Maybe you’ve been in a season where it seems like your dreams are dead. Well, God made a promise—and it’s time for your comeback! The Lord is ready to bring back to life your purpose, your calling … your assignment! And just like with Abraham, the promise of a comeback is not just for you, but also for your children and your children’s children and generations to come. What’s keeping you from your comeback, and what’s it going to take to get there?
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connection I believe this is a
generation that God has raised up not to
feed the lust of the flesh the lust of
the eyes the pride of life but to defeat
it why are you feeding what you ought to
be fighting we’ve been called in this
generation to make a difference open
your Bibles to Genesis chapter 15 and I
want to preach to you something that I
feel heavy on my heart for everybody
under the sound of my voice those of you
listening by television do you believe
that God’s Word can change the
atmosphere of your life
watch this Genesis chapter 15 I’ll begin
reading with verse 13 and he said to
Abram know certainly that your
descendants will be strangers in a land
that is not theirs and they’ll serve
them they will afflict them for 400
years also the nation whom they serve
I’ll judge afterward and they’ll and
they speaking of your descendants will
come out of that horrible situation is
what he’s describing they’ll come out of
it with great substance great
possessions verse 15 now as for you
Abraham you shall go into your father’s
in peace he’s talking about the grave
you should go to the grave in peace and
you shall be buried notice these words
at a good old age a good old age but in
the fourth generation they speaking of
your children and descendants will
return here and then once again in the
eighteenth verse he says to your
descendants I have given this land I
want to talk to you about this occasion
in the scripture because I believe it
speaks to us today in a significant way
I want to talk about God is planning
your comeback he’s planning your
comeback
God came to Moses and he said I want you
to make a covenant with me and in this
covenant I’m promising you two powerful
things number one he says I want to
reveal to you some things about your
future and I’m going to talk to you
about how you’re going to die one day
you’re gonna die Abraham but I don’t
want you to be afraid of death
I don’t want you to worry about dying so
I’m gonna go on and talk to you and
reveal to you how you’re going to die
and he said here’s how you’re going to
die
this is what it’s going to look like God
promised him that when he went to the
grave you will go to the grave in a
notice things the exact wording good old
age a good old age means as my days are
so will my strength be a good old age I
believe means we ought to just expect
and claim that we’ll have good memories
and we’ll have healthy strong bodies and
I know we get older and everything
changes for sure but I’m claiming today
the good old age when I die it’s gonna
be at a good old agent lines right up
with Psalms 91 with a long life I will
satisfy you and I said long life with
long life somebody’s listening to me in
tremendous fear of dying prematurely and
early in your to grab hold of the
covenant promise that God gave Abraham
that you will live until you die a good
old age in that good news that’s good
news be free from the fear of of what’s
coming I tell you what’s coming
good it’s what’s coming and then the
second promise profound promise that God
gave Abraham is not only will you die at
a good old age but I’m promising you
Abraham that when you go to the grave
you don’t have to worry about your
children I don’t care what it looks like
when you go I am making a covenant that
will outlive you and I’m going to take
care of your children he did throw in
there that there’s gonna be a time of
darkness in their lives whom I love I
chasing I will
and if your kids and they will they’ve
gotten off course they will be oppressed
there will be a time when it won’t be
like you wish it was there will be a
time when it looks so dark and bleak for
them but I’m promising you Abraham in
the Covenant that I make with you that
your children will come back again to
where I called them to be
there will be a comeback not only for
you but there will be a comeback for
your children there’s going to I’m going
to bring them back listen to this where
to the land that I promised you no
matter how pessimistic no matter how
negative it looks today you’re going to
come back it’s a time of the comeback
it’s time to get up off the mat if
you’ve been knocked down if you’ve been
through something if you’ve been through
financial setback or some kind of
terrible thing is hit you in your health
and are somethings happen to your family
we need to believe that it’s time for a
comeback it’s no time to quit it’s no
time to give up it’s no time to moan and
groan I’ll bring you out with great
substance they’re not just going to come
back but they’re going to pick up stuff
through the experience that they go
through that I’ll turn around and use
for my glory they’re coming back with
great substance we may be down but we’re
not out because we serve a comeback God
Frank Wright was the second string
quarterback for the Buffalo Bills and he
holds to this day the record in the NFL
for bringing a team back from the
greatest deficit in having to be made up
in a football game what happened in this
particular game is the Buffalo Bills
were losing 31 to nothing at halftime
and the coach said I’m not gonna waste
my first string quarterback on this game
it’s impossible for my team to come back
so he pulled the first string
quarterback out hoping that he wouldn’t
get hurt
and put the second-string guy in named
Frank right Frank like goes out there
and everyone else is thinking it’s too
late everyone else is thinking there’s
no way but Frank right kind of has this
mentality it’s never too late to win
it’s never too late to win he brought
his team back to a 3331 win and when it
was all over they interviewed him and he
said I you know I hear people say we’ll
give him this one we’ll give him this
one but he said my motto is we’ll give
them nothing and I want you to know the
attitude of our God is I’m not gonna
give up on anybody second samuel 14 and
verse 14 says this as water poured out
that can’t be regathered spilt water yet
does God devise a plan or a means that
the banished be not expelled from him he
said when you go through a spilt milk
scenario you serve a God who devises
plans whereby the scattered will be
gathered and will be brought back in
other words God has a way to regather
regain restore reclaim refresh and renew
your life no matter what came out God
says I’m devising a plan to bring you
back to wholeness God is a God that
makes a way of return a comeback and
it’s time for you to experience the
spirit of a comeback job 14 and 7 said
for there is hope for a tree that when
it is cut down it will sprout again
though the roots there all get old and
wax old in the earth and the stock of
the tree dies yet at the scent of water
it will bud and bring forth all it needs
is the ability to pick up the scent of
water and that water represents the Holy
Spirit and maybe the enemy has cut down
your family tree maybe it feels like
that he’s just devastated everything but
at the scent of water the power of the
Holy Spirit I
I preached it when I’m on top of the
world and I preached it when I’ve hit
rock bottom and I still believe that I
serve a God who can give every family a
comeback every marriage a comeback every
situation every drug addict every
alcoholic you can have a comeback you’ve
been through hell you messed up you did
something you shouldn’t have done it’s
time for a comeback at the scent of
water the Bible said there is a river
whose streams shall make glad again
that’s the river of the Holy Spirit and
if you can get a sin of that River while
I’m preaching God can orchestrate your
comeback there’s a river flowing that
the dead can come to life again the out
can get in again well I had the chance
and I blew it well this is your comeback
and the out can get in again the down
can get up again the depressed can dance
again
it’s time for a comeback with feeling
sorry for yourself with having a pity
party you’ve heard me tell you when you
have a pity party nobody brings gifts
and nobody shows up but the devil he’s
the only one who wants to come so what
do you do you grab hold of the promises
of God and say you know what I wish I
wouldn’t have gone through that but I’m
coming out with great substance I’m
coming out with something I didn’t have
and I’m gonna know how to be used to
even greater of God because everything I
went through give God a praise if you
believe it hallelujah
I believe it watch this watch this the
prodigal son in Luke 15 had a comeback
he jumped the fence of the hog pen and
started back to the father’s house and
while he was a great way off that’s what
I love I loved the fact that he was a
great had a long way to go we we think
that we’ve got to get our life all
together before the comeback starts but
just the moment that you turn back to
God just the fact that you’re watching
this program just the fact that you’re
sitting in church this more
just the fact that you came to church
and you really didn’t feel like it and
really you almost if the truth would be
told I think we ought to have cameras in
y’all’s houses I think we would hear all
kinds of things and come are we going
now I don’t know well let’s go well I
don’t know it’s pretty but I’m tired I
got it we gotta go get groceries today
but but something in you said let’s go
and the fact that they were a long way
off from their comeback but the moment
that he turned the bible said and when
the old gray-headed father saw him from
a distance he took off running after him
I love this wording and fell on him as
tender in it and kissed him fell on me
fell on him
if you’ll just turn back to God well I’m
gonna try to get my life together and if
I can quit doing this and quit doing
that and quit going out with Sally suco
she’s messing me up all the time if I
can quit smoking that reefer and if I
can quit oh I’ll tell you I like my
dancing in my club I just came hard to
give that up you just need to turn to
the Father and let his love fall on you
now here’s something I preached on the
prodigal son all of my preaching life
and I don’t know how in the world I miss
this but it’s precious if you can catch
what I’m saying I don’t know how I ever
I always wondered and I’ve given order
different theories on it and in truce on
it but but why did the father come
running and I tell you I felt like the
Lord spoke to me so clear this week in
my heart and he said the only reason the
father went running is he couldn’t come
back on his own so many people try to
fix their life but he couldn’t cover his
shame and his stink of the pinch of the
Pigpen he couldn’t quit his habits he
couldn’t cover up where he had been and
what he had done but here comes the
father he puts a robe of righteousness
on him put shoes on his feet
you know slaves in the Bible were not
allowed to wear shoes because then they
could run away but here comes the father
before he ever gets home orchestrating a
means of his comeback puts it covers all
of his dirtiness
put shoes on his feet and then takes a
ring and restores his gift which means
you’re now back in the partnership
you’re now in the family business and
the Bible said the gifts and the calling
of God are without repentance which
means you might have messed up you might
be a preacher listening to me who went
through a divorce and you’ve been
sitting on the sidelines but God says
it’s time for your comeback and I give
the gift back I never take the gift
you’ve always had I’m preaching to
somebody who almost gave up on your
vision and your call but it’s time for
the comeback and you can’t come back
without the father out there bringing
you back he understand that and I tell
you if you just moved toward him in his
direction something’s gonna fall on you
favor is gonna kiss you grace is gonna
kiss you the love of God is gonna kiss
you he’s not mad at you
he’s just waiting for you to jump the
fence out of the Pigpen and just start
doing the best you can don’t worry about
your addiction don’t worry about your
mess-ups just start moving and the
father will come running and something
to fall on you and you can’t make it
back without the father you’re trying to
do it on your own and when you get it
together then I’m going to come to
church and have a big service and
celebrate what I have done you can’t
come back without the father he loves
you and all he’s waiting on is you in
this service right now to turn to him
and you can have a comeback
he had a comeback you know in the Bible
it talks about John Mark and how double
minded he was and Paul got aggravated
with him and said he’s a loser he’s not
determined he’s not dedicated and I’m
not never taking him on a missionary
journey with me he’s a week we Christian
he’s got a call on his life but he
messed up the call and I tell you they’d
be humiliating for the great Apostle
Paul to say disqualified but something
happened and he had to come back because
since 2nd Timothy 4 and 11
Paul said I’m about to go on a
missionary journey cynjohn mark 4 he’s
profitable under ministry he had a
comeback I want you to see it he was a
liability now he’s an asset he was a
problem now he’s an answer when you like
for God to move you from one side of the
ledger to the other side from a loser to
a winner from a problem to an answer God
can do that it’s called a comeback I
want to close with this stall judges
chapter 16 says gives us one of the
greatest stories of a comeback judge in
the Bible his name was Samson Samson
fell in love with Delilah
and she shaved the Bible said seven
locks of hair he had dreadlocks because
his hair was so long and he had seven of
them and we know that as long as he kept
the locks the Philistines couldn’t touch
him those standards those those they’re
things in our life that if we keep we
locked the devil out we stay strong in
the Lord and the power of his might but
she deceived him and he was willing to
be deceived and she shaved the seven
locks off of his head of hair
the first thing the enemy did was put
his eyes out because anytime you start
compromising your standards you lose
your vision you can’t see that they that
be with us aren’t more than they that be
with them anytime you start compromising
you see you can’t see the opportunities
you can’t see the goodness of God the
good that God is doing he lost his
vision the first thing that goes when
you start playing with the world and lay
in your head in the lap of sin is you
lose the vision God has for your life
then you have to go with Plan B and then
he lost his freedom because they put him
in Chains and he couldn’t get his hands
up you become a spiritual zombie during
praise and worship because when you
begin to compromise and the enemy
shaving the locks of a
standards off of your life not only will
you lose your vision but you lose your
praise you lose your prayer life you
lose your praise you lose the their
singing but you don’t feel anything and
then the Bible said he started going
round and round treading corn he was
making bread for the adversaries of God
he was feeding what he should have been
fighting he was raised in cause to fight
the Philistines but now he’s feeding it
and anytime you start feeding things
that you should be fighting it’s a sign
that the enemy has has has it has you in
a defeated place a lot of people are
listening to me today and you’re feeding
those habits feeding that uncleanness
feeding that stuff and when you’re
feeding what you sure have been raised
up to defeat I believe this is a
generation that God has raised up not to
feed the lust of the flesh the lust of
the eyes the pride of life but to defeat
it why are you feeding what you ought to
be fighting we’ve been called in this
generation to make a difference the
Bible said I really think they shaved
his head the Bible said they made they
made sport of him they made fun of him
they’re having the biggest time look at
him feeding feeding what he’s supposed
to be fighting and everybody marked him
off and I think I think the Philistines
walked off said we really did a number
on him look at look at that haircut look
at that buzz cut look at that and they
won’t golf laughing that could his eyes
out change that’s what the enemy’s done
to many of you but I love this verse
verse 22 howbeit the hair of his head
began to grow again after he was shaving
they clipped it short but somebody
really messed up in this story because
they didn’t have a barber in that jail
cell
watching the length of his hair and when
they were not looking something began to
happen in his head that’s where a
comeback starts before you ever get up
physical
financially spiritually you get up
mentally when the Philistines were not
looking what they had taken from him was
coming back it was coming back and I
believe that when he cried God do it one
more time it’s the cry that God looks
for from the person who needs to come
back if you want to come back cry God do
it one more time the church in history
ladies head down in in the lap of
compromise and the lock of purity the
lock of worship the lock of faith the
lock of Prayer the lock of Bible reading
the lock of the baptism in the Holy
Spirit the lock of the second coming of
Jesus Christ has been shaved off in the
church is nothing but a social club and
the devil thinks that we’re finished and
done with but while he’s not been
looking God has been orchestrating our
comeback and the Bible said in the
fourth generation they’re gonna come
back you see it’s the fourth generation
the first business the first generation
in a business the corporate world the
first generation is one of sacrifices
somebody sacrifices to start that
business the second generation enjoys
all the benefits they inherit but the
third generation usually sells out in
one way or another spiritually in the
church our forefathers sacrificed that
and then my generation enjoyed it the
next generation wants to sell it out but
God says before that can happen there’s
coming a fourth generation that is going
to come back they’re going to come back
to everything that I’ve called the
church to be so I’ve just come to say
that if you need to come back
spiritually if you need to come back
physically if you need to come back in
your family I believe you’re in the
right place and if it’s the darkest
that’s ever been and if it’s the coldest
it’s ever been in your life you’re the
everyone I’m prophesying to today you
are going to have a comeback if you’ll
turn back to the Father give God a
praise right now it’s time I said it’s
time for a comeback
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