This is “How To Encourage Yourself.” Without fail, you will recover all! It feels like we’re in the middle of a surprise attack, like we’re fighting an unseen enemy that snuck up from behind. But in this message with Jentezen Franklin, we’re reminded that when David was at rock bottom and had nothing left, he encouraged himself. God told him to keep pursuing, keep pushing, keep fighting … you will recover it all! To hear more inspiring messages from Jentezen Franklin, visit http://jentezenfranklin.org/watch?cid… & subscribe to this channel: http://goo.gl/yfkXHy
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here’s a powerful thing David encouraged
himself in the Lord his God
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I don’t have time just to go through and
read all the Bible that I want to read
but boy if you want something that will
bless your life read this week First
Samuel chapter 30 I’m gonna skip down to
the part of verse 6 now David was
greatly distressed for the people spoke
of stoning him because of the spoil of
all the people because they were the
soul of all the people were grieved and
everyone was grieving for their sons and
their daughters but David encouraged
himself in the Lord his God and then he
inquired verse 8 says of the Lord saying
shall I pursue this enemy shall I
overtake them if I pursue them and
listen to what God told him he said you
shall surely overtake them and without
fail you shall recover
it all you’re gonna recover it all David
but something’s got to happen before
that in verse 5 actually the end of
verse 6 he said you got to encourage
yourself but what I’m going to do is I’m
going to bring a power on your life that
enables you to recover it all and then
later in the story and I didn’t have
time to read it but you can find it the
Bible said he didn’t just recover it all
but he recovered it all listen to this
and Spall’s besides and this was called
David’s Spall’s espyo ILS it’s really
amazing that he didn’t just go into this
crisis and losing and get it back but he
got back more than what he lost and it
was called David’s polls the scripture
says you know life can throw you some
curves and it’s not just the things that
you see coming but sometimes it’s the
things that you didn’t see
they hit you out of nowhere that set you
back in such a way that it seems like
you can’t get over well that’s the
situation that David was in in First
Samuel chapter 30
David had 600 mighty men and I’m telling
you they were on a roll we would say
they were winning and winning and
winning every battle every city for for
listen for three months day after day
they conquered territory they conquered
kingdoms and they were winning and
winning and winning and after three
months of fighting they were so looking
forward to go home and see their
families and see their children and see
all that they were fighting for you know
to hold in their arms their families and
to rest in their homes and all of a
sudden when they travel back after they
traveled many many miles they see smoke
they see a pillar of smoke and is coming
from the direction of their hometown and
they speed on their horses trying to get
there as quick as they can and when they
get there it is an astonishing dark
thing that they see the city their city
is burned down to the ground not only
that but their homes all of their homes
David’s home was burned completely to
the ground the Amalekites had invaded
and while they were out dealing with
this and dealing with that and dealing
with this they never saw the enemy
attacking their homes and their families
and they found themselves in a situation
where their children had been kidnapped
and enslaved by the Amalekites their
wives had been taken the Bible said
David’s wife was gone his children was
gone all the mighty men of Israel their
families their homes burned to the
ground and they begin to question how
could we be winning so much out here and
losing at home have you ever had that
season in your life yet where you have
two things going on at the same time in
your home like a miracle and a mistake
like Abraham and Sarah you know they had
Ishmael coming up in their home the
mistake and they had Isaac coming up in
their home and and and and it’s like you
you’ve got all you can’t believe that it
was doing so good in one area of your
life and so bad in another area of your
life that was the situation that David
found himself in and he found himself in
a place where he began to get
overwhelmed because he didn’t see this
problem coming and I think already
before this virus hit that many people’s
plate was so full and they had so much
and we were winning and we were well
conquering but we really had our plate
so full and then here comes one more big
thing that we didn’t see coming and it’s
almost it feels like that life is just
really people’s lives have been burned
down and have you ever had life just
feel like your people thing in your life
burn you or you know you burn down your
own life and it just feels like you’ve
lost everything and the scripture said
that they begin to weep in verse four
they well until they could weep no more
and the thing that touched me about this
I really want to take a moment
lean in now this is where I want to be
the thing that touched me about this is
they well until they couldn’t weep
anymore these are mighty men these are
warriors these are not weak people these
are not people who you know emotionally
or unstable these are killers these are
warriors but when they saw their homes
burned down when they saw their families
gone when I think of a home I think of a
place of rest I think of a place of
retreat I think of a place of I can go
and recharge my battery and I believe
what the enemy is wanting to do through
all of this crisis it’s not that they
were tired physically as much as
something broke it’s the it’s the straw
that broke the camel’s back something
broke mentally and emotionally they were
tired and I believe that’s what the
enemy’s wanting to do it’s not that you
may be physically as tired because
you’re probably been getting more rest
laying around the house
but emotionally you feel like it’s
Pyland
emotionally you feel like it’s one thing
after another now on top of that the
uncertainty of finances and jobs and and
what am I gonna do with these children
and what are we gonna do about their
education and what are we going to do
and it just feels like it’s is so much
that’s out of our control and notice
what they did they lifted up their voice
and they well the people who were with
David well the mighty men and David well
until they had no more power to weep
when you’re in distress that’s one thing
but when all your people all the people
on your team are going through the same
situation and they all lifted their
voice and they well and many you know
live and perceive Christianity to be a
to be something that is in denial they
think Christianity is living in denial
but I love the fact that it says they
well you know the text shows that you’re
allowed to show feelings your loud it’s
not a lack of faith to show feelings I’m
disappointed I’m confused why didn’t God
stop this why didn’t God do something
there’s nothing wrong with that God
understands our tears and the text shows
that they were allowed to feel those
tears you’re allowed to feel like I
didn’t see this coming you’re allowed to
feel like this hurts you’re allowed to
feel like you know yeah I worry about I
tell you I’m scared of some Christians
because when tragedy and bad news comes
they they instantly go into it don’t
bother me I’ve got well things bother me
maybe I’m different things bother me I
have to have a minute to process stuff I
have a after minute
sometimes to cry
I have to have a minute sometimes to get
alone and figure out how am I going to
get through this I think that it’s not
healthy in Christianity when we act like
we don’t feel nothing you know you get
in and get got trouble in your family
and you just act like well I just claim
my family’s good I’ll be saved in the
Lord Jesus Christ and you start quoting
script sometimes you need to feel what
you’re going through feel the grief feel
the pain feel the sorrow weep sometimes
you’ve got to get it out before you can
get over it and boy if you don’t know
this as a man let me tell you something
you and then we get over stuff a lot
quicker than women do but women have to
get it out in it and you want to have a
three-week Ice Age in your house you
just act like the problem that you and
your wife had didn’t happen because
women can’t just get over it sometimes
you’ve got to get it out before you can
get over sometimes you have to get it
out before you can process it sometimes
you have to do more than quote a Bible
verse you need to talk it through
sometimes you need more than a cliche
everything’s gonna be alright and that
people think that quoting scriptures
don’t worry be happy’ that’s that’s not
a scripture you know but but you have
you ever met these super spiritual
Christians that that don’t feel anything
I I’m not that way I’m not that
spiritual I’ll be honest I felt
depression try to come on me during the
middle of this I felt dark days I felt
the uncertainty of the future I felt it
and I know many of you are feeling and I
think of the single mother sitting there
at home right now and you know you’ve
had three kids in the house with you for
four or five weeks now and you don’t
know and you’re scared to death to go
back to work because you’re afraid I
could lose
I could lose my health and I could give
this to my children and I don’t know how
you manage it I don’t know how you do it
my heart goes out to you today the
scripture said
that I don’t know why I stood up but I
feel something I feel my help coming and
I’m gonna I’m gonna do what I feel like
doing it’s my sermon I’ll preach it like
I want to don’t shut down your emotions
they had no power to weep and I love the
fact that he said they well until boy I
felt this somebody’s about to have an
until moment they wept until they had no
more power to weep there has to come a
until moment where you process it and
you weep over it and you cry over it I
don’t know why they left me I don’t know
why that happened I don’t know why they
laid me off I don’t know why God didn’t
intervene and you weep until you can
weep no more but then they started
turning the corner when he said
something powerful he said I’m gonna
weep until they could weep no more means
I’m tired of talking about it I don’t
know why it happened but I’m done with
it
I’m done with texting about it I’m done
with calling about it I’m done with
rehashing it I’m done with telling
people about it I’m tired of talking
about it weeping about you have to have
your untilled moment they wept until
they could weep no more and the Bible
said and David was greatly distressed
but David encouraged himself I love that
this is where it all stirred and David
encouraged himself why because all his
people were talking about stoning it
David encouraged himself in the Lord his
God there has to come a time where you
start saying you know if I don’t get no
help from anybody I’m gonna encourage
myself in the Lord the choirs not here
to encourage me I can’t depend on them I
appreciate all the people that come
usually in this sanctuary where I’m
preaching but there’s none of them here
today but I’ve learned a secret that
when I don’t have
anybody I can really count on sometimes
your husband is not there for you
sometimes your wife is not there to
encourage you sometimes your best
friends are not there to encourage you
but here’s a powerful thing David
encouraged himself in the Lord his God
Oh hallelujah
he had an inner Citadel down deep in the
inside of him that said if you push me
hard enough if you squeeze me hard
enough if you put enough pressure on me
you know what’s gonna come out of me
the only thing that’s really way down in
there is praise and if you squeeze me
hard enough praise is gonna come out and
he started encouraging himself in the
Lord well pastor Jenson how do how do I
encourage myself in the Lord I’ve lost
my job how do I encourage myself I don’t
have the choir I don’t have the preacher
I don’t have anybody I’m sitting here
looking at this in my in my pajamas and
I’m looking at a screen you are the one
I’m preaching to he encouraged himself
in the Lord let me give you three quick
things do you do to encourage yourself
in the Lord number one rehearse your
past victories rehearse your past
victories David started going back in
his mind he didn’t have nobody to
encourage him didn’t have any family
they were kidnapped didn’t have a house
to go to he was homeless all his silver
all his money had been stolen he was
broke and so I didn’t have any
encouragement in his in his resources he
turned to his friends and his friends
had didn’t have his back they were ready
to throw stones so he said I’m gonna
encourage myself not in my circumstances
but in the Lord my God and how do you do
that number one you rehearse past
victories I could see him as he said now
you know I remember when I was just
tending sheep and I didn’t have a house
and I didn’t have a kingdom and I didn’t
have all these friends and I didn’t have
a beautiful wife and children I didn’t
have anything but that guy came and
poured all on me and God anointed me and
he started encouraging himself I am
anointed I am
I have the power of God active in my
life and then I could see him you know I
remember one day when a lion tried to
kill one of my one of my sheep and the
Spirit of the Lord came on me and I slew
the line and then a bear attacked and I
slew the bear I remember and Don don’t
you see he he’s rehearsing past
victories
I remember when Goliath came out on that
field and I remember all I had was a
slingshot in five stones but I slew him
because God was with me the second thing
that the Lord told me to tell you is
remember you’re under divine protection
now this is how you encourage yourself
rehearse past victories and remember
you’re under divine protection angels
are all around you angels are guarding
you
angels are protecting you angels in
today’s world God has preserved you and
your family think of the things that
should have happened but you escaped it
think of the things that you dodged
think of the things that should have hit
you with full force but somehow there
was an unseen force of angels and
remember you’re under divine protection
and it ought encourage you in the Lord
and then lastly remind yourself after
you rehearse past victories and after
you remember that you’re under divine
protection lastly I want you to remind
yourself who your God is he is able
he is a waymaker he is a miracle worker
I don’t know I didn’t know he was more
than enough until I didn’t have enough I
didn’t know that he was the door until a
door was shut and he became the door to
a brand new thing in my life and I want
you to remind yourself who your God is
he’s Jehovah Jireh your provider
he’s Jehovah Nissi your victory banner
he’s Jehovah Teske new your
righteousness
he’s Jehovah Shalom your peace
he’s jehova shamma the God who is there
he’s Jehovah Rapha the God that heals
you he is your God and as you enter into
this I want you to hear what happened
for the Bible said he prayed David did
and he said God should I pursue should I
believe that even though I’ve lost a lot
you can restore it my family my house is
burned my finances are gone
is it over and God said you shall pursue
listen for you shall recover it all and
that’s what I came in here with today is
I believe that we’re about to recover it
all in this nation we’re about to
recover it all in our businesses and in
our families and in our church and
Spoils besides in other words we’re not
just gonna break even and get back what
the enemy stole but Oh David when he
when he got down to the Amalekites and
saw him partying and having a big time
you ought to read it they were having a
party in the middle of the valley and
had his kids tied up and had his had his
all of his gold and eaten all of his
stuff and enjoying themselves and the
Bible said that Dave
got angry and he attacked and he went to
the enemy’s camp and after he took all
of his stuff back he turned around and
he noticed well my goodness they they
have sheep they have cows they have gold
they have stuff that they’ve accumulated
and they don’t need it anymore because I
just wiped them out and so he said I’m
gonna take that back I’m not just gonna
get back what the enemy is stolen but
I’m going to recover it all and I really
believe that we’re going to see in this
nation and in the world and in your life
and in your business and in your
finances and in your family you shall
recover it all and spoils besides thank
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