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Merry Christmas
we are so glad to be able to share this
with you
oh God’s good what an incredible season
taking time to set apart to celebrate to
pray over to meditate the reality of of
what Christmas season what it actually
means and it is the gift
of the king
oh my goodness what a blessing let’s
before I share the word that the Lord
has placed on my heart let’s go to
prayer like we do in all things and Lord
father God we thank you we praise you
we are so grateful for the gift
of Jesus Christ we’re so grateful for
the gift of the king
Lord we do we honor you we praise you we
worship you we are so
thankful to have this time this season
to be set apart to celebrate
the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ
so father we love you we praise you in
all things amen
you know the word that God gave me as I
was praying about the Christmas message
was
the word was remnant
and I was like are you sure like remnant
what about like joy peace on Earth and
holy spirit said remnant
and as I began to pray and read through
Matthew and Luke particularly and and
just and I started really thinking of
the reality of of a young Mary and
Joseph I mean here’s a young
teenage girl pregnant out of wedlock
her betrothed Joseph who hadn’t yet
finalized the marriage ceremony was
immediately tempted to just put her away
why because God had had impregnated her
with the promise
of his word the word becoming the
manifestation to uh in flesh through
Jesus Christ
and Mary and Joseph were in the most
literal sense a remnant both separated
from their families their friends their
loved ones even separated from their
their home towns they themselves became
a Remnant only because she was pregnant
with the promise of the word of the Lord
and that’s and that’s the message that I
want to share to you uh share with you
you know I think back to this time last
year when when our family was as a
family ministry we were preparing to
plant five Stones Church we were still
about a less than a month out from our
first service on January the 9th but
what it what had happened was when God
had planted that word within us we
became pregnant with the promise of
planting God’s church we had become a
Remnant God had allowed us to be set
apart in the process of being Sanctified
through that isolation and God put on
our heart that like don’t be afraid
don’t be afraid that it’s just you and
Leah and your kids
uh there’s always going to be there
always has to be a Remnant before the
Harvest
and so when we look at the at the
Christmas message and we look at Mary
and Joseph isolated prior to the the
birth of the promise of God through
Jesus Christ that they were set apart
they were isolated and you know if we
look through the world’s lens through
the cultural lens we’d like well that’s
terrible
like just those two
but in the process of sanctification in
the process of preparation for the
Deliverance of the promise of God for
the Harvest which came through the
manifestation of Jesus Christ there is a
season of remnant of being whittled down
shifted shaken set apart
and it’s in that reality of the of the
remnant especially during the holiday
season that that I want to share this
message with you uh of encouragement
that if you find yourself in a season of
being set apart and as Believers we’re
called to be
um in the world not of the world that’s
a remnant
every Great Harvest began with the first
the remnant
so I want to encourage you with this
word this morning as we enjoy as we
enjoy our Christmas celebration and and
I always tell you that the Lord puts one
thing on my heart and it’s a burden that
I carry until I’m able to birth that
burden with you as the faith family as
the body and it’s you must nurture the
seed of a pregnant promise that God
plants into your life the same way that
that Mary nurtured Jesus you’ve got to
care for that promise you’ve got to
carry that seed even even when it calls
this burden when it causes separation
because always before favor comes
oppression
and always before the Harvest
must be a Remnant you know I want to
share our anchor scripture and I’ll read
it to you from Matthew 2 22 23.
so all this was done that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord
through the prophet saying behold the
Virgin shall be with child and bear a
son and they shall call his name
Emmanuel which is translated God With Us
it’s really incredible that that the
world even the unbelieving world sets
this time apart
to celebrate Christmas and whether they
know it or acknowledge it
Christmas is only about one thing
celebrating acknowledging honoring the
birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ they can commercialize it and
materialize it and even try to
secularize it as much as they want
but at the core at the heart at the seed
is always about the birth of the King
Jesus Christ
and it’s in that setting apart of the
Christmas season
becomes in and of itself a remnant
and it’s only through the remnant the
setting apart that the promises of God
in our lives are born
you know God’s word for you is sometimes
just for you had Mary had a Facebook
account or a tick tock account and
girl guess what I’m PG I’m PG like that
would not have been well received she
probably would have had like zero likes
and maybe got banned on Twitter or
something like that sometimes the word
God gives you at that season is just for
you and that places you in a posture of
isolation of being the remnant before
the birthing of the word
take take encouragement in that you know
the other the other message
in addition to sometimes God’s word is
just for you
don’t expect the world to accept receive
acknowledge congratulate you for
receiving a word from the Lord
you know that’s almost a measuring stick
sometimes uh you know God’s calling for
you is not a conference call for the
world if God when God gives you a word
when God plants a seed that’s going to
birth the promise he made in your life
that’s a very intimate inner interaction
that’s a very intimate exchange between
you and God and it’s not meant to be met
with public approval or majority vote
take encouragement by the fact in the
intimacy of the word that’s shared with
you and and I want you to understand
that culture is more often than not
always going to reject
the word that God’s given to you to
carry on behalf of the Kingdom
the way that Mary and Joseph were
rejected the way that that even Christ
as as a child as a babe was rejected
the world is not meant to be receptive
to be accepting as it is the world as we
are now is ruled by the by the God of
this world
who is Satan temporarily until the
Return of the King
so when you find yourself in what you
may feel is isolation or loneliness
understand that you’re simply a remnant
and that that Remnant is required before
the harvesting of the promise that God
has in your life
that is the Christmas message and I want
to encourage for for married couples
a promise for one is a promise for both
God God gave Mary the word God gave Mary
the seed God gave Mary the promise and
Joseph obviously as we can understand
wasn’t like a crazy you know he probably
wasn’t liking on Facebook her PG message
I’m sure he was a little concerned
but because they were in unity as
Genesis 2 24 they were betrothed to
become two as one God also reassured
Joseph
so I want to encourage you also that if
you if you’re if you’re married and and
you find yourself with a very specific
word from God
and you sh when you share that word with
your spouse and you should because two
is one and you as the spouse that have
not received that word and maybe there’s
some question maybe it’s you know I
believe we’ve been called to the mission
field I believe we’ve been given an
opportunity to plant a church become the
next equivalent Priscilla or or I
believe that God’s moving us into a new
season and your spouse is like whoa
really
you can you can ask God for affirmation
for confirmation because it is that one
promise for one is a promise for both
so I don’t want you to to be stressful
if you find yourself in this season
holiday season a lot of times
materialism and commercialization and
secularization it diminishes the true
calling of what what Christmas was set
apart to recognize and celebrate it is
about the birth of the king it is about
being set apart alone as the remnant
while the word while the seed of the
promise of God is able to develop and
and grow until it’s time to be birthed
into the world
you know that is that is
the Christmas message that God’s put on
my heart for you the word remnant
and and it’s to encourage you let that
encourage you in knowing that when God
plants his seed his Word of Promise in
you and you become pregnant with the
promise of glory and Brilliance and the
birthing of the promise that God’s put
in you
that it made
bring you into a season of being
Sanctified to being set apart to be holy
to become a Remnant before that Harvest
and the way that the Lord has put on my
heart that this applies to your life is
it’s focused on the Christmas seed
instead of the Christmas tree
to be fruitful and multiply requires
that a seed first be planted
it was first planted in Mary in a
tangible seed that that gave birth to
Jesus in the in the flesh you know John
1 14 says and the Word was made flesh
and dwelt Among Us
focus on the seed instead of the tree
second focus on the gift of Salvation
rather than the gift from Santa
I know the Temptation Of The World Is is
commercialization and and marketing and
and sometimes our value as a parent or a
spouse is measured by the by the dollar
amount of the gift
focus on the true gift the gift of
Salvation John 3 16 17 is the wrapping
of that gift
for God so loved the world that he gave
his only begotten son that whoever
believes in him should not perish but
have everlasting life
for God did not send his son into the
world to condemn the world but that the
world through him might be saved
that’s the gift to focus on the third
word that the lord gave is focus on
giving rather than getting
you know I said no in the if we hashtag
overly saved religious and we’re like oh
it’s not about getting and then
sometimes unmet expectations find their
way into ruining the season
but if we truly focus on the giving
rather than the getting it shifts our
perspective into one of of gratitude and
service you know Acts 20 35 says in
everything I showed you that by working
hard in this way you must help the weak
and remember the words of the Lord Jesus
that he himself said it is more blessed
to give than to receive and the final
part
I really felt the Lord put on my heart
is Let Your Presence be your presence
you know being there not just physically
there
emotionally spiritually
physically it’s so important in the
faith family you know Hebrews 10 25
tells us not forsaking the Assembly of
ourselves together as is the manner of
some
but exhorting one another so much more
as you see the day approaching
it’s so important to maintain
community
it’s so important to maintain
interpersonal relationships
you
your presence truly is a gift
so
Leah and myself
and our kids are so thankful
for the present of your presence
in this church in our lives
when we do when we when we think back
and we’re praying for each one of you by
name and and we do we Marvel at the
reality that that less than a year ago
almost none of us knew each other
but God knew us from the very beginning
God stirred us called us connected us
stitched us together
God’s brought us all out of our
individual Remnant seasons
and prophetically is spoken this next
season
2023 that we’re all as a faith family
coming together to begin birthing the
promise
that God’s given each of us
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as a family we always pray for the not
for the Harvest that this season we pray
for the workers and and God has brought
together an incredible Faith Family each
with their own gifts each pregnant with
with greatness that’s ready to birth
into growing the kingdom and
prophetically the Lord has been
downloading such such beautiful
imagery
about what’s to come in the next season
and as the body as the faith family we
are going to begin to see an incredible
Harvest
because we’ve all been faithful in our
individual Remnant Seasons we’ve all
been faithful coming together in the
body to grow and equip and learn and
encourage
and it’s in that encouragement
that we thank you and we bless you and
we pray for you
God bless you and Merry Christmas
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