Reviving the Spirit: God's Power of Restoration

1) "Discipline is a necessary part of the journey of children and parent relationships. If we didn't discipline our children, I think, number one, it would show that we didn't love our children. But also, number two, I think that it wouldn't show our children restraint. It wouldn't help our children right from wrong, and the decisions have consequences. Their actions have consequences. So there is a time and a place for discipline, although it's not always fun, although it's never enjoyable. It is a necessary process." [07:14] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "God gives you the choice as well to choose blessing or cursing the results of obedience are blessing the results of disobedience or cursing now I don't know about you but when you play it out like that I want to be blessed I don't want to be someone that's walking in a curse some of you right now you are walking in the middle of a great trial you are in a dark season a desert season you are walking in a great trial season and you have blamed El Cucuy and El Cucuy is saying I can't take credit dog that's all you you done made some stupid decisions and some bad mistakes and God said it was my kindness that was going to lead you to repentance but since you took my kindness for granted I had to bring the rod of discipline" [16:13] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "The Lord's discipline here on earth doesn't last forever. That it's a season and there's a time, and he allots that time and he allots that season and he determines when enough is enough for us. And when we've learned what we need, what we need to learn in that season or that situation, and he looks on the Israelites and he determines that now is the time. See, this word that was written in Ezekiel, it was a prophetic mandate. It was a partial prophecy that was fulfilled later, but the fullness of this prophecy hasn't been fully fulfilled. It won't until right before Jesus returns and it speaks of Israel. But God looked and he said, I'm getting ready to turn things around in their lives because maybe their lives have began to turn around." [22:14] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "Imagine if we began to speak some life over our tough situations. Imagine if we began to speak life over some of our challenging situations. Imagine if we began to prophesy the word of God. Imagine if our children are driving us crazy. Our children aren't serving you. But I can declare this, that if I raise this child in the ways that they should go, when they are older, they will not depart from it. That I began to speak life over my marriage. My marriage could be in the desert. And it could be my fault. It could be her fault. But I'm going to choose to preach life and speak life over the situation and speak life because there is something profound that happens when you speak life over your desert seasons. And your desert circumstances and situations." [28:08] (48 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "The beauty of grace is that God chooses to redeem us even when we feel unredeemable. That God chooses to turn things around in our lives even when we don't deserve it. That's his mercy. And so God is getting ready to do this for them. And I know that God can do it for you. I think I've preached this message once when I was a youth pastor. And I preached it from the wrong lens. You know I just graduated Bible college. Bear with me. And I had preached this idea of like God's going to bring back what is dead in your life. And God's going to resurrect it. And God's going to revive. And he will." [30:27] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "The very spirit that raised Christ from the dead is the very spirit of God that lives inside of us. He is the God of the turn around. He is the God that will take our mess and turn it into a masterpiece. He is the God that when we are ready to turn from our sinful nature or our sinful ways. And as believers, Christians stop thinking this message is for the unchurched. It is for you. The letters in the Bible were not written to the lost. They were written to you. To me. To the church. And the minute that you begin to think that this word is not for you is the minute that you should realize that this word is for you. It is for us." [37:43] (54 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)