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  1. We get to welcome Pastor Charlotte in just a moment, but

  2. I just wanted to share just a couple of things for those of

  3. you who don't know Charlotte and aren't familiar with who she is.

  4. We're, I'm about to introduce someone who's not only a

  5. powerful voice to the global church, but someone who has

  6. personally impacted my life in a deep, very deep and meaningful

  7. way. OK, Charlotte has just really

  8. impacted me in a, a deep and meaningful way.

  9. And there are some people who carry wisdom and authority and

  10. revelation, but when you meet them that you discover that they

  11. carry kindness, humility and genuine love for people.

  12. And that is who Charlotte Gamble is.

  13. For years, she has strengthened leaders and built the church.

  14. She's spoken life into women around the world, and she's

  15. helped people to step boldly into the call that they have on

  16. their life. But personally, she's been more

  17. than a speaker on a platform. She's been a mentor, a voice of

  18. encouragement, a true friend through the years into this

  19. House. And I really believe it today is

  20. significant. We've been praying for this day

  21. and this session. And I don't think Pastor

  22. Charlotte here by accident. There is something God wants to

  23. speak across this room today. So let's have open hearts.

  24. And with the biggest sisterhood welcome.

  25. Would you welcome Pastor so good to be with you.

  26. I'm going to keep you on your feet just for a second.

  27. We're going to pray in a moment. I know God is already moving in

  28. this place, already did incredible things last night as

  29. you gathered and Pastor Sarah LED you in the word about

  30. legacy. And I'm so thankful to have the

  31. opportunity to add my voice to what God is doing.

  32. But I so sensed in my heart, just even last night when I got

  33. in later and I was in my hotel room, I just so sensed today,

  34. today's the day for some of you to receive a miracle that is

  35. long overdue. Like like I need you to.

  36. I need you to lift your expectation.

  37. I don't know how else to say it, but I need to grab the

  38. atmosphere right now, as awesome as this is, but I wish I could

  39. come to every single one of you and grab you by your cheeks and

  40. just say, girl, do you know who's in the room?

  41. I, I, I think we forget because we come to a conference and we

  42. gather with our friends and I think it's so easy to just do

  43. business as usual and we forget that actually in the room, not

  44. just our girlfriends are in the room, not just other sisters are

  45. in the room, but the King of Kings is in the room.

  46. And I'm just trying to get you to be aware for a moment.

  47. Just need you to be aware for a moment because if if in the next

  48. few seconds Jesus walked down the aisle, like he literally

  49. walked down the aisle, brushed past your arm on his way to the

  50. front to talk to the crowd that were gathered.

  51. If he literally just came down by the seat where you were sat,

  52. I know something inside you would shift because you suddenly

  53. saw who was in the room and all of a sudden, whatever you came

  54. here struggling with, you would realise.

  55. I don't know why I'm struggling because the answer just showed

  56. up. Whatever you were dealing with,

  57. or any depression you were battling or any anxiety you were

  58. feeling, suddenly it would be silence because you just

  59. realised you brushed past your arm as they walked in the room.

  60. And though there's not a physical Jesus walking down the

  61. aisle, brushing past your arm, He's right here, right now, in

  62. every single row, every single aisle.

  63. He's right here, which means our expectations should be no less.

  64. And I don't want to leave the way I came.

  65. And I don't want you to miss a thing.

  66. And I know in these next few moments, as God speaks to you,

  67. He's not just wanting to speak to you.

  68. He's wanting to impart something to you.

  69. In fact, when I finish speaking the word that God has given me,

  70. I'm going to open the altar down here and I'm going to extend to

  71. you the opportunity that need to to actually physically walk to

  72. the front to actually have a moment of engagement.

  73. And I'm telling you that upfront so that when we get there, you

  74. don't hesitate, you don't delay. But just like the woman with the

  75. issue of blood, you like whatever it takes, I'm getting

  76. what God has for me today. Whatever it takes, I'm going to

  77. push through today. So God, we stand in your

  78. presence. We just take a moment to

  79. acknowledge the fact that we're standing in your presence.

  80. This is not just an arena that we're in.

  81. It is a meeting room with the King of Kings and you do not see

  82. a crowd. You see every single individual

  83. and you do not come to do something that is generic as

  84. much as you come to do something that is specific and God.

  85. There's only one that can take a word and break it into pieces

  86. that feed each one of your daughters individually.

  87. It is only by your spirit to God you can take something that

  88. feels so big but make it so intimate and small.

  89. So God, I pray in these next few moments that your word would do

  90. just that. That as it goes forth into the

  91. atmosphere, it would be so specific to every woman.

  92. It will be so on time to every situation.

  93. It will be so clear to every chaotic place that people are in

  94. right now. It will be so much light into

  95. the darkness. God, I pray today that the word

  96. would be like an arrow piercing through the darkness.

  97. And I pray today, God, that with your word comes signs and

  98. wonders. I pray today God that there will

  99. to be miracles in this atmosphere that we get pregnant

  100. with today. I pray today God for

  101. breakthrough. I pray today for setting of

  102. three of people. I pray today that you would do

  103. something so spectacular and supernatural.

  104. All we can say is God it is all because of you God.

  105. I pray as always I would get out of the way.

  106. Holy Spirit, have your way in Jesus name, Amen.

  107. You may take your seats. I honestly feel in my heart

  108. today that God wants to hand something to you that is long

  109. overdue. That there are some things that

  110. you have even forgotten that actually God has not forgotten,

  111. that actually are due to you because God is a God that wants

  112. to do a miracle in you. Some of the miracles that you've

  113. even forgotten about or even have stopped praying for.

  114. Today I want to show you just how good God is, how much he

  115. loves you. If you're in any doubt today

  116. about the goodness of God, I pray that in these next few

  117. moments your eyes would be open to just how good God is and how

  118. much good He wants to do in and through you.

  119. I want today to talk to you about the completeness that God

  120. has for your life. I feel like so often on this

  121. journey with God, I meet people. I interact with people who are

  122. not walking in the fullness of all that God has for them.

  123. They're not walking in the completeness of all that God has

  124. for them. And I don't know why.

  125. I think maybe we just settle for a level of God that we feel is

  126. good enough. But today I don't want you to

  127. settle for anything less than the more than enough that God

  128. has for your life. Today.

  129. I want to stretch your mind. I want to expand your heart.

  130. I want to challenge your dream. I want to ask you, why do you

  131. believe so little when you serve the God who spins planets off

  132. his fingertips? I need your mind and your heart

  133. expanded. For we are called to be the

  134. daughters of the King of kings. And if you're a daughter of the

  135. King of kings, you should not be praying small prayers.

  136. If you're daughter of the one that created the heavens and the

  137. earth, you should not be believing for such little things

  138. in your life when God has more for us.

  139. God does not want to do something partial in your life.

  140. God doesn't want to make you a little bit better.

  141. God doesn't want to provide a little for you when He is the

  142. God of more than you can ask or imagine.

  143. But meet so many people that are living in a way as if God is

  144. short, as if he can't afford to bless you, as if he doesn't have

  145. enough to breakthrough in your circumstance.

  146. And I know the problem is not on God's end.

  147. So the problem must be on our end.

  148. But God is a God of fullness. He is a God of completeness.

  149. Colossians 2 verse 9 says for in Christ lives all the fullness of

    Colossians 2:9

  150. God in a human body. So you also are complete through

  151. your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and

  152. authority. You are complete in Christ one

  153. Peter 5 verse 10. After you've suffered a little

  154. while, the God of all grace, who imparts blessing and favor, who

  155. called you to his own eternal glory in Christ, will Himself

  156. complete, confirm, strengthen, and establish you, making you

  157. what you ought to be. There is a completeness in

  158. Christ. There is a fulfillment in

  159. Christ. There is a strength in Christ,

  160. and He wants to establish that in you today.

  161. I don't know what he's missing from your life.

  162. I don't know what he's lacking in your life.

  163. I sensed in the worship, just when I was standing there, I saw

  164. a picture of a jigsaw puzzle and a frustrated person trying to do

  165. the puzzle, but they couldn't complete it because there were

  166. some pieces missing. And I feel like there are some

  167. pieces missing that God wants to give you today because you don't

  168. have to leave here with an incomplete picture, don't have

  169. to leave here with an incomplete faith.

  170. You don't have to leave here with an incomplete belief

  171. system. God wants to complete you.

  172. A little while ago, my son, who is now 20, he came home and he'd

  173. realized, you know, I want to pick up a little extra cash, a

  174. little extra money. So he'd realized that now where

  175. we live in Alabama, because I now live in Alabama.

  176. Y'all never thought I would say that, but I do.

  177. And and so he, he, he realized I need some more cash.

  178. I also like to play golf and so he's smart.

  179. He figured out if I pick up a couple of shifts at the best

  180. Golf Club in Alabama, not only will I get a little extra cash,

  181. but I get to play for free on Mondays.

  182. Smart boy. So he took a little shift at the

  183. Golf Club, comes home, announces to me on Wednesday evening that

  184. he has got this shift at the Golf Club and his first job day

  185. of hours will be Friday morning. And he's letting me know on

  186. Wednesday evening because he needs a uniform.

  187. By Friday morning he might be 20, but he still needs his Mama.

  188. You know what I'm saying? So I do what all good Mamas do.

  189. I go to Amazon and like Amazon is my friend right now and like

  190. what do you need son? I need this color short and they

  191. need to be this length. And so I go on Amazon.

  192. I'm like I'm going to get 2 pairs because I don't want to

  193. get one in case he loses them. And so I get on there.

  194. It says he'll be here in 24 hours.

  195. Perfect. Put the order in 24 hours later.

  196. This is Thursday afternoon. Just in time the Amazon arrival

  197. comes to our post box. I bring it in the house.

  198. I'm like no, I got your shorts. We're sorted.

  199. I open the packet. I take out the pair of shorts.

  200. First pair of shorts, exactly what I ordered.

  201. Take out the second pair of shorts, and to my horror, they

  202. are not the same pair of shorts that I ordered.

  203. In fact, these are someone's dirty shorts.

  204. They're kind of the sort of the same colour, but clearly someone

  205. was packing my order. Looked at the two pairs of

  206. shorts, looked at their own dirty shorts so she'll never

  207. know. Whipped their shorts off, put

  208. them in the packet, put my paid for shorts on and sent me the

  209. two pairs of shorts. So I'm looking at this order.

  210. Brand new pair, dirty pair of khaki shorts.

  211. I'm like horrified. And so I decide, what in the

  212. world is this? This is not right.

  213. I paid for two pairs of shorts. This is not right.

  214. I don't want someone's old shorts.

  215. So I decide to do what no human should ever decide to do, which

  216. is take on Amazon. I'm like, I'm taking Amazon on.

  217. I'm not putting up this or this. So I go online and it tells you,

  218. you know, all you do is put them in the post, send them back to

  219. me. We'll refund you when we get

  220. them. Go to UPS, get the label.

  221. I'm like, I don't have time for that.

  222. This isn't my fault. I ain't got time in my calendar

  223. to drive to UPS because you made a mistake.

  224. I ain't got time to spend my gas money driving around town to

  225. send your shorts back. I don't think so, Amazon.

  226. This is not good enough. So I tried to bypass the

  227. automated system and I persevered and I persevered

  228. until I got an actual cell phone number, a phone number.

  229. I call the number and I get past all of the people that are on

  230. the computer system and finally get a human being and I say,

  231. listen, do not hang up on me. I have an issue.

  232. I'm a good customer, but I have someone's dirty shorts in my

  233. kitchen right now and I am not willing to drive to UPS to send

  234. you back someone's shorts that I don't particularly want to touch

  235. anymore. I need you to send me the shorts

  236. that I have paid for and I need you to come and pick up these

  237. shorts that I do not want in my home anymore.

  238. I need you to do what you need to do to sort that out for me

  239. because I'm not driving around to make up for your mistake.

  240. And the lady on the phone says, well, ma'am, we don't do that,

  241. but I'm a little scared of you, so we will do that.

  242. And within the next 24 hours, there was a person at my house

  243. taking The Dirty shorts back, giving me the new shots.

  244. And afterwards, I thought to myself, I had a Holy Spirit

  245. conviction because I felt God challenged me and say,

  246. Charlotte, are you as determined as you were with Amazon to get

  247. all that I have promised you? Or were you willing to live with

  248. half of an order because you can't be bothered to have the

  249. tenacity to get everything that my son paid for on the cross?

  250. And I don't know about you, but that challenged me because I

  251. realized, wow, I do have tenacity.

  252. And when I actually want to, I can actually be quite strong

  253. about something that I feel I have been wronged in.

  254. And I am putting all my energy into getting back a pair of

  255. shorts that make no eternal difference to my life.

  256. But I'm letting the enemy steal my peace.

  257. I'm letting the enemy take my joy.

  258. I'm letting the enemy RIP me off in my family.

  259. I'm letting the enemy put anxiety on me.

  260. I'm letting the enemy make me feel overwhelmed and overcome

  261. when I have been paid for, when Christ paid the full price for

  262. everything that I would ever face.

  263. And yet I'm not going for the full order.

  264. And that's why I began by saying some of you are going to have to

  265. get a little shaken up today because you've settled for far

  266. less than God paid for. You've settled for far less than

  267. what he sent his Son to pay the highest price for.

  268. And today I want to rattle you in a Holy Spirit way to remind

  269. you, you've got to get some tenacity back in your spirit,

  270. woman of God, because the enemy came to kill, steal and destroy.

  271. And if you are laid back in one moment of your life, he will

  272. take all the opportunity he can to make sure he steals from you,

  273. He kills something in you and he destroys something of your

  274. legacy that God has for you. So we need to rise up.

  275. We need to wake up because for every move the enemy made, God

  276. made a counter move. For everything he planned to do,

  277. God already covered the counter move that what he would do.

  278. So where he came to kill, God sent his son to resurrect.

  279. Where he came to steal, God sent his son to restore.

  280. Where he came to destroy, God said, I'll give you restitution

  281. for everything that has been destroyed.

  282. And I just wonder today, who needs a little resurrection?

  283. Who needs a little restoration? Who needs a little restitution

  284. from some things that the enemy does not get to keep in your

  285. life? So I want to take you to a story

  286. in the Bible where there's a woman that desperately needs,

  287. she needs a miracle, but she doesn't just need a miracle.

  288. She actually needs some things restoring to her.

  289. She actually needs some things raising back to life for her.

  290. She actually needs some things in her future being paid back to

  291. her. And Jesus in this story comes

  292. and He takes care not just of the present need, but He takes

  293. care of her past, her present, and her future.

  294. And God today is well able to take care of your present need,

  295. but He's also able to take care of your past pain.

  296. He's also able to take care of your future promises.

  297. He's able to do all of it. So why reduce him to just one

  298. part of it? This story gripped my heart

  299. recently and it's maybe a story that you have heard before, but

  300. maybe you've never looked at it through this lens because it's a

  301. story of a miracle. And often we preach the miracle.

  302. We get excited about the miracle, and the miracle is

  303. awesome, but there's way more than just one miracle happening

  304. in this story. Whenever Jesus did anything, he

  305. was always doing something that had multiple layers of

  306. breakthrough in it. He wasn't just delivering a man

  307. from a demon, He was setting him free for his future.

  308. He wasn't just healing a sick person, He was leading them into

  309. their eternal destination. He wasn't just opening a blind

  310. eye, He was restoring an entire man's life and future.

  311. Jesus was not just. Touching in one moment one

  312. thing, he was touching in that moment everything.

  313. In Luke 7, Jesus enters a village called Nain says in

  314. verse 11. Soon afterward, Jesus went with

  315. his disciples to the village of Nain, and a large crowd followed

  316. him. A funeral procession was coming

  317. out as he approached the village gate.

  318. The young man who had died was a widow's only son, and a large

  319. crowd from the village was with her.

  320. When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion.

  321. Don't cry, he said. Then he walked over to the

  322. coffin and touched it, and the bearer stopped.

  323. Young man, he said, I tell you, get up.

  324. Then the dead boy sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave

  325. him back to his mother. This is an incredible moment

  326. that we read of in scripture where Jesus literally brings a

  327. dead boy back to life. But I want for a few moments to

  328. unpack everything that is happening in this story.

  329. Because actually this story does not begin with the dead boy.

  330. It begins with the woman. And today I want you to know you

  331. might have come here with a dead issue, but the healing's not

  332. going to begin with the dead issue.

  333. It's going to begin with the woman who has the dead issue

  334. because God is a God of completeness.

  335. Watch what happens. There's a huge funeral

  336. procession. There's a large crowd that are

  337. gathered. There's a dead body that has

  338. been carried on a stretcher. But in verse 13, here's what

  339. begins to happen. It says when the Lord saw her,

  340. wait a minute, there's a crowd, there's a funeral procession,

  341. there's a dead body. But the first thing his eyes are

  342. drawn to is none of that, but they're drawn to her.

  343. And at the sight of her, it says his heart overflowed with

  344. compassion. You know, compassion.

  345. The word there, it comes from a root word in the Greek called

  346. splanks, and that it literally means the inward parts of your

  347. gut, your deepest place of emotion.

  348. This was a gut level feeling that Jesus had for this woman's

  349. suffering. This was not that Jesus saw her

  350. and felt a little sorry for her. This was when Jesus saw her,

  351. something in the inside of him was absolutely moved to do

  352. something for this woman. I want you to know today that

  353. God sees you, and as He sees you, his heart is moved from his

  354. very innermost being with compassion towards you.

  355. See, He saw what no one else seemed to see.

  356. He saw the burden that this woman had been living with for

  357. possibly years. She was a widow, so she was the

  358. only one apart from this boy in her family.

  359. And I don't know how long he had been sick and I don't know how

  360. frail he had become, but Jesus saw that this woman, this

  361. mother, this single parent had carried the burden of that boy's

  362. sickness for a long time. He saw on her face the

  363. weariness. He saw on her face the

  364. disappointment. He saw in her spirit and her

  365. soul how she she was aching and she was desperate.

  366. So often we come to events like this and we're coming because we

  367. have a dead thing we want God to touch.

  368. But God's not going to touch the dead thing until He first

  369. touches you, because why would He give you something back when

  370. you're not even in a fit state to hold it?

  371. Some of you are in this room and you are the carer of elderly

  372. parents and you're exhausted. You didn't plan for it, but it's

  373. where you find yourself in life, constantly caring, constantly

  374. doing errands, constantly taking care of things.

  375. You have that. And then you also have your

  376. children that constantly have needs and constantly have things

  377. that you have to take care of. Some of you are in here and

  378. you've got children that are wayward and they're living a

  379. life that is far from God. And it keeps you up every night

  380. and it eats away at your soul and it causes you to cry tears

  381. that no one else sees. And the ache in your body and

  382. the ache in your soul is overwhelming.

  383. Yet we come for prayer for our son or we come for prayer for

  384. our daughter. But because God is a complete

  385. God, he's like, I'll talk to you about that in a moment, but the

  386. first thing I want to talk to you about is you.

  387. You're living. You're living in a way that is

  388. incomplete. You're living in a way that is

  389. worn out. You're living in a way that is

  390. so tired and weary. You're living a life that is so

  391. disappointed. Why would I heal what's dead and

  392. not touch the one that's carried the dead?

  393. Why would I heal the body and not touch the one that's prayed

  394. and believed for that body? Why would I do a miracle in

  395. their addiction and not do a miracle in your weariness and

  396. depletion? God is a God of completeness.

  397. And I don't know what corpse you brought to the conference.

  398. We'll get to the cops. But in this moment, I want you

  399. to know he sees you. He sees you.

  400. He saw this woman. He sees you that has prayed

  401. endlessly. He sees you that has gone

  402. without so someone else can go with.

  403. He sees you that's lived with that abusive marriage.

  404. He sees you that's dealt with the betrayal.

  405. He sees you that has tried to pick yourself up 1000 times to

  406. carry on for those that rely upon you, them never knowing the

  407. cost it has been to you. He sees you, He sees you woman

  408. of God, weary from the battle, He sees you.

  409. He says, Jesus, even though there was a lot of things to

  410. gain his attention, saw her and he said to her, don't cry.

  411. Like I know you're exhausted. I know this has cost you a lot,

  412. but in this moment I need you to know I didn't just come for him,

  413. I came for you. I want to send you home, not

  414. depleted, but completed. I want to send you home, not

  415. weary, but refreshed. I want to send you home with a

  416. complete restoration. Some of you today need a

  417. complete restoration. You need to hear the words from

  418. his mouth. Don't cry.

  419. You need to hear the words from his mouth.

  420. Don't be anxious. You need to let him restore you

  421. before he talks to you about anything else.

  422. You want restoring. In Psalm 23, David writes, he

  423. refreshes my soul, He guides me along the right path for his

  424. namesake. And even though I walk through

  425. the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.

  426. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

  427. He had a revelation. God, I know You want to help me

  428. win the battle, but more than win the battle, You want to help

  429. me win. You want to restore me.

  430. You want to help me walk through the valley.

  431. You want to be with me in those times that feel pressing and

  432. feel oppressing. Isaiah 26 verse three.

  433. You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast

  434. because they trust in You. I'm not.

  435. I don't know what your peace looks like, but I have a feeling

  436. it's not perfect. I have a feeling some of you

  437. have an incomplete peace. I have a feeling that some of

  438. your peace is way more fragile than it should be and all it

  439. takes is a circumstance to happen and your peace begins to

  440. crumble. Why?

  441. Because your peace is not complete.

  442. But the Bible says there's a peace that passes understanding,

  443. which means no matter what happens, your peace stays

  444. complete. No matter who flakes out on you,

  445. your peace stays strong in you. No matter what they say, your

  446. peace remains God's like I need you woman of God to get a

  447. complete peace. Stop having a part time peace, a

  448. partial peace, a circumstantial peace, a peace for conference.

  449. But then a crisis when you get home steals your peace.

  450. Now do you have a complete peace, perfect peace.

  451. That word perfect peace in the Hebrew, in Isaiah, it literally

  452. means Shalom. Shalom.

  453. And that means there's nothing missing.

  454. There is nothing broken, everything is complete.

  455. Do you have shalam? Shalam, do you have a piece

  456. where there's nothing missing and there's nothing broken

  457. because it is fully complete in him?

  458. I don't know today where this finds you, but I know some of

  459. you have settled for partial like I was gonna with my Amazon

  460. order. And God's like, girl, I need you

  461. to get something inside of your gut today that says I'm not

  462. living with partial any longer. When I serve a God of

  463. completeness, some of you have partial joy.

  464. The Bible says in John 15, it says my joy and delight are

  465. going to be complete in you, that your joy may be made full

  466. and complete and overflowing. I know that.

  467. I know some of you don't even know what that sounds like.

  468. You can't even remember the last time your joy was overflowing.

  469. There's a joy in God that is not dependent on anything or anyone.

  470. It's in Him. And that joy?

  471. You have access to it 24/7. And I know it sounds strange

  472. when you're living in a time that feels anything but joyful,

  473. but there is a way to access joy outside of the way humans in the

  474. world without God access joy. We don't need everything to be

  475. right to find a joy that will complete us.

  476. And I just wonder who settled for a joy that is based on

  477. whether our life looks good, feels good, sounds good.

  478. That is not the joy that the Bible's talking about.

  479. How in the world can you be facing a crucifixion on a cross

  480. and say the words for the joy set before me that tells me

  481. there's a joy that overwhelms the hardest moments in our life

  482. that we could ever face. For in his moment of absolute

  483. pain, he saw something of absolute joy.

  484. What would it look like if you got your piece back?

  485. What would it look like if you got your joy back?

  486. You know why the enemy doesn't want you to get your joy back?

  487. Because he knows what the Bible says about your joy, that the

  488. joy of the Lord is your strength.

  489. And he's quite happy for you to stay weak.

  490. And I mean this with all the love in my heart.

  491. Some of you are weak women and I'm just saying it to you

  492. because I'm your friend. It's there's a weakness in you,

  493. but the Bible says that those that are weak, he's going to

  494. make strong, that in your weakness, he's going to make the

  495. strength come through in you. And some of you need to stop

  496. excusing your weakness and start getting mad with the enemy about

  497. the fact that you're living in a way that does not reflect what

  498. God says you should be living in.

  499. I know things can happen and they make us feel weak.

  500. I know circumstances can happen and they make us feel depleted.

  501. I know like this woman, there can be moments where we carry

  502. burdens as women and it just feels like no one else seems to

  503. carry the way we do. But Jesus saw her, He sees you,

  504. and he says, hey, are we done? Do you want to live in this

  505. moment, or do you want to recognize who's in this moment?

  506. Do you want to be overwhelmed by the situation, or do you want to

  507. be overwhelmed by the solution? Then he moves on to the body,

  508. because if he can restore you now, he can resurrect the thing

  509. you brought to him. So now he goes to the body.

  510. And by the way, when she saw Jesus, she didn't even mention

  511. the body. Because I think there comes a

  512. point where we feel it's so far gone, what's the point in even

  513. mentioning it anymore? Like some of you came to

  514. conference and you're like, I don't want to talk about it

  515. anymore. I just want to pretend for 48

  516. hours that that situation isn't happening in my life.

  517. I'm just going to pretend it's not there.

  518. But that's not going to help you move forward and it's not going

  519. to help you find the victory that God has for you.

  520. God's not asking you to ignore the body.

  521. He's saying, I, I want to fix you.

  522. And then we're going to move to this.

  523. But she doesn't even say. She doesn't grab him and say,

  524. Jesus, would you raise from the dead my son?

  525. She doesn't even have the energy to ask anymore, and some of you

  526. don't even have the energy to ask anymore because I asked

  527. before God. Nothing changed and I came

  528. before God and I feel like nothing shifted.

  529. And some of you have come here and you're the woman and you're

  530. weary, but you also came here with the dead thing like she

  531. did. But we serve a God.

  532. The dead's just not an issue. Dead's not a final statement.

  533. Dead's just another situation. He does dead just like he does

  534. depressed. He does dead just like he does

  535. sad. He's just dead just like he does

  536. anxiety. God doesn't have a scale of hard

  537. things. Some of you have got a scale of

  538. hard things. Well, this is so hard, God.

  539. This is just so hard, God. It's like it's only hard because

  540. you keep saying it's hard. This is not too difficult for

  541. me, but right now it seems to be due too difficult for you.

  542. So he walks up to the body, the thing she's not even mentioned

  543. and he touches the body and he says to the boy young man, get

  544. up and the dead boy, he sits right the way up and I love this

  545. next line and he began to talk. In other words, this is not a

  546. partial restoration. This is a full resurrection.

  547. This is not it got a little bit better.

  548. This is he got up and he began to talk like he did before he

  549. was sick. This was a full resurrection

  550. moment. And some of you brought the body

  551. of your marriage and the body of your dream and the body of your

  552. disappointment. And you're like, if I could just

  553. get a little bit better over conference God, that would be

  554. enough. God's like, well, if that's all

  555. you want, that's all you're going to get.

  556. Or you could have a full resurrection where the body sits

  557. up and starts talking again. It's up to you.

  558. Oh God, if you could make my marriage a little bit better.

  559. God's like, really, if it could just get a little bit sweeter,

  560. if it could just get a little less hard, if my finances could

  561. just get a little breakthrough. God, if you could just help me a

  562. little in this area. And we begin to bring God down

  563. to the level of our settledness. And I challenge you today to

  564. start to pray some bigger prayers.

  565. I challenge you today to start to believe for some

  566. resurrections in places that you've even stopped asking God

  567. for a resurrection. I challenge you today to get

  568. back what the enemy has stolen from your life and say, I'm not

  569. going to be a weak woman anymore.

  570. I'm going to stand up in the name of Jesus.

  571. I got a Mother's Day card early from my kids because they knew I

  572. would be away and I should probably shouldn't say the word

  573. that my son put in the card, but he wrote lots of really sweet

  574. things. But then he wrote this line.

  575. Thanks mom, for being a bad. I was like, son, what do you

  576. mean by that? He goes, I just know you're

  577. going to take it down if it comes for us.

  578. I just know you're going to run through the wall if it gets put

  579. up. I just know if things get bad,

  580. you ain't going to settle. You're going to go further than

  581. the bad. And you've just taught me I

  582. don't need to settle. And some of your children need

  583. to see the same in you because where you settle becomes the

  584. level under which they settle. And what you say is good enough

  585. becomes the level under which they say it's enough.

  586. And we've got to get back into the fight, women of God.

  587. And we've got to realise, no, I'm not settling for half of a

  588. good marriage and I'm not settling for half of the

  589. addiction cured and all selling for a little bit of healing in

  590. my body. And I'm not selling for a small

  591. bit of the cancer gone. I'm not settling for the

  592. addiction to be kind of under control.

  593. I'm not selling for my finances to be a little bit better.

  594. No, God, I'm not settling for anything less than what sets.

  595. Free is free indeed. The enemy's got some of your

  596. freedom because you only claimed part of it.

  597. Some of you're like, I'm free. Yeah, but you're not free

  598. indeed. Because when that happens, your

  599. freedom stops. When they say that thing, your

  600. freedom stops. And and this wasn't what I

  601. planned to say today, but last night when I was praying for

  602. you, I just felt so strongly to say to some of you, you need to

  603. get your confidence back like your God-given confidence back,

  604. like I am a child of God. I am a daughter of the King of

  605. kings. You need to get your confidence

  606. back. You need to get some umph back

  607. in your parenting. You need to get some sass back

  608. in your fire and in your belly. You need to say, I am a woman of

  609. God. I don't think so, enemy.

  610. I don't think so. He saw her and he restored her.

  611. He saw the boy and he resurrected the boy.

  612. But what I love is the final part of this story, the complete

  613. part of this story is that he wasn't just doing a healing and

  614. he wasn't just doing a restoration, but this was

  615. actually also restitution. Restitution is an old fashioned

  616. word. We don't use it much, but

  617. restitution is a word you should know and it's a word you should

  618. use in your prayer life a lot more because it means that

  619. whatever was missing or taken from your life, it's going to

  620. come back to you with a full restoration with recompensation

  621. for your loss. And I serve a God who's not just

  622. into restoration, but he's into restitution.

  623. He's like, I see what you lost and I pay you back.

  624. I know you lost four years in that illness, but I'm going to

  625. make the next four years feel like 8 years.

  626. I know you lost pain in that season, but I'm, I'm going to

  627. make this next season so full of joy you won't even remember

  628. those tears. I'm going to make restitution.

  629. Joel says it this way. But I will restore to you the

  630. years that the locusts have eaten.

  631. I will restore it back to you. Look at Job's life.

  632. Job's life. It was so good and then it was

  633. so tragic. It was so full, and then it was

  634. so empty. It was so God kissed, and then

  635. it felt God bereft. Job loses everything.

  636. Here's Job's wife's statement. Well, Job, if I were you, I'd

  637. just curse God and die. In other words, I don't have any

  638. fight in me anymore. I don't have any stomach for the

  639. heart. I loved the good, but I don't

  640. have any stomach for the heart. I liked it when God was blessing

  641. us, but I don't like this version of God right now that

  642. I'm witnessing. And so I would rather die than

  643. actually sustain and fight. And some of you have said to

  644. yourself, maybe not those exact words, but I'd rather give up.

  645. I'd rather quit. I'd rather die.

  646. I'd rather not be here. I'd rather check out, but how

  647. will you ever get to the latter part of Job's life if you check

  648. out in the middle of his life? Because the Bible says the

  649. latter part of his life was way better than the first part of

  650. his life. It says.

  651. So the Lord blessed Job in the second-half of his life, even

  652. more than in the beginning, and he got thousands more sheep and

  653. thousand more camels and thousand more oxen and he had

  654. family and children and offspring and generations.

  655. Why? Because he he didn't in the dip

  656. quit. He realized, I don't know what's

  657. going on right now, but I know the one who holds my life and

  658. I'm not settling for partial. So I need some of you to begin

  659. to remind your own spirit today. Why in the world would you

  660. settle for so much less? Why in the world would you like

  661. the children of Israel? Who?

  662. God says I'm with you, I'm for you, I've gone ahead of you, I

  663. have land for you, I have a promise for you, I have a future

  664. for you. God said it to them.

  665. Why, when God has just told you everything He has for you, would

  666. you die outside of the promised land?

  667. Why? God was willing and He was able,

  668. but their flesh was weak and their spirit began to quit.

  669. And some of you, I feel like your promise is your promise is

  670. so close. Like I feel it even now in the

  671. atmosphere. It's so close.

  672. I know you don't think God's working, but you have no idea

  673. what he's doing. It is so close.

  674. It doesn't look like you want it to.

  675. It doesn't sound like you want it to.

  676. But God is not saying he's going to do it your way.

  677. He's going to do it His way, which means you have to trust it

  678. when it looks like there's no way.

  679. But here's what I know. If it's not complete, he's not

  680. done. If it's not complete, well, it's

  681. not done. If he's not completely restored,

  682. he's not done. If he's not complete

  683. restoration, it's not done. So I'm not going to quit.

  684. Looks good, right? Especially this close to

  685. lunchtime. But this is how some of us live.

  686. God's like I've done it all. There was not one thing that I

  687. didn't take care of. There was not one brokenness.

  688. There was not one failure. There was not one sin.

  689. There was not one thing that I did not take care of.

  690. It's complete taste and see that the Lord is good.

  691. So we hear that and we come to conference and we say, God, I

  692. just know you're so good. Thank you, God.

  693. Why? Why would you take a piece when

  694. he gave you the whole cake? And some of you come for

  695. conference. You come to conference for a

  696. piece like give me a piece of blessing, give me a piece

  697. through the prayer, give me a piece.

  698. So you walk home with a piece when you leave behind the

  699. revelation that you don't have to take a slice.

  700. I have the whole cake. I don't need you to live off

  701. rations. I did it all.

  702. I need you to have a revelation. If this is your life, how are

  703. you slicing up your life? He said.

  704. I've got peace that passes understanding, but you're

  705. settling with peace that gets you through maybe the night.

  706. I have joy that is overflowing, but you have joy maybe once a

  707. month. I have favour that lasts a

  708. lifetime, but you've made me experience this favour every now

  709. and again. God's like, I want you to know I

  710. paid for it all. But what piece you take is up to

  711. you. And that day, that woman, good.

  712. She would have said, I'm sure, just touch the boy, then just

  713. touch the situation there and Jesus, like, but what about you?

  714. No, don't. Don't worry about me.

  715. Jesus, you got bigger problems. I'm good.

  716. No, you're not good. You've not slept for the last

  717. three months. You have anxiety because of what

  718. it is you're handling. You're not eating properly,

  719. you're Moody, you're angry, you're not yourself.

  720. I just wonder what about you? And in this moment, I just feel

  721. God wants to ask what about you? I know there's a body and I'll

  722. touch that, but I'm starting with you.

  723. I see you all across the room want us to stand to our feet.

  724. And I told you at the beginning that in a moment we're going to

  725. open this altar. I'm going to ask the prayer team

  726. to come down here, and here's what we're going to do.

  727. We're not going to leave until we get what is rightfully ours.

  728. Like we're not going to walk out the door to have a nice lunch

  729. together when we only have partial peace.

  730. We're not going to say, well, God, that was nice when we know

  731. we need a full touch from God. Some of you today need a touch

  732. from heaven. You need to get your fight back.

  733. You need to shake off the weakness.

  734. You need to change some things about how you declare the

  735. goodness of God in your life. You should change your mindset,

  736. change your perspective. Some of you, there's a dead

  737. thing in your life and you desperately need a resurrection

  738. and he's in the room and he's able to touch you and touch

  739. that. Some of you, you've been ripped

  740. off generationally. Last night you heard a word on

  741. legacy. But you got to fight to get back

  742. what the enemy has stolen. There is a legacy to fight for.

  743. There is a generation to fight for.

  744. It takes strong women. So we're going to sing a worship

  745. song just for a couple of moments.

  746. And I know there's prayer team at the front, there's prayer

  747. team down the sides. And I'm just asking if you know

  748. today you need a point of contact, what does that mean?

  749. It just means you just need to say to yourself, actually for no

  750. other reason often than just to, to say to yourself, I'm done.

  751. Like that woman with the issue of blood.

  752. She must have had a moment that day where she went, I'm done.

  753. I'm done waiting. I'm done living with partial.

  754. I'm done all the false promises. I'm done spending money on a

  755. doctor that has no reason to fix me.

  756. I'm done. And I'm no one.

  757. No one's coming to my house today, but I'm going to move

  758. from my house to wherever he is. And God is everywhere right now,

  759. but he needs you to be somewhere.

  760. So if you need to move, if you need a moment, if you need to

  761. step into the altar, if you need to find your knees, I don't know

  762. what, but Jesus is in the room, the restorer, the completer, the

  763. Prince of Peace, the great. I am the one who is Alpha and

  764. Omega, the one who began in you and will complete what he began

  765. in you. He's in the room.

  766. So as we sing, if you need to move, just begin to move.

  767. And then we're going to pray. Let's just begin to move and

  768. just begin to sing. Thanks guys.