Get Back Up | Pastor Scott Thomas

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Micah 7 verse 8

Micah 7:8

read it loud use your outside voice with

me are you ready practice for later on

here we go one two 3 our enemies have no

reason to gloat over us we have fallen

but we will rise say that last phrase

Together We will rise again say it again

we will rise use some P County attitude

we will rise at that's what I'm talking

about right there

that's what I'm talking about I love

watching I love watching football

especially for the hits I'm all about

the hits I grew up in I grew up in a in

a in a in a Christian home my my dad was

a pastor all my life but my dad wasn't

confused when it came to sports when I

played ball he said Son here's how it

works we're

Christians but you hit them as hard as

you

can and because we're Christians we'll

pray for their healing

later but hit them hard right now I I I

I that that that's that was the mindset

that I was say I that that's part of the

reason I love watching football today

there's going to be some big hits not on

Mahomes there two hand touch on Mahomes

but you understand like there there's

some big hits that happen uh on in in in

in ball games and you see you see a wide

receiver going across the middle and he

gets knocked over he loses his helmet

because a defensive back was coming

across and just had the eyeon bam hit

him and separate him from the ball I

love that stuff right there I love that

but you know what really gets me going

is when you see a dude take a shot bam

whether he drops the ball or not he hits

the

deck and he pops right

back he gets right back up you know what

that is there's some attitude up inside

that I know a little something about

that when I was when I was in 10th Grade

I I went to a I went to a school in

Northern Virginia uh almost 25 200

students it was a big school and they

the football team was big the Wolverines

that's who we were right we did our

thing and all these like the the linemen

like they're all got these D1

scholarship offers they're going here

and there and it look like that the my

my job as a as a sophomore I'm playing

outside linebacker on the defense and my

job was to hold the big Shield pad and

as the offense was running their plays

just at least track with them keep

outside containment and and run the play

so that they would know where to hit who

to block all that kind of thing well the

coach called this one play and I'm this

little runt

sophomore and you've got Goliath's

Brothers playing on the offensive

line and they call a play and I'm

running I'm pushing to the side I got my

little Shield pad with me helmet

shoulder pads on and this pulling guard

he comes out he he's he's he's 300 plus

he pulls around and he's running and he

hits me in a dead

run when this when this gentleman hit

me the first thing of me to hit the

ground was the back of my helmet and my

shoulder pads my feet were in the air it

hit me so hard I flipped over it was

humiliating my the pad goes flying out

of my hand I hear all the team everybody

saw it because the play was running my

way everybody goes oo

humiliating and the coach comes running

over and I don't know if he was

concerned about me or not CA he's going

are you okay you see that there's conf

conflict

there you don't laugh in my face while

I'm trying to catch my breath I'm

stuffing one lung back down my throat

got like I'm I'm dying here I was

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humiliated but you know what I did as

soon as I hit

before I even hit the ground I was TR I

knew it was going to be ugly I was

trying to get back up again as soon as I

hit the ground I'm digging I get back up

and I'm standing there looking at

him and they're saying are you okay and

I said yes to all four of them there was

one all four like all y'all I'm I'm I'm

good I was trying to like put that

together cuz I was rocked but I was

fighting to get back up I I want you to

understand there's some shots that we

take in life but we got to keep getting

back up have you ever been knocked down

by a

situation you ever had life just smack

you in the

mouth man there's there's some things

that that that come and they they hit us

that that we didn't see coming we get

blindsided by some stuff rejection a

diagnosis from the doctor spouse looks

at you and say I'm out I'm done it's

over it it it doesn't we we don't see it

coming when these when these things hit

you get you get lied on you get betrayed

by somebody it hits hard and it kind of

sucks the wind out of your life for just

a minute I don't know if youve ever been

there if you've never been there keep

living keep sucking a it's on the I

don't wish it on you I'm just telling

you it's a part of life it happens when

things happen to us we get knocked down

by situations uh anybody ever had a

self-inflicted

wound many

you knew you shouldn't have gone out

with him you knew you shouldn't have

gone out with him I'm sorry let me just

get back to this I I shouldn't have gone

there we we we do things knowing we

shouldn't and sometimes it's not just

the hits that other people throw in our

life sometimes it's a decision I made

that really goes sideways really fast I

got I got fired from a job I I I I I did

I I had to file bankruptcy I made some

bad decision there's some things that we

go through that hit us whether it's

somebody else or it's decisions of our

own choosing life comes to all of us we

all get

hit Cindy and I have been through

several hits in our 30 plus years of

marriage we buried two

children that's

hard I I I I didn't see that coming that

wasn't my plan but we had to walk we had

to walk that out that that one that one

stung I don't mind telling you and and

and we got betrayed by some friends

publicly like on blast and you're

sucking air trying to figure out how to

navigate this whole thing like years of

relationship and then that goes down and

we're trying to know how to answer to

the public but this is going on it it

was just all of that the Betrayal the

the lying all that thing and then some

Financial hits there's some things we

went through some things of our own

choosing some things culture we we've

all been rocked by some things whether

it was us or somebody else shots hits

thrown on us it's a part of life anybody

ever had a shot thrown at you or you

made a decision that it it it knocked

you to the ground anybody ever been

there done that okay that's called life

we all take hits this opening verse that

we that we open up with with the Book of

Micah Michael was a prophet uh about 700

years before Jesus came on the scene

right so like he he's one of the old

guys and and and Micah is talking here

and and culture was spiraling culture

was a mess it kind of looked like 2025

like like culture was a mess and Micah

is speaking on behalf of Israel in this

entire chapter and and here here's what

Micah says Micah says um we

fell we blew it we pushed back on God we

made decisions that were wrong we got

LED astray by some other people as a

nation we have absolutely we're living a

train wreck and our enemy is laughing at

us right now have you ever had somebody

laugh at you because you fell

down like people were close enough to

help but they just chose to smile and

walk

on that that's that's what Micah is

saying as a nation we've hit the ground

we got the wind knocked out of us it is

ugly right now it happened we blew it

failed it it hurt it's a mess but he

goes on to say this in the middle of all

the hit but God is going to help us back

up

again now now now you have to understand

he's saying this while he's still down

he's stay saying this he's talking about

God's ability to pick them up what God

is going to do even though he was on the

ground the nation was a mess at this

time he was declaring this because being

down doesn't mean being out as long as

God is on the scene everything is going

to be all right Micah believed that God

would turn things

around and that they would get back

up and they did and God restored the

nation what you believe about God is

called

theology theology is the study of God

it's when you open your Bible and you

discover God's thoughts God ways uh

God's character and then you Embrace

that everybody under the sound of my

voice has a

theology you don't have to have been to

college you don't have to been to

cemetery Seminary you don't have to have

done all of that stuff in order to have

a theology but you have a theology a

mindset of God whether he's good or not

whether he's faithful or not whether

he'll be with you or not whether God is

the one that's punishing you or if God

is the one that is blessing you if

blessing is based on a lottery or God

just operate by his character you you've

got all kind God you you got a Theology

of God belled on you and failed you or

God has always been by your side you you

and I have a theology everybody in this

room all you watching along all my

brothers at pul correctional institute

you've got a theology right now about

God you've got a perspective of God and

Micah's perspective was in our worst of

times God is still good and you and I

have got to wrestle with our theology

because understand this what you believe

about God determines what God is able to

do for you in your

situation let me put it this way if you

believe God can change the situation he

will if you don't believe he can he

won't well I don't know if I like that

Scott well let me give you some

Bible Jesus walked into a town and there

was a blind man that said Jesus heal me

and Jesus goes I got you boo let's go

and he took him by the hand and walked

the dude out of the city he lived

in the guy's going Jesus you going to

heal me he said yeah keep walking with

me but but Jesus no walk walk walk walk

walk walk walk they got outside the city

limits Jesus said I can heal you now he

said why why not heal me there he said

because there's so much unbelief in that

City I will not do a miracle in that

City

wow I want you to understand something

what you think and what you believe

about God is what you will get from God

God has expressed he put his his power

on full display in his word and if you

and I will get two handfuls and believe

him even when the circumstances look

against him despite what mama taught you

despite what life is trying to tell you

despite what your friend said despite

what what you've been through God is

good and you and I have got to believe

that because there's a challenge that we

all face in life kind of reminds me when

I was a kid what we used to

play if there was three of us standing

here together one two three I would

reach over and I would slap the guy on

the back of the neck over here and I

just turned and walk

away and the guy who got slapped got mad

at the guy beside him like what the and

now here they going at it and I'm the

one who threw the shot I want you to

understand the enemy of your life is

good at throwing shots and blaming God

for stuff he slaps and he points at God

he slaps look God failed you he slaps

see God didn't help your child he slaps

see God's Not A Healer and he slaps and

he points he slaps and he points and you

and I develop our theology based on what

all the evidence seems to be pointing to

and you and I've got to be so careful

because we can actually convict God off

of evidence that is actually not against

him it's circumstantial but it's not

reality I know what it is I did this

when we lost our kids I got so angry

with God I screamed at God oh you can't

do that well I

did I was a pastor while it was going on

you ever been you ever just been mad at

God some of y'all are hon honest enough

be real but that's okay I'm going to

just tell you where my stuff was this is

how I was out there I got mad I screamed

at God where

the I had a private conversation with

god you understand where are you I got

so mad at it that that I then okay fine

and I gave him the silent treatment I

got him

good ain't talking to

you well that didn't last

long Jesus like I like I was trying

everything trying to express myself and

because he's good and because he's a

father he could handle my temper tantrum

he could handle me dealing with life and

trying to work it out and trying to

figure it out because what happened was

when I went through the worst crisis of

my life my theology got rocked right I

then begin to question stuff and if

that's not true then what about those

things and what about those things and

all of a sudden my world was shifting

and I wasn't sure how to move forward

from here this is why the Bible over and

over again highlights God's hand his

help his work to reveal his character so

that you and I develop the right

theology on on who God is and what he

wants to do not just in their lives but

your life and my life as well would you

turn to some tell them God wants to

bless you just tell God wants to bless

you God wants to help

you there's a guy named Joseph sold into

slavery by his brothers only for God to

turn around and make him the governor of

Egypt the there's a guy named Moses had

an anger problem he killed a dude and

was running he was a fugitive for 40

years God met him in the desert and had

him go back and become the deliverer for

the entire nation of Israel God knows

how to pick you back up again and get

you back to where you need to be there

was a girl named Ruth Ruth Ruth Ruth she

was a young Widow got married young her

husband died she moved back to a foreign

country she's Poe she wasn't poor she

was po y'all she couldn't afford the

other o or the r she was

Po and she was out picking up corn that

that the farmers had left around the

corner just to servant helped and ran

into a guy named Boaz hey and she

married Boaz and she and Boaz she they

started having babies and and and Ruth

this girl who was a widow and poor and

in a foreign country all of a sudden

becomes one of the great grandmothers of

Jesus God knows how to pick people up

job he was wealth that's not job that's

that's job job job was was was wealthy

and then he went Bank

rupt only for God to double everything

why because job didn't lose his theology

I'm not going to curse God I will not

blame God I'll keep my eyes on even when

I don't understand him I'll Trust his

heart when I can't see his hand I'm

going to keep moving towards him David

he had a giant

issue never mind he he he had he had to

he had to face Goliath and then and then

David after he kills big ugly now is

running for his life 21 attempts on his

life by the king of Israel trying to

take him out then David if that wasn't

enough then he has an affair with a girl

named basba trying to hide it has her

husband

killed he's confronted by the prophet

cries and repents and because his heart

was so tender before God here was God's

testimony about David he's a man after

my own heart jacked up Twisted

David I love him and I can bring anybody

back if you're theolog is right if

you'll trust me when you don't

understand me if you'll trust me when it

looks bad you see those stories ladies

and gentlemen they're there to shape

your theology your your attitude your

mindset your expectations towards God

that's why they're there to help us when

we take our own hits in life that if he

did it then he can do it again he

doesn't just do it in the Bible he he

doing it right now in your life in my

life how many of you would have to admit

there is no reason why I am in this room

right now that God must have been

working to pick me up and to turn some

things around yes yes I know

that I love that I'm I've got the same

story you see God God works his best

stuff in our life when we realize number

one he loves us I mean I mean loves

you not like your spouse not like your

kids he loves you

he knows you

completely

fully the part you don't talk

about the yeah okay okay you're going to

make me go there the browser history

he's aware of that what's on your

computer he he knows what happened on

vacation last year he knows he knows the

text M he knows all of that and is crazy

about you other folks they know parts of

you God knows you fully and is crazy

about you and number two he for you

there's no scorecard he's not throwing

elbows if God wanted to get you he'd

have got you right he's not trying to

pull you down he's trying to show you

that I'm a friend that will stick closer

than a brother I know how to help you

through things that you can't help

yourself through I just need you to

trust me dog I got you back this is who

he is he loves you he's for you and

number three he's got a plan to pick you

back up again he's not he's not a

spectator watching him going oh oh

dto he's waiting on us while we're down

to reach so I turn him from a spectator

into a

savior he's there he's available he's

watching and he knows how to handle and

get you through this in Genesis chapter

Genesis 15 · chapter mention

15 the same thing happened guy named

Abraham y'all know Abraham right the old

guy that God said you're G to have a

baby and like all his Plumbing is

stopped working there's no little blue

pill like there's nothing out there to

help the guy out

only for the promise of God to happen he

has a boy named Isaac right God looks at

Abraham in Genesis 15 he said difficult

days are

coming I ain't going to let I ain't I'm

going not going to lie there's some hits

coming and your kids are going to make

some Twisted crazy decisions they're

going to walk away from me they're going

to Rebel they're going to push back on

me and they're going to be stuck in in a

situation they're not going to like and

it's going to be hard God God's laying

this out God's a realist he talks about

life Jesus said in this world you will

have trouble but take heart I've

overcome the world in other words reach

to the one who can do something and God

looks at Abraham in Genesis 15:14 listen

Genesis 15:14

to what he said but I will punish the

nation that enslaves them and in the end

they will come away with great

wealth here's what I want you to

understand God planned their comeback

before the fall even happened

he said I'm telling you they're going to

screw up but before the screw up happens

I'm just telling you I'm going to

restore them I've already got a plan to

bring them all the way back around I

don't know what broke your heart what

made you cry what made you want to quit

what made you move to another state what

put you in the situation you're in right

now but I'm here to tell you the fall

was not fatal and God is still working

in your life and as long as you got a

pulse there is hope and you can come out

of this because God has already planned

your comeback turn to someone tell him

get back up get back up get back

up so here's my message to you here's my

message everyone gets hit in

life look at the person beside you look

at them look at them they got their Bell

rung they've been knocked to the ground

yes they have some of them laying down

there right now

help help I'm fallen and I can't get

yeah yeah I just had to say it cuz you

were thinking

it

everyone everyone gets hit in life

number two everyone not only gets hit in

life Everyone Falls in life all of us do

there's no rock stars in the room I've

been there I've tasted the dirt I know

what that's like everyone gets hit

Everyone Falls but here's the key not

everyone gets back

up there's some folks that are still

laying on the

ground and they're still talking about

the

hit and they're still pointing

fingers yeah they they went through a

tragic divorce the problem is been

married for five years but they still

talk more about their ex than they do

their present

all none of y'all have to come back next

week me and Pastor George got it we're

going to have church all by

oursel how do I I know if I'm still down

are you still talking about your past or

you looking at your future which one are

you talking about

more are you still reminiscing over what

they said do you still have these

harbored thing you're still laying on

the ground if you're there because you

got your eyes so much on your past you

can't see forward I'm not even looking

at where I'm going what God has promised

what his word is saying that he's able

to pick me up and move me forward I've

got to put my mind on that Proverbs

Proverbs 24:16

24:16 read it loud read it proud here's

what it says The Godly May trip seven

times but they will get up again but one

disaster is enough to overthrow the

wicked wi wicked wicked there is not

like you're thinking Wicked is somebody

who is just separated from God I've

lived that Wicked life I would just

separate from God the righteous are just

people who are in relationship not

perfect don't have it all together they

just we just have a

savior those who have called on Jesus

they they get hit they fall seven times

but they get up

eight those who don't have Christ when

they fall there's no getting up they're

down for the count and you don't have to

be counted out in life Jesus is the one

that brings the resurrection back to us

so there's two quick keys to getting to

getting back up in life this is

it after this we're all going to go to

Bob Evans it's going to be great so here

here we go two two two to Quick two

quick us to getting back up number one

it's so simple it's so simple but I got

to say it you need to call on

Jesus you you know but but please hear

me don't make that so remedial you got

to ask him to help you back

up Jesus isn't

absent he's your answer right he's

watching he's close enough to help but

he needs you to call on

him we call on everybody but him

peanut Billy Bob Wilbur we call on all

kinds of folks and usually we call on

folks just as crazy as we are or help

get us in the situation we keep reaching

on stupid never mind let me come back to

here so we we we got to make sure that

that that we're calling on Jesus the one

who can actually help us through this

Micah chap watch this Micah 7 we read

the first half of the verse in the

beginning but I want to read the second

half of the same verse to you because

Micah goes on to say this though I sit

in dark Darkness the Lord is a light for

me in other words I can be in my

situation I can be on the ground but as

soon as I catch an eye full of Jesus I

know that everything is going to be all

right and he puts hope in my darkness

and he brings light in my situation and

so now you get around us in church and

you hear us sing and worship and praise

and you might think we actually have it

all together when you don't know we're

just as jacked up and taking as many

hits As You Are but I got my eye on the

answer and I'm seeing for in my future

I'm not focused on my past the

experience is not my focus the

expectation is my focus and when that

changes light comes in your darkness and

I can handle anything as long as I know

I'm on my way out this is what Jesus

does number one you need Jesus tell

somebody you need Jesus you need

Jesus number two it's going to irritate

some of you but just deal with it

you need the

church y'all sure enough need the church

yes and by the way the church is not a

building the church are the

people you can find the church at

Starbucks you can find the church at

Target you can find the church at a cal

no you you can find the church

you you can find the church on

vacation you can find somebody who's a

total stranger and they are the church

there's nothing like that because the

church why do I need the church the

church the intention of God's word of

God's plan was to be one that lifts and

heals and moves us forward Proverbs

chapter 17: 17 if you're looking for

another tat this is a good one this is a

good one check this out here's what it

says read it read it loud read it proud

a friend loves at all times and a

brother is there for times of trouble

your Bible just defined what a friend is

Right a friend loves it all times even

when the reputation is bad a friend

still

loves and when everybody walks out a you

look up and a friend a real friend is

still standing there if your friend

can't handle your situation and they run

they're not your friend a friend loves

at all times a brother is born born

created exists for not slapping high

fives over a ball game not sharing the

same Jersey a brother exists for

adversity they're there to fight for me

and to fight with me a brother is built

you know what this verse is telling us

you're not built to do life alone I'm

not here to do it isolated I need you in

my life you need me in your life we need

each other your neighbor is wearing some

ugly shoes but you need them in your

life right now

look some of y'all looking at your

neighbor's shoes right now let me see

what they look

like watch I'm almost done Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes 4 · chapter mention

chapter 4 says this two are better than

one they have good reward for their

labor when one is down the other is

there to pick his brother up you know

you got a brother you know you got a

sister when they're always picking you

up and they don't let you f focused they

don't let you reminisce on where you've

been they've got you focused on where

you're going and they keep talking hope

and life and promise and that my friend

is the

church yesterday I did something I never

should have done but I did it you ever

done that sure you

have it's been well over a year since

I've gone and I've run Lake

Hollingsworth Lake Collinsworth me if

you're not from this area 2.8 2.9 miles

something like that who knows it may as

well been one I it's it's a long

ways and I decided let's go I will to

move my 57 years around this Lake let's

get it

done I went out there I'm 10 steps into

it I'm feeling muscles pull that I

didn't even know I ever had like what in

the heck are you doing my body's

rebelling against me like all that's

going on but then you know there there's

this thing and so I'm running I'm

running and I lifted my head I'm looking

at my watching like okay I'm a mile and

a half into this I haven't stopped I'm

doing good I got one lung hanging out of

my mouth over here like I'm I'm getting

through

it and I I made a I made a a pack with

myself when I got to a mile and a half

I'm going to stop I'm going to walk for

a half a mile oh you deserve it I was

looking for an ice cream shop somewhere

along the way you

know I'm running and I get to that mile

and a half marker like woo and I look up

and probably 50 yards ahead was this

lady

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something inside me said catch

her help me Holy Ghost and so here I

went man I I so let's let's let's just

just run to the lady just just make it

to the lady like slow down but but run

run to the

lady and I get to where she is I'm like

who and I'm thinking real I'm in my I'm

having these conversations in my head

you made it slow down breathe and then

here's what my but if you pass her

running and and then slow down and stop

she's going to think that well you're

not even really running you were just

trying to outdo her and so I got all

these games going on in my mind and I

look up and there's someone 30 yards

ahead and my head goes run to them run

okay let's go what are you doing run and

so I'm I'm running and I get to them and

I promise you there's another and so I

kept running to people

I lifted my head and I'm going over two

and a half miles I'm like what is wrong

with

me I finished the whole lake without

stopping because of people I didn't even

know they they didn't have a

clue how they were helping

me but because they were out walking

that day they kept setting goals for me

and so I just kept moving where they

were and once I passed them I lift my

eyes and I found somebody else and I

passed and I kept on moving and I lifted

my head and oh I made it all the way

around you and I need each other and

it's not that we got to be besties and

it's all going to be like that but when

you get around some other people and you

keep showing up on Sundays somehow Life

Starts turning for you cuz you start

seeing some faces I've been praying for

you man I've been watching for you

you're coming through this you're not by

yourself we're going to come out the

other side there's nothing like knowing

you got a crew a posy an army that

you're getting through it together this

is why the church exists don't run from

the church run to the church if you feel

alone run to the church if your marriage

is a mess run to the church going

through divorce run to the church sick

run to the church unexpected pregnancy

run to the church sleeping with anything

that will lay down with you run to the

church questioning your sexual

identification run to the church moral

failure run to the church bankrupt

addicted Angry Run to the church

convicted serving time or released just

get to the

church we want to get you back on your

feet again you got a life to live if God

be for you who can be against you you're

going to be all right but you need some

people who can remind you of the plan

God has for your life so let me just put

you on notice we're not afraid of your

failure I don't give a rip what your

reputation is you're welcome in this

place because all of us have a past all

of us has a reputation all of us are got

some nasty on us somewhere we've all got

some stories so you got hit guess what

we did too you fell down guess what we

did too

but the god that we know and the god

that we serve knows how to pick you back

up if he did it for

me he can do it for you too let me

finish with

this Malachi my grandson had a birthday

in January January the

22nd and before his birthday we had

bought this gift that had to be put

together and so I went over early before

the birthday party and I'm working on it

took me two

hours I pull it out of the box it comes

all so nightly P nicely

packaged and when I opened the

directions up it filled the living

room like what the

heck and I'm like point one uh step one

step two step three step four and I'm

walking through about 24 25 steps to

finishing this whole thing

out I'm moving through getting it done I

get down literally I was on step number

19 step number 20 and it's looking good

I'm like you go taking some wheezys with

it I'm I'm I'm I'm kind of proud of

myself like I did

that and when I got right towards the

end I look around

and well what's that piece doing

there the devil is a liar like what why

why in the

world and I go back I pick piece up and

I look at the little sticker and it

tells me what piece number it is and I

look back to the very beginning of the

of the instructions I go where where's

that number look back to number 18 19 20

21 to no it doesn't go on there where

does it go oh that was step number

seven I missed step

seven and it was looking good it was

taking shape like it it looked good but

but this

piece had to be put on at step seven

but I had already put so many other

pieces together that now it wouldn't

just fit

in I had to start taking the thing

apart and start pulling pieces off and

pulling the back off and pull this leg

down and take this thing out and get

this wedged in there like all that some

duct tape it all end up working together

like like we got it all in but I had to

back all the way up to the

beginning because I missed a

step many of you have taken some hits in

life and no one even understands your

story you're a living breathing walking

miracle I get it but here's what I do

know you and I in our drive to come out

we can start trying to put our life

together we're making great decisions

you're back in school and you're getting

some counseling and and and you got a

new friend group or you moved and and

you're making some great decisions and

life is starting to take some shape I

want you to understand

if you're going to finish it and be able

to enjoy it because it's the way it's

supposed to be you got to make sure you

don't skip the beginning

step Jesus has got to go in the

beginning or you will get all this put

together and realize I've got to break

it all back down again because it's not

working I did all of this but it's still

not right I've got to get Jesus in the

very beginning so then everything that

follows it will come together ladies and

gentlemen you've done some great moves

but without Jesus you're going to have

to take life apart again if you'll get

Jesus back in his proper place he puts

structure and strength to the whole

thing and he will help you finish the

Masterpiece he made you to be would you

please stand in your feet in this

room it's an amazing amazing crowd in

this room today all my brothers at py I

am talking to you I love you guys

I love you guys and God's not bailed on

you he's right there he's got your back

and his plan is still in full effect

it's not a plan B God knows how to take

and get the best out of your life trust

him in this but all of us in this room

we've taken some

hits and for some of us in this room

we're still down it's crazy you could be

down and still have a lot of money you

could be down driving a nice car you

could be down have your marriage have a

business education you can and still be

down

he wants to bring you fully alive

today and I want to ask you to Bow your

heads in this room if you're here today

and you say Scott I don't know Jesus

that way I'm not invited him in or it's

been a minute and I I got to admit I'm a

long ways into putting my life back

together again but I'm missing a peace

and I recognize that I need Jesus in my

life I need to put him back in his

proper place if you're in this room and

say Scott I want to pray I want to get

Jesus back involved in my life I want

him to lead my life I'm reaching for him

today so that I could connect with his

house and get my future back on the

count of three I want you to throw your

hand in the air we want to pray a simple

prayer that's going to transition

everything here we go are you ready one

two three raise that hand raise that

hand where are you hold that hand right

there hold it right there we had 69 in

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those hands down right now

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can I tell you

something you didn't raise your hand for

me you were reaching for

Jesus I want you to pray this prayer for

me everybody in the place pray this

prayer loud and proud say Jesus Jesus I

give you me I give you me forgive me

forgive me I Repent I Repent change me

change take all of me take all of I take

all of you I take all of you I want I

want to serve you to serve you with my

life with my life today today I'm yours

I'm Yours and you're mine you're m in

Jesus name in Jesus name amen amen amen

amen

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amen I want to pray over everybody in

the room today because there's a lot of

you that you love Jesus but you've taken

some hits and I want you to know the

spirit of God sees you and he's for you

he loves you and he's rushing by your

side today reach for him again dust off

your theology and go back after him

again in and begin to Proclaim his

goodness and his faithfulness and his

power to turn you around and to pick you

back up again heavenly father in the

name of Jesus I pray over every person

in this room those who have just

accepted you and those in this room who

already known you but God we were taking

hits and we might be down in this moment

we've been separated from the ball we we

we got rocked but Lord today you're

going to help us get back up again there

is a comeback there is a stepping up

we're bouncing back from every situation

we will not not stay down and I pray

your love your power your hope your

strength would invade lives and hearts

those who are crying in this room right

now those who Hearts have been broken I

thank you that your very present help in

the time of trouble that you show up

when everybody walked out that you do

your best work in the night Seasons so

that our song comes back and our joy

comes back and our laugh comes back God

give us some light in the darkness and

show us that our future is still Fully

Alive in the name of Jesus I'm asking

for mirac Les I'm asking for you to

resurrect hope and resurrect homes and

resurrect marriages and resurrect Joy

today God over marriages and singles and

students and and grandparents and

business owners God I'm asking you to do

what only you can do and as you do your

part the Church of Jesus Christ will

stand Here With Arms Wide Open with no

judgment but fully Embrace and watch you

work to change and restore lives

completely we love you honor you and

thank you today

in Jesus name everybody

said amen amen one more time put those

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