A surprise at sunrise - Bro Jesse Howell 11-21-2023

Praise the Lord. Sure is good to fill the presence of the Lord in

the house tonight. Appreciate what Brother Samuel said, we must be emptied out

if he's going to feel us. It's very true. It's very true.

I appreciate that. I want to say, certainly, miss Our Pastor,

we all do. We can feel it when he's gone. Miss the others

that are out. We have been praying for Brother Philip, continue to do

so. The Lord has moved and answered some prayers. We still have some

brain to do, though, miss Our Pastor terribly appreciate the Lord good seeing

all of getting the house of the Lord. Appreciate my pastor for this opportunity

to preach, for trusting me in his app since the Book of First Samuel,

chapter number eleven tonight, First Samuel chapter and the eleven. Appreciate the

Lord for being here. Most of all, we have some that rabs it.

But I certainly thank the Lord for his presence. The pastor was talking

about the power of presence. I believe that was Sunday morning. I believe

it was. I appreciate the presence of the Lord. Appreciate these messages that

our pastor have been preaching. These last few have just been man up.

They all are. But these last few have hit me like I haven't been

hitting in a while. Chip off the old block, monkey see monkey do.

Silly substitutes. Silly substitutes. Silly substitutions got me right here. It

made me go home, not even home. I did it before I went

home. I was right over there at my few, and it got me

right here. I want to make sure that I've got nothing substituting the power

of God in my law, nothing substituting my prayer life. For my Bible

reading plan, I certainly appreciate my pastor the Book of First Samuel, chapter

number eleven, reading in verse number eleven. And it was so on the

morrow that Saul put the people in three companies, and they came into the

midst of the host of the in the morning watch. Reading that again,

Saul put the people in three companies, and they came into the midst of

the host in the morning watch, and slew the emm of nights until the

heat of the day. And he came to pass that they which remained were

scattered, so that two of them were not left together. The Bible said,

Saul came in the morning, watch and slew the Ammonites until the head

of the day. Lift your hands toward him and ask God to help us

have his will. God, we thank you for your presence and your spirit.

God, we thank you that you have been here. God, we

thank you for the spirit that we felt us all the service. God,

we ask you to lean to right here for just a little while longer.

God, that you would meet us in this office. Service. God,

that you would touch a heart, touch of life. God, let us

surrender all of you, holding nothing back, hide kN behind the cross in

your world. We thank you. We praise you for your spirit that we

feel. Go with us. I preathe into the camp of the enemies.

In the name of Jesus. We praise an amen and the amen they hash.

The Ammonite has encamped around Jabs Gilead, and he had plans to overtake,

destroy and completely conquer the land for themselves. And if you read that

chapter the men of jay Best, they seem to think they didn't stand a

chance, because almost instantly, without hesitation, they began to try and introduce

a peace treaty. They began surrendering before the battle even began. They didn't

plan to put up a fight. They didn't plan to offer any type of

recons distance to nay Hash and the Ammonites and the men of Jabesh in this

instant remind me of the Disciples that that night on the stormy sved so dramatically

saying, Lord, save us, we perish, just panicking. Yeah,

they had no reason to throw in the towel. Jesus was was on the

on the vote, and they say, oh, save us, we perish.

How are you gonna perish? When Jesus is in the boat. At

the first sign of trouble, they begin to panic. And that's what these

men of Jabesh did. You can read verse one and that it says it

says nay Hash the Ammonite came up and kept against James Gillian and all the

all the the cave that said up today has make a covenant with us,

and we will serve thee white fly. They hadn't even made a battle moving.

They're already surrendering. They're already throwing in the flag. They're already throwing

in the towel. And if we if we plan to ever make it through

the evil generation, that God has caught us, caught us specifically for this

day and days that we are living in. God knew what we would be

facing. God knew who to place in here. And if we are on

a cocker, and if we're gonna make it through, we have to be

battle lined spiritually. We have to have a wheel to fight. But these

men, they just seem to throw up their hands and surrender. So easily

make a covenant with us, and we'll serve you at the first sign of

trump. And we see, we see people and preachers in this world today,

the church world that we live in, that they seem to have the

same mindset the devil says boom, and they go running color into a corner

somewhere and say, yes, sir, whatever you say, you say,

close the doors, We'll close the doors. You say, except holders actuality,

We're throwing into white flag me at septond whatever you say, We'll open

up our platform, We'll open up our music, We'll open up our pulprin.

Whatever you say, you say, except worldiness, you say, give

up the standard. Whatever you say, sir, I'm just gonna to be

over here. Whatever you say goes. That's what these men did. As

soon as soon as day has made like he was going to a tackle.

We surrender. I've seen people that faces a little persecution or little opposition against

friends or family, and the first thing they do in the surrender flag,

they throw it up. They throw away God's perfect, beautiful plan for their

life like it's a dirty, used napkin. God has a beautifully laid out

plan for their life, and at the first sign of trouble they throw it

all away. And We've got to have more power and self will in our

life than to be blown about by every window godtrin. We've got to have

more will power in our life, more spiritual power in our life than to

be blown about by every storm of life, by every dark knight they seems

to roll in every trial of our faith. We've got to have a determination

with God that no matter come let me. I'm standing strong. I'm going

to fight a good fight. They hash like this plan they're surrendering before I

even have to do anything, He says, sounds good to me. Let

it come up with a plant. Let me, let me figure out the

regulation for the peace treaty. Let me let me go home and think about

it. So he devises a plan. He says, I'll make a covenant

with you. If you let me put out everyone's bright eye, you let

me put out your right eye, we'll have a covenant. Will shake on

it right here. Well, historians sing that by gauging Ouf the right eye,

they Hash will basically disabling them. Since most of the soldiers were right

handed, they would hold their sword, spear, or weapon of choice in

their right hand. They would hold their spear in their left hand. These

shields would cover most of their bodies, including their left eye, they said.

The historians say that as they would fight, they would peek around with

just their right eye and able to combat their enemy. So without a right

eye, nay Hash was rendering the people the men of jamesh pretty much defenseless

when it came to hand to hand combat. But reading through that chapter,

you can see that they Hash had more than just leaving them defenseless in mind.

He wanted to completely humble them. He wanted to bring it disgrace and

a reproach on them. You can read that in verse number two of chapter

eleven. One commentator said that he wanted to make them look weak and tarnish

their reputation because in doing so, he would also no doubt tarnish the reputation

of their god. These these this group of people was known to be the

people that served Jehovah. And so if he could bring a reproach upon them,

then he could be able to go all to other nations and say,

yeah, what did their god do for them? There's nothing they can do

about anything right now, because I render them useless. I've put out their

eyes. They have no way to come to come back. The Ammonite said,

they take this play. But when he delivered this dibolic plan to put

out their eyes, I really think the men of Jabish finally realize that they

better not just give up and roll over that easily. I think that they

realized that this man was fighting for keats, he wasn't playing any games,

that he was out for their life, that he was gonna render them completely

useless. And that's the way the devil is when it comes to our soul.

He's not just playing games. You tell him, I'm making covenant with

you. I promise you it'll be for your life. You make the covenant

with the devil, it will be for your life. He's not gonna play

games. He's not gonna take it easy on you. He's gonna take He's

gonna get the best of you if you cough with the devil, and you

make plans and covenants with the devil. The men of j Besh tell they

Hash to give them seven days. Then they're gonna send messengers throughout all the

coast of Israel and see if there's anybody that'll help them. Give us seven

days, they said. After seven days, if no one will help us,

then will surrender to that awful punishment, will become the one eyed slaves,

will become the one eyed nation serving nay Hash, serving the Ammonites.

So the messengers set out looking for help to fight they hash in the Ammonites.

They make their way through a newly anointed king's hometown, brand new,

freshly anointed King Saul, fresh ready to do battle, feeling the spirit of

the Lord just been annoyed. King timing to make his appearance onto the stage

if you will. The Bible said in verse six that the spirit of God

came upon Saul when he heard he got down right hot under the collar.

The Bible said his anger was kindled greatly. Saul takes a yoke of oxen,

so to oxen in total use them into pieces sent them throughout all Israel

and says, whoever don't come fight this battle with me, I'm gonna take

your oxen and I'm gonna do the same thing to your oxen. Whoever don't

show up to help a brother when they're down, I'm gonna take your oxen

and I'm gonna do the same thing. Well, let me just say this,

the fear of God been on them. Folks, t three hundred and

thirty thousand of them. So well, say here we are. We're ready

with just battle. We're ready to fight the devil. We're never to have

part of the enemy. We're ready to stand at Caius against the plan of

the enemy. The fear of the Lord fell on them. Three hundred and

thirty thousand men rose to the occasion. King Saul sends word to the to

the men of Jaybish. He says, tomorrow, by the time the sun

gets hot, you shall have help. Verse ten. The verse number ten.

The men of Jaybish go out today hash they say, hey, we'll

come out to you in the morning. We'll come out to you tomorrow.

You can do whatever you want to do with us, whatever seems good to

you. That's what you can do. Well, that was easy for may

Hash to believe because he's seen how easily they gave up the first time.

He believe it. He took a whole line and sinker, but the am

and I didn't know what was waiting in the wings. Our texays. Saul

put three hundred and thirty thousand in the company, and he divided three hundred

thirty thousand to three companies, so he had had three different groups of men.

We read that in the morning watch is when they entered the hosts.

The morning watches for four am till about eight am. In the morning Watch,

they entered it to the homes of the Ammonites. They slew them until

the heat of the day, till those that remained were so scattered that they

wasn't even two long fo They delivered the men of j Best so much soda

they couldn't even see two enemies together. The spirit of the Lord came in

and moved upon Saul, and he who stood up for his brother. The

Ammonites weren't prepared for what the morning healed. Who the devil k hold back

the dawn of a new day? The devil k hold back the sunlight that

burst in from God of love. God had a salvation plan for the men

of Jaybish, but they had to wait out the night. They had to

trust that deliverance of trouble morning life. They had to be painful of the

night. If they ran out in the camp before I saw it out there,

I said, they would have been demolished. They had to wait out

the night. They stood there and said, God, I'm ready when you

are. I'm waiting on the man God to sound the horn and man it.

We're gonna go into this camp and we're gonna take back with the devil's

go. We're gonna fight for what's right. If the Lord say and by

me for just a little while tonight, I'm gonna preach him out a surprise

at sunrise, the Lord gave me this Tied and getting down no book.

I ain't read no book. I ain't never read no sermon's book. I

don't plan to. The Lord gave me that title when I was coming between

Walart and Bart and the thre child hold Life. I was talking to my

wife when we stand the trunk and it said sunrise. It was a grower's

truck. The Lord spoke into my heart of surprise that sunrise I said,

these ammer knights had a surprise the sunrise. They would have expected what them

they looked God hands and sword. They thought they had them right where they

wanted them. There's most of us here tonight that could raise a hand and

say that there's been times in our life when our situation looked hopeless, just

as they did for the people of Javs that night, just as they did

for the people of Jay. That's that day, my situation looked hopeless.

I thought there was no getting out of it. The night seemed long,

in the trial seem difficult. But just hold on because I see a new

day dawned. There's a line at the end of the tunnel. God is

waitful to see us through. Then the sun's coming up on the horizon.

God can turn your trial into the blessing. Just trusting wait for the morning.

God always has a plan. He knows how much we can take and

how much will make us stronger. The night always works a purpose. When

you're going through a time in your life and you feel like you're in a

dark place and feel like you're in a dry place, just keep the faith,

keep your head up, keep praying, keep reading your Bible, and

does God working a plan in your life and the devil can't sop the sunrise

when the world seems as dark and wicked and as vile as he does,

Trust God to give you a sun rise the end. And I thought they

had the people that say best dead the rights. They probably said, Oh,

we got them right where we want them. Now. They're acting crazy

and PanicIn They're gonna go down without a fight. We'll get their eyes.

They'll be over. They told us they're coming out in the morning. We

can do whatever we want to with them. They're gonna surrender in morning light.

They're gonna surrender. There was probably a man I can't help I think

there was a mama a dad down in Jabesh the night before, holding the

child, saying, I think it's gonna be okay. We heard from King

Saul. He sent a messenger and he said he's great, bringing a great,

big army in the morning. And they waited patiently for the dog.

Imagine the sounds of joy that swept through the camp. They swept through the

city, come da Great. Imagine the sounds of joy when they realized that

the Lord had delivered them out of their troubles. Imagine the city having erupted

whenever they see so, cause when you're in his kingly rolled walking and relieved

about thirty three hundred and thirty thousand, a man surrounding their city says,

Okay, we got you, we got your covered. I don't know who

these ammonites think they are, but they're no matter for Jehovah. I believe

that God has some sunrise put sunrise his plan. But it's gonna be us

to us to be faithful through the night season. If you want to see

if you want to see the sun rise, if you want to see the

light come up in your life, you must be faithful in the light.

If you give up and now, you'll never see it. If you give

up in the now, you'll be there indefinitely. You gotta keep the faith.

You gotta stand strong. One night Peter decided to go fishing. Taught

us and to than you, Nathaniel should know how to say that. That's

my brother's the thing. The two sons of Ebany and the two other and

two other disciples said we'll join you. John twenty one two three six is

the disciples immediately entered into a ship. And you can read that during the

night they spent all night fishing, they caught no fish. We know how

to do this. I'm sure they gave it their best effort. Some of

these men were professional fishers, professional fishermen before they began became followers of Jesus.

And you know how they say, you're riding about once you never forget.

I just have a sneaky suspicion that old Peter said, I know where

all the honey holds are at. I know exactly where to put my ned

in. I know where to drag it. I was a professional back then.

I'm still a professional now. Well that they pulled out all the tricks.

I'm sure you don't fish all night unless your name is Jeremiah. How

will enjoy it? And I catch nothing. If you're Jeremiah, you'll enjoy

every many of it. I ain't catching I'm leaving unless I'm hanging out with

some brothers or something. Then I enjoy myself too. Give me a gatorade

and the water, kick back and enjoy it. I'll watch y'all all time

long, But you don't go out and fish all night without pulling out all

the tricks. These men try everything they had, They caught no fishes.

For all their effort they didn't need. They couldn't even show one little fish,

not even the men, no, not even some cut bait. Nothing.

After all, not a fishing caught no fish. But the narrative changes

in their summer board. When the morning was calm sounds familiar, doesn't it.

It says, when the morning was come, Jesus stood on the shore.

Have you ever been in a situation? They seemed hopeless and helpless.

You pick your head up, and you realize, right there on that on

your shod is Jesus, right there on your shore. Whatever you caught,

everything you could the morning came. And when the morning came to us,

a stead it on your shore, and he offered salvation. He offered exactly

what you needed. If you walk up fish, boys, come on up

here. I had a fine going and I got fish on the grill.

I got just what you need. Jesus showed up on their shore. Jesus

sails on the casting it on the right side of the boat. I can't

help with thing. The boys that winning circles, though, don't They might

have went this way, and then they went back this way. So they

had pably cast it on the right side, if you know what I mean.

Even if they were casting on the left side, they were pad casting

on the right side. To you, because if you go in circle this

way and then you go in circle this way, the right and the left

side change. It's like going down the highway and going north and turn around

going south. Your signs changed. They had cast it on the right side.

But God's timing is what matters. They had to wait through the knights,

they had to be person. They had to person here through the night.

But more deed would cow up in the morning. Turned on the sword.

They cast on the right side. Now do it now, God timing

is everything. The Bible says they couldn't draw the nead in because of the

multa tuda fish. There was so many that they couldn't even bring it ashore.

Ask the disciples if that night was worth it? Ask them if that

long, tiresome night was worth it. They say, yeah, Brother Tremaa,

you fish all night for one hundred and fifty three fish, don't matter

if you catch him at night or in the morning. That's what they caught,

one hundred and fifty three fish. They ain't never caught that many fish

in one neck because the Bible said they couldn't even get in the shore.

Why wouldn't they carry a net? They couldn't get all the cast of shar

That's the first time they ever caught that many fish. If they caught that

many fish before and they couldn't bring it in, they would have got a

feed of that. Or they would have came God in mercury one fifty yard

and then they could have pulled it the chord and have them back. Then.

I feel I feel the Lord. I feel good, and I feel

good in here. Now. If you're ever, then God don't talk to

you. I'm kidding. I believe Peter would say that it was worth every

minded of it. The other nights loan. But God is faithful. Has

God ever found anyone? Has God ever had anyone down? He might not

come with you only, but I guarantee you he'll be right on time.

He's disciple, probably thinking him all right, taking his nature out the life.

But now God come in the morning when I sew up, and when

I stand on the sad, take you and passed the fish. He's always

right on time. There will there will always be another trial. There will

always be another that we must go through until we walk through the days of

pearl on that other shore. We will always face another trial, We'll always

face another night. But God does give us times of refreshing and times of

respite, and the morning we'll be worth the midnight. Will I want you

to think back with me to a bloody, beaten, in battered savior,

spin upon and mocked, stripped of its crows, hanging on a rugged tree,

a crown of horns on his head, a hole in his side that

was pierced through in a garden placed in a borrow, too sealed and guarded

by Roman soldiers, unpenetrable, storm left for dead, through decayed, returned

to dirt. Two women came to the tomb. John said it was early

Mark and Luke said it was very early in the morning. This is what

I love right here, Matthew said, as it began to doll. That's

a new game again. A dom Mary come from the tomb and had a

surprise. I said that sunrise. She had a surprise that she wasn't expected.

Where are you laying? The angel said, he's not here, but

he is risen, Oh, Matthew said, as it began to don As

the sun came up on the horizon. It in a long three days,

and heart said, And there watching him die on across He had been hard

watching them prison come, crown of thoring into his head, piercing the spear

through his side. Oh, it was terrible, It was heart reaching,

It was horrible. But Mary came to the tune as it began to don.

What a sun rise, What a sunrise? When the Savior of the

world came out of the tunbe victorious over death, hell and the grave.

The devil thought he had finally won. He thought it was over. But

what a surprise as the day began to Don, when the light of the

risen Sager spread across a gloomy scene, offering hope to the suffering, hope,

to the hurding, hope, to the addicted, hope, to the

stuggling hope, to the center the s o En rose, the sun rose

as it begin to go home, and that son, that s o En,

we'll never set again. Revelations twenty one twenty three tells us that he

is the light in that city above. We wouldn't need no sun or moon,

for the Lamb is the light. I'm planned to make it to that

city. I'm planning to make it to that city and no more night.

But if until we step through those days, we must be faithful. Sop.

Thirty and Birth numbers five says for his anger endureth but a moment in

his favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh

in the morning. Joy comes in the morning. If you can outlast the

night, joy comes in the morning. If you can outlast the night,

if you can keep the faith through the night, through the trying times,

joy will come in the morning. It seems to me like the devil's fighting

our church family. So many people are dealing with sickness and suffering for so

many different reasons. It's just a vast reasons. But just hold on because

the knight can't last forever. One day, the night won't be able to

hold back the DOONI know how sweet is the victory After I've toiled and I've

wrestled for a while, and I want to read a passage of scripture tonight.

In closing Genesis chapter number thirty two, verse number twenty four, We're

gonna read a few verses. And Jacob was left alone and then wrestled a

man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that

he prevailed not against him, he took the hollow of his stygh, and

the hollow of Jacob's stye was out at Jewel ask he wrestled with him,

and he said, let me go for the daybreaking. He said, I

would not let me go unless you bless me. And he said up to

him, what is thy name? And he said Jacob. And he said

thy name shall be no me called no more Jacob, but Israel. For

as a prince asked thou power with God and with men, this right here

and has prevailed. And Jacob asked him and said, tell me, I

pray thee thy name. And he said, wherefore is it that thou dost

ask after my name? And he blessed him. There Jacob wrestled with the

angel went till the break of day. But when you get to heaven,

I want you to look up Jacob, look him up and ask him if

the fight was worth it. Look him up and ask him the fight and

the whole night was worth it. Ask him if that victory was worth it.

Verse twenty eight said Jacob prevailed. He walked away with the blessing and

changed forever if you can wrestle through the night, you'll receive the promise.

It's going to be a fight, no doubt. Jacob went away living.

They could tell Jacob they've been wrestling. It's going to take some effort.

But the darker the night, the brighter the sun rise won't be The Bible

said, he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him. We've got

to be diligent and persistent in your fight through the night. You'll be rewarded

when you receive the promise. You'll see the purpose for the night. At

daybreak, when the sun rises, you'll understand the God's bigger plan, God's

bigger picture. Let's all stand here tonight. I feel like I've delivered my

burden. The devil's fighting, no doubt. The devil seems to have the

upper hand, But then if you look at it from the right perspective,

he's a million miles away from having the upper hand. The Knight start,

The Knight seems to be getting along, But God does have a sunrise.

God's God a brighter day. God's got a better day. But you and

me, we have to be persistent, We have to be diligent. We

can't be up and down traumatic like these men a J. Besh word,

the disciples on the sea so traumatic. Pause, we perish, You aren't

perishing. It's just a little right, it's just to their start. Think

about what God went through, think about the thwarts in his hand, the

spirit a sigh, and then tell me you're not dark. It's all perspective.

It's all hell you look at it. God's God all bright day plan.

It could be in this life or it could be in that city yonder,

but either way is fine with me. I'll stand strong. I want

you anyways. I'll pray to God to help these dance strong through the night.

I'll pray to God to help these dance wrong through the fight. He's

closer to that brother, He'll never leave us more for sakens. How can

we be scared of the night with Jesus walking beside, he needot or walk

through the wood with woods by yourself. Give a little bit scary up as

if Pitchcock. I don't care where you're at. It can be a little

nerve racking. But if you get another another friend with you, or your

dad with you, or a close brother with you, it would just become

a playground. Consider who's walking with us. Consider who's holding your hand.

Consider who's said, I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you. I'll

be waiting through the end of the world, through the dark nights, through

the hard trials. I'll be with you. I won't leave you. Just

hold on and wait for the dawn. The sun's coming up on the horizon.

It's going to be a bright new day. It's going to be a

bride new morning. Let's find a place to pray. Trust the Lord if

you feel like it. He does have sunrises. They're all throughout the Bible,

and things have drastic changes when things get change drastically for the better.

It's all throughout the Bible. Wait on't the sunrise? Wee being may endure

for the night, but joint common in the morning. Let's be aw Is

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