Your One Great Project New Year audio video notes. What does it mean when we wish someone a ‘Happy New Year’? It means we want their life to be happy, or happier, in the New Year, right? Why would it not be? Could it be there are some things we need to do to be happy? There are many things you should do, but there is one thing you know you must do if your life will be happy or happier in the New Year. In fact, it needs to become YOUR ONE GREAT PROJECT for your life.
NEW YEAR SERMON
YOUR ONE GREAT PROJECT
By Pastor Delbert Young
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Scriptures: Judges 21:25; Luke 2:7-18
To everyone I want to say “Happy New Year.” What does it mean when we wish someone “Happy New Year”? It means we want their life to be happy, or happier, in the New Year, right? Why would it not be? Could it be there are some things we need to do to be happy? As the video implied, there are likely many things you should do, but there is one thing you know you must do if your life will be happy/happier in the New Year.
In fact, it needs to become YOUR GREAT PROJECT for your life. Your Great Project is likely different from mine. It’s based on what’s going on in your life concerning your marriage, finances, health, relationships, habits, and whatever. It’s the great project you know if you completed it, you would be in a much better place in life a year or even months from now than where you are this minute.
This isn’t new information. You’ve thought about it in the past. It’s the thing you, someone, or several have suggested you need to do. You’ve likely attempted to do it, but you lost focus, became distracted, and didn’t accomplish it. I don’t know what it is for you, but we all have a great project that would radically change our lives, so don’t think, “I’m glad he’s here,” or “I wish she were here.” Think about you. You know, if you don’t accomplish anything else this year, you need to do this.
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Here are a few suggestions:
A HABIT you must break.
A GOAL you must accomplish.
Maybe A RELATIONSHIP you must restore.
A RELATIONSHIP you must end.
A DEBT, you must retire.
No one needs to tell you the habit you need to break. You’ve already tried. If it was a magic button you could push, and life would jump six months from now, and the habit would no longer be a habit, you’d push it now.
Relationships are extremely emotional. If you could push a magic button and there would be no emotional damage or complications, you’d push it. Is there a relationship you need to restore? Is there a damaging relationship you need to terminate?
Many have debt you know you need to work on.
Every time I teach about or you hear teaching about debt, you feel guilty. Every time I talk about giving, you feel guilty. You’re so in debt you can’t give, but you don’t do anything about it. It hinders your life, your worship, and what you want to do for others. How different could your life be next year if you retired debt?
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So, what’s hanging over your life? What is the Great Project you must do this year to have a happy new year? It’s probably already come to mind. In fact, you’d say, “Delbert, I don’t have one great project. I have four or five. I don’t even know where to begin,” but imagine your life without your largest one hanging over you. Imagine how dealing with this great project would help you become who you want to be.
The Book of Nehemiah gives us a great Old Testament story.
I heard a preacher talk about this and thought it was great, so I’m using it. Nehemiah was a cupbearer (wine taster) to King Artaxerxes, the emperor of Persia, after the captivity of Judea. Jerusalem was devastated by Babylon a hundred years earlier. The temple was destroyed, and the wall burned. Nehemiah asked King Artaxerxes if he could go and build back Jerusalem. Artaxerxes allowed him to go. Nehemiah began to rebuild the breached wall. This wall became Nehemiah’s great project, but as they rebuilt the wall, enemies attempted to stop him. Enemies will attempt to stop you from completing your great project.
Nehemiah 6:2-3 Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were scheming to HARM ME so I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am carrying on A GREAT PROJECT and CANNOT GO DOWN. Why should the work STOP WHILE I LEAVE IT and go down to you?”
There is something in your life – there is a wall around your world – you need to repair. It’s breached and allows the enemy in. You need to climb on it and not allow anything to bring you down until your great project is completed. Your enemies will attempt to get you to come down. If you do, the work will stop. You’ve got to say, “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down.” I cannot allow myself to go down.
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If Nehemiah had come down, they would have harmed him and possibly taken his life. There are things in my life and in your life, and if we refuse to complete our great project, they have the potential to harm us, ruin our lives, and even kill us. They can ruin our finances and relationships. They can kill our occupation, and they can harm our children or even our grandchildren. Also, they can kill our marriage or ruin our health. If we don’t remain on the wall and repair the breach in our life, it will harm us and probably has already. It will mess up a Happy New Year.
Nehemiah 6:4 Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.
Enemies in your life will not stop simply because you tell them once. They will attempt to stop you time after time. We come to church on Sunday. We clap and sing, and this is good, but we ignore breaches in the walls of our lives time after time. Sometimes, we ignore health issues, addiction issues, family issues, and things that have the potential to harm or destroy us.
Put your hand on your child’s or your grandchild’s head and stroke their hair. Say, “I’m carrying on a great project and cannot go down.” It’s not only for you. You’re carrying on a great project. Hold your spouse’s hand and say, “I’m carrying on a great project, and I cannot go down.” Put your hand on your checkbook and say, “I’m carrying on a great project, and I cannot go down.” Touch your own body and say, “I’m carrying on a great project, and I cannot go down.”
Women, hold your husband’s hand. Where would he be without you? Say, “I’m carrying on a great project, and though I want to come down sometimes, I will not.” College students don’t allow things you know are enemies to harm you. Tell your friends I am not going to allow myself to go down.
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As I’m talking, you know what I’m talking about.
We each know the great projects we have the opportunity to do. No one really needs to tell you or give you a list, but here’s the challenge. It’s not your knowing. Will you climb the ladder and not come down until you complete Your Great Project? Will I? There’s the challenge.
The enemies continued attempting to stop Nehemiah. They created a rumor about him, saying he was trying to build his own kingdom. They hoped King Artaxerxes would take Nehemiah out of Jerusalem (Neh 6:5-6:9). Realize people may talk about you if you stay on your wall, but you can’t go down no matter what they say. Also, the enemies get to a supposedly friend of Nehemiah’s named Shemaiah, who attempts to get Nehemiah to come down and stop the project (Neh 6:10-14). Your friends may try to get you to come down and stop your project. Don’t do it. It’s your Happy New Year.
Nehemiah 6:15-16 So the WALL WAS COMPLETED on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in FIFTY-TWO DAYS. When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that THIS WORK HAD BEEN DONE WITH THE HELP OF OUR GOD.
If you build and do not come down until your great project is completed, you will see a difference in your life in a few days. God will help you. God will not do the great project for you. It won’t miraculously happen, but God will help you and give you the strength to complete it. Even your enemies will see and admit God is in your life helping you. We can become witnesses.
I could stop now. You know what Your Great Project is, and you know you can’t go down if you will ever complete it. We’d get out a little early, but you know I don’t work like this. I want to give some specifics and provoke you a little more. I may make you a little mad, but I love you, and I want to help.
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Some drink too much. Let me tell you how you can know if you drink too much. Someone said to you, “I think you drink too much.” It’s not complicated. Someone you know loves you told you. You probably became upset or maybe don’t remember because you drink too much. Probably, the person sitting beside you told you this, and if they did, you do. They didn’t want to say it and didn’t for a long time. You know it’s true. Let God help you. This should become Your Great Project.
Some abused prescription drugs, and now you’re addicted.
You’ve got doctors (plural) who prescribe drugs to you. To some extent, it’s justified. You do have discomfort, but now the drugs are more of a problem in your life than the discomfort. Climb up your ladder and rebuild your wall. Let God help you. Don’t allow drugs to control your life. Complete Your Great Project.
Some are addicted to nicotine. You smoke too much. Your health has depreciated and is now your great project. Be there for your children. Be there for your grandchildren. Get up your ladder. Let God help you. Don’t come down until you complete Your Great Project.
Some have some internet addiction. You can’t go very long without getting online and doing whatever it is you do. You can’t focus on other things because you’re thinking about what you do online. It could be social media, porn, whatever. Let God help you.
For some, your great project is debt. You can’t afford your lifestyle. You need to sell what you have and move in with someone until you complete Your Great Project and get yourself under control. We had to do this. Move in with your momma! “Yes, but you don’t understand how my debt happened.” It doesn’t matter how it happened. It’s there, and you will never be free until you get up your ladder, allow God to help you, and remain on your wall until you can manage your finances. It’s Your Great Project.
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For some, it’s school. It would help if you went back to school. I had to. You can figure out a way to do it. God will help you. Your life will be more what you’ve wanted. You live in the United States of America. You can go to school. Your education is your wall and Your Great Project.
For some, it’s your marriage.
Are you growing apart or growing together? For some, it’s a relationship or relationships. When you get around certain people, you become a different person. You need to get away from negative relationships. For others, it’s a “love triangle,” and you need to terminate a relationship. It’s your wall. Some need to restore a relationship. Let God help you. Dealing with relationships is Your Great Project.
All these things are difficult, and none will happen miraculously, but God will help you. “This work had been done with the help of our God.” He won’t do it for you, but he will help you. Your part, my part, is to climb up the ladder and refuse to go down until the great project is completed.
Probably every one of us knows what the great project is we need to build. At this moment, we’ve likely decided to do something about it. We’re up the ladder, but when we walk out these doors, what will happen? Will we remain on the wall?
We have no idea what lies in the balance. If we complete the project, our lives will be far better this time next year. We’ll have a Happy New Year. If we come down from our wall, our lives will likely be worse next year, and we won’t have a Happy New Year. We have no idea what hangs in the balance for us mentally, physically, emotionally, relationally, and financially in our marriages, families, and occupations.
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Will you do it?
It’s easy to say it, feel it, and even begin it, but will we refuse to go down? Will people look at us and say this time next year, “This work has been done with the help of our God”? Will you have a Happy New Year and complete YOUR GREAT PROJECT?
Your One Great Project New Year audio video notes
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