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Summary:
The preacher draws from Luke 2:7 to challenge the congregation not to let busyness, familiarity, or fear crowd out Jesus during the Christmas season, leaving no room for Him like the innkeeper did. The key thought is that God wants us to live «full» lives—full of His presence, expectation, and purpose—rather than merely busy ones. In the end, he urges believers to make room for Christ, deliver what God has placed in them, and trust that what they carry will ultimately deliver them into greater fullness.
Opening and Scripture Reading
I believe God has a word for us, and I want to get right to it. I feel like preaching tonight. Go in your Bibles to Luke, chapter 2, verse 7. Luke, chapter 2, verse 7. I’m going to read this passage of Scripture, then we’ll pray, and then we’ll get into it. I believe tonight that we are embarking on a new season as we close out this year of 2019. I believe that every promise that God has spoken over your life still has time to fulfill itself before the clock strikes midnight on the last day of the month. How many of you believe that?
Luke, chapter 2, verse 7 says, «And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.» She brought forth her firstborn son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn. Let’s pray.
Opening Prayer
Father, we are humbled by your presence, and we stand in awe of your grace. Lord, we thank you for what you are already doing in our midst, and we have an expectation for so much more. So God, today, whatever you want to do in this moment, whatever you want to do in this service, we say you can have your way. We’re not here for our structure, not here for our order of service, but here just to be a part of what you are doing. So tonight, God, we ask that you move in this place. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
The Message: «I’m Full»
I want to talk to you tonight from the subject, «I’m Full.» Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, «I’m full.» It is the most wonderful time of the year. How many of you would agree with me on that? They say December is the most wonderful time; everyone has their own routine about what gets them in the Christmas spirit. Around this time, I like to put on some good Christmas music and listen to old Christmas carols. My wife has decorated the house, and there are lights everywhere. She has been trying to convince me for the last two weeks to put lights outside our house and to light trees that should not be lit, to do things so that other people can see that we, too, are in the Christmas spirit. That does not necessarily get me in the Christmas spirit; that just means it’s more work for me. It gets me out of the Christmas spirit.
So to get me back into the Christmas spirit and mindset, I have to watch «A Christmas Story.» How many of you love «A Christmas Story»? I mean, it is an incredible movie; it’s a classic. But there’s nothing that gets me in the holiday spirit like good food. I mean, I prepare in my mind what it is that I’m going to eat for the rest of the month, especially in December because when January hits, we start our fast, and I need to prepare my body for what it is about to endure in January for Awakening. How many people can give me a good «Hallelujah!» amen on that? So December is what I would consider to be «Muhabba Nation,» I go into my food mode, and I just begin to eat all types of delicacies. I like an assortment of different foods. I try to work out extra hard so that I can consume a whole lot more than what I normally would.
Being Full in December
In December, I find myself being full all the time. We just came out of Thanksgiving, and you know for a fact that there were some of you at the table at Thanksgiving who ate way more than you had planned on eating. Then dessert starts coming around, and you said to yourself, «I’m full, but I’m going to make room.» Come on, somebody. Can I get a «Hallelujah!» on that? You ever been out to eat, and you were telling the people at the table with you, «Oh, I ate way too much»? You know you start unbuttoning your pants, sit back, and start patting your stomach. Then the waitress comes back around, and she’s like, «Could I interest anyone in dessert?» You’re like, «I shouldn’t, but let me hear what you got.» She starts going down the list of assortments and deliciousness, and you say, «You know what? I shouldn’t do it, but let me go ahead and get that molten chocolate cake with ice cream.» Y’all gonna have to help me out with this dessert!
The dessert comes, and somehow, someway, you find room in your stomach to make way for what you are about to consume. You know you’re full, but you make room. You know you shouldn’t, but you make room. There is no more room in your stomach; your stomach is screaming at you. «We are already in the middle of meat sweats, brother! Why would you put more stuff inside of me? Don’t do it; it’s gonna be a bad night for us! That drive home will be real long.» And you say to yourself, «I just have a little bit of it.» You find a way to make room. Although you are full, you make room because it’s what you want to do.
No Room in the Inn
When we look at Luke chapter 2, we find a couple who are traveling, and they are full. They come up on an inn that is also full, but the innkeeper does not make room for them. I find in this season that if we’re not careful, we begin to fill our lives with things that make us busy, but do not necessarily make us full. We tend to fill our lives with things that take up time but do not necessarily leave us full. We tend to prepare and plan for things for other people, but we don’t tend to plan, prep, and make time to spend with the person who gives us all these different opportunities. If we’re not careful, our lives get super busy but not full.
In Luke chapter 2, verse 7, we parachute into this story where Mary has given birth to Jesus. It says that she brought forth her firstborn son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger. Now, this word «manger» is a food trough. This particular description of «manger» is not the Western image of a manger that we picture. It is a food trough, where the horses and cows eat. They cleaned it out and laid the swaddling baby Jesus in this manger. The thing that I’ve come to notice is that the birthing place is always a messy place.
The Messy Birthing Place
Have you ever been in the hospital with a woman who is about to give birth? She didn’t care how she looked; she didn’t care how she sounded, she didn’t care what else was going on in the room. All she knew was that she was pregnant with something, and what she was pregnant with is now about to be delivered. I came to tell you tonight that you cannot be so concerned with what’s going on around you that you take your focus off of what God is doing on the inside of you. You should be expecting and anticipating what God is doing in you to be birthed out of you. The birthing place is always a messy place; the manger is a messy place.
Sometimes we want God to do what He wants to do in a pretty place, in the place that we’ve curated for ourselves. It has to be aesthetically pleasing because this is what we have Pinterest for and this is what we have pinned to the top of our lists. God is saying, «In this season, the birthing place is always a messy place.» Some of you think God is forsaking you, but He hasn’t; you just haven’t pushed hard enough. See, if you’re not careful, you get busy doing life, and you forget that you’re pregnant with something. If you’re not careful, you fill your time with things that keep you busy, and you take your focus off the fact that you are full of what God has promised that you will deliver.
Deliver It and It Will Deliver You
Mary understood what she was about to deliver. In fact, what she would deliver would deliver her. I came to tell you tonight that if you can deliver it, it will deliver you. Is there anybody in this place tonight that has an anticipation and an expectation saying, «I’m carrying something, and what I’m carrying has the power to bring me out of something?» If you can deliver it, it will deliver you. You’re not just carrying something; you’re carrying something special. There is a call on your life; there’s an assignment on your life. You are carrying the glory of God, and if you’re not careful, you’ll begin to treat what you carry as normal, and it’s not normal.
You allow your expectation and your anticipation to slide aside, and you start coming to church as if it’s just another revival Wednesday. You show up but don’t expect anything. You find yourself during the holiday season picking and choosing what services you come to because your life has gotten busy, but it’s not full. If you’re not careful, you’ll start to let your kids' schedules dictate when you come to the house of God instead of coming to the house of God and allowing what God downloads in you to dictate the schedule for your family. If you’re not careful, your life will get busy but it won’t be full. You have to have your mind made up that you will live a full life with what God has in store for you.
The Innkeeper’s Missed Opportunity
As we look at this passage of Scripture, we see a couple of instances where people miss an opportunity to live a full life. The first person that missed it was the innkeeper. He missed it because he was too busy with business. Are you too busy with what’s going on in your life that you don’t make time for Jesus? The Scripture says in Luke chapter 2, verse 7, «There was no room for them in the inn.» I wonder in hindsight, after Jesus was delivered and the Magi began to come from all over the world to assemble in one place to crown Him with majesty, if the innkeeper thought to himself, «If I had known then what I know now, I probably would have made room. If I had known who desired to be delivered in my inn, I would have made room.»
God wants you to make room for Him. He does not want to consume your life with busyness; He wants to fill your life so that your life is full. Don’t be the innkeeper; don’t be busy with business. One of the greatest threats to faithfulness is one of the greatest risks Jesus could ever take on us: to give us success. The innkeeper is full; he is successful; his business is booming, and he is too focused on his success to recognize that Jesus desires to dwell there. One of the things that I’ve come to learn is if you’re full of yourself, it is impossible to be filled with the presence of God. You have to empty yourself of you so that His presence can fill you every single day.
Expectations and Packages
We’re going to start preparing our lists and getting our lists together for our family to understand what presents we want there. There’s a wish list that all of us have. How many of you have ever gotten something that was not on your list? Something you had no desire to receive, something you found yourself regifting next Christmas to someone that you really did not like? You were like, «Listen to me, I don’t want any more socks, I don’t need them with drawers, I don’t need any more tank tops.» As a kid growing up, my parents used to tell me, «Make a list of the top five things you want.» I understood when they gave me a numerical number that I was not getting all five things; I was getting one of the five things on my list. This is why my parents were on a budget. I didn’t quite understand what a budget was; I just knew it cut into my gift factor.
So I would make plans and preparations and really take time to put effort into what it was that I was asking for. My parents would look at my list, they’d say, «Okay, you’ll get one of them.» Oh man, my expectation would go through the roof! Wow! I would be anticipating and hoping that it would be the one thing at the top of my list. My parents would do something growing up that used to work my nerves; they would get one of the gifts that I wanted but would wrap it differently in a different box so that I could not expect or anticipate what it was. I had hoped for what I was actually going to get.
They replaced the centerpiece, and I would be walking around like, «Man, that’s really tough to get a bicycle in that little box. They must be pretty good if they fit that thing in that little box.» I’d be walking by checking on the boxes. Then I got really smart one year; I took a needle and would just ever so gently cut the wrapping on it, peek in it, and then fold it back. Not what I wanted, just another brown box under the wrapping. But what they would do is take a box and put a picture of what they got me inside the box, so that what I had expected did not look like the package.
Don’t Minimize the Gift
If we’re not careful, we will minimize the gift based on the package it comes in. In this season, listen to me, what you are hoping for, what you are anticipating, what you are expecting may arrive in a different package than what you’ve been believing and hoping for. But if you don’t minimize what it is that you’ve been praying for by the package after you open it and unpack it and unveil it, you’ll see that God not only heard your prayers but He delivered on them. See, God won’t give you what you pray for; He’ll give you what you can manage.
We’ve been praying for things that we can’t manage. We’ve been believing God for things that would ruin us if He actually delivered on them. God will answer your prayers based on what you can manage. If you can’t manage five dollars, He’s not gonna bless you with five million. He says, «He or she that is faithful over a few things, He will make them rulers over many.» Take care of the package you got now. Take care of the time that you got now. Stop saying, «God, if you give me more, I’ll do more.» Do more with what you have! Everything you have is everything you already need!
Don’t be the innkeeper; don’t look beyond where you are and get discontent. Thank God for where you are. One of the things that I’ve learned about gratitude is that gratitude can turn your meal into a feast. Gratitude can turn your situation into a celebration. Gratitude can turn your association into a friendship. It’s all a matter of how you see it; it’s all about perspective. If you can see it, then God can deliver it. Don’t look beyond where you are and hope for more. Take advantage of where you are and thank God for this situation and the season that you’re in. Don’t get busy with busyness.
Familiarity and Fear
The second thing we can look at as to why they did not live a full life is familiarity. The religious leaders in Matthew chapter 2, verses 4 through 5 say, «Herod called a meeting of all the leading priests and teachers of the law and asked them where the Christ would be born.» They answered, «In the town of Bethlehem in Judea, ” and the prophet Micah wrote about this in the scriptures. Sometimes, you can be around something so long that you minimize its power. Don’t take this for granted; don’t take this season for granted. Don’t become familiar with this season of your life. Be grateful for this season of your life. No matter how hard it is, no matter how difficult it is, no matter how painful it is, you got to understand that in the birthing position, it’s not pretty, it’s painful.
You have to believe that what God is bringing through you will not only come through you, but will bring you out of this season and usher you into the next. Don’t get familiar with it. Look at it with wonder, look at it with fresh eyes, look at it with Thanksgiving, and look at it with joy. Look at it with gratitude; look at it with splendor. This is what Jesus wants you to do, and this is where He wants you to be. If you don’t look at it with fresh eyes, you begin to take it for granted, and the presence of God flows towards gratitude. You want more of the presence of God? Be grateful for the time you spend with Him, and He’ll show you things, and He’ll speak to you, and He’ll reveal things to you.
He’ll begin to show you what you’re pregnant with, and you can’t rush this pregnancy; you have to allow it to run its course. This is why anything that arrives prematurely arrives too small. There are some of you rushing through this season; you want to get out of the season and get to the next season. You just want to get to where you want to be, and God is saying, „Listen, I’m trying to transform you in the midst of what it is you’re going through. I know it’s painful; I know it’s difficult; I know you didn’t pray for this, but I’m making you better in the midst of it.“
Is there anybody grateful in this place tonight that God said, „Even in the midst of it, I’m with you“? Come on, bump your neighbor and tell your neighbor, „Don’t get familiar.“ The third thing that kept them from living a full life is fear. Matthew chapter 2, verse 3 says, „When King Herod heard about the news, he was very disturbed and worried, and so was everyone else in Jerusalem.“ If you’re not careful, you will begin to take on the fear of the people that are around you. Fear is contagious.
Overcoming Fear
Have you ever been in a place, and you saw people running frantically? You just thought to yourself, „I need to run. I don’t know what they are running from, but I don’t want to be left behind. If it’s something that could harm me, there might be a straight cougar on the loose here; I need to just see a group of people running.“ You just start jogging. You don’t even know why.
Fear is contagious, and if you’re not careful, you will begin to pack the bags of your life with luggage that does not belong to you. You start to hear news from other people, and you begin to take issues from their life and put them in your sack. You begin to carry the fears of other people because fear is contagious. You have to make up your mind that in this season, you won’t fear; you will live a fearless life. As a matter of fact, in the first Christmas, there are four instances where the angel of the Lord told them, „Do not fear.“ When we look throughout the Word of God, there are 365 references to „do not be afraid.“ That’s a „do not be afraid“ for every day of your life.
If you lean into the presence of God, He says, „I will overwhelm what’s trying to overwhelm you.“ He says, „I will remove fear.“ When you get into the presence of God, there is fullness of joy. Wherever there is fullness of anything, it does not leave room for anything else. There is fullness of joy when you enter into the presence of God. You want to know if you’re spending enough time with God? Look at your joy tank! I wish there were a battery observation deck on people’s foreheads that would indicate to me how much joy they had. „Oh, they’re in the red today; they’ve got 20%. I better stay over here; they operate on 5%.“
Living Full, Not Busy
You got to fill your joy every single day! Prepare your victories because the enemy is preparing your losses. You got to talk to yourself. You got to begin to prepare, plan, and speak those things that be not as though they were. You got to begin to talk yourself out of some situations and allow God to transform you into some situations. If you don’t, you will find yourself sitting with your own thoughts. Sitting with your own thoughts is scary. You begin to watch the news, and your life will be consumed with what other people tell you. You start coughing and think, „Oh, this must be cancer.“ No, that’s just gas! It’s just gas! You fill your mind with things that you’re not supposed to fill your mind with, and before you know it, you’ve consumed so much fear that you’re just spewing fear. Oh, everyone you come into contact with could not live a full life because they were too busy, because they got too familiar, and because they feared.
God wants you to know tonight that in this season you can’t be too busy; you gotta be full. You can’t get too familiar; you got to look at it with fresh eyes. You cannot fear; you have to lean into His presence so that you can have supernatural joy. He said, „In My presence, there’s fullness of joy and pleasures at His right hand forevermore.“ He said He’ll give you perfect peace when your mind is stayed on Him. There’s another passage of Scripture I love that says He will give you peace that surpasses all of your natural understanding. I was praying, and I said, „God, when do I have this peace?“ He said, „When you give up the right to understand.“
Three Keys to a Full Life
You won’t always understand what it is that He’s calling you to do, but as long as you just say, „You know what? God, I don’t need to understand; I just trust you. I don’t need to know the ins and outs; I just believe in you.“ You know what God’s love language is? His love language is trust. His greatest joy is to be trusted, and His greatest hurt is to be doubted. You have to trust God. You have to push beyond the fear.
If we’re going to live a full life, I want to leave you with three things, and then we’re gonna close. Number one: You have to stop filling your life with less important things. Don’t let what won’t matter tomorrow worry you today. Some of you stress over stuff that won’t even matter tomorrow or even matter next week! My father used to tell me, „94% of the things that you fear won’t even take place.“ You’re worried about stuff that won’t even matter tomorrow.
Find yourself worrying about silly stuff: „Did I leave the oven on at the house? Did I leave the garage door up?“ You get back home, and everything is in its right place. You didn’t waste 15 minutes of praise and worship worrying about something that won’t even matter tomorrow! You have to tell yourself: „Mind, align yourself with God’s plan.“ You have to verbalize it. You have to talk yourself out of situations and talk yourself into new situations. If you don’t, your mind will drive you crazy.
You have to stop filling your life with less important things.
Look Closely at Jesus
Number two: You have to look. Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, „Look!“ Look closely at why Jesus came. Matthew chapter 2, verse 8 says, „Go and make a careful search for the child.“ Jeremiah chapter 29, verse 13 says, „God says you will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.“ You will seek and find when you seek after Me with all your heart. This is not the season that you can seek with half your heart; you got to pursue Him with all your heart.
You have to pursue Him relentlessly. When it won’t make good common sense, He doesn’t desire to use your logic. Your logic will keep you out of some supernatural seasons. You will logic yourself back into some seasons that you were never supposed to be in in the first place. I want you to write this down: „A person without vision for their future always returns to their past.“ A person without vision for their future always returns to their past.
If you could see what was coming, you wouldn’t stress about what’s happening. Can you see what God is doing? When you cannot see what God is doing, can you sense what He’s doing? When it seems like mayhem is breaking forth all around you, you have to understand and know that no matter how you feel, you’re pregnant with expectation. People may not be able to see it, but you feel it. People may not know it, but you sense it. Things may look the same, but you know you’re on the verge of walking into your greatest season because God made you a promise, and His Word won’t return to Him void.
I’m full! And so, I look beyond my situation. I look beyond my circumstance. I look at the picture that He showed me before I entered into the season in the first place. You got to know you’re pregnant. Yeah, man, I’m talking to you as well. You got to know that you’re expecting and anticipating. When it seems like things are lying dormant, you got to know and expect that God is gonna do something.
Even when it seems like things are at a dead still, you got to know and understand that even when it seems like God is pulling you back, the only reason He’s pulling you back is to release you and prepare you for something great. You are pregnant! If you don’t remind yourself that today is the day that the Lord has made, I choose to rejoice and be glad in it, then you’ll find yourself wallowing in doubt and unbelief in the season. This is the most wonderful time of the year, but it’s not because of a Christmas tree. It’s not because of a gift. It’s not because of what people are going to do for you; it’s for what you can do for Jesus.
He says, „I’ve given you air in your lungs; I’ve given you the things that you need. Now release it back to Me, and when you release what you have, your hands are released to receive what I have in My heart.“ It’s the most wonderful time of the year! If you believe it’s the most wonderful time of the year, you have to look!
If you could see what was coming, you wouldn’t stress about what’s happening.
Listen to the Good News
The third thing is you have to listen. You have to listen to the good news. The angel of the Lord said in Luke chapter 2, verse 10, „Fear not! I bring good news of great joy, a Savior has been born for you. He is Christ the Lord.“ I said, „A Savior has been born for you; He is Christ the Lord.“ I want you to hear this very clearly: If you were the only person ever born in this world, Christ would have still died and given His life for you. A Savior was born for you!
Sometimes we get in environments like this, and we think that Jesus came for the person beside us. We think that Jesus came to deliver the person in front of us, but Jesus came for you! Jesus the Savior comes to overwhelm what is overwhelming you. He does not want to just be the person beside you; He wants to be your Savior. He wants to be your Lord. He wants to be your King. But in order for you to understand all that He has done for you, you have to spend time with Him. You gotta listen. When you listen, you understand, „There’s so much more He has for you than what you could do in your own power.“
My son, he repeats everything he hears his parents say. He watches us like a little recorder. I’ll be talking to Jan, I’ll say something, and then I hear this little voice from the back repeat what it is that I said. We’ll be in our kitchen, I’ll say, „Baby, I love you. I’m grateful that you’re my wife,“ and I have this little voice in the background say, „That’s my wife!“ Jan, did you hear that? And I turn around, and he’s wedging himself in between us and he looks up at her and says, „Baby, I love you!“
But he starts to repeat what he’s heard! When you listen to the voice of your Father, you begin to repeat what you’ve heard. You can always tell when you need to spend more time around your Father by what you’re repeating. Oh man, if you’re down on yourself and you’re hard on yourself, then you haven’t spent time listening to your Father because although your Father knows your issues, He calls you by your name. Although the enemy knows your name, he calls you by your issues. You can always tell who you’re spending more time with based on what you repeat.
The Father always sees the best in your children; He always sees the best in your spouse, and He always speaks over them what it is that He’s calling them to. You can always tell who you’re spending time listening to by what you repeat. In this season, you have to stop echoing the negative voices you hear floating around in your head and start listening to the voice of your Father and just echo what you hear Him say. He says, „You are My son; you are My daughter. I have great plans for your life. There is a destiny for your life. There’s a call for your life. There’s an assignment for your life.“
Pregnant with Purpose
I know your life may not look like it; I know your life may not reflect it; I know your life may not resemble it right now, but I’m calling you to more because your life is full! Mary finds herself in a messy situation, full of anticipation. There’s no room in the inn. How many of you know whenever God wants to do something, He makes room? Your life may feel cluttered right now; it may feel messy right now; it may feel overwhelming right now, but I’m telling you God is making room for what He is about to bring through you.
The angel of the Lord said, „Fear not! I bring you good news of great joy. A Savior has been born for you; He is Christ the Lord.“ I love the passage of Scripture in Luke chapter 1, verse 46, it says, „Then Mary sang with all of her heart, ‘I praise the Lord! I rejoice in God my Savior, for He notices and cares for me, a simple servant girl. He has blessed me, and He is the mighty one who is holy. He is all-powerful; He can do anything! He meets all of our needs, and He keeps all of His promises.’“
This is a mother talking about her son. Then it dawned on me that Mary is the only person that has been pregnant with the same person twice. It says in Luke chapter 2, verse 7 that she wrapped up her firstborn son and laid him in a manger. We know the story: It says that as He grew up, He laid down His life for us. He went to the cross with your sin, with your sickness, with your issues on His mind, and He nailed them to the cross and left them there. It says that He was buried, but then He was resurrected again.
Then in Acts chapter 2, it says that Mary, along with the witnesses, filled the upper room. It says that as they were all assembled in one place, the Holy Spirit fell and filled everyone that was there. Mary was not only pregnant once, but she was pregnant twice. There are some of you in here that need to know that what you thought was lost, God is going to bring back to you again. You are pregnant tonight! You’re full! If you can get your hopes up, if you can get your expectancy up, if you can get your anticipation up, He said, „I will surpass all of your hopes, all of your expectations, all of your anticipations because I am the Lord your God!“
Closing Call and Prayer
I want you to stand to your feet. I want to leave you with this last thought, and that is to never confuse opportunity with purpose. Opportunity is what you can do, but purpose is what you were born to do. Mary was born to carry the Savior, Jesus. You were born to carry the assignment that God has placed on your life. You’re not here just for an opportunity; you’re here for a purpose! Your situation does not determine your purpose; your circumstance does not determine your purpose; what you’re currently dealing with does not determine what it is that God has called you to fulfill. If you can push beyond your feelings and understand you’re pregnant, you can step out of that comfort and that convenience. Yes, it may be a messy place, but the birthing position is always a messy place.
There’s screaming in the birthing place; there’s pain in the birthing place; there are people shuffling back and forth in the birthing place, but what you see after you push will move you beyond the pain.
I’m just curious to know tonight, is there anybody that says, „God, I’m willing to endure the pain so that I can hold the blessing! I’m full of what it is You want for me!“ Come on, lift your hands towards your King right now. I’m a firm believer that if you can push tonight, if you can deliver it, it will deliver you.
Tonight, there are some of you who feel stuck. You are dealing with things that you think are gonna overwhelm you. You feel like, „Man, I am going to lose my mind! This thing is something I’ve been dealing with; this is something I’ve been struggling with. I find myself being busy, but I don’t find myself full.“ I came to tell you tonight that Jesus desires to fill you; He desires to fill your cup until it overflows and then fill it again.
He didn’t come and remain a baby; He came as a baby to fulfill a purpose. He went to the cross, and He hung your issues there. He buried them in the grave, and then He resurrected so that you can rise with Him. We serve a resurrected King! I said we serve a resurrected King! I said we serve a resurrected King! Is there anybody here tonight that believes that you serve the true and living Savior, and His name is Jesus?
If you can empty yourself of yourself and fill yourself with more of His presence, He desires to show you what you are pregnant with!
I want you to stretch your hands right now in this moment. I don’t know what it is that you want Him to do. I don’t know what it is that you need Him to fill you with. I don’t know what it is that you want Him to remove and extract out of your life to make room for His presence, but whatever it is, in this moment, I just want you to begin to speak to your Father, because He’s listening.
Come on, lift your voices in this place and begin to talk to Him. Lord, we believe; we’re hoping; we’re expecting. We believe that this is the most wonderful time of the year! So we won’t go silent; we’ll speak, and we will listen. I want to pray for those that want Him to fill your life. You’ve made your life busy; you’ve been doing a lot of stuff, but you find yourself not living in the fullness that He desires for you to live. If that’s you, I just want you to stretch your hands towards Him right now.
Come on, stretch those hands! I see those hands all over the arena tonight. It’s my prayer that you make time for Him. You get intentional with the time you spend with Him. I pray that from this moment forward, you live out the life that your faith deserves! If you can anchor your faith in Jesus, I believe that He is a big enough God to fill you where you need to be filled.
Come on, stretch those hands! We’re gonna pray, and the worship team is gonna sing. I want us to sing to the top of our lungs! I want us to sing like we’re expecting. I want us to sing as if we’re anticipating, like we want God to fill us with His presence. We don’t want our house filled with presents; we want our lives filled with more of His presence! We don’t want to be busy doing things for the holidays; we want to be full doing things for the Kingdom of God!
Lord, we want more of You! Is there anybody in this place that wants more of the presence of God? Come on, let’s pray! Heavenly Father, we thank You that You fix our focus on You. We thank You, God, that You realign our attention back to You. God, we want to be filled with more of Your presence. Empty us of ourselves, God, and fill us with more of You.
We believe, God, that our best season is not in our past; our best season is now, and we get a chance to live our lives fully because, God, You came to give us life and life more abundantly. You took every issue; You took every sickness; You took every pain to the grave, and God, You were raised from the dead with us on Your mind. You are resurrected! So, God, we lift up our voices; Our best is yet to come! In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen!