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Have you ever lost something that was incredibly important to you?
Pastor Barbie uses the story of the lost coin to show how we can recover old value and move forward. She explains practical ways to seek God, stay humble, and lean on others.
Be open, keep going, and celebrate what God restores in you.
Key Insights
- God goes after what’s lost in our lives and never gives up on us.
- Healing starts when we see what’s missing and ask God to help us find it.
- Friends and community help us spot what we can’t see and walk with us toward wholeness.
- Keep searching, shine a light, and be honest with yourself to get back what you’ve lost.
- Sharing your story and celebrating together makes faith stronger and family closer.
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So remember now, you're the ones who prayed that it would fall and land on
Speaker:you, right? You're like, no, we were praying it would fall and land on
Speaker:Pastor Kevin. Right. Can we bring the lights
Speaker:up some? They're going to be writing all over each other's papers if we don't.
Speaker:That would be really cool.
Speaker:Alrighty. I'm sure it's coming.
Speaker:How are you guys doing today? While we're waiting
Speaker:on the lights? I just thought. I don't know, that I told you about
Speaker:my granddaughter Nora, and what she did the other night. You know, we've been talking
Speaker:about truth and honesty and transparency. And
Speaker:Kaytlin walks into her bedroom and, zoom. Getting ready to tuck her in,
Speaker:and there's a pack of Smarties under her pillow,
Speaker:you know, and she's like, Nora, June, what are these
Speaker:doing here? And Nora's like, the tooth fairy must have put
Speaker:them there to help my teeth fall out.
Speaker:It sounds. Yeah, it is creative, isn't it? And I think sometimes the
Speaker:Lord feels that way when we're like, but God. But
Speaker:God. Anyway, did everybody get a paper?
Speaker:Can you see your paper? All right.
Speaker:I don't know. We're getting the lights. They're coming.
Speaker:They're coming. They go in the dark. No, because I will hear
Speaker:snoring coming from up here, and I'm just going to be indiscriminate. I
Speaker:will not know who has done what. All right, we are going to jump into
Speaker:the Word tonight. And I love when the Lord just confirms what he's doing,
Speaker:because, honestly, Pastor Jonathan texted me
Speaker:last week, and he said, you do realize that the
Speaker:order that you're going in is not the order that you had submitted? I'm
Speaker:like, I know, I know. But I just kind of got to follow where the
Speaker:Holy Spirit is going. And so I had sent him this week, and I said,
Speaker:this week, I really believe the Lord's got me. I'm going
Speaker:to be sharing on lost things. And I was like, lord, you know, is
Speaker:that the right thing? And I open up some. Some silly scrolling thing
Speaker:early one morning, and it says, did you know that God
Speaker:is the seeker of lost things? And I'm like, I'm gonna
Speaker:take that. I'm gonna take that as a confirmation, and we'll just jump forward into
Speaker:the Word. All right, we're gonna be starting in Luke 15
Speaker:tonight. Father God, I thank you for your word and
Speaker:your truth, and I thank you, Lord, that it is infallible as you
Speaker:are, Lord. And so, Father, I ask that as you unlock
Speaker:places in Your word in our spirits, Father, that we would grab hold of it.
Speaker:Father, I thank you, Lord, that you are drawing your church into
Speaker:a place of transparency, a place
Speaker:of openness, a place of sincerity, a place of truth.
Speaker:And Father, you promised us that that would be the mountain that we would worship
Speaker:on, the one that was filled with spirit and truth. And that's where we're going,
Speaker:Father. So, Lord, I thank you for tonight. I thank you that as you release
Speaker:truth, we're gonna grab it. Lord, let my stuff fall in. In Jesus
Speaker:name, Amen. Amen. I love the
Speaker:15th chapter of Luke. The Lord begins to talk about
Speaker:lost things. And he, as he always
Speaker:does, gives us several different perspectives. And guys,
Speaker:that's the turning of the Word. When you begin to get into the word of
Speaker:God, there are always gonna be facets that you're like, oh, wait a minute,
Speaker:I have read that 30 times. And, Lord, I never
Speaker:saw that side of this scripture. And so he
Speaker:gives us opportunities in his Word because of repetition. And if
Speaker:you begin to read chapter 15, you're gonna find that this is the parable that
Speaker:talks about, you leave the 1 or leave the
Speaker:99 and go find the 1. What do you do if you have a lost
Speaker:sheep? And then part of this passage is about the prodigal
Speaker:son, another example of being lost and
Speaker:being found. But the one I feel like we are supp to focus on
Speaker:tonight, the one that kind of went neon for me was
Speaker:the one about the 10 silver coins. The 10 coins.
Speaker:And this is where we're going to start. Or suppose a
Speaker:woman has 10 silver coins and loses one, does she not light
Speaker:a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she
Speaker:finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors
Speaker:together and says, rejoice with me. I have found my
Speaker:lost coin. In the same way I tell you there
Speaker:is a rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one
Speaker:sinner who repents. Now, that may not make a
Speaker:lot of sense to us today with our understanding of coins.
Speaker:You know, I have seen people literally seen
Speaker:people accidentally drop chains from their
Speaker:pockets, you know, as they're walking or whatever, and seen them turn
Speaker:to see what denomination it is before they decide whether they're gonna bend a
Speaker:knee and pick it up. And I believe for some of us,
Speaker:it's gonna take bending a knee in order to find the coin
Speaker:that the Lord is going to point out to us. And
Speaker:my prayer for me and for you guys is that we would walk in
Speaker:humility before the Lord as He points things out to us, and as the
Speaker:Holy Spirit reminds us of things, so. So that we
Speaker:can grab hold of everything that
Speaker:he has for us. The thing
Speaker:about this coin is it wasn't just an ordinary coin.
Speaker:All historical evidence and the things that they tell you, if you go and you
Speaker:look at the commentaries or if you just look into Jewish histories,
Speaker:they are relatively positive that it was this.
Speaker:The coin would or could have represented her bridal preparedness.
Speaker:It gave evidence of her honorable character, her
Speaker:deep value within her family, as well as her
Speaker:reputation within the community. Why?
Speaker:There was a bridal headdress that the women wore in those
Speaker:days when they were betrothed, when they were preparing
Speaker:for their marriage, when they were preparing to meet their husband,
Speaker:and their families would dress them with
Speaker:these coins. And the coins would represent the dowry that the
Speaker:family had provided. And the greater the dowry.
Speaker:What they have shown is that if you had 10, if you
Speaker:had 10, you were of ultimate value. You were of
Speaker:ultimate value, and it represented you being
Speaker:able to be faithful and committed and prepared
Speaker:for that marriage, that you would wear this. Now, I
Speaker:found an old picture. It kind of looked like this.
Speaker:Kind of looked like this. And the interesting
Speaker:thing to me was that she
Speaker:couldn't see the coins all the time when she was wearing them.
Speaker:And see, there are some times when the Lord's doing something in our lives and
Speaker:we can't really see what he's doing. And there was
Speaker:a story and they were talking about. It was up to their friends, it
Speaker:was up to the people in relationship with her and the family that walked with
Speaker:her to go, hey, something's missing right here.
Speaker:And sometimes what we need is somebody to walk with
Speaker:us and go, hey, you remember last week
Speaker:when I committed to point out Kevin's blind spots?
Speaker:Sometimes we need the Holy Spirit to go, hey, something's
Speaker:missing here. Something's missing here. And I just want to point
Speaker:it out to you. This was of great value, and it makes
Speaker:sense when you look at it like that, rather than a drachma and she just
Speaker:happened to drop one. It was a specific number, and it spoke to a
Speaker:specific value, and it spoke to her reputation
Speaker:and how her family felt about her. And so it was
Speaker:important. And yes, it also
Speaker:represents Christ Jesus, the
Speaker:Holy Spirit, coming after and pursuing us and us
Speaker:being the lost. Okay, so I understand all of these parallels
Speaker:that are being drawn. There are some that go, you know, well, the parable of
Speaker:the lost sheep was about the Holy Spirit seeking, and the parable
Speaker:of the Son is about the Father because the Father received. And
Speaker:then this particular one is about Jesus and saving the value
Speaker:and paying the price. And so I don't know any of that. I
Speaker:can just tell you there's a lot of speculation. But one thing I do know
Speaker:is he is a seeker of the lost, and he will
Speaker:chase you down. He doesn't give up. He is relentless.
Speaker:And he cares about the things that you have lost.
Speaker:He cares about you. Now,
Speaker:given our general inattentiveness to our
Speaker:bridal preparedness, we sometimes do not even
Speaker:realize we have lost our coin until the Holy
Speaker:Spirit brings it to our attention.
Speaker:And I realize that this is a little bit of a different
Speaker:spin for gentlemen who have never been a bride.
Speaker:But there is a preparedness that each of us have,
Speaker:as we've been promised to him, we have been promised to Him.
Speaker:And I believe with all of my heart, he keeps his promises. And when
Speaker:he says, let not your heart be troubled, if you believe in
Speaker:God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions.
Speaker:And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again to
Speaker:receive you unto myself, that where I am, you will be also.
Speaker:That's the same as a groom
Speaker:in those days when they were betrothed, he would send
Speaker:ahead the blessings, and he'd go, I'm gonna. I will come for you.
Speaker:You don't know exactly when, so be prepared.
Speaker:And my encouragement to you today and my admonishment to you
Speaker:is, be prepared. Because we don't know
Speaker:when he's coming back, but we do know he is. We do
Speaker:know he is. So that preparedness, when I'm talking about
Speaker:that, guys, I don't want you to think, well, that leaves me out. No, your
Speaker:heart is supposed to be just as ready, your spirit just as clean and
Speaker:prepared for what he's gonna do. Okay, so.
Speaker:The Lord took me down a little bit of a different path in this. And
Speaker:I had actually shared part of this probably a decade ago,
Speaker:and he reminded me of some of it, and I felt like it was important.
Speaker:And then I talked with Brittany Grisham this week, and it's like the Lord
Speaker:just kept confirming some things in me. I want you to know
Speaker:this. It shall come to pass in the
Speaker:last days that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh.
Speaker:Your sons and daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream
Speaker:dreams, and your young men see visions. Which
Speaker:tells me I am an old man, because
Speaker:he still speaks to me in dreams. You know, I just.
Speaker:He speaks to me in dreams. And
Speaker:there was this One particular dream. And I'm going to share this with you because
Speaker:I really felt in my spirit that some of us
Speaker:have let go of things that he
Speaker:fully intends to, intended to, and still intends to use
Speaker:in our lives. And as I was studying
Speaker:this out, the Lord just reminded me of this place
Speaker:that he took me to. And I had this dream and it was a horrible
Speaker:dream. It's like a parent's nightmare. And I was a young woman when I had.
Speaker:Well, okay, young is relative. When you're
Speaker:standing, you know what? But I was probably about, probably about
Speaker:35ish when I had this dream. And in my dream
Speaker:I had a child, beautiful
Speaker:child, dressed in one of those warm up hoodie things like you wear in the
Speaker:snow. They looked like a little Stay Puft Marshmallow man and little pink cheeks
Speaker:and just robust. And I was holding that child's hand and I had a bag
Speaker:over my shoulder and I was heading out the front door. And I got to
Speaker:the threshold of the door and I got that feeling
Speaker:like parents get, like, oh, something's wrong.
Speaker:I've forgotten something. Something is wrong. And
Speaker:standing there in that threshold, all of a sudden
Speaker:I remembered I had another child.
Speaker:And the weight of it was
Speaker:crushing because I knew
Speaker:that I had left that child over here for
Speaker:a long period, a long, long time.
Speaker:And I remember trying to catch my breath and I was so afraid
Speaker:as I ran through the house and I ran to the back of the room
Speaker:and I threw this door open and this room was dark
Speaker:and there was this little playpen like thing in the corner and
Speaker:there was this emaciated
Speaker:child that looked to be like
Speaker:2 years old, so thin. And you could
Speaker:see on the face of the child that where they had
Speaker:cried and their tears had dried on their
Speaker:face. And I just remember falling to my
Speaker:knees and grabbing that child
Speaker:and holding it against my chest as I
Speaker:wailed. I mean I wailed.
Speaker:And I kept saying, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm
Speaker:so sorry. And this child, I could feel his
Speaker:little. I could just feel the little bones. I could feel
Speaker:how exhausted and worn out
Speaker:and neglected. I mean, just a million
Speaker:feelings. And I woke up and I sat straight up in the bed just
Speaker:sobbing, just sobbing. And I could
Speaker:remember, I could feel that in my arms
Speaker:even after I woke up. I couldn't shake it. I could not shake it.
Speaker:And I was like, God, you have got to tell me what this is. God,
Speaker:you've got to. What am I, what, what have I done? What have I not
Speaker:done? God, you have to show me. And I
Speaker:got no answer at that point. And
Speaker:so I just grieved and I grieved and I grieved for
Speaker:weeks. I grieved as the Lord as. As I carried it. And,
Speaker:you know, and looking back at it now, I'm like, you know what? There was
Speaker:a purpose to that process because the
Speaker:Lord was allowing me to search my heart and things that I didn't want
Speaker:to look at, things that I didn't want to deal with, things that whatever it
Speaker:might be, you know, sometimes when the answer comes too quickly, we
Speaker:don't really appreciate it and we don't grow from it. And sometimes
Speaker:we need to sit in those places for a little bit so that we become
Speaker:seekers rather than waiting for it all to pour on us at the same time.
Speaker:We need to learn to seek the Lord, guys. We need to learn to seek
Speaker:the Lord. We need to not get weary when
Speaker:he doesn't show up in a second, when it doesn't go the way that
Speaker:we planned. Anyway, probably three months passed,
Speaker:and I went to a conference in Nashville, and
Speaker:Lyndall Cooley was leading worship. And we walked
Speaker:into that. Some of you guys went with us, and we walked into that
Speaker:room, and he hit the first keys,
Speaker:the first notes on that piano. And when he
Speaker:did, the Holy Spirit went, the child is worship.
Speaker:The child is worship. He didn't have to explain to me who the child
Speaker:was, what the child was, what he was talking about. It went to
Speaker:the depths of my being, and I
Speaker:just hit the floor again and began to repent
Speaker:and go, God, I get it. I see. I know
Speaker:what you're saying. Because there was this point in time when worship was everything
Speaker:to me. I grew up singing and teaching or singing and playing
Speaker:and writing music in my dad's church at a little old upright piano. And then
Speaker:when I got into my teen years or high school and
Speaker:early years of my twenties, I would travel and I would sing with these groups,
Speaker:and we would write and we. But something happened.
Speaker:Something happened when I began to
Speaker:have to study, to teach and grow in
Speaker:my role. Now, now, given this 25 years ago,
Speaker:I made the assumption this was not God. I made the
Speaker:assumption that God couldn't use both of those things at the same time.
Speaker:I thought, oh, this is a. You move from this and you move to the
Speaker:next phase. I was not paying attention to the fact that
Speaker:whatever God gives you now will complement what he gives you next.
Speaker:I wasn't paying attention to the fact that he builds. He wasn't Trying to take
Speaker:worship from me. He was trying to add teaching to my worship.
Speaker:And I want you to know, when the Lord has given you something, please
Speaker:don't make the assumption that he's through with it.
Speaker:Please don't make the assumption that he's through with it. If you are still capable
Speaker:of doing it. And if you're not capable of doing it, we might try asking
Speaker:him if he can give us the strength and the ingenuity and the
Speaker:creativity to rebirth that thing. And so what I
Speaker:heard from the Lord as I was on the floor there in Nashville, I said,
Speaker:God, what do I do? What do I do, Lord, what do I do?
Speaker:And all I heard was, feed the child,
Speaker:feed the child. Feed the child. Listen,
Speaker:God is still communicating with people through prophecy, dreams
Speaker:and visions. He's still
Speaker:communicating. Sometimes when you can't hear him in the
Speaker:daytime, when things are too busy and too crazy, before you
Speaker:close your eyes at night, say, lord, just speak to me tonight.
Speaker:Lord, would you just speak to me and give me some clarity in this
Speaker:area? He can do it, guys. I'm telling you. He can speak
Speaker:to you. He can speak to you through the Word. He can speak to you
Speaker:from a platform. He can speak to you from the person sitting next to you.
Speaker:God is speaking. He's still speaking. And he wants to communicate with you.
Speaker:And he has an answer for you. For those of you who are going,
Speaker:God, I've been waiting on an answer. Well, let's not wait.
Speaker:Let's seek. Let's seek. Let's seek. Ask
Speaker:and keep on asking. That's what the scripture says.
Speaker:Seek and keep on seeking. Knock and keep on
Speaker:knocking. That's what the word says.
Speaker:When the Holy Spirit reminds you of what you have lost,
Speaker:your first step toward finding it is to light
Speaker:a lamp. Light a lamp. That's what she did, right?
Speaker:That's what she did. She lit a lamp. Well for me.
Speaker:I was right in the middle of that feed the child, light the lamp
Speaker:moment. Because everything, everything in that
Speaker:dream had been in darkness. It's like that child had
Speaker:been shoved away. I didn't wanna think about it anymore. I was done with that
Speaker:section of my life. I was moving on to this section of my life. But
Speaker:that child was still alive. And there are things in
Speaker:your life, some of you, when you were younger or
Speaker:some of you, you know, now you know. I know God called me to
Speaker:this. And I know that I have a gift or ability in this. I know
Speaker:that I can do these things and. And allow the Lord to
Speaker:wake that up, Allow the Lord to wake that up. Because
Speaker:listen, guys, we are living in a society that is dark.
Speaker:That is dark. And we need to be able to be the light
Speaker:and light a lamp, illuminate some stuff. Illuminate
Speaker:some stuff in your own life and allow that light to
Speaker:shine on the people that are around you as God is doing this thing.
Speaker:And so as the Lord began to go feed that child, I'm like, lord, what
Speaker:does that even look like? Well, for me. And I don't know what it's gonna
Speaker:look like for you when the light comes onto that area. But the Lord had
Speaker:me go nurture that child. And what that meant for me is I sat
Speaker:for hours in a room with the piano in front of me,
Speaker:trying to remember how to play. I sat and I would write lyric after
Speaker:lyric after lyric and wad em up
Speaker:and throw em away. As the Lord was reawakening my speech,
Speaker:you know, as he was teaching me again to relearn the things that I
Speaker:initially. And learning to cultivate this place in him
Speaker:where he can just speak to you, where he can just minister
Speaker:to you. You know, I've shared this before,
Speaker:but I. Working with this guy in
Speaker:music in Nashville, and all I knew.
Speaker:Cause this. The way that I knew to write songs
Speaker:was to read a passage or be in the middle of something and go, God,
Speaker:give me clarity. God, show me what you want to say with this. Show me
Speaker:what you want to do with this. And so I'm sitting in this fancy guy's
Speaker:office and I am, you know,
Speaker:thank you for. And he's like, what are you doing?
Speaker:And I said, I'm waiting on. I'm waiting on inspiration.
Speaker:I'm waiting on the Holy Spirit. And he said, well, while you're waiting,
Speaker:would you work your craft? And he threw a thesaurus at me and. And
Speaker:I've never forgotten that, because he was right.
Speaker:You don't know where inspiration is going to come. You don't know
Speaker:that you won't look up a word. And the Lord put
Speaker:light all around it. You don't know. But to
Speaker:begin to exercise this thing that God has given you.
Speaker:You know, teachers. Teachers use it, allow
Speaker:God to illuminate it and lift it up. And so
Speaker:I had to recultivate a position of
Speaker:intimacy in his presence.
Speaker:Okay. Even as I say that, you know what that meant for me? That meant
Speaker:throwing a pillow in the floor, grabbing my Bible
Speaker:and sitting down and cultivating that place with him going, okay,
Speaker:God, show me. Okay, God, show me. I know this is what
Speaker:you Say, God, show me. And I would have a tablet right here
Speaker:in the floor beside me, a legal pad. You all know what those are, right?
Speaker:And I would have this legal pad and something called an ink pen. And I
Speaker:would just write in. And I would go, okay, Lord, okay, this
Speaker:is talking about this. Where else is it like this? And Lord. And I had
Speaker:to. As I shared with the ladies, I had to start digging deeper
Speaker:wells again. I had to start digging out these places
Speaker:that I had allowed time and other interests to
Speaker:interrupt. That was what it was like for me
Speaker:to turn on a light. To turn on a light. And
Speaker:wherever you are, whatever God is calling you to,
Speaker:guys, allow him to illuminate that. And he will do that
Speaker:through this and through time in his presence,
Speaker:uninterrupted. Turn it all off. Turn
Speaker:it all off. And get in his presence. Light a lamp.
Speaker:The second step, it says, is this. Your second step is to sweep
Speaker:the house. Now, this was so interesting to me,
Speaker:and I'm going to give you the next one.
Speaker:Sweep the house.
Speaker:There was a prophecy spoken over me probably
Speaker:15 years ago by the sweetest woman. And I
Speaker:totally trust the God in her, but I didn't like the prophecy. So
Speaker:we're not friends anymore. No, that's not true.
Speaker:This prophecy. She said, you will be a temple
Speaker:sweeper. And I'm like, no, that's Kevin's
Speaker:job. No. And she went
Speaker:so far. She was a photographer, very gifted photographer.
Speaker:Went to this old church, old
Speaker:white, one room church. Took a brand new broom,
Speaker:propped it by the front door and took a picture of it and brought it
Speaker:to me. And you can't throw something that
Speaker:special away. So every time I turn around, it's right there. But I
Speaker:was thinking about that when. And the Lord's still unfolding that one for
Speaker:me. But look at this one. It says, sweep the house. This is the word
Speaker:that's used there to sweep beyond the surface.
Speaker:It speaks specifically to areas of judgment,
Speaker:imprisonment, bondages, pains
Speaker:and punishments. What? It just
Speaker:said sweep the house. Just said
Speaker:sweep the house. But you know what, guys?
Speaker:This is where you lose things. This is where you
Speaker:let go of things. This is where you
Speaker:shove things aside because you've been judged and you've
Speaker:been hurt, or you've been wounded, or you're in
Speaker:pain, somebody has caused pain. And you're like, well, I'm just never
Speaker:gonna do that anymore then. Or you have been in
Speaker:some time of captivity or bondage in your life, and
Speaker:because you fail and because you allowed yourself to be
Speaker:caught up in Bondage. You feel like the Lord can't use you anymore, and
Speaker:so you left your coins there. You left your
Speaker:coins there. And so she's going sweep the house.
Speaker:Sweep beyond what you see. Sweep deep.
Speaker:And go and look in these areas because you might find it there.
Speaker:I love how thorough his
Speaker:word is. I love that he just doesn't give this
Speaker:tiny little instruction and go, sweep the house. No, with
Speaker:anything, guys. Anything with God, if you
Speaker:will allow him to take you deeper. Even the commas
Speaker:matter. Even the commas matter.
Speaker:So it says, go and sweep the house. Oh,
Speaker:I love that. The
Speaker:third step, the third step she takes
Speaker:is to diligently search.
Speaker:Diligently search.
Speaker:Zeteo epimelos. To think, meditate,
Speaker:reason and inquire. This is gonna
Speaker:take some thought. This is gonna take some meditation.
Speaker:This is gonna take some of that time of you and him
Speaker:to go back and look at the things that perhaps have
Speaker:been lost. It says to search with the determined purpose
Speaker:of not giving up for any reason until you find
Speaker:what you seek. Until you find what you seek. You
Speaker:know, when I was a kid, I used to love to play hide and seek.
Speaker:Not the seeking part, I like the hiding part. But I'm still kind of.
Speaker:Anyway to not give up.
Speaker:We get weary so fast, you know? Well, I didn't find
Speaker:it. I didn't find it. Well, look, look a little longer, look
Speaker:a little further to the determined purpose
Speaker:of not giving up for any reason. Why does that matter? Because that's what God
Speaker:does. That's what God does when he's coming to seek us out,
Speaker:to save us, to rescue us, to find those lost
Speaker:coins. He is determined and he's not going to.
Speaker:And sometimes we need to get there. And sometimes we need to get there
Speaker:to search with the determined purpose of not
Speaker:giving up. Okay, I do think
Speaker:it's interesting that in each of these places I had
Speaker:written down here, it says, some you left, some you
Speaker:lost, and some you just gave up.
Speaker:Sometimes our coins, some of them we lose, some of them
Speaker:we just left them behind. And some of we gave up on.
Speaker:I just found that interesting. We misplace our calling,
Speaker:our brideship, our family connection,
Speaker:our stewardship in those hard,
Speaker:garbage filled, painful seasons in the
Speaker:dirt. And I had written this, and I know that it was the Holy Spirit
Speaker:pointing it out to me. And if you don't mind, I just want to read
Speaker:it to you. Peaceful,
Speaker:anticipatory, of what God has for us. Pure
Speaker:and hard and joyful. We take our clean,
Speaker:gifted, tender hearted, moldable selves
Speaker:into miry clay moments. And somewhere in
Speaker:the gunk we lose that innocence, our
Speaker:childlikeness, and we no longer have the joy
Speaker:of our song, the strength of our convictions,
Speaker:the power of a pure heart. And in those
Speaker:places we lose our coins.
Speaker:That precious face that God has given us everything,
Speaker:the precious faith that God has given us everything we need for this
Speaker:life. We leave in an ocean of regret
Speaker:and condemnation. Get it back.
Speaker:Get it back. Allow the Holy Spirit to
Speaker:breathe over these places and have that renewed.
Speaker:And see I love. I love. I love, love, love. Of course I say that
Speaker:all the time. Our appropriate response
Speaker:to finding our lost coin would be like hers. To
Speaker:testify. To call out. To
Speaker:call out. I shared this, I know at
Speaker:one point, but probably about,
Speaker:probably about. It's probably many
Speaker:several years ago. Several years ago. I'm standing in my living room
Speaker:and we have windows that you can see into the backyard, which goes
Speaker:toward the community, the little cul de sac to the right and
Speaker:the windows in the front. You can see everything here. And I'm standing in my
Speaker:living room and I can see a commotion
Speaker:happening in the road. I can see people coming out of their houses
Speaker:and I can see them all starting together. And I can hear raised voices. And
Speaker:so I opened the back door to the deck and I heard
Speaker:and somebody just yelled, two years old.
Speaker:Two years old. Blue jeans, high tops and a red
Speaker:T shirt. And I watched all of these families just begin
Speaker:to run in every different direction. And so I ran down to my back
Speaker:steps and everybody was going this way
Speaker:because that's what made sense. And I started to run that way
Speaker:to follow them. I mean, they were frantic.
Speaker:And I'm running
Speaker:with them and I hear the Holy Spirit go, stop, stop.
Speaker:Go that way. And I'm like, well, there's nothing there. It's fenced
Speaker:there, you know, there's nothing. Are you with the Holy Spirit? Just go ahead.
Speaker:It really works really well. And so I turned and I took off
Speaker:running by myself in that direction and got to that fence and I'm
Speaker:like. And I couldn't see a way to go around that fence. But
Speaker:I heard this noise, I heard this noise
Speaker:and I looked up, up and over that fence
Speaker:and there was that two year old little boy standing on the side of a
Speaker:swimming pool with nobody around and he's got his diaper
Speaker:and his jeans pushed all the way down to those little
Speaker:high tops and he's doing like this as he's trying to push his shoes off
Speaker:and he's over the deep end of that water. And I'm thinking, God, you gotta
Speaker:get me around this fence or over this fence. And I'm trying to. I'm literally
Speaker:jumping and going, hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. You know, I don't want to
Speaker:scare him. I don't want to do anything. Cause he's right on the edge of
Speaker:the water. And so I run around, and I run around to the side of
Speaker:the house. And I'm able to find this little crack where he got through. And
Speaker:I'm able to put my arm through and to get that gate up. And I'm
Speaker:just trying to talk to him the whole time and keep him calm. And I
Speaker:finally get over to him as he's trying to push his pants, God love
Speaker:him. And I just kind of put my arms around him like
Speaker:this. And then I probably scared the daylights out of him because I started
Speaker:doing this. Hey, he's over
Speaker:here. He's over here. And you could hear people starting to run
Speaker:and come in this direction. I'm like, we found him. He's over here. He's
Speaker:over here. Because sometimes
Speaker:when you find what's been lost, you need to cry out.
Speaker:You need to call out. And there's a reason that you need to call
Speaker:out. Because when every one of those parents, half of them come around the
Speaker:corner crying. Cause that's what we do. And the other ones are like,
Speaker:oh, you know, it's just all the responses coming through.
Speaker:But every single one of them rejoicing
Speaker:because this little guy had been found. That's the Holy
Speaker:Spirit. That's the Holy Spirit's responsibility to lead
Speaker:us and guide us. Our responsibility is to listen to the Holy Spirit.
Speaker:And our response when the Holy Spirit does what he does
Speaker:is this spiritual victory should be shared so that others might be
Speaker:strengthened by those testimonies and take part in
Speaker:the family celebration. There
Speaker:are family celebrations that we should be having
Speaker:with one another. And we're just waiting for you to call out,
Speaker:look what God has done. Look, I found the coin. My value
Speaker:has been restored. Guys, do you find it interesting to me that
Speaker:headdress that I shared with you in the beginning, when it talked about speaking to
Speaker:a woman's value and speaking to her sense of worth and her
Speaker:connectivity to the family? As I was reading that and thinking about it, I thought,
Speaker:you know what? The enemy still comes after those same places in you ladies.
Speaker:I'm sure he comes after the same thing in you guys. Just begins to
Speaker:wear at that place where you don't feel valued anymore. You feel like
Speaker:you have failed and you're no longer pleasing to your family, your reputation
Speaker:in community, the community has now been shaken. And so you can't
Speaker:rejoice. Rejoice anyway. Rejoice as he
Speaker:restores all of the things that the enemy has tried to steal from you
Speaker:and allow us to rejoice with you. Because that's what family
Speaker:does. Family doesn't go well. I cannot believe you let your child
Speaker:get over there and get that close to the pool. That's not what we do.
Speaker:We go, thank you, God, that you have redeemed this
Speaker:moment, that the child wasn't lost and the coin has been restored.
Speaker:That's what God has. And we miss it when we don't
Speaker:do this. Now, here's the. Look at this.
Speaker:When it says right here, take part to
Speaker:rejoice with one another. This is what it says,
Speaker:Sicaro. To take part in another's
Speaker:joy after sympathizing with their sorrow. To
Speaker:rejoice in the honor.
Speaker:Fellow believer,
Speaker:we get to take part in this together.
Speaker:Your coin, my coin. What God's doing in your
Speaker:life, what God's doing in my life, the sorrows, the joys,
Speaker:all of it. We get to take part in
Speaker:it together. And all it's going to require
Speaker:is that we begin to cry out, that we begin to go,
Speaker:look what God did. Look what he did. He's over here.
Speaker:He's right here. We found. And to allow each
Speaker:other, invite each other into these
Speaker:moments.
Speaker:I would dare say there's not one person
Speaker:in this room who hasn't
Speaker:lost a coin or been a lost
Speaker:coin along the way.
Speaker:And he has found us.
Speaker:We can trust the Holy Spirit to remind us when we
Speaker:lose things of value and to lead us
Speaker:toward the lost coins
Speaker:that walk among us every single day.
Speaker:We can trust the Holy Spirit to remind us of lost
Speaker:things, whether it be us, whether it be
Speaker:something that he poured into our life, that we have allowed
Speaker:to fall away. And I trust him to
Speaker:lead us, to recognize, to see the lost
Speaker:coins all around us, all around us.
Speaker:And when he illuminates that, when he points that
Speaker:out, what is our job? Light a lamp,
Speaker:sweep the room, search thoroughly,
Speaker:and allow God to restore
Speaker:all that the enemy might have tried to take. It's all around
Speaker:us. We just need the awareness
Speaker:of the Holy Spirit and a heart that is obedient,
Speaker:to follow where he leads. Because the rest of
Speaker:the story is this in the same way. I tell you
Speaker:there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of
Speaker:God over a sinner who repents.
Speaker:In what same way? In what same way?
Speaker:In the same way I just told you. Celebrating with
Speaker:family, rejoicing in what God has done
Speaker:as a family. Sharing
Speaker:that the coin has been found.
Speaker:And, Father, that's my prayer tonight. Lord, that
Speaker:the Holy Spirit would lead us, would direct us,
Speaker:give us wisdom in those places in our life where we've lain
Speaker:something down, lost something, given it up in bondages, given
Speaker:it up in one way. But, Father, I thank you, Lord, that
Speaker:you lead us to those places where healing and restoration can happen.
Speaker:And, Father, I thank you that you have a heart for the lost
Speaker:coins. May we have one as well. In
Speaker:Jesus name, amen. Amen.
Speaker:Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. Sure do love you guys.
