Presence Driven Church (Part 2.5) | Praise in the Gap | Eric Upton

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🔑 Key Takeaways

✅ You don’t choose God’s direction, but you do choose your response.
Mary couldn’t control the calling, but she chose obedience, haste, and praise.

✅ Those eager for a move of God keep showing up in prayer and obedience.
Mary arose with haste faith moves, it doesn’t stall.

✅ God’s invitation always brings a choice: belief or excuses.
Mary and Hannah said yes; Sarah and Zechariah allowed their reality to limit their faith.

✅ There is blessing attached to giving God your “yes.”
Obedience positions you for fulfillment, joy, and confirmation.

✅ Faith-filled obedience often requires uncomfortable journeys.
Mary traveled far while carrying uncertainty—faith doesn’t wait for clarity.

✅ The Holy Spirit confirms what God is doing when we walk in faith.
Elizabeth is filled, John leaps, and the gospel is proclaimed before Jesus is born.

✅ What distinguishes a believer is not behavior, but Spirit-filling.
Boldness, praise, and obedience flow from a life filled with the Holy Spirit.

✅ Praise belongs in the gap between promise and fulfillment.
Mary magnified God before everything made sense.

✅ Praise re-centers your soul and aligns your spirit with God’s purposes.
Mary worships with her emotions (psyche) and her inner being (pneuma).

✅ God’s interruptions are often His greatest blessings.
Mary blesses God for disrupting her plans.

✅ God exalts the humble and overturns human power structures.
The proud are scattered, the hungry are filled, and the lowly are lifted.

✅ Kairos moments demand intentional responses.
You may not choose the moment, but you always choose your posture.

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