DAY 9 – December 16, 2009 – 30 DAY CHALLENGE

DAY 9 – December 16, 2009 – 30 DAY CHALLENGE

1:00 AM 50 Crunches

6:00 AM 75 Crunches

6:45 Study Sunday School Lesson “Emmanuel’s Birth”

Matthew 1:18-25

¹⁸ This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit. ¹⁹ Joseph, her fiancé, was a good man and did not want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement^[a] quietly.

 ²⁰ As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit. ²¹ And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus,^[b] for he will save his people from their sins.”
 ²² All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet:
 ²³ “Look! The virgin will conceive a child!
      She will give birth to a son,
   and they will call him Immanuel,^[c]
      which means ‘God is with us.’”
 ²⁴ When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded and took Mary as his wife. ²⁵ But he did not have sexual relations with her until her son was born. And Joseph named him Jesus.