You Will Recover All – Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church

amen

[Applause]

amen amen all right

well good morning good to see you

glad you showed up merry christmas

how many of you uh

you like get your shopping done like

october

i’ve met a few like you you you amaze me

you scare me a little bit but you amazed

me

how many of you are last-minute shoppers

many more last-minute shoppers in this

service than the earliest room the early

service everybody was like

very early shopping

i think it’s there’s something about

those people

how many of you are last anybody shop on

christmas eve

i’m the last i’m a last minute

guy usually so i i saw meme that i liked

this this week said

said if

if you’re going shopping treat the uh

the workers kindly because it’s not

their fault that you waited till

mary’s water broke before you went

shopping

oh brother

i just think that’s funny all right

so another one where they

family had another family over for

dinner and

and the mother asked

one of the children to pray over the

meal

and the child was all nervous says i

don’t know what to say she said well

just say what you hear your mother say

and so she bowed her head and says why

on earth did i invite all these people

over for dinner

oh goodness all right

i want uh i want you to open your bibles

to first samuel chapter 30.

i want to talk to you about something

that i actually

talk about fairly often through the

years i haven’t done in quite a while

but

that’s the whole issue of strengthening

yourself in the lord so just kind of a

heads up we’re going to head in that

direction

i had a real interesting night last

night in which i had

certain scriptures going through my mind

from three o’clock on

and um

and

i i’m not i don’t know if i’m going to

go into those scriptures even though it

it kept me active for several hours this

morning

um there’s a theme involved and uh it’s

where it says mary pondered these things

in her heart and it’s the statements

that were made concerning what the lord

had spoken about jesus that had so

deeply moved her and uh simeon

anno these prophetic people intercessors

um made announcements to mary what would

happen to the christ child and what he

was like and what he was there for and

the shepherds did the same thing and it

says this phrase a couple times in luke

says and she she pawned she treasured

them first of all and then she pondered

them she she protected them and then she

would bring them out for review but

always in a safe place if you have some

valuable treasure you don’t leave it on

the front porch you you bring it out

with careful examination in a safe place

and that’s exactly what she did she

valued what god had said

enough to protect it and the safest

place for the word of the lord is in

your heart

not public examination not public review

in your heart

the level of anxiety that we lived with

reveals

how often we subject ourselves to

inferior things

the inferior will always raise our level

of anxiety our awareness of potential

failures problems regrets all those

kinds of things

and

so the enemy works hard to

to distract us with his word once god’s

word has been spoken

one of the the

kind of awkward things in scripture

is that the the word of the lord

actually attracts

conflict

and we we’ve i know that we’ve studied

this through the years but i i warned

you about six or eight months ago i’m

going to do a lot of review over this

next period of time so that’s what i’m

doing again but the word of the lord

over your life attracts conflict and

it’s important that it does

it’s important that it does

mary’s own experience in luke chapter

two it says that she she treasures she

took this word the god spoke to her by

the shepherds about her son

she

treasured them in her heart

and then simeon came along

and said the words the thoughts put into

words

of other people are going to pierce your

soul

so here’s a word that god gave her and

then the enemy is going to come with his

stuff and he’s going to pierce your soul

why because there’s always competition

for what we’re going to believe

there’s always a battle over what is it

i’m going to give my life to

what is it i’m going to yield to and

give place to

in matthew 13

is my favorite example of this

it’s where we have the parable of the

seed and the sower

we have the different kinds of soil

represented in that parable

the two things that i want to draw your

attention to is first of all

it says the birds of the air came to

steal the seed so number one the enemy

always wants to steal whatever word seed

is word

he wants to steal whatever word was

spoken over our lives

now i understand

we have the scripture we have all of the

scriptures but the holy spirit breathes

on this and will highlight certain

things to you sometimes we’ll receive

prophetic words

if they’re consistent with scripture pay

attention to them

but those prophetic words the enemy

always try to come and to steal the seed

why because the power is in the seed

power’s not in the soil

the soil is necessary

but the power is in the seed

the power for the manifestation of who

jesus is in the earth is in the power of

the seed

i feel faint

did i disappear or was it you

all right

we have musical lights it’s all right

we’ll make it

it’s christmas you know i i don’t know

what that has to do with it but it’s

blinking lights that’s what it is yeah

very slowly blinking

so number one is that the that the enemy

the birds there

work to steal seed

so any seed

that is left

in the open

untended

sometimes god speaks a word and we

ignore

or we’ll take care of it later

receiving the word deeply into our heart

is what ensures that word will take root

and have impact

so so number one the enemy works to

steal seeds secondly if he can’t steal

it he will try to plant his seed next to

up to god’s seed

so we have the weeds

right i know this is really complicated

i’m in the gardening which is way

outside of my uh area of expertise i

need my wife here all right

but then finally i said there’s two

things those are the main two things

but the outcome is that when the enemy

plants

contrary word or seed

it’s to strangle the life out of what

god said

now let’s be honest

god’s word has how much power

all power the devil’s word has how much

power

zero authority

except what i give it

the moment i embrace or consider

or meditate on

the enemy’s seed his word his thought

his idea in that moment i lend it my

authority

so it only has

impact in me to the measure i make

agreement

right

when you believe a lie you empower the

liar

believing a lie empowers the liar

why is this why is this critical

because the lord is working on

raising up a family

sons and daughters of god that know how

to steward what he says

all right

so the word of the lord

is all-powerful yes

he spoke the world’s into being

all-powerful the enemy’s word is just a

contrary idea that has no power except

what i give it

if i listen to it then i’ve empowered it

the bible says

that tribulation and persecution comes

because of the word

every time you and i hear something that

the lord is declaring over our life it

may be that uh you’re just in you’re in

your daily devotion when you’re reading

through whatever let’s just say

ephesians chapter four and he begins to

speak to you about the strength of grace

that you impart to people around you

and you’re reading that and it just

highlights to you and you have that

sense of purpose and identity uh

identity a sense of responsibility and

he highlights that to you the enemy will

always work to undermine that word

so that it doesn’t take deep root in us

and he does that by getting us to

question what god has said

perhaps the best example of this

uh

for me is let’s say that the lord gives

a promise to one of you that you are

going to see

um

you’re going to see blind eyes open

and it is going to become the norm for

you to see blind eyes open

and then you have a friend with blind

eyes and you pray and they don’t open

so what do you have now you have a

promise

and you have a conflict

what are you going to give your heart to

it’s easy to say the promise

when you fasted and you’ve prayed and

the blind eyes are still blind

what are you going to give your heart to

because the more we use this well

they’re just not opening

i must not have heard from the lord

what have i just done i’ve just

empowered the inferior

right i’ve just empowered the inferior

seed

why does he allow that

tribulation persecution to come because

of the word

because he’s a father who gives reward

and if there’s no option there can’t be

a reward

he can freely give gifts but rewards are

based on performance

based on obedience is a better word

based on obedience does that make any

sense at all all right to five of you

that’s that’s all i needed it’s all

right sorry

all right

so here i want to i want to take you

into

um

first samuel chapter 30.

and this is uh david

david

um he’s got a bunch of guys with him

they were the rejects of society they

are being mentored and discipled out of

stupidity into responsibility

they eventually become what’s called the

mighty men of david and they were just

scary i i don’t think

i don’t think anybody has the nerve to

make a movie about the mighty bin

because it would be too gruesome

old testament standards

of course but

the mighty men of david actually became

this incredible force in the earth on

david’s bath but this is before he’s

king

he’s been anointed king but he’s not

king yet saul is still in place

and um

david goes and he’s been rejected by

saul’s household he’s the king

he’s been rejected by israel

the the people of god have rejected

um he’s been

he now is living among the philistines

and he uh does this crazy thing he’s got

all these warriors that he’s discipling

and he takes them out at night and they

go to war with the enemies of israel now

he’s living with the philistines the

philistines think he’s going out to war

to fight their enemies but in actuality

he’s fighting the enemies of israel

so they come back in the morning you

know after fighting all night or

whatever they

do i don’t know they kill and plunder

and

all that glorious stuff

i watched a movie yesterday that was

slower than miss daisy driving miss

daisy

it almost went backwards

[Laughter]

random

and and and i i don’t even remember the

title god’s healed my memories

and if and if you loved driving miss

daisy bless you because it was a

highly regarded movie and i don’t mean

to speak evil against any

movie

all right

where was i

before i stepped into that hole

so david and his men would go out and

they would plunder the enemies of israel

then they would come back and the

philistine leaders thought they were

doing it for them

so one day they want to go out to fight

against israel david and his guys go

along and and the leaders of the

philistines say this isn’t good because

he’ll turn on us in the middle of the

war and then all the jews will go

david’s arcane david’s our king so

there’s this big conflict that goes on

so david gets rejected by the

philistines so he’s rejected by saul

rejected by

the israelites he’s rejected by

the philistines and you’ve had a bad day

when the devil rejects you so he rejects

them they go back to their own town sick

leg and when they come to the outskirts

of town they see

that there’s a fire and so let’s pick it

up in verse one we’ve got several verses

to read so i hope that you have your

bibles open to first samuel 30. it

happened when david and his men came to

ziklag on the third day that the

amalekites had invaded the south of

ziklag attacked zika like burned it with

fire

and they had taken captive the women and

those who were there from small to great

they did not kill anyone but they

carried them away and went their way

so david and his men came to the city

there it was burned with fire their

wives their sons or daughters had been

taken captive

and then david and the people who were

with him lifted up their voices and wept

until they had no more power or strength

to weep

and david’s two wives ahem the

jezreelitis and abigail the widow of

nabel the carmelite had been taken

captive

now david was greatly distressed for the

people spoke of stoning him

because the soul of all the people was

grieved

every man for his sons and daughters

but david strengthened himself in the

lord his god that’s the hinge of the

chapter everything changes from this

point on

davidson said to abathar the priest the

himalayan son

please bring the ephod here to me

abathar brought the ephod to david david

inquired of the lord saying

shall i pursue this troop shall i

overtake them and he answered pursue for

you shall surely overtake them without

fail and recover all that last phrase

you will recover all is the reason i

want to talk to you this morning

i have this growing sense

that we are given we are being given an

opportunity

to co-labor with the lord

and to see an actual recovery of

everything lost

that coming into this new year is

supposed to be a year

of recovery

now

all some of you have had a tremendous

last couple years some have had real

hellish and some of you just have

coasted along and aren’t even certain

anything’s happened

so we have ever everything and

everything in between

but regardless every one of us live in a

world where there’s conflict every one

of us have uh expectations that we’ve

had fulfilled expectations that there’s

been great disappointment in

and i have this i’m going to call it a

prophetic sense a prophetic sense that

the lord wants to invite us in to a

moment where we engage with him over a

promise

there are times in our lives where the

lord simply speaks to us and he says

he says as he as he spoke several times

in the old testament

stand by and see the salvation of the

lord which he will accomplish for you

today and there are moments where you

don’t do anything you literally you’re

going to mess it up if you do anything

so just be still and watch and that’s

kind of what he tells us he says just

stand by and watch because i’m going to

do something for you on your behalf

and yet there are other times where

that’s not at all what happens

here

david inquires of the lord

when did he inquire of the lord it was

after he strengthened himself

i i know that god brings us promises

when we’re at our lowest point i get

that

but sometimes the greatest

exploits come from a promise we received

after we strengthened ourselves

i i’m not sure exactly how to explain

this i hope that there’s a grace

available to see this that there’s

there’s it’s like um

the lord is a good steward

and he gives

some of his grandest seed his greatest

promise to those who have stewarded

their hearts well

and he imparts to them a promise

you will recover all when did he give

that to david it was only after he

strengthened himself

there are i’m glad that the lord rescues

us i’m glad that

you know that there’s a good percentage

of the times in our life where we didn’t

do anything he just showed up and turned

it around for us i’m thankful for those

those teach us about his heart as a

father his compassions his greatness his

grace his kindness all those things are

revealed in those moments

but he’s also a father

who wants sons and daughters

to go into maturity

to remanifest what jesus is like

and that isn’t

seen

in rescue

it’s seen

in used authority

and the demonstration of what god has

imparted us to you

and we’ve got one of these moments here

where it says david strengthened himself

in the lord is god it doesn’t tell us

what he did

i think if you read through the psalms

you’ll find a lot of what he did

i i

have i i remember as a

years ago as a young pastor i’m still a

very young pastor but

i was a lot younger pastor back then

yeah yeah shut up in the front

row i i remember just having

just real real battles over

over what i was thinking and my my uh my

hunger for the lord was strong but i was

so disappointed and what i ached for and

what i saw were worlds apart

and and that that tension

really really brought about seasons in

my own heart and my own mind where i

became just very self-critical and when

you become self-critical you become

dangerous because you will love your

neighbors you love yourself

be careful around self-critical people

because you may be next

that’s a good word right

and i remember doing that and i remember

just feeling that internal struggle and

i would fight my way to the top again

where i could minister life on sunday

encourage people love people but i would

just get so discouraged and

self-critical

and i remember

it felt like i was being forced but in a

kind way

being forced into

learning tools that he had placed in my

life that i knew little to nothing about

number one

i found

that abandonment

in worship

changed me

i don’t think there’s any

other

process that we experience in our life

where we experience more personal

transformation

than when we come into his glory that

glorious presence

it is so transformative

that we we we come in one way we leave

another right i i don’t mean just

singing songs and i i believe in that

and and i i would i would you know go

into the church sanctuary in weaverville

and i’d turn the music up and i would

worship by myself right sit at the piano

and play and would just enter into real

real sacrifice real offering it wasn’t

it wasn’t done out of convenience it was

done out of necessity

and it wasn’t warfare in a sense it

wasn’t devil focused

worship should never be devil focused

i don’t care if it destroys the powers

of darkness it still is not the focus

it’s it’s you know let him destroy the

powers of darkness you just delight in

him and that’s that’s really really the

the engagement there and so i remember

coming and i would i would sing i would

i i generally had to rejoice before i

saw breakthrough

because it’s amazing how easy it is to

hang your head and to sing of his worth

and to leave unchanged

because it doesn’t take faith to sing of

his worth it takes faith to rejoice

though because you actually have to

believe you’re accepted

and i remember doing that and i those

that thing would break and i’d come into

a place of greater strength again and

and then i would find certain portions

of scripture you know when you walk with

jesus one of the one of the cool things

is that you have you have history with

god

in his word

and i have seasons i can take you to

physical locations

i can take you to a place in weaverville

where i walked and i wept and i remember

exactly where the lord spoke to me out

of his word and he ministered to me

there and it’s it’s it’s like that verse

is my personal real estate i own that

lot i’ll loan it to you you can read it

you can celebrate it but it is mine

and there are certain places like that

there are certain places i think

hopefully all of us have those kinds of

places where we just simply feel at home

and so in the times of praise and

thanksgiving uh something about a

grateful heart changes things it changes

the focus the priority

and uh and giving those offerings to the

lord being huge for me and it brings

strength to me another thing has been

getting into his word specifically and i

i will go to i’ll go for example for me

i’ll go to joshua chapter one and i’ll

read verses one through nine over and

over again i’ll go to psalms 25 because

i had a real tough situation some years

ago and the lord ministered to me out of

the 25th song

and it was life to me just i would just

sit there and just tears in my eyes just

reading over and over and again as he

would just heal my soul

and so i have history there with god and

it may mean you know nothing but another

portion of scripture and forgive me for

making light of that but it may not be

as personal for you but i have i have

time there uh blood sweat and tears in a

sense over that portion of scripture and

so i’ll go back there uh sometimes i’ll

i’ll go to other uh some of the prophets

if if i know for example i was reading

in in zechariah chapter 9 this morning

where the lord spoke and he says and i

will restore double to you and i’ll take

a chapter like that and i’ll just wade

into that i’m not studying i’m praying

i’m engaging with the author of the word

and i read those things and he

replenishes my soul i’m doing what i

know to do to strengthen myself taking

responsibility see every one of us

especially anybody who’s known jesus for

over a year you’ve got to take

responsibility for your own strength

stop waiting for somebody else to make

you strong

they will add to your strength but it’s

like supplements to a meal

it’s not the meal take the vitamin c but

drink orange juice too

you know it’s not the meal

it’s the it’s supplements that people

provide for us

and so i found um that these different

places that i have history uh with god

in this book

another thing that i do in the reading

of scripture

and this is what i do very commonly is

i’ll just start in a psalm

because that’s a place of healing for me

in the book of psalms there’s every

emotion you can imagine

and so i read until i hear my voice i

read until i can find on the page of

what i’m reading something i can relate

to something i can identify with and i i

may read 20 psalms i may sit in one

sitting and just read 20 25 psalms i’ll

just keep reading but once i find my

voice something begins to activate

inside of me what is it i believe it’s a

faith thing i don’t stop and analyze it

but something’s coming alive in me

where i

i am i’m becoming

restored in my confidence in what god

has said over my life

restored in my confidence in what god

has said over my family or over this

city or over this this ministry whatever

it might be there’s a restoration of of

hope a promise there’s a refined focus

yes this is what the lord said i’ve

forgotten that i allowed all these

inferior things to steal my strength and

i’m not doing that now i’m refocusing

and something happens in my soul where

there there’s a it’s almost like you’ve

been sitting down waiting for something

to happen and you realize oh i think

i’ll just get up you know that might be

what he said when he said arise shine

your light has come it’s already

happened get up and begin to implement

what he’s already put in our arsenal

and that is this chapter for me

as david strengthened himself in the

lord but then he went to the lord

this is probably my my biggest mistake

that i make in in life

is at this point i know how to

strengthen myself

pretty good

i know how to

radically obey and take risk

the biggest mistake i

make is that i assume

he wants me to recover all

and i didn’t ask him

do i pursue recoverable i don’t know if

that makes if i made that clear or not

sometimes i will assume that i know the

will of god

because it’s biblical

but it’s not necessarily what he wants

me to wants

me to give myself to in that moment does

that make sense you know if i can use an

example i maybe have worn out but um

where

paul

responds to this

great commission go into all the world

and preach the gospel and so he says i’m

going to asia

and god says no

yeah but it’s in the book can you

imagine arguing with god about what’s

biblical and not biblical

he’s you know

i’m going to asia and the lord says no

and finally over time he has a dream a

man from mesopotamia calls and are

macedonian and wants him to come

to macedonia

the point being

sometimes

i know too much

about the potential will of god and it

drowns out my sensitivity to the

particular will of god

and so in this moment instead of

assuming he’s to recover all he says

should i pursue them

and if i pursue them will i overtake

them

that’s a good question

there’s one place in the bible where the

lord said to pursue

and israel was defeated

i’ve been wanting to teach on that one

because it’s so confusing i love that

i love the bewildering stories

it’s true

they said should we pursue the enemy god

says go after it

they do and they lose

so they come back the next day they said

god

do we pursue he says yes pursue and they

get defeated again

and never explains why

sometimes we just have to be reduced to

our real point of strength

and the third time they said do we

pursue and will we overtake and he says

yes pursue and you will overtake so

here’s that moment for david

and the lord speaks and he said

you will recover all

i have a sense i believe that this

promise is for everybody in the room i

think uh you know for the believer um

every year is the year of jubilee

you know so we’re always in a moment

where the lord is desiring to recover

lost things i i believe that

wholeheartedly

but there are moments where he’s

breathing on a theme

and when he does there seems to be at

least in my estimation

such an exponential increase of power in

that moment

for example the lord can say this is the

day of the harvest of souls well so was

yesterday

right

but when he says it

suddenly a message that would have got

two people saved now gets 50 people

saved

does that make sense it’s like when he

says it there’s this accelerated

activity of god involved in that moment

and while it was true yesterday it is

even more true today and that’s my

personal sense about this verse

pursue

and you will recover all

my sense is is that he’s looking for a

church family of believers

will stand confidently

in the middle of a very unusual season

and say father do we pursue

and if we do we’ll recover all

and then he says pursue

for you shall recover all

this story unfolds and they do recover

all

it’s an extraordinary thing that none of

the

children the wives none of them were

killed all the possessions were saved

they recovered everything for the glory

of god

this passage that i i was actually sent

a friend of mine sent it to me this week

kind of just a personal promise for me

and for our family

out of zechariah chapter 9 i think it’s

verse 12. where the lord says and i will

restore double

to you

what was taken what was stolen

we see this in job’s life

that he lost everything then the lord

after he prayed for his friends

that were

critics of him after he prayed for his

critics

it says the lord restored twofold

the amazing thing about the restoration

of the lord

is that he restores to better than

before

he restores to a place better than

before he doesn’t restore to the same

place

he um when he restores uh they they tell

me that when a bone is broken and it

gets healed that place of the break is

actually stronger than the rest of the

bone

he wrote it into nature

that we would know that our creator our

father

restores but he restores to a place of

even greater strength

it’s the beauty of deep repentance

because the person in this room who

would have made the biggest mess of

their life when god forgives heals and

restores that place of greatest weakness

becomes the place of great strength

of

exemplary strength

strength illustrated

through the repentance of that one

and so we’re in a season always but i

i i just uh i anticipate coming into

2022

i saw somebody say the other day they

said

2020

is just 2020 with

t-w-o-o-200 excuse me

2020

again

bad joke bad joke sorry so jesus redeems

all

the devil doesn’t get any holidays i

don’t care what he thinks

he doesn’t have claim to any year it’s

the day of the lord

the year lord

for the believer

every year is the year of jubilee

for the believer every day is the

sabbath

and for the believer every hour is happy

hour

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so here’s what i sense we’re going to

pray together

because i

i i think

i think this one

is not one

that you will have the opportunity to

sit by and watch

i i think this one

is the invitation to co-labor

this this requires the yes this requires

the

shall i pursue

and if i pursue will i overtake

and he says yes

there are some of you who have lost

loved ones family members to this whole

crazy pandemic thing i have a number of

friends that

that are in heaven

today

as a result of that disease

i hate disease and i

i remember somebody came here years ago

and told us what whatever you tolerate

will dominate

and uh and so there has to be this

you don’t have to verbalize it all the

time you’d have to be obnoxious but this

internal disgust

over what becomes normal

never pointing a finger it’s not about

somebody did it wrong it’s about

that i refuse to become

okay

with the disease taking so many

citizens of our city of our nation i’m

not i’m not okay i’m not okay with it

and i’m gonna smile with you and

celebrate the goodness of god but when i

get alone with the lord it’s time to

pray is

it’s time to get in serious it wasn’t

god’s idea to destroy people’s lives

with disease

that’s not it’s not him

jesus when he went to clarify that issue

he says

the son of man came to give life

that’s why i came i came to give life

so

i’m going to invite you in fact i want

you to go and stand because we’re going

to pray i’m going to invite you into

a uh

i i guess

i guess a covenant uh

an agreement with the father

how many of you can think of at least

one thing you would like to see

recovered uh from from the last couple

years yeah

i mentioned the health thing some some

businesses were completely obliterated

and as others of you you’re literally

your businesses have multiplied and

not even because you played everything

right the lord just seemed to breathe on

on that uh somebody mentioned earlier

just the blessing of the lord on

investments those kinds of things

there’s a number of people in this room

who have been

biblically waiting

for certain things to take place because

of promise you’ve been given because of

hope because of things that you’ve

prayed for that you thought you heard

the word of the lord on

that i believe

he wants to bring us into that season of

fulfillment

i love praying like this but i hate

creating

a lottery mentality in christians

you know i don’t i don’t like that

because it breeds carelessness

instead what i want is i want to invite

you to just kind of step up to the plate

and say shall i pursue he says yes will

i overtake he says you’ll overtake and

you’ll recover all i want you to be able

to hear that in your own soul and your

own spirit that resonating word that

says yes

you will recover all

because then i’m going to enlist you in

an army i’m going to enlist you we have

people

from the bethel family all over the

world that join us right now and i’m

enlisting all of you to join us in this

moment that just says okay

it is time

to recover all right say that with me it

is time to recover

grab a hand the person next to you put a

hand on the shoulder is some way connect

with the people around you

and i want you to

sacrificially pray

that they would recover all there’s

there’s things about everybody’s life in

this room where we need recovery of

stuff that maybe nobody else knows but

he knows and so i’m going to ask you

right now pray in a in a forceful

sacrificial way for the recovery of all

for the people around you go ahead lift

your voices let’s pray

to recover all cup

recover all

thank you god

beautiful

all right you did good go ahead and drop

hands i want to pray over you

there’s a strange part of the story that

i actually

i i don’t remember ever

teaching

on when i do this

this lesson

and it’s when

david and his men go out to war

there’s a couple hundred of his guys

that are so exhausted they’re afraid if

they go out to war they’ll just die

because they can’t function

they’re just absolutely exhausted

and so david and his men that are

strong enough to go to war they go to

war the others stay behind and they

watch whatever remains

and after they got the victory and they

come back to town

it says the worthless men among david so

he still had some worthless

not yet delivered

followers disciples

they were in process

those guys said

all the spoil belongs to the guys that

went to war

the guys who stayed behind they get

nothing

and david said

he said

the spoil

goes equally

to the guys who went to war

and the guys who guarded the baggage

everybody in this room has a role

and some of you

may just be guarding baggage

because of what you’ve gone through

i’m here to tell you that’s legal

just be facing the right direction

i’m i’m very serious be it’s not a time

to be careless

but it’s a time to recognize

all right i can’t do the 40-day fast

right now

but i can’t skip breakfast

i’m i’m going to guard my heart i’m

going to guard my relationships i’m

going to be i’m going to protect what i

entertain

sometimes you can be exposed to so many

things and it doesn’t have any effect

other times very very sensitive my wife

right now cannot watch any any uh tv or

any

we are hallmark christmas people right

now

we are

watching the great mystery of romance

within five minutes i know what’s going

to happen

but i watch it anyway

i want to

but very very seriously

we are all in different moments and

recognizing okay

normally i could watch a car chase

if i can use a tv example

but not today

just be aimed in the right direction

i am set

on not only my recovery but everyone

around me

we recover all

and should i gain strength where i can

do the 40 day fast or i can engage in

the battle i can get on the streets and

minister to the loss whatever it is

when that comes i’m there but until then

i’m at least leaning in the right

direction

does that make sense all right so father

i pray that for us as a family thank you

so much for all who have said yes

i want you to say this with me i will

pursue

i will recover all

father that is our confession and i pray

that everything that happens in this

next season

every measure of breakthrough takes

place for your glory

your glory

i am so thankful you are exalted in the

fulfillment of your word

i pray that now in jesus name

amen

one quick question before i uh who’s

coming up dan’s coming up okay

one quick question before

i turn things over to dan

there’s always

uh every time we come together

there’s always a high chance because of

the number of people in the room that

there would be somebody here who doesn’t

have a personal relationship with jesus

you just simply

don’t know what it is to be born again

to be forgiven to be a true disciple a

follower of jesus christ

but yet you you feel that tugging in

your heart

where god is literally inviting you

to come into the family of god and if

there’s anybody here that is in that

place and you would say bill i don’t

want to leave the building until i know

that i’m forgiven that i have found

peace with god i want to be a disciple a

follower of jesus if that’s anybody in

the room just put a hand up real quickly

because i just want to acknowledge you

right where you are make that agreement

that the miracle of salvation will begin

in your life today put a hand up real

fast

if there’s anybody online in that place

we’ve had many people come to christ

watching services online i invite you

just right in the box we’ve got pastors

on call there uh to be able to minister

to you so uh just do that online just

say i want to know jesus i want to

receive jesus

all right so father

let us bring be a great blessing as a

restorative people to our city today in

jesus name all right dan go ahead