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

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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

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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