Fwd: It's Payback Time

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From: Jeanicia Elder <jenirojacq@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 12:39 PM
Subject: It's Payback Time
To: Jeanicia Rochelle Elder <JeniroJacq@gmail.com>

Pastor Joel @ Lakewood Church

We all go through unfair situations and it's easy to get discouraged thinking that we can't do anything about it but our God of justice can and will.

For we know the one who said, "I will take revenge. I will pay them back." He also said, "The Lord will judge his own people."

Hebrews 10:30 NLT

God sees what happened and he'll use it to increase you. 

Honoring God keeps you on His payroll. One touch of his favor will catapult you ahead so keep doing the right thing when the wrong thing is happening.

The Israelites had been in slavery for over 100 years so it was easy for them to think that's  how it will always be. But God said that's enough.

Then the Lord told him, "I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

Exodus 3:7‭-‬8 NLT

Don't believe lies about yourself when you know God's truth.

Some of the Payback is from my forefathers...blessings that have been accruing in your family's account.

"The Lord your God will soon bring you into the land he swore to give you when he made a vow to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is a land with large, prosperous cities that you did not build. The houses will be richly stocked with goods you did not produce. You will draw water from cisterns you did not dig, and you will eat from vineyards and olive trees you did not plant. When you have eaten your fill in this land,

Deuteronomy 6:10‭-‬11 NLT

God is keeping the records.

You don't have to live worried. Know that unfair situations qualify you for double.

Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours.

Isaiah 61:7 NIV

Laban cheats Jacob 

When God is ready to pay you back unfair situations can't stop you. He isn't limited by the laws of nature.

In fact, if the God of my father had not been on my side—the God of Abraham and the fearsome God of Isaac —you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen your abuse and my hard work. That is why he appeared to you last night and rebuked you!"

Genesis 31:42 NLT

Lot Captured by Enemy

Abram recovered all the goods that had been taken, and he brought back his nephew Lot with his possessions and all the women and other captives.

Genesis 14:16 NLT

LOT wasn't even supposed to be there so Abraham had brought this problem on himself but God still blessed the situation. So even if a problem is my fault God won't forget me. 

Lepers Call Out for Mercy

He looked at them and said, "Go show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy.

Luke 17:14 NLT

Normally the person would only show themselves after that were healed but their healing counted on their obedience.

The Lord says, "I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts, the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts. It was I who sent this great destroying army against you.

Joel 2:25 NLT

Once again you will have all the food you want, and you will praise the Lord your God, who does these miracles for you. Never again will my people be disgraced.

Joel 2:26 NLT

Woman with a felony lost her voting rights and could only get a job at a bar but someone was always spesking life into her. Now owns a restaurant and was pardoned by the Govenor