in English is from a Greek word also translated grace. He was actually telling Mary that because of the favor of the Lord she was highly graced, or highly equipped to carry out the assignment she was about to be given. I believe being a mother is one of the weightiest assignments given by God to any woman. It, of course, is so much more than just giving birth. Somehow, we are to impart into and draw out of our children all that is needed for them to fulfill their God-given destinies. We are accountable before God to do so in the might and power of His Word and His Spirit. That is an awesome task. But thanks be to God, we have within our very being all the DNA, both spiritual and natural, to get the job done! The same holds true for all the varying assignments from heaven that our lives hold. Even though Mary had been distant from Jesus during much of His earthly ministry, His glorious grace brought her to the foot of the cross, just like it did you and me. And it took her to the upper room, just like it did you and me. And if you and I will do what Mary did and simply say, “Be it done to me according to Your word” and then obey what He tells us to do, we too will have the opportunity to step up to greatness in the Kingdom. V Terri Copeland Pearsons, the eldest daughter of Kenneth Copeland, is chief of staff of Kenneth Copeland Ministries and president of Kenneth Copeland Bible College®. Along with her husband, George Pearsons, she is also senior pastor of Eagle Mountain International Church at KCM in Fort Worth. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Watch EMIC services with Pastors George & Terri on VICTORY Channel® Live services: Sun: 9 a.m. | 11 a.m. | Wed: 7 p.m. Replays: Sun.: 8:30 p.m. | Sat.: midnight Wed.: 11 p.m. CT ********************************************** BVOV : 19

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