More about this life-changing teaching in a moment, but first, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your prayers during recent days. My family and I have sensed such a heartwarming, uplifting support among our partners and ministry friends.
My precious partners are the greatest in the world. There is no way I could be doing what God has called this ministry to do without you. We have just completed major crusades in South Africa, Phoenix, and Atlanta. God is doing amazing things with multiplied thousands of souls receiving Jesus Christ as Savior and witnessing innumerable miracles. And you are a crucial part of everything that is happening.
Your seed-gifts help make the difference, not only for the cause of Christ around the world, but also in your life in terms of bringing restoration, changing your circumstances, and sowing toward your future through the seeds you plant.
Miraculous Recovery
David understood this principle. In fact, the passage in 1 Samuel 30 is a story of miraculous recovery and restoration.
As a young man David knew both victories and struggles. He grew up as one of the eight sons of Jesse of Bethlehem. When God withdrew His favor from Saul, king of Israel, the prophet Samuel was sent by the Lord to seek a new king for His people. He went to Jesse’s house, took the horn of oil, and anointed David (1 Samuel 16:12-13).
King Saul’s days as leader of the nation were numbered. By contrast, young David went from victory to victory. Armed with only a slingshot and five stones in the Valley of Elah, David stepped forward in faith, felling Goliath with a single stone. Afterward, his victories made King Saul so jealous that he sought the young man’s death. Saul’s own son Jonathan warned David to flee from Bethlehem, and the future king fled to the wilderness, escaping to the cave of Adullam. In 1 Samuel 22 we are told that David’s band of followers all suffered distress, debt, and discontent. They wept and cried until they had no more tears. David’s two wives had been taken captive. He was surrounded by trouble. It got so bad that his group even talked of stoning him.
Five Keys to Total Recovery
But in 1 Samuel 30 we read an amazing story of restoration, joy, and abundance. The account of this band of soldiers must surely be one of the most amazing transformations of any group in history.
What happened between the accounts recorded in 1 Samuel 20 and 30 that made such a difference?
There are five keys, and those five keys that made the difference in David’s life can also be your story or mine. What is gone and destroyed can be totally restored!
Briefly, here are those five keys:
Encourage yourself in the Lord: “But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God” (1 Samuel 30:6).
Praise is tough when things are going wrong and when you are asking, “Dear Lord, what am I going to do?” Praise brings God into your situation, no matter how bad it seems: “Thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel” (Psalm 22:3). You may feel like doing anything but praising, but the second you start lifting your praises to God, He walks into the midst of your mess. He dwells in the praises of His people! Praise not only brings God into your situation, but it also gives you access into the presence of God (Psalm 100:4).
Isaiah 61:3 says that praise is a God-given garment that covers your life. That garment of praise covers your life of pain, hurt, confusion, worry, and stress, and this garment of praise brings you deliverance, protection, and preservation.
Praise is the believer’s weapon, releasing God to do battle for you.
Find someone whom you trust to agree in prayer with you. That is David’s story, not just in 1 Samuel 30, but throughout his life. Agreement is a spiritual principle: “Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 18:19). Agreement delivers God’s people from temptation (Matthew 26:21). It enables right decisions (Acts 1:14), releases the power of God (Acts 2:1-2), brings the miraculous (Acts 3:1-7), unleashes no lack (Acts 4:31-33), breaks away the shackles (Acts 12:5-11), brings deliverance (Acts 16:25-26), gives boldness (Ephesians 6:18-20), opens doors (Colossians 4:2-3), and gives the Word of God free access (2 Thessalonians 3:1-2).
Act and move in faith, knowing that God responds only to faith: “And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all” (1 Samuel 30:8). When you act, God acts. David didn’t sit around fuming and screaming. He didn’t even sit around confessing to the Lord. He released his faith by acting on what he was told to do.
God will not force you to step out in faith. The Bible even tells us that Jesus did not do great works in Nazareth because of the lack of the people’s unbelief. Lack of faith literally stops the Lord’s powers from flowing. Once we know what to do, we must do it!
Take your God-given authority. Attack the enemy! We are told, “David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day” (1 Samuel 30:17). Take your authority by commanding things to happen. Penetrate the camp. The passage in 1 Samuel 30 tells us that David and his followers not only attacked, but they kept fighting until the enemy was subdued and all was recovered (verse 19).
Seal your recovery through giving. After all was taken back, we are told, “When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord” (1 Samuel 30:28). Giving was David’s declaration of total recovery. It is a supernatural law that must be activated to bring continued blessings from God.
There is no other way to see outpouring after outpouring from God. When Israel was delivered from Egypt, they gave an offering that would go toward building the Tabernacle. It sealed their recovery. That’s why David planted seed—he knew it would protect his future.
As I write these words to you, I want to lift your faith to the heavens and tell you that your way of deliverance from distress, debt, and discontent is through the same keys that David discovered.
A 12-Month Anointing of Abundance
I believe strongly in the power of agreement, so I have asked my staff to forward to me the record of your online seed-gift. I have set time aside to personally anoint your reply information with oil, asking for God to unleash total recovery on you for the next twelve months.
There are seasons when God Almighty specifically anoints for prosperity. This is one of those historic seasons. This is such an important time.
During the coming twelve months there will be people like you who step into a new dimension of anointing and abundance. Many will see their business endeavors prosper beyond imagination.
Let Me Anoint Your Online Seed-Gift
I want to anoint your online seed-gift record! Make your seed-offering today. Your gift represents you personally and demonstrates your act of faith. That’s why I’ve asked my staff to forward me a copy of your response record so I can anoint it with oil and agree with you in prayer for the coming supernatural harvest in your life during the next twelve months!
Thank you for being my partner and friend.
Jesus is on the throne!
God Almighty is moving in our midst. I am more excited than ever about the future.
Be courageous today. Be bold. Secure your financial tomorrow with a step of faith today so that the anointing for prosperity might be released on you.
Act today! I look forward to hearing from you. I am excited at what God is going to do in your midst during the coming weeks and months.
Sow your seed with mighty expectation for today and the future, for our Lord Jesus declared, “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again” (Luke 6:38).
For we know it is “not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6)…
Preaching the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ,
teaching the unchanging Word of God, and
expecting the mighty and miraculous
power of the Holy Spirit,
Benny Hinn
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