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the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom connection first Corinthians chapter 9 I’ll begin reading with verse 24 do you not know that those who run in a race all run but one receives the prize run in such a way that you may obtain it or run that you might win verse 25 and everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things now they do it to obtain a perishable crown but we for an imperishable crown therefore I run this way not uncertain thus I fight not as one who beats the air but I discipline my body I bring it into subjection lest when I have preached to others i myself should become disqualified Paul is uh Paul is using sports and athletics to bring spiritual application to the listeners from examples that he had seen on the sports field you know this morning I want to talk to you and I’m going to use like he did spiritual applications from a natural game that we’ve all heard of today in in basketball it’s five players against five players both sides play offense and defense they dribble they shoot they dunk they pass the ball they go back and forth there’s one main part of the game that I want to use today to help somebody under the sound of my voice and that is the part of basketball that’s called rebounding rebounding skills are essential according to one of the manuals of the game this is what it says says if you’re going to be a good rebounder number one it requires that you gain inside position on your opponent number two that you block out your opponent and that you get the rebound as a matter of fact there are people in the NBA players who their sole purpose for being on the team is to rebound the ball they are considered extremely valuable and some of them cannot shoot a free throw if their life depended on it they would miss the shot others of them rarely score they huff and puff they can’t run fast they don’t have speed but when the moment comes that it’s time for someone who missed the shot and the ball is going somewhere and they grab it on the rebound that’s their moment that they shine and they make millions and millions of dollars because of their ability to rebound they position themselves they get the ball when it when the shot has been missed and keep the enemy from scoring as a result of their missed opportunity why rebounding is so important in the game of basketball is here this is a big point because they miss a lot of shots they miss more than they make therefore they have to learn how to rebound or they’ll never win it’s rare when a team even makes 50% of their first time shots as a matter of fact the highest level of basketball playing in the NBA the best teams would hit around 43 percent of their first shots that means that most of their shots are missed and it’s up to somebody to rebound if they have any hope of winning in college it goes down to 30% only 30% of the free of the first shots hit in high school even lower in other words it’s not just true in basketball but it’s true in life rebounding becomes very very important we’ve all taken shots we’ve made some we’ve all you know applied for a job and got it we’ve all had a dream and applied and tried to get a loan and got it we we all have tried to get into college or tried to do this or try to get on a team and and you were successful you’ve made the shot and it worked but then all of have taken the shot and we’ve missed some have missed in their marriage some have missed in their dreams some have missed in opportunities that they had and they just blew it and they just messed up now listen to me you get a lot of attention and praise when you make it but it’s what you do when you miss it that determines whether or not you will succeed it’s what you do when you’re supposed to rebound that will determine whether or not you will win in life if you don’t learn how to rebound you will give your opponent an opportunity to take advantage of the times that you missed and you messed up what do you do when you expected to hear the swish of the net and you don’t what do you do when you don’t hear the crowd cheer what do you do when you thought you would win but in reality you lost and you missed an amazing opportunity now listen God is not so much concerned about the missed shot as he is the opportunity that you have to take advantage of rebounding god watches more what you do when you miss and whether or not you rebound then he does the fact that you missed the shot and I’m preaching today that I don’t care what has happened to you yesterday the Bible said every morning his mercy is renewed morning by morning I’m preaching to you today what Micah said in the seventh chapter in the eighth verse rejoice not against me o my enemies when I fall I shall arise when I sit in darkness the Lord will be a light unto me you might have messed up you might have fallen short you might have missed the mark but God is for you and you can rebound and you can arise and you can see that rebound become a reality and your marriage and in your home and in your family I’m preaching today that it’s not time to give up and sit in the bleachers I’m preaching the day it’s no time to quit this is an hour when God says if you will try I will give you the power to rebound from anything that is half in your life everybody take a moment and thank God for His grace and His mercy that in powers us to rebound it’s possible to miss more shots than you make and still win listen to this great scripture proverbs 24 and 16 for a just or a righteous man what is a righteous man do falls seven times and rises up again notice that the biblical definition and standard for being a just righteous person is falling turn to somebody and say I’m holier than I thought I was the biblical definition of a righteous man the next word says he falls but he does not fall and stay there he’s righteous because he gets back up and he says by the grace of God I’m going to keep going until I’m an overcomer by the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony it’s getting up that makes you righteous it’s rebounding that makes you righteous through the blood of Jesus Christ God does not want you to live in regret and shame and condemnation the word sin means to miss the mark and the Bible said all have sinned that includes you all have sinned and missed the shot now the fundamentals of rebounding defensively if you look it up this is what it’ll tell you here’s the fundamentals three of them of rebounding defensively number one it said keep your knees bent for quick movement if you want to rebound you have to learn to keep your knees bent and be quick to repent and say God I messed up but I know you’re not through with me and you won’t leave me where you found me you won’t forsake me in my weakness and I’m going to keep my knees bent and I’m going to pray pray pray you know the enemy wants to tell you you’re not good enough to pray you’re not good enough to love God you’re not good enough God doesn’t love you but if you keep your knees bent all you got to do is beat the accuser to the throne and say you know what I’m going to rebound if I’ll keep my knees bent and I’ll pray and ask God the second thing it said if you want to rebound defensively number one keep your knees bent like this but I’m talking spiritually get on your knees and pray I don’t care what you’ve gone through I don’t care if you’ve been through bankruptcy divorce if you keep your knees bent and keep praying the enemy will not win somehow someway even the grief the loss of the loved one keep your knees bent you’re going to rebound and joy is coming in the morning keep praying keep talking to God keep talking to the Holy Spirit keep your knees bent number two I promise this is what it says keep your hands in the air if I’ll keep praying and I’ll keep my hands in the air and keep praising God no matter praises the language of faith praise is saying I know I don’t have the victory yet but I’m going to learn to sing in the fire and if you learn to sing in the fire you’ll come out of the fire everybody get your hands up in the air and say Lord I’m a rebounder and I’m going to keep my hands up and I’m going to praise you until you restore the years the cankerworm and the locusts have stolen from my life I’m not gonna have a pity party I’m not gonna feel sorry for myself I’m not gonna go around saying how bad my life is I’m gonna have my hands up praising God and my knees bent talking to God and I will rebound from whatever life has tried to do to me keep your knees bent keep your hands in the air he said the main purpose of Defense is to stop the offensive team from dribbling because they know if you can stop them from dribbling then the then the statistics say that they have a higher chance of missing the shot and if they have a higher percentage of missing the shot once they can’t dribble anymore then guess what you got a higher chance of rebounding we need to stop the devil’s dribbling in order to rebound you have to you have to plant your feet this is what they said you have to have a strong base or in other words plant your feet and box out your enemy that’s what you do when you come down you you get in position when you come to the altar you’re getting in the position to rebound the enemy would do everything he can to block you from coming down he’ll tell you if you need a you need a rebound in your family don’t walk down there with your family we think churches and altars are just for people who are lost but the truth is many times marriages need to rebound and families need to rebound in people’s hopes and dreams and faith needs a rebound and the enemy would do everything he can to keep you out of that position there’s something about coming to the altar and saying God I need your help and I need you to touch my family and touch my marriage and I don’t care what people think I want to position myself for the rebound you have to do what Joshua did the Bible said he took five kings and drugged them out of a cave and told Israel’s leaders to put your foot on the neck of the kings that’s what you have to do to alcohol you have to put your foot on it and say you’re not going to destroy my life I’m going to rebound that’s what you have to do to that drug addiction that’s what you have to do to that pornography that’s what you have to do you have to put your foot on it you have to say to sin and in adultery and things and sin and shame in your life put your foot on it and say you will not destroy me God’s will for my life is not to live and regret but I’m going to recover and I’m going to rebound Sampson Sampson missed the shot and it looked like it was over the enemy stripped him of everything that he had but in judges 22 it said his hair began to grow back and I loved the fact that he removed that he rebounded he planted his feet and the Bible said he did more in his end than he did in his beginning I love that scripture in job that says your ladder shall be greater than your former if you will let God he will help you REBOUND and your future will be greater than what’s behind you and your ladder in will be greater than your former I think about Simon Peter and many times you know back in my day when a when a somebody blocked a shot we would say denied you were denied well Peter wasn’t denied but he denied Jesus three times three times the ball was put in his hands three times he had a chance to be a superstar for the kingdom and say I believe in that man Jesus Christ I identify myself with him and three times he missed the shot he denied Christ denied Christ denied Christ and the rooster crowed but there’s this marvelous scripture in Luke chapter 22 and verse 32 he said Satan hath desired to sift you Peter Jesus saying but I have prayed for you that your faith fail not listen to this and when you are converted strengthen the brothers in other words Peter don’t be afraid to shoot that ball again I don’t want you going around thinking that I can’t use you because you denied me and you miss the first three shots I’m putting the ball back in your hand on the day of Pentecost and I’m going to use you greater than you ever imagined I’m saying to you there’s no telling what’s in your future if you’ll just learn how to rebound and say I am NOT going to let this kill and destroy my life my family my marriage my future my dreams and my hopes david missed the shot but God said I still want to use you again and he did more in his latter end then before he missed because he was a rebounder I’m simply saying to you today I wish that I wouldn’t have done this somebody saying I wish that I had that again I wish I could at that moment freeze that moment and go back I would do anything but the Lord doesn’t want you living in the regret of that shame and guilt and condemnation the rest of your life and some of you couldn’t even get your hands up and some of you felt so condemned while this great music is going on Satan whispers the accuser you’re not worthy you’re not good enough but I’m telling you if you keep your knees bent and your hands in the air and you’ll praise God and rely on his blood and his mercy and his name he will give you the power to rebound I wish I wouldn’t have gone there the Lord says to every family today you can rebound the Lord says to every marriage you can rebound this is how we get in front of our opponent we get in the altar we position ourselves for the rebound when we humble ourselves and we walk down an aisle and we say God I want to rebound I missed it I wish I could go back but you know what all I can do is try to rebound and by your grace I can some of you here today have physical challenges that you need to rebound from I heard the story and I’m gonna close with this but I heard the story of Fanny Crosby she was born blind she could have felt sorry for herself but she pinned these words blessed a shoe Laurance Jesus is mine oh what a foretaste of glory divine heir of salvation purchase of God born of his spirit I’m washed in his blood this is my story this is my song praising my say Oh hands in the air praising all the day long this is my soul this is my son I still have a song you still have a song praising my say my knees are bent and my hands are up Oh day long and then I close a promise you stand to your feet but there was this guy named mr. Spofford he was sending for his family was a preacher in sending for his family from England they were coming across on a ship halfway across a storm comes and the ship sinks and all four of his daughters perish and when his daughters perish and his wife it breaks his heart he gets on a ship a few weeks later goes out into the Atlantic and when he gets out he asked the captain would you awaken me when you get to the spot where the ship went down that was carrying my four daughters and my wife and when he did he woke him up at two o’clock in the morning and mr. Spofford walked out and he grabbed a pen and a piece of paper and he began to write the words when peace like a river attendeth my soul when sorrows like sea billows roll whatever my lot thou has taught me to say it is well that’s called a rebound it is well with my soul what can separate me from the love of God nothing it is well with my soul and I’m saying to people today that you can rebound from that addiction you can rebound in your marriage in your home and your family but you have to position yourself you have to bow your knees bend your knees you have to raise your hands and say I need a Savior I surrender and if you will His grace will come running to you and it’s not important that you miss the shot it’s important what you do now is rebound listen to this scripture 2nd Timothy 2 and that they may rebound themselves notice God’s not going to do it all they may rebound themselves out of the snare of the devil if they’ll come running to me position yourself to rebound bend your knee raise your hand and accept Jesus he’ll help you every head bowed every eye closed you’re in this room today you would say pastor Franklin I need to rebound in my life I need a change I need a miracle of grace I need forgiveness I need a new start pray for me if that’s you right where you are quickly when I count to 3 raise your hand 1 2 3 raise that hand all over this ring every one of you that have your hand raised slip out of your seat and come stand right down here position yourself don’t let me enter me get the inside position position yourself something will happen the moment you step out of that aisle something will happen the moment that you move toward God something will happen the moment that you humble yourself and bend your knee here they come here they come here they come here they come here they come here they come here they come here they come come on come on come on come on come on come on this is a miracle come on come on no matter what you’re going through you may have been going through a divorce somebody’s listening to me and your marriage is going through a divorce and the enemy says you’ll never have joy again but God has a rebound in your future don’t give up don’t give up come position yourself for the rebound let’s say these words Lord Jesus I receive you today as my Lord and Savior I’m ready by your grace by the blood that you shed on the cross I can rebound in my life I missed it but I’m confessing I’m bending my knee I’ll do this I’m raising my hands in an act of surrender come on get your hands up all over this room I surrender my life I surrender my body I surrender my family I surrender my wheel my hands are up I’m ready for my rebound restore my life Jesus restore my dreams Jesus I receive you as my Lord and as my Savior I am forgiven I shall arise I will rebound it begins now in Jesus mighty name oh we thank you lord Bobby and I have lived in Haiti for 22 years but you come here when you guys leave we’re still in Haiti so we walk around with the people we hear their stories and we cry I mean there’s times that I just had to walk away from the village and cry because my heart is broken but on behalf of the Haitian people the mothers who have children the grandmothers I just want to say thank you with all my heart you and your partners you’ve done something that you have no idea what you’ve done in helping these people you’ve lifted up the beggar out of the dunghill and you put them among the princes they feel like there are prints in a palette just like that scripture says when Hannah’s prayer she says he lifts up the beggar out of the dung Hill they were in the dummy old pastor here in the dung Hill you and your partners took him from the dung Hill and you put them in a palace and the scripture is true that is more blessed to give especially you know being here again seeing today the food distribution centre and the food going out by the truckloads just just tons and tons of food going out to some of the roads most remote regions in the world and some of the most needy people literally starving to death if that food doesn’t reach them and it’s overwhelming it’s touching that’s powerful and I’m just thankful you know for the opportunity it is more blessed to give than it is to receive thank you wonderful friends and partners and everyone we love you we appreciate your support your generosity this month is making a difference with your help we are able to continue feeding the starving children of Haiti with your gift of $30.00 and more this month Jensen and Charisse want to send you their brand-new series dream The Impossible God has planted a dream in every person’s heart and when God gives you a dream you’ll often face obstacles along the way but God can take you from having a dream in your heart to actually standing in your destiny Jenson Franklin gives you the keys to unlock the potential for you to not only dream the impossible but turn your dream into your destiny join us for forward 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