I Shall Recover it All

I shall recover it all!

One of my favorite Gospel artist Hezekiah Walker release a song close to 11 years ago. Faithful is our God! This song was an instant hit and many choirs and praise teams across the country started singing it. It is a song with hope and promise. The lyrics are

Faithful, faithful, faithful is our God Faithful, faithful, faithful is our God Faithful, faithful, faithful is our God Faithful, faithful, faithful is our God I'm reaping the harvest God promised me Take back what the devil stole from me And I rejoice today, for I shall recover it all Yes, I rejoice today, for I shall recover it all We are familiar with this chapter because many focus on verse 6 when we read David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

Yet its verse 8 that arrest my attention today 8 And David inquired 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.

Isnt it wonderful to know that what ever you lost by the enemies hands the Lord tells you that you will recover it all! The Amalekites had come into David’s camp while David and the men of battle were away and burned the camp and took their wives and children. They were left with complete desolation! The enemy has a way of coming in destroying all we have and taking what is most special to us! This situation had turned their joy into despair! After a 3 day journey home they returned to find all was definitely not well. Amalekites had defied the word of the Lord and taken people captives unlawfully. This was a capital offense. For the 16 “Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.

Yet I learned the enemy is not concerned with God’s law. He is driven by his own ego. The enemy is not concerned with loving your neighbor as yourself. He is only interested in destroying you! Ruining you!

When David and his men returned from a victory they found the enemy had come ad taken their families. This put them in a situation they thought they had left behind. See these who had join David joined him looking for relief from despair. The word said they were bitter in soul. Its in Chapter 22:2 we learn these who had joined with David came from bad situations 2 And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men. This is a lesson in leadership. People will attached themselves to you but they have issues. Your goal is to them from their despair to hope.

Yet be cautious because sometimes in leading them to hope you will come against the enemy who will attempt to take hope off the table. These who had joined David was hoping he would be the next King. They had attached themselves to the promise but an unexpected event happened. The enemy came. What did this group do? They blamed David. The bitterness soon turned to raging anger and found a focus in David, whom “the men were talking of stoning.” David “was greatly distressed” by all of this, as any leader would have been when faced with a tragedy that was in part of his own making.

When they saw their city burned the word said they wept until they could not weep anymore. They cry so hard no more tears came out. After they wept they looked to blame and the likely target was David. Forget that his two wives were taken also. Forget they fact that David had suffered lost also. Someone had to take the blame for this and guess who it was? David. Verse 6 says 6 And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

Bergen, R. D. (1996). 1, 2 Samuel (Vol. 7, p. 276). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.When they saw their city burned the word said they wept until they could not weep anymore. They cry so hard no more tears came out. After they wept they looked to blame and the likely target was David. Forget that his two wives were taken also. Forget they fact that David had suffered lost also. Someone had to take the blame for this and guess who it was? David. Verse 6 says 6 And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

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The leads me to to my first point: We must first learn how to Revive!

Revival is like a restart! Its like a renewal! Getting your strength back. Your revival will never come to you by yourself. You must learn to encourage yourself or strengthen yourself in the Lord your God.

We have the greatest resource ever. We have the strength of the Lord. It is so refreshing to know that we can rest in the strength and comfort that God will provide when facing troubles of many kinds. Have we trial and temptation? Is there trouble anywhere. Jesus knows our every weakness take it to the Lord in Prayer.

Let Him have the glory and show himself strong. The Bible says in For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. God wants to show Himself strong on your behalf. Surrender to Him and let the peace that He gives you take over. We cannot fully serve God without full surrender to his Strength. The Philippian Writer said I can do all things through Christ who strengthen me.

The psalmist said in The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him.

David understood something the enemy didn’t know. David had a personal relationship with Lord. Things did not look right. It was a bad situation. David sought the Lord. He just recalled what the Lord said concerning Him He said I will never leave you or forsake you. reminds us The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God.

Whenever you are in a period of reversal. You must first look to be revived! In your reviving you have to reboot, renew, refresh, restart but you cant do anything without the Lord. He is your source of strength. David did not leave the Lord out of the equation. He is our secret weapon. David encouraged, strengthen himself in the Lord his God!

Second you must Request After David was revived he made a request. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Look at verse 7 Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.”(the priestly overlay) That’s a lesson for you put on your priestly garment if you want to seek the Lord. Ours is not the physical epod but our garments of righteousness! Tell your get right first! Abiathar brought it to him, 8 and David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I pursue this band (raiding party)? Will I overtake them?” I have learned not to make a move without asking the Lord. He will always give you the right advice. He will give you the right direction. Its this simple seek the Lord! We have raggedy prayers lives and wonder why our live are spiraling out of control.

David asked the Lord if he shall pursue the enemy and the Lord said PURSUE! B clause of 8 Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. Say all

Thats my third point. Not only do you need to Revive and Request but you must expect to Recover.

The Lord basically told David don’t feel defeat. Don’t give up! Pursue and RECOVER!

As the song said I shall recover it all.

David gather the men and pursued the enemy. It took 400 men with and left 200 behind who wer to exhausted to go and as the Lord said the would recover. As the story unfolds David runs into one of the servants of the Amalekites an Egyptian who they had left to die and when he was strenghten when they fed him told them just where the Amalekites were and lead them straight to them.

When they cam upon them the were dancing and eating like they didn’t have a care in the world. They we overjoyed over what they took from the Judah and the Philistines.

The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., ). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

God will allow you to pursue the enemy and catch them off guard. The Bible said that David smote them from twilight til the evening of the next day! That was a all night all day whopping! 400 of them rode off on camels but the others died at the hands of David and his men.

Look at verse 18 and shout 18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives. Say recover! Who can shout now on what the Lord will allow you to recover! What has the enemy stole from you? Its recovery time! look at verse 19 19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all. There some children the enemy has taken. Say recover! There some spoil ( money, finances, jobs,) say recover! What ever the enemy has take God will position you to recover.

Not only will you get what the enemy as taken the Lord will allow you to get some set aside blessings. Look at verse 20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.

The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., ). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.