Restoration 2022

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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Prayer by Gem Castor

Gem Castor

He is Faithful

Peace in the Storm

Give Him Praise

For His Glory

Sunday Morning Devotional

Gentle Healer

Relentless Pursuit

From Garbage to Gold

Greater Works Than This

Give Him Back His Throne

How Big is God

Okay, so I pray that That you have been blessed because I have been and the organizers have been telling me clear gem Thank you so much.

I tell them you know what the blessings The speaker has more blessings in the audience.

Every message that we give, actually we speak to ourselves as well.

The message is a message for each and every heart.

And friends, I hope and I pray that you have been experiencing now the joy of needing Him.

At first it was it wasn't it was a bit too awkward to need someone to be needy but now you see that the Lord desires for each 1 of us to need Him And I know everyone is hungry right now, but I pray that you'll be hungrier for the eternal bread that the Lord is about to give us.

I know that we just have prayed, but this is the emphasis right now of restoration.

So for those of you who are able to kneel down, can you kneel down with me for a word of prayer?

Our great God, our dear loving Heavenly Father, Lord, we praise you and we thank you for giving us this beautiful time that we could pause for a while from our busy schedule.

And Lord, we praise and we thank you that you are our priority.

And Lord, we praise and we thank you that it's worth stopping the whole thing, the whole world just to give focus upon you.

And Lord, we ask in a very special way right now that may you prepare our hearts to receive the bountiful blessings that you're about to give us.

And Lord, I pray that may you bless the physical food as well as you bless the spiritual food that we're about to take.

And thank you so much, Lord, for we know that you are here with us, for you have promised that where 2 or 3 are gathered together in your name, there you are.

So Lord, we believe that you are here and your angels are with us.

So Lord, I ask that may you hide me behind your cross, that I may not be seen nor be heard and even a desire to be seen or to be heard Lord please take that away that Jesus and Jesus alone be seen be heard be lifted up and exalted we ask this in the loving and precious name of your son Jesus all your children say amen amen so friends I Was asking the Lord again this morning because last night I didn't have a message to share but God has a message to share so this morning The Lord woke me up again at 330 It's it's okay, it's 630 there in East Coast So when I woke up this morning, the Lord wanted me to to be still in his presence.

And this is the message that the Lord wants me to share with you.

Friends, didn't you know that there's quite a few things that we're doing right now that are not even approved of God in the very first place.

The first thing, the 1 thing that I'd like to focus on is when Israel chose to have a king.

And listen to this friends, listen to this.

Jesus, Spirit of Prophecy said, from Patriarchs and Prophets, page 605, paragraph 3 it says, He permitted the people to follow their own choice because they refused to be guided by His counsel.

Remember that friends when they were clamoring to have a king?

In Hosea 13 verse 11 it says, Hosea declares that God gave them a king in his anger.

When man chose to have their own way without seeking counsel from God, or in opposition to His revealed will, He often grants them their desires, in order that through the bitter experience that follows, they may be led to realize their folly and repent of their sin.

Friends remember who was originally Israel's king?

And listen friends, human pride and wisdom will prove a dangerous guide that which the heart desires contrary to the will of God will in the end be found a curse rather than a blessing.

Oh, and we are so used to following our own hearts because this is what the world is telling us.

And the Bible is telling us your heart is deceitful and desperately weakened.

If you follow your heart you follow wickedness.

And I know I've read this before but I'll read it again.

From that I may know him it says, God will not occupy a divided heart or reign from a divided throne.

Every rival that holds the affections and diverts them from the God of love must be dethroned.

The Lord demands all that there is of us and there must be no reserves.

And friends, before God somehow gave in to the desires of His people, He gave them instruction.

By the way, friends, I believe that God has 2 will.

1 is God's perfect will and the other 1 is his permissive will.

When we continue to push the things that God has not approved, the Lord will allow us to have it and to teach us from our experiences that there's no point in going away from his will.

And Samuel was instructed to grant the request of the people but to warn them of the Lord's disapproval.

And this is 1 amazing thing about our God.

He will not just tell you, okay, if you want that, then go ahead.

Friends, the Lord gives us so many pointers, so many cautions before he will allow us.

But if we keep on pushing it, he will give in.

He warned the people of his disapproval and also made known what would be the result of their course.

Like if you choose this, if you choose this, then this is what's gonna happen.

And friends, I know you're busy, but you could write this down.

This is the instruction of God to the people.

If you follow this course this will happen.

God said He will take your sons, He will take your daughters, He will make them work for you.

He will take your male servants, your female servants, all your best.

He will take a tenth of your sheep and you will be servants.

Friends, if this is not enough, verse 18 says here, and you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in that day.

What a direct, what a direct counsel, what a direct warning.

And you know what the answer of the people?

Verse 19 it says, Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel and they said, Nah, no, but we will have a king over us.

Of all those warning and even the final warning, you will cry to me on that day and I will not hear you.

Friends, this is quite contradicting to the character of God.

But friends, sometimes He will delay the answer to our request that He may show us the evil of our own hearts.

Because that's the only way that we could learn.

If He will give us what we desire, most of the time we will never learn.

And we will continually be independent from Him.

And listen friends, this is what their reasoning is.

But we will have a king over us that we may be like all the nations and that our King may judge us.

Friends, who could be a better judge than God himself?

Oh, it's just like they're firing God as a judge.

That they may judge us and listen to the next line, and go out before us to fight our battles.

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Series

Prayer by Gem Castor

Give Him Back His Throne

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Hungering for More of HIM

05 Give Him Back the Throne

41m

Walk Humbly

49m

Everything Depends On

1h

An Undivided Throne

1h

Christian Martin Weekend

How To Avoid Being a Good for Nothing Christian

50m

Prayer by Gem Castor

Peace in the Storm

52m

The Two Revelations

1h 24m

Plenary

Explaining the Impossible

1h 20m

The Ripple Effect

1h 19m

Back to the Mission

The Battle Cry of the Remnant

1h 1m

Prayer by Gem Castor

Relentless Pursuit

53m

Plenary Sessions

God Invented Sex

1h 34m

Sound Doctrine