WEBVTT - Nothing Missing | Joel Osteen 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.200 Always great to have you with us on the podcast, 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:06.199 and have a new book out called Speak the Blessing, 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:09.800 talking about speaking words of faith and hope and victory 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:13.200 over your life. I know you'll enjoy it, but blessings 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:15.160 to you today and enjoy the podcast. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.440 Well, God bless you. It's great to have you with 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:20.079 us today. 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.480 And if you're ever in our area, please stop buying 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.160 be a part of one of our services. I'll promise 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.560 you we'll make you feel right at home now. I 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:31.280 hope you'll stay connected with us during the week. We 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:35.159 have a daily podcast. You can download our YouTube channel, 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.400 watch the messages anytime, follow us on social media. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.680 We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:43.760 I like to start with something funny and I heard 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.599 about this group of school children. They were in the 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:51.040 cafeteria line at their Catholic elementary school. At the start 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.480 of the line, there was a big bowl of apples. 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.160 A nun had written a note that said, take only one. 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:58.400 God is watching. 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:00.840 At the end of the line, and there was a 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.960 big ball of chocolate chip cookies. One of the children 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.399 had written a note. It said take all you want. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.720 God is watching. The apples. Say it like you mean it. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.840 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.640 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.240 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:23.199 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.440 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:31.200 the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. I want 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.000 to talk to you today about nothing missing. We all 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.160 go through disappointments and things we didn't see coming, and 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.200 it's easy to accept it and. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:41.880 Think that's the way it's always going to be. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.000 We went through a breakup, we'll always be lonely, had 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:49.320 a set back in our business. We'll always struggle, came 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.280 down with an illness, We'll always have. 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:52.040 To deal with it. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.960 But God didn't say we wouldn't go through challenges. We'd 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.960 never experienced loss, But he did promise when he's finish, 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:01.920 nothing will be missing. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.160 He's a god of restoration. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.360 You may have lost your health, lost your joy, lost 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.840 a position, but that's not how your story ends. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:13.320 Don't judge your. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.960 Situation too soon. The loss is only temporary. 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.120 It's just a season. You're going to get it all back. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.959 Your health is coming back, your confidence is coming back. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.600 Your child is coming back. Your strength is coming back. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:32.919 Nothing will be missing. Someone may have left you, walked 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.200 out of her relationship. You think you'll always be alone. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.200 The right person is going to find you, someone better 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.080 than you've imagined. You tried to accomplish your dream. The 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.280 doors didn't open. God's going to open a better door. 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:49.960 He didn't give you the dream and not have a 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:50.680 way to bring. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:51.240 It to pass. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.919 Maybe you didn't have a good childhood. Nobody was there 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.520 to encourage you. You feel short changed. 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:58.480 Don't worry. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.000 God saw what happened. He's going to make up for 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.640 who did you wrong. He's going to pay you back 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:08.640 for what you didn't get. Instead of living discouraged thinking 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:09.959 you've seen your best days. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:10.920 Turn it around. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.120 Father, Thank you that nothing will be missing in my life. 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.639 The joy, the peace, the health, the strength, the family, 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:20.640 the dreams. 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:25.519 Lord, thank you that you are restoring everything that I've lost. See, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.040 instead of having a poor home mentality, look what I've 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.760 been through, have a nothing missing mentality. I'm going to 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.000 get it all back. This is what happened with job. 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.600 He was a good man, had a good family, successful business. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.280 One thing after another came against him. 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.040 Lost his health, lost his business, lost his children. 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:48.920 He was so discouraged. 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.160 The scripture says he sat down among the ashes. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.080 He thought, I'll never recover from this. It's all downhill 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:56.560 from here. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.440 His wife even said, Job, just curse God and die, 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.720 couraging wife. When he was just when he was about 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.720 to give up, a friend came along set in Job 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.520 Chapter five. Job, if you'll look to God, he will 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.000 rescue you. He will save you from death. You will 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.000 not be taken before your time. When you look in 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.760 your pastures, nothing will be missing. Here he's just lost 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.200 all of his flocks, lost his health, his family, it's 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.120 all gone. God showed up and said, Job, stay in faith. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.520 This loss is temporary. When I get through, nothing will 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.719 be missing. I can see Job stand up out of 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:38.880 the ashes. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:40.160 Dust his clothes off. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.960 He looked up to the heavens and said, I know 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.880 my redeemer lives in the midst of all the trouble, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.760 all the heartache. When he could have been complaining bitter, 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.320 he started declaring that God was on the throne, that 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:55.800 what he started. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:56.320 He would finish. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.279 There was a shift in his thinking from this loss 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.680 is permanent, I've seen my best days. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.320 To restoration is coming. Health is coming. Victory is coming. 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.960 I can hear him saying, Father, it doesn't look good. 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.160 The odds are against me, but I believe what you 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.000 promised that nothing will be missing in my life. I 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.200 don't have joy now, but thank you that joy is coming. 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.520 I don't feel well, but thank you that health is coming. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.800 My flocks are all gone, but thank you that abundance 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.320 is on the way. When you go through setbacks, you 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.080 can complain talk about what you've lost, or you can 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:39.320 get in agreement with God and talk about restoration. Father, 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.440 thank you that what was meant for my harm your 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:43.920 turning to my advantage. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:45.320 You said that no. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.880 Weapon formed against me will ever prosper. Thank you that 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.560 I will recover everything that I've lost. This is what 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:56.360 God did for Job. He not only restored what he'd lost, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.680 but God gave him twice what he had before. He 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:03.080 was more blessed after the challenge than he was before. 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:08.080 God makes the enemy pay for bringing the difficulty. Verse 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.919 sixteen says Job went on to live another one hundred 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:16.200 and forty years after the challenge and saw his children 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:20.520 and grandchildren. He died an old man who had lived 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:25.960 a long, good life. He didn't die bitter, lonely, discouraged. 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.240 Just like God promised, nothing was missing. He had his health, 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.840 his family, his business, peace, abundance. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.640 He didn't look like what he had been through. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.440 If you would have told him in the middle of 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.679 the difficulty, when he had boils all over his body, 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.400 sitting in the ashes, that one day he was going 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.880 to be happy, healthy, living an abundant. 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.400 Life, he would have thought, how could that be possible. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:54.719 That's the way our God is. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.280 Don't judge the rest of your life by what's come 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.159 against you now. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.359 God is saying to you what he said to Job. 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.640 Nothing is going to be missing. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:09.400 You may be missing joy, missing children, missing health. 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:11.200 Life has thrown you a curb. 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.240 You don't see how it could ever work out. God 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:18.360 hasn't already figured out. Like Job, You're not going to 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.760 look like what you've been through. When God gets finished, 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.280 nobody will be able to tell you went through the cancer, 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.000 through the breakup, through the pandemic, through the loss. 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.280 You're going to come out stronger. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:36.520 Healthier, more fulfilled, the good family, blessed, prosper us. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:38.360 Get that down in your spirit. 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.320 Yes, something may be wrong now, but God is not finished. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.080 Your time is coming. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:49.080 The scripture says, God said, an end to job's difficulty. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.800 Just like there was a start to that problem, there was. 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.880 An end to that problem, an end to the sickness, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:08:00.560 and endto the addiction, and endto the limitations. When God 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.040 says it's time to restore, all the forces of darkness 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:09.679 cannot stop him. Whatever you've lost, whatever looks permanent, whatever 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.800 you think has limited your life, There's about to be 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:17.000 a shift. God is going to suddenly thrust you into healing, 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:22.480 bring the right people, turn the business around, give you joy, peace, 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.559 victory like you've never seen. 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:26.680 I talked to a young lady. 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.120 She and her husband had been trying to have a 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:33.319 baby for many years with no success. Her dream from 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.360 the time she was a little girl was to have 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.560 a child. Her mother had a hard time conceiving, and 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:42.400 her grandmother it ran in the family. After taking all 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:46.680 the fertility treatments, doing everything medically speaking that she could, 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.120 the doctor told her that it wasn't going to be possible. 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.520 There was nothing more they could do. For months, she 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.839 would get up in the morning weeping so heartbroken. 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.000 One day she was driving to work and she flp 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.760 on our serious exem channel. I was talking about how 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.800 God has the final saying how he can do what 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.640 medicine can't do. She said, something came alive on the inside. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.880 She wasn't raised in church. She believed in God, but 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:19.200 she'd never heard anything like this. She started reminding God 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.720 what he promised, that children are a gift from the Lord. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:27.000 All through the day, instead of getting discouraged, she would 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.280 thank God that her baby was on the way. When 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.600 she was tempted to get down, she would go out 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.360 in the car and listen to another message to help 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:40.320 her faith stay built up. Two weeks ago, she called weeping. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.920 This time they weren't tears of sadness. They were tears 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.880 of joy. She had just found out she was ten 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.520 weeks pregnant, not with one baby, but with twins. The 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.640 doctor said, I don't know how it happened. He had 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:59.400 no explanation. That's what God promised. That nothing is going 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.440 to be missing in your life. Thoughts will tell you 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.320 they were going to happen. Man, you'll always be barren, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.440 always be lonely, always be addicted, always struggle. Don't believe 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:14.320 those lies. God sees what you've lost. He knows what 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:18.280 wasn't fair, what's holding your back? It's not permanent. The 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:22.200 baby is coming, the freedom is coming, the dream is coming, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.959 the abundance is coming. In the Scripture, David was twenty 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.720 nine years old. He was living in the city of 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.240 Ziglag with six hundred of his men. He'd worked in 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.400 the palace but had to leave because King Saul was 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:40.120 jealous and trying to kill him. The prophet Samuel had 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.320 anointed him to be the next king of Israel when 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:47.320 he was seventeen. He wasn't in Jerusalem, where it was 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.240 prophesied he would lead the nation. He wasn't in Bethlehem, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.920 where he was raised. Ziglag was a temporary place. He 0:10:56.000 --> 0:11:00.040 was in between prophecy and destiny. It wasn't where he 0:10:59.920 --> 0:11:03.199 was from, and it wasn't where he was going. It 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.520 was a place of waiting. We all encounter some ziglags. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.000 We know what God promised, we know the dream He's 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.600 placed in our heart, but we're not seeing it happen. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.439 No doors are opening, we're not able to conceive. Our 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:22.400 health isn't improving. When you're in ziglag, in between places. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.880 It's very important that you keep being faithful, keep doing 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.239 the right thing, keep reminding God of his promises. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.000 Ziglag is a test. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.679 Are you going to get discouraged, think that you're stuck, 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:37.479 give up on your dreams. 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:38.720 No, stay in faith. 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:43.520 Ziglag is only temporary. David and his men had been 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.280 out on a three day journey to fight. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:47.200 With the Philistines. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.440 They were returning home when they noticed smoke billowing in 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:52.120 the distance. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.199 It was in the direction of their city. 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.080 I can imagine they started walking faster, wondering what was 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:03.120 going on. When they got their worst fears came true. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:07.880 The Amalekites, these bandits had come in and raided the city. 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.679 They captured all their wives and children. They took all 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.599 their possessions, burned. 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:14.319 Down their homes. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.680 Here David had been out doing God's will protecting the people, 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.480 and his own city was destroyed. His wife and children 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:26.040 had been kidnapped. The scripture says David and his men 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:30.960 wept until they could not weep anymore. Now, David was 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:35.400 a warrior. He'd gone through great challenges. He had defeated Goliath. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.439 We stood all kinds of trouble. But this blow knocked 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.040 the wind out of him. He didn't see it coming. 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.600 On the way to our destiny, there will be some 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.920 zig lags. We're doing the right thing, but the wrong 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.720 thing happens. We're being our best, but business goes down, 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.559 we lose a loved one. We're fighting anxiety, or maybe 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:00.160 dealing with a child that's off course. David's men were 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.480 so upset, so distraught, they talked about stoning David. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:06.000 Just when he thought it. 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.319 Couldn't get any worse, his own men turned on him. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.200 David was at a very pivotal moment. 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.200 He could have gotten bitter blame God given up on 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.200 his dream. This could be the last time we ever 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.640 read about David. He could have faded off into the sunset, 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:27.000 missed his destiny. But David made a decision that we 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.439 all have to make when we encounter. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:29.880 A zig lag. 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:35.040 The scripture says he encouraged himself in the Lord, his God, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:40.400 sitting in the ashes, looking at home, still smoldering, men 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.160 all around him, angry, ready to take him out. Instead 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:49.080 of complaining, instead of being depressed, he started reminding himself 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:49.960 that God. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.920 Was still on the throne. God, what you've spoken over 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.439 my life is still going to come to pass. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.000 I believe that you're a God of restoration, that this 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:03.200 is not how my story ends. David dried his tears. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.160 God up out of the ashes, went alone to pray. 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.200 He asked God if he should go after the Amalekites. 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.840 God said, yes, go after them, for you will surely 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:19.200 recover everything that was stolen. God is saying that to you. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.040 You may have lost some things. Don't sit around in 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.280 self pity. It's time to dry your tears and go 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.600 after what belongs to you. You will surely recover your health. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:34.000 You will surely recover your children. You will surely recover 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:38.400 your peace. You will surely recover that dream. God is 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.080 a surely god. He's not hoping it'll work out. He 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:46.440 controls the universe. He's breathing in your direction. Right now, 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.360 You and God are a majority. Him being for you 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.120 is more than the world being against you. David set 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:58.000 out toward the Amalekites. When he arrived, they were having 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:03.840 a big party, dancing, drinking, celebrating the victory. Sometimes the 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:08.800 enemy celebrates too soon. He thinks you're done, you've given up, 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.320 you've settled. What he doesn't realize is you know what 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:16.440 God promised that if you pursue, if you believe. 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.160 Get your hopes up, you will recover all. 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:25.200 Nothing will be missing when you pursue God starts fighting 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.560 for you. Angels go to work. Forces of darkness are broken, 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.400 the wrong people are moved out of the way. You'll 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:38.160 see favor, healing victory. David and his men attacked the Amalekites. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.960 They not only defeated them, but they got back everything 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:42.760 that was stolen. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.000 They got their wives and children back. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:50.680 The scripture says nothing was missing small or great son 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.000 or daughter, or anything else that had been taken. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:58.640 David got everything back. Now you may be in ziglag. 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.440 You've lost some things. It wasn't fair. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:05.120 If you'll get your passion back, start believing again. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.280 Like with David, You're going to get it all back. 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:10.600 Nothing is going to be missing. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:15.400 The healing is coming back, the business, the children, the joy, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.800 it's coming back. God is not going to leave you 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.680 at a deficit. He's keeping the records. He knows what 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:26.000 belongs to you. David not only got all of his 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:30.440 possessions back, but his men gathered up all that belonged 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:31.480 to the Amalekites. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.720 They came out with more than they had before. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.920 What's interesting is three days later, King Saul was killed 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:40.600 in a battle. 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:42.160 David was made king. 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.840 This was thirteen years after Samuel had anointed him. It's 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:51.760 significant that after his greatest challenge, David was only seventy 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:56.320 two hours away from taking the throne. When you're in ziglag, 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.240 stay encouraged. You don't know what God is up to. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.320 Not only going to get it all back, but God 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.760 is about to promote you. Ziglag is a sign that 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.400 a new level of your destiny is on the way, 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.200 that you're about to see what God promised, that you're 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.840 going to come out of the interim place, that place 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.880 of waiting, into a place of destiny. But we all 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.480 have to go through a few ziglags on the way 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.359 to our purpose, Difficulties that come out of nowhere, things 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:30.520 we don't understand, loss of a loved one, fighting depression, 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.320 people trying to discredit us. You have to remind yourself 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:39.120 that ziglag is only temporary. Voices will whisper You'll never 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.360 get out of this, never have that baby, never meet 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.920 the right person, Just live among these ashes. The reason 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.280 those lives are coming is the enemy doesn't want you 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.600 to rise up and leave ziglag. He doesn't want you 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.040 to have a recover all mentality. He wants you to 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.320 have a poor o me mentality. You have to say 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.800 no thanks. Ziglag is not my home. This is not 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.480 how my story ends. I know what God promised. Nothing 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:12.200 will be missing, lords or small. There was a lady 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.840 that was diagnosed with stage four cancer. 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:16.160 Didn't look good. 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.480 She had spent most of her childhood in the hospital. 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.600 She had a sickle cell gene that had caused her 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.399 many problems years later. The thought of having to go 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.800 back to the hospital deal with this illness take the. 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.520 Treatment was very discouraging. 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:36.679 She sunk into deep depression, didn't want to leave the house, didn't. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:37.320 Want to get out of bed. 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.800 On Sunday, her husband would turn our program on, she 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.359 would weep the whole time I was speaking. She said, 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.960 it was just like you were talking to me. She 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.320 started believing that God was bigger than the cancer, that 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.359 her life was not over. For two years, as she 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.960 took the treatment, had the surgery, she felt a strength 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.800 that she had never felt. She's not only cancer free, 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.080 she not only defied the odds, but she doesn't have 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:09.880 the sickle cell gene anymore. She told how she used 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.960 to be so quiet, so reserved, but now she's written 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.560 a book. She speaks at different events, telling how God 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:17.760 helped her overcome. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:18.720 She says. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.159 When people see me, they always comment on how I 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:26.080 don't look like what I've been through. She's happier and 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.040 more fulfilled than she's ever been. 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:29.520 What am I saying? 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.639 Ziglag is not your home, It's a temporary place. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:35.960 When you're in Ziglag, you have to. 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:39.400 Remind yourself what God promised that you're going to recover 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.840 all that. Nothing is going to be missing. It may 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.439 be gone now, but God is not finished. Instead of 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.880 dwelling on what you lost, what didn't work out, those 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.359 negative reports, you need to switch over to this nothing 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:57.040 missing mentality. You may not see how it can happen. 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:01.200 God has ways we've never thought of. He's not limited 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.680 by what limits us. Like with this lady, He's going 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:09.080 to do something unusual, uncommon, out of the ordinary, not 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.600 just restore, but bring you out better than you were before. 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.520 I believe it's going to happen sooner than you think. 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:21.040 There's about to be a shift, a suddenly out of nowhere. 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:22.440 You're on the verge of. 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.680 A breakthrough, a healing, a promotion. 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.719 You're going to be able to say, like this lady, 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.000 nothing is missing in my life. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.160 A few years ago, we had a night of hope 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:36.919 in Las Vegas, and I was able to visit with 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:38.800 a gentleman named Steve Wynn. 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:40.600 He's built many. 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:44.440 Of the large hotels. They're very successful and influential. He's 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:48.679 an avid art collector, has masterpieces from all over the world. 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:51.159 As he was showing us some of the paintings in 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.640 his home, he told us about a famous Picasso painting 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.280 that he purchased in two thousand and one. At that time, 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.600 it was valued at sixty million dollars. 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:02.719 It's one of his favorite paintings. 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:05.679 He had a friend that really loved it as well, 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:08.760 and mister Wynn agreed to sell it to this friend. 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:11.680 The price was one hundred and thirty nine million dollars. 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:15.359 The night before the cell, he was showing the painting 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:18.560 to some friends. He has an eye disease that affects 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.920 his peripheral vision. As he was pointing to the painting, 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.919 he didn't realize he was so close. He poked a 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.200 hole in it with his elbow. They could all hear 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.160 the canvas ripping. He turned around and saw a two 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:32.640 inch tear that. 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:36.440 Was his zig lag. The cell was off. The other 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:37.399 man didn't want it. 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.240 The painting was now valued at eighty five million dollars. 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:42.800 That one tear. 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:46.680 Resulted in a fifty four million dollar loss. God give 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:52.080 us problems like that. Mister Wynn found he found what 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.919 he called an art surgeon, someone that would sow the 0:21:56.080 --> 0:22:00.359 individual fibers back together. It took two months and you 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:01.160 couldn't tell the. 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:02.520 Painting had ever been torn. 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:06.040 Six years later he sold the painting to the same 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:10.200 man for one hundred and fifty five million dollars, sixteen 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:14.480