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you know I love this time of the year I
love this time of the year the optimism
new year new you new year new you like
I’m like go
and I’m not here to rain on your parade
but you know 90 of all new gym
memberships people are going to quit
before the third month
less than eight percent of people who
make New Year’s resolutions will see
them out through the year
most of that the other 92 percent by the
middle of January those New Year
resolutions have gone the way of the
dinosaur
so it’s wonderful to have optimism and I
want to give you some optimistic news
that about starting over starting fresh
statistically if you’re going to start a
diet Monday is the best day to start
the bet I don’t know why but October is
actually the best month to start a diet
that has long-term success so the good
news is y’all have got 10 months
before you got to get your acts together
and pick a Monday in October to start
your diets until then
Young
but you know the key to all this
you gotta stick to stuff to see it
through
you got to stick to stuff to see it
through and that’s what I want to I want
to talk to you today that’s what the
Lord put on my heart I tell you guys I I
preach out of Burden I preach out of the
burden that not that preaching’s a
burden or sharing but the burden that
the Lord puts on my heart
we don’t Google hey what’s a good topic
for Sunday or I don’t even ask my wife
you know I wait in the Holy Spirit puts
a burden on my heart and the burden is
that you must nurture God’s promises
into maturity
like I could drive you to the gym and I
can drop you off in the lobby but you’ve
got to lift the weight you’ve got to get
on the treadmill God is giving you
promises and those promises never expire
Isaiah 55 11 tells us
God doesn’t speak anything without the
expectation of it coming to fruition and
his word never expires
I want to encourage you in that in
understanding that that those promises
are made and will always be God’s spoken
promises over all of your lives
but this is the season to start to
nurture that to Mentor that to Foster
that into reality
you know God told Moses to speak to the
Rock
all he told him to do was speak to the
Rock now he struck it but he told him to
speak to it it required an action on his
part to bring forth the water God spoke
in a promise over your life
all he’s asking is an action to help it
come to fruition and that’s the word
that he put on my heart for today and
that’s what we’re going to talk about
and if we would if we would if we would
stand together as the body and read our
anchor scripture and it comes from
Matthew and and you know what I love
about about what the the command that
God gave us before we planted he said
Don’t Preach a social calendar don’t
align yourself with what harm Mark says
are the important times throughout the
course of the year you stick to my word
and you’re going to be okay so let me
tell you five Stones Church we didn’t
pick up baby Jesus’s baby stroller we’re
still preaching the gospel message of
the birth of Jesus Christ that’s the
message that should be taught every day
so we’re gonna we’re gonna come to this
message and I want to read this as the
body is our anchor scripture and we’ll
begin as the body now the birth of Jesus
the Messiah was as follows when his
mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph
before they came together she was found
to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit and
the husband Joseph since he was a
righteous man did not want to disgrace
her
plan to send her away secretly
but when he had thought this over behold
an angel of the Lord appeared to him in
a dream saying Joseph son of David do
not be afraid to take Mary as your wife
for the child who has been conceived in
her is of the Holy Spirit she will give
birth to a son and you will call his
name Jesus for he will save his people
from their sins
now all this took place so that what was
spoken by the Lord through the prophet
would be fulfilled behold the Virgin
will conceive and give birth to a son
and they shall name him Emmanuel which
means god with us and Joseph awoke from
his sleep and did as the angel of the
Lord commanded him and took Mary as his
wife but kept her a virgin until she
gave birth to a son and he named him
Jesus
that’s the message
that is the message
so talking about nurturing the promises
of God into a state of maturation in
your life what I want to do is I want to
focus on Joseph’s role
Joseph is such
a righteous man how do we know he’s a
righteous man because the Bible says he
was a righteous man Joseph is a
wonderful example of what it is to
nurture the promises of God
and you know what I want to share before
we get started and it relates to Joseph
and Mary is like you don’t hear a lot
about Joseph and Mary’s mom and dad
but you know we know that they raise
their kids to be Godly kids they raise
their kids to become Godly vessels so
that God could use them as vessels for
the kingdom moms and dads grandparents I
want to encourage you you’ve got to
raise your kids to be Godly kids if you
want God to use your kids you’ve got to
raise your kids to be Godly kids
we can’t let the world raise them we
can’t let Society or the schools or the
government we can’t let social media or
even their peers
we can’t put that responsibility on
everybody else they are God’s promise
they’re God’s gift to us even though
they may not feel like it all the time
they’re the gift it’s our responsibility
and so when I look at Joseph and Mary
you realize it all begins with their
parents unsung relatively unmentioned
but they raise their kids how do we know
that Mary was raised right well she was
a virgin
I mean Luke Luke 1 27 tells us to a
version betrayal to a man whose name was
Joseph of the House of David the
virgin’s name was Mary how do we know
that Joseph was a righteous man Matthew
1 19 tells us he was a righteous man
they were in the process the proper
process of of the patrol process and
sometimes that took to Upper up to a
year before it was finalized but they
because they came from good families
because they were doing the right thing
they were raised as Godly kids and now
God could use them
as a vessel so moms and dads and
grandparents I want to encourage you
let’s raise Godly kids
a lot of us a lot of us are we’re really
like the first links in our family’s
Faith chain I know Lee and I we go we’ve
researched generations of both of our
families and we’re the first
faith-filled members of our family and
that’s the first chain in the Silvery
family and our kids are the second and
then on and on and a lot of you guys are
coming into the as the first link in
that Faith chain
and there’s a responsibility with that
you know when it comes to nurturing the
word of the Lord
when we look at what Joseph did one of
the things that that I you know a lot of
times with familiarity we miss a lot of
the importance the little things like we
read that scripture and it’s like that’s
the Christmas story oh oh let me shot us
the Christmas story we’re going to read
it again December 25th of 2023. you know
what let’s put ourselves in that let’s
put ourselves in Joseph’s life it’s like
oh look I’m gonna let my Cajun buy you
out I’m like they like oh Michelle he
was sleeping and the angel came and gave
him a good word
I want you to think about this like
Joseph was a blue-collar dude he was a
carpenter his hands were calloused he
loved the Lord he loved the law he
followed the law he was a righteous man
but think about this he’s been in the
process of marrying Mary
and it hasn’t been legalized yet
finalized yet but this is his girl
right and then she’s he finds out she’s
pregnant
somebody but him
and then an angel the Lord shows up do
you all know the last time God had
spoken to his people before this time
it was 400 years what was the book that
last documented that
Malachi in the Old Testament if I hadn’t
heard from my wife in four minutes I’m
starting to wonder what’s going down
can you imagine not hearing from the
word but not getting a word from the
Lord in 400 years
and it wasn’t like Joseph was like some
learned it academic he was a blue collar
alpha male dude slinging nails and
hammering wood
couldn’t wait to marry Mary
and then she’s pregnant for somebody
else
so like instead of being oh like let’s
like drop the religiosity and realize
like these people or us we’re dealing
with stuff like this maybe you’ve not
heard from the Lord in what seems like
400 years
but you always got to be willing you
always got to be faithful and you know
how we know Joseph was faithful because
Matthew 1 24 said he did what the Lord
commanded
and let me tell you I’m going to go off
track just a bit but the Holy Spirit
told me to go off track you know what it
took for Joseph you’re like well he was
he had big faith like he was big Faith
like he was reading this Daily
Devotional every day
right oh he had to be a big man of faith
you know what it took you know how much
faith it took for Joseph
what does God say how much Faith does it
take yeah you said it right this is my
demonstration
so I I found this this morning
ah and it’s a it’s a popcorn kernel
because I wanted y’all to be able to see
like this was a popcorn kernel
can you imagine if you had that much
Faith but let me tell you what Jesus
said it takes
can you see that probably no you know
what this is
it’s a mustard seed
that’s right
that’s all it takes
that’s all it takes for Joseph a
hard-working Blue Collar callus hand
sunburned neck Carpenter
to believe that after 400 years and
hadn’t heard a word from the Lord and
his girlfriend’s pregnant for somebody
else
that’s all it took for him to understand
and Obey what the word of the Lord said
you want me to tell you what our problem
is
this belief
it’s belief and I want to read this from
Matthew 17 18 20. and this is when the
disciples went out and they were casting
out demons and healing people and then
he ran into a little issue and it said
and Jesus rebuked the devil and he
departed out of him and the child was
cured from that very hour then came the
disciples to Jesus apart and said why
could not we cast them out and Jesus
said unto them
because of your
not lack of faith not lack of money not
lack of likes on Facebook not lack of
hard effort what did he say
because of your unbelief
for verily I say to you if you have the
faith of a grain of mustard seed ye
shall say unto this mountain remove
hints until Yonder place and it shall
remove and nothing shall be impossible
for you
y’all
we’re coming into 2023 and the Lord has
put on my heart a very very clear
prophetic visions and healing is going
to be a big part of who we become and
who are identified in the body of Christ
if we want to start reaching the loss we
can give pamphlets and websites and this
and that and speeches but it’s going to
be we start laying hands on people and
they get healed we start laying hands on
people they start getting delivered and
listen I believe every one of us are
people of faith if we didn’t have faith
we wouldn’t be here
even if we only have the faith the size
of a grain of a mustard seed that ain’t
our issue
it’s belief
so I want to encourage you
that if you feel like you hadn’t heard
from the Lord in 400 years if you feel
like you think you’ve been doing the
right thing and some consequence or
circumstance shows you that it’s
something different is going to happen
keep your faith but move into a season
of belief when the word of the Lord has
given you a promise listen
right how many of us have belief how
many of us believe that that an
ex-alcoholic can can lead people into
the kingdom how many people believe that
you’ve been divorced and God’s called
you to do marriage Ministry how many
people believe that that maybe you’ve
you’ve had legal issues and God can’t
Mentor you into mentoring people into a
state of righteousness how many of you
believe that people God can use people
like that
that’s belief
look I’m telling y’all it’s going to
take some belief this year we believe
it’s like always people like oh I
believe in God
but do you believe God
you see that’s where we fail do you
believe God called you
do you believe God called you to to
reignite your faith to recommit to a
season of ministry that you’ve been
denying do you believe God
I’ll submit Joseph believe God
Joseph believed God you know let me show
you the consequences of Joseph’s belief
the benefits was that you know Joseph
was a righteous man but he was also
merciful
he believed in the letter of the law
that’s what made him righteous because
this is pre well Jesus was in the
process of being born but this is pre uh
crucifixion resurrection and Ascension
Joseph didn’t have the the ever
indwelling power of the Holy Spirit like
we do that’s where our righteousness
comes from right I mean when people say
oh I’m just you know I’m like dirty
filthy racks you used to be but if you
receive Jesus Christ as your lord and
savior you have 100 righteousness of the
Holy Spirit living in you and you’re
right along without the Holy Spirit it
is but when you receive Jesus Christ as
your lord and savior you have to receive
the Holy Spirit if you didn’t receive
the Holy Spirit you didn’t receive
Christ as your lord and savior and when
you receive the Holy Spirit you are 100
perfect righteousness
because you have the righteous of the
Holy Spirit
so Joseph’s righteousness at this time
came from his love and obedience to the
law and that’s important to understand
because now he’s looking at a situation
where his wife his fiancee is pregnant
and he wants to divorce her
and to divorce her he has to file legal
paperwork and when you file legal
paperwork it becomes public record and
when it becomes public record that his
girlfriend got pregnant for somebody
else then he falls under the law what
law is that well let’s go to Leviticus
2010.
if there is a man who commits adultery
with another man’s wife one who commits
adultery with his friend’s wife the
adulterer and the adulteress must be put
to death
if Joseph didn’t have mercy and Grace
and love and compassion
according to the law Mary and the child
she carried
would have been stoned to death
this man who loves and lives for the law
was willing to put his own life
was willing to sacrifice his own life
for this lady he’s not yet married and
for this child he’s not yet met
thank God Joseph was willing to be
counter-cultural to the world’s demands
that’s what God’s calling us to do right
now y’all
let’s not get locked into the woke world
let’s not worry about cancel culture
let’s not worry about what anybody else
says but the word of the Lord
Leah’s asked me all year and I’d ignore
her she’s like stop telling people that
it’s rude I’m like I don’t care what
your opinion is if you don’t start off a
conversation saying
the Lord says and you say I feel then I
don’t want to talk to you I do because I
love you but
but what’s important is that we put our
emotions aside that we’re not Soul LED
we’re not personality-led we’re not
opinion-led that we allow the spirit of
the Lord to get in the front and drive
this train
amen
you know with Joseph he’s such a great
example you know what if Joseph had been
a deadbeat dad like man we ain’t married
yet
I’m gonna block her on Facebook I’m
gonna pay her phone bill for one more
month and then that’s it but I’m gonna
get on Facebook and find that girl we
used to date in high school and I’m
gonna see if she’s still available
because that’s probably the right one
for me
like what if Joseph had checked out
against the word of the Lord like this
cat this cat would have missed out on
the greatest blessing he could have ever
known
was being Jesus’s Earthly dad
but he chose to stay in the fight you
know what else he did when the angel of
the Lord said I need you to marry this
old girl I need you to take her as your
wife
but I don’t want you to consummate the
relationship you see Joseph who loves
the law who loves the law right he could
have said oh yeah we good now I have the
legal Authority as her husband to
consummate this act like that’s a big
deal for dudes
Leah’s like if you say it you’re not
going to Veracruz
but look Joseph for a man who loves the
law he now had the legal authority to
consummate that relationship right
if his if his heart was about letter of
the law
look I don’t care what the Lord told me
I’m ready I’m ready I’m ready to satisfy
and gratify myself but he didn’t because
he had the promise of the word of the
Lord and he agreed to follow the word of
the Lord and a lot of times when God
gives you a promise God gives you a word
what does that require of you for you to
delay self-gratification
self-satisfaction
sometimes I’ll be honest with you life’s
just going to suck
it’s gonna stink you’re gonna be like
seriously you give me this word and then
I don’t hear nothing from you for about
a year no you’re in a Wilderness season
the reason that God put you in a
Wilderness season of obscurity is
because he’s not trying to punish you
he’s trying to prepare you for promotion
because the person that you are cannot
sustain what he’s going to do in the
person that he needs you to be just like
Moses everybody said oh poor Moses for
40 years Moses got get in the wilderness
let me throw something at you he did two
40-year stints
the brother was in the wilderness for 80
years 40 different times that media was
a bad dude but it was the level of
character that God needed to be
developed for him to carry what he was
going to do
if you feel like you’re in a season of
wilderness listen God’s not punishing
you God’s prepared you for promotion the
worst thing the look when I was a High
School
linebacker and I’m like I’m ready for D1
football I’m ready for D1 football let
me tell you if they’re taking my my
little dumb self and put me on a
football field and a d they would have
killed me
they would have clobbered me as a
sophomore I wasn’t ready to play college
football
you asked some people when I got to
college they still say you weren’t ready
to play college football but the thing
is God’s not going to do that to you
God’s God’s giving you a word to preach
or to teach or to evangelize or to go on
missions
and you’re like I’m ready to rock and
roll
and it’s been a year or in my case when
I left my career as a chief of police to
Pastor seven years later
it didn’t mean that I was so bad of a
work that it took seven years but that
was God’s timing
that was God’s timing to build the
character God didn’t need a chief of
police standing up here on Sunday
mornings
God needed his son
who had the compassion to Shepherd other
people
what I want to tell you about God also
is God honors your sacrifice
God honors your sacrifice you see Joseph
was not the biological father of Jesus
but you know what God did he gave him
the honor and the legal authority to
name that boy
you shall call his name Jesus look in
the culture that’s big it’s big
God honors your sacrifice
if you’re willing to obey and to submit
and to linger and to be patient and
delay your self-satisfaction and
gratification God’s honoring that
I want to tell you
we’ve got to start thinking about Legacy
multi-generational chains in the faith
link
a lot of times as parents we’re just
trying to get by the day we’re just
trying to get by I don’t want to think
about tomorrow you know like our one of
our kids just going to graduate one
graduated Keaton graduated college our
uh he’s our daughter’s fiance now and
and not like we’re like we can’t even
think about the wedding in May we can’t
even think about our other daughters uh
college graduation like like we’re so
locked in at just getting through today
but when you start realizing that we’re
operation while we’re operating we’re
building Legacy moms and dads like I
know it’s hard to think past the next
day but let’s start thinking in terms of
generation let’s start thinking in terms
of legacy and how do we do that we start
teaching our kids the word of the lord
we start speaking Faith over our
children look I’m going to tell you we
got a 13 year old and I told Leah if I
drop dead today I want that kid standing
over me telling me to rise that kid’s
got faith of a mustard seed and he’s got
belief
but you know what it ain’t up to a 13
year old who ain’t here today to raise
me from the dead it’s for all of us to
understand that God is growing
generations of Faith families
and in your bloodline it’s your
responsibility to grow the next Faith
chain and the next Faith change and the
next Faith chain and you know what in
the blood of Christ it’s your
responsibility to blow to grow God’s
body the next Faith chain the next Faith
chain the next Faith chain
most of us have all been here this this
last year and and our and our link is
we’ve grown strong we’ve grown strong as
a family and in the word and in putting
things in a practical application and
that’s good
but you know what a link on the ground
ain’t no chain
it’s for you to start making sure your
kids come here and your family comes
here and your friends come here and I
don’t mean here to this physical
building I mean coming in and plugging
into the body of Christ it’s our
responsibility to add the the links to
the generational Faith change of the
body of Christ
and look I’m gonna I want to tell you
Joseph Joseph of Spirit Led
we have got to understand that we’re
three parts that we are spirit and that
we’re soul and we’re body
and if we’re not being led by our spirit
then we’re running amok and being led by
our emotions or we’re running around
with our body and vanity look first
Thessalonians 5 23 tells us and the Very
God of Peace sanctify you holy I pray
God your whole spirit and soul and body
be preserved blameless unto the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ why is it
important to specify that Joseph was
Spirit Led because can you imagine if
this alpha male had been told let me
think about us oh I love this girl I
love what a pregnant what a prayer like
how many of us are gonna it says and
after Joseph thought about it an angel
of the Lord appeared like this dude was
rational
if you’re led by your by your soul by
your emotions by your personality this
cat would have lost his mind he would
have been all over Tick Tock y’all ain’t
gonna I’m
I’m gonna go live tonight at seven
y’all join in I’m gonna tell you what
this old girl did but this brother
thought about it because he had the
Peace of the Lord that surpasses all
understanding
that’s the way we got to be and you know
what because Joseph was was spirit-led
and he allowed the word of the Lord to
come to him and he received that Lord
that word and he agreed to follow that
word then then God allowed that family
to launch into Ministry
to launch into Ministry you see Jesus
was coming
Jesus was coming if it wasn’t Mary The
Vessel it would have been another vessel
okay and look and if y’all if like folks
I grew up I grew up non-practicing
Catholic but praying to Mary
she’s just a vessel she no more
different than any of us we just the
vessel and if we’re a Godly vessel God
will pour into us so we can pour out
okay but
when you submit
and you obey the word of the Lord and
you allow the Lord to lead your spirit
to your spirit because there’s only one
Spirit then that’s what God leads you
into this family ministry and it don’t
have to be uh get yourself a 501c3 or an
LLC or a Facebook page or a website your
family ministry is just what you do as a
family
and that’s what God’s calling us to do
so how do we nurture the promises of God
well it’s simple
never be too busy
the prompt to nurture the promises of
God
you know we look back over the last year
I mean y’all know
and I saw I saw April had posted it and
I always think about that every year
because the tick of a talk clicks 12
plus one
nothing changes
your life doesn’t change if you’re
counting on a calendar
new year new you new year new you
nothing changes because you’re attaching
transformational change to a soul-led
emotion I’m going to be happier this
year I’m going to be healthier this year
I’m going to do things different this
year and if it’s based on your soul by
the middle of January you’re going to be
like the other 92 percent of the people
in every every resolution you made is
gone
and if your body LED I’m gonna get back
in the gym I’m gonna get back to where I
was when I was 18. I’m gonna get back
I’m gonna get back you know what it’s
going to be done you’re going to be like
the 90 of people whose membership Ends
by the end of uh by the end of three
months but when you’re Spirit Led that’s
when transformational change happens and
how do you establish transformational
change Romans 12 2 tells us for do not
be conformed to the patterns of this
world but renew your mind by the reading
of the word of the Lord you want to know
why you keep failing in your resolutions
because you’re not transforming your
mind how do you transform your mind by
the reading of the word of the Lord
reading of the word of the Lord getting
plugged into a local body at church
coming here on Thursday nights for
design for discipleship
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so it is chronologically the calendar
says it’s a fresh start
it’s a new you the only new in you is
going to become is going to be when you
rededicate your life to the Lord is when
you recommit to serving the other people
when you put other people before
yourself when you’re no longer afraid of
the promise that God’s put on your heart
when you’re willing to believe that God
says I don’t care that you’re a teenager
I want you to lead my people and you’re
willing to believe him
that’s when life changes
when you’re willing to believe
that you grew up in the bondage of
physical and sexual violence and abuse
and you become so hard that you launch
into a career hunting violent people
and then God frees you from that career
it says I need you to stop locking men
up I need you to start setting them free
when I believe that everything changed
God’s putting demands on you right now
he’s putting demands on you right now
and he’s asking to just believe don’t
believe
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