The Revival Of A Fighter - Bro Jesse Howell 2-7-2024

Enjoyed the singing the testifying. Certainly, miss Our Pastor, tonight you could

be turned to the book of Genesis forty fifth chapter, reading for the Lord

to help us here tonight at the service. Certainly, miss our Pastor,

love him and appreciate him. I appreciate this opportunity, praise the Lord.

It's good to see you in the house of the Lord. Tonight. We're

gonna get into the preaching here Genesis the forty fifth chapter. We'll be reading

verses twenty five through twenty eight. I feel like I have a burden here

tonight. We'll go ahead and start reading. And they went out out from

Egypt. This is talking about Joseph's brothers. They went up out from Egypt

and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob, their father, and told

him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all

the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not

Verse number twenty seven. And they told him all the words of Joseph which

he had said unto them. And when he saw the wagons which Joseph had

sent to carry him, the spirit of Jocob Jacob, their father revived,

and Israel said, it is enough, Joseph, my son is yet alive.

I will go and see him before I die. Well, just stretch

your hands this way, God start Without you, we can do nothing God,

but thrown you, all things are possible. God Stord. We ask

right now that you wouldn't know if my pride and many word saw that you

wouldn't go in in this place tonight, and that you would touching soul thought.

If it's part God, I believe that you've given me worded for somewhat

here tonight. God, we asked that you would help. God. He'll

let your word at this way too. In his sin. God that's not

in this place sorrowfully, but joint me in the name of Jesus got me

on bright mouth. We're living to say all of the things that you would

happen to see. God, who can get car in honor and praise for

it? If you are worthy in your name, we pray she's a sweet

name who died for us, Amen and Amen. Genesis. The forty fifth

chapter tells of a reunion that is that is bound to happen, that hasn't

happened yet, but it's in the worst. It's in the it's in the

plans and our text. Our text is about a father who had been deprived

of one of his beloved sons. The jealous brothers of Joseph had sold him

into slavery and convinced their father, Jacob, that he had been been devoured

by an evil beast Genesis the thirty seventh chapter. In the thirty fifth Birth

versus, it tells us that Jacob refused to be comforted for the loss of

his son. He tells his sons and daughters, who deceitfully are trying to

console him. They're deceitfully trying to comfort him. They knew all along,

if they really loved the man, they would have been honest with him,

right, So they're sequally trying to comfort him. But he tells them that

he's gonna go to the grave mourning the loss of his son. He's gonna

go to the grave mourning for Joseph, his beloved son. And I think

this situation. I think about this situation here tonight, and what a sad

place this father has been put into by people he trusted right by, by

people that he's supposed to love him, people that he supposed he could trust

his very old sons should have his best interest in mind. But instead of

his best interest in mind, they deceive him and they make them think the

worst has happened to one of his young sons because of the actions of the

of the sons. Because of the actions of the sons of Jacob's, his

spirit was grieved for some twenty two years. For twenty two years, Jacob

has let you believe that his son is dead, that an evil beast devoured

him. They brought him the coat. You all remember the story. You

remember the deceitful plot, the deceiving plan. They brought in this coat.

They had took blood, splattered it upon this coat and brought it to Jacob

and convinced this father that his son was dead. But we know the story.

If you don't know it, I suggest you read it. It's amazing.

It is a just an overwhelming, overwhelming story about God's providential hand at

work in Joseph's life. He had been secretly sold into slavery by his brothers

and was brought to the house of Potiphar, who was the captain of Pharaoh's

guard. He was lying on in the house of Potiphar by Partiphar's wife,

and because of this accusation, he was thrown into prison. But according to

God's perfect plan, Joseph was promoted. And like I said, if you

don't know the story, I'm sure most of us do. If you haven't

read it in a while, go back and read it. According to God's

perfect plan, Joseph is promoted to second in command under Pharaoh. It's just

bewildering. The boy was sold into slavery, he was a slave, he

did serve Potiphar as a slave, and now he's second in command to Pharaoh,

king of Egypt. But while you think about the prosperity of Joseph,

think about a grief daddy. Think about a daddy that that's back in Canaan.

His spirit is still grieved. He said, ain't going to the grave

morning. So you think about a morning father, a prospered son, but

a mourning father. Because of deceit and because of lies, Joseph has been

promoted and prospering. His father is holding to a memory of a special little

kid with a special little coat that he made for him, a special little

kid. And this is what his father is holding to. I remember,

I'm sure it told stories. I remember when Joseph did this, and he

tells his brothers and they're just they can't help but feel guilty. I'm sure

after twenty something years they see the life of their father has been forever or

altered. The apple of his eye, the sun of his day, the

sun of his morning, the moon of his night had been taken away.

So we got it grieving Daddy. And Joseph is second in command to Pharaoh

in Egypt. And I want to point this out. The pastor was preaching

along these lines a couple of weeks ago, I believe it was. And

as Pastor was preaching, I thought about Joseph and his patience on the will

of God. You have to realize this man was second in the nation of

Egypt. He could have at any minute loaded up with chariot, said I'm

going to see Dad, I'm going back to the land of pain to see

how they're doing. But instead of that, he waits on God's perfect plan.

He gonna see him again until it's God's time for him to see them.

But Joseph is second in command to Pharaoh in Egypt. And there comes

a great famine which was used to promote Joseph. It was a tool in

God's toolbox to get Joseph to where he needed to be, to get him

to where he could sustain his people. The famine reaches out to Canaan,

where a grieving father has his family flocks in his herds that are needing food.

And work gets around, and there's corn in Egypt, and so Jacob

gathers his sons to gather and he tells them to go get food, to

go buy corn and bring it back to Canaan. And I can't help but

think that, as Joseph's brethren, we're packing their bags for the journey to

Egypt. I wonder if one of them looked at him and said, I

wonder, iful, Lucy Chose, I wonder if we'll see that little slave

boy out there sweeping the streets. I wonder if we'll see him tending to

somebody scarden, right, I mean, it's possible, it really is.

Maybe the conversation drifted that way and wondering if how he was faring. Maybe

they wondered, you know that little boy we sold in the slavery. He's

he's older now, he might be an old beggar walking around in rady clothes.

I kind of feel like they were expecting that kind of feel that what

they that's what they did for it. I kind of feel like they was

expecting to see a young boy with dirt on his face, dirt between his

toothes, and some ratty old rats wrapped around his shoulders out there sweeping the

streets or something. Maybe that's just my imagination, but I'm sure as they

made it to as they made it to Egypt, they began to walk down

the dusty streets. They were looking at all the servants and the beggars.

Maybe they get yo will catch a glimpse of their ill fortune. Little brother,

Oh my lord, long story short, Joseph recognizes his brethren. You

know the story. Joseph recognizes his brother, and he don't They don't recognize

him. I think if I see my brother twenty years later, I really

think I recognize him. Maybe I'm wrong, right right, because I think

they were expecting this man in beggarly clothes and what they what they mean is

a man man in the kingly garments. What they say is not what they

were expecting. So they didn't even recognize him. But Joseph recognized. You're

gonna tell me that Joseph can't recognize his brothers, but his brothers can't recognize

him. So Joseph recognizes his brethren and they make a trip back, and

they make a trip back to Egypt to get more corn. And this time

Joseph and the Pharaoh get together a bunch of wagons and they send it to

the land of Canaan to go pick up Joseph's daddy. This man, I'm

sure Pharaoh had heard about, heard about the lesion, Jacob, the man

who was the friend of God, the one that God said out the god

Jacob, like the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, this man that

King Pharaoh's were all about. Joseph said Pharaoh, it's time to go get

daddy. It's time to load the wagons and gonna get my father. Right.

So they load the wagon and they hit to Canaan. And I can

only imagine the due to the scriptures that I read, that Joseph's brethren ran

ahead of the wagons. They ran ahead of the wagon, said father.

Joseph is alive. Jacob probably says what they said, hold on, they

don't stop there. They aren't The end of the story. He's got just

alive. He's the governor of the tarlb the Bible said Joseph. Jacob's heart

faints right, Yeah, can't believe what he's hearing. They don't stop there.

He's just alive. Know, he's second in command. He's the worason

that Egypt passed on. He's the man res possible for the wealth of li

Urtex said that when when when when? When? When he saw the wagons

with Joseph had said to carry him. The spirit of Jacob revived after the

brothers of Joseph lied to Jacob about his death. I feel like the spirit

of Jacob had died for some twenty two years. Jacob seemingly walked off the

pages of scripture. You hear about Joseph and how it's going in Egypt,

but you never hear anything said about Jacob. The last thing recorded of Jacob

before his journey to Egypt, if I read, if I studied correctly,

and I could be wrong, I've been wrong before. If I am,

forgive me. But the last thing that I see recorded by Jacob before his

journey to is Egypt is I will go down to the grave unto my son

morning. That's the last thing. That's the last words you ever hear about

Jacob until the chariots come rolling in, until the wagon train comes rolling down

the dusty street. The last thing I read, the last thing I seen,

and such a man of God. Jacob was such a fighter he was,

but the fight was trained because of circumstances brought on by his elder sons.

His fight was gone. But our text was the turn point for old

Jacob. When he saw the wagons, he said his spirit revived. I

tend to think that Jacob got a little excited. I believe he had a

little pimp in his step. Right. Maybe he looked at Old rub and

said, hey, I told you there was something special about that boy.

I said, I told you ahead of guard was on that boy's life.

Why I tell your son, he's coming morrow, dad, and he's bringing

the best of the lamb. He's bringing the nises wagons I ever laid eyes

on. I said, there's something special about that boy. I think that

the spirit of the fighter returned in Old Jacob at that point. I believe.

I believe that the spirit that came upony that or not by the brook

we did. He wrestled with the angel I can't. It wasn't my brook

maybe, but I knowing the spirit that used to that he used to be

familiar with. We didn't wrestle with the angel until the break of days,

and I won't let you go until you're blessed. It yours fighter spirit rose

back up in old Jacob. Jacob's spirit was revived. And this is what

I want to preach for just a little walk to night, I want to

I want to preach you a little bit about the revival of a fighter.

The spirit of Jacob had been crushed, it had been ground of power,

but it didn't stay that way for law. He didn't stay that way forever.

There comes a we never the spirit with in us thing to revive.

We're the spirit of the fire in us needs to revive and renews him to

fight with alarm. The FA reponent word a renewed desire for a personal revival

or renewed desire for the spirit of God that dwell in us. I got

tired of don't fighting a little over a year now, I got tired of

that just giving in Yeah, I got tired of it. Just saying oh

well puts me in a corner. I'll do whatever I said, the fighter

rose up. It was around December that I settled it in my heart that

I'm reade a fight. I'm gonna fight for my family. I'm gonna fight

for my children. My spirit revived, my spirit revived, my crew.

I decide I fight, Jacob. Spirit revived. You ever tried to pick

something up there was a little too heavy for you, Well, I tell

you what happened for me. Usually, this is the way my daddy raised

me. He said, you gotta be smarter than it, you gotta be

stronger than it. So I tell you what. Usually, whenever I can't

get something, unless it's because like a car or something, I'll ever get

that. But if it's just a little bit I can't look get it,

I'm out there taken. I'll put it down and I'll look at it.

I might be crazy, but I'm telling you ain't stronger than me, right,

I kid you not. I do it. I said, I will

end this. I will get you in the back of that truck. I

said, the spirit of fire, I'll tell you the truth of my life.

Lock that. Most of the time, I'll get that done. I'm

not buller, hurt you, hey, but I got it in the truck.

I win that fight. I won that battle. That was a battle

of the streets. I get upset out myself, I really will. I'm

not lying to you. I promise, I preach you. I get upsetting

with myself in that whatever is I'm trying to pick up. You ain't gonna

beat me. You ain't gonna get the best of me. I got more

to fight at me than that. I'm come more of a spirit at me.

Th that he just lay out a trip. I got more admiring me.

I got lay my fight. The spirit of a fire needs Revie and

some young men, some young women has some days a monis. That's the

way you should look at some attitudes, some of them devils that fights you

with your actions and your reactions. That's time I happens. Why don't it

take a setback, Just take one set back and look at it and say,

not today you are gonna get the best of me. You don't have

the work saying I got the spirit of a fight. Hey, I'm ready

to fight tonight. All my my sister Donna said the other night, Brother

Nathaniel told me, she said, I feel like I was on a war

horse. All service. Who I love that. I said, I'm on

a war horse. Yeah, the spirit of a fighter, the spirit needs

are reviving us. Be stronger than that attitude. Be stronger than that smart

Now, be stronger than that temptation. Be stronger than that brun and desire

that the spirit of fight in you, so that you can have strength because

standing in the wicked day, for standing the evil day. You ever heard

of a second wind or got the dealing with me on that I'm gonna I

was gonna tily, but I couldn't away from revival of a fire. I

was gonna title it a second win. I'll tell you what happened in the

Book of Ezekiel, chapter number thirty seven, a second win. It's it

you a chapter number thirty seven, verse number one through ten. The exceeding

great army was dead. The bones were very tried and scattered the booty.

But God said a prophet sound familiar, doesn't it? A little side note

for you. I love my pastors preaching. I don't care if it's thirty

minutes for thirty hours. I never heard somebody complain about to be along winded.

But I got something to tell you. Sure winded preachers in the Bible

were calling my prophets. This thought I got Jeremiah, I Renie, and

it's in you. Why said I got awake? Prophet Petter to most number

ten of chapter number thirty seven of the Book of his EQO says, so

I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came in to them,

and they lived. Sounds to me like they got their second word. The

Valley of Dad try balls revived the spirit of Joke Jacob revived. I wonder

if we got some young men, some young women, and some moms and

dad, some grandparents in this house tonight and be honest and say, I

feel like those balls. All I can do is preach what God gave me.

I feel like I'm a soldier. I feel like I'm meant to be

a soldier. I feel like I've been scattered. Oh God, but I'm

ready to be revived. I'm ready to come back alive. I'm ready to

stand on the sun of rock that is Christ Jesus and hope the battery of

holiness higher. Someone might say, I feel like I've been scattered, and

I'm ready for the wind of the Holy Ghost to blow across my life again.

I'm ready for the wind of God to blow from the thirst heaven.

God told execu're the prophesie of the wind, and the wind began to blow

from the four corners. I believe it was Ball came to his bomb.

Fless came this flesh. Flesh drew over him. Curt God of Heaven,

Ezekuil prophesied to the wind. He prophesies of second win on that band of

soldiers. I believe that God's in the business of reviving everyone that's desiring to

fight. God's in the business of giving you the strength, if you have

the will, if you'll square your soldiers, they said, I'm gonna fight.

God will revive the spirit that's in you. It don't come to life.

The Book of Luke, chapter number seven, verse eleven through seventeen is

a story of a widow and her dead son in a town called Name.

Jesus stopped the funeral procession to revive this man. I didn't find where where

they asked him to. That's a rare occasion. That's rare. But I

just have to believe that if you want to fight for the right, that

He will ACQUI you. I just have to believe that God still in the

business revives me. I just have to believe that God still in the business

of raising up men that are willing to fight, and ladies that are willing

to fight, to stand in the faith of Hell with a war of them,

and to fight a Devil's happening like a fight God. Second King,

chapter number thirteen, Versus twenty and twenty one. Issue was invaded by the

Moabites. They were burying a man when they've seen the a band of enemy

soldiers coming. The Bible said, they put the man in the grave.

But it wasn't just any old grave. I said that we don't have time

to finish the funeral. We just gotta throw this dive and we gotta get

out of here. Well, it just happened to be the grave of o

Elisha, the man of God, the man that God has spear it off,

the man that fought for the King. You pick the right grave,

boys, good choice. The Bible says, this man was revived and stood

up on his sleep. He was revived by elciised balls in the spirit of

God. The reviving power, the same power that's here right now, the

same power of God that in this building tonight, that same spirit that wrong

Jesus from to day. You want me to tell you what your sword is?

What's your sword to fight? The Word of God is the sword of

the Spirit. The spirit is your sword. Judge's fifteen eighteen through nineteen Sampson

he killed a thousand Philistines with a donkey's jaw bone. All big. You

don't get jawbon, brother, so that big? You ever heard of a

bone killing that many people and not breaking. I messed with some cow schools

and stuff. They break normally they're bridle. This would kill a thousand Phillistines

by ahead of a lot of Sampson. Try to add that up. You'll

try yourself crazy trying to add up what's in the Word of God. You

do nothing but believe it. Believe the word of God. But the Bible

says that after that great slaughter, Samson was just down. He was just

all gave out. He gave everything. He had a thousand soldiers. I

think if I took a thousand of my oldest sons, I'd be worn out.

We ain't talking about little boys here, We're talking about trained soldiers that

this man took out single handedly one thousand. Just tell him that one thousand

takes a long time. Can't say I've ever done it. I might have

sat down and actually took the time to count to one thousand. But that's

a lot of soldiers, that's a lot of power for one man. Just

bewildering, just overwhelm me. But after that great victory for the people of

God, he thought he would die from thirst and become overtaken by the same

ones he just defeended. Right, Well, it wasn't the same ones because

they were dead, but they're near ken. Is that I've done out here?

And I donet did this great deed, And I'm gonna die from thirst,

and they're gonna take me and they're gonna hate me up in their city.

They say, we've got a great Sampson. They'll probably spend some wild

hell about how they captured the great Sampson, how they defeated the Great Samson.

But verse nineteen says God cost water to come out of the Jaho bone.

Come on, how awesome is our God? I tell you what.

Next time you're walking through a value of a value of cow bone, pick

one up and take you a dreuth. It ain't gonna happen. It ain't

gonna happen God water the Man of God from a Jeha bone. Nothing is

impossible. With our body, nothing is impossible. He's unstoppable. He's unstoppable.

Nothing is impossible. The Bible said that the spirit of Samson was revived

when he tasted of that water. His spirit came again to him, it

says, and he revived. I wonder if we have someone here tonight that

will say, I want my spirit to revive. I want the fire to

come back with the life within me. And I know most of us better.

The lives are fighters. You fight on your knees, you fight on

your feet. But I really feel like we have a few that want to

be fighters. They have a desire down here yet deep that God put in

him that they want to be a fighter. They want to fight for us

right. They want to stand on the word of God. We've talked about

us who men tonight in an exceeding army that was revived by the spirit of

God, revived by the power of God in many different ways. Nevertheless,

they were revived. They received a new least on life, if you will,

they had a second win. Faith should be soorrown in our spirits by

now. Faith should have revived our spirit by now holding on to the fact

that God is able, that it is possible with God, that all things

are possible to God, that I can do all things through prize, rest

strengthen the thief faith shore sore faith should soar, We should have a determination,

so degree settled in our hearts from hearing the stories of these men of

God, that not even ten thousand devils could convince us that we cannot be

revived tonight. Every devil in hell shouldn't be able to convince you that it's

impossible for you to be revived. That's where your spirit will come alive.

Jacob's spirit revived, Ezequel's army revived, the widow's son revived. The man

Bury on a licensed boat revived. Samson's spirit came again and he was revived.

Gone through the business, the reviving, Gone through the business. I'm

taking the stir on the fire. Turn the line. Oh he needs in

a willing heart. Oh he needs is a willing young man or a willing

young breeding. Then will stand up say revind the god man the spirit of

the line. Do you want it? And he will have some fighters in

the house. You n the road right now, won't you get with us?

What's a joy to find right now? I feel as that to find

out? I believe you want it, I really do. Do You're spirit

be revived tonight? Do you have a redive des understand all the powers of

the God tonight? The reviving power of Holy Goes is here right now,

The revivor is here. The same power that rose Jesus is here. He

said, I won't with you. I won't with you, but I shall

be in you. I shall come in. I shall dwell with you in

you. One man said, revival cannot be organized, but we can set

ourselves to catch the wind from heaven. We've got you that the flooringest people

again. Sets your winds, yourselves for a gale, set your seals for

reviving, Set yourselves for a second wind. It acts chapter number two.

The pittercostal outpouring of the Holygos was reported to sound like a Russian mighty wind,

sound like a second win of leaves. I can't leave. I want

the Holy Ghost to remind me to revide my spirit. Everybody every day called

me, don't break the bot, rEFInd my spirit. Oh God, I'm

God, I'm gone. That's all God, gave me. I believe the

balls in your cort. Now I believe it's up to you to offer up

holynairs say rEFInd me, God, put the fire in me, Put the

spirit of a fire in me. I want to be a fire. I

want to be a soldier. Thank God, Come let me fight the fire

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we need Evie. Oh God, let a great change to start interesting by

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