Rick Warren - When you feel like you'll never Recover, Do this!

When I'm locked in to a pattern of thinking, a

way of living, an attitude, when I'm stuck in a

relationship I can't get into, I can't get on with,

and I can't get out of, and I'm just stuck,

then I need to pray. Because with prayer, we can

recover our vision. And then we can see things we

never could see before. This morning at 2 a.m., the

Lord woke me up, and I got up and I

looked up some scriptures, and God gave me a message

specifically for you today. And what I want to title this,

regardless of how much I get through it, is this.

There is no recovery without prayer. There is no recovery

without prayer. No lasting recovery for certain. What I want

to do right now is take you through scriptures and

give you some examples of what happens when you add

prayer into the recovery process. and why without prayer in

the recovery process, it isn't gonna work. Now I don't

have any notes for this, so you're just gonna have

to write it down. I'm gonna put the scriptures on

the screen, and I wanna give you some examples, and

then draw a point. I'm not gonna preach the whole sermon,

as I said, I'm not feeling that well, but I

do want to give this to you, because I felt

like the Lord gave it to me early this morning.

So let me give you some examples of why there

is no recovery without prayer. A first example would be

back in the Old Testament, and that is when the

Israelites got impatient with God when they were leaving Egypt,

and in the 40 years they were waiting to get

into the Promised Land, and the 40-year delay was their

own fault. You know, God gave them seven tests to see,

are you ready to go into the Promised Land? And

in each of those seven tests, they'd fail, and so

God would say, okay, another lap around the desert. And

it took 40 years to get to a place that

should have just taken them a few weeks or months

at the most. Sounds like a lot of us. It

takes us 40 years to get to a place that

should have just taken us a few months at the most.

But in one part, the Israelites get impatient because things

aren't going as fast, and it's their own fault. But

they got impatient, and they started grumbling, and they started murmuring,

and they started rebelling against God and against Moses, and

God had to punish them for it. And they never

would have recovered. They would have all died in the

desert if it hadn't been for prayer. Let me give

you an example. On the screen, Numbers chapter 21 says this.

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Then the people grew impatient on the way. Have you

ever grown impatient on the way? Lord, it's just taking

too long. I should be further along now. I should

be further down the track. I'm this many years old

and I'm not where I expected to be at this

stage in my journey. They grew impatient on the way

and they began to murmur and complain against God and Moses.

Why'd you leave us here? We hate where we are

and we hate the food. Had to throw that in there.

This stinking manna. What are you having for breakfast? Manna oatmeal.

What's for lunch? Manna toast. What's for dinner? Manna cotti. Manna, manna, manna.

Come on. Why did you lead us here? Have you

ever asked God that? Why'd you leave me here, Lord?

We hate where we are. Well, that's okay. That's okay

to hate where you are because it makes you want

to be where you need to be. And we hate food. So,

God had to punish them. God sent poisonous snakes. Don't

you just love snakes? Okay, God sent poisonous snakes to

punish them and many became sick and died from the bites.

So they're all dying now in the desert because of

their own complaining and murmuring and rebellion. Then the people confessed,

we have sinned. And here's the key, pray for us.

Pray for us. They know the solution to their problem

is pray for us. So Moses prayed for them. Then

God told Moses to make a bronze staff and all

those who'd been bitten who looked in faith to Moses'

staff They recovered. Okay? Now, there's lots of recoveries in

the Bible. The Bible tells us many, many examples of

different kinds of recovery. The Bible tells us, for instance,

that Joseph recovered from his grief, or from his shock,

and Judah recovered from his grief, and David recovered from

all the things that were stolen from him. But this

is one of the first examples of recovery in the Bible.

It says, when Moses prayed. Now, here's point number one.

I want you to write these down. Just six points,

write these down. With prayer, we can recover from problems

we caused by our own impatience. That's what that verse teaches.

With prayer, we can recover from problems that we caused

by By our own impatience. Most of the problems in

our culture and in your life and in your relationship

is from our inability to wait. The biggest problem in

America is delayed gratification. We don't know how to do it.

I want it and I want it now and I

want it now even if I can't afford it. So

we buy things we don't need with money we don't

have to impress people we don't even like. And I

want it now even after I put it on credit.

And people are in debt because they don't know how

to delay gratification. People get into all kinds of relationships

because they don't know how to delay gratification. And I

want sex now, and I want it now, and I

don't wanna wait. And it causes all kinds of problems.

Anytime you get in a hurry, anytime you take a shortcut,

it's usually gonna be a temptation. God is never in

a hurry. We don't have any example of Jesus running anywhere.

One time his best friend died. He was a mile

and a half away and it took him three days

to get there. Come on. Then he had a bigger plan.

He didn't want to heal Lazarus. He wanted to raise

him from the dead. Come on, Lord, you're a mile

and a half away. And it takes you three days

to get here? He wasn't in a hurry. God is

not in a hurry with your growth. So just chill out. Relax.

But when the Israelites got impatient, got rebellious, they brought

problems on themselves. They realized the solution was pray for us.

They prayed. Moses prayed. And it says they recovered. So

here's the first point. With prayer, we can recover from

problems we cause ourselves. By our own impatience. Let me

give you a second example of prayer causing recovery. It's

with a guy named King Jeroboam. And King Jeroboam did

not want to hear the bad news. Has that ever

been true of you? You didn't want to hear the truth?

The truth about you? The truth about your problems? The

truth about the problems that you were creating because of

what you were doing? We don't ever like that kind

of problem. King Jeroboam did not want to hear the truth.

And God sent a man of God to him and said,

here's the truth. And you're not going to like it,

but here's the truth. And he got so mad, he

flew into a rage. And he's just emotionally involved. He's

like frothing at the mouth. And he's so mad because

he doesn't want to hear the hard truth about himself.

And in 1 Kings chapter 13, it says this. So

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King Jeroboam stretched out his hand in anger against the

man of God who had told him the truth. And notice,

it instantly became what? This guy's emotionally bound up. His

hand became paralyzed. He couldn't even put it down. He said,

you dirty, rotten... And his hand's paralyzed. Paralyzed. Can't do

anything about it. And the king cries out, pray for me. Pray,

pray for me. So the man of God, the Bible says,

prayed to the Lord. And here's the second recovery. The

king recovered the normal use of his hand. Why is

that story in the Bible? Write this down. Prayer helps

us recover when we're paralyzed by our emotions. It not

only helps us recover from problems we cause by our

own impatience. Prayer helps us recover when we are paralyzed

by our emotions. Ever been paralyzed by grief? I have.

Ever been paralyzed by anger? Paralyzed by lust? Paralyzed by fear?

Paralyzed by guilt? Paralyzed by shame? Prayer helps us recover

when we're paralyzed by our emotions. He said, pray for me.

So the man of God prayed the Lord, and the

king recovered the normal use of his hand. And you

can recover the normal use of your emotions. There is

no recovery without prayer. Let me give you a third example.

There's another king. This king's name, Hezekiah. Hezekiah's a pretty

good guy. Most of his life, he did the right thing.

In fact, when he first started, he was a king

at 25. First thing he did is he cleared out

all the idols, cleansed the temple, did everything right. He

was a pretty good guy. But up in years, he

got a terminal disease, and he's going to die. And

we pick up the story in 2 Kings chapter 20,

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and it says this, verse 1 to 7. In those days,

King Hezekiah became ill, and he was at the point

of death. Now Isaiah, the prophet, went to him and said,

the Lord says, put your house in order because you're

gonna die. How'd you like to have a prophet come

tell you that? Not exactly the power of positive thinking.

I can't imagine certain TV preachers saying this one, put

your house in order because you're gonna die. That's not

exactly a popular phrase. So the Lord said, Told Isaiah, say,

put your house in order because you're going to die.

You are not going to recover. Whoa. But, notice the

rest of the story. Hezekiah turned his face to the wall.

And he what? He prayed. Here's the third example of

prayer and recovery. And he prayed, pleading to the Lord.

Here's what he prayed. Remember, Lord... I've walked before you

faithfully with wholehearted devotion and I've done what's good in

your eyes. And Hezekiah wept loudly as he prayed. This

is not so, God, I'd like to live. If you

get the time, I'd really like to live. No, he

is beating on heaven's door. He is passionate. He is pleading.

I'd rather have three minutes of passionate pleading and prayer

than 30 minutes of preaching and prayer. When you listen

to a lot of people pray, it's like they're preaching

to you. He's pleading. And he wept loudly as he prayed.

Now notice what happens. Then, before Isaiah had even left

the king's court, God's word came to him again. Go

back and tell Hezekiah, I've heard your prayer. I've seen

your tears. You will recover. You will recover. And I

will heal you. And I'm going to add 15 years

to your life. Also, he says, I'm going to deliver you.

I'm going to throw this in for good. I'm going

to deliver you in this city from Assyria's domination. So Hezekiah,

read it with me, recovered. That's the power of prayer.

That's the power of prayer. Now notice one more verse.

Put this up. In Isaiah 38, Isaiah adds this to

the story. After Hezekiah's recovery, there's that word, recovery, he

wrote a prayer of praise. I'm not going to read

the whole thing, but he says this. You restored my health,

and I'm fully recovered with a fresh infusion of life.

I love that in the message. Translation. I'm fully recovered

with a fresh infusion of life. But, he says, it

was good for me to go through all those troubles

because throughout them all, you held tight to my lifeline.

Anybody want to give a testimony on that one? It

was good for me to go through all that pain

because even then, you were holding on to the lifeline.

You weren't letting me go. You never let go. Notice

the rest. You never let me tumble over the edge

into nothing. He said, you didn't let go of me.

The whole time I was really screwing up. I was

really messing up. You did not let go of me. But,

he said, my sins you did let go of. And

you threw them behind your back. Hallelujah. Now here's The

third thing I want you to write down. I told

you that with prayer, we can recover from problems we

cause by our own impatience. And with prayer, we can

recover when we're paralyzed by our emotions. This one is,

with prayer, we can recover even when other people tell

us it'll never happen. And it wasn't just some stooge

coming and saying, oh, you're never gonna get well. You're

never gonna recover. You're never gonna change. How many people

have told you that? A man of God told this. Hezekiah,

you're not gonna recover. In fact, God told me you're

not gonna recover. That's pretty final. Hezekiah goes, I'd like

a second opinion. God, you told Isaiah, your man, that

I'm not gonna recover. Come on. You know, I wanna

serve you. And he pleads and he prays and he

weeps and he's passionate and he's authentic and he's gutsy

with God and God says, okay, I'm gonna give you

15 more years. You will recover and not only that,

I'm gonna do all these other things too. Point number three,

with prayer we can recover even when other people tell

us it'll never happen. That should encourage some of you.

Stop listening to what other people say and start praying.

People say, you can't change? Say, well, you don't know

the God I know. He specializes in change. Let me

give you a few more. Fourth example, in the New Testament,

Jesus is walking down the street one day, and there

are two blind people sitting on the side of the road,

two guys, and they hear Jesus is walking by, and

so they cry out. They want recovery. They want recovery

of their vision, of their sight. They're blind. And the

Bible tells us this story in Matthew 20. Two blind

men were sitting by the roadside when they heard that

Jesus was passing by. So they cried out. This is

like Hezekiah. This is passionate prayer. They cried out. They're praying.

That's what they're doing here. They're praying. When you're talking

to Jesus, you're praying. They cried out, Lord, have mercy

on us. The crowd rebuked them, telling them to shut up.

Be silent, calm down. But they prayed even louder. Lord,

have mercy on us. Jesus stopped and he said, what

do you want to give me? What do you want

me to do for you? I love that. You should

study how many times Jesus said that. What do you

want me to do for you? I'm gonna let you

set the agenda. I'm gonna let you, tell me what

you want. And then they said, we don't wanna be

blind anymore. Give us sight. Every line here could be

a sermon. With deep compassion, Jesus touched their eyes. And immediately,

they recovered their sight. What did they do after recovery?

They followed him. That sound like a good pattern, friends?

Once you've recovered, what do you do? You follow him. Okay?

All right. Two guys, they cry out. What's the point here?

Write this down. Point number four. With prayer, we can

recover our vision and see things we've never seen before.

That will not happen in your life without prayer. With prayer,

we can recover our vision, our perspective, our sight. When

I'm locked in to a habit, her to hang up,

when I'm locked in to a pattern of thinking, a

way of living, an attitude, when I'm stuck in a

relationship I can't get into, I can't get on with,

and I can't get out of, and I'm just stuck,

then I need to pray. Because with prayer, we can...

recover our vision, and then we can see things we

never could see before. We see things about ourselves. we

never saw before. We see things about our partner that

we never saw before. We see things about the world,

about God, about Satan, about life, about death, about what's

important in life. We see things we never saw before.

It only comes through prayer. You're not gonna get this

in a secular recovery program. You're not gonna get these

benefits in a secular recovery program. Because in those programs,

they're not talking about prayer. They're not talking about prayer

at all. Let me give you another. This one had

to do with Peter and his massive personal and yet

very public failure Peter was Mr. Foot and Mouth Disease.

I like Peter, because he reminds me of myself. He's

so impulsive, he's so impetuous. You know, it's like, he

sees the Lord walking on water. I'm coming! And he just,

he's not even thinking about it. This is dumb. Walking

on water. He just starts, and he goes, oops, and

starts to sink. You know? I love Peter. I love Peter.

Peter's up on the mountaintop with Jesus and the transfiguration

and the three great leaders in the Old Testament. He goes, hey,

let's just build tents up here and have a party.

I might have said that. They come to arrest Jesus.

Peter pulls out his sword, knocks the guy's ear off.

He's just, act before you think And at the Lord's Supper,

Jesus says, one of you's gonna betray me. By the way,

I was in Ireland on vacation a week ago. Can

I tell you a good Irish joke? This fits, it fit,

it really does. I wasn't planning on sharing this, but

it does fit. There's this Irish priest. You know, the

Irish really didn't like the English because they dominated them

for 800 years. And so this Irish priest was always

preaching the same sermon against the English. The English are bad.

And his bishop comes and goes, buddy, you gotta preach

about Jesus. Okay, you gotta share the gospel. You can't

just preach against the English every week. So he promises,

next week I'll preach on the Lord's Supper. And he says,

today I'm going to speak on the Lord's Supper. And

the Lord said to the disciples, one of you will

betray me. And the blessed Saint Peter said, is it I, Lord,

will I betray you? And the Lord said, no, it

isn't you, Peter. And the blessed Saint Thomas said, well then,

is it I, Lord? Am I the one who will

betray you? And the Lord said, no, it isn't you, Tommy.

And the blessed Saint Matthew said, is it I, Lord?

Am I the one to betray you? And he said, no,

it isn't you, Matthew. And then Judas said, well, blimey,

it must be me, mate. There's always a way. If

you really want to, there's always a way. So it's

at this event, and Jesus has just said, one of

you is gonna betray you, and Peter goes, man, I,

you know, come on, I'd die for you, Lord. He's Mr. Bluster.

You know, don't, not me, man. And in Luke 22,

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verse 31 and 32, Predicting Peter's fall, Jesus says this. Simon, Simon,

Satan has asked to sift you just as wheat is sifted.

You know, farmers sift the wheat to get the chaff,

the chaff away from the wheat. Satan has desired to

sift you just as wheat is sifted. But, Jesus, I

have prayed for you, Simon, Simon. so that your faith

may not fail. And when you have recovered, notice, I

wish this was written out, because it doesn't say if. When.

When you have recovered. Jesus knew before Peter's fall, he'd recover.

Jesus knew before your mess ups, you'd recover. And when,

not if, I've prayed for you. So if I've prayed

for you, it's not if. You know what Jesus is

doing for you in heaven right now? He's praying for you.

He's praying for you. If there was something more important

for Jesus to be doing, don't you think he'd be

doing it? That's how important prayer is. It's not like

the last resort. It's the first choice. And a lot

of times in prayer we go, well, all we can

do now is pray. Like that's the last thing. All

we can do now is pray. And everybody goes, has

it come to that? Prayer is the first choice, not

the last resort. Peter, I've prayed for you. I know

you're gonna mess up. I know you're gonna deny me.

But when you have recovered, put that back up there,

it will be your job to strengthen your brothers. I

commission you in the name of Jesus Christ to go

commission others and to do it yourself to encourage your

brothers and sisters. So Peter has this massive public failure,

but you don't need to worry about it because Jesus

prayed for him. And so he says, when you recover,

now your job is to strengthen your brothers. Here's point

number five. Write this down. With prayer, we can fully

recover and even use our failures to help others. I

like that. With prayer we can fully recover. Doesn't matter

what's happened in your life, we can fully recover and

even use our failures to help others. All right, now

let's review. The Israelites teach us that with prayer we

can recover from problems that we caused by our own impatience.

And we cause most of our problems by getting in

a hurry. And Jeroboam teaches us with prayer we can

recover even when we're paralyzed by our emotions. And Hezekiah

teaches us with prayer we can recover even when other

people tell us you're not gonna recover. You're never gonna change.

And the two blind men who cried out to Jesus

teach us that when prayer, when we pray we can

recover our vision and see things we've never seen before.

Peter teaches us that with prayer we can fully recover

and even use our failures to help others. That's the plan.

That's the last step. Now let's look at Job. Nobody

had to recover more than Job. There is no one

in this room who had to recover more than Job.

So he's the greatest testimonian. We should pull him out

at CR every week. Hi, I'm Job. Let me tell

you my testimony of recovery. Now Job had three friends.

And his friends literally, they did some good things, they

did some bad things. The Bible tells us that when

Job lost everything, all his family and all of his

money and all of his health, he lost literally everything

except his wife and she nagged him. And she came

and says, look, honey, why don't you just curse God

and die? Oh, thank you, honey. That's very helpful. Very,

very supportive. Curse God and die. I'll file that. And

he loses everything except the wife who says, go ahead

and die. Thank you, God. But he does have three

friends and his friends show up and the Bible says

they sit down with him for a week, they sat

there and said nothing. That's smart. His friends were real

friends until they opened their mouths. The deeper the pain,

the fewer words you use. You need to remember that,

write that down. The deeper the pain, the fewer words

you use. If somebody's having a bad hair day, you

can talk to them for 30 minutes. If they've just

lost a loved one, or they've gone bankrupt, or something serious,

show up and shut up. It is the ministry of presence.

People say, I didn't come because I didn't know what

to say. Don't say anything. Just be there. They don't

need your words, they need your skin. When people have

had a major failure or a major loss, they don't

need a sermon. They need the ministry of presence. So

Job's friend did it exquisitely for one week. They just

sat with him, not saying a word. My youngest son,

after a lifetime of fighting mental illness, took his life

four years ago. My small group showed up. They didn't

try to preach a sermon. They just showed up and

shut up. They just said, we're going to be here

with you. That night, they all came over to our house,

those that were here in town, and said, we're going

to stay at your house. We're not leaving you alone tonight.

You're walking through the valley of the shadow of death.

They slept in in the kitchen and on the sofa

and wherever. They'd just be there. We didn't need a sermon.

Needed a hug. Needed a hug. Needed presence. But somehow,

after a while, they started deciding, we've got this thing

figured out and we're gonna tell Job why he's wrong

and he needs to repent and it's all of his

sins that caused all this stuff. And they start giving

all these reasons and rationales and theologies, a bunch of mumbo-jumbo,

We get to the end, and in the end, in

Job 42, it says this, verse seven. After the Lord

finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz, that's one

of the three friends, I'm angry with you and your

two friends because you did not speak the truth about

me the way my servant Job did. Job was talking

the truth all during this time. Now, sometimes he's railing

on God. That's called lamenting. That's okay, as long as

it's true. He says, you didn't speak the truth about

me the way my friend, servant Job did. He says,

I'm ticked at you. So I want you to make

a sacrifice. God says, I want you to make a sacrifice.

And notice he says, Job will pray for you. Hello? Hello?

Who's in the crisis? Who's in the tank? Who's lost everything?

That guy will pray for you. I know he's the

one that needs recovery, but that guy is gonna pray

for you. And he says, then I'll answer his prayer

and not disgrace you the way you deserve. So Job's

three friends did what the Lord told them to do.

He'd asked them to make sacrifices and bulls and oxen.

And the Lord answered Job's prayer. Now notice, then when Job,

look up here, when Job prayed for his friends, the

Lord restored Job's health and prosperity and Job recovered. There's

the word recovered. He recovered twice as much As he

had had, little stutter there. That's from the reviled substandard perversion.

It's actually just an error. Twice as much as he

had had, I mean really a lot. That's not in

the Greek, but it's on the text there. When Job

prayed for his friends, the Lord restored Job's health and

prosperity and Job recovered twice as much as he had

before his pains. God did not recover Job. Job did

not experience recovery when he prayed for himself and when

he prayed for other people, when he prayed for his friends.

He didn't have recovery when he was praying for himself alone,

when he was praying for his friends. Here's the sixth point.

Our recovery is only complete when we pray for the

recovery of others. Our recovery is only complete when we

pray for the recovery of others. Do you see how

close prayer and recovery are combined here? How you cannot

have true recovery without prayer? I told you that there

are many types of recovery in the Bible. Genesis 38,

it says this, Judah recovered from his grief. See up

here on the screen. Genesis 45 says Joseph recovered from

his shock. 1 Samuel 30, it says this. David recovered

all the Amalekites had taken from him, all his family

and everything valuable to him. What's been taken from you?

What have you lost in the process? Genesis 14 says this.

Abraham recovered everything that had been stolen. His nephew Lot

with his possessions and all the women of his family

And all the others who'd been taken captive. You know,

when I'm taken captive, it takes a lot of other

people captive too. When you get in a mess, it

creates messes for other people. When you're not free, it

binds up other people. And all the others who'd been

taken captive too. So, he recovered it all. Notice, he

gave a tenth of everything he recovered, a tithe, to Melchizedek.

Are you tithing? Hmm. Hmm. I'll just leave that one

right there. Okay? I don't even think I have to

preach on it, okay? He gave a tenth of everything

he recovered to Melchizedek, who was God's priest in that situation.

You know what all these verses that we've looked at

today say to me? God is a God of recovery.

And the whole business of Jesus Christ has been a

search and recovery mission to seek and to save that

which was lost. Why does Saddleback Church keep growing? My

favorite size church was actually 300 people. I could know

every name of every person, every kid, every cat, every dog.

I knew everybody personally. I loved that phase. But we

grow because people without Christ go to hell. We grow

because people need the Lord. And as long as there's

one person within driving distance who doesn't know Christ will

reach out And as long as there's one person who

needs recovery, and that's everybody in your neighborhood, you have

to keep growing. You have to keep growing. If I

summed up the whole Bible, it is in this phrase.

God wants his lost children found. Found. Jesus' first recorded

sermon is in Luke chapter 4. He'd actually been out

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preaching for a while, but this is his first recorded sermon.

He goes to hometown. He goes to Nazareth. Hometown boy.

Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Prophets not

without honor, save in his own family or country. When

he goes in and he picks up the scroll, this

is in Luke chapter 4. But he's actually reading the

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Old Testament and he's reading Isaiah 61. Here's Jesus' first

recorded sermon. He announces his mission. God's spirit is on me.

He's chosen me to preach the good news to the poor.

Does God have favorites? Yes, God loves the poor. There

were 2,000 verses in the Bible on the poor. God

says if you help the poor, God will help you.

God does have favorites. He loves the poor. God says

he has chosen those who are poor and riches to

be rich in faith. He's told me to preach good

news to the poor. Why? Because they're the ones who

know the most that they're in need. And then number two,

to announce freedom to those held captive. That sounds like recovery.

And then to give recovery of sight to the blind.

That is recovery. and to set the burdened and battered free.

That's recovery. And to proclaim that this is the time

of God's favor, God's grace. That's recovery. That's Jesus' first sermon. Friends,

I have a five-point sermon on recovery. That's his first sermon,

recorded sermon. Now he's quoting, actually, Isaiah 61 And in Luke,

doesn't actually give the rest of the passage. Because in

Luke 61, verses 1 to 4 he mentions the other

things that aren't mentioned in Luke it said he preached

good news to the poor he gives freedom to the

captive he gives recovery of sight to those who can't

see where they're going and claim that this is the

year of the Lord's favor that's grace and to set

the burden and battered free But let me show you

what else is in 61. Isaiah also says, and he

sent me to heal the brokenhearted. That's recovery. And to

comfort all who mourn. That's recovery. And to give beauty

for ashes and joy for gladness instead of grief. That's recovery.

That's recovery. And then he says, what about these people

who have recovered? Here's what he says. They will rebuild

the ancient ruins. They will restore the devastated places. And

they will renew the ruined cities. Everybody raise your hand. Say,

I do. I am commissioning you as a rebuilder a restorer,

and a renewer in America and around the world. That

is the commission of the recovered. To rebuild, to restore,

and to renew. Put your hands down.