Rejection is the meter that measures our ability to govern on the next level successfully. The problem with rejection is it causes pain, which often can’t be adequately articulated. What do we do when rejection is screaming while God is silent? We must recognize rejection is merely a test of our faith, and God desires us to keep walking. Rejection is God’s way of showing us direction, can you see it? In the end, the vision will speak and not lie. The next time you face rejection, begin to praise God, for His way of birthing purpose into our lives is always better than ours.
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let’s get down let’s go to the Gospel of
st. Luke chapter number 2 verse 6
through 12
the gospel of Saint Luke chapter 2 verse
6 through 12 to our visitors is our
customs standing for the reading of the
word I know you didn’t know what was
going on they’re not leaving yeah let’s
go to work
thank you Jesus I love our church
the service is very interactive you’ll
get used to it a man and so it was that
while they were there the days were
accomplished that she should be
delivered and she brought forth her
firstborn son and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes and laid him in a
manger watch closely because there was
no room for them in the end and there
were in the same country shepherds
abiding in the field keeping watch over
their flock by night and lo the angel of
the Lord came upon them and the glory of
the Lord shone round about them and they
were sore afraid and the angel said unto
them fear not for behold I bring you
good tidings of great joy which shall be
to some people to church people or
excuse me shall be to all peoples that
means you can’t hold Jesus hostage
that means you cannot deny me Jesus just
because you don’t like what I had warned
or what I look like or the color of my
skin or the way I talk or the way I walk
he came for all people are you a people
then he came for you can you say man
give me the next verse for unto you Is
Born This Day in the City of David a
saviour which is Christ the Lord and
this shall be a sign unto you ye shall
find the babe wrapped in swaddling
clothes lying in a manger glory to God
take me back to that verse about no room
in the end and she brought forth her
firstborn son and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes and laid him in a
manger because there was no room
somebody said no room for them in the
end thank you very much I want to talk
about rejoicing in rejection
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rejoicing
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it is easy to rejoice in acceptance it
is easy to rejoice in inclusion but I
want to talk to you about rejoicing in
rejection and I know that there’s not
anybody here that’s ever been rejected
but indulge me while I talk about those
other people that have had to deal with
rejection
let us pray why you standing speed of
the Living God
fall down inside of us saturate us
like the dewfall early in the morning
dampen us with your glory prevail over
all of the abstract ideologies that
would distract us from focusing on you
and let something linger on us even
after the service is over let something
linger in our hearts and in our spirit
and I thank you for what you’re going to
do in the name of Jesus Christ we pray
somebody shout amen you may be seated in
the presence of the Lord get comfortable
take your shoes off put you in a fresh
tic-tac we got some work to do
rejoicing and rejection hardly seem to
be good cellmates in the same narrative
they seem totally abstract one from the
other rejoicing and rejection seemed
like they would not be comrades in the
same spins and yet my assignment here
today has given me the responsibility to
talk to you about rejoicing in rejection
it is interesting to note that before
the stone that the builders rejected was
ever born his life starts with rejection
during his earthly experience he
encounters further rejection and even
when it comes down to a choice between
him and a thief named Barabbas he is
further rejected
it is interesting to note that there is
a glimpse of his future that starts
before his birth that he would
experience a life of rejection now to
those of you who may not be familiar
with the story because you have been so
saturated with Santa Claus
you don’t understand that Santa stole
the greatest story that has ever been
told so let me just rehearse it briefly
tell you that this young girl a virgin
who is espoused to a guy named Joseph
the girl is named mary has a visitation
from an angel that says Hail Mary you
have been highly favored amongst women
and you shall bring forth a son and his
name shall be called Jesus and she said
wait bro we have a problem with this
this prophecy because I’m a virgin I
know not a man and I know about the
birds and the bees and and I know that
babies don’t come from cabbage patches
and I I haven’t known anybody so I can’t
Bieber and if he says and the Holy Ghost
shall come up on you the the words come
up on you remind us of how the Spirit
hovered over the earth when it birthed
it up out of the water and brought it
into the world in that same brooding
presence of uh of a hen over an egg the
Holy Ghost shall come upon you and
without the assistance of a man you
shall bring forth a son and his name
shall be called Jesus and he should save
his people from their sin which was good
news but good news always has a backside
it always has a backside every every
blessing has a burden and while people
rejoice with you over the blessings or
hate you over the blessings they don’t
recognize the greater the blessing the
greater the burden and to get a
visitation from an angel is a blessing
all by itself and to be picked out of
all the women on the world to be the
mother of Jesus is a blessing all by
itself but the burden it is how do I
tell Joseph that that I what had
happened was now you might not get the
full impact of this but imagine your
intended coming up to you and say yo I
swear man look look this is not what it
looks like the Holy Ghost did there just
dish to man and like most men Joseph has
a serious problem with this and he says
the wedding is off
send back the flowers unmake the cake
boil the rice there’s not going to be a
wedding in this place today I am giving
you a bill of divorcement and that day
in order to get out of a betrothal you
had to offer up a bill of divorcement
because even to intend to get married
was a covenant and he said I’m gonna do
it in a dignified way I’m not gonna
castigate you or denigrate you or make
you look small I’m gonna do it privately
and quietly but we’ve done we’ve done
through with it and while he was getting
ready to do this in a respectful way
because no doubt he was shocked and hurt
and humiliated and confused and he
didn’t believe her and there’s nothing
worse than telling something to someone
you love
and they don’t believe and he gives her
a bill of divorcement and prepares to do
that and while he prepares to do that
the angel comes by and says hey fear not
that which is within Mary is conceived
by the Holy Ghost now wow that gives him
some assurance and some confidence
whenever you’re the first to experience
something that is a burden because you
believe it you believe it
you know but but you don’t believe it
you struggle with it and and and how do
you explain that to your groomsmen and
your friends and the neighbors who knows
the neighbors next door that no no no
that that was the Holy Ghost said it’s
not what it looks like and here’s the
burden of walking with her with with
grace while she is surrounded by this
grace and when I when I look at this I
must confess I look at it from from from
Joseph’s perspective to a degree only
because I appreciate from every other
perspective in the world and and he has
this burden of handling this situation
and so he’s trying to move her to a safe
place to give birth away from the
scrutiny of the people around him in a
place where he can protect what God has
provided
because if God provides something and
you don’t have a strategy to protect it
you could lose it to him whom much is
given much is required and so since he
has submitted to the will of God I don’t
know about you but I have a tendency to
think that that that when God has has
given me something to do that he’s gonna
help
do it helos are up on a donkey and they
started traveling and I always wondered
I want to talk about Mary for a moment I
always wonder what it would like what it
would be like to be pregnant on the
donkey I wonder in my mind how highly
favorite she felt straddle the donkey
with her stomach swollen and the baby
dropping down until her lower
extremities I wonder if she felt highly
favored and it makes me think that it is
possible to be favored and not feel it
you know and I only say that because
there are some people in this room that
don’t feel highly favored because
they’re looking at their circumstances
and they’re looking at their problems
but they’re not looking at their promise
and you have caught them in a season of
their life where they’re dealing with
controversy and adversity and they don’t
feel highly favored there are people in
this room that it’s a Christmas season
but they really don’t feel much
Christmas joy because of circumstances
that have come upon them and everyone if
you look at life in slices and not the
whole pie
you can become bitter and not better
because temporarily you don’t feel
blessed you feel burden and I wonder
I’ve never been pregnant so I got a
guess at this but I did sound like it
would be a comfortable experience for a
pregnant woman I’ve seen them trying to
struggle to get up and down off the
couch it seems like it’d be kind of
tough to be in the third trimester of
your pregnancy straddle the donkey
accompanied by a husband who is trying
to understand
love hammers I don’t know whether to
groan for Mary are grown for Joseph I
grown for her physically I grown for him
emotionally because respectfully sisters
with all due respect you can be hard to
understand anyway
[Applause]
and when you add pregnant by the Holy
Ghost and riding on a donkey it really
stretches the brothers capacity to be
able to connect with you
so my heart bleeds for Mary but I almost
cried for Joseph to have to take that
ride with a woman in the third trimester
of pregnancy straddle the donkey getting
ready to have a baby for God then I
cannot see but she is pregnant in a way
that I can see and I don’t see God
traveling with her
he overshadowed her but I don’t see him
walking her through the process and now
Joseph has to walk her through a process
that he didn’t start on his own handle
something that you didn’t charge
yourself but it follows you to be the
steward of a situation that you get not
author or authenticate or validate but
yet you have to handle it it seems like
to me it is a long journey a few days
ago I did a ministry with the men and we
had an incredible time over a thousand
men came together and we talked about a
lot of things I won’t share them all
here but it was it was powerful and it
was significant one of the things I
didn’t get to talk about is one of the
one of the attributes or liabilities
depending on how you look at it that
comes with being a man is we we are
fixers if you give me a problem my first
reaction to the problem is to solve it
it took me maybe 15 years into my
marriage to figure out that you’re not
talking to us for solutions
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we we don’t even have to be smart at all
all we have to do is grunt at the
appropriate places and say such a mouth
get out of here no she did she know
better than ed we don’t really have to
come up with anything smart or bright we
have to listen the ladies you have to
understand that we are by nature fixes
and it is frustrating to see you crying
about something
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oh I have some brothers backing me up in
here if you don’t come home crying about
it let’s fix this thing so we can get
some dinner up in here and I thought the
brothers would back me up and see you
all the white sides and you’re going to
let me bear the cross alone at all the
world go free and we are fixer-uppers
and it is our inclination to solve
problems and we are happy when we’re
fixing stuff whether it’s cars or houses
or steps or contracts of negotiation we
love to fix solve problems see results
and get the job to look like a good man
should we gonna fix this up in here
today I must straighten this out and
maybe it’s hard for you ladies to
understand where we’re coming from but
it shouldn’t be because you have a
little bit of that too especially those
of you women who date men who are
fixer-uppers and a man who’s already
accomplished and established and guarded
together he’s nice but you really don’t
like him you like a project
and you go home and tell your mama you
just don’t understand he just never had
a chance he never had anybody who really
believes in here but you gonna see the
greatness come on y’all ought to
understand why we like that because
we’re like that about life but you like
that about us I just thought I’d get him
to think about think of the women that
avoid men who are whole financially
spiritually and emotionally
subconsciously they are more attracted
to fixer-uppers in part because they
feel needed makes them important they
get to be needed they get to be mom
early they didn’t be Wonder Woman y’all
to understand that’s a little bit
because some of you are like that but
many times it ends in rejection you
can’t change a person until they won
to be change I’m preaching way better
than you shared I said you can’t change
a person until they want to be changed
but my heart goes out to the text
because when I go to the text I bring my
son self to the text I bring my father
self to the syntax I bring my maleness
to the text I bring my preacher to the
text I bring my culture and my ethnicity
to the text all of me comes and dives on
the text together and so I’m walking
beside a woman in the third trimester of
pregnancy
who’s craving and crying and complaining
and I had promised God I would do this
but I thought that if he called me to do
it he would help me what do you do when
God calls you to do something sends you
to a place and says nothing he
understand he who gives the promise says
nothing in the process and I would have
thought that if you promised it to me
you you would you would process it with
me but now she’s in the third trimester
of pregnancy and her waters about to
break and I’m running out of time and
she’s craving and she’s hurting and
she’s cramping and she’s crying and
we’re walking a couple of blocks would
have been okay
I’m good for a couple of blocks I might
even put in a half a mile if we got to
do it you know how far can you go
without God saying anything
how far are you willing to walk on what
he last told you sometimes I have a
problem with my GPS cuz of the talk
enough I want you to tell me you’re
doing good you got this you’re not lost
you’re headed in the right direction I
want some affirmation I want some
confirmation
I wasn’t reassured but I don’t hear what
God said anything not for half a mile
not for a mile it was a 90 mile journey
not a mouse in a car is an hour and a
half but on a dog he is seven days how
far were you faithful ass
how long will you be inconvenience how
long will you wait on the house how long
will you wait on your son to get out of
jail how long will you deal with the
adversity of a mother-in-law who’s here
for the holiday and you know she don’t
like you how long how long can you
respond with good Christian ethics when
you see no sign of God in your
circumstances and and you’re crying and
you’re cramping on a donkey for 90 miles
and seven days God said nothing and oh I
know how to walk with God when he’s
talking I know how to walk with God when
he’s showing up like an angelic presence
and invading my space
with supernatural affirmation I got you
dog I will fight a gorilla if he got me
like that yeah put me to myself but the
real test of faith is mop when God is
talking the real test of faith is what
God is saying nothing and the only thing
that’s talking is what’s wrong in my
life I can imagine
Josephus it’s a little bit thick with
God I didn’t even want to tell this and
you told me to do this and I’m out here
on this road and I’m walking here I’ve
been walking for days and it’s cold and
it’s dark there’s no streetlights
there’s no gas station says no stores
open it’s pitch black at night and I’m
walking at night with the woman that I
love so much that I would man
her pregnant with the child it’s not
mine and I my love the love that makes
me love her is also the love that
torments me don’t you see her cried and
cramping and craving and complaining and
I can’t face it cuz we’re not there yet
I want to talk to people that are not
there yet I’m tired of talking to people
who are already there I want to talk to
people who are not there yet then you
don’t know how far you will have to go
before you get there
but you’re hoping that this new year
will be better where are you has got to
be better than 2019 though the reasons
area I will wait on it and though the
cramps continue I will wait on it and
though the night is pervasive I will
wait on it and though the shadows are
all around it I will wait on it and
though the walls surround us
I will wait on it in the end the vision
was speaking and not lying but for right
now the test of my faith is to keep on
walking touch your neighbor and say keep
on walking
sometimes when you don’t know what to do
and you don’t know what to say and you
don’t know how long it’s gonna be all
you can do to express your faith there’s
not dance is not shout he’s not talking
tough
real pain we’ll just keep on walking
[Applause]
good girl somebody needs encouragement
for Christmas somebody needs
encouragement because right now you’re
straddling a donkey and the conditions
are not right and they’re not conducive
for what you’re trying to burn and you
got to keep hold that your neighbor said
just keep on walking I don’t know where
the money’s gonna come from but keep on
walking I don’t know when the problems
go get fixed but people walk him I don’t
know when the student that’s gonna be
paid on but I wish I had some real
people in the room y’all feel kind of
bulging to me this morning but I was
handsome real people who was straddle a
donkey right now I’m stretched between
this and that have you ever been
stretched and he keeps trying to do like
I try to do is encourage myself there’s
a there’s a hotel down the road and if
we can just make it to the hotel
everything is gonna be alright hold on
baby I know it’s trouble but we’re just
two days away and if we hold out a
little while longer it’s gonna be
alright it’s gonna be alright don’t you
faint on me now don’t you don’t you die
out here in the middle of the road
trying to have this baby it’s gonna be
alright I think we’re about a day and a
half from an answer to the problem have
you ever put a date on an answer that
didn’t have that
I mean something you needed I’m not
talking about a cute dress you saw at
the mall I mean something he’ll really
because we ready or not this baby’s
gonna come make it to the end or not
this baby is gonna come make it to the
answer or not this bill is going to come
this eviction is going to come we got to
move by the 31st this job is closing
this position is moving this – have you
ever had time not be your friend see see
see see some of us understand what I’m
saying when I say I’m running out of
time I’m normally a polite person but
excuse me I’m running out of time don’t
bring me no foolishness right now
because I’m running out of time I don’t
have time to play game
with you don’t call me with
I couldn’t took it last month but this
is the wrong mouth to call me I’m the
fool cover not acting akan
[Applause]
don’t you see her crying and cramping
and complaining my manhood is on the
line that’s the way we feel when you got
a problem and we can’t fix it we feel
like our manner it is on the line
because I ought to be able to fix this I
can’t fix this and I’m running out of
time
but just over the hill after they made
it seven days and 90 miles by themselves
in the dark and in the night and in the
cold against the animals against the
adversities of nature itself after seven
days they finally made it to the end
Oh baby I told you we was gonna get
there you know how we do I told you
didn’t I didn’t I tell you what’s my
name
didn’t I tell you that no weapon farming
did not tell you that it’s a log before
your healer did not pay it
I gotta feel him in apathy it’s gonna I
could see the end the only problem was
when he tired the donkey to the post and
said wait right here while I handle the
business and he ran to the end and
knocked on the door
they told him we’ll have no room for you
have you ever put all your hopes on
something and when you finally got to
the something you had to fight to get to
this this is the moment where his hopes
fell like Niagara Falls this is the
moment when his heart sank down into the
cellar of his stubbl this is the moment
where all of his confidence dissipates
this is the moment where he is hot and
angry because angry is what we get when
we get hurt this is a moment that he
faces the rejection of her life I just
want to talk to people who have been
rejected because all of you who have
been accepted you understand this
message come back next Sunday
I’ll free some for you this Sunday I
want to talk to the people who know what
I mean when I talk about your heart
falls into your stomach because it’s one
thing to be rejected by something that’s
optional but I really needed this what
do you do when you really need a
blessing and you really needed the job
and you really needed that companion and
you really needed some help and you
really needed some love and you really
needed somebody to stop me needed and I
don’t mean warning and I may not love
God I’m trying to believe you but wait a
minute
I’m in a crisis situation though I don’t
have time for you to teach me no lesson
Sunday school is over I need a
breakthrough right I learned a lesson at
church
but right now I need a breakthrough god
help the innkeeper that tells me you
don’t have room you don’t have what
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you mean to tell me at the 90 miles and
seven days that I finally got there and
now you why are they you know have room
for me how you handle rejection
determines whether you will be
successful in life rejection the point
of rejection is the place where faith is
proven y’all got quiet now y’all was
shouting with me pretty good but I lost
you rejection
it’s the Magno meter that you must go
through to prove that you can take the
flight that God’s about to put you until
you master your ability to cope with no
he who would be defined by rejection is
rejected before he is ever born the
rejection is almost prophetic of the
whole Christology experience of Louise
he would spend a lifetime of being
rejected he was with a lifetime of
coming to his old and his old people not
receiving it he was with a lifetime of
being rejected by many of the disciples
that he poured into he was with a
lifetime of being rejected that’s how he
ended up on the cross he was with a life
huh a Rodarte tank out more rejection do
you know what rejection does to
self-esteem do you know what do you know
what rejection does anybody in here know
what rejection does to self-esteem do
you understand how personal this is how
do I go back out there and tell her that
I didn’t get the job that they called me
for the interview and they pick somebody
else how do I tell her that they
repossess the car and I had to get a
ride home with a friend how do i how do
I get myself to come home and tell my
kids we don’t have no Christmas I want
to talk to people who understand
something about something about
rejection what not
not just rejection you must go deeper
than the act of rejection it is the
consequences of rejection that I’m
talking about I’m talking about what
happens in your stomach I’m talking
about the taste of bowel in your mouth
that comes out of your liver because
it’s not just that the door is
the closing of the door says you ain’t
no man you ain’t no man you ain’t
nothing you ain’t nothing this just
confirms it just settles it you know
brother I cannot she know you ain’t
nothing and this is a crisis and it
brings up every negative thing that has
ever been said about you in your whole
life
all of them rehearse themselves as you
walk back to the donkey trying to figure
out how you’re going to explain there
that your best plan didn’t work and
she’s crying and cramping and craving
and any minute her water will break and
all I have for you is rejection
let me take a poll in here how many
people in this room have ever been
rejected
I just want to make sure that I’m
talking to the right people because
there’s no need in me trying to explain
some that you haven’t experienced
because I am not articulate enough to
enunciate those things that happen to
the soul when you are rejected rejected
by a lover rejected by a father rejected
by our mother rejected by a family
rejected by a job rejected by a
boyfriend rejected by a girlfriend
rejected rejected rejected rejected
rejected rejected from the sorority
rejected from the fraternity rejected
from the inner circle rejected in your
own office rejected in your own
neighbourhood rejected in your own
school I wanna talk to some people that
know what it feels like I’m not talking
about rejection but what it feels like
[Applause]
there is a disorder called rejection
sensitive dysphoria rejected sensitive
dysphoria RSV comes to two people that
rejection has an extreme reaction for
they cannot handle it well our SD comes
in your life it is rejection sensitive
this for all of us hate rejection but
some of us freak
we are rejection sensitive we are
traumatized by rejection rejection does
stuff to us after it walks away it
fondles us and plays with us at Toms
it teases us it suggests that we not not
that it didn’t work but that we don’t
work and that we aren’t anything and
that we are
good and rejection sensitive dysphoria
it was years before there was a name for
now we have a name for it I want to talk
to people who wither inside though the
time dysphoria comes from a Greek word
to be unbearable because the pain is hot
it’ll make you go in the house would not
come out
rejection sensitive dysphoria will make
you procrastinate from trying for fear
of rejection you would rather not know
that you could lose than to risk having
this feeling again rejection sensitive
dysphoria comes in the lives of people
they do well for a while but then
something happens and triggers it and
when that triggers in them
they go into this painful dark dank
angry place where you don’t hear I don’t
like your dress you hear you’re ugly and
you’re stupid and you aren’t nothing and
you’re never gonna be anything rejection
sensitive dysphoria makes the rejection
sound louder to you and the pain and the
consequences of the pain the torment
they say is so intense that they call
the dysphoria because some people commit
suicide because the pain is absolutely
unbearable and nobody understands the
dark place I get into where I go in my
room and I don’t come out and I don’t
care of what I put on or if I brush my
teeth or comb my hair because I have
rejection sensitive dysphoria because
when you reject me it’s not just that
the deal didn’t work it makes me feel
like I don’t work and that I am nothing
and that my life is a failure and
everything else said I did that was
positive was fraudulent and I thought I
had beat it but then something happened
and it triggers again and I have an
unusual reaction to rejection because I
have rejection sensitive to thoria but I
had no name for it
and if you’re married to somebody who
has it anytime they face rejection they
freak because they have rejection
sensitive dysphoria and the place they
go into it’s so painful the part of the
pain is the inability to articulate the
feeling and everybody says you should
just get over it it’s not that big a
deal
you should be okay that’s not that big a
deal get out get out if it wants you
know since he tried try again and you
see the present no no no no no no no no
you understand I can’t try again because
I can’t risk going back to that place
that dark place it’s more than a closed
door it’s a closed me there was old
songs they used to sing someone left my
cake out in the rain and I don’t think
that I can take it because it took too
long to bake it and I may not ever have
the recipe again a lot of times I won’t
even try a lot of times I won’t
procrastinate the own opportunities
because I am so afraid of rejection that
I won’t ask you I won’t approach I won’t
talk to you and and I am getting older
and I am locked in a prison of rejection
sensitive
that’s for you
and Thank You Bishop because she just
gave me a name for feeling I could not
even explain and I tried to make the
people closest to me understand what
rejection does to me
rejection stops me freezes me isolates
me darkens me shuts my lights out and I
don’t even know how to explain what I
wrestle with in my silence about me not
about the opportunity it is what the
rejection makes me feel about me who
understands what I’m talking about that
when you face rejection every other
rejection you ever had in your life
sings a concert and the music is so loud
and what attracted me to the text is not
the door that opens it’s the door they
closed and the reason I’m attracted to
the door the close is that you will
never find your open door till you can
manage
[Applause]
until until you can see rejection and
not take it personal because after all
it’s not about we don’t like you it is
that somebody got there before you and
there is no room in the so why are you
freaking out like you are not valuable I
would have took your money but there is
no room in the end but when you’re a
rejection sensitive dysphoria it’s not
about practicality it’s it’s about how
you rationalize rejection hole can I
talk to you today and and and so I feel
unwanted and not valuable and I can’t
rationalize the fact that you only had
seven rooms and you got 14 guests in
them and there just wasn’t any room in
the end I wanted to talk to you about
rejection because Christmas brings
rejection of loud as you turn on your TV
and everybody’s laying on a bear rug in
front of a fireplace sipping some Sibley
and you in the house with your dog
[Applause]
[Music]
rejection screams the loudest when you
supposed to be happy but you can’t be
happy because your daughter don’t even
like you and every time you go in the
mall and you see mothers and daughters
shopping a dagger goes right in your
chest because I was the best mom I knew
how to be she don’t even like me all you
see those kids running there talking
about how good their mama was but your
mama wasn’t and the holidays are not
great for you because there’s no room at
the inn in fact you didn’t get invited
to the party and they purposely avoided
inviting you to things that you should
have been a part of and you were left
home to wrestle with rejection wonder
what they’re doing wonder what they’re
doing right now one wonder wonder what
they cook and wonder wonder who’s there
wonder who’s laugh and wonder who’s
holding him wonder
rejection sensitive dysphoria is not
about the doors that open it’s about the
door that cost and when it made me feel
about me Mary we gotta get back on this
donkey and find something and I don’t
even know what it’s gonna be I don’t
even know where I don’t know because my
life as I imagined it has fallen apart
and anytime what you imagined falls
apart we are watching the death of a
vision while we are watching the birth
of a child have you ever had death and
birth cohabitate in your life at the
same time on one hand something is being
born and at the same time it’s your
honor they separate the experience
because now I’m emotionally
schizophrenic I ought to be happy about
the baby but I’m bad I’m mad about the
rejection and I’m mad and I’m mad at the
end keeper I’m mad right now at the end
keeper because anger is the only feeling
that men get permission to field
so rather than the burst into tears we
get mad I’m mad at the end keeper and
the truth is I’m mad at God because when
I started this I expected you to help me
this is your wheel and you would think
if I was doing God’s will he would help
me what do you know when you’re doing
God’s will and you can’t get God’s help
what do you do when God told you to do
it and the door closes in your face
can I preach this Christmas whistle
may get back on the horse get back on
the donkey we got to keep all riding and
we’re riding into the abyss of not
knowing because I’m out of ideas and
amount of players and amount of tricks
we got to keep on riding and and I’m
gonna walk right beside you but I don’t
know where I’m going but I tell you what
devil I’m gonna keep on I wish I had
some strong wielded people that’s been
do some stuff and you say I tell you
what devil I don’t know where I’m going
but
that’s three people and say keep on
walking Timo walk walk when you don’t
know where you’re going
walk when you don’t see your way clear
walk when your heart is broken walk when
you’re under the stress walk when you
run out of money walk with your friends
betray you walk with me walk with what
you imagine doesn’t happen just keep on
walking yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I
feel some faith in this room I feel a
little bit of place turn in this room
touch your neighbor and say I know
something’s gonna happen
I know I know something’s gonna happen
I don’t believe that he brought me this
far to leave me I don’t believe I walked
seven days and 90 miles to down the side
of the road I believe that something is
gonna work in my favor I don’t know
where I don’t know win I don’t know who
but something’s
I’m a hair I’m a hair rejection
sensitive tips this for you but I’m
gonna keep on walking with you I may be
crying but I’m a people who walk it I
may be hurting but I’m a people on
walking I don’t know how long we’ll have
to walk I don’t care if it’s another
seven days and another 90 miles I’ve
come too far to turn around
[Music]
[Applause]
my god this is where the story gets good
because he stumbled up on something hit
your neighbor and say this is your
season to stumble up on something it’s
not what you’re playing but it’s what
God has in store for you
you won’t stumble upon something I need
30 seconds of praise
I feel like I’m confirming a word in
somebody’s life you already got to feel
it that you won’t stumble upon something
I’ll give you ten more seconds to give
God
[Music]
[Applause]
[Applause]
hey hey get your faith out and slap your
neighbor and say something is about to
happen it may not look like what you
thought it was gonna look like it may
not be who you thought it was gonna be
it may not be where you thought it was
gonna be but something is about to
happen
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
all of our people that got visa looking
for myself see something yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I’m not there
yet but I see something I haven’t
checked it out yet but I see something
is there anybody in here to see
something
the reason I’m excited about 2020 is cuz
I see something I could’ve died seven
days ago but devil is too late to kill
me
big rock
[Applause]
yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah
I feel like I’m talking to somebody I
don’t even know who it is but somebody
who’s been through a series of rejection
the Holy Ghost said God’s got something
for you
[Applause]
touch seven people in Telemark see
something it’s been a long journey but a
sea serpent it’s been a tough process
for us easily
head to cry but I see service have been
in pain for a sea serpent I’ve been in
labor but a seat of it I’ve been
cramming what a seat of it I’ve been
craving but a seat
oh my god I see sir excuse me a minute I
got a praising for myself cuz I see
something I see something
yep you should have got me with your
head a chance cuz I see something
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
once is watch give me give me give me
seven minutes it out give me seven
minutes give me seven minutes but but I
see some and I can’t go cuz I see some I
can’t shut it off because I see some you
can’t leave because I see some I see
something’s about to break through what
I thought was gonna happen didn’t happen
but I see something I feel like I’m
talking to somebody prophetically
[Applause]
and so the Bible says that Joseph got
married back on the donkey in there and
they started going to God’s knows where
to get God knows what from God knows who
and while they were traveling they saw
something it wasn’t what they had in
mind
it wasn’t no ane didn’t have no elevator
yeah
what no new york times at the door no
room service but they saw something see
sometimes you got to bring your
loftiness down to reality because what
you had in mind may not be what God had
in mind but God wouldn’t have brought
you out here if he didn’t have a place
for you I see something watch this show
[Applause]
he strummed it up or it was it was it
was it was it was it was kind of like
like like like a it was kind of like a
barn look but it was something there was
something and the Bible says that there
were shepherds out in the field keeping
the Sheep safe so it was safe
safe enough watches this is a powerful
thing what I’m not saying is a powerful
thing especially if you have rejection
issues safe enough to be vulnerable see
it’s hard to be vulnerable if you don’t
feel safe so they found a place and when
elegant it went fancy no no no nice
variants a nothing like that but but if
it was safe enough to be vulnerable to
go into the birth position you can’t
have a baby and be running it so baby
baby I know it’s not fancy and there
there’s no room service and nothing like
that but but but but it’s safe enough to
be vulnerable and and they brought him
into this old barn
and Mary is in the barn and there are
three things in the barn
there’s the manger the milk ranks and
the men that watched in the barn there
is a manger and the word manger comes
from a Latin word that means to chew it
was a trough for feeding animals but
they said the baby will fit nicely in
here so the manger became a cradle now
the the cradle was really a trough but
Jesus is the bread of life
and later he would say unless you drink
my blood and eat my flesh
you should have my part with me and when
she birthed him dinner was served and so
they they laid him hush how they laid
him they laid him in the manger and I
know you don’t think it was appropriate
but it it was appropriate if you
understand that he called himself a
grain of wheat and wheat was what they
fed to the animals and we that’s what
makes bread and he became the bread of
life and they laid him in a trough
because God would say come and dine the
master call have come and die and they
laid him in a manger and I know this in
the way you would like for it to be but
the Bible says she wrapped him in
swaddling clothes and swapping clothes
our milk rags there the ranks that when
you milk a cow and you have some spilt
milk
that both of swaddling-clothes their
milk rags but we’ll wrap him up in milk
rags and and they didn’t know they were
wrapping this sincere milk of the word
and so they had milk against milk haha
yeah yeah they didn’t know that they
were wrapping the breasted one in in
milk race and they wrapped him in
swaddling clothes and they laid him in
the manger but I want to talk about the
men that watch because I never paid
attention to the men that watch I always
do the story but and I knew that they
were shepherds watching the Sheep and
then I realized that Jesus is the Lamb
of God and now I understand why they had
the Shepherd’s there because they were
about to birth the Lamb of God and Mary
thought she was carrying a man but the
man was a lamb and the lamb was a man
and the Shepherd’s are to be watching it
because she was about to have God’s
little lamb and he didn’t need to be in
the end he needed to be in the barn
because he is the Lamb of God shall
hallelujah somebody
shout hallelujah somebody shout
hallelujah
somebody shout hallelujah somebody and
now I realized that what Joseph had
planned was never what God had planned
[Applause]
I’m a preacher’s in a minute
the reason I’m preaching about rejoicing
in rejection is that any time you face
rejection it’s the sign of direction
in American South when God opens the
door but she wanna shout when God shuts
the door because anytime God sets the
door he says land here not here not here
not here I got a place for you come on
somebody 30 sucking the praise right
just started sucking the prey realest
[ __ ] to the atmosphere
[Applause]
I’m feeling shifts in the atmosphere I
feel a shift in the atmosphere slap your
neighbors hand in the right place take
the upper key I’m in the right place I’m
in the right place and go stay right
here and wait on the Lord he may not
come
[Applause]
[Applause]
I’ve got one more thing to tell you all
while they were traveling the 90 miles
and the 7 days God had sent a word to
the wise men they say go till you see a
child laying in a manger if he’d have
been laying in the end
Peter missed his blessing the Bible said
that the wise men had frankincense myrrh
and gold and I don’t know who I’m
preaching to but if you have not been
rejected you to miss your blessing
because the blessing in coming to your
hotel the blessing is coming to the bar
[Applause]
and while they were in the manger
here come the wise men they got their
own donkeys but the wise men rode in on
campus and the Lord told me to tell you
the camels are coming slap your neighbor
and tell us the camels are coming get
ready for 2020 get ready for God to open
up the windows
[Applause]
and the only thing the only thing that
matters the only thing that matters is
that I’m rejected enough to be in the
place where the camels are coming and if
God would have cared about my comfort I
too miss my camels because my camels are
not coming to my comfort the camels are
coming to my crisis and if we were not
in the barn the wise man would have been
waiting in a place that he missed and so
we rejoice
[Music]
and again I say
we rejoice
and rejects me
I don’t know who in this room it’s been
dealing with rejection dysphoria I don’t
know who in this room has been in pain
about what you lost so who left you or
who said no or what rejected you or the
job you didn’t get or the house you lost
or the car that went or the daughter
that’s gone or the son that this is in
jail or or whatever your rejection is
and I know what I’m asking you to do is
hard but I’m not asking you to do
nothing that God didn’t tell me to ask
you to do the Lord said when you get to
preach it I want the people who have
been through the most rejection to find
a way to give me the highest praise
[Applause]
yeah
[Applause]
yes
[Applause]
yeah
right here like your cabin
praise Him let everything that a half
rep
yeah
yeah
tell your neighbor lack of the common
man camels and Robin you can’t make me
proud
[Applause]
yes
yes
yes Mac hammers are coming back cameras
are coming my camels are coming to every
person who ever rejected me thank you
thank you for leaving me
thank you for betraying me thank you for
land of it
thank you for hurting me the club’s back
cavil the club
[Applause]
Oh God the play
[Applause]
[Music]
join hands with somebody leave no one
untouched stand on your feet if you’re
able
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
first I want to call you out of your
rejection dysphoria I want to call you
out of the vicious cycle that keeps
coming up in your life suggestion that
you aren’t nobody and you don’t have
what it takes and you can’t do it I want
to call you away from fighting ghosts
out of your past I want to call you out
of your yesterday’s into your tomorrows
I want to call you out of your fear into
your faith I want to call you out of
your struggle into your success I want
to call you out of your brooding mood
swings your depressions your disorders
your anxieties your traumas your fears
your uncertainty your griefs and drone
your depression rejection my sister
rejection my brother it’s God’s Way of
Direction it was good
[Applause]
it was good they rejected you it was
good you didn’t get the job it was good
the door didn’t open it was good that it
didn’t happen the way you imagined it
[Music]
because your camels were never called to
the end and if you would have got to the
end you wouldn’t got your camels here
this you who have always wanted to fit
in this is your last day
of trying to get in
your camels are not coming to the end
[Music]
[Applause]
if you had not been rejected you
wouldn’t have found here
[Applause]
squeeze that hand it’s hard to believe
when you’re sitting on a donkey cramping
and crying and craving that on the other
side of your life the camels are loaded
down with frankincense and myrrh and
gold but squeeze that hand until the
person that you’re holding knows they’re
your camels are coming
[Music]
and according to Ephesians one a9he
worketh all things after the counsel of
his own will and so God is working all
things after the counsel of his own will
and if what you had in mind would have
worked you wouldn’t have been in the
right place at the right time to receive
what God is about to do in your life and
I know I should have preached a little
nice Christmas message you know it after
traditional fashion but God gave me a
ministering Word of impartation God said
the next time you feel the way you feel
when you are rejected drop everything
and start praising him
yeah right in the middle of the
rejection rejoice
rejoice until the Spirit of the Lord
comes in rejoice until depression cannot
hole you rejoice until you stay out of
that dark place rejoice so that you know
walk in anger and bitterness
if you rejoice the enemy will plea away
from you princess the devil
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
squeeze that hand I wanna I want to pray
that you can believe that you can
receive that you can conceive everything
that we will ever know about Jesus
starts in that barn he is the bread of
life he is the milk of the word he is
the Lamb of God everything that we will
ever learn about Jesus is in that barn
he humbled himself to be born in a barn
but the camels come with gifts not to a
lamb but to a king
[Applause]
[Music]
not to peasants but to royalty and you
might not feel like a king in a barn
right now but when then camels get there
[Applause]
they’re going to see who you are
I don’t know whether you can receive
this word but I received this word for
myself I want to uh sure in my camels
I believe that my blessing has already
been in Ralf
[Applause]
I believe that the delivery is in
process
I believe that when marriage water broke
and she was delivering Jesus the camels
were delivering the goal at the same
time I believe that mercy and truth meet
together that righteousness and peace
kiss each other I believe that destiny
and agony collide in one spot until
everything that I have suffered its
swallowed up in everything that I’ve
seen I believe that this is more than a
Christmas story I believe that this is a
prophetic word I believe that this
speaks to the heart of somebody’s next
business decision I believe that this
speech that somebody’s married and
somebody’s ministry and somebody’s order
that if you could just humble down to a
barn God would exalt you like a king
squeeze that hand for some folks it’s
hard to be humble some folks would have
stood there and fought with the end
keeper and miss the camels
some people would have walked past the
barn because they think too highly of
themselves but he which was high became
low for us that through his poverty we
might be made rich squeeze that hand
it’s your pride blocking your blessing
it’s your stubborn commitment to the way
you have always done things stopping you
from getting to your predestined
destination are you too cute to be born
in a barn are you so worried about what
people think about you that you won’t
come to the barn where God is holding
your next lesson because what would they
say and how would it look and what would
they think about me to see somebody like
me hanging out in a barn
your pride is poisoning your prophecy
your arrogance has created its own agony
and if the one you worship could be
birthed in a barn
then why are you walking around with
your chest stuck out
squeeze that ham because most of the
Agony’s we carry are a result of our
arrogance I’m not gon apologize at their
wedding my pal and shut up a minute and
get down in his barn get down in his
barn get on this birthing stool girl
squat right in this barn get down in
this barn cuz something is gonna happen
in this barn if you can come down you
can go up father I’ve spoken many things
over your people today and as we prepare
to celebrate the greatest gift we ever
got I thank you for the power the
message he taught while he was
delivering the gift the kings and
princes don’t need palaces and castles
to be mighty and great that real
greatness can be birthed in a barn to
every person in this room Lord who’s
been stuck in a phobia dysfunctional
about rejection who thought nobody
understood them and nobody heard that
let this be the balm in Gilead people
let it heal let it touch let it deliver
in fact Lord I want you to give them
deliverance for Christmas
[Applause]
the people who have secret agony that
nobody sees the people who lay in the
bed at night with tears falling across
the bridge of their nose into a pillow
that won’t tell the people who are
carrying unbearable pain
give them deliverance for Christmas
they could put nothing under a tree any
better than this that you have borne our
griefs and carried our sorrows and the
chest Heisman of our peace is upon you
and with your stripes we are healed
breathe it in real deep we breathe in
this word we take this word into our
lives and into our psyche and into our
thinking and into our process
exhale and we exhale all of the
contaminating habitual practices that
have limited us to pettiness and blocked
us from the greatness that you have
called us to I exhale it now the words
the pains the memories the thoughts the
Agony’s I push it out of me right now as
I make room for what’s next
exhale 2019 so I can inhale 2020
and I thank you for it
and I praise you for it in Jesus name
Amen
any praise in the house
in appraising the house