We get to welcome Pastor Charlotte in just a moment, but
I just wanted to share just a couple of things for those of
you who don't know Charlotte and aren't familiar with who she is.
We're, I'm about to introduce someone who's not only a
powerful voice to the global church, but someone who has
personally impacted my life in a deep, very deep and meaningful
way. OK, Charlotte has just really
impacted me in a, a deep and meaningful way.
And there are some people who carry wisdom and authority and
revelation, but when you meet them that you discover that they
carry kindness, humility and genuine love for people.
And that is who Charlotte Gamble is.
For years, she has strengthened leaders and built the church.
She's spoken life into women around the world, and she's
helped people to step boldly into the call that they have on
their life. But personally, she's been more
than a speaker on a platform. She's been a mentor, a voice of
encouragement, a true friend through the years into this
House. And I really believe it today is
significant. We've been praying for this day
and this session. And I don't think Pastor
Charlotte here by accident. There is something God wants to
speak across this room today. So let's have open hearts.
And with the biggest sisterhood welcome.
Would you welcome Pastor so good to be with you.
I'm going to keep you on your feet just for a second.
We're going to pray in a moment. I know God is already moving in
this place, already did incredible things last night as
you gathered and Pastor Sarah LED you in the word about
legacy. And I'm so thankful to have the
opportunity to add my voice to what God is doing.
But I so sensed in my heart, just even last night when I got
in later and I was in my hotel room, I just so sensed today,
today's the day for some of you to receive a miracle that is
long overdue. Like like I need you to.
I need you to lift your expectation.
I don't know how else to say it, but I need to grab the
atmosphere right now, as awesome as this is, but I wish I could
come to every single one of you and grab you by your cheeks and
just say, girl, do you know who's in the room?
I, I, I think we forget because we come to a conference and we
gather with our friends and I think it's so easy to just do
business as usual and we forget that actually in the room, not
just our girlfriends are in the room, not just other sisters are
in the room, but the King of Kings is in the room.
And I'm just trying to get you to be aware for a moment.
Just need you to be aware for a moment because if if in the next
few seconds Jesus walked down the aisle, like he literally
walked down the aisle, brushed past your arm on his way to the
front to talk to the crowd that were gathered.
If he literally just came down by the seat where you were sat,
I know something inside you would shift because you suddenly
saw who was in the room and all of a sudden, whatever you came
here struggling with, you would realise.
I don't know why I'm struggling because the answer just showed
up. Whatever you were dealing with,
or any depression you were battling or any anxiety you were
feeling, suddenly it would be silence because you just
realised you brushed past your arm as they walked in the room.
And though there's not a physical Jesus walking down the
aisle, brushing past your arm, He's right here, right now, in
every single row, every single aisle.
He's right here, which means our expectations should be no less.
And I don't want to leave the way I came.
And I don't want you to miss a thing.
And I know in these next few moments, as God speaks to you,
He's not just wanting to speak to you.
He's wanting to impart something to you.
In fact, when I finish speaking the word that God has given me,
I'm going to open the altar down here and I'm going to extend to
you the opportunity that need to to actually physically walk to
the front to actually have a moment of engagement.
And I'm telling you that upfront so that when we get there, you
don't hesitate, you don't delay. But just like the woman with the
issue of blood, you like whatever it takes, I'm getting
what God has for me today. Whatever it takes, I'm going to
push through today. So God, we stand in your
presence. We just take a moment to
acknowledge the fact that we're standing in your presence.
This is not just an arena that we're in.
It is a meeting room with the King of Kings and you do not see
a crowd. You see every single individual
and you do not come to do something that is generic as
much as you come to do something that is specific and God.
There's only one that can take a word and break it into pieces
that feed each one of your daughters individually.
It is only by your spirit to God you can take something that
feels so big but make it so intimate and small.
So God, I pray in these next few moments that your word would do
just that. That as it goes forth into the
atmosphere, it would be so specific to every woman.
It will be so on time to every situation.
It will be so clear to every chaotic place that people are in
right now. It will be so much light into
the darkness. God, I pray today that the word
would be like an arrow piercing through the darkness.
And I pray today, God, that with your word comes signs and
wonders. I pray today God that there will
to be miracles in this atmosphere that we get pregnant
with today. I pray today God for
breakthrough. I pray today for setting of
three of people. I pray today that you would do
something so spectacular and supernatural.
All we can say is God it is all because of you God.
I pray as always I would get out of the way.
Holy Spirit, have your way in Jesus name, Amen.
You may take your seats. I honestly feel in my heart
today that God wants to hand something to you that is long
overdue. That there are some things that
you have even forgotten that actually God has not forgotten,
that actually are due to you because God is a God that wants
to do a miracle in you. Some of the miracles that you've
even forgotten about or even have stopped praying for.
Today I want to show you just how good God is, how much he
loves you. If you're in any doubt today
about the goodness of God, I pray that in these next few
moments your eyes would be open to just how good God is and how
much good He wants to do in and through you.
I want today to talk to you about the completeness that God
has for your life. I feel like so often on this
journey with God, I meet people. I interact with people who are
not walking in the fullness of all that God has for them.
They're not walking in the completeness of all that God has
for them. And I don't know why.
I think maybe we just settle for a level of God that we feel is
good enough. But today I don't want you to
settle for anything less than the more than enough that God
has for your life. Today.
I want to stretch your mind. I want to expand your heart.
I want to challenge your dream. I want to ask you, why do you
believe so little when you serve the God who spins planets off
his fingertips? I need your mind and your heart
expanded. For we are called to be the
daughters of the King of kings. And if you're a daughter of the
King of kings, you should not be praying small prayers.
If you're daughter of the one that created the heavens and the
earth, you should not be believing for such little things
in your life when God has more for us.
God does not want to do something partial in your life.
God doesn't want to make you a little bit better.
God doesn't want to provide a little for you when He is the
God of more than you can ask or imagine.
But meet so many people that are living in a way as if God is
short, as if he can't afford to bless you, as if he doesn't have
enough to breakthrough in your circumstance.
And I know the problem is not on God's end.
So the problem must be on our end.
But God is a God of fullness. He is a God of completeness.
Colossians 2 verse 9 says for in Christ lives all the fullness of
God in a human body. So you also are complete through
your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and
authority. You are complete in Christ one
Peter 5 verse 10. After you've suffered a little
while, the God of all grace, who imparts blessing and favor, who
called you to his own eternal glory in Christ, will Himself
complete, confirm, strengthen, and establish you, making you
what you ought to be. There is a completeness in
Christ. There is a fulfillment in
Christ. There is a strength in Christ,
and He wants to establish that in you today.
I don't know what he's missing from your life.
I don't know what he's lacking in your life.
I sensed in the worship, just when I was standing there, I saw
a picture of a jigsaw puzzle and a frustrated person trying to do
the puzzle, but they couldn't complete it because there were
some pieces missing. And I feel like there are some
pieces missing that God wants to give you today because you don't
have to leave here with an incomplete picture, don't have
to leave here with an incomplete faith.
You don't have to leave here with an incomplete belief
system. God wants to complete you.
A little while ago, my son, who is now 20, he came home and he'd
realized, you know, I want to pick up a little extra cash, a
little extra money. So he'd realized that now where
we live in Alabama, because I now live in Alabama.
Y'all never thought I would say that, but I do.
And and so he, he, he realized I need some more cash.
I also like to play golf and so he's smart.
He figured out if I pick up a couple of shifts at the best
Golf Club in Alabama, not only will I get a little extra cash,
but I get to play for free on Mondays.
Smart boy. So he took a little shift at the
Golf Club, comes home, announces to me on Wednesday evening that
he has got this shift at the Golf Club and his first job day
of hours will be Friday morning. And he's letting me know on
Wednesday evening because he needs a uniform.
By Friday morning he might be 20, but he still needs his Mama.
You know what I'm saying? So I do what all good Mamas do.
I go to Amazon and like Amazon is my friend right now and like
what do you need son? I need this color short and they
need to be this length. And so I go on Amazon.
I'm like I'm going to get 2 pairs because I don't want to
get one in case he loses them. And so I get on there.
It says he'll be here in 24 hours.
Perfect. Put the order in 24 hours later.
This is Thursday afternoon. Just in time the Amazon arrival
comes to our post box. I bring it in the house.
I'm like no, I got your shorts. We're sorted.
I open the packet. I take out the pair of shorts.
First pair of shorts, exactly what I ordered.
Take out the second pair of shorts, and to my horror, they
are not the same pair of shorts that I ordered.
In fact, these are someone's dirty shorts.
They're kind of the sort of the same colour, but clearly someone
was packing my order. Looked at the two pairs of
shorts, looked at their own dirty shorts so she'll never
know. Whipped their shorts off, put
them in the packet, put my paid for shorts on and sent me the
two pairs of shorts. So I'm looking at this order.
Brand new pair, dirty pair of khaki shorts.
I'm like horrified. And so I decide, what in the
world is this? This is not right.
I paid for two pairs of shorts. This is not right.
I don't want someone's old shorts.
So I decide to do what no human should ever decide to do, which
is take on Amazon. I'm like, I'm taking Amazon on.
I'm not putting up this or this. So I go online and it tells you,
you know, all you do is put them in the post, send them back to
me. We'll refund you when we get
them. Go to UPS, get the label.
I'm like, I don't have time for that.
This isn't my fault. I ain't got time in my calendar
to drive to UPS because you made a mistake.
I ain't got time to spend my gas money driving around town to
send your shorts back. I don't think so, Amazon.
This is not good enough. So I tried to bypass the
automated system and I persevered and I persevered
until I got an actual cell phone number, a phone number.
I call the number and I get past all of the people that are on
the computer system and finally get a human being and I say,
listen, do not hang up on me. I have an issue.
I'm a good customer, but I have someone's dirty shorts in my
kitchen right now and I am not willing to drive to UPS to send
you back someone's shorts that I don't particularly want to touch
anymore. I need you to send me the shorts
that I have paid for and I need you to come and pick up these
shorts that I do not want in my home anymore.
I need you to do what you need to do to sort that out for me
because I'm not driving around to make up for your mistake.
And the lady on the phone says, well, ma'am, we don't do that,
but I'm a little scared of you, so we will do that.
And within the next 24 hours, there was a person at my house
taking The Dirty shorts back, giving me the new shots.
And afterwards, I thought to myself, I had a Holy Spirit
conviction because I felt God challenged me and say,
Charlotte, are you as determined as you were with Amazon to get
all that I have promised you? Or were you willing to live with
half of an order because you can't be bothered to have the
tenacity to get everything that my son paid for on the cross?
And I don't know about you, but that challenged me because I
realized, wow, I do have tenacity.
And when I actually want to, I can actually be quite strong
about something that I feel I have been wronged in.
And I am putting all my energy into getting back a pair of
shorts that make no eternal difference to my life.
But I'm letting the enemy steal my peace.
I'm letting the enemy take my joy.
I'm letting the enemy RIP me off in my family.
I'm letting the enemy put anxiety on me.
I'm letting the enemy make me feel overwhelmed and overcome
when I have been paid for, when Christ paid the full price for
everything that I would ever face.
And yet I'm not going for the full order.
And that's why I began by saying some of you are going to have to
get a little shaken up today because you've settled for far
less than God paid for. You've settled for far less than
what he sent his Son to pay the highest price for.
And today I want to rattle you in a Holy Spirit way to remind
you, you've got to get some tenacity back in your spirit,
woman of God, because the enemy came to kill, steal and destroy.
And if you are laid back in one moment of your life, he will
take all the opportunity he can to make sure he steals from you,
He kills something in you and he destroys something of your
legacy that God has for you. So we need to rise up.
We need to wake up because for every move the enemy made, God
made a counter move. For everything he planned to do,
God already covered the counter move that what he would do.
So where he came to kill, God sent his son to resurrect.
Where he came to steal, God sent his son to restore.
Where he came to destroy, God said, I'll give you restitution
for everything that has been destroyed.
And I just wonder today, who needs a little resurrection?
Who needs a little restoration? Who needs a little restitution
from some things that the enemy does not get to keep in your
life? So I want to take you to a story
in the Bible where there's a woman that desperately needs,
she needs a miracle, but she doesn't just need a miracle.
She actually needs some things restoring to her.
She actually needs some things raising back to life for her.
She actually needs some things in her future being paid back to
her. And Jesus in this story comes
and He takes care not just of the present need, but He takes
care of her past, her present, and her future.
And God today is well able to take care of your present need,
but He's also able to take care of your past pain.
He's also able to take care of your future promises.
He's able to do all of it. So why reduce him to just one
part of it? This story gripped my heart
recently and it's maybe a story that you have heard before, but
maybe you've never looked at it through this lens because it's a
story of a miracle. And often we preach the miracle.
We get excited about the miracle, and the miracle is
awesome, but there's way more than just one miracle happening
in this story. Whenever Jesus did anything, he
was always doing something that had multiple layers of
breakthrough in it. He wasn't just delivering a man
from a demon, He was setting him free for his future.
He wasn't just healing a sick person, He was leading them into
their eternal destination. He wasn't just opening a blind
eye, He was restoring an entire man's life and future.
Jesus was not just. Touching in one moment one
thing, he was touching in that moment everything.
In Luke 7, Jesus enters a village called Nain says in
verse 11. Soon afterward, Jesus went with
his disciples to the village of Nain, and a large crowd followed
him. A funeral procession was coming
out as he approached the village gate.
The young man who had died was a widow's only son, and a large
crowd from the village was with her.
When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion.
Don't cry, he said. Then he walked over to the
coffin and touched it, and the bearer stopped.
Young man, he said, I tell you, get up.
Then the dead boy sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave
him back to his mother. This is an incredible moment
that we read of in scripture where Jesus literally brings a
dead boy back to life. But I want for a few moments to
unpack everything that is happening in this story.
Because actually this story does not begin with the dead boy.
It begins with the woman. And today I want you to know you
might have come here with a dead issue, but the healing's not
going to begin with the dead issue.
It's going to begin with the woman who has the dead issue
because God is a God of completeness.
Watch what happens. There's a huge funeral
procession. There's a large crowd that are
gathered. There's a dead body that has
been carried on a stretcher. But in verse 13, here's what
begins to happen. It says when the Lord saw her,
wait a minute, there's a crowd, there's a funeral procession,
there's a dead body. But the first thing his eyes are
drawn to is none of that, but they're drawn to her.
And at the sight of her, it says his heart overflowed with
compassion. You know, compassion.
The word there, it comes from a root word in the Greek called
splanks, and that it literally means the inward parts of your
gut, your deepest place of emotion.
This was a gut level feeling that Jesus had for this woman's
suffering. This was not that Jesus saw her
and felt a little sorry for her. This was when Jesus saw her,
something in the inside of him was absolutely moved to do
something for this woman. I want you to know today that
God sees you, and as He sees you, his heart is moved from his
very innermost being with compassion towards you.
See, He saw what no one else seemed to see.
He saw the burden that this woman had been living with for
possibly years. She was a widow, so she was the
only one apart from this boy in her family.
And I don't know how long he had been sick and I don't know how
frail he had become, but Jesus saw that this woman, this
mother, this single parent had carried the burden of that boy's
sickness for a long time. He saw on her face the
weariness. He saw on her face the
disappointment. He saw in her spirit and her
soul how she she was aching and she was desperate.
So often we come to events like this and we're coming because we
have a dead thing we want God to touch.
But God's not going to touch the dead thing until He first
touches you, because why would He give you something back when
you're not even in a fit state to hold it?
Some of you are in this room and you are the carer of elderly
parents and you're exhausted. You didn't plan for it, but it's
where you find yourself in life, constantly caring, constantly
doing errands, constantly taking care of things.
You have that. And then you also have your
children that constantly have needs and constantly have things
that you have to take care of. Some of you are in here and
you've got children that are wayward and they're living a
life that is far from God. And it keeps you up every night
and it eats away at your soul and it causes you to cry tears
that no one else sees. And the ache in your body and
the ache in your soul is overwhelming.
Yet we come for prayer for our son or we come for prayer for
our daughter. But because God is a complete
God, he's like, I'll talk to you about that in a moment, but the
first thing I want to talk to you about is you.
You're living. You're living in a way that is
incomplete. You're living in a way that is
worn out. You're living in a way that is
so tired and weary. You're living a life that is so
disappointed. Why would I heal what's dead and
not touch the one that's carried the dead?
Why would I heal the body and not touch the one that's prayed
and believed for that body? Why would I do a miracle in
their addiction and not do a miracle in your weariness and
depletion? God is a God of completeness.
And I don't know what corpse you brought to the conference.
We'll get to the cops. But in this moment, I want you
to know he sees you. He sees you.
He saw this woman. He sees you that has prayed
endlessly. He sees you that has gone
without so someone else can go with.
He sees you that's lived with that abusive marriage.
He sees you that's dealt with the betrayal.
He sees you that has tried to pick yourself up 1000 times to
carry on for those that rely upon you, them never knowing the
cost it has been to you. He sees you, He sees you woman
of God, weary from the battle, He sees you.
He says, Jesus, even though there was a lot of things to
gain his attention, saw her and he said to her, don't cry.
Like I know you're exhausted. I know this has cost you a lot,
but in this moment I need you to know I didn't just come for him,
I came for you. I want to send you home, not
depleted, but completed. I want to send you home, not
weary, but refreshed. I want to send you home with a
complete restoration. Some of you today need a
complete restoration. You need to hear the words from
his mouth. Don't cry.
You need to hear the words from his mouth.
Don't be anxious. You need to let him restore you
before he talks to you about anything else.
You want restoring. In Psalm 23, David writes, he
refreshes my soul, He guides me along the right path for his
namesake. And even though I walk through
the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
He had a revelation. God, I know You want to help me
win the battle, but more than win the battle, You want to help
me win. You want to restore me.
You want to help me walk through the valley.
You want to be with me in those times that feel pressing and
feel oppressing. Isaiah 26 verse three.
You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast
because they trust in You. I'm not.
I don't know what your peace looks like, but I have a feeling
it's not perfect. I have a feeling some of you
have an incomplete peace. I have a feeling that some of
your peace is way more fragile than it should be and all it
takes is a circumstance to happen and your peace begins to
crumble. Why?
Because your peace is not complete.
But the Bible says there's a peace that passes understanding,
which means no matter what happens, your peace stays
complete. No matter who flakes out on you,
your peace stays strong in you. No matter what they say, your
peace remains God's like I need you woman of God to get a
complete peace. Stop having a part time peace, a
partial peace, a circumstantial peace, a peace for conference.
But then a crisis when you get home steals your peace.
Now do you have a complete peace, perfect peace.
That word perfect peace in the Hebrew, in Isaiah, it literally
means Shalom. Shalom.
And that means there's nothing missing.
There is nothing broken, everything is complete.
Do you have shalam? Shalam, do you have a piece
where there's nothing missing and there's nothing broken
because it is fully complete in him?
I don't know today where this finds you, but I know some of
you have settled for partial like I was gonna with my Amazon
order. And God's like, girl, I need you
to get something inside of your gut today that says I'm not
living with partial any longer. When I serve a God of
completeness, some of you have partial joy.
The Bible says in John 15, it says my joy and delight are
going to be complete in you, that your joy may be made full
and complete and overflowing. I know that.
I know some of you don't even know what that sounds like.
You can't even remember the last time your joy was overflowing.
There's a joy in God that is not dependent on anything or anyone.
It's in Him. And that joy?
You have access to it 24/7. And I know it sounds strange
when you're living in a time that feels anything but joyful,
but there is a way to access joy outside of the way humans in the
world without God access joy. We don't need everything to be
right to find a joy that will complete us.
And I just wonder who settled for a joy that is based on
whether our life looks good, feels good, sounds good.
That is not the joy that the Bible's talking about.
How in the world can you be facing a crucifixion on a cross
and say the words for the joy set before me that tells me
there's a joy that overwhelms the hardest moments in our life
that we could ever face. For in his moment of absolute
pain, he saw something of absolute joy.
What would it look like if you got your piece back?
What would it look like if you got your joy back?
You know why the enemy doesn't want you to get your joy back?
Because he knows what the Bible says about your joy, that the
joy of the Lord is your strength.
And he's quite happy for you to stay weak.
And I mean this with all the love in my heart.
Some of you are weak women and I'm just saying it to you
because I'm your friend. It's there's a weakness in you,
but the Bible says that those that are weak, he's going to
make strong, that in your weakness, he's going to make the
strength come through in you. And some of you need to stop
excusing your weakness and start getting mad with the enemy about
the fact that you're living in a way that does not reflect what
God says you should be living in.
I know things can happen and they make us feel weak.
I know circumstances can happen and they make us feel depleted.
I know like this woman, there can be moments where we carry
burdens as women and it just feels like no one else seems to
carry the way we do. But Jesus saw her, He sees you,
and he says, hey, are we done? Do you want to live in this
moment, or do you want to recognize who's in this moment?
Do you want to be overwhelmed by the situation, or do you want to
be overwhelmed by the solution? Then he moves on to the body,
because if he can restore you now, he can resurrect the thing
you brought to him. So now he goes to the body.
And by the way, when she saw Jesus, she didn't even mention
the body. Because I think there comes a
point where we feel it's so far gone, what's the point in even
mentioning it anymore? Like some of you came to
conference and you're like, I don't want to talk about it
anymore. I just want to pretend for 48
hours that that situation isn't happening in my life.
I'm just going to pretend it's not there.
But that's not going to help you move forward and it's not going
to help you find the victory that God has for you.
God's not asking you to ignore the body.
He's saying, I, I want to fix you.
And then we're going to move to this.
But she doesn't even say. She doesn't grab him and say,
Jesus, would you raise from the dead my son?
She doesn't even have the energy to ask anymore, and some of you
don't even have the energy to ask anymore because I asked
before God. Nothing changed and I came
before God and I feel like nothing shifted.
And some of you have come here and you're the woman and you're
weary, but you also came here with the dead thing like she
did. But we serve a God.
The dead's just not an issue. Dead's not a final statement.
Dead's just another situation. He does dead just like he does
depressed. He does dead just like he does
sad. He's just dead just like he does
anxiety. God doesn't have a scale of hard
things. Some of you have got a scale of
hard things. Well, this is so hard, God.
This is just so hard, God. It's like it's only hard because
you keep saying it's hard. This is not too difficult for
me, but right now it seems to be due too difficult for you.
So he walks up to the body, the thing she's not even mentioned
and he touches the body and he says to the boy young man, get
up and the dead boy, he sits right the way up and I love this
next line and he began to talk. In other words, this is not a
partial restoration. This is a full resurrection.
This is not it got a little bit better.
This is he got up and he began to talk like he did before he
was sick. This was a full resurrection
moment. And some of you brought the body
of your marriage and the body of your dream and the body of your
disappointment. And you're like, if I could just
get a little bit better over conference God, that would be
enough. God's like, well, if that's all
you want, that's all you're going to get.
Or you could have a full resurrection where the body sits
up and starts talking again. It's up to you.
Oh God, if you could make my marriage a little bit better.
God's like, really, if it could just get a little bit sweeter,
if it could just get a little less hard, if my finances could
just get a little breakthrough. God, if you could just help me a
little in this area. And we begin to bring God down
to the level of our settledness. And I challenge you today to
start to pray some bigger prayers.
I challenge you today to start to believe for some
resurrections in places that you've even stopped asking God
for a resurrection. I challenge you today to get
back what the enemy has stolen from your life and say, I'm not
going to be a weak woman anymore.
I'm going to stand up in the name of Jesus.
I got a Mother's Day card early from my kids because they knew I
would be away and I should probably shouldn't say the word
that my son put in the card, but he wrote lots of really sweet
things. But then he wrote this line.
Thanks mom, for being a bad. I was like, son, what do you
mean by that? He goes, I just know you're
going to take it down if it comes for us.
I just know you're going to run through the wall if it gets put
up. I just know if things get bad,
you ain't going to settle. You're going to go further than
the bad. And you've just taught me I
don't need to settle. And some of your children need
to see the same in you because where you settle becomes the
level under which they settle. And what you say is good enough
becomes the level under which they say it's enough.
And we've got to get back into the fight, women of God.
And we've got to realise, no, I'm not settling for half of a
good marriage and I'm not settling for half of the
addiction cured and all selling for a little bit of healing in
my body. And I'm not selling for a small
bit of the cancer gone. I'm not settling for the
addiction to be kind of under control.
I'm not selling for my finances to be a little bit better.
No, God, I'm not settling for anything less than what sets.
Free is free indeed. The enemy's got some of your
freedom because you only claimed part of it.
Some of you're like, I'm free. Yeah, but you're not free
indeed. Because when that happens, your
freedom stops. When they say that thing, your
freedom stops. And and this wasn't what I
planned to say today, but last night when I was praying for
you, I just felt so strongly to say to some of you, you need to
get your confidence back like your God-given confidence back,
like I am a child of God. I am a daughter of the King of
kings. You need to get your confidence
back. You need to get some umph back
in your parenting. You need to get some sass back
in your fire and in your belly. You need to say, I am a woman of
God. I don't think so, enemy.
I don't think so. He saw her and he restored her.
He saw the boy and he resurrected the boy.
But what I love is the final part of this story, the complete
part of this story is that he wasn't just doing a healing and
he wasn't just doing a restoration, but this was
actually also restitution. Restitution is an old fashioned
word. We don't use it much, but
restitution is a word you should know and it's a word you should
use in your prayer life a lot more because it means that
whatever was missing or taken from your life, it's going to
come back to you with a full restoration with recompensation
for your loss. And I serve a God who's not just
into restoration, but he's into restitution.
He's like, I see what you lost and I pay you back.
I know you lost four years in that illness, but I'm going to
make the next four years feel like 8 years.
I know you lost pain in that season, but I'm, I'm going to
make this next season so full of joy you won't even remember
those tears. I'm going to make restitution.
Joel says it this way. But I will restore to you the
years that the locusts have eaten.
I will restore it back to you. Look at Job's life.
Job's life. It was so good and then it was
so tragic. It was so full, and then it was
so empty. It was so God kissed, and then
it felt God bereft. Job loses everything.
Here's Job's wife's statement. Well, Job, if I were you, I'd
just curse God and die. In other words, I don't have any
fight in me anymore. I don't have any stomach for the
heart. I loved the good, but I don't
have any stomach for the heart. I liked it when God was blessing
us, but I don't like this version of God right now that
I'm witnessing. And so I would rather die than
actually sustain and fight. And some of you have said to
yourself, maybe not those exact words, but I'd rather give up.
I'd rather quit. I'd rather die.
I'd rather not be here. I'd rather check out, but how
will you ever get to the latter part of Job's life if you check
out in the middle of his life? Because the Bible says the
latter part of his life was way better than the first part of
his life. It says.
So the Lord blessed Job in the second-half of his life, even
more than in the beginning, and he got thousands more sheep and
thousand more camels and thousand more oxen and he had
family and children and offspring and generations.
Why? Because he he didn't in the dip
quit. He realized, I don't know what's
going on right now, but I know the one who holds my life and
I'm not settling for partial. So I need some of you to begin
to remind your own spirit today. Why in the world would you
settle for so much less? Why in the world would you like
the children of Israel? Who?
God says I'm with you, I'm for you, I've gone ahead of you, I
have land for you, I have a promise for you, I have a future
for you. God said it to them.
Why, when God has just told you everything He has for you, would
you die outside of the promised land?
Why? God was willing and He was able,
but their flesh was weak and their spirit began to quit.
And some of you, I feel like your promise is your promise is
so close. Like I feel it even now in the
atmosphere. It's so close.
I know you don't think God's working, but you have no idea
what he's doing. It is so close.
It doesn't look like you want it to.
It doesn't sound like you want it to.
But God is not saying he's going to do it your way.
He's going to do it His way, which means you have to trust it
when it looks like there's no way.
But here's what I know. If it's not complete, he's not
done. If it's not complete, well, it's
not done. If he's not completely restored,
he's not done. If he's not complete
restoration, it's not done. So I'm not going to quit.
Looks good, right? Especially this close to
lunchtime. But this is how some of us live.
God's like I've done it all. There was not one thing that I
didn't take care of. There was not one brokenness.
There was not one failure. There was not one sin.
There was not one thing that I did not take care of.
It's complete taste and see that the Lord is good.
So we hear that and we come to conference and we say, God, I
just know you're so good. Thank you, God.
Why? Why would you take a piece when
he gave you the whole cake? And some of you come for
conference. You come to conference for a
piece like give me a piece of blessing, give me a piece
through the prayer, give me a piece.
So you walk home with a piece when you leave behind the
revelation that you don't have to take a slice.
I have the whole cake. I don't need you to live off
rations. I did it all.
I need you to have a revelation. If this is your life, how are
you slicing up your life? He said.
I've got peace that passes understanding, but you're
settling with peace that gets you through maybe the night.
I have joy that is overflowing, but you have joy maybe once a
month. I have favour that lasts a
lifetime, but you've made me experience this favour every now
and again. God's like, I want you to know I
paid for it all. But what piece you take is up to
you. And that day, that woman, good.
She would have said, I'm sure, just touch the boy, then just
touch the situation there and Jesus, like, but what about you?
No, don't. Don't worry about me.
Jesus, you got bigger problems. I'm good.
No, you're not good. You've not slept for the last
three months. You have anxiety because of what
it is you're handling. You're not eating properly,
you're Moody, you're angry, you're not yourself.
I just wonder what about you? And in this moment, I just feel
God wants to ask what about you? I know there's a body and I'll
touch that, but I'm starting with you.
I see you all across the room want us to stand to our feet.
And I told you at the beginning that in a moment we're going to
open this altar. I'm going to ask the prayer team
to come down here, and here's what we're going to do.
We're not going to leave until we get what is rightfully ours.
Like we're not going to walk out the door to have a nice lunch
together when we only have partial peace.
We're not going to say, well, God, that was nice when we know
we need a full touch from God. Some of you today need a touch
from heaven. You need to get your fight back.
You need to shake off the weakness.
You need to change some things about how you declare the
goodness of God in your life. You should change your mindset,
change your perspective. Some of you, there's a dead
thing in your life and you desperately need a resurrection
and he's in the room and he's able to touch you and touch
that. Some of you, you've been ripped
off generationally. Last night you heard a word on
legacy. But you got to fight to get back
what the enemy has stolen. There is a legacy to fight for.
There is a generation to fight for.
It takes strong women. So we're going to sing a worship
song just for a couple of moments.
And I know there's prayer team at the front, there's prayer
team down the sides. And I'm just asking if you know
today you need a point of contact, what does that mean?
It just means you just need to say to yourself, actually for no
other reason often than just to, to say to yourself, I'm done.
Like that woman with the issue of blood.
She must have had a moment that day where she went, I'm done.
I'm done waiting. I'm done living with partial.
I'm done all the false promises. I'm done spending money on a
doctor that has no reason to fix me.
I'm done. And I'm no one.
No one's coming to my house today, but I'm going to move
from my house to wherever he is. And God is everywhere right now,
but he needs you to be somewhere.
So if you need to move, if you need a moment, if you need to
step into the altar, if you need to find your knees, I don't know
what, but Jesus is in the room, the restorer, the completer, the
Prince of Peace, the great. I am the one who is Alpha and
Omega, the one who began in you and will complete what he began
in you. He's in the room.
So as we sing, if you need to move, just begin to move.
And then we're going to pray. Let's just begin to move and
just begin to sing. Thanks guys.