“The Loss Adjuster” by Charlotte Gambill

Welcome to Gateway Churches Podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Hey hey, good morning.

I'm gonna have you stay on your feet.

Don't be too quick to sit back down.

We're gonna pray in a moment.

And so I'm gonna have you stand to do that.

But I want to start by saying what a joy it is, what an honor it is to be back with you.

You are family to our family.

I have known you all for a long time.

You've adopted this English sister many years ago, and I'm glad you've not sought to get rid of me anytime soon.

And it was a privilege to be entrusted to me in the circle that Pastor Daniel just mentioned.

And in that circle, I got to see up close the journey of your pastors processing what God was asking.

Not only what he was asking of them, but what he was asking of the whole family.

It involved their kids, their kids' future.

And you know, because we had just made a decision to emigrate, which was a big move for our family and our kids, we kind of understood on every level this is not a small ask.

This is huge.

And to watch the process be handled with such prayer, with such surrender, with such sacrifice.

In fact, I don't know if you remember, but I was here a little while ago before they came as you pastors, and I said, guys, you're about to get gold.

Because I knew God was giving you something that was so special.

And so to be here and to see this story keep being written by God, to see all that God has for you, and also anticipate all that is to come, it thrills my heart.

God is a good God.

He is the author and he is the finisher, he is the perfecter of our stories, and so I'm honored that I still get to come and see the beautiful story he's writing here at Gateway.

And you know, this house is built on this book, and we never drift from the truth of what this book is all about.

And you know, worship is a time where we lift our hands to God, we exalt him, we let him know, God, I'm placing you above everything, I'm letting you know I'm thankful, I'm letting you know I'm grateful.

That is what we do in worship.

You just all did that a moment ago.

It is our sacrifice of praise.

But when it comes to the word, we need to understand that your posture has to change.

Because now you're not giving something to God, but in the word, it's about God giving something to you, which is amazing to me.

That He actually wants to give us something after everything He's already given us.

So in the Word, we have to change our posture.

So when we take our seats in a moment, I want you to have the right posture.

And if you could imagine it this way, if you were on a football team and you were on my team and I had the ball, and I know when I throw this ball, we're about to win if you catch it.

I know if I throw this ball, we're about to beat the opposing team in this one move.

And I know you're on my team, and I know your job brief on the team is receiver.

But I look at you and you got your hands in your pockets, or you're on your phone, or you're chatting to someone on the field, I'm gonna think, What are you doing?

Do you not understand that in this moment you have one job?

And if you don't do the one job in this moment that you're here to do, we're gonna lose this whole thing.

When it comes to the word of God, whoever is up here communicating, it's like they have the ball in their hand from God.

I've prayed, I've prepared, God's spoken to me, I have something He told me to tell you.

So, right now, my job is to throw into the atmosphere what God gave me, and your job is to have the posture of receiver.

That's why in the word of God, we don't need to be distracted by anything.

You've got to shut everything else out because in this moment there is a ball coming towards your life, and it can change the trajectory of your life.

It can be one word that God drops in your heart and it literally pivots your life in the right direction.

It can be one word that literally becomes light in that darkness.

It's clarity in the unclear, it's hope in the hopelessness.

So let's never be casual when it comes to this moment in the meeting.

Let's never go into autopilot.

But let's always remember I just had a posture to give, but now I have a posture to receive.

So, God, right now we fix our posture.

God, we need your word.

We don't need another opinion, we don't need another viewpoint.

God, some of us have had a week that feels like it's been surrounded by so many words, and yet none of them have brought the light that we seek.

But God, we are now underneath your word, and so we listen differently.

We accline our ears on our heart and we change our posture.

God, we do not have all the answers, but you do.

We do not know all the directions, but you do.

And I pray today that there would be an openness in every heart that God, wherever it is that we need to change, we would say yes.

Wherever it is we need to surrender, we would say yes.

God, I pray today we would not just be in the room, but God, we would hear you and we would receive all that you have for us, and we would leave this place differently.

And God, I pray as always that I would get out of the way.

God, let me be invisible in these next few moments.

God, the only one we want visible is you.

Give you all the glory in Jesus' name.

Amen.

You can take your seats.

At the beginning of the year, I took some time, like I'm sure many of you did, seeking God for what was about to happen, unfold.

The plans that I had made, the plans that I didn't know that God may have for my life.

I was in that prayerful moment.

And you know, I have been preaching the word of God since I was 21, and I'm 53 in a few weeks' time.

So I've been doing this a while.

And so I guess I was praying, God, what's the direction?

What is it you have for me?

Is there something you're asking from me that I'm not even aware of?

And and honestly, at the beginning of this year, I felt such a renewed passion to run like I'd never run before.

I'm like I'm getting older, but in my spirit I feel younger.

I want to run harder, I want to serve greater, I want to surrender deeper.

I felt an urgency to preach with renewed fire.

I felt an urgency to pursue the things of God with such a sense of passion.

But at the same time, I felt the Holy Spirit caution me.

And the caution was this Charlotte, I don't just need your urgency this year.

I need your accuracy.

And that kind of slowed me down in that moment.

For I was urgent to pursue, but now I realize there was a caution, there was a pause that God was like, I don't just need you running, I need you running in the right direction.

I don't just need you speaking everywhere, but I do need you speaking somewhere.

I don't just need you to go to every opportunity, but I do need you to be in some places at certain times.

There is an accuracy that I'm requiring from you this year.

And I was reminded of an incident that happened to us many years ago.

God just brought it right back to my mind.

I'd forgotten all about it.

It was over 20 years ago, and I desperately needed help in a medical situation that I had need of a certain surgeon to be involved.

And this surgeon in England was super hard to get an appointment with, and so I had been put on a waiting list.

And the waiting list to see this doctor, this surgeon that had the potential to totally change my life, the waiting list was 18 months long.

And so I had waited 18 months to see this man.

And you can imagine how excited I was when finally the letter came letting me know he's going to be in your region of the United Kingdom.

He will be there on this day.

He is scheduled to see you at this time.

I had the appointment, I had the time, and so I was not going to be late.

I was up early that morning.

I was setting off well before my appointment, just in case there was bad traffic.

So I arrived at the appointment 30 minutes prior to my time.

I'm sitting in the office, I'm hearing everybody's name be called.

They call a name and then they say a room number, and the person gets up and goes to the room for their appointment, but my name has not been called yet, and I understand it's not my time yet.

But now it gets to my time, but no one's calling my name.

So I begin to get a little agitated because I don't want to miss my appointment.

But I think, well, everyone else has probably waited 18 months to see this man, so he's probably overrunning a little, so I had grace, and so I waited.

But now we're 15, now we're 25 minutes past my appointment.

So I go to the lady at the reception, I say, Hi, I just wanted to register with you, I'm here.

This is my name.

Just needed to remind you, I'm here.

She said, Well, ma'am, she said, Who's your appointment with?

And so I tell her my appointment, and I tell her the time, I tell her the date, and so she said, just let me check a moment.

She goes on the computer, and she looks back at me and she says, Ma'am, you do have an appointment with that doctor.

And it is today, and you have the right time.

But did you not get the email update?

I said, I don't know what you're talking about.

She said, We emailed all of his patients to let them know he no longer works from this building.

He's in a building that's an hour from here.

I had the time right.

I had the day right.

I had the doctor right.

I had 90% of the equation right.

But I had 10% inaccurate.

And my 10% of inaccuracy meant I missed the entire appointment.

I'm sitting in the waiting room getting frustrated, tipping into being angry, but no one is calling my name.

But an hour drive away, someone is frustrated because they're saying my name over the speaker system, and nobody is coming to the room.

And I had not thought about that for over 20 years, and I felt the Holy Spirit say, Charlotte, it's not that I will not be calling your name this year.

I will be calling your name, but I'm not gonna come to the wrong room.

This is a year where you need to be more aware than ever of the room you should be in at the time you should be in it, for I have divine connections and I have things I need you to walk into, but I'm not bringing what I have for you in the future into somewhere that you're locked into in the past.

And I was reminded of the story in the Bible that is in 2 Samuel.

In 2 Samuel 11, it literally just says this line.

It says, At a time when kings went to war, David was the king.

It was the time for someone who was a king to go to the location which was the battlefield.

But David knew the time, he knew who he was and his calling, but he decided not to go where he should have been, and he decided to stay home instead.

It seems a small diversion, it seems an almost insignificant decision until you read further and you realize that the choice to stay home led him to the choice to see Bathsheba, which led him to the choice to change the trajectory of his future.

Why?

Because when you are not where you should be, doing what you should be doing, the enemy will give you something else to do.

And I just feel in my heart, in my spirit today, that God wants to drop on every single one of you a renewed awareness of the time that we live in, of the day that we're alive in, that there are no hours to waste, there is no time to squander, that we have to steward right now on the earth what God is requiring from all of us.

We were born and predestined for such a time as this, and you don't have a day to waste.

This is your day to be used by God.

This is our time to be assigned by God.

We can't be spending our life in the wrong place with the wrong people when God chose to put breath in your lungs this morning because you have a purpose to fulfill on the earth right now.

Every single one of you, listen to me, every single one of you, God is calling your name.

He doesn't call just a few, he's calling every single one of us.

But God is calling your name.

But if you're not in the room, you're not gonna hear it.

And I was reminded of a scripture in Galatians, and Galatians 5, verse 25 says this since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Galatians 5:25

But it is a whole mind-blowing concept to wrap your head around today.

That is letting us know that we have the Spirit of God on the inside of us, but we actually have to choose to live in step with the Spirit.

Do you know you can live out of step with the Spirit?

You can have the Holy Spirit, you can have the power of Christ on the inside of you, but you can live out of sync with him.

You're called, I'm called to be in sync.

Have you ever danced with someone that is not very good?

And they don't know how to be in sync with you, it means they keep stepping on your toes.

It is uncomfortable because no, not two people in a dance can't lead.

Somebody, if we're gonna dance together, somebody has to say, I'm surrendering, you take the lead.

And when you don't surrender in your everyday life to the Holy Spirit, you keep feeling like your toes are being stepped on because somebody has to surrender.

And I'm just giving you an advance notice, it ain't God.

He ain't surrendering to your will.

You're supposed to surrender to him.

Let me illustrate what this looks like.

See, you can't lose Jesus once you say yes, he's right there with you.

Once you accept him, he's right there with you, right?

That that's not gonna go away.

But it's like having a power source on the inside of you.

But as you have this power source on the inside of you, just like you have a power source in your home, until you put the switch on, you don't activate it.

So that's why some people are being here and they feel the presence of God and they're moving in the power of God.

They have no more power of God than you do, but they've just flipped the switch on, maybe more than you have.

So we come on Sunday, or we come to service like this.

Y'all came in looking like lovely Christian people and looking like you love Jesus and looking like you're all put together, and you come in here and you're like, okay, this is my Jesus slot in the week.

This is where I come and I worship, and this is where I come and I say amen, and I listen to the word, and it's awesome.

But then we go to Aqara and we're like, I love you, Lord, but now I have Monday, and I really don't need you on Monday to tell me how to do my Monday, and I really don't tell you to tell me how to do my business on Thursday, but I'll be back on Sunday.

You can have a Sunday, you can tell me on Sunday, but I'm unplugging on Monday.

We start to do this in-step, out of step.

In other words, when it says be in step with the Holy Spirit, it means you've got to connect up to the Holy Spirit.

But when you connect up to the Holy Spirit, it begins to change the way you walk.

Because guess what?

The Holy Spirit doesn't always walk like you walk, doesn't talk like you talk, doesn't act funky like you act funky.

And so we don't keep in step with the Holy Spirit because he cramps some of our style.

But when you keep in step with the Holy Spirit, you start to want to do something, and the Holy Spirit's like, I don't want to do that.

So you have to reconnect your life to the Holy Spirit, and then you reconnect your life to the Holy Spirit, like I'll try this again.

I'm gonna try and stay in sync with the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit's like, I don't want to talk the way you talk, and so you start to have this awkwardness in your life, this tension.

And some of you right there.

You're in this tension in your marriage, this tension with your kids, this tension in your finance.

Why?

Because you're not in step with the Holy Spirit.

You're like, well, I want to do it my way, Holy Spirit's like, I don't do it that way.

Well, I want to retaliate on social media, he's like, I don't retaliate.

Well, I just want to let them know, I don't want to let them know.

Well, they need to know that they upset me.

I don't need them to know that they upset you.

Like, we're trying to, and the Holy Spirit's like, and so what we do is we detach because we just want to do it our way, and then we wonder why we're not feeling his power and his presence in the way we did in the service on Sunday, because you detach between Sunday and Monday.

So the Bible says you gotta learn to keep in step.

So at first it's kind of awkward, like this.

You're like, I don't really know how to do this, I don't need to have how to do it outside of Sunday.

But then you start to go, okay, I'm gonna stay in step, and all of a sudden, you start to find a rhythm, and all of a sudden you start to find a pace, and now you have something else going on in your decision making.

This is a picture of how God's wanting us to live.

He wants us to stay in step.

Now, one of the places that we often get out of step is when we go through situations that are painful.

When we go through seasons or times in our life where we feel like, you know, God, I just I don't appreciate this, I don't see you in this, I don't feel you in this.

It's in those moments when our feelings want to go left, but the Holy Spirit tells us to go right.

We're like, no, I'm not ready to go right, so I'm gonna detach so I can go left a little longer.

It's in those moments when you're like, I prefer my life when I do this, and God's like, I don't like it when you do that.

It's in those moments when we get into a situation and we want to overstay our time in something that God doesn't want to stay in anymore.

And a lot of times the Holy Spirit feels insensitive to your feelings because he wants to move on and you're not ready to move on.

He's challenging your attitude, and you just have just started getting out of your attitude.

You're you you're trying to camp up in your frustration for at least another few weeks, and he's already out of your frustration, and so we don't understand it feels insensitive.

The Bible says in Ecclesiastes that everything is beautiful in its time.

In other words, there is a time when certain things are no longer beautiful.

There's a time when what was beautiful is now ugly because you've kept it going way beyond its time.

And there are some seasons in our life that we extend way beyond the Holy Spirit extending them.

There are some things we stay in way past their expiry date, and then we wonder why it feels off.

It's off because it's ugly.

It's no longer beautiful.

That behavior is no longer beautiful.

It's like you're raising kids, it's like you raise your kids, and there's a moment, it might not be beautiful, but it's acceptable.

You're like, there's a moment when you can sulk.

You're three.

I told you to go to bed, and I told you no more cookies, you don't get it.

Uh-uh.

But if they're 33, it's ugly.

It was cute when you kind of did that sassy little attitude when you were two.

It ain't cute now you're 22.

It's ugly.

It's disobedient, it's disrespectful, it's not beautiful anymore.

Do you understand?

And there are some things we're putting up with that God is not putting up with.

And God's like, why are you still putting up with it when I've already moved on from it?

And today, God wants to move some of you, like literally move some of you, that you would actually leave this room and you would realize I have to change some stuff because I am camped up in the wrong place.

And there's a story in John 20 where God helps someone move on.

Jesus helps someone move on that's about to get stuck in the wrong place.

Her name is Mary.

She loved Jesus.

But Mary had just been through something that had caused her great grief.

She had just watched.

Jesus crucified on the cross.

She was devastated.

Her hope was in Jesus and now Jesus is gone.

Her life was about Jesus and now she has no rhyme or reason to her life.

She is confused.

She is distraught.

And so we find Mary grief-stricken over her loss.

In John 20, several days have passed, and now she is able to go to the tomb.

So Mary is about to pack up all of the embalming fluids.

And she's about to run to the tomb so she can carry on grieving.

She's about to go to the tomb so she can embalm what she knows is laying there waiting for her.

She's about to continue her grief-stricken state in a new location.

Some of you entered this year with embalming fluids in your pocket.

Carrying on grieving from what happened six months ago.

Carry on being frustrated from what happened a month ago.

Going to embalm the body some more.

But when she gets there, she's about to have a conversation.

Because Mary, I appreciate that you came, but I need to now help you get in step with the spirit.

Mary gets to the tomb.

And he says, now Mary stood outside the tomb crying.

And as she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb.

And she saw two angels in white seated where Jesus' body had been.

One at the head and the other at the foot.

Now here comes the first question that you might need to answer yourself today.

They asked the woman, Woman, why are you crying?

I told you, the Holy Spirit at times seems insensitive.

I mean, why in the world would you ask Mary why she's crying?

Isn't it obvious why she's crying?

She just watched Jesus be crucified.

It's only a few days after the brutal crucifixion.

She's obviously crying because of what she's just lost.

It's a stupid question on so many levels, but the angels are asking an insensitive question to a woman that is grief-stricken.

Why are you crying?

But I need you to notice someone.

No one asked her why you are crying at the cross.

No one asked her why you're crying when she was at the foot of the cross.

Why?

Because in that moment, that was the right response.

In that moment, the tears were beautiful in their time.

In that moment, her grief was an offering to those that watched around her, letting everyone know how much she loved Jesus, how much she cared for Jesus.

In that moment, no one's asking, why are you crying?

Because the tears are appropriate.

They are beautiful in their time.

But memory won't under the cross anymore.

And I know in your mind you need a lot longer, but heaven has chosen to speed things up.

I know you want to linger in your grief for another month, another year, but I'm letting you know, I'm asking you the question, why are you crying?

Because your emotions and your feelings don't fit with the facts of this situation.

The best way I can show you what's happening is to tell you a story of what happened to us a few years ago.

It was Christmas Eve in England.

We've been hanging with our family upstairs and having a great time, and then it came that time in the evening, you know, when the kids go to bed and you have to become Father Christmas's helpers, you know what I mean?

Like we need to go get the goods and get them in position.

And so the kids were asleep.

I say to Steve, I'll go down and start bringing everything up.

I go to the basement, I put my foot onto the basement step, but my foot doesn't hit the step before it hits water.

I'm like, what in the world?

It's not just a little bit of water, it's all the way up past my ankles.

And I have this horrific revelation that while we have been upstairs on Christmas Eve, a pipe has burst and the entire basement is flooded.

Everything was in the basement.

Every gift, every present, every decoration, it was all in the basement, and now it is ruined.

It is 11 p.m.

on Christmas Eve.

There is no way of fixing this by the morning.

And I would like to tell you that I'm such a spiritual woman of God that I stood on that step and I said, It does not matter.

Joy is my strength, the Lord is my provider.

But I said no such thing.

I said things I had to repent about saying later because I was mad.

I was like, God, this is not good, this is not fair.

I was upset.

I cried all night.

I cried the next morning when Christmas was ruined.

I cried the next week.

In fact, I cried for several weeks because I was just so devastated at the loss.

Until there was a knock on my front door.

I go down the stairs, I open the front door.

There's a gentleman there in a suit with a briefcase.

He says, Hello.

Are you Mrs.

Gamble?

I said, Yes, I am.

He said, Well, I'm sorry it's taken me a minute to get here.

It's been kind of busy over the vacation season.

But he said, um, I'm from your insurance company.

I believe you had a flood.

I said, Yes, we did.

He said, Well, he said, my job description is I'm the loss adjuster.

So I'd just like you to show me what you lost so I can make a calculation for what we owe.

How many of you know I ain't crying anymore?

I ain't crying.

In fact, I'm thinking to myself, I hated that sofa.

My granny gave me it.

We're about to get a new one.

We bought the kids some cheap presents, we're about to get some upgrades.

Ah, I was not crying anymore.

Why?

Because I had forgotten I had insurance.

I'd forgotten that I had a policy that covered everything that was in the basement.

And some of you have forgotten you have insurance.

You have a heavenly loss adjuster.

So when the Holy Spirit shows up and he's knocking on your Muhammad and he starts asking a question that seems insensitive, it's not because he's rude.

It's not because he doesn't care.

He just knows something you've forgotten.

Hey, I'm just wondering why are you crying?

Because heaven has a loss adjuster.

I'm just wondering why are you crying?

Because what you're trying to embalm is already resurrected.

I just wonder why you're crying.

Because I already did a miracle where you've come to mourn.

I'm just trying to bring you up to speed with where the Holy Spirit is.

Maybe the question today is not why you're crying.

Maybe the question for you is, why are you angry?

Well, you don't know what happened to me six months ago.

Well, you don't have a clue what happened in my marriage.

Well, you don't know how bad they treated me.

I I I'm not asking you about what happened.

I'm just asking you, why are you still angry?

Or maybe the question is, why are you anxious?

Why are you bitter?

And we may have an answer like Mary had an answer, but you need to understand God is trying to get some of you back in step with the Holy Spirit.

Because where you're living has no more beauty in it because it's out of time.

Why are you crying?

It gets worse.

Because she's about to be asked the question again and a second question, but this time not by an angel, by Jesus Himself.

So they asked her why you cry and she says, Well, they've taken my Lord away, and I don't know where they put it.

Then she turned around, saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

How can you not realize it's Jesus when you know Jesus, you follow Jesus, you serve Jesus, because when your mind's in the wrong place, you can't see what's right in front of your face.

And when you think crazy, you act crazy.

And some of you are cray cray right now, and the Lord sent your English sister to stop you being crazy any longer.

It is time to be done with the crazy behavior.

Stop being crazy.

Listen to now she's talking to Jesus.

Jesus standing there.

So this is what Jesus asks her.

Number one, woman.

You might have heard this a few seconds ago, but I'll say it again.

Why are you crying?

Second question.

And who or what is it you're looking for?

In other words, what in your mind will make this better?

What is it that you're looking for today that will make you feel that you can move on?

So, Mary says, thinking he was the gardener.

See, I told you, you get crazy when your mind's not in the right place.

Thinking he was the gardener, now she says crazy to Jesus, sir.

If you have carried him away, you better tell me where you put him, and I will go get him.

Hello, all my control freaks in the house today.

I'm just gonna control this.

Tell me where the body is, tell me what you did, I'll just fix it.

Some of you are the control freak in your parenting, the control freak in your family, the control freak in your finances.

I'm just gonna sort it, I'm just gonna make it better.

Like, like, just tell me she's accusing Jesus of stealing Jesus.

She's talking to the answer as if it's the problem.

And some of you right now are talking to the answer as if it's the problem.

It's not the problem, it's the heaven-sent provision.

It is not the problem, it's your mind is in the wrong place.

What are you looking for?

It's a good question.

I went through a season in leadership that was really hard, almost made me feel like I wanted to quit.

Just people being mean, people saying stuff that just was devastating.

Remember in that season having a moment with God, and I guess it was this question he's asking me, Charlotte, what are you looking for?

And my honest answer was, I'll tell you, God, I'm looking for that person that told that lie to crawl on broken glass until their knees are bleeding to my feet and let everybody know they lied.

That's what I'm looking for.

And I felt God say, Do you want a resolution?

Or do you want a solution?

Well, those two words sound the same to me, so I went to the dictionary.

I'm like, I don't get it, God.

What's the difference?

Look it up.

A resolution is when you get the situation resolved to a place that you feel, okay, I can move on.

A resolution is they wronged you, they right you.

A resolution is they stole from you, they pay you back.

A resolution is they lied and now they tell everyone they lied.

A resolution is they say sorry for what they did.

And I felt God said, Do you want a resolution or a solution?

Because by the way, I never promised you a resolution, but I did promise you a solution.

That's why the Bible says, Hey, I know they hurt you, but forgive them anyway.

But that's not a resolution.

I know, but it's a solution.

It will move you from your hating to a place of healing, it will move you from your past into your future.

Well, I want a resolution.

They need to put right what they did wrong.

I can't guarantee you a resolution, but I can give you a solution.

I am the answer in the midst of the problem.

I am your ever-present need in a time of trouble.

I am your restorer, I am your healer, I am the lifter of your head, I am the answer talking to you right now.

Do you want a resolution or do you want a solution?

Some of you have been waiting for a resolution for five years.

And I'm just came today to say, really?

You're gonna wait another five?

You're gonna put your life on pause for another five years?

You're gonna hold all that pain for another five years, you're gonna sit feeling angry for another five years.

How don't you today decide, you know what?

I am no longer embalming this body, I am no longer camping out of this tomb.

I am actually gonna have my eyes open and realize the answer is right in front of me, and I can right now have a resurrection, or I can sit here feeling sorry for myself.

I have to choose.

Mary lost her mind, caught in her emotion.

Jesus realizes, I gotta get you back, girl.

There's a job to do, there's a world to reach, there's a plan for your life, even though it doesn't look like the plan you had for your life.

So Jesus brings her all the way back to center with one word.

Mary just says her name.

And the moment she hears her name from those lips, she realizes exactly who she's talking to, and she shouts for Boni, teacher.

See you, Mary.

I've been here right along.

Mary, I've been standing here while you have been freaking out.

Mary, the solution has been here while you're looking for a body.

Mary, the hope is here in your hopelessness.

Mary, the relief is here for your pain.

I've been right here all along.

And some of you need to hear afresh your name on those lips.

He is calling your name today, and he's needing you to come out of where you have been camped up for too long.

You are not supposed to live by the graveside, you're not supposed to live by the pain, you're not supposed to live by the past.

He's doing a new thing, and God is inviting you into his new thing, but he's not gonna bring it to the old thing.

He's your loss adjuster.

But God, I lost people, I lost time, I lost hope.

He's like, I got you.

Anything you could put on the list of things you lost.

I sent my only son to adjust.

Anything you would ever face, he faced.

Anything you would ever have to go through, he went through worse.

He is my loss adjuster, and you are covered by the insurance of heaven.

And so today I want to help some of you.

God wants to help some of you get back in step with the Holy Spirit.

You've just been out of step for too long.

You lost your joy, lost your excitement, lost your fire, lost your zeal.

You don't walk into the house of God like you used to.

You used to run in.

Now you kinda shimmy in.

Used to worship with all your heart.

Now you kinda give him half masked.

What's happened?

He didn't change, you did.

Mary I'm right here.

He's right, I need you.

He's never wandered a step from you.

The question today is: would you like to get back in step with the Holy Spirit?

Close your eyes all across the house.

God, we cannot even comprehend what it cost you to adjust our loss.

We were so far from you that you knew that you could not bring us back with a token gesture.

But you had to send the greatest sacrifice of your only son.

God, I pray today you would help every single person who has allowed whatever loss, whatever disappointment, whatever trial, whatever pain to sever their sense of being in step.

God, I sense the urgency today that you have for every one of your sons and daughters to come back into sync with you.

And I sense today the call for an accuracy in our hearts to lay some things down and pick some things up, an accuracy to let some things go and grab a hold of some things new.

God, I pray today for honesty in our homes and in our conversations that we would leave this place today and we would ask the question: why am I crying?

Why am I angry?

Why am I still in this place?

That God, I know you don't want me in anymore.

God, I pray for movement today.

Movement in our soul, movement in our hearts, movement in our emotions.

God, that we will be those that leave what needs leaving and cleave to what needs cleaving.

You are right here, right now.

And as eyes are closed, if you just know you're not where you should be with God today, there is no judgment, there is no condemnation.

We all sometimes drift and wander.

Which is why we always need an opportunity to come home, to turn around, to say, I don't want to go this direction anymore.

I want to get back in sync with God, I want to be all in with him again.

If today you need a moment to repent, you need a moment to make him Lord and Savior, maybe for the first time, or you need a moment like that prodigal did to run home to the Father.

This is your moment.

Those eyes are closed all across every location.

If you know I need that moment tonight, just lift your hand in this moment and just say, That's me today.

I need this moment, and I'm gonna see your hand in a moment when you raise it, and I'm gonna acknowledge that hand, and then I'm gonna pray with you.

That same hand you just raised.

Take that same hand, put it right on your heart.

God, you know every single person right now that's responding, and you're calling them by name.

And God, I pray right now as they ask for forgiveness, as they repent from their sin, as God they say, I'm coming home today.

God, I pray that they would feel the embrace of your arms, Father.

I pray today that they would feel you adjusting the loss that they have been living with for too long.

I pray today for salvation, a restoration, and transformation.

Today I pray the old would be gone and the new would come.

I pray, Holy Spirit, they get in sync with you and begin to walk in step with you into the days that you've already predestined for them.

Thank you, Jesus, for what you did on the cross.

Thank you for adjusting every single loss that we would ever face.

Amen.

And amen.

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