Speaker 1: Always great to have you with us on the podcast,
Speaker 1: and have a new book out called Speak the Blessing,
Speaker 1: talking about speaking words of faith and hope and victory
Speaker 1: over your life. I know you'll enjoy it, but blessings
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Speaker 2: We'll keep you encouraged and inspired.
Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny and I heard
Speaker 1: about this group of school children. They were in the
Speaker 1: cafeteria line at their Catholic elementary school. At the start
Speaker 1: of the line, there was a big bowl of apples.
Speaker 1: A nun had written a note that said, take only one.
Speaker 2: God is watching.
Speaker 1: At the end of the line, and there was a
Speaker 1: big ball of chocolate chip cookies. One of the children
Speaker 1: had written a note. It said take all you want.
Speaker 1: God is watching. The apples. Say it like you mean it.
Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says 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's name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you today about nothing missing. We all
Speaker 1: go through disappointments and things we didn't see coming, and
Speaker 1: it's easy to accept it and.
Speaker 2: Think that's the way it's always going to be.
Speaker 1: We went through a breakup, we'll always be lonely, had
Speaker 1: a set back in our business. We'll always struggle, came
Speaker 1: down with an illness, We'll always have.
Speaker 2: To deal with it.
Speaker 1: But God didn't say we wouldn't go through challenges. We'd
Speaker 1: never experienced loss, But he did promise when he's finish,
Speaker 1: nothing will be missing.
Speaker 2: He's a god of restoration.
Speaker 1: You may have lost your health, lost your joy, lost
Speaker 1: a position, but that's not how your story ends.
Speaker 2: Don't judge your.
Speaker 1: Situation too soon. The loss is only temporary.
Speaker 2: It's just a season. You're going to get it all back.
Speaker 1: Your health is coming back, your confidence is coming back.
Speaker 1: Your child is coming back. Your strength is coming back.
Speaker 1: Nothing will be missing. Someone may have left you, walked
Speaker 1: out of her relationship. You think you'll always be alone.
Speaker 1: The right person is going to find you, someone better
Speaker 1: than you've imagined. You tried to accomplish your dream. The
Speaker 1: doors didn't open. God's going to open a better door.
Speaker 1: He didn't give you the dream and not have a
Speaker 1: way to bring.
Speaker 2: It to pass.
Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't have a good childhood. Nobody was there
Speaker 1: to encourage you. You feel short changed.
Speaker 2: Don't worry.
Speaker 1: God saw what happened. He's going to make up for
Speaker 1: who did you wrong. He's going to pay you back
Speaker 1: for what you didn't get. Instead of living discouraged thinking
Speaker 1: you've seen your best days.
Speaker 2: Turn it around.
Speaker 1: Father, Thank you that nothing will be missing in my life.
Speaker 2: The joy, the peace, the health, the strength, the family,
Speaker 2: the dreams.
Speaker 1: Lord, thank you that you are restoring everything that I've lost. See,
Speaker 1: instead of having a poor home mentality, look what I've
Speaker 1: been through, have a nothing missing mentality. I'm going to
Speaker 1: get it all back. This is what happened with job.
Speaker 1: He was a good man, had a good family, successful business.
Speaker 2: One thing after another came against him.
Speaker 1: Lost his health, lost his business, lost his children.
Speaker 2: He was so discouraged.
Speaker 1: The scripture says he sat down among the ashes.
Speaker 2: He thought, I'll never recover from this. It's all downhill
Speaker 2: from here.
Speaker 1: His wife even said, Job, just curse God and die,
Speaker 1: couraging wife. When he was just when he was about
Speaker 1: to give up, a friend came along set in Job
Speaker 1: Chapter five. Job, if you'll look to God, he will
Speaker 1: rescue you. He will save you from death. You will
Speaker 1: not be taken before your time. When you look in
Speaker 1: your pastures, nothing will be missing. Here he's just lost
Speaker 1: all of his flocks, lost his health, his family, it's
Speaker 1: all gone. God showed up and said, Job, stay in faith.
Speaker 1: This loss is temporary. When I get through, nothing will
Speaker 1: be missing. I can see Job stand up out of
Speaker 1: the ashes.
Speaker 2: Dust his clothes off.
Speaker 1: He looked up to the heavens and said, I know
Speaker 1: my redeemer lives in the midst of all the trouble,
Speaker 1: all the heartache. When he could have been complaining bitter,
Speaker 1: he started declaring that God was on the throne, that
Speaker 1: what he started.
Speaker 2: He would finish.
Speaker 1: There was a shift in his thinking from this loss
Speaker 1: is permanent, I've seen my best days.
Speaker 2: To restoration is coming. Health is coming. Victory is coming.
Speaker 1: I can hear him saying, Father, it doesn't look good.
Speaker 1: The odds are against me, but I believe what you
Speaker 1: promised that nothing will be missing in my life. I
Speaker 1: don't have joy now, but thank you that joy is coming.
Speaker 1: I don't feel well, but thank you that health is coming.
Speaker 1: My flocks are all gone, but thank you that abundance
Speaker 1: is on the way. When you go through setbacks, you
Speaker 1: can complain talk about what you've lost, or you can
Speaker 1: get in agreement with God and talk about restoration. Father,
Speaker 1: thank you that what was meant for my harm your
Speaker 1: turning to my advantage.
Speaker 2: You said that no.
Speaker 1: Weapon formed against me will ever prosper. Thank you that
Speaker 1: I will recover everything that I've lost. This is what
Speaker 1: God did for Job. He not only restored what he'd lost,
Speaker 1: but God gave him twice what he had before. He
Speaker 1: was more blessed after the challenge than he was before.
Speaker 1: God makes the enemy pay for bringing the difficulty. Verse
Speaker 1: sixteen says Job went on to live another one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty years after the challenge and saw his children
Speaker 1: and grandchildren. He died an old man who had lived
Speaker 1: a long, good life. He didn't die bitter, lonely, discouraged.
Speaker 1: Just like God promised, nothing was missing. He had his health,
Speaker 1: his family, his business, peace, abundance.
Speaker 2: He didn't look like what he had been through.
Speaker 1: If you would have told him in the middle of
Speaker 1: the difficulty, when he had boils all over his body,
Speaker 1: sitting in the ashes, that one day he was going
Speaker 1: to be happy, healthy, living an abundant.
Speaker 2: Life, he would have thought, how could that be possible.
Speaker 2: That's the way our God is.
Speaker 1: Don't judge the rest of your life by what's come
Speaker 1: against you now.
Speaker 2: God is saying to you what he said to Job.
Speaker 2: Nothing is going to be missing.
Speaker 1: You may be missing joy, missing children, missing health.
Speaker 2: Life has thrown you a curb.
Speaker 1: You don't see how it could ever work out. God
Speaker 1: hasn't already figured out. Like Job, You're not going to
Speaker 1: look like what you've been through. When God gets finished,
Speaker 1: nobody will be able to tell you went through the cancer,
Speaker 1: through the breakup, through the pandemic, through the loss.
Speaker 2: You're going to come out stronger.
Speaker 1: Healthier, more fulfilled, the good family, blessed, prosper us.
Speaker 2: Get that down in your spirit.
Speaker 1: Yes, something may be wrong now, but God is not finished.
Speaker 2: Your time is coming.
Speaker 1: The scripture says, God said, an end to job's difficulty.
Speaker 2: Just like there was a start to that problem, there was.
Speaker 1: An end to that problem, an end to the sickness,
Speaker 1: and endto the addiction, and endto the limitations. When God
Speaker 1: says it's time to restore, all the forces of darkness
Speaker 1: cannot stop him. Whatever you've lost, whatever looks permanent, whatever
Speaker 1: you think has limited your life, There's about to be
Speaker 1: a shift. God is going to suddenly thrust you into healing,
Speaker 1: bring the right people, turn the business around, give you joy, peace,
Speaker 1: victory like you've never seen.
Speaker 2: I talked to a young lady.
Speaker 1: She and her husband had been trying to have a
Speaker 1: baby for many years with no success. Her dream from
Speaker 1: the time she was a little girl was to have
Speaker 1: a child. Her mother had a hard time conceiving, and
Speaker 1: her grandmother it ran in the family. After taking all
Speaker 1: the fertility treatments, doing everything medically speaking that she could,
Speaker 1: the doctor told her that it wasn't going to be possible.
Speaker 2: There was nothing more they could do. For months, she
Speaker 2: would get up in the morning weeping so heartbroken.
Speaker 1: One day she was driving to work and she flp
Speaker 1: on our serious exem channel. I was talking about how
Speaker 1: God has the final saying how he can do what
Speaker 1: medicine can't do. She said, something came alive on the inside.
Speaker 1: She wasn't raised in church. She believed in God, but
Speaker 1: she'd never heard anything like this. She started reminding God
Speaker 1: what he promised, that children are a gift from the Lord.
Speaker 1: All through the day, instead of getting discouraged, she would
Speaker 1: thank God that her baby was on the way. When
Speaker 1: she was tempted to get down, she would go out
Speaker 1: in the car and listen to another message to help
Speaker 1: her faith stay built up. Two weeks ago, she called weeping.
Speaker 1: This time they weren't tears of sadness. They were tears
Speaker 1: of joy. She had just found out she was ten
Speaker 1: weeks pregnant, not with one baby, but with twins. The
Speaker 1: doctor said, I don't know how it happened. He had
Speaker 1: no explanation. That's what God promised. That nothing is going
Speaker 1: to be missing in your life. Thoughts will tell you
Speaker 1: they were going to happen. Man, you'll always be barren,
Speaker 1: always be lonely, always be addicted, always struggle. Don't believe
Speaker 1: those lies. God sees what you've lost. He knows what
Speaker 1: wasn't fair, what's holding your back? It's not permanent. The
Speaker 1: baby is coming, the freedom is coming, the dream is coming,
Speaker 1: the abundance is coming. In the Scripture, David was twenty
Speaker 1: nine years old. He was living in the city of
Speaker 1: Ziglag with six hundred of his men. He'd worked in
Speaker 1: the palace but had to leave because King Saul was
Speaker 1: jealous and trying to kill him. The prophet Samuel had
Speaker 1: anointed him to be the next king of Israel when
Speaker 1: he was seventeen. He wasn't in Jerusalem, where it was
Speaker 1: prophesied he would lead the nation. He wasn't in Bethlehem,
Speaker 1: where he was raised. Ziglag was a temporary place. He
Speaker 1: was in between prophecy and destiny. It wasn't where he
Speaker 1: was from, and it wasn't where he was going. It
Speaker 1: was a place of waiting. We all encounter some ziglags.
Speaker 1: We know what God promised, we know the dream He's
Speaker 1: placed in our heart, but we're not seeing it happen.
Speaker 1: No doors are opening, we're not able to conceive. Our
Speaker 1: health isn't improving. When you're in ziglag, in between places.
Speaker 1: It's very important that you keep being faithful, keep doing
Speaker 1: the right thing, keep reminding God of his promises.
Speaker 2: Ziglag is a test.
Speaker 1: Are you going to get discouraged, think that you're stuck,
Speaker 1: give up on your dreams.
Speaker 2: No, stay in faith.
Speaker 1: Ziglag is only temporary. David and his men had been
Speaker 1: out on a three day journey to fight.
Speaker 2: With the Philistines.
Speaker 1: They were returning home when they noticed smoke billowing in
Speaker 1: the distance.
Speaker 2: It was in the direction of their city.
Speaker 1: I can imagine they started walking faster, wondering what was
Speaker 1: going on. When they got their worst fears came true.
Speaker 1: The Amalekites, these bandits had come in and raided the city.
Speaker 1: They captured all their wives and children. They took all
Speaker 1: their possessions, burned.
Speaker 2: Down their homes.
Speaker 1: Here David had been out doing God's will protecting the people,
Speaker 1: and his own city was destroyed. His wife and children
Speaker 1: had been kidnapped. The scripture says David and his men
Speaker 1: wept until they could not weep anymore. Now, David was
Speaker 1: a warrior. He'd gone through great challenges. He had defeated Goliath.
Speaker 1: We stood all kinds of trouble. But this blow knocked
Speaker 1: the wind out of him. He didn't see it coming.
Speaker 1: On the way to our destiny, there will be some
Speaker 1: zig lags. We're doing the right thing, but the wrong
Speaker 1: thing happens. We're being our best, but business goes down,
Speaker 1: we lose a loved one. We're fighting anxiety, or maybe
Speaker 1: dealing with a child that's off course. David's men were
Speaker 1: so upset, so distraught, they talked about stoning David.
Speaker 2: Just when he thought it.
Speaker 1: Couldn't get any worse, his own men turned on him.
Speaker 2: David was at a very pivotal moment.
Speaker 1: He could have gotten bitter blame God given up on
Speaker 1: his dream. This could be the last time we ever
Speaker 1: read about David. He could have faded off into the sunset,
Speaker 1: missed his destiny. But David made a decision that we
Speaker 1: all have to make when we encounter.
Speaker 2: A zig lag.
Speaker 1: The scripture says he encouraged himself in the Lord, his God,
Speaker 1: sitting in the ashes, looking at home, still smoldering, men
Speaker 1: all around him, angry, ready to take him out. Instead
Speaker 1: of complaining, instead of being depressed, he started reminding himself
Speaker 1: that God.
Speaker 2: Was still on the throne. God, what you've spoken over
Speaker 2: my life is still going to come to pass.
Speaker 1: I believe that you're a God of restoration, that this
Speaker 1: is not how my story ends. David dried his tears.
Speaker 1: God up out of the ashes, went alone to pray.
Speaker 1: He asked God if he should go after the Amalekites.
Speaker 1: God said, yes, go after them, for you will surely
Speaker 1: recover everything that was stolen. God is saying that to you.
Speaker 1: You may have lost some things. Don't sit around in
Speaker 1: self pity. It's time to dry your tears and go
Speaker 1: after what belongs to you. You will surely recover your health.
Speaker 1: You will surely recover your children. You will surely recover
Speaker 1: your peace. You will surely recover that dream. God is
Speaker 1: a surely god. He's not hoping it'll work out. He
Speaker 1: controls the universe. He's breathing in your direction. Right now,
Speaker 1: You and God are a majority. Him being for you
Speaker 1: is more than the world being against you. David set
Speaker 1: out toward the Amalekites. When he arrived, they were having
Speaker 1: a big party, dancing, drinking, celebrating the victory. Sometimes the
Speaker 1: enemy celebrates too soon. He thinks you're done, you've given up,
Speaker 1: you've settled. What he doesn't realize is you know what
Speaker 1: God promised that if you pursue, if you believe.
Speaker 2: Get your hopes up, you will recover all.
Speaker 1: Nothing will be missing when you pursue God starts fighting
Speaker 1: for you. Angels go to work. Forces of darkness are broken,
Speaker 1: the wrong people are moved out of the way. You'll
Speaker 1: see favor, healing victory. David and his men attacked the Amalekites.
Speaker 1: They not only defeated them, but they got back everything
Speaker 1: that was stolen.
Speaker 2: They got their wives and children back.
Speaker 1: The scripture says nothing was missing small or great son
Speaker 1: or daughter, or anything else that had been taken.
Speaker 2: David got everything back. Now you may be in ziglag.
Speaker 2: You've lost some things. It wasn't fair.
Speaker 1: If you'll get your passion back, start believing again.
Speaker 2: Like with David, You're going to get it all back.
Speaker 2: Nothing is going to be missing.
Speaker 1: The healing is coming back, the business, the children, the joy,
Speaker 1: it's coming back. God is not going to leave you
Speaker 1: at a deficit. He's keeping the records. He knows what
Speaker 1: belongs to you. David not only got all of his
Speaker 1: possessions back, but his men gathered up all that belonged
Speaker 1: to the Amalekites.
Speaker 2: They came out with more than they had before.
Speaker 1: What's interesting is three days later, King Saul was killed
Speaker 1: in a battle.
Speaker 2: David was made king.
Speaker 1: This was thirteen years after Samuel had anointed him. It's
Speaker 1: significant that after his greatest challenge, David was only seventy
Speaker 1: two hours away from taking the throne. When you're in ziglag,
Speaker 1: stay encouraged. You don't know what God is up to.
Speaker 1: Not only going to get it all back, but God
Speaker 1: is about to promote you. Ziglag is a sign that
Speaker 1: a new level of your destiny is on the way,
Speaker 1: that you're about to see what God promised, that you're
Speaker 1: going to come out of the interim place, that place
Speaker 1: of waiting, into a place of destiny. But we all
Speaker 1: have to go through a few ziglags on the way
Speaker 1: to our purpose, Difficulties that come out of nowhere, things
Speaker 1: we don't understand, loss of a loved one, fighting depression,
Speaker 1: people trying to discredit us. You have to remind yourself
Speaker 1: that ziglag is only temporary. Voices will whisper You'll never
Speaker 1: get out of this, never have that baby, never meet
Speaker 1: the right person, Just live among these ashes. The reason
Speaker 1: those lives are coming is the enemy doesn't want you
Speaker 1: to rise up and leave ziglag. He doesn't want you
Speaker 1: to have a recover all mentality. He wants you to
Speaker 1: have a poor o me mentality. You have to say
Speaker 1: no thanks. Ziglag is not my home. This is not
Speaker 1: how my story ends. I know what God promised. Nothing
Speaker 1: will be missing, lords or small. There was a lady
Speaker 1: that was diagnosed with stage four cancer.
Speaker 2: Didn't look good.
Speaker 1: She had spent most of her childhood in the hospital.
Speaker 1: She had a sickle cell gene that had caused her
Speaker 1: many problems years later. The thought of having to go
Speaker 1: back to the hospital deal with this illness take the.
Speaker 2: Treatment was very discouraging.
Speaker 1: She sunk into deep depression, didn't want to leave the house, didn't.
Speaker 2: Want to get out of bed.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, her husband would turn our program on, she
Speaker 1: would weep the whole time I was speaking. She said,
Speaker 1: it was just like you were talking to me. She
Speaker 1: started believing that God was bigger than the cancer, that
Speaker 1: her life was not over. For two years, as she
Speaker 1: took the treatment, had the surgery, she felt a strength
Speaker 1: that she had never felt. She's not only cancer free,
Speaker 1: she not only defied the odds, but she doesn't have
Speaker 1: the sickle cell gene anymore. She told how she used
Speaker 1: to be so quiet, so reserved, but now she's written
Speaker 1: a book. She speaks at different events, telling how God
Speaker 1: helped her overcome.
Speaker 2: She says.
Speaker 1: When people see me, they always comment on how I
Speaker 1: don't look like what I've been through. She's happier and
Speaker 1: more fulfilled than she's ever been.
Speaker 2: What am I saying?
Speaker 1: Ziglag is not your home, It's a temporary place.
Speaker 2: When you're in Ziglag, you have to.
Speaker 1: Remind yourself what God promised that you're going to recover
Speaker 1: all that. Nothing is going to be missing. It may
Speaker 1: be gone now, but God is not finished. Instead of
Speaker 1: dwelling on what you lost, what didn't work out, those
Speaker 1: negative reports, you need to switch over to this nothing
Speaker 1: missing mentality. You may not see how it can happen.
Speaker 1: God has ways we've never thought of. He's not limited
Speaker 1: by what limits us. Like with this lady, He's going
Speaker 1: to do something unusual, uncommon, out of the ordinary, not
Speaker 1: just restore, but bring you out better than you were before.
Speaker 1: I believe it's going to happen sooner than you think.
Speaker 2: There's about to be a shift, a suddenly out of nowhere.
Speaker 2: You're on the verge of.
Speaker 1: A breakthrough, a healing, a promotion.
Speaker 2: You're going to be able to say, like this lady,
Speaker 2: nothing is missing in my life.
Speaker 1: A few years ago, we had a night of hope
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, and I was able to visit with
Speaker 1: a gentleman named Steve Wynn.
Speaker 2: He's built many.
Speaker 1: Of the large hotels. They're very successful and influential. He's
Speaker 1: an avid art collector, has masterpieces from all over the world.
Speaker 1: As he was showing us some of the paintings in
Speaker 1: his home, he told us about a famous Picasso painting
Speaker 1: that he purchased in two thousand and one. At that time,
Speaker 1: it was valued at sixty million dollars.
Speaker 2: It's one of his favorite paintings.
Speaker 1: He had a friend that really loved it as well,
Speaker 1: and mister Wynn agreed to sell it to this friend.
Speaker 1: The price was one hundred and thirty nine million dollars.
Speaker 1: The night before the cell, he was showing the painting
Speaker 1: to some friends. He has an eye disease that affects
Speaker 1: his peripheral vision. As he was pointing to the painting,
Speaker 1: he didn't realize he was so close. He poked a
Speaker 1: hole in it with his elbow. They could all hear
Speaker 1: the canvas ripping. He turned around and saw a two
Speaker 1: inch tear that.
Speaker 2: Was his zig lag. The cell was off. The other
Speaker 2: man didn't want it.
Speaker 1: The painting was now valued at eighty five million dollars.
Speaker 2: That one tear.
Speaker 1: Resulted in a fifty four million dollar loss. God give
Speaker 1: us problems like that. Mister Wynn found he found what
Speaker 1: he called an art surgeon, someone that would sow the
Speaker 1: individual fibers back together. It took two months and you
Speaker 1: couldn't tell the.
Speaker 2: Painting had ever been torn.
Speaker 1: Six years later he sold the painting to the same
Speaker 1: man for one hundred and fifty five million dollars, sixteen
Speaker 1: million more than before the terror. The painting was worth
Speaker 1: more after it had been torn. When we've been through disappointments,
Speaker 1: bad breaks, sometimes it feels like we've been torn. We
Speaker 1: lost our value, made mistakes, should have been more focused.
Speaker 1: What I love about God is when he puts you
Speaker 1: back together like this painting, you come out more valuable.
Speaker 1: He knows how to restore in such a way. Nobody
Speaker 1: can tell what you've been through. You're not going to
Speaker 1: live with a terror, so to speak. What didn't work
Speaker 1: out is not going to affect the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: That sickness, the divorce, the loss, the bankruptcy doesn't lessen
Speaker 1: your value. Quit believe in those lies that you've been
Speaker 1: through too much. Don't expect anything good don't believe in
Speaker 1: your dream. You've been torn, someone did you wrong, You've
Speaker 1: had setbacks.
Speaker 2: Just stay in ziglag. That is not your destiny.
Speaker 1: When God gets finished restoring, nothing will be missing. The
Speaker 1: beauty of our God is even when we make mistakes.
Speaker 1: We bring the trouble on ourselves. God doesn't say, too bad,
Speaker 1: I would restore if you'd perform better. I would help
Speaker 1: you if you were more committed.
Speaker 2: God is full of mercy.
Speaker 1: When we get off course, the moment we turn back
Speaker 1: to him, he comes running toward us, not in judgment,
Speaker 1: but in mercy. Remember when the prodigal son left home,
Speaker 1: wasted all of his money partying, making poor decisions. He
Speaker 1: ended up working in a hog pen feeding the hogs.
Speaker 1: He got so desperate he had to eat the hog
Speaker 1: food to survive.
Speaker 2: It was his own fault.
Speaker 1: He should have listened to his father made better decisions.
Speaker 1: Now he was dirty, smelly, hair, not combed. He decided
Speaker 1: to go back home. The father saw him a long
Speaker 1: way off and came running toward him. He didn't berat
Speaker 1: his son, He didn't tell him you should have known better.
Speaker 1: The father never brought up his past. One of the
Speaker 1: first things he said was go get the best.
Speaker 2: Robe and put it on my son, not any robe.
Speaker 1: Bring the best robe, Get some new shoes for him
Speaker 1: to wear.
Speaker 2: Put the family ring on his finger.
Speaker 1: Like that painting. This young man was torn. He thought
Speaker 1: his value had gone down. He said, Dad, I don't
Speaker 1: deserve to be your son. Just let me live out
Speaker 1: in the barn work as one of your staff. But
Speaker 1: the father who represents God said, in effect that terror
Speaker 1: is nothing for me. When I restore you, nobody will
Speaker 1: know what you've been through. A few hours later, after
Speaker 1: the young man had showered, put on the best robe,
Speaker 1: new shoes, no one would have ever known that he
Speaker 1: had been torn. This parable is showing us that when
Speaker 1: God restores, you're not going to come out almost as good,
Speaker 1: grateful that at least you survived. You're going to come
Speaker 1: out with nothing missing, fully restored, full of joy, gifts,
Speaker 1: coming out healthy, blessed, prosper us.
Speaker 2: Get rid of those lies. Say you always be a disadvantage.
Speaker 2: Look at the mistakes you've made.
Speaker 1: That's the enemy trying to keep you from putting on
Speaker 1: the best road. He'd love for you to go through
Speaker 1: life feeling condemned, unworthy. Don't take that bait. There's a
Speaker 1: best road waiting for you. There's a ring of authority
Speaker 1: with your.
Speaker 2: Name on it.
Speaker 1: Or maybe someone else puts you at a disadvantage. They
Speaker 1: caused you to tear. It wasn't even your fault. They
Speaker 1: didn't lessen your value. You know why God is the
Speaker 1: master surgeon. He knows how to restore where no one
Speaker 1: can tell. There's a famous poem that talks about a
Speaker 1: bird with a broken wing, how even though it's created
Speaker 1: to fly and created to sword, because its wing is injured,
Speaker 1: it will never get back off the ground. It's very sad,
Speaker 1: depressing thought. Someone took the poem and put a new
Speaker 1: ending on it. They talked about how when God takes
Speaker 1: the bird, he begins to heal, restore, breed new.
Speaker 2: Life into it.
Speaker 1: It ends by saying the bird with a broken wing
Speaker 1: will fly.
Speaker 2: Twice as high.
Speaker 1: Again, what's come against you has not limited your future.
Speaker 2: You're not tainted.
Speaker 1: When God restores, you're going to fly twice as high.
Speaker 1: You're going to go further. The enemy minute for harm,
Speaker 1: but God is turning it to your advantage. Now get
Speaker 1: rid of a defeated mindset and switch over to this
Speaker 1: nothing missing mentality. God sees everything you've lost. He hasn't
Speaker 1: forgotten about you.
Speaker 2: You may be in ziglag. Things aren't fair.
Speaker 1: God is saying to you what he said to David.
Speaker 1: You will surely recover everything that was stolen.
Speaker 2: Ziglag is not permanent.
Speaker 1: That's a sign you're about to see restoration that God's
Speaker 1: about to show out in your life.
Speaker 2: I believe and declare.
Speaker 1: Nothing is going to be missing for you, large or small.
Speaker 2: Your health is coming back, your.
Speaker 1: Family is coming back, dreams are coming back, confidence, breakthroughs, abundance,
Speaker 1: the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, if you
Speaker 1: receive it, can you say am in Today? I'd like
Speaker 1: to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord
Speaker 1: of your life.
Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I
Speaker 2: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make
Speaker 2: you my Lord and savior.
Speaker 1: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got
Speaker 1: born again.
Speaker 2: Love to send you.
Speaker 1: Some free information on your new walk with the Lord.
Speaker 1: Just text the number on the screen, or you can
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Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll get into a good Bible based church.
Speaker 1: Keep God first place.
Speaker 3: When God created the world, he did it specifically with
Speaker 3: you in mind. He used his words. He spoke everything
Speaker 3: into existence, light, oceans and dry land, plants, sun and stars, animals,
Speaker 3: man and woman. Your words have that same creative power.
Speaker 1: If you want to know what you're going to be
Speaker 1: like five years from now, listen to what you're saying
Speaker 1: about yourself. You are prophesying your future, and too often
Speaker 1: we don't realize we're defeating.
Speaker 2: Ourselves with our words.
Speaker 1: I'll never get healthy, I'm not attractive, this dreams impossible.
Speaker 1: Instead of limiting your future, why don't you start blessing
Speaker 1: your future. If you'll change your words, you can change
Speaker 1: your world. I have a new book called Speak the Blessing.
Speaker 1: It want to help you to speak positive, faith filled words.
Speaker 2: There are declarations in it that you can make over.
Speaker 1: Your fani, your health, your finances, and your future. When
Speaker 1: you get your words aligned with what God says, you'll
Speaker 1: see his favor in greater ways.
Speaker 3: As our thank you for your gift of any amount
Speaker 3: to the ministry this month, we want to send you
Speaker 3: Speak the Blessing. Send your words in the direction you
Speaker 3: want your life to go. You can begin to enjoy
Speaker 3: a life filled with freedom, joy, health, success, and creativity.
Speaker 3: As you discover the authority and power of speaking God's word. Yes,
Speaker 3: Speak the Blessing will unlock life changing possibilities that are unlimited.
Speaker 1: When you declare what God says about you, I'm strong,
Speaker 1: I'm healthy, I'm favored. You are blessing your life. I
Speaker 1: hope you'll request your copy to day. Remember you can
Speaker 1: watch the services live online every Sunday, download our daily podcast,
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Speaker 1: encouraged and inspired.
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