Bro Noah Phillips 1-28-2015 Minister's Conference "Things We Can't Afford To Lose"

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and what he would want done, and just a whole lot
of praying about it.
Never no answer.
But one night, about 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, in that motel room
in Haiti, god spoke to me andsaid this is what I want you to
preach at the minister'sconference, and I want to do my

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best, if the Lord will help meand you help me as well.
1 Samuel, chapter number 30,.
When you found your place, sayamen.
And it came to pass.
When David and his men werecome to Ziglag, on the third day
that Amalekites had invaded thesouth and smitten Ziglag and

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burned it with fire and hadtaken the women captives, they
were therein and they slew notany, neither great or small, but
carried them away and went ontheir way.
And so David and his men came tothe city and behold, it was

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burnt with fire and their wivesand their sons and their
daughters were taken captive.
Then David and the people thatwere with him lifted up their
voice and wept until they had nomore power to weep.

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And, if the Lord will help me,I want to preach here tonight on
something I feel like God spoketo my heart.
I want to preach on things thatwe cannot afford to lose,
things that we cannot afford tolose.
Would you stretch your handsthis way one more time?

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Ask God to help us.
Father, in the name of Jesus, Icome before you.
I ask for the help of the Lord.
I ask for the Spirit of God toarrest our hearts, challenge us
in this service tonight.

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Give us a move of God on thisaltar and we'll give you the
praise, the honor, the glory.
In Jesus' name, amen, you maybe seated.
It is a story that we are all sowell familiar with.
It is a story that we havepreached from, we have testified

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about it, we have talked aboutit and we highlighted it in
times of our life when we weredown at our lowest point, when
we were at the place that wefelt like everything that we had
was utterly taken and all gone.
It was the time when aspirationof hope was just taken away

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from us.
The recovery seemed like it wasso far out away from us.
It was almost as though itlooked like in the ash pile,
that failure was a final subjectand no return for any glory
whatsoever.
I wonder what it felt like onthe day when David come in from

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the battle and he walked up uponthe hillside and he looked over
.
I wonder what got a hold of hisheart when he got to remembering
what it was like at home andwhat he got to remembering what
it felt like to be embraced bythe comforts of the house.
Nobody in all the world, anyplace that you travel, anywhere

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that you go, it's always aslogan there's no place like
home.
And can I tell you that is afact and a reality of our lives.
There is no place like thecomforts of our house.
Houses are in jeopardy, andwhen our children are in

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jeopardy and when our hopes arein jeopardy.
If there's ever been a timethat we need to rally to
ourselves, it's in the hour whenwe feel like hell from beneath
has come up to meet us and hascome up to grab a hold of the
things that we hold precious.
Oh, come here just a minute.
We are in one of the moststruggling, heartbreaking times

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and I don't mean to bepessimistic, but we are
traveling upon a bumpy highway.
Hell wants to fight and take allthat we have, but I must preach
to you tonight that God wantsto give us the victory, in spite
of what hell Would like to tryto do to the church.

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Amen.
I know that there is a time inevery one of our lives that we
have had a zigzag somewhere inour lives.
Every ministry that sits inthis building, every ministry in

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this house, has had a burningeffect of the enemy's camp.
We've had our own zigzags tocome to fruition, to life, and
realize it is burnt and there isnothing there at all.
Oh, can you hear me just aminute?
I wonder what it felt like inDavid's heart when the pondering

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of his heart Was upon home.
But then, when he got to seeingthe reality, it was nothing but
ashes.
It was nothing but ashes, itwas nothing but smoke.
But can I tell you there is ahope in the midst of the ashes
there is a revival that can behad in spite of the ashes, amen,

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amen.
One man said one time.
He said that no doubt the storythat befall unto David, if it
hit any of our lives, it wouldknock us off our feet as equal
as it done unto David.
It would drive us to a placewhen we would weep and we would

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howl and cry and we would weepso bitterly at the laws that
were laying among us.
On here you just a minute here.
We're quiet generation.
When it comes to the burden thatwe need for what's happening

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among us, I believe that we aretoo quiet.
We have learned to becomesettled in the ashes instead of
stirring up the ashes.
We have become content, livingin the spite of the dust and the

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smock of all of the ashes.
We have become content, and Iknow where I'm preaching at
right here is the cream of thecrop of the ministry.
But can I tell you my burdentonight?
It is not and I say thisrespectfully my burden tonight.
It is not and I say thisrespectfully, I'm not preaching
to those that are beyond my age,but I am preaching for my

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generation that is in my agebracket.

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There is things that we don't need to just count as
loss and leave them laid to theside.

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If there's ever been an hour.
As it's already been said, weneed a revival.
I want to tell you what Godspoke to my heart.
If we're to have revival, webetter get down to business and
weep and in the ash pile and getto crying out to God Get us
hope, get us help and get us upout of the mess that we have

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fallen into.
We don't want to admit it, butthere is ashes, more than we
want to contend with.
There is a burning fact thatthere is a ash pile that is left
behind because of the lack ofsome things we're not taking

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care of.
Some things that should havebeen dealt with have now become
a burning ash pile in the livesof our generation.
Come on here now.
If Saul would have done what heshould have done, david may not

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have felt what it felt like tolose and feel the hopelessness
that befalled unto him.
But what happened to Saul washe was tricked by the trickery
that he could appease God in acrooked manner and make God

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happy with the devices that hehas chosen.
Can I tell you in this building, when we begin to devise for
ourselves the remedy for our ownvictory, it is nothing but an
illusion, and it is a false hopethat will turn out to be
nothing but a hope of nothingbut broken dreams.

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It'll be nothing but an icepile.
Oh, come on in here.
What's the matter with?

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us is we have?

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learned how to adjust to live in the ashes and we
become comfortable living in theash pile.
We have become comfortable atjust saying they're lost.
We have become comfortable atsaying, well, well, they're not

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going to get saved Until we gotdown to business, and we wail
and we weep and we cry.
There is no revival.
I know it's a little tight forme, but revival is not born On
the sides of our church.
It's not born on the sides ofour church.

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It's not born on the intellectof our intelligence.
It's not born on theaspirations that we have for a
bright future.
It's born with a man that's gotdown in the ass, pal, and he's
got the dust on his face wherehe cries.

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I messed up, but I want to getup.
I messed up but I want to makeit right.
I turned the way I shouldn'thave turned.
I looked the way I shouldn'thave looked.
I bought what I shouldn't havebought and I need help.
One of the biggest thingshonesty is a problem.

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One man said that some men have, when it comes to personal
attachment, to be an honestabout himself.
David would not confess that itwas his fault until Ziklag was

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burnt with fire.
Maybe a little tight right here, but Ziklag was God's method to
get a king back to the palace,everybody that knows anything
about the story of David.
He fled to the enemy's camp andit is so tragic to find this in

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the word of God.
It is so tragic.
It is so tragic to the placethat we find David now.
He's a friend to the enemy.
Oh, come on in here.
He's a friend to the wrong side.
It's a sad day when we gotholiness preachers that are

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making friends with the wild,that we used to preach against.
To preach against what once waswrong is now debatable.
David's mistake was he took upwith the king of the Philistine

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land and he joined sides withhim.
And I'm jumping a little aheadright here.
God's provision for David camethrough an enemy.
It came through an enemy.
David, you should have neverWent to the Philistines.

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God spoke to me and I know I'mnothing, but I was praying,
brother MacDonald, on that motel.
God spoke to my heart.
He said David outran Saul, buthe lost himself.
He got rid of the chase, but hedidn't realize that the chase

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was what was making him pray.
He didn't realize it was thechase that was making him spend
the night.
God, deliver me, god, get meout of this.
When we seek comfort, instead ofreaching out for the divine and
perfect will of God, we alwaysresort to wildness and shame.

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Hear me in this house, ourconvictions fall, our standards
dribble away, our hopes leaveout, our children are scattered.
We need a revival, ourtogetherness again.
Chapter 27 of 1 Samuel you findwhere David joins up with the

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king.
But chapter 27 to chapternumber 30.
It's a space of time of 16months and you never find one
place where David ever prays,david ever cries out to God,
david never weeps and he's goneto battle.

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I feel like saying this and Imay get tired of feathers, but I
feel like saying this.
He was called to battle againsthis own people.
He was called to fight againsthis own people.

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One man said no war is worthfighting if on its own side it
has enemies.
Trying to fight an enemy, nowar is worth in pursuing.
It is a hard thing to swallow.

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It is an hour when preachinghas now become debatable.
The preacher that would name it, the preacher that would say it
, the man that would get up andpull the trigger, as one man
said, has now become thetroublemaker instead of the
peacemaker.
He's now.

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I felt the Lord and I'm notjust preaching this to be
preaching it.
If you knew how much I wrestledwith this, hear me in this
building.
We have gone to a generationwhere our children they don't
know who to stand by, they don'tknow what preacher to stand by,
they don't know what preacherto believe in, they don't know
what church to attend and theydon't know what ministry to

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support, because there is a warin the ash pile, that war inside
that pile.
I want you to notice somethingin I hurry the bitter war
between the fall of david's ownbad judgment led him to a ruin

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and it was god's divine choiceto waken up a preacher and get
him back where he needs to bewith god.
David wept bitterly, the biblesaid, but in his weeping it was
not a total loss.
It was a weeping that broughtprofit.

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It was a weeping that brought acure for the laws, that brought
a cure for the lost.
It is a sad day when ourministries have become
prayerless and powerless andhopeless.
Help me now.

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I've been in Panama with BrotherRich and I say it respectfully.
I have woke up in the farcountry.
I have woke up when I was justa young preacher and stayed with
him when you back in 89 Ibelieve it was in Jacksonville,
georgia I'll never forget wakingup Somewhere around 5 or 6 and
brother Richard be already inthe living room praying and

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crying out to God.
I'll tell you what made Davisfall so hard to swallow it was
the simple fact that he forgotto pray.
I'll tell you what made Davisfall so hard to swallow it was
the simple fact that he forgotto pay about his decisions and
he just chose which way hewanted to go.
Can I tell you that there is apayment for every choosing.

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There is a consequence.
For every bad decision, there issomething to be lost in every
wrong decision we have fallen towhere the soft soap has now

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become comfortable to us insteadof the pointed preaching.
It's now become comfortable tous instead of the point of
preaching.
David's dilemma became numberone in his life when David was

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left to himself to make his ownchoice.
It's a little tight here.
When he was left to decide thewill of God by himself, he made
a wholesome shame of his ownself.
How do you turn and look at men?

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Come in here just a minute.
How do you turn and look at men, come in here just a minute.
How do you turn and look at menand tell them I made a mistake?
What does that voice I hearover on the other side of that
ash pile, while every man'sweeping for his children, every
man's weeping for his wife,david this is my personal

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feelings he's weeping for hisGod.
Come back to me.
Come back and talk to me.
I made a bad decision.
I know it's going to get alittle tight right here for me,
but I tell you right now that ifthere is anything that has hurt

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us more than anything, it isthe shameless, a pure, outright
honesty.
I've not always been to my best.
I've not always done everydecision just right.
One man said one time.
He said if a man can't behonest to himself, he can't be
honest to nobody.

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But if he can be honest tohimself, he'll find a hope of
revival.
Revival's born out of purehonesty.
It's my fault, I've got torepent to a holy God.
I've got to tell a holy GodUnless you change it, it'll
never change, it'll never be anydifferent, it'll never change.

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In my generation there's beenmy greatest prayer God help my
generation.
And if I could challenge themin the age bracket of the 50 who
I am bumping on, can I tell youthat we can't afford to lose

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what men like this right herehas told us.
We can't afford to lose theinstruction of what it means to
make right choices.
When David wept and cried andhe said, oh, that I had a

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daysman that would come standbetween us and help me make the
right choice.
Help me make.
One man said one time pleasestay with me.
He said we have made theultimate failure when we felt
God has dethroned and throned us.
It was when God put a ministryin the hand of a man and allowed

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him to carry it, but it was theeyes of God that oversaw the
man.
But when the man himself beganto feel that he could control
the eyes of the God that waslooking at what was in his hand
it was, then he made the choice.
It was his greatest shame, canI tell you in this house, if we

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don't get out of prayerlessnessand if we don't get out of
carelessness, if we don't get upand shake ourselves away from
it, our loss will be greater.
Our shame will be deeper.
Our hopes will be further Movedaway from us when our standards

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droop.
What we used to shout out hasnow become a question on how
long is long, how short is short.
When it used to be and my youth, I heard men like and I don't

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mean to quote so much men likehim preach if I was a man and I
had a TV Anybody know the restof the story he said I'd take it
out to the river and I'd takean old axe.
And he said I'd chop it topieces and I'd get down on my

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knees and I would apologize toevery squirrel and rat and bug
for infesting their line.
It was a time when we ralliedfor holiness.
It was a time when we shoutedover the truth of the gospel.
It was a time when it was apledge of honor to our people.

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We wasn't ashamed to stand byit.
We wasn't ashamed to stand byit.
We wasn't ashamed to shout onit.
Why are you tightening up on me?
It was a time when, when wetold her and pardon me, it's a

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night that we honored him.
If she looked like abullfighter out of old Mexico,
we told her you ain't going.
But now it's a question in theashes.
Is it right or is it wrong?
Woo?
I say it's still wrong.

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I say television's still wrong.
I know it's going to get alittle tight right here.
Whether you watch it by the boxor watch it by the phone, it's
still wrong.
Come on here.

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Come on here.
Come on now.
We don't need there's a lot ofour people and you're going to
throw your rocks at me but wedon't need Healthy magazines and
bad movies.
We've let harlequin, romanceand slide novels creep in among
us Until it's brought ourdivorce rate in the holiness

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movement from the bottom to atop high.
I say we need to have a revivalof recovery.
Do that.
There is no hope Without prayer.

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There is no recovery without areturn to prayer.
Our generation rather spendtheir time fellowshipping than
they had to pray.
Weeping and crying has nowpassed up our day.

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It has gone easy for us.
I've been there.
Don't say you ain't been there.
I've been there in the hustleand the bustle.
When it's easier to grab a book, flip a page.
I know all you guys are goingto throw shoes at me, and it's

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just because we're educated,know how to line out our numbers
and line out our alphabet,until we've lost the passion for
prayer, until we've lost thatunction that moves inside of us,

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that moves inside of them.
Hear me just a minute.
They wanted to kill David, butafter David got done praying,
they wanted to follow David.
Did you hear what I just said?
They wanted to kill David, theywanted to stone David, but

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after David got done praying,they wanted to go wherever David
went.
They wanted to recover why.
It was a memory of the past.
It was a remember of what usedto be.
It was a memory of the fact.
I know God did it then.
I've watched that warrior.
I've watched the faith of thatwarrior.

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I've watched the faith of thatwarrior.
I've watched the power of thatwarrior.
And when he gets up, we'regoing after it again.
Prayer picks up, but the lack ofprayer catches us, us down.
When we cease to pray, ourguards are broken, our hopes For

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revival is dashed.
The world's greatest revivalsthat we study over Were not born
on a crowd.
It was born on a prayer meeting.
It was born on a prayer meeting.
It was born when men prayed andlooked at themselves.

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It was born.
I'm a part of you.
I love you, but we want topreach to everybody, but we
don't want to be preached to mygeneration, my generation.
We want to tell it, we want toshout it, but we don't want

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nobody to say nothing to us.
When we cease praying, when wecease crying, when there's no
moan in the preaching, whenthere's no moan in the singing
and when there's no moan in thealtar, there's ashes.
Awaits us.
How long shall we mourn overthe loss?

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When will it hit us?
When will it hit us, brotherBrock and our loss is not a
total loss if we could get backto praying, if we can get back
to weeping Hallelujah After theHoly Ghost here and I'm going to

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get in trouble right here, butyou hear me in this house, you
know as well as I do.
We've had shouting meetings andthem backslide.
Just as soon as the meeting wasover, pray through to the
baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Two weeks later, they're gone.
You know why?
I'll tell you why it is.
Prayerlessness has gripped uslike a vice and it has squeezed

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us until we have literally goneinto the place of functioning
without praying.
Praying will bring man down tothe lowest level while pulling
heaven down in his soul.

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It will cause God to notice notour standing, but our kneeling.
Hear what I just said.
Hear what I just said.
It'll cause God to notice notour standing, but our kneeling.
Hear what the word of God saidbehold.
When he heard Cornelius praying, he said behold he praying.

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What's God gonna hear?
God's not gonna hear our fastmusic.
God's not going to hear ourfast music.
God's not going to hear ourthump and our holler, our
programs.
He's going to hear our moan.
He's going to hear our weepingand our wailing and our crying.

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I felt the Holy Ghost deal withme in Haiti.
God spoke to my heart.
He said until it affects us, itwill not affect them.
Until our loss becomessomething that burdens us, it

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will never burden them.
Until the preacher himself seesthe lack of, he'll never feel
the effect of what it feels likehaving them come back and grab
ahold of it.
And I want to say this in ahurry.
I may have tightened it in thewrong way to your opinion, but I

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felt the Holy Ghost deal withme so strong, made this
statement to my heart.
He said there is a cause forthe lost and there's a cure for
the lost, and he said there's acelebration for the lost.
The cause for the lost, as I'vealready said, has been David's

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lack of prayer, but the cure forthe lost is David's revival of
prayer.
David, not one time ever once,looked back at what battle he
came from.
He focused his eyes on thebattle that was ahead of him.
And I noticed this and youprobably have already saw it

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yourself.
But when David began to weepand wail, it was then he
realized everything was lostexcept for the preacher and the
ephod, except for the preacherand the ephod.
God kept the preacher and Godkept the ephod.

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The enemy took a whole lot ofstuff, but he never took the
preacher and he never took theplace of prayer.
The enemy took everything thatDavid had, but David never lost
his preacher.
God spoke to me and he said theenemy will rage.

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He will not take my preacher.
Come on, bible readers.
He thought it was something tobe worn To inquire of God and
without that Ephod wrappedaround him, the church may have

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been burnt.
Everything may have been atotal loss, but there was one
thing that did not get taken,and that was the avenue of
prayer.
One man said one time if Icalled his name, a lot of you
over here on the side would knowhim.
Brother Jerry Turner's daddy,donald Turner, made the

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statement he said if you couldlive without breathing, then you
could live without praying.
If you can live withoutbreathing, then you can live
without praying, and if youcan't live without breathing,
you can't live without praying.
Amen.
David learned the lesson all toowell late that the lack of

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prayer brought ashes to his life, the lack of commitment he
fought in an area he once usedto fight against.
And I know it may be a littletight right here, but, my
preacher, brethren, are weupholding things that one time

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we stood against?
Are there things that are nowcrept in that our children look
at us and say I thought that waswrong.
It's going to get a littletight right here for me.
We have now called it that's agray area.

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That is a gray area.
Don't say nothing about it,don't deal with it.
But I'll tell you exactlywhat's going to happen.
Somebody's going to happen.
Somebody's going to get lost inthe gray area.
Something's going to happen inthat gray area and when it

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happens it's going to be of thegreatest shame.
Are you hearing me?
It was David that said Let mehide thy word in my heart that I
might not sin against thee.
It was David who wept after thetransgression.

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Before I was afflicted, I didmy own thing, but now that I've
got a wound in me, I've learnedwhat it means to pray.
I've learned what it means totravail.
I've learned what it means tocry out to God.
Have mercy on me, lord.

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Deliver me, save me from myself, get me away from myself.
Myself has been my enemy.
It is not my neighbor andpastor, it is not my preacher
friend down the road, it'smyself.
I am my own enemy.

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Don't you stand with me allover this?

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building Holy God.

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It is not hopeless to the church or to the ministry
that will arise to the challengeand admit to herself we have
traveled alone, but we're nottraveling alone no longer.
We have fought and we have wenthome wounded, but we shall go

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in the name of the Lord andshall return, violently after
the enemy, with the recovery ofour loss.
It would be hopeless for I topreach here tonight to all of us
that the loss that fell untoDavid was an utter loss.
But there is a celebration thatcomes in the loss, and that is

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the point when David getshimself up and he no longer sits
in the ash pile, he no longerweeps over the loss of it, but
he gets up With a divinedirection that is given by God
that says go and ye shallrecover.

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I felt like God is wanting tohear somebody in this house
arise to the occasion and standto their feet.
A preacher to get out of theashes.
A minister to get up and sayI've sat here long enough, it's
time to come out of the ashes.
A minister to get up and sayI've sat here long enough, it's
time to come out.
We have calculated our lossesso long until now.

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We're at a choice where we canstay in the ashes or we can get
up and get out of the ashes.
We can either say to ourselvesI've lost it but I'm fixing to
regain it.
I admit to myself I can donothing without him and without

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the help of the Lord.
I'm another failure, I am anaccident waiting to happen.
I'll tell you what David did,and it may not be much right
here, the preacher may not havebeen the best, but I gave you my
heart.

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But you hear me in thisbuilding.
I'll tell you exactly what Ifeel like David did.
He got up and he heard God andhe wiped his face off and he

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said boys, y'all can either stayor go with me.
But I made my mind up.
He said they're all alive and Ican go get them.
They're all alive and I can goget them.
They're not dead, they're justcaptives.

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They're not wounded, they'rejust in bondage.
They're not Utterly forsaken,they're just waiting on you to
come get them.
They're not out there Feelinglike oh, you ain't hearing me.

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I feel like there's somebody inthis building and they're
somewhere in our ministries.
It is inevitable fact thatsomebody's waiting on us To get
up out of the ashes and saywe're going to go get it.
We're going to return to whatwe had.
We're going to church like weused to church.
We're going to preach like weneed to preach.

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We're going to shout like weneed to shout about it.
When David arose and it may notbe great, but when David arose,
they arose when David got up.
The church got up when Davidfelt hope.

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They felt hope when they feltencouraged, when David felt
encouraged, when they felt likein themselves we're going to
come out of this.
Why are we coming out of it,brother, lord?
Because God said to the man ofGod we can go get it and we can
recover.
Come on now.

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I fought hell through this andI'm not about to let him take
this part of it.
Is that right with you?
What is the matter?
I'll tell you what happened.
Revival came, on a personal note, to one preacher, to one man
and 600 men.
600 men felt the power of oneman because that one man got up.

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600 men felt that recovery waspossible because that man got up
.
I come to tell somebody in thishouse if you feel like your
church is washed up, if you feellike your ministry is washed up
, all it needs is for you to getup, and when you get up they'll

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get up.
Come on here.
When I come in shouting, when Icome in worshiping, they'll
come in worshiping.
I can't expect nothing out ofthem that I don't do.
Come on here now, brother Brock.

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I know they're on their feetand I don't want to bear long,
but I'll never forget.
I was in a building program andI'll never forget, as long as I
live, half of the men.
It's years ago.
I thank the Lord for wherewe're at and what's happening to
our work.

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I remember one time, brotherRich half of them didn't show up
and I got acting like Noah.
I said, alright, I got actinglike Noah.
I said, all right, I gotaggravated.
You know what I said ComeWednesday night, I'll take care
of this.
Don't look at me like you ain'tdone it.

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I'll fix this little problemand next Saturday we'll all be
here.
But you know what happened,brother Ryan.
I was sitting up there waitingfor my turn.
I was just in a hurry for it.
I looked around About that timefour lost people walked in.

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What are you doing here?
You just messed up my plans.
I was going to get down tobusiness and roll in the ashes.

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Hey, I was going to get down tobusiness and roll in the ashes.
Hey, I was going to get down tothe business and just binge
myself of all the aggravation.
But when I saw them walk in,brother Cabot, I turned and
looked at them and then I lookedback at the Bible and I said
God, what am I to do?

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He said, tell them about me.
I got up and back at the Bibleand I said God, what am I to do?
He said tell them about me.
I got up and preached on thecross and everyone came to the
altar.
You know what I did?
I found it.
I never preached it, I neversaid it, because when I got up
they got up with me.

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What's the reason for our down?
It's because we're in ourselves.
But if we can get out of itwe'll have revival.
I saw it and they began to play.

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I saw it While I was prayingand God spoke to my heart.
He said they're calculating theloss and I got a cure for the
loss.
I got a remedy to get them outof it.

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I know you will think it's oddfor me to say it, my preacher,
brethren, if the church losesher shout of recovery, we wasn't
made great by what we look like.
We were made great because webrought home our seeds and the

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enemy saw us return in victory.
They watched us as we mournedthe loss.
Don't leave that to be the endof the picture.
Don't let that be the lastthing your church sees Somewhere

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or another.
Somewhere.
Get a fight inside of you again.
He that goeth for a weepingbearing precious seed shall
doubtless come again, rejoicing.
Anybody say amen, precious seed, shout, doubtless come again.
Rejoice Anybody say amen.
Can anybody shout hallelujah?

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Can anybody tell the devil Iain't quitting.
Can you do it?
I ain't quitting.
I don't want to get you mad atme, but if a church is quiet,
it's generally got a quietpreacher.

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If a church is slow, it'sgenerally got a slow preacher,
woo.
But if a church is hot, she'sgot a hot preacher.
If she's a church that rathershat on the pages of recovery

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than the water in the ashes,she's a church that knows what
it's like to carry trophies inthe house of God.
But if she's a church whocelebrates her loss but never

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celebrates in her loss.
I've had some back sets, you'vehad them, but I've done my best
shout when I shouted my way outof my loss.
I'm closing with this BillySunday said I'm a Christian

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because God says I'm a Christianand I did what he told me to do
.
I stand on God's word and ifthe book goes down, I'll go down
with it, and if God goes down,I'll go down with him.

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And if there was any other God,I would have made shipwreck a
long time ago.
He said but for 27 years ago, inChicago, I piled all I had my
reputation, my character, mywife, my children, everything I

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had on God of the Bible andChrist of the Bible.
And he said and I won we'realways winners when we pile it
on God.
I said we're always winnersWinners when we pile it on God.

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I say we're always winners whenwe pile it on God.
Father, in the name of Jesus, Icome before you and deliver my
soul.
The challenge is to speak tosome of the greatest people on

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the face of this earth.
I pray, god, that the messagewas conveyed in a way that would
be suitable to you.
I'm asking God, you to deal nowwith every soul, rend our
hearts into an open view ofheaven until we see exactly

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where we're at, until we seeexactly what we're feeling and,
god, until you can baptize uswith the hope of recovery.
Oh God, walk the aisles of thisbuilding, deal with every soul,

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every heart, every life, dealwith every individual.
Right now, I'm asking God, youto tear down the facade and we
are capable of building and giveus that hour of recovery.
God, we're asking you to moveright now.

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In the name of Jesus, I ask youwhile they play and sing.
It seems like from thebeginning of this meeting, under
this present time, god's beencalling unto us.
Let's pull together, let'srecover our losses, let's thirst

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for revival.
Would you come all over thisworld?