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Dad's Obsessive Restore
00:03:45
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| My dad back in Scotland many years ago bought an old Volvo. | |
| It must have been 12 or 15 years old, an old Volvo. | |
| It was the 164. | |
| It was the rattiest car I've ever seen in my life. | |
| And he drove this thing up to our house and I says, what on earth did you buy this junk for? | |
| The body had rotted a bit because of the salt air in Scotland. | |
| And he says, don't worry, Philip. | |
| He says, I'm going to restore this car. | |
| So he went and he found this guy that did body work and he spent more money on the body work of the car than the car was worth. | |
| And this man says, I'm going to put a Rolls Royce finish on this car. | |
| And the car was gone for months. | |
| And I was home the day the car was delivered back. | |
| The seats were still torn. | |
| The interior was like a bomb had gone off in the middle of it. | |
| And the car was all shiny. | |
| And I says, how much did this cost you, Dad? | |
| And I was standing across the roof of the car looking into his face. | |
| And he didn't want to tell me. | |
| And he dropped his eyes. | |
| I says, can you please tell me how much this car cost you to fix? | |
| And he told me, and it was worth more than the car was worth. | |
| And I got mad at him across the top of the car. | |
| And I says, what kind of foolishness is this? | |
| That you spent all this money on a wreck of a car. | |
| And you've painted the thing up and it looks great, but it's still an old piece of junk. | |
| And I'm shouting at him across the roof of the car. | |
| And then I noticed a tear running down his cheek. | |
| And my voice trailed away. | |
| And I said, I'm sorry, Dad. | |
| And this is what he said to me. | |
| You don't understand the joy I have in taking something that no one else wants. | |
| I'm restoring it. | |
| Hey, my child. | |
| Monday, Roma. | |
| I walked up the car and I hugged them. | |
| I says, Dad, I am so sorry that I've destroyed a moment of such joy for you. | |
| And he says, it's okay. | |
| It's okay. | |
| Your family hasn't gone so far that the reach of grace can't pull them back. | |
| Things aren't so broken that God can't pour in oil and wine to restore. | |
| But what you've got to do is identify with it. | |
| What you've got to do is say, my God, this is for me. | |
| This is my moment. | |
| Whatever it is that has been broken, why don't you pull it with you right now to the altar? | |
| Let's do something that can change destinies for babies not even born yet. | |
| For family members that you don't know. | |
| For husbands of your kids and wives of your kids that are alive and living right now that God's going to pull them into your family. | |
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Sit Beside the River
00:00:45
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| That the curse of darkness that's been gripping your family and choking the life out of it is going to be broken in the name of Jesus. | |
| But you can sit beside a river. | |
| Listen to me. | |
| You can sit beside a river and die of thirst. | |
| You can sit beside a backwinning table and starve to death. | |
| It's only when you involve yourself in the river and involve yourself in the move and the voice and the whisper and the direction of the Holy Spirit. | |