Sunday Message - Pastor Marc Cargill (July 20, 2025) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. Well, how many are

ready to hear from the Lord? You've already heard

from the Lord today. But I just feel like the

Lord has spoken to me for you. And I want to

share that word with you. So good to be back

here at Life Bible again. See all of you. And

many of you are friends, good friends, dear friends,

family. And it's just always good to be with

you. This is a great, great, great church. And

I want to encourage you, don't take for granted

the church that you belong to and that you're

a part of. I have an opportunity to kind of travel

a little bit and been around the world and I've

seen a lot of churches and you're very blessed.

You're very blessed. And you can get in the midst

of the house and a lot of the routine and be

in the rhythm of serving and all of the things

that come with being a part of a church family

and we can just kind of come and show up and

enjoy and see all these things go home. And we're

kind of like, yeah, that was good. You got it

really, really, really good. You do. God is good.

And listen, if this is one of your first times,

you're newer to the church here, maybe you're

kicking the tires. You're just kind of checking

it out. I just want to tell you. This is a great

church and you will grow, you will thrive, you'll

see God move in your life like you've never seen

him move in your life before. And so I just want

to encourage you, this could be home for you.

So let the Lord speak to you and plant you in

the house and let him do what he wants to do.

You know, I really believe that God is good as

we kind of use this as a almost a Christianese

proverb. You know, God is good. And everybody

says, all the time. And then they go, all the

time. God is good. Yeah, see? There you go. Yeah.

Let me just close in prayer. Lord, we thank you.

My job here is done. But it really is true. We

have this understanding God is good. But I want

to remind you too that your future is bright.

How do you know your future is bright? Because

God is good. You have a bright future because

God is good. He's going to work it together for

good. He's going to turn it around. He's going

to cause the things that are just quite not lining

up. There's those things that you're waiting

on the Lord. Some of you have been waiting for

a while. And it's almost like your life theme

song is Jeopardy. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

When's things gonna come together for me when

it's gonna happen? Lord, please move on my life

right now. And you just wonder what's gonna happen.

Can I tell you? It's gonna be good. How do I

know that? Because God is good. He's good. Whether

the river's eating away at your bank, no matter

what it is. And by the way, I've been praying

for months. with you. I've been down in Arizona

wishing we had rivers to eat at our bank. That's

funny, man. I mean, we just had a monsoon a couple

of days ago and it rained all day and all night

and half the next day. And all the Arizonans,

man, they're in their houses looking out the

windows. Is it safe to go out? I'm originally

from the Northwest. I'm like, you people, come

on. No matter what's going on, though, whether

it's difficult, if it's delay, if it's denial,

and sometimes delay seems like denial, God is

working for your good, and he's gonna turn things

for your good. And I wanna tell you, many times,

The present moment does not represent the future

destiny of your life. The way the present looks,

it doesn't look the way it's going to look down

the road. Things need to change. Things need

to turn around for us to experience the bright

future God has for our life. So I want to speak

to you today from the subject, the God of the

turning. The God of the turning, that when God

steps into your moment, steps into your life,

and begins to turn things for your good, turns

things for your favor, turns it around for his

purpose in your life, the God of the turning.

God has a wonderful purpose for your life. It's

amazing. I'm convinced that you haven't seen

nothing yet. And he alone has the power to turn

things around so that the future becomes bright

and the moment, the momentary affliction, the

momentary problem, the momentary diagnosis, the

momentary issue is gonna turn around for good

in your life. You know, the nation of Israel

really had a rough go. In the time and ministry

of Jeremiah, Jeremiah actually witnessed the

city of Jerusalem be destroyed and it was horrific

and terrible and just incredible things were

going on and things were falling down around.

and he's looking around the nation and the city

and the people of God. And this is the moment,

the context, Jeremiah 29, 11, we'll get there

in just a moment, but Jeremiah 29, 11 says, for

I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord,

they are plans for good and not for disaster.

To give you a future. And a hope. A future and

a hope. Turn to your neighbor and say, you got

a future. Turn to your other neighbor and say,

there's hope for you. And this is actually a

season of judgment that all the book of Jeremiah

is prophesying about judgment and God. really

confronting Israel about the sin and things that

are going on. But then he ends his book with

these chapters of promise for what God really

wants to do and ultimately wants to work together

in their lives. Later in Jeremiah 31, a few chapters

later in Jeremiah 31, verse 10 through 14, says,

Jeremiah 31:10–14

listen to this message from the Lord, you nations

of the world. Proclaim it in distant coastlands.

The Lord who has scattered his people will gather

them and watch over them as a shepherd does his

flock. For the Lord has redeemed Israel from

those too strong for them. They will come home

and sing songs of joy on the heights of Jerusalem.

They will be radiant because of the Lord's. Good

gifts. The abundant crops of grain, new wine

and olive oil and the healthy flocks and herds.

Their life will be like a watered garden and

all their sorrows will be gone. The young women

will dance for joy and the men, old and young,

will join in the celebration. Watch this next

phrase. I will turn. Their mourning into joy.

I will comfort them and exchange their sorrows

for rejoicing. The priests will enjoy abundance

and my people will feast on my good gifts. I,

the Lord, have spoken. Later in that chapter,

just a couple verses later, it says in verse

16, this is what the Lord says, do not weep any

longer for I will reward you, says the Lord.

Your children will come back to you from the

distant land of the enemy. Ha ha. There's somebody

in the room that needs to hear that. Your children

will come back to you from the distant land of

the enemy. What's the Lord say next? There is

hope. for your future, says the Lord. There is

hope for your future, says the Lord. Man, I think

that's a prophetic word for the house. I think

it's a prophetic word for your life. I think

that's a prophetic word for your future. Come

on, somebody. There is hope for your future.

And I think in our lives, we are in desperate

need of turning. We're in desperate need of a

work of the Lord where maybe marriage needs to

be turned around or your business needs to really

pop up into a new realm and you need God to turn

some things around. Or maybe you're in the room

today and just some things going on in your head

space needs to shift, needs to turn. Your thinking

needs to turn around. I just think that there's

a lot of ways that God can turn some things.

There is a work that God does in the Bible where

he turns things. Let's just look for a few minutes

at the God of the turning in the Bible. The God

of the turning in the scripture. How many know

the story of Joseph? You're pretty familiar with

his story, right? And how that his brothers,

he was the favorite son. His brothers were very

jealous. Of course, he didn't use a whole lot

of wisdom probably. sharing some of the revelation

that he had from God and began to talk to his

brothers about how great his future was. His

brothers were not too open to that prophetic

ministry. They betrayed him. They wanted to kill

him. Reuben interfered and said, listen, this

does not quite go that far. They sold him into

slavery. He went down to Egypt. Then he goes

down to Potiphar's house. He stands up for righteousness,

serves his best. The Bible says the hand of the

Lord was with him. He gets promoted and then

betrayed, falsely accused of rape, gets thrown

into prison, and he's there in prison. I mean,

it's just from the pit to Potiphar's house to

the prison, but he eventually gets to the palace

and becomes a prince of Egypt. Pretty amazing.

Later, his brothers come in a time of famine.

Their lives are at risk. They come seeking help.

Joseph is second in command. And when he reveals

himself to them, they wig out. They're like,

okay, we're dead because of what we did. And

in Genesis chapter 50, watch what Joseph says

Genesis 50 · chapter mention

to them about that whole journey. And we're talking

20, 30, 40 years now. Genesis chapter 50, verse

Genesis 50:20

20 and 21. It says, you tried to harm me, but

God made it turn out for the best so that he

could save all these people as he's now doing.

Don't be afraid. I'll take care of you and your

children. After Joseph said this, his brothers

felt much better. God made it turn out for the

best. You know, some of you have had some betrayal,

maybe in business, maybe in family, just in life.

Maybe family brokenness is part of your story,

relational heartbreak, whatever it is. God can

turn that pain into healing. He can restore.

Joseph. stood for integrity. He even suffered

for it, being falsely accused. But God turned

his problem into a promotion and opened up his

future. Man, I'd like to see that in my life

in some ways, wouldn't you? So man, let's turn

this around. I think there's that area could

be have some turning in my life. There's some

things that didn't quite go the way I thought

it would go. But God can step in and restore

and heal and cause incredible blessing to be

released in your life just because he turns it.

He turns it. The story of Esther. You have Esther

in the turning. The Jewish festival of Purim

is a celebration of God turning the plot of evil

into deliverance. From disaster to deliverance,

God turns that whole thing and saves the people

of God. Haman, who's a symbolic character of

the devil, really, in that story, he cast lots

for the destruction of the Jewish people, just

kind of rolling the dice to see where am I gonna

start killing these people? And he's rolling,

that Hebrew word for lot is the Hebrew word pur,

where they get purim. In other words, God turned

the dice in their favor. And now it's a Jewish

celebration. It's still celebrated today, to

this very day. Demonic plots against God's people.

The attack of the enemy coming against your life.

Come on, some of you are in the room going, I

think I know what that feels like. Here's what

it says in the book of Esther chapter 9 verse

Esther 9:20–22

20 through 22. Esther 9 20 and Mordecai wrote

after all the things go down and God saves his

people from an incredible miracle. God turning

the heart of the king, turning the situation,

turning the issue related to Haman and it says

Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters

to all the Jews near and far who were in all

the provinces of King Ahasuerus to establish

among them that they should celebrate. the 14th

and 15th days of the month of Adar as the days

on which the Jews had rest from their enemies

as the month, so the whole month is a celebration,

the month which was what? Turned from sorrow

to joy for them from morning to a holiday that

they should make them days of feasting and joy

of sending presents to one another and gifts

to the poor. God turned it. And what was disaster

became deliverance. What was a death sentence

became a breakthrough of life as God stepped

in and turned it around in their favor. Oh, I

got good news for everybody in the room today.

God is turning the plots of the evil one on their

head. And victory is coming for you. Come on,

victory is coming for you. Another way that you

see the God of turning in action is in dark and

rough places. Anybody in the room in a dark and

rough place? Boy, you can experience some of

these things in your life. I remember years ago,

I went through a dark and rough place. I'd broken

my ankle playing flag football. Never healed

properly. It's still not... The break never really

healed and I had fragments of bone in my ankle

and all of that. And I'm out there with the church

guys, you know, thinking that I was, you know,

Emmett Smith and I was not. And broke my ankle

and just, you know, I'm in a cast, all these

crazy things. A few weeks later was when we found

out that our oldest son and only child at the

time was deaf. Profoundly deaf. A few weeks after

that, they discovered a growth in my wife's body,

and we're talking cancer, a disease which was

common in her family and actually had taken her

grandmother prematurely earlier in life. To make

matters worse, Tyson had a seizure right before

my birthday. Happy birthday to me. He was taken

to the ER. where the doctors were concerned that

he might have spinal meningitis. Man, I'm gonna

tell you, in a matter of a few weeks of time,

all that stuff happened back to back. Bam, bam,

bam, bam, bam, bam. That is a dark and rough

place, bro. I mean, that's when you wanna go,

what the world is going on here? Isaiah 42, verse

Isaiah 42:16

16, it says, I will lead the blind by ways they

have not known along unfamiliar paths. I will

guide them. What's the next phrase? I will turn

the darkness into light before them. Which basically

he's saying, I'm gonna heal their blindness.

And make the rough places smooth. These are the

things I will do. I will not forsake them. Woo,

hallelujah. The dark and rough places, God's

gonna turn the light on and smooth it out. Come

on, I'm all about that. Let's just get on with

that story right now. Hallelujah. Another way

that the God of turning shows up is when he shows

up in the lives of the oppressed. And he turns

the work of the oppressor and he brings freedom

and liberty and removes their shame and breaks

all of the stuff of the evil one going on in

their life and delivers them and brings freedom

to their life. And some of that dark heaviness,

that weight, that depression, that oppression

that seems to just cloud your mind and weigh

on your heart and on your soul gets broken off

of your life. I just gotta tell you, I personally

think that some of this issue with the natural

stuff going on around you, with the river, I

think is a demonic plot to oppress and depress

and to hinder your faith and to interfere and

distract you from what God wants to do through

you. Well, skip that. I'm not gonna be a... I'm

not going to be distracted from the mission God

has for me. Your mission is to bring life and

freedom to the people of Central Oregon and beyond.

Amen? So that little river problem, that ain't

going to stop us. Amen? We're going to keep going.

God's good. He's going to turn things for our

favor. And it doesn't matter what happens in

the natural. God's on the throne. He's got a

purpose. He's got a future. He's got a hope for

you, for this house, and for all of you that

are in this room or watching online right now.

God bless you. He's working. And the oppressed

have hope by Zephaniah chapter three. I know

you were in Zephaniah this week. I know you were.

Some of you are like, Zephaniah, is that in the

Bible? It's right next to Hezekiah. See, you

gotta read your Bible more, I'm telling you.

Zephaniah chapter three, verse 19 says, behold,

I'm gonna deal at that time with all your oppressors.

I just, can I just stop right there? I just like

the sound of that. Behold, I'm gonna deal at

that time with all your oppressors. Can you imagine

the God of heaven say, okay, I'm dealing with

your oppressors. He's just like, oh yeah, the

beat down is on, man. You're toast. I'm gonna

deal at that time with all your oppressors. I

will save the lame and gather the outcast. What's

the next phrase? And I will turn their shame

into praise and renown in all the earth. Woo,

I love it. Come on, God, turn it around. Turn

this thing for good in Jesus' name. Now, what

must we, that's what God's gonna do. What do

we need to do? If we're gonna see the God of

the turning show up, what do we need to do? It's

very simple. But you know what, I don't think

people blow their lives up by getting the complicated

wrong. People blow their lives up because they

don't do the simple things. You know, don't do

the simple things. These are simple things, but

you have to do them. If you wanna see the God

of the turning, do what only he can do. There

are things we must do to partner with him. You

ready? Here we go, number one, first thing you

need to do, we must believe. All things are possible

to him who believes. You gotta have faith. And

let me ask you, you're gonna believe something.

You're gonna believe something. So are you gonna

believe in the power of your problem? Or are

you gonna believe in the power of the Lord God

Almighty? Are you gonna believe in the God who

turns it around? Or are you gonna believe in

the issue? Are you gonna believe in the hurt?

Are you gonna believe in the pain more than you

believe in the healer? No? We're gonna believe

in the healer. We're gonna believe in the restorer.

We're gonna believe in the deliverer. We're gonna

believe in the God who made heaven and earth.

What's a piddly river, God, over on him? Mark

chapter nine, verse 22 through 24. Have mercy

on us and help us if you can. If I can, really?

Help us if you can. What do you mean, if I can,

Jesus asked. Anything is possible if a person

believes. The father instantly cried out, oh,

I do believe. But help me overcome my unbelief.

There's little things that I kind of wonder.

What about the... And we begin to play the what

if game. Anybody know what playing the what if

game is like? Well, what if the state doesn't

get our permit? What if the doctor doesn't know

what to, what if I, it's easy to play the what

if game. Let's just skip to the part where we

believe God and say anything is possible. I believe

you in any little. speck of unbelief in my heart.

I just give it to you. Help me with that. But

I believe you can do anything. Because I want

to tell you, things will remain impossible if

you don't believe. So faith has got to govern

your life. By the way, faith, not feelings. Feelings.

Nothing more than feelings. And boy, I tell you,

your feelings can really jack you up. They can

begin to distract you. You feel, you know, I

don't feel that great. I'm feeling discouraged.

I'm feeling, and we look at what we see. We look

at what's going on. We let our eyes tell us that,

listen, the reality is not what you see with

your natural eye. It's what you see with your

eyes of faith. that is the true reality of your

life. So you need to not just go by what you

see or even what you hear. You know, a doctor

says, well, we've ran our tests and this is what

we see. This is what we, here's our report. And

the prophet in the scripture says, who's believed

the report of the Lord? What about that report?

The nothing is too hard for God. that I have

a future and a hope. That the spirit of the Lord

is on me. He's anointed me. He's given me power.

I have strength. And I believe that the Lord

has given you a God -given imagination so you

can see with eyes of faith things that are not

real in the moment. And we can allow faith to

inspire our imagination to see what's possible

with God. Faith is the evidence of things not

seen. And the Bible tells us that our heroes

of faith, they laid hold of what God had said

and what God had for them because they saw it

from a distance and welcomed it. Hebrews 11,

13. They saw it from a distance and welcomed

it. We must cast off the negative mindsets, the

thoughts of doubt, all of the things that can

distract our spirit of faith and we must believe.

We must believe the promise of God. We must believe

what he said. We must believe it. Spirit of God

is on us and his spirit is with us, helping us.

Second thing we need to do is we must turn it

over to turn it around. We must turn it over.

If he's the God of turning, then we must turn

it over to him so he can turn it around. See,

the problem is you're trying to do things that

only God is meant to do. And when you're trying

on your own strength to turn it around, God's

saying, no, turn it over to me. I'll turn it

around. This is what was meant when Jesus said

in Matthew 11, verse 28, come to me, all you

Matthew 11:28

who are weary and carry heavy burdens. and I

will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let

me teach you, because I am humble and gentle

in heart, and you will find rest for your soul.

For my yoke is easy to bear. The burden I give

you is light. And so we need to call on the Lord.

We need to say, Lord, I need your help. This

is beyond my scope of experience. You ever been

there before? Some of you are smart. Y 'all got

some education there. Some of you got some degrees

behind your name. I got news for you. You're

not that smart. I don't mean to offend you, but

there's just some things that are way beyond

your degree, bro. They're way beyond your experience.

You're in over your head, Jack. This is when

you need God to turn it around. So I need to

call on the Lord and surrender this whole thing

to him. Just give it to him. It's the hand of

the Lord that turns things around, so we gotta

release it from our hands and put it in his.

That means that you have got, here's the kicker,

release control. Some of y 'all just went, oh,

snap. Because you like to be. 1 Peter 5, 7, give

all your worries and cares to God for he cares

for you. I mean, you gotta release control to

do that. You gotta give it over to him. You just

gotta say, listen. I freely admit this is way

beyond me. Way beyond me. I need your help. I

need the God of the turning to show up and turn

this around. So you give it to him. Third thing

we need to do. Oh, before I go on, I wanna tell

you a great story. You wanna hear a great story,

amazing story. Little girl named Charlotte. And

this story really pulled at my heart. You'll

figure out why. Charlotte was a little girl,

one and a half years old. So that should tell

you the connection with me. Charlotte has had

leukemia. Diagnosed with leukemia. I was a new

grandfather of a little girl and this girl, she

was related to some of the people in our church

and when I heard her story, I just broke, man.

I'm like, oh man, that is not right. That just

ain't right, man. Little baby having leukemia

like that, that's just wrong. That's just no

way. Don't even have any chance to live a life,

learn how to ride a bike. She got leukemia. Are

you kidding me? I began to pray. I began to intercede.

I began to ask the Lord to touch Charlotte's

body and our whole church began to pray. And

man, and it kind of got into my spirit. What

if that was your granddaughter? How would you

pray? I'd be like, man, I don't know if I'd even

sleep. I would just. I would fast all the time.

I'd probably lose a bunch of weight, which is

always really good for me, but I would call on

heaven. I would beg God. I would do whatever

I needed to do. I would call every friend I had.

Pray. Well, we did that for about a month, and

we received news that Charlotte is cancer -free.

God touched her body. A miracle was done. He

turned that situation. Somebody say turn. He

turned it. He turned it from sickness to healing,

from disease to wholeness. God of the turning

showed up, and he did something in response,

but we had to surrender it to him. We had to

say, this is beyond me. This is way beyond my

ability, way beyond my experience, way beyond

my capacity. I need your help. Oh, God, come

down and touch this little girl in Jesus' name.

Come on, do a miracle. Man, our God is a God

of miracles. That's why he still does it. In

fact, while I was in worship today, I just saw

a great, I saw this room kind of like a study,

and there were these books that were there, very

old, looked like old books. And that's kind of

how my mind works. and I saw these old books,

and there was gold stamps on the spine of them,

and there were books that were, there was a book

kind of on a table like this, old wooden table,

and there was this person that was writing there,

and I saw the books. They said miracles of 2020,

miracles of 2021, miracles of 2022, miracles,

and they were thick. I mean, they were like that

thick. And I felt like the Lord said that that

is the record of miracles in this church, that

God, you're going to have stories to tell, books

to write. There will be so many things happening

here about what God is doing, where the God of

the turning showed up, and you're going to fill

books. There's going to be miracle after miracle

after miracle. You're just going to say, look

at the story, look at the story, look at the

story. Third thing we need to do, there's a couple

more and I'm gonna land the plane here. Third

thing we need to do is we must be patient. Well,

this is the part that really gets me. I don't

know if you realize this, but there are promises

and then there is process. Now, that right there

was worth your drive in today. There are promises.

And then there is process. Promises come, you're

like, ooh, praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Oh, yeah.

Call the Shundak Choir on that thing. Come on.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You just

thank you, Jesus. Then you hear that little song.

La, la, la, la, la, la, la. La, la, la, la, la,

la. I hate that song. Because you know, we're

waiting. Process has begun. Promises, man, they're

so inspiring. I mean, that's where you get the

goosebumps, man. That's where you're just like,

oh, hallelujah. They're so exciting. But then

process starts and it tests our faith, our patience,

our endurance. Hebrews chapter six, verse 12

says, imitate those who through faith and patience

inherit the promises. I'm good with the faith

part. You know, imitate those who through faith

inherit the promises, but that's just not what

the Bible says. The Bible says, imitate those

who through faith and patience. You know what?

I'm convinced that Costco is God's gift to Christians

to build their patience. Costco, where I'm at,

man. I walk into the parking lot and it's like,

you'd think it was a car dealership. Like, what

the? Where is the parking spot? I gotta go over

into the nether regions to find my... And then

I gotta embark on a discovery journey from the

nether region parking lot to the front door.

As luck would have it, The long stack of carts

shrinks in my journey from the back nether region

parking lot so that by the time I get here, the

knucklehead in front of me takes the last cart.

And since I live in Arizona, my face is melting

off my body as I have to go look for the next

cart which is around the corner. To get my cart.

Once I get my cart. I have to go in. And I stand

in line. While grandma Bula fumbles to find her

cart. Or her little coat. To scan in the little

things. I'm like sister can I help you? We're

dying back here. And I'm not even in the store

yet. Wave your hand if you get a witness. Anybody?

Oh, pray. Let's just pray right now. Hallelujah.

Thank you. So my question to you is if you're

gonna wait, what are you gonna do in the waiting?

Are we gonna complain? Are we gonna whine about

it? Are we gonna wonder where's God? Man, it's

a clicking by. Your stopwatch is a calendar.

You're wondering, how much longer do I need to

wait? Well, we need to be patient. We need to

recognize there's a process. And maybe instead

of asking or wondering what God can do for you,

maybe you should consider what he wants to do

in you while you wait for the turning. Finally,

we gotta maintain our strength. You gotta hang

in there and be strong. Don't get weary in well

-doing. Maintain your strength. Maintaining strength

is a key to physical health. It's true of your

spiritual faith as well. You gotta build your

strength in the Lord. You gotta strengthen your

faith, your spirit, and your soul. Ephesians

6 .10 says, finally, brethren. Why does he say

finally? Because they've been waiting. Finally,

brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power

of his might. I like how the message says it.

It says, and that about wraps it up. God is strong,

and he wants you to be strong. How do you get

strength? Well, you gotta wait on the Lord in

prayer and worship, and you're a house of prayer

and worship. I love it. It's one of the great

things I love about this church. So you really

don't have any excuse to start getting a little

weak. But sometimes you can get overwhelmed.

And so we need to renew our strength. Isaiah

40, 31 says, those that wait on the Lord shall

renew their strength. Right? And so another thing

we gotta do, we gotta be with people in the house

of the Lord. We gotta be with God's people in

church. That renews your strength. Psalm 84,

Psalms 84:7

verse 7, it says, they, speaking of God's people,

go from strength to strength. Each one appears

before God in Zion, which is the house of God.

So you want to go from strength to strength and

get stronger? Be in the house of God. Let the

Lord strengthen your faith and renew your strength.

Get in a small group. Go to that Bible college

thing or college teaching thing that we heard

about earlier. Let the Lord strengthen you and

pour what you need into your life because I got

news for you. The Lord, in fact, I want everybody

to look at me right now. The Lord has made an

appointment with you. For right now, today. You

wanna know what the appointment's for? To start

turning that thing around in your life. It starts

today, it starts right now, where things begin

to turn. I'm believing that this week, God's

gonna show you a sign of good and his favor in

your life, where it begins to turn around. It

begins to shift. It begins to change because

we serve a God who specializes in turning things

around. He turns the human heart. Think about

this. Let me just go through a list. You ready?

He turns the human heart. He turns the rivers

of water. He can turn the hearts of rulers and

kings. He turns the destiny of the life of a

person. He turns the battle from defeat to victory

he turns the infertile soil over and makes it

fertile and fruitful this list by the way is

my study about the phrase of turning in the bible

he turns the soil that makes it fruitful he turns

the common into the valuable he turns the impossible

to the possible he turns sickness into healing

he turns a test Into a testimony. He turns a

mess. Into a message. He turns the broken. Into

the restored. He turns the sinner. Into a saint.

And the lost. into the found. He turns those

who were not a people into the people of God.

He turns pagan people into a holy nation. He

turns a little one into a thousand. He turns

darkness into light. He turns sadness into joy.

Why? Because he is the God of the turning. Hallelujah.

So maybe you have something that you need turned

in your life. Well, you're in the right spot.

You came and heard the right word. This is a

divine appointment for you. This is a God of

the turning moment in your life. Everybody in

the room, let's stand up to our feet. I'm gonna

pray for you all in a moment. Before I do, let

me tell you about the greatest turning that you

can ever experience in your life. And that's

turning from living for yourself and living for

the purpose of God. It's turning from being lost

to being found. It's turning from being stuck

in sin and rebellion against God and turning,

the Bible word for this is repent, turning to

him and receiving forgiveness and new life. Boy,

I like that turn. And there may be some people

here in the room today, that's where you need

to start. You need to start with that turn first.

So with every head bowed, so I'll bow our head.

Maybe you're in the room today and you need to

turn to Jesus. You know your relationship with

God's broken. You know that you are far from

God. You know that you're hearing this message

and you're like, man, I really want what you're

talking about, Mark, but I know that my, there's

a distance, there's a disconnect. I don't know

the Lord and I want him in my life and I need

to start there. And you do, you're right. And

I wanna invite you to turn to God right now in

this moment. In a second, I'm gonna count to

three. When I say three, just raise your hand,

but I want you to know God is here for you. He's

ready to forgive. He's ready to bridge that gap,

that breach between you and him. He's ready to

make this whole relationship thing happen. And

in a moment of faith, you can go from being disconnected

with God to being in a personal relationship

with him. It's the greatest miracle in the history

of humanity. When someone steps out of darkness

into his marvelous light, it's the best thing

that ever happened in your life. I'm gonna count

to three. And then when I say three, if you're

here today and you wanna say yes to Jesus, you're

ready to receive him, you're ready to turn to

God, I want you to slip up your hand and invite

him into your, I'm just gonna lead you in a simple

prayer. We're not gonna try to embarrass you,

but I wanted you to just raise your hand. and

receive him into your life. So on the count of

three, one, two, three, say yes. I'm ready to

say yes, Mark. I'm ready. Anybody in the room

here today, raise your hand right here. Thank

you. Anybody else? Thank you, ma 'am. Thank you,

sir. Anybody else? Raise your hand right now.

Just slip it up. Everybody in the room, let's

pray this prayer. Dear Jesus, thank you for loving

me. Today, I turn to you. I put my faith in you.

Forgive me of my sins. Come into my life. I receive

you. As my Lord and Savior. I invite you. To

take control of my life. I surrender to you now.

And I thank you for your life and love. In Jesus

name. Amen. And the church let's tell these to

raise their hands. Congratulations. Best decision.

Best decision ever. Best. I want to pray for

everybody in the room. You say, Mark, I have

an area in my life where I need the God of the

turning to show up. I've had a diagnosis. I've

got an issue that I need God's help with. Whatever

it is, you need the God of the turning to turn

this thing around. Raise your hand right now.

All over the room. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Man, I feel the power

of the Holy Spirit. I'm just gonna tell you,

things are gonna start turning. The Lord sent

me here with a word for you that he's gonna start

turning it around. He's gonna start turning it

around. Hallelujah. Right now, right now, right

now, right now. Come on, keep your hand up. Holy

Spirit, right now, I pray for the power and anointing

of God to come on every, you know every story

and every life. And every circumstance, I pray

right now, the Spirit of the Lord would come

on their moment and come on this life and come

on their story. And in that circumstance, we

prophesy the God of the turning begin to move

and he begins to turn things around. That that

which is darkness becomes light. That which is

sickness becomes wholeness. That which is prodigal

and broken and in need of you is getting turned

around. by the power of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah.

Thank you, Lord. I pray right now you would move

like only you can move. We prophesy to every

bondage, every chain, be broken in the name of

Jesus. We take authority over any work of the

evil one. We break your power and your hold right

now in Jesus' name. I declare a turning over

this house and a turning over every life, over

businesses that are stuck, they're plateaued,

they're hindered. I speak to infertile ground.

I speak to brokenness. I speak to every wayward

child, every grandchild, niece and nephew that

is wandering in sin. Call you back right now

in the name of Jesus. Come back. I speak to that

broken body, the sickness and infirmity. You

leave now. Go in the name of Jesus. I lose healing

into your body right now. I declare wholeness

into your body right now. In the name of Jesus.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah.

Really, really quickly, I just want to speak

to a few things. This sister here, the second

row, I saw you in the altar. The Lord says he's

doing a deep, deep thing in your life. And there

is a kind of like this little list you got. And

there's some things that you just want the Lord,

you need the Lord to do. And I just felt like

the Lord tell me to tell you that he is working

it out for your good and for his glory. He's

doing a deep work in you. There's gonna be treasure

come from the trouble. Ooh, somebody else needs

to hear this too. Treasure for your trouble.

Treasure for your trouble. There's treasure for

your trouble. Treasure for your trouble. In the

name of Jesus. I believe AJ, AJ, right? And your

wife, I see you, you're gonna move soon. You're

gonna experience a new anointing coming into

your life. There's an elevating of the gift of

God on you that's coming in your future. In both

of you, not just him, but both of you. There's

an elevating of the gift of God. I see you, sister,

writing so many songs. It's like you can't, the

words come so fast, you can't, it's like you

can't write them fast enough. And it's like you're

done with one, and bam, another one comes to

you. Your friends are gonna go, girlfriend, what

happened? Wow, you've almost been like, you've

been in a drought. in worship and God is going

to break open the heavens and the internal well

in your spirit. It's gonna flow like a river,

like a river out of your life. AJ, the prophetic

anointing is gonna elevate in you. You're gonna

be known as a prophet of God. You're gonna prophesy

and stand among the prophets of the Lord in the

land. You'll travel. You'll go to other nations.

You'll minister. The word of the Lord is in your

life. You're a person who sees things in the

spirit and God's going to give you a credibility.

Some people have looked at you and wondered,

you know, that's kind of spooky and a little

weird. And it's, it's, don't listen. Listen,

don't listen to unbelieving people. You listen

to the word of the Lord over your life. You listen

to your pastor. Listen to, God's gonna knit your

heart with your pastor, by the way, in a greater

way. You're gonna learn from him. You're gonna

be like an Elisha in the house. He's gonna put

his spirit upon you. Casting in the mantle of

God will be upon you. These next few years, I

see like the next three years. You're going to

be near him and God's going to work in a deep

way. It's going to be an amazing impartation

of the anointing of God upon your life through

his life. We know God doesn't play favorites

and neither does the pastor, but there are specific

God assignments that God works out for the kingdom

of God. So that's going to be taking place in

your life. The young woman in the yellow or mustard

colored coverall here, pregnant, heard the Lord

say that your child is going to be a a worshiper

in the house of the Lord, the spirit of praise

is gonna come on, it's on that child right now

in your womb. And your singing and your worship

to the Lord is reverberated into your body and

is actually teaching that child things about

the supernatural realm of heaven that it will,

as it is born and grows in the house of the Lord,

it will begin to express. Because of the spirit

of the Lord that is upon you even right now.

Is this your first child? Do you have other children?

You have three kids? This is your fourth? Hallelujah.

So we just declare that spirit of the Lord upon

that child. There's a special anointing. They're

going to be a person of the presence of God.

People are going to actually talk about your

child and go, there's something different about

your child. I don't know. And what they're perceiving

is the anointing of the Holy Spirit upon them.

They're gonna write songs. They're gonna have

an anointing to break the yoke. There's gonna

be an anointing upon them for songs of deliverance.

There's gonna be a powerful spirit of praise

on that child. Amen. Sonny, I see you back there.

God is getting ready to elevate you, brother.

I'm gonna tell you right now, while you are here,

God is working there. There are things that while

you are in the barn and in the field, God is

going to birth in your spirit for your homeland.

Ideas, songs, ways to connect to the next generation

that you hadn't thought about before. And while

you're here, God is working there with people

in the music industry. I see people involved

in studio production and record production, music

production, video production. I see you even

on television in India, national TV, being given

a platform to testify of the goodness of God.

And it's gonna reverberate. There is a, like

a Daniel anointing that is on your life where

he's gonna give you favor. And it's like, no

matter where you are, whether you're in front

of Nebuchadnezzar or Belteshazzar or Darius or

whoever you're in front of, you have favor, you

have favor, you have favor, you have favor. The

favor of the Lord is on you, sir, for an incredible

work of the Holy Spirit. Great move of God is

already going on in India. It's going to go,

it's going to multiply like crazy. 10, I see

the number 10, just like 10 times more than what

it is now. It's gonna go there. It's gonna be

crazy. And Mark, I just really felt like the

Lord dropped this into my heart for you, that

God's gonna touch you, both you and your son,

your family business. He's gonna cause the blessing

of God to come on there because you have partnered

with him and you've made divine purpose a part

of your plan and God brings prosperity to people

like that. Because the work of God requires the

provision of God. He's gonna get the provision

to you so he can get it through you. Hallelujah.

It's gonna multiply, Aaron. It's gonna multiply.

You watch. Don't worry about the market or what

tariffs do or any of the things. Your faith's

not driven by the news. It's driven by the hand

of God. It's always been that way. It'll always

be that way. He's the God of the turning. He's

the God of the turning. I'm here to announce

to you, He's the God of the turning. And He's

working in you. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.

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