Restored | Pastor Zach Sanders

We got Zach Sanders ministering the word this morning. Zach and Sarah have been

here forever and they always bless me with their buy in to the Daniel Fast

and their pursuit of God, their love for the Lord he carries revival.

Many of you know he led our youth ministry for over five years, and

then they worked in youth ministry before that, and they've just been a son

a daughter of this house for many years. And so again give him a

hand as he comes to share the word. Y'all need to sit down.

What are you doing? Thuse are crazy? Wow? That was quite the

welcome. Thank you. I really appreciate that. Man, those are some

good intros. Are you doing the interest for people at the summit? Man?

I feel like, I don't know, maybe hook him up. He

might need to be the intro guy, because that's pretty that's pretty crazy.

I'm Zack Sanders. As you now know how y'all doing good. You guys

are wild worshipers, do you know that? Wild? Absolutely wild. I've

got a minstrel today, Jason, So give it up for Jason right now.

So he Actually it's funny on the car ride here and I've been thinking

about this. I heard a message by Benny hin He's speaking at Jesus Image.

I think they're based in Florida, and he was speaking there and he

was talking about how whenever he ministers, he personally not the Lord. The

Lord doesn't need it, but he personally needs like a minstrel background music.

And I was like, Oh, that's interesting because he's in the like Catherine

Coleman kind of anointing. How many know what I'm talking about. Okay,

if you don't, don't worry about it, it's fine. But just to

know I was listening to that, and it just struck me. I was

like, whoa what Benny Hinn needs a minstrel. I'm like, this guy

is a baller, you know what I mean, Like he needs a minstrel.

And then it just made me think. I'm like, I'm thinking back

to, you know, every high moment in the Lord breakthrough, you know,

you pray for people or prophetic words, and like, I'm thinking back

to all these moments in my life and what's typically happening in the background music.

Yeah, worship to the Lord. It's literally just ministering to the Lord.

And so anyway, this morning, Jason comes up to me totally the

Lord. And he comes up to me, he's like, hey, you

know, do you need a minstrel for when you preach this morning? And

I'm like, actually, yes I do. And so he hears from the

Lord man, so just give it up for Jason. That's awesome. He

will. He will now have been playing for I don't know, maybe four

or five hours today because of practice for service a second service. So that's

incredible. I don't actually know how much of the sermon we're gonna get to

today. I'm not gonna be crazy this morning, but I want to spend

some time honoring first. I think it's really important in our culture. Sometimes

we neglect honor. We go about our day. Maybe we actually in our

mind or in our thoughts we like actually look highly upon somebody, but we

don't tell them. So like maybe after maybe like a coworker, you saw

them do something amazing at work and like, man, that was incredible,

that was a nice year. They have such a skill set in this I'm

so blessed by them. And then you just think about that in your car,

like and you know, maybe think the Lord God, thank you so

much for that person. But then you never actually tell them. And so

what happens is when you release a word to somebody, sometimes it empowers them

for their next season. If you look at Moses, I think Moses would

have entered the Promised Land. This is my personal belief that Moses would have

entered the Promised Land if his people honored him better. So, in a

church context, are we honoring pastor Dwayne and Joel? Are they leading us

where we need to go? Or are we gonna be stuck in a wilderness

because we failed to really grafts what honor looks like. And so for us,

I want to spend some time just honoring some people who are leaders in

my life. I either serve under them here in the church capacity or I'm

under them in a ministry like they're a leader of mine in some way.

And so I have some groupings. Oh man, I'm gonna lose it again.

I did this. What is happening? Okay? So is Albert and

Anie? Are you in the room? Okay? Awesome? Is any he

here too? Or just you this morning? Oh? Right? There?

Can I get have you guys both stand up actually really quick? Actually?

Albert, can I have you come over here and stand next to your wife.

Yeah, that'd be awesome. He's he's working right now, he's taking

pictures, So I'm interrupting his job description. So sorry. I just want

to honor you guys. These two are their leaders over our tribe youth ministry,

and so I get the honor and the privilege about once a month to

go in and help with worship and and really serve them and serve the kids.

And so I just want to honor you guys. You have such a

gifting for bringing people in, for gathering people, and it's such a different

gifting, and I recognize it because it's such a different gifting in the what

I had. I like to protect what I had, and but you're so

willing to just go and grab anyone and bring them in, and like it's

it's like the heart of the Lord to just start, like it's an evangelistic

call that you guys just literally want to bring them in. And so I

just want to honor you guys for the work that you're doing and just say

that, like, not everything I know how youth ministry goes. Anyone in

here been in youth ministry, not everyone sees the hard stuff, okay,

And and I just know everyone in here. They don't the hard things.

And I know that you guys have been digging and you've been doing the hard

stuff, and you've been managing and like juggling a bunch of things at once,

and I just want to honor you that you guys are stewarding the right

thing, you're doing the right thing, and that you're on the right course.

And so I just bless their journey. So reach your hands out to

them. Let's honor them. God, we just thank you for these two,

these powerhouses in the spirit. I thank you for the journey of the

Lord that they are on. I thank you God that signs and wonders would

follow them wherever they go. I thank you in the even in the marketplace,

I say that God, there would be special that God, you'd be

even bringing more and more people around him in the marketplace, that he would

influence generations because of what he's doing in the marketplace. And so God,

we just bless them. We say there'd be an increase in the following around

him, that they could actually steward the chicks that are coming around them,

that they are gathering around them because they see a warmth, they see an

invitation. They see an evangelistic call. And so God, I just say,

send the workers, send those who will serve them, Send, send

those who will learn from them. And so God we bless them and and

lift them high in Jesus' name. And everyone said, I amen, Amen,

give it up for them. Austin and Andrea, can I have you

guys stand awesome? They're they're connect leaders that we attend, and so they're

just leaders over Sarah and I and so I just get woo, let's go,

baby. There's there's something special special and and I they've been following the

call of the Lord on their life, like in a real special way and

stepping out into something I don't think they've ever stepped out into quite before.

And uh, and there's a special ministry call on their life. And so

I just want to honor that and just and just thank you for having your

group, And don't despise the day of small beginnings because more is coming.

So as you steward what you have, you always get more. Always in

the Kingdom, when you steward what you have, you always get more.

And you guys are stewarding well. And it's a balancing act with all the

stuff you guys got going on and kiddos and work and ministry and playing on

team and serving, and so I just want to honor you and even share

something specifically over you. Austin. There was a time he was praying.

We're at his connect group and the typical service flow is you should come by

the way, shameless plug. It's awesome, but a game night group,

and what they do is they have these games. They start out with games,

kind of building the uniting camaroditye the fun, and then we go into

a time of like a word that they'll share and then prayer. Right,

So it's awesome. And so one time he was preaching and sharing a word

and Austin then did a prayer and it was almost like he sents something in

the spirit to like protect the flock, like he just knew something was coming

against his flock, his people, and he was doing like deliverance prayer over

them, like almost over the enemy. No, you can't touch your sheet.

And in that moment, I'm literally I'm sitting there and I'm feeling as

he's praying this, I'm feeling literally the presence of God on what he's saying.

And you have you know how when you're like awakened to something in the

spirit, you're like, dude, he's got deliverance all over him, like

the ministry of deliverance. He's got it all over him. And so I

just want to share that there's power in your prayers, that when you say

something, it actually happens, and that like there's so much power in your

words. And so Pastor Dwayne, watch out because you've got another deliverance minister

in the house and he's powerful. And so let's just stretch our hands towards

him. This is just a this is amazing God. I thank you for

the I thank you for their obedience. I thank you for their yes.

And so God, we just say that as they've been stewarding what they've been

stewarding, that they get more that God that's just poured into their lap over

and over, a multiplication and exponential increase of the blessing of the Lord,

not just financially God, not just spiritually, but their whole family would experience

a tangible shift in the grace over their lives. That God, you'd be

transforming them to carry the weight of the next season. That God, actually

this is the season where they're learning they're weightlifting in this spirit to carry the

heavy things in the next season. And so God, we lift them high.

We honor them as ministers of your word, ministers of reconciliation, ministers

of righteousness. We lift them high, and we honor them in Jesus' name.

We thank you for their assignment and their call, and we bless them

in the name of Jesus. Everyone said, I Amen, I Amen,

amazing, amazing? Is this okay? Are we doing all right? I

think so. I just sometimes as a church, we just got to get

together and just do an honor fest because when the we'll do a short little

teaching. We've taught about this before Pastor and Duayne and I think we did

a co teach one time back in the day about this. But there's something

about honor. Honor and glory always go together. I'm sure we've all experienced

a place where we've been in a state of division, where there's like strife

and fighting. You kind of walk into a place and you kind of sense

stuff and you're like, WHOA, what's going on here? Man? What

you're sensing is a lack of honor, and in response, God's glory cannot

dwell there where you sacrifice, there's honor. So think about that. Anytime

in the Old Testament they sacrifice the Lord, they set apart a time to

honor the Lord for what he's done and what he's doing. So sometimes honor

is a sacrifice. You walk into a place and you don't feel the honor,

you can either succumb to the atmosphere or you can change the environment by

starting to honor. What does your workplace look like? You're like, Yo,

my workplace are heathens, man, those guys are crazy pagan worshipers.

Dude, Maybe that's what it looks like for you. How do you shift

the environment? It's really simple, it's really simple. Honor. You honor

people well they start to respond to the call in their life. You lift

them up. What's a prophetic word? Whenever we see a prophetic word from

the stage, what is that? Actually, it's God honoring that person in

the presence of everyone. Why so they can be recognized in a place of

honor. So now they can carry the assignment that they have. So when

you speak over someone, or you receive a prophetic word, or you're an

environment or your workplace or your family, and you're choosing to speak life.

What you're saying to the Lord is I honor this person. What you're saying

to the people around you is this person is being lifted to their high place

and their high calling. And you're thinking, well, what about me.

I haven't been lifted to mind high place. I haven't been lifted to my

high calling. Well, as you bless others, you will be blessed.

As you refresh others, you will be refreshed. So maybe this is an

answer for you. This is not the sermon this morning, but maybe this

is the sermon this morning. Okay, all right, honor fest continue.

Dina and Joe Hoffenrichter. Are they here? I know they were here for

service. Are they in the back? Oh? They left, they had

to go home. So I honored them for service. I'm under Dina for

the prophetic Activation class, and then by an extension, Joe as well,

because they're married and they're amazing. They're amazing. She's really taken charge of

the destiny team, and she's just a prophetic minister. If you don't know

her, I think a gift in calling on her life is actually it's she's

almost like fertilizer for people's destiny. Does that make sense. So Dina,

what she does is she almost will like grab onto you, like if you're

in her circle, like, she'll grab onto you with her talents of love.

They're not they're not bad, so think good. But she'll grab on

and she won't let go until you know that you are who you God says

you are. And so there was a time, I'll tell a story.

She I was having a I was in the midst of a rather difficult season,

struggling with just the accusation of the enemy over my life. Where I

was at, I had a call of the Lord for something. But the

season, oh I was in looked nothing like that. Can anyone ever been

there? Yeah, you're like, God, I feel a thousand miles away

from my promise right now. And and and she she reached out, and

she she said, Hey, you want to join me for this prophetic activation

thing. I really just sense the Lord wants to use you in this way

and in this specific way. And I was like, in the moment,

I'm like, oh, I'm seeing God, you see me. I can

be used again, you know, kind of think like us in a good

way by the Lord. But it really kind of brought me out of a

lot of weird stuff, like in my head, you know how you get

lost in your head, stuck in your head. It got me out of

a lot of that, and I'm just so thankful for her and then Joe

as well. And what Joe will do. You may see him after service.

Worship team knows this. He'll come up and he'll just kind of come

over and say, man, that was awesome. You guys killed it,

or he'll be like, dude, that was great, and he'll be walking

on the stage. What he's doing is literally that honor thing. What he's

doing is he's just honoring the gifting on people's lives and lifting to their high

calling. Because sometimes when you minister, you don't have feedback, so you're

really doing it out of faith and you're like, God, please use whatever

I'm putting out there, because I maybe you can't sense it to the moment

and know if no one comes up and tells you, then you're just like,

dude, I have no idea, right, And what he's doing is

he's spreading honor and actually prophetically calling them out and saying, no, you're

doing the right thing. You're in the right area. So isn't that awesome?

So we just love them, and so so God we just release blessing

and increase over them that God, their marriage would be blessed, their ministry

would be blessed, and I just thank you, they would have incredible moments

in the Lord as a family. I just say, like tangible visits,

visitations of the Holy Spirit in their house where they as a family encounter You

God. And so we just thank you and release that in Jesus name.

Everyone said Amen. Jasmine Mattson and then Ryan is an extension because they're married.

I'm under her for worship ministry. She's incredible. She holds the team

together. Sometimes when you're leading and you're out in front, you take hits.

When you're a forerunner, you take hits. Right, It's like the

first bird in the v or if you think mighty Ducks the flying v How

many know what I'm talking about. Yeah, the guy in the front takes

the hits, okay, And so so I just want to honor her.

She's done an incredible job in taking our worship. Worship in some ways it

used to be a little bit wild West. And I can't fully tell you

what I mean by that, but those who are on worship team know what

I mean, and uh, Pastor Joel knows what I mean. Uh.

And she's really brought it around and brought such stability and increase and glory and

unity. And so there's there's there's honor. There's like a double honor on

leaders who lead well. And so let's just honor Jasmine and Ryan. I

know they're not here, that she's a first service, so we just honor

them. God. I thank you for the worship ministry at this house.

God, I thank you for her leadership. I thank you for her family.

I say, every personal need they have is met God, as she

is serving the Lord God. We say every personal need that they have God

is meant that there's not one thing outside the care of the Lord in their

life. And that God, there would be such a blessing. I say

that she would be made famous, that she would be made famous. God,

she would be made famous because of her obedience to You. And so

we released that over here in Jesus name. Everyone said, Amen, All

right, last one, Pastor Vranjel, kind of you guys stand up.

They're the last leaders I serve under in some ways. So I worked at

the church for a while and got to serve and got to know them really

well. And the more you get to know someone, the more you kind

of understand, like how they work and where they function and how they come

from this. And I've heard a lot of stories. If you want like

church history stories, you go to Scott Broughton, because this guy knows everybody

in the Northwest and he knows every story of everything that's ever happened ever,

okay, and so if you need church stories, he's the guy. But

through it, I learned that pastor Dwayne and Joel have an incredible capacity for

grace and mercy. I mean incredible. I've experienced it personally, but I've

seen it happen where there's people I would not give a second chance to.

I mean honestly, I probably wouldn't give them a first chance. And they

have the capacity and the grace to literally give people the opportunity to walk out

in what they're called to. And that's what you need in a pastor,

because it really would kind of be lame to come to pastors and they don't

believe in you, and they don't care about you, and they don't want

to get in your stuff, and they don't want to see increase in your

life, like that would be lame, that's a lame pastor. But they're

willing to do it, and they've dug trenches in this spirit. There's been

hard stuff, betrayal, lots of betrayal, lots of hard stuff. But

they've seen the goodness of the Lord and they've met them every time thirty plus

years of doing ministry. And it's not like they can just quit. They're

like man, our congregation, they're a bunch of stinkers, right. It's

like your family, you're kind of stuck with who you got, you know,

like like they're kind of stuck with us. And so I just want

to honor you guys and just share that you've been a blessing to me.

I learned how to pray in this house. There were times where I just

learned even just you want to see a good example of a teacher is Pastor

Joel, And a good example of a preacher is Pastor Dwayne, who like

listens to the spirit. You saw him today up on the stage. I

mean literally I'm like everything he's saying, I'm like, yes, that's it

right, like keep going Like I was like almost like man, I hope.

I don't have to preach because like this is good, you know,

like and but I just want to honor you guys to transform my life.

I know I've been a difficult son at times, but I just want to

honor you guys and just share that you guys are transforming. You really are.

You're transforming a region. And I just honor the days of small beginnings

when things weren't all glittering and gold and you still believed in the word of

the Lord over setting out and starting this church and doing the good things.

And so let's start our hands out to them. I want to say,

maybe they haven't achieved their assignment because we haven't honored them in the right way.

Like Moses, I want them to get to their promised land, because

guess what, we're along for that ride. If they get to their promised

land, so do we. And so we need to lift them up and

honor them in any capacity. And even after today, if you feel a

tug on your heart for something like you need to I'm serious, if you

need to give into them, or you need to start volunteering in an area,

or you need to ask, hey, what can I do about this

thing? Like I want you to go and do and respond to the Lord,

because what the Lord is doing is you're responding to the call this morning

on the honor that they're due. Okay, so let's bless them. God.

I just thank you for these two. I just thank you for these

too, these mighty warriors in this spirit gone. I thank you for these

ones who hear from you well. I thank you for these two who tread

in the fires of your altar being transformed into the image of the King.

I just thank you God that they're transforming this region, they're transforming our hearts,

that the power of your spirit is upon them. I say, God,

every dream, every vision, every prophetic word would come to pass,

and God, we say delay is gone. In Jesus's name, we just

rebuke away delay over their life. I thank you God that you are increasing

their capacity in this season. God, like a battery that they had before,

they have a new battery with a higher voltage, a higher amperage,

a higher capacity that they can go further than they could go even when they

were younger and felt like maybe they had more energy. No, this is

the season of energy, and we declare it over them that they will run

and not be weary. They will run and not be weary. And so

we bless them, increase upon them. Every word of the Lord would come

to pass, that their lives would literally be a miracle, and that God

they would transform the region in Jesus same everyone said, amen, Amen,

what time are we going to? Two? Two thirty? Was that what

I I'm just kidding. I'll uh, let me, let's just sit for

a second. We just sit for a second. We're out of time,

but uh, let's just sit for a second. This would be my final

words, I think for the sermon. I'm not dying, don't worry.

They said, Oh, not just kidding, but I just feel like if

we look at the early Church, there's just something special about the way they

operated. Holy Spirit came, they're baptized and fire and you just start seeing

miracles coming and happening, and you think, oh, that's the stuff,

that's what we need. But that wasn't the only thing they needed. You

look and what they saw is they came together in unity. They had everything

in common. What does that mean? They were all like, well,

I mean kind of what they did was they chose to be together. They

chose to unify under a common banner, a common tutelage, and that's the

Jesus. And in our modern context, I worry that sometimes in the church

we don't have everything in common. I don't even think about that in our

Western cultures, specifically punch in the clock, punch out. I don't care

what happens to my coworkers. See you later by Becky. It's Friday,

right. But there's something special when we come together in unity. I think

I think maybe in this season, as we're entering the summit, what this

summit season is. It's like almost like a recalibration. I think Chris Ballatin

says, we have a oh what does he say? It's like a god

positioning system. We almost need the GPS of the Lord to realign where we're

going and where we're at. And I feel like the summit is kind of

what that is. It's a time for us to have everything in common.

What do we do? We're literally sacrifice. It's like a camp meeting of

old. We're sacrificing everything we would have done with that weekend, and we're

coming together as a unified body to praise the Lord and to see what he's

doing with us. And so I just really want to invite you if you

need breakthrough in your life, if you need breakthrough, and I feel like

there ain't one person in this room that doesn't need some sort of breakthrough.

If you need breakthrough in your life, maybe it's time to stop healing outside

the body and join yourself to the Body of Christ. Hold everything in common.

Because when you saw that, you saw the miracles break out in acts.

You saw people put in prison literally walk out. The people praying for

Peter to get out of prison didn't even believe he was at the door when

he escaped. Sometimes we do that to you. But this is a time

for us to come together. I really think there's something special, and I'm

preaching to myself. So whenever I'm up here just now, I preach to

me first, and you can come along for the ride. Because those who

teach are judged more strictly right, and so I need to be more unified

to what the House is doing. I need to be all about what the

Lord's doing in a region. Plant yourself in the House of the Lord,

and what will happen. You'll flourish. That's right, And I think it's

time for us as a body to unify together. Let's stand final note.

I don't know who and here's in a wilderness season. Maybe you feel a

little bit like forgotten, or you came from these really high moments and now

you're in these low moments. Maybe you caused it, maybe they just happened

to you. It doesn't matter. I just really believe that wilderness in the

moments are times to prepare you for the next season. You look at David

in his life anointed king, like as a kid anointed king by Samuel.

Just a quick timeline, David anointed King comes a minstrel to Saul defeats David

and or just defeats glythe In the story of David blythe showing light right literally

becomes like this high up captain in the military, like he's balling. People

are singing songs about him. Saul has basically killed thousands. David is ten

thousands, right, how many know that high moments and then boom he gets

knocked down. Now he's running for his life because the leader that he served

under is like after him. He's like, what just happened to my life?

I was in a high moment and I just want to share. I

just feel like the Lord has so much grace for you. Whether you caused

your problems or whatever led you into the wilderness, I believe there's such a

grace for you that the Lord wants you there, It wants to meet you

there. David was called out as a man after God's own heart, and

God knew he would mess up in the future, but he called him as

the guy who is after his heart before even the problems happened. So for

you in your life, I don't know what's happened to you, but God

is what they're wanting to call out. The basically the prophetic function over your

life that you know what, I'm not done with you yet. I'm not

done with you yet. This Wilderness season will serve you and teach you and

train you how to reign. It's always Pastor Dwayne said this actually during worship.

He came over and said this to me. The variables are different in

every season, but essentially there's always breakthrough. He's always about restoration in every

season. So just this morning, I really have to land this plane,

So I'm sorry, but I just want us to enter in and just ask

Lord, where am I at? What season is this? What am I

doing? God, teach me to honor, teach me to honor. What

if I don't know how to do anything in us in this season? Can

I just honor David honored Saul. Can you imagine that he even cut off

in the wilderness. He had a chance to kill Saul. All of his

friends are like, dude, hit him right now, get him, And

he cut off the corner of his robe, And after he did it,

he felt like the conviction of the Lord is like, I shouldn't have even

cut the corner off of his robe to let him know I was here.

Like literally, honor in every season will bring you through. Man. There's

so much more to say, but I think we'll just stay with that.

I'll invite the Destiny team up. If you don't know where you're at,

you're like, dude, my GPS is broken. I've been walking around this

desert for like years or months or maybe it's even days, whatever it looks

like. And your season's been kind of crazy. Sometimes you need somebody to

prophesy over you for you to recognize, Oh yeah, I'm a son,

I'm a daughter. God's still with me in this season, and this is

where he's leading me to hill Abraham and Sarah. God, they kept messing

up. Lion Lion to Pharaoh that, oh yeah, this is my sister

Sarah, it's not my wife, because he was scared. He had just

received a promise that like his family would be blessed and like generationally they'd be

like the sand of the seashore. Like, obviously, you can't die before

that happens, because you don't have an air. But he still lied,

he messed up. What did God do? He met them with another prophetic

word and more relationship through your failure. So I just want to announce you.

There's so much grace for you. Every time Abraham and Sarah messed it

up, met with more grace, another prophetic word, and a reminding of

no, no, no, I'm still with you. So come up and

just get a word if that's you. But I'm gonna pray over you first.

God, we just announce the blessings of the Lord. God. Teach

us how to honor, teach us how to love, teach us how to

be obedient sons and daughters that honor the ones around us, that push others

into high places so that their words can be fulfilled. God, we know

as we restore others. You restore us. As we lift other others high.

God, we are also lifted high, and so we bless us around

us. God teach us how to be a community, how to have everything

in common. Teaches God that were sons and daughters, children of the king,

co heirs, that we reign with Christ. You don't have the scraps

for us. God, you put us at the table of our enemies so

that we can feast. So that we can feast in front of our enemies,

the ones that accused us, the ones that said bad things about us,

the enemy, the devourer. You put us in front of him while

we devour in front of him. And so God, we just release that

that this is a season of increase, that wilderness seasons are ending, that

God, you're training us to reign. That God reminders that were sons and

daughters would come into this house, that this would be the most unified body

in the region. God, I just thank you that this would be unity,

that the glory can rest in this house because of the unity that's here,

the psalmone thirty three Unity God, the oil dripping down Aaron's beard,

that he would be here. God, then it would be here, so

releases, God, help us, teach us, deliver us. We are

yours. God, we are clay in your hands. Form us and deliver

us in this season. So we bless your name, Jesus. We thank

you for this, and we say all of this in the name of your

shoe, the name of the One, the King, Jesus. Amen.

Amen. So before you run out of here, I just want you to

spend some time with the Lord, just kind of asking him, God,

where can I honor better? Or God, what season am I even in?

Or God, will you remind me? Or come up if you need

a word, come up. Because these people experience the tangible love of the

God. They know what the Lord is saying and they'll deliver it to you.

And sometimes you just need to remind her. You just need to remind

her. So just spend a moment with the Lord this morning as we worship,

and just be blessed.