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Dec. 1, 2017 - Jim Bakker Show
04:57
He Is Our Anchor - Pastor Jim Bakker
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Joyful Loss 00:04:26
Not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another and so much more as we see that day approach.
And if you look over here, I'm reading from my old parallel Bible.
It says, let us not neglect our church meetings, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now the day of his coming, Jesus coming back again, is drawing near.
That's right.
And we talked about loneliness when we started out here today.
And here's what it says: you suffered with those thrown into jail.
You were actually joyful when all you own was taken from you.
Oh, God.
I don't know if I was joyful.
I mean, everything was gone.
Even the bed we slept in was taken from us.
Everything.
Everything.
It says, you suffered with those thrown into jail.
And that's what God says is real love.
What things were awaiting you in heaven?
Things that would be yours forever.
Wow.
I heard you say, Amen.
Out there.
Luann, you understand.
It says you were actually joyful when all you owned was taken from you, knowing that better things were awaiting you in heaven, things that would be yours forever.
And you know, you were so joyful as I was working with you to feed people when I went into Houston.
Is that right?
And you were, I don't know, how could you be happy?
Even the dining room at the church was filled with water right next to your kitchen where you do all the cooking.
And so they had to tear all that out.
And so we went there, and you could see where the glue had been on the rugs and so to hold it down.
But you were there cooking and smiling.
And you were so kind to all of us, to Ricky and my family and all.
We brought buckets there, but you were, they said you were the cook.
But everything was gone.
I mean, this scripture was fulfilled in you.
Everything basically was gone.
The flood had wiped your home out and all your things out.
But it says you were actually joyful when all you owned was taken from you.
And I know when you first saw it and you first experienced the flood, were you actually in the flood?
Was it flooding around you?
Yes.
We called 911 twice.
And the first time it was just ankle deep.
And she said, call back.
I said, okay.
So when it got three feet, I thought, oh, well, let me call again.
She goes, get in your attic.
I said, but ma'am, how will you know that I'm in the attic?
Do what you need to do.
Get on the roof.
And I'm like, how am I going to get on the roof?
It's raining.
So it was just unbelievable.
And we tried to look at the positive.
We didn't like that carpet anyway.
My husband needed a new truck, praise God.
But all the cars were underwater.
That was the bad part.
I really thought we would have at least one left, but at 7:30, when I took a picture before we left, it was like, oh, wow, we lost all four cars.
And that was your husband's car, your kids' cars, and everybody's cars.
Everything.
And it just didn't seem to compute that we'd lost everything.
When we were in the shelter, and I'd see people walk by on the phone, and they kept constantly saying, we've lost everything.
Anchor In The Storm 00:00:46
And I felt I was looking at them through a window because in my heart I thought, well, I haven't lost everything.
And it wasn't until we were going to leave the shelter, I told my daughter, fold these blankets for the next person.
I took a few steps and it was like, knock, knock.
You have nothing.
Those blankets, I said, because I don't know where we're going.
I don't know what's going to happen next.
Oh, my.
But, you know, God is good, and I know that that's our anchor.
Yes.
The anchor in the storm.
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