Rejoicing In Rejection - Bishop T.D. Jakes [December 22, 2019]

[Music] 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 [Applause] rejoicing [Applause] 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 [Applause] 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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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

Channel: T.D. Jakes

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Id: 0RoIU04x3_Y

Length: 91min 16sec (5476 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 22 2019