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When God gets finished, 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.400 nobody will be able to tell you went through the cancer, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.120 through the breakup, through the pandemic, through the laws. You're 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:50.840 going to come out stronger, healthier, more fulfilled, the good family, blessed, 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:51.800 prosper us. 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:53.560 Get that down in your spirit. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.240 Yes, something may be wrong now, but God is not finished. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.880 Your time is coming. Hi, this is Joel Victoria. 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.960 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.880 the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.120 be a blessing and share it with a friend. We 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:13.080 appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.520 Well, God bless you. It's great to have you with 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:20.160 us today. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.560 And if you're ever in our area, please stop buying. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.280 Be a part of one of our services. I'll promise 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.639 you we'll make you feel right at home now. I 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.360 hope you'll stay connected with us during the week. We 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.280 have a daily podcast. You can download our YouTube channel, 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.480 watch the messages anytime, follow us on social media. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.800 We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.880 I like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.680 about this group of school children. They were in the 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:51.120 cafeteria line at their Catholic elementary school. At the start 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.600 of the line, there was a big bowl of apples. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.240 A nun had written a note that said, take only one. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:58.520 God is watching. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.160 At the end of the line there was a big 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.280 ball of chocolate chip cookies. One of the children had 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.520 written a note. It said take all you want. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:08.160 God is watching. The apples. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.240 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:14.960 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.400 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.200 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:24.320 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:28.640 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.200 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:37.040 about nothing missing. We all go through disappointments and things 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.880 we didn't see coming, and it's easy to accept it 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:40.840 and think that's. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.120 The way it's always going to be. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.120 We went through a breakup, we'll always be lonely, had 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:47.520 a set back in our business. 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:48.760 We'll always struggle. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.760 Came down with an illness, We'll always have to deal 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:52.120 with it. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.560 But God didn't say we wouldn't go through challenges. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.880 We'd never experienced loss, But he did promise when he's fent, 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:02.040 nothing will be missing. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.280 He's a god of restoration. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.480 You may have lost your health, lost your joy, lost 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.720 a position, but that's not how your story ends. Don't 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:17.080 judge your situation too soon. The loss is only temporary. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.200 It's just a season. You're going to get it all back. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.039 Your health is coming back, your confidence is coming back, 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.719 your child is coming back, your strength is coming back. 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:29.680 Nothing will be missing. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.200 Someone may have left you, walked out of a relationship. 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.120 You think you'll always be alone. The right person is 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:42.120 going to find you someone better. Than you've imagined. You 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.000 tried to accomplish your dream. The doors didn't open. God's 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.680 going to open a better door. He didn't give you 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.719 the dream and not have a way to bring it 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.640 to pass. Maybe you didn't have a good childhood. Nobody 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.560 was there to encourage you. You feel short changed. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:58.560 Don't worry. 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:02.080 God saw what happened. He's going to make up for 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.760 who did you wrong. He's going to pay you back 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.720 for what you didn't get. Instead of living discouraged, thinking 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.000 you've seen your best days, turn it around. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:11.680 Father. 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.159 Thank you that nothing will be missing in my life, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.440 the joy, the peace, the health, the. 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.719 Strength, the family, the dreams. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:25.640 Lord, thank you that you are restoring everything that I've lost. See, 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.120 instead of having a poor home mentality, look what I've 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:33.080 been through, have a nothing missing mentality. I'm gonna get 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:33.760 it all back. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.640 This is what happened with job. He was a good man, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:39.000 had a good. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:43.240 Family, successful business. One thing after another came against him. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.160 Lost his health, lost his business, lost his children. 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.000 He was so discouraged. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:53.200 The scripture says he sat down among the ashes. He thought, 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.679 I'll never recover from this. It's all downhill from here. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.440 His wife even said Job, just curse God and die 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.799 couraging wife. When he was just when he was about 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.840 to give up, a friend came along set in Job 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:08.640 Chapter five. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.320 Job, if you'll look to God, he will rescue you. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:14.320 He will save you from death. 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.680 You will not be taken before your time. When you 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:21.000 look in your pastures, nothing will be missing. 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:22.039 Here. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.239 He's just lost all of his flocks, lost his health, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.000 his family, It's all gone. God showed up and said, Job, 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.520 stay in faith. This loss is temporary. When I get through, 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.520 nothing will be missing. I can see Job stand up 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.040 out of the ashes, dust, his clothes off. He looked 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.320 up to the heavens and said, I know my redeemer 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:45.800 lives in. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.359 The midst of all the trouble, all the heartache. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:52.440 When he could have been complaining bitter, he started declaring 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.400 that God was on the throne, that what he started 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:59.120 he would finish. There was a shift in his thinking 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.760 from this lost is permanent. I've seen my best days 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:07.440 to restoration is coming, health is coming, Victory is coming. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.040 I can hear him saying, Father, it doesn't look good. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.280 The odds are against me. But I believe what you 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:18.080 promised that nothing will be missing in my life. I 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.280 don't have joy now, but thank you that joy is coming. 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.640 I don't feel well, but thank you that health is coming. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.880 My flocks are all gone, but thank you that abundance 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.440 is on the way. When you go through setbacks, you 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:35.200 can complain talk about what you've lost, or you can 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.440 get in agreement with God and talk about restoration. Father, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.560 thank you that what was meant for my harm your 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.360 turning to my advantage. You said that no weapon formed 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.560 against me will ever prosper. Thank you that I will 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.160 recover everything that I've lost. This is what God did 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.920 for Job. He not only restored what he'd lost, but 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.200 God gave him twice what he had before. He was 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:04.320 more blessed after the challenge than he was before. God 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:08.640 makes the enemy pay for bringing the difficulty. Verse sixteen 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.160 says Job went on to live another one hundred and 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:17.520 forty years after the challenge and saw his children and grandchildren. 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.080 He died an old man who had lived a long, 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:26.680 good life. He didn't die bitter, lonely, discouraged. Just like 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:31.400 God promised, nothing was missing. He had his health, his family, 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.920 his business, peace, abundance. 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.720 He didn't look like what he had been through. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.560 If you would have told him in the middle of 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.760 the difficulty, when he had boils all over his body, 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.520 sitting in the ashes, that one day he was going 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.760 to be happy, healthy, living an abundant life. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.520 He would have thought, how could that be possible. That's 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:54.800 the way our God is. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.360 Don't judge the rest of your life by what's come 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:58.880 against you. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:08:59.280 Now. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.480 God is saying to you what he said to Job. 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.880 Nothing is going to be missing. You may be missing joy, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.319 missing children, missing health. Life has thrown you a curve. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.360 You don't see how it could ever work out. God 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:18.360 has it already figured out. Like Job, You're not going 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.880 to look like what you've been through. When God gets finished, 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.400 nobody will be able to tell you went through the cancer, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.079 through the breakup, through the pandemic, through the loss. 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.480 You're going to come out stronger. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:36.640 Healthier, more fulfilled, the good family, blessed, prosper us. 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:38.439 Get that down in your spirit. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.440 Yes, something may be wrong now, but God is not finished. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:44.200 Your time is coming. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:51.079 The scripture says God set an end to Job's difficulty. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.359 Just like there was a start to that problem. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.240 There was an end to that problem, an end to 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.480 the sickness, and endto the addiction and endo. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:09:59.479 The limitations. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.480 When God says it's time to restore, all the forces 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:08.920 of darkness cannot stop him. Whatever you've lost, whatever looks permanent, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.800 whatever you think has limited your life, There's about to 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.360 be a shift. God is going to suddenly thrust you 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.560 into healing, bring the right people, turn the business around, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.640 give you joy, peace, victory like you've never seen. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:26.760 I talked to a young lady. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.240 She and her husband had been trying to have a 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.400 baby for many years with no success. Her dream from 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.480 the time she was a little girl was to have 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.640 a child. Her mother had a hard time conceiving, and 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.520 her grandmother it ran in the family. After taking all 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:46.800 the fertility treatments, doing everything medically speaking that she could, 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.200 the doctor told her that it wasn't going to be possible. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.640 There was nothing more they could do. For months, she 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.959 would get up in the morning weeping so heartbroken. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.280 One day she was driving to work and she lit 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.839 on our serious exem channel. I was talking about how 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.920 God has the final saying, how he can do what 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:11.760 medicine can't do. She said, something came alive on the inside. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.960 She wasn't raised in church. She believed in God, but 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.240 she'd never heard anything like this, she started reminding God 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.800 what he promised, that children are a gift from the Lord. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.040 All through the day, instead of getting discouraged, she would 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.360 thank God that her baby was on the way. When 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.679 she was tempted to get down, she would go out 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.480 in the car and listen to another message to help 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:40.400 her faith stay built up. Two weeks ago she called weeping. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.000 This time they weren't tears of sadness. They were tears 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:44.560 of joy. 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:45.600 She had just. 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.440 Found out she was ten weeks pregnant, not with one baby, 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:50.400 but with twins. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.520 The doctor said, I don't know how it happened. He 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:55.600 had no explanation. 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.640 That's what God promised, that nothing is going to be 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:00.880 missing in your life. 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.600 Thoughts will tell you they were going to happen. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:08.719 Man, you'll always be barren, always be lonely, always be addicted, 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:13.320 always struggle. Don't believe those lies. God sees what you've lost. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.280 He knows what wasn't fair, what's holding you back. It's 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.960 not permanent. The baby is coming, the freedom is coming, 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:25.840 the dream is coming, the abundance is coming. In the scripture, 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.240 David was twenty nine years old. He was living in 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.160 the city of Ziglag with six hundred of his men. 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.680 He'd worked in the palace, but had to leave because 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.040 King Saul was jealous and trying to kill him. The 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.319 prophet Samuel had anointed him to be the next king 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.760 of Israel when he was seventeen. He wasn't in Jerusalem, 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.160 where it was prophesied he would lead the nation. He 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:54.200 wasn't in Bethlehem, where he was raised. Ziglag was a 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:59.400 temporary place. He was in between prophecy and destiny. It 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.040 wasn't where he was from, and it wasn't where he 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.920 was going. It was a place of waiting. We all 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:10.320 encounter some ziglags. We know what God promised, we know 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.880 the dream He's placed in our heart, but we're not 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.480 seeing it happen. No doors are opening, We're not able 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.839 to conceive. Our health isn't improving. When you're in ziglag, 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:22.479 in between places. 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:24.760 It's very important that. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.320 You keep being faithful, keep doing the right thing, keep 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.319 reminding God of his promises. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.120 Ziglag is a test. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.760 Are you going to get discouraged, think that you're stuck, 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:37.599 give up on your dreams? 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:38.840 No, stay in faith. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:43.640 Ziglag is only temporary. David and his men had been 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.320 out on a three day journey to fight with the Philistines. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.560 They were returning home when they noticed smoke billowing in 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:52.200 the distance. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.320 It was in the direction of their city. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.200 I can imagine they started walking faster, wondering what was 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:03.240 going on. When they got closer, their worst fears came true. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:07.960 The Amalekites, these bandits had come in and raided the city. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.800 They captured all their wives and children. They took all 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:16.000 their possessions, burned down their homes. Here David had been 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.760 out doing God's will, protecting the people, and his own 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.560 city was destroyed. His wife and children had been kidnapped. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.800 The scripture says David and his men wept until they 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:32.520 could not weep anymore. Now, David was a warrior. He'd 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.480 gone through great challenges. He had defeated Goliath. 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.560 We stood all kinds of trouble. But this blow knocked 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.160 the wind out of him. He didn't see it coming. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.520 On the way to our destiny, there will be some ziglags. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.840 We're doing the right thing, but the wrong thing happens. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.680 We're being our best, but business goes down. We lose 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.080 a loved one. We're fighting anxiety, or maybe dealing with 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.960 a child that's off course. David's men were so upset, 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.640 so distraught, they talked about stoning David. Just when he 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.640 thought it couldn't get any worse, his. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:11.160 Own men turned on him. David was at a very 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:12.320 pivotal moment. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.280 He could have gotten bitter blame God given up on 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.320 his dream. This could be the last time we ever 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.760 read about David. He could have faded off into the sunset, 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:27.080 missed his destiny. But David made a decision that we 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.960 all have to make when we encounter a zig lag. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:35.160 The scripture says he encouraged himself in the Lord his God, 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.520 sitting in the ashes, looking at home, still smoldering, men 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:44.320 all around him, angry, ready to take him out. Instead 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:49.200 of complaining, instead of being depressed, he started reminding himself 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.320 that God was still on the throne. God, what you've 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.760 spoken over my life is still going. 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:55.520 To come to pass. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.120 I believe that you're a God of restoration, that this 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:03.280 is not come My story ends. David dried his tears, 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:05.960 God up out of the ashes and went. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.280 Alone to pray. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.320 He asked God if he should go after the Amalekites. 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.960 God said, yes, go after them, for you will surely 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:19.320 recover everything that was stolen. God is saying that to you. 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.160 You may have lost some things. Don't sit around in 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.400 self pity. It's time to dry your tears and go 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.400 after what belongs to you. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.480 You will surely recover your health. You will surely recover 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.600 your children. You will surely recover your peace. You will 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.360 surely recover that dream. 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.880 God is a surely god. He's not hoping it'll work out. 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:46.520 He controls the universe. He's breathing in your direction. Right now, 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.480 you and God are a majority. Him being for you 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.240 is more than the world being against you. David set 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:58.120 out toward the Amalekites. When he arrived, they were having 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:03.920 a big party, dancing, drinking, celebrating the victory. Sometimes the 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:08.880 enemy celebrates too soon. He thinks you're done, you've given up, 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.440 you've settled. What he doesn't realize is you know what 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:16.800 God promised that if you pursue, if you believe, get 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.240 your hopes up, you will recover all. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:25.320 Nothing will be missing. When you pursue. God starts fighting 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:25.840 for you. 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.040 Angels go to work, forces of darkness are broken, the 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:34.600 wrong people are moved out of the way. You'll see favor, healing, victory. 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.240 David and his men attacked the Amalekites. They not only 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.880 defeated them, but they got back everything that was stolen. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:47.760 They got their wives and children back. The scripture says nothing. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:52.760 Was missing small or great son or daughter, or anything 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:54.080 else that had been taken. 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.359 David got everything back. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.840 Now you may be in ziglag, you've lost some It 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:05.240 wasn't fair. If you'll get your passion back, start believing again. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.359 Like with David, You're going to get it all back. 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:10.679 Nothing is going to be missing. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:15.520 The healing is coming back, the business, the children, the joy, 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.919 it's coming back. God is not going to leave you 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.679 at a deficit. He's keeping the records. He knows what 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.080 belongs to you. David not only got all of his 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:30.520 possessions back, but his men gathered up all that belonged 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:31.560 to the Amalekites. 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.800 They came out with more than they had before. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:40.040 What's interesting is three days later, King Saul was killed 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:43.960 in a battle, David was made king. This was thirteen 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.480 years after Samuel had anointed him. It's significant that after 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:53.040 his greatest challenge, David was only seventy two hours away 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:57.600 from taking the throne. When you're in ziglag, stay encouraged. 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.240 You don't know what God is up to if you're 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.440 not only going to get it all back, but God 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.840 is about to promote you. Ziglag is a sign that 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.359 a new level of your destiny is on the way, 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.320 that you're about to see what God promised. That you're 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.920 going to come out of the interim place, that place 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.520 of waiting, into a place of destiny. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:20.679 But we all have to go. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.360 Through a few ziglags on the way to our purpose, 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.520 Difficulties that come out of nowhere, things we don't understand, 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.679 loss of a loved one, fighting depression, people trying to 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.720 discredit us. You have to remind yourself that ziglag is 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:36.679 only temporary. 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:38.960 Voices will whisper. 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.439 You'll never get out of this, never have that baby, 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.800 never meet the right person, Just live among these ashes. 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:50.040 The reason those lies are coming is the enemy doesn't 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:51.320 want you to rise up. 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.760 And leave ziglag. He doesn't want you. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.159 To have a recover all mentality. He wants you to 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:01.000 have a poor o me mentality to say no thanks. 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.320 Ziglag is not my home. This is not how my 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:08.520 story ends. I know what God promised. Nothing will be missing, 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:13.439 Lord or small. There was a lady that was diagnosed 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.400 with stage four cancer didn't look good. She had spent 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.479 most of her childhood in the hospital. She had a 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:25.119 sickle cell gene that had caused her many problems years later. 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.600 The thought of having to go back to the hospital 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:29.880 deal with this illness take. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:31.640 The treatment was very discouraging. 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:35.919 She sunk into deep depression, didn't want to leave the house, 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.280 didn't want to get out of bed. On Sunday, her 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:43.280 husband would turn our program on, she would weep the 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:45.879 whole time I was speaking. She said, it was just 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.479 like you were talking to me. She started believing that 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.119 God was bigger than the cancer, that her life was 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:52.680 not over. 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:54.119 For two years. 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.480 As she took the treatment, had the surgery, she felt 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:00.639 a strength that she had never felt. Today, she's not 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:04.320 only cancer free, she not only defied the odds, but 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:07.000 she doesn't have the sickle cell gene anymore. 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:09.680 She told how she. 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.720 Used to be so quiet, so reserved, but now she's 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:16.360 written a book. She speaks at different events, telling how 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:19.800 God helped her overcome. She says, when people see me, 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:21.880 they always comment on. 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.280 How I don't look like what I've been through. 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:28.840 She's happier and more fulfilled than she's ever been. What 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:32.760 am I saying Ziglag is not your home. It's a 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.440 temporary place. When you're in Ziglag, you have to remind 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.800 yourself what God promised that you're going to recover all 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:41.480 that nothing is going. 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:42.000 To be missing. 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.320 It may be gone now, but God is not finished. 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.400