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*On the Road to a Destiny*
*Aberdeen*
*12~/21~/02*
*Impregnated with the Dream*
Started with visitation
• Word of Lord -- Recap /Matt 1:18:25; Luke 1:26-38/
• In season of visitation -- encounter God -- it’s thrilling
• We are impregnated with a new vision for our lives
• A whole new season of possibility emerges
• When Jesus came into their life, changed EVERYTHING (expand)
~* God had a suprise for them: on one course -- brand new direction
~* Nothing ever the same again
~* Former plans ‛tossed out’ -- new vision burning
~* Death of old -- brith of new
• Where are those places in your life of visitation -- when you encountered God -- begin to dream HIS dreams
• Need to remember these times -- they are COMPASS READINGS for our lives.
*We Begin to Dream with God*
• I would guess both Joseph~/Mary began to dream
~* Wouldn’t you?
If you were visited by an ANGEL -- told that you were to be the fulfillment of CENTURIES of prophecy -- wouldn’t you dream about it?
I bet Mary and Joseph did.
~* Got good news: God’s been planing for millenia upon millenia the plan for our lives -- His destiny for His church in this hour.
/Jermiah 29:11 ‟For I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord.
‛They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope’”./
~* Mary: to be carrying Messiah -- what an incredible honor.
I bet she ‛planned the nursery’ -- if you will in her mind.
All her life dreamed of having her first baby -- and NOW to find out she was going to give birth to Messiah! -- She probably dreamed of life in a loving setting -- an easy childhood -- etc (develop).
~* Joseph: to be called to be the stepfather.
Husbands are protectors and providers.
He was a carpenter.
I bet he’d already built a new crib for the baby.
*The Dream is Tested*
• This is the stage where Joseph and Mary lived the practicals of daily life, living out the vision of the visitation.
• It’s always exciting and incredible when the vision and visitation comes -- but there are often tests and dreariness to walking out the vision.
/• We see that in other parts of the bible.
Imagine Abraham and Sarah’s life?
Abraham gets a vision -- they move and live in tents for the rest of their LIVES!
The original Rvers./
Testing points for Mary and Joseph
• FIRST, Joseph’s test -- divorcing Mary.
Imagine how Mary felt.
Imagine how Joseph felt.
• Secondly, family didn’t probably ‛get it’.
Ever wonder, if Joseph’s family was from Bethlehem, why didn’t they open up their homes to them?
Maybe because they didn’t believe in the virgin birth.
Shaming of identity.
• That happens sometimes in our lives, when we get visitation~/vision -- people closest to us don’t understand what God’s doing in our lives.
It can be lonely~/challenging.
• So they got to live out their pregnancy in a community that didn’t get what God was doing in their lives.
Had to be tough.
• Add to that, there’s this anoying TAX thing that Ceaser Agustus does --- in the midst of the last trimester of Mary’s pregnancy!
Now THAT had to be fun.
• Wonder if there may have been a few ‛marital moments’. .
.They were human . . .
I know I’d have a few if I was in their shoes . . .
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I know AI’d have a few marital moments.
Think of it: New mariiage, pregnancy; in community wheer people don’t understand you -- it could create a few marital challenges
• 0 Can you imagine, Mary’s getting ready to have her baby -- has everything all planned out -- then Joseph gets to come home and tell her, ‟Guess what, honey .. . .
We get to take a road trip -- on a donkey!”
How would YOU like to tell that to your nine-month pregnant wife! Think about it.
• Or when they finally showed up in Bethlehem. . . .
(Ever think that Maybe they arrived after all the rooms were booked because Joseph wouldn’t stop and ask for directions!?!? Could be, never know . . .
) I could just see it: Mary parked on a Donkeyoutside the Village Inn after a couple of days journey -- probably in pre-labor already (how’d you like to ride a donkey for a couple of days while you’re in labor, ladies?)
And Joseph keeps going to try to get them a room, and he keeps coming up empty handed.
Husbands, how would YOU like being the one that has to break the news to YOUR wife?! ‟Honey, I’ve got some good news, and some bad news.
The good news is that we’re sleeping under a roof tonight.
The bad news is that we get to share it with the cows!”
• How do you think both of them felt towards God at those moments.
I can imagine the kinds of conversations I might have had in my heart.
‟Lord, you gave me this word -- this visitation.
I thought I knew how it would all turn out.
I had the nursery decorated.
I had the cradle crafted and built.
We weren’t supposed to be HERE right now.
What are you thinking, Lord? Have you forgotten about us?” --- Fiddler on the roof, ‟Lord, I know that we’re the chosen people.
But some time, couldn’t you choose someone else?”
• How many of you can relate to this phase of the picture on their journey?
There’s a testing that takes place in the midst of the challenge.
• Things aren’t the way it’s supposed to be.
• You see, when God starts a miracle in our lives, the journey to our destiny rarely looks like we imagined it.
• The Bible says ‟Word of the Lord tested Joseph”.
When God visits us, brings word in our life, there is a testing.
/• Story: Nancy~/Me minsitry launch./
~* Had felt call to full-time ministry for years
~* During first year of marriage, Nancy and I praying with pastor
~* Sickness -- request to come serve -- unpaid position
~* Prayed about it --- Full plan: Nancy worked, I worked part-time
~* Three days after resignation: Pregnancy!
~* Would I have insurance?
But Nancy was suppose to work?
What now?
~* There was Pastor Doug, man of faith, curled up on his bed, crying out to God, ‟Oh God, Have mercy .”
~* FORTUNATELY, I didn’t stay there.
In fact, God provided INCREDIBLY For us.
What turned the ship for us in our hearts?
Brings me to the next stage of development
*The Dream is Surrendered*
• Coming to the cross, and laying it down.
• I’m not going to try to manipulate it -- not going to force it -- but surrender it to You and trust You.
/Phil 1:6 ‟You who have begun the good work in me .
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• Lay down your own agenda (this isn’t how I thought it would be) -- TRUST.
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