Speaker 1: It's another great day to be alive, and we are
Speaker 1: so blessed to be here with you today, Victoria my
Speaker 1: beautiful wife, and we're just praying for you. Guys, I
Speaker 1: have a blessed summer. I sure hope you enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 1: I know I always enjoy these messages. They're so uplifting
Speaker 1: and encouraging and inspiring, So we hope you enjoy the
Speaker 1: message today. Well, God bless you. It's always a joy
Speaker 1: to come into your homes. And if you're ever in
Speaker 1: our area, I hope you'll stop vying be a part
Speaker 1: of one of our services. I promise you we'll make
Speaker 1: you feel right at home. But thanks so much for
Speaker 1: tuning in, and thank you again for coming out. I
Speaker 1: like to start with something funny, and I heard about
Speaker 1: this elderly couple. They had been married for over sixteen years.
Speaker 1: They were at a church fellowship and someone asked them
Speaker 1: the secret of their success. The man told how he
Speaker 1: always treated his wife with respect. Andy took her on
Speaker 1: trips all over the world, he said. In in fact, for
Speaker 1: our twenty fifth wedding anniversary, I took her to Beijing, China.
Speaker 1: Everyone politely applies. Then someone spoke up and said, what'd
Speaker 1: you do for your fiftieth wedding anniversary? He said, I
Speaker 1: went back and picked her up. Hold up your bible,
Speaker 1: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
Speaker 1: I am what it says.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you today about having a restoration mentality
Speaker 1: in life. We all experience times of loss, situations where
Speaker 1: it feels like something was taken from us. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: because of other people's choices. A friend does us wrong,
Speaker 1: a spouse walks out of a relationship. Other times it
Speaker 1: is because of our own choices. Maybe we get involved
Speaker 1: with the wrong crowd, develop bad habits, we end up
Speaker 1: with broken dreams. We hear that voice telling us again
Speaker 1: and again, it's your fault. You blew it too bad.
Speaker 1: This is as good as it's ever going to be.
Speaker 1: Many people are living with regrets, thinking about what they
Speaker 1: should have done. If I've just spent more time raising
Speaker 1: my children. If I've just been more disciplined and not
Speaker 1: hung around those people, or if I just stayed in school,
Speaker 1: where would I be today? They don't realize that defeated
Speaker 1: mindset is keeping them from God's best. Then there are
Speaker 1: times it's not somebody else's fault, it's not our own fault,
Speaker 1: it's just life. You're a good person, you're honoring God,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're facing an illness caught
Speaker 1: you totally off guard. You lost your health. Or maybe
Speaker 1: you're being your best each day. You're going to work,
Speaker 1: giving it your awe, but business starts to slow down.
Speaker 1: You had more than enough at one time. Now you're
Speaker 1: struggling to get by counter loss. It's easy to get discouraged,
Speaker 1: to settle where we are and to not expect anything better.
Speaker 1: But the good news is our God is a god
Speaker 1: of restoration. He never said we wouldn't have unfair situations.
Speaker 1: He never promised we wouldn't experience lass, But he did
Speaker 1: promise if we would stay in faith, he would restore
Speaker 1: everything that was stolen. When God restores, he doesn't bring
Speaker 1: you out the same. He makes the enemy pay for
Speaker 1: bringing the trouble into your life. God is so merciful,
Speaker 1: whether it was your fault, somebody else's fault, or just
Speaker 1: life in general. He says, He's not only going to
Speaker 1: bring you out, He's going to bring you out better
Speaker 1: off than you were before. Get that down in your spirit.
Speaker 1: You may have made mistakes. You brought the trouble on yourself,
Speaker 1: but God's mercy is bigger than any mistake that you've made.
Speaker 1: Don't settle there, have a restoration Mentality's not only going
Speaker 1: to bring you out, He's going to bring you out better.
Speaker 1: In the Scripture, if someone stole an ox they had
Speaker 1: to pay that person back with five oxen. If they
Speaker 1: stole a sheep, they had to pay them back with
Speaker 1: four sheep. Another place, they had to repay seven times.
Speaker 1: In Isaiah, God said he would pay us back double
Speaker 1: for the unfair situations. Notice the principle God never brings
Speaker 1: us out the same. If we say we're going to
Speaker 1: restore this old car, that means we're going to bring
Speaker 1: it back to the original condition. We're going to make
Speaker 1: it look like it did when it was brand new.
Speaker 1: But that is not how God defines restoration. His idea
Speaker 1: of restore is to increase, to improve, to promote to
Speaker 1: make better now. You may have gone through a loss,
Speaker 1: somebody did you wrong, or maybe it was your fault.
Speaker 1: You made poor choices. The enemy would love for you
Speaker 1: to sit around your whole life and listen to his lies.
Speaker 1: It's never going to change. It's been this way too long.
Speaker 1: It's your fault. Just settle where you are. Shake off
Speaker 1: that doubt, shake off that self pity. You may have
Speaker 1: suffered a loss, but your attitude should be I know
Speaker 1: my God is a god of restoration, and I'm not
Speaker 1: only coming out, I'm coming out stronger. I'm coming out promoted.
Speaker 1: I'm coming out increase better off than I was before.
Speaker 1: If you're going to see God restore, you have to
Speaker 1: have this restoration mentality. That means you're not sitting around
Speaker 1: nursing your wounds, thinking about what you lost and how
Speaker 1: many bad breaks you've had. No, you've got a smile
Speaker 1: on your face, a spring in your step. You're expecting
Speaker 1: things to change in your favor. Somebody may have done
Speaker 1: you wrong, walked out of a relationship, but you're expecting
Speaker 1: to meet somebody better. The loan may not have gone through,
Speaker 1: didn't qualify for the new house, but you're expecting a
Speaker 1: new door, expecting a better deal. The medical report doesn't
Speaker 1: look good, but you've got another report. You're expecting to
Speaker 1: get well. You're expecting your child to straighten up. You're
Speaker 1: expecting to have a blessed, prosperous year. For everything that
Speaker 1: you've lost, every person that did you wrong, every unfair situation,
Speaker 1: every sickness you had to endure, God is saying that
Speaker 1: is not the end. It is not over. I still
Speaker 1: have something amazing in your future. If you will have
Speaker 1: the right attitude, God will take the loss and use
Speaker 1: it to promote you. God will use the person that
Speaker 1: did you wrong to take you to a new level.
Speaker 1: God can even use the mistake you made. You brought
Speaker 1: the trouble on yourself. But God is so merciful He's
Speaker 1: going to make the enemy pay. He can use that
Speaker 1: mistake to take you higher than if you had not
Speaker 1: have made it. Now do your part and get your
Speaker 1: hopes up quickly. Living all your disappointments. Quit telling your
Speaker 1: friends how it's never going to work out, and how
Speaker 1: you should just settle where you are. No, shake that
Speaker 1: off and have this restoration mentality. I know this couple,
Speaker 1: they were living a very blessed life. Very successful. Everything
Speaker 1: was going great. Then the perfect storm hit. The business
Speaker 1: went down, the lady had some health issues. One of
Speaker 1: their in laws suddenly died. One bad thing after another,
Speaker 1: long story short, they ended up losing their house. It
Speaker 1: was foreclosed on, and they were so discouraged. They were
Speaker 1: having to live with some friends, and the lady had
Speaker 1: been in the hospital for several weeks. When I saw her,
Speaker 1: she said, Joel, they say there's light at the end
Speaker 1: of the tunnel, but we can't even see the tunnel.
Speaker 1: We don't see how this is ever going to work out.
Speaker 1: I told them what I'm telling you. Our God is
Speaker 1: a god of restoration. Nothing you're facing is a surprise.
Speaker 1: He had the solution before you had the problem. He
Speaker 1: wants to bring you out better. They would have been
Speaker 1: happy to come out like they were before, to have
Speaker 1: her health back, to have a place to live, to
Speaker 1: have money to pay their bills. I said, that's great,
Speaker 1: but that's not how God works. He doesn't bring you
Speaker 1: out the same. He never restores you back to the
Speaker 1: original condition. He brings you out better. And at first
Speaker 1: they couldn't really receive this. The scripture says the people
Speaker 1: had become too discouraged to believe, And if you're not careful,
Speaker 1: you could let negative thoughts play in your mind so
Speaker 1: long that they become ingrained in your thinking and you
Speaker 1: become too discouraged to believe. When I tell you God
Speaker 1: wants to bring you out better. In your spirit down
Speaker 1: in here, something comes alive, something says, yes, this is
Speaker 1: for me. I have not seen my best days. God
Speaker 1: has greater things in my future. Your spirit will receive it.
Speaker 1: That's where God lives. But many times our mind will
Speaker 1: try to talk us out of it. This is not
Speaker 1: for you today. You never get any good breaks, You'll
Speaker 1: never be healthy, you'll never be successful. No, do yourself
Speaker 1: a favor, at least temporarily turn your mind off and
Speaker 1: receive what God is saying. You may have gone through
Speaker 1: a loss, but God is going to bring you out better, promoted, increased, healthier, stronger,
Speaker 1: wiser than you were before. Receive it by faith. I
Speaker 1: finally convinced this couple to get in agreement with God
Speaker 1: and start expecting things to turn around. And it didn't
Speaker 1: happen overnight, but about three years later I saw them
Speaker 1: in the lobby. They brought a picture of the brand
Speaker 1: new house they had moved into. The lady was weeping
Speaker 1: and weeping, so grateful. Her husband had started a new business.
Speaker 1: It was much more successful than the one they lost.
Speaker 1: They have three children. In their first home, two of
Speaker 1: the children had to share a bedroom. In this home,
Speaker 1: each child had their own bedroom, plus there was a
Speaker 1: spare guest bedroom. She said, Joel, it's in a better location,
Speaker 1: closer to our business. It's on a bigger lot. Plus
Speaker 1: our payments are less on this house than on the
Speaker 1: original house that we lost. Friends, God knows how to restore. Now,
Speaker 1: don't talk yourself out of what God wants to do.
Speaker 1: You may have gone through a loss. It was painful.
Speaker 1: You could be discouraged. No, put on a new attitude.
Speaker 1: It's not over until God says it's over. And God
Speaker 1: says I'm bringing you out, promoted, increased, improved, better than
Speaker 1: you were before. Can you get a vision for it? See,
Speaker 1: it's easy in the tough times to get discourage and
Speaker 1: bitter settle where we are not expect anything good. But
Speaker 1: this is what faith is all about. You've got to
Speaker 1: believe it even when you can't see it. You've got
Speaker 1: to thank God even when you feel like complaining. You've
Speaker 1: got to say, I know it's on the way, even
Speaker 1: when every voice is telling you it's never going to happen.
Speaker 1: I know many people that watch have been affected by
Speaker 1: Hurricane Sandy, and you could be sour, bitter, no joy.
Speaker 1: But if you'll have the right attitude, God will take
Speaker 1: what was meant for your harm and use it to
Speaker 1: your advantage. That storm was meant to defeat you, but
Speaker 1: God will use it to promote you. You're going to
Speaker 1: come out with a better house, with better furniture, with
Speaker 1: new carpet. God is in the restoration business. Don't talk
Speaker 1: yourself out of it. Get up every morning, Father, I
Speaker 1: want to thank you that you're a god of restoration.
Speaker 1: I know I've been armed with strength for this battle.
Speaker 1: You said you'd make the enemy pay. My declaration is
Speaker 1: I'm coming out stronger. I'm coming out promoted, I'm coming
Speaker 1: out increase, I'm coming out better off than I was before.
Speaker 1: That's what allows the most powerful force in the universe
Speaker 1: to go to work. It may not happen overnight. God
Speaker 1: doesn't say I'll do this in twenty four hours, or
Speaker 1: two weeks or seven months. God doesn't put a timetable
Speaker 1: on it. He simply says in due season, you will
Speaker 1: rip if you don't give up. When you go through
Speaker 1: a loss, when you suffer a setback, God immediately establishes
Speaker 1: a due season, a set time to pay you back.
Speaker 1: But along the way, God is watching. What do they say.
Speaker 1: Do they still believe it's going to happen? Are they
Speaker 1: still talking about how it's going to turn around? Or
Speaker 1: have they gotten discouraged and settled where they are now?
Speaker 1: Pass the test all through the day, Father, thank you
Speaker 1: that you're restoring back everything that belongs to me. Young
Speaker 1: man about twenty years old told me how when he
Speaker 1: was a child, he was passed from relative to relative.
Speaker 1: Nobody really wanted to raise him. He can't ever remember
Speaker 1: laughing and playing as a child. He said, Joel, I
Speaker 1: feel like somebody stole my childhood, and it's easy to think, well,
Speaker 1: too bad, just my luck. Nothing I can do about that.
Speaker 1: But God said in the Book of Joel, I will
Speaker 1: restore the years that have been stolen. Friends. God knows
Speaker 1: how to make up for years of your life. No,
Speaker 1: you can't relive your childhood, but God can make the
Speaker 1: rest of your life so rewarding, so fulfilling, that you
Speaker 1: don't even miss the years that you lost. You may
Speaker 1: feel like you wasted years in a relationship that didn't
Speaker 1: work out. But God can bring somebody into your life
Speaker 1: so great, so fun, so friendly, so attractive, that you
Speaker 1: don't even remember the years that you've lost. You may
Speaker 1: have spent years on a job that turned out to
Speaker 1: be a dead end. You are working your way to
Speaker 1: the top. Things didn't turn out like you had hoped,
Speaker 1: and now it looks like there's a big waste of time.
Speaker 1: You don't see how you could ever get to where
Speaker 1: you want to be now. Don't believe those lies. God
Speaker 1: knows how to make up for lost time. God can
Speaker 1: accelerate things. God can bring opportunities back across your path
Speaker 1: that you missed that will thrust you years ahead. It
Speaker 1: may not have happened the first time, but God will
Speaker 1: always give you another chance. I know this man. For
Speaker 1: the first forty years of his life, he was a
Speaker 1: cocaine addict. He came from a good family. He had
Speaker 1: a lot of opportunity, but he blew his marriage, blew
Speaker 1: his education. He thought it was all over. But today
Speaker 1: he's in his late fifties, he's very successful, he's happily married.
Speaker 1: He volunteers for us on the weekends. He said, Joel,
Speaker 1: I never dreamed God would give me another chance. What's happening.
Speaker 1: God is restoring the years. His ladder day are going
Speaker 1: to be greater than his former days. That's the way
Speaker 1: our God is. He knows how to make up for
Speaker 1: lost time. Here's the amazing thing. Even when it's your fault,
Speaker 1: God is so merciful he'll still give you another chance.
Speaker 1: Why don't you quit worrying about what you lost and
Speaker 1: how you're not where you think you should be and say, God,
Speaker 1: I believe you can restore the years that I lost,
Speaker 1: even when it was my fault. That takes a lot
Speaker 1: of boldness. The enemy will bombard your mind, saying, man,
Speaker 1: you're a hypocrite. You can't expect anything good. You should
Speaker 1: have been out studying, you should have been working, you
Speaker 1: should have been more disciplined. No, this is what mercy
Speaker 1: is all about. You don't deserve it. You could live
Speaker 1: guilty and condemned. When you shake it off and say God,
Speaker 1: I'm coming boldly to your throne, not because I'm perfect,
Speaker 1: but because your son made me worthy. And God, I'm
Speaker 1: asked you to turn back time and give me every
Speaker 1: opportunity that I have missed. See, God is not moved
Speaker 1: when we have that weak, unworthy, poor old me mentality.
Speaker 1: I don't deserve anything good. I've made too many mistakes. No,
Speaker 1: God wants to restore. He's full of mercy. But you've
Speaker 1: got to have the right attitude. And some of you
Speaker 1: have given up on your dreams, thinking about the years
Speaker 1: you wasted in the first marriage, and how you didn't
Speaker 1: spend enough time with your children, how somebody hurts you. No,
Speaker 1: quit blaming yourself, quit blaming others. God can still get
Speaker 1: you to where you're supposed to be. He knows how
Speaker 1: to restore the years. Our daughter Alexandra, was two months
Speaker 1: old when my father went to be with the Lord.
Speaker 1: During that time, my dad was on dialysis and I
Speaker 1: was taking him up to the clinic and bringing him
Speaker 1: back home. Was a very busy season. Then two months later,
Speaker 1: when Daddy died, our whole world changed. We were thrust
Speaker 1: into this new position and I was doing my best
Speaker 1: to just try to keep my head above water. I
Speaker 1: don't really remember the first few years of Alexander's life
Speaker 1: that well. We were in such a transition and I
Speaker 1: was learning how to minister trying to figure everything out.
Speaker 1: One day, we were looking at her baby pictures and
Speaker 1: I realized that I don't have the same memories of
Speaker 1: her the first few years of her life as I
Speaker 1: do our son Jonathan, and just under my breath, almost
Speaker 1: in passing, I said, God, I'm asking you to restore
Speaker 1: the years that I lost being so busy and so
Speaker 1: preoccupied with other things. That time, Alexander was about six
Speaker 1: years old, and it seemed like from that time forward
Speaker 1: all she wanted to do was to be with me,
Speaker 1: her father. She'd rather go out in the backyard and
Speaker 1: let me watch her turn cartwheels than to have her
Speaker 1: friends over to play. In fact, sometimes I needed a brain.
Speaker 1: I would say, Alexandra, are you sure you don't want
Speaker 1: to go to your cousins. You can go swimming. You're
Speaker 1: sure you don't want to invite your friends over? She said, no, Daddy,
Speaker 1: I just want to stay here with you. Even now
Speaker 1: she's fourteen years old, we're still the best of friends.
Speaker 1: She'll come up during the day at the house and
Speaker 1: put her arm around me and we'll laugh, talk, have
Speaker 1: a good time. She's like Victoria, she can't keep her
Speaker 1: hands off of me. But you know, what that is.
Speaker 1: That's where we're thinking what that is? Seriously, that's God
Speaker 1: restoring the years. That's God turning back time. Why don't
Speaker 1: you ask God to restore any opportunities that you've missed.
Speaker 1: Why don't you ask him to restore relationships that are
Speaker 1: not what they should be. God knows how to restore
Speaker 1: the years. Second King's Chapter eight, there's the story about
Speaker 1: a life. This lady that was good friends with him
Speaker 1: and her son died and Elisha came prayed for the
Speaker 1: boy and he came back to life. Later, there was
Speaker 1: a great famine in the land. Elisha told this woman
Speaker 1: that she needed to move to another city because the
Speaker 1: food was going to be so scarce. So she left
Speaker 1: there and went to the land of the Philistines. Seven
Speaker 1: years later, the famine was over. She was so excited
Speaker 1: about coming back home, but when she arrived, she found
Speaker 1: that somebody was living in her house, farming her land,
Speaker 1: making money off of her property. She couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: She said, what are you doing here? This is my house.
Speaker 1: I built this place. They wouldn't budge. They weren't about
Speaker 1: to leave. She didn't know what to do, so she
Speaker 1: decided to go see the King. Now, this king wasn't
Speaker 1: a godly man. She didn't have any connection with him.
Speaker 1: She didn't even know if the king would see her.
Speaker 1: But when she arrived, it just so happened that Gehzei,
Speaker 1: that was this assistant to Elisha, he happened to be
Speaker 1: there visiting with the king. The King was very intrigued
Speaker 1: by the prophet Elisha. He asked Gehza to tell him
Speaker 1: some stories about the miracles that Elisha had performed. Just
Speaker 1: so happened that gehes I started off telling this story
Speaker 1: about this little boy that died and how Elisha prayed
Speaker 1: and he came back to life. Right as he was
Speaker 1: telling it, perfectly on cue, this lady walked in the room.
Speaker 1: Gaehes I was amazed. He said, King, that's the lady
Speaker 1: I'm talking about right there. It was her son that
Speaker 1: came back to life. The King said, is this true?
Speaker 1: She said, exactly true. The King was so moved not
Speaker 1: only by the miracle, but by the fact that this
Speaker 1: lady had shown up unannounced, perfectly on cue. He said
Speaker 1: to the lady, ma'am, what can I do for you.
Speaker 1: She explained her situation, how she had gone for seven
Speaker 1: years and now she's back home and somebody was living
Speaker 1: in her house. The King said, no problem, I'll take
Speaker 1: care of that. He instructed his officials to make sure
Speaker 1: that she not only got her house back, but he
Speaker 1: said see to it that she gets all the money
Speaker 1: from any crops that were harvested during the seven years
Speaker 1: that she was gone. What she had lost by being
Speaker 1: away for seven years was returned to her in one day.
Speaker 1: That was God restoring the years, paying her back for
Speaker 1: what should have been heard. Now, some of you are
Speaker 1: due payback. You've lost some things. The good news is
Speaker 1: they still have your name on them. Your health, your dreams,
Speaker 1: your finances, your relationships. If you'll have this restoration mentality
Speaker 1: like this lady, God will pay you back for everything
Speaker 1: that should have been yours. God can make up for
Speaker 1: seven years of loss with one good break. God can
Speaker 1: take fifteen years of struggle and lack and cause one
Speaker 1: person to show you favor. That will make up for
Speaker 1: those fifteen years You may have struggled. In your health,
Speaker 1: in a relationship, in your mind, no peace for get
Speaker 1: this down in your spirit. It's payback time. God is
Speaker 1: going to start restoring everything that should have been yours.
Speaker 1: Some of you are raising a child that's difficult. You
Speaker 1: never complain. You love your child, but it's taken your joy,
Speaker 1: your passion. God is going to pay you back. He
Speaker 1: knows exactly what you're owed. He's going to give you
Speaker 1: greater strength, greater joy. You may have missed out temporarily,
Speaker 1: but you need to get ready. What your ode is
Speaker 1: still in your account, and God knows how to get
Speaker 1: it to you. You may have put up with an
Speaker 1: illness for a long time, worked at a job where
Speaker 1: you're not being treated right, struggled with an addiction for
Speaker 1: many years. Be encouraged. Today payday is on its way.
Speaker 1: God's not only going to turn it around. He's going
Speaker 1: to restore everything back to you that should have been yours.
Speaker 1: The rest of your life is going to be more rewarding,
Speaker 1: more fulfilling than anything you've experienced before. That's what it
Speaker 1: says Psalm sixty six twelve. We went through the fire,
Speaker 1: through the flood, but God brought us out to a
Speaker 1: place of great abundance. That's what God is going to
Speaker 1: do for you. You've been through the famine, through the
Speaker 1: tough time, but you passed the test. Now God's going
Speaker 1: to bring you not to a place of abundance, but
Speaker 1: a place of great abundance, great joy, great friendships, great health,
Speaker 1: great income. Our attitude should be God, I'm ready. I
Speaker 1: know it's payback time. Now. I'm not sitting around focused
Speaker 1: on what I lost and who hurt me and where
Speaker 1: I missed it. I'm focused on the fact that you're
Speaker 1: a God of restoration. You're full of mercy. You know
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm ow and you promised you would pay
Speaker 1: me back and bring me to a place of great abundance.
Speaker 1: That's the attitude that allows God to restore, to make
Speaker 1: up for lost time, lost health, lost wages, lost victories.
Speaker 1: One time in the Old Testament, an enemy army had
Speaker 1: surrounded the Israelites and cut off their food supply. The
Speaker 1: Israelites were eating things that were unthinkable. A few more
Speaker 1: days and they certainly would have starved to death. The
Speaker 1: prophet Elisha showed up and said, by this time tomorrow
Speaker 1: there will be so much food you'll be able to
Speaker 1: buy a loaf of bread for one penny. The assistant
Speaker 1: to the king said, Elisha, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Have you lost your mind? Even if God opened up
Speaker 1: the windows of heaven, that would not happen. Notice, God said,
Speaker 1: restoration is coming. It's going to happen sooner than you think.
Speaker 1: It's going to be greater than you imagined. You're coming
Speaker 1: to a place of great abundance. But this assistant only
Speaker 1: looked at it in the natural. He checked the stock report,
Speaker 1: he looked at his bank statement, he watched the nightly news.
Speaker 1: Said it's impossible, there's no way that could happen. But
Speaker 1: there were four lepers sitting outside the city gates. They said,
Speaker 1: we have nothing to lose. We're going to starve to
Speaker 1: death anyway, Let's march down toward the enemy's camp and
Speaker 1: see what's going on. As they started walking, God multiplied
Speaker 1: the sound of their footsteps. They sounded like a huge
Speaker 1: army was approaching. The enemy army got afraid, took off running,
Speaker 1: left their food, left their treasures, left a whole camp
Speaker 1: filled with supplies. Those four lepers went back to their family,
Speaker 1: the Israelites, and said, come with us, there's more than enough.
Speaker 1: The people were so excited, so hungry, they took off,
Speaker 1: running out of the city to go get the food.
Speaker 1: This assistant that said it would never happen was in
Speaker 1: control of the gain. When the people came out running
Speaker 1: so fast he got knocked down and was trampled to death.
Speaker 1: He said it would never happen, and for him, he
Speaker 1: was exactly right. It never happened. God is saying today
Speaker 1: he's going to restore what was stolen. He's going to
Speaker 1: pay you back for what you lost. He's going to
Speaker 1: bring you to a place of great abundance. Now here's
Speaker 1: my challenge. Don't be like this man. I don't see
Speaker 1: how it could happen. I never get any good breaks.
Speaker 1: I've been through too much. You know that's going to
Speaker 1: keep you from God's best. You've got to have this
Speaker 1: restoration mentality. God. I agree, I know it's payback time.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you Lord for restoring the health,
Speaker 1: the peace, the joy, the finances, the ideas, everything that
Speaker 1: belongs to me. That's what allows God to work. Some
Speaker 1: of you have let your thoughts and discouragement what you've
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