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and um I want you to see some powerful verses in the book of Zechariah Chapter 1 we'll begin reading with verse 16 therefore thus says the Lord I am returning to Jerusalem with Mercy my house shall be built in it says the Lord of host and a surveyor's line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem he's saying all of this after Babylonian captivity after the city the nation has been destroyed 70 years of captivity and God sends this word and then he says in verse 17 Again Proclaim saying thus says the Lord of hosts my cities

shall again spread out through Prosperity the Lord will again Comfort Zion and will again choose Jerusalem verse 18 then I raised my eyes and looked this is Zachariah and he says there were four horns and I said to the angel who talk with me what are these so he answered me these are the horns that have scattered Judah notice now what are the horns doing the scattered Judah Israel and Jerusalem then the Lord showed me four carpenters and I said what are are these coming to do so he said these are the horns that scattered

Judah so that listen to it no one can lift up his head but the Carpenters are coming to terrify them to cast out the horns of the Nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it so I'm preaching today on build it and part one this morning I'm preaching on the remedy for discouragement but I feel those words alive in my soul this morning build it in some cases rebuilded but you'll understand that what God is doing in this hour I believe is found in Zachariah chapter 1 he speaks of

a vision and he speaks of seeing in the middle of it four horns rising up he said and behold I lifted up my eyes and there were four horns horns in the Bible are symbols and synonymous with power with strength with a Rams Horn is what it's referring to and it has to do with aggressive power not just power but aggressive power unbridled without restraint and it's coming to destroy these four horns came up to destroy notice what it said to scatter rising up against Jerusalem which is the capital city of Israel and Judah which

is the people the seed the the the race of Israel and Israel the entire nation to scatter them that word is so important the purpose of the horns was to scatter Israel it was and we today the church is spiritual Israel there's natural Israel and there's spiritual Israel and these things were written for our learning to understand how the enemy operates when he attacks Israel the church the body of Christ what does he want to do he comes to scatter it is a diabolical satanic scattering why what is the purpose of it to divide families

to divide churches to divide people to divide marriages to scatter them to tear families all to pieces why the ultimate result is found in this verse so that no man would lift up his head so that the people would be so defeated so discouraged and despond it that their head is looking down not looking up adversity comes to take our vision to turn our head down away from the future of Hope and the faith in our future to be dissipated to be discouraged if someone is walking down and they can't lift their head they're so

discouraged looking at only where their feet are in its present place not looking out for better places and better days that's the enemy that's the enemy the adversary wants you focused and consume on where you are only today so he rises up and he comes with a spirit of scattering the purpose of scattering God's people scrambling and squandering God's people is to destroy our vision if you're looking down all you see is yourself and your problems and your failures and your mistakes and the enemy does not want us to look out into the future with

faith he wants to frustrate our future some of you have been living with your head down for a long time you have been discouraged the enemy has sent scattering and dividing and there's nothing left it feels like and you've tried to get back up but you just can't lift your head up all you see is the problems of your present you feel like there's no hope and you feel like there is no future the enemy is frustrating your future trying to keep you down not up everything about the POS position that the enemy sends scattering

for and dividing is to put your head down to focus on yourself to focus on where you are and to not is to put your head down to focus on yourself to focus on where you are and to not see with vision your future and everything about that posture of looking down is unbiblical the Bible clearly says in Psalms 121 and verses 1 and two lift up your eyes into the heels you're not supposed to be despondent and looking down that's the enemy and the spirit that's coming and it came to the nation of Israel

the people of Israel and the capital city of Jerusalem and it said you are defeated and you are to stay down don't you look up with faith and vision lift up your head unto the heels from which cometh your help your help is the lord it's time to break out of the present problems it's time to lift up your eyes I'm going to preach what God told me to preach we have a bright future your family if you believe in Jesus Christ I don't care how scattered and divided it is you lift up your head

you do have a future and God still has a vision for miracles in your home it's not over better days are coming God's not done God's not going to let it in like this and it's not his will for your family to be scattered broken divided and defeated in the name of Jesus help is on the way he he scatters so that you focus only on your feet only on your own failures only on where you have been through and some of you are looking at me saying if you knew what I've been through if

you knew where these feet have walked through if you knew the dysfunction the pain the trauma the heartache the trouble that I've walked through if you understood where I came from I just can't get past what I've walked through you're focusing on what you've been through but if you could see where you're going by God's grace and God's help and I know you don't believe it because the enemy has kept you down so long that you've not lifted your head in faith in a long time well I believe that when you begin to focus on

where you've been that's where you stay but he said together Israel Jerusalem Judah everything the enemy's tried to scatter and divide and there is a great great spirit I believe that has come to divide our nation to divide our families to divide our marriages to divide us from our future place of Destiny and calling and a scattering of Godly marriages is happening a scattering of families raised in church and then comes those those four horns to scatter and divide and tear to pieces and you sit here without your children Sunday after Sunday and your heart

swells and you wonder where in the world and how in the world is this thing ever going to change we're scattered we're divided in our families and in our homes but I did not come to preach bad news I have a remedy I have a solution for all of the scattering dividing demonic spirits that have come against amilies marriages homes and this nation the problem is scattering but here's the good news he said my solution for scattering Spirits is there is another force in the vision that started rising up he said I see a group

of people and they've got work belts strapped on they've got hammers they've got nails they're not tearer Downs they're Builder up their Builders their their laborers their workers their carpenters and they are coming and they will destroy the word said those four horns and what they wanted to do to the families of Israel what is happening is I will send forth the com the com the Carpenters and they will will subdue the scattering Spirits there's about to be building and rebuilding of that which has been scattered and divided God needs Carpenters right now not critics

God needs Carpenters right now not complainers and God needs carpenters and Builders right now not a bunch of cynics who say well I Believe last year and it's gotten worse I don't care God is in control and God is working even when it doesn't look like he's working and he's saying I need some Carpenters who will get their head up get their faith up and get their work we tools out and start building back what the enemy's tried to destroy it's time to work on what you've been worrying about it's time to work on what

you've been whining about you know when your marriage is going to get better when you quit whining about it and start working on it get your work belt and put it on you're a carpenter you're not a whiner and you're not a complainer you know when your children are going to get better when you quit whining about it and go go to working on it first in prayer and then in love and then just start building a bridge back to what the enemy has torn and Scattered and divided because greater is he who is in

us God has equipped us with the tools not to tear down but to build up Hallelujah build and rebuild you can't be complacent you've got to go to work you got to become a laborer you've got to become a builder a carpenter and when you quit whining about it and start working on it uh it's a whole lot easier to point a finger than it is to pick up a hammer and you can point a finger at that husband or that wife or you can pick up a hammer and don't hit them with it pick

up a hammer and go to work and say in the name of Jesus this is not who our family is and that's not who my children are and we talk to one another so we we love one another we eat meals together we come see one another and it's time for God to get some builders that say I serve a carpenter named Jesus he was a carpenter son and I have the spirit of the Carpenter on me and you can't make an enemy out of somebody who won't be your enemy I'm tired of hearing about

what's wrong I'm tired of hearing about the horns I want to hear about the builders the walls of Nehemiah the walls of Jerusalem that Nehemiah rebuilt were rebuilt in 52 days but it did not happen with empty hands the Bible said every man woman boy girl took a tool in one hand a hammer or something like that and they took a sword in the other hand and they said we will fight for our families we will fight for our marriages we will fight every evil spirit that comes to scatter and divide if you wanted a

fight devil you pick this fight you're going to get a fight I'm going to take the sword of the spirit which is the word of God and I will stab you to death you will not get my family my nation my home my children my grandchildren I'm going to build with one hand and fight with the other building and battling building and battling I thought about our nation yesterday I Googled it I I said to my phone how far are we away from the election and yesterday we were 52 days away from the election I

could not believe I said God give us a 52-day miracle and build back our nation build back our economy build back our educational system build back our schools to be safe places build back our our faith build back our churches build back our nation oh God give us a 52 Day miracle in America and in our homes and in our nation rebuild the walls amazing but it won't happen with Idle Hands the enemy wants your hands idle while the enemy scattering and dividing your children and your family and tearing Everything To Pieces but you have

to put on a work belt and get you one of those nuclear powered I don't know what they're called you can tell how gifted I am in that department I've always wanted one though I don't have one but Sharice does she fix in anything what's that thing called a drill power drill nuclear power drill you need a just to feel like a man you need a tape measure on your belt you need a hammer hanging off of you when Hell Comes to destroy everything that you love you just grab a sword in one hand and

grab your power drill in the other hand and say devil I know you've attacked through drugs through alcoholism through de Demons of depression and bipolar whatever in the name of Jesus I have the spirit of a carpenter and I'm going to rebuild what hell has destroyed get your head up get your faith up get your vision up God has not forsaken you or your family woo glory to God you can't be a carpenter and be a complainer at the same time you can't be a builder and be a Critic at the same time you got

to be one or the other it's time to be the builders The Carpenters restore rebuild some things must be rebuild in our lives Jesus for the first 30 years of his life was not raised in the priesthood he was raised in a carpenter's home and the last three years of his life when he started doing Miracles after he had worked in his father's carpentry business rebuilding broken things the people said when they saw him doing Miracles is not this Joseph the carpenter son carpentry has always been God's remedy for scattering and dividing and discouraging God's

people Jesus showed up with the spirit of the Builder when he came and he said I've got the tools that I need to rebuild any marriage any family Any Nation any people who will turn to me I've got three Nails I've got a hammer and I've got two beans and if you take the cross and the nails and you take the sacrifice of his blood on the cross it can rebuild any broken place in your life Jesus came came to Earth and he said I'm looking for the broken not so that I can do further

demolition on their lives I'm looking for the broken the one who's broken sexually and has had five Affairs and is living with number six let me get to her not to bring further demolition but to rebuild her life bring me the woman Pharisees out of the bed of adultery tree that you dragged right out of the bed and throw her at my feet I'll tell you what I'm going to do I'm not going to demolish her and step on her and kick her down now that she is in her shame I'm going to rebuild her

life I'm going to put her in my book and I'm going to give people hope who've messed up and fallen and failed that there is life beyond the affair life beyond the divorce life beyond the pain life beyond the abortion I'm going to be build them back up after life has demolished them give God a big shout if you believe it he's a repairer he's a restorer he's a renewer that's my Carpenter his name is Jesus so there are three things that God wants us to rebuild if you're going to see the spirit of the

carpenter hit your life and raise back up what the enemy has scattered and divided first of all you got to rebuild the altar every problem with people is a prayer problem if you fix your altar you will fix your life if your altar is unfixed your life will remain unfixed there comes a point when you get so desperate that you rebuild your altar and if you will rebuild the Altar and put God first in your life and begin to call on him and begin to listen to him because prayer is talking to God word is

listening to God and if you will rebuild your altar your altar will rebuild your life rebuild your marriage rebuild your children rebuild your future there is no shortcuts that's why when Elijah wanted the fire to fall on his Nation again they were in a drought for three and a half years and he went to Mount Carmel and he said I've got to First build an altar to solve this problem to rebuild the nation rebuild the Altar and he got 12 Stones he stacked them on top of each other he built a fire with wood and

he did not start the fire he just put the wood there and he laid the sacrifice on the dry wood and then he did something strange he called for 12 barrels of water the one thing they didn't have was water it had not rain nor Dew had come in the mornings there was no Dee or rain for three and a half years and water was the one thing they didn't have much of at all isn't it amazing that the thing that will help you build your altar is the thing you don't have enough of and

most people don't pray when they have what they need but the thing that you don't have that you desperately want to see happen is the very thing that should cause you to pour and build an altar and they drenched The Altar and the fire fell from heaven and lit the fire and the famine was over and the nation was blessed and restored rebuild the altar don't don't leave the altar in disarray if the enemies come through your family with scattering and dividing re build the altar altars are always the result of when you don't have

enough in yourself to do it it's going to take God use that as as as fuel to make you build an altar I can't do it I don't have enough but God can rebuild the altar the second thing you've got to do if you're going to get your head lifted up into Vision in future and rebuild your life and rebuild everything that the enemy has scattered and divided is you've got to rebuild your relationships with people you see we have got to unself ourselves we are a selfie generation that's why we take our cell phones

and we'll hold it up and some people post 400 pictures of thems a day it's called a selfie and the spirit of the selfie has got in the church and all we think about is ourselves but when you lift up your head and God begins to re build your altar it will make you begin to focus on other people not just yourself but you start saying well if I'm walking through this I'm walking through it because God's going to get Glory out of it and that means that I'm going to be healed by helping somebody

else and building somebody else up because I've been there and I know what they're facing build other people go to people and say to somebody you can do this you can make it don't give up on that marriage don't give up on your family don't don't give yourself over to that alcoholism you can stop I I struggled too I I was a drug ad if if that's your testimony use your testimony that I was suicidal I was depressed I didn't have I didn't know what I was going to do and begin to build somebody else

up if you will start building others up you will be amazed at how God will start building your life and your family up you know that in the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 step program the 12th step there's 12 steps and there's 12 action points and the 12th step they say is the most important to make sure that you do not have re recidivism which is going back to what you've been set free from you you need to get to he and they said most of the people in the survey most of the people do the 11

and stop and do and the ones that went back were the ones who did not fulfill the 12th step what is the 12th step get involved with someone who has a bigger problem than you do and help them build them encourage them I heard about one uh I heard about one psychologist who kept seeing the same woman Christian Psychologist kept seeing the same woman for three years trying to help her through the trauma and through the dysfunction and the abuse that she had been through in her life 3 [Music] years and he said this coming

appointment will be the last appointment and he said I'm going to give you about 60 minutes and then I want the last 15 minutes and I'm going to let you talk all you want to talk about in this last session and then I get to speak the last 15 minutes and after three years of counseling and he listened to her for the last time and then he said now the last 15 minutes I want to tell you my story of while I've been treating you I've walked through cancer I've walked through chemotherapy I've walked through

this and I this happened to me and this happened to me and this happened to me and suddenly the woman was so touched and so free that he said that he had been in contact with her see when you start hearing somebody else come on and he said the way I stay joyful is I keep pouring into somebody else find somebody who's got a bigger problem than you do and begin to build them up and then the last thing is everybody say build your altar build other people see that's what the church is supposed to

be we're not supposed to be a bunch of judgmental mean ugly people we're supposed to be a bunch of people who are all broken and wounded and the wonderful Carpenter came and healed our life and fixed our Brokenness and propped us up on our leaning side and gave us the power that we needed to keep on going and overcome and then we're supposed to turn around and build each other up that's why this one is important the third one is build yourself up Jude chapter 1 and verse 20 says that beloved you are to build

up yourselves in The Most Holy Faith how praying in the Holy Spirit praying in the Heavenly language pray in the holy ghost walking and praying in the spirit building yourself up because sometimes when you're like David in 2 Samuel 20 when in 2 Samuel 5 when when he lost his home in ziglang and the Bible said they talked of stoning him his own men and he had lost everything his house was burned down his wife was kidnapped his children were gone everything and the Bible said he and encouraged himself in the Lord how do you

do that you build yourself up by putting on CDs of worship by putting on music in your heart singing making Melody building your faith up walking and praying and talking to God last evening was a beautiful night for me I was out in the woods as the sun was setting down Hallelujah and I had me myself and I in Jesus looking over a big old open field as the sun was just going down and I had me some field Driscoll playing the trumpet on my phone and I just started worshiping God I threw my hands

up I started praying in the spirit started doing what that verse said throw it up don't be ashamed of that one I like that one beloved building yourself up in the Most Holy Faith praying in the Holy Ghost and I tell you I just started worshiping I just started praising the Lord song after song tears were streaming down my face and I just started to call him good and tell him he's worthy and thank him and thought about my family thought about where brought us from how that I didn't know what we were going to

do and in my darkest hour I had I had a board and I had staff and I had a church that ran up under our arms like Moses and and Aaron and lifted our hands up when we Sharice and I and our family were going through the most severe scattering and attack that hell could ever bring but we made it [Music] and I can't look back and live I wish some things would have changed but you know what where we are is a good place and I can tell somebody here that the spirit of the

carpenter is here this morning to tell you if you have no hope if you have your head down looking only at your present and grieving that the remedy for discouragement is Here Comes Jesus Christ and here comes his army of Believers the encouragers the laborers the builders the Carpenters I'm looking at them and God says I've done too much for you for you to have empty hands and not be building somebody else's life because I rescued you and rebuilt you I want you to rebuild others and their faith and it starts with you rebuilding the

altar out of your own need can you just throw your hands up right where you're sitting at every campus just say Lord here's my family here's my marriage here's my future here's my life here's my disappointments here's my trials here's my addiction here's what I don't have here's here here here's where I am am and those that Spirit of scattering that satanic scattering and dividing in the name of Jesus I've come with the remedy that has caused your head to not be able to be lifted up unto the hills from which comes your help and

that remedy is the spirit of the carpenter Jesus Christ who has come not to demolish but to re build broken lives broken families broken marriages broken relationships rebuild broken relationships go to work quit worrying and start working there's a verse in in Nehemiah uh chapter 4 that says the people had a mind to work if you'll get the mind to work your hand hands will follow and some of you got to get a mindset that I'm not going to just sit back and let the enemy scatter and divide my family I have a mind to

work on this my mind is renewed about this and I have the spirit of the Carpenter and I'm going to start building steps and a bridge back to what the enemy has scattered and divided call by call invite by invite step by step card by card gift by gift whatever I have to do I believe God can restore rebuild and renew my family I'm claiming it for this nation and you know what I feel like saying I just claim for every one of you and your families and your children and situations even addictions that that

that has just made you almost give up and you've said I can't I can't get out of this it'll never change can we agree that God could do a 52-day Miracle like he did and rebuild what the enemy has demolished stand up on your feet all over this building you know what I feel I feel like I'm preaching to business people who the enemy's tried to scatter and divide your business I feel like I'm preaching to families and I want you to get still and quiet if you can this is the most important part of

the service not the preaching not the singing but your response ain't that amazing your response to the word is the most important part of the service because the preaching does no good the singing does no good if you don't respond Pastor the enemy scattered and divided enough I want the spirit of the carpenter to come on me I want my tool belt I want my hammer and I want my sword I'm going to fight and I'm going to fix I'm going to battle and I'm going to build that's who I am I am not a

demolition expert I am not a Critic and I'm not going to be a complainer I am a builder Jesus said the number one problem in the last days will not be the Harvest he said the Harvest lift up your eyes the Harvest is white Under harvest the fields are white Under Harvest pray to the Lord of the Harvest that he will send forth Carpenters laborers Builders Reapers who will get involved get a tool and fight the devil and build somebody up build your family up build your marriage if you know I'm preaching to you today

and the enemy's come listen to me carefully I'm very specific with a scattering dividing spirit and faith is sparked in your heart after hearing this message and you believe that the carpenter is coming to your rescue today to rebuild what the enemy has torn down by faith get out of your seat come as couples come as families come as an individual struggling with an addiction or anything in your life that needs to be rebuilt I want you to get out of your seat and come stand down here this morning because I believe that the moment

you step out you are operating in faith the moment that you do more than hear the word but you that you act on the word the word is rebuilding that Altar and when you fix the altar you'll fix your life here they come here they come come on come on even if you're visiting and youve never been in anything like this but boy you feel a desire to get back to God and rebuild an altar and say God I need to I need to give you my life I need to surrender come on this is

your service this is your you'll point back to this day years from now and say that's when the carpenter started rebuilding my life and I'm so thankful in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus on October 7 Israel was attacked by the dark Forces of Hamas it was the worst massacre the Jewish people experienced since the Holocaust the esal region in southern Israel was attacked directly this is where Jensen Franklin media Ministries in partnership with the Jewish National Fund have been working the Last 5 Years to build fortified schools bomb shelters and other

life-saving projects thankfully these projects did save many lives that day and now we stand at a pivotal moment poised to provide a Lifeline for the people of eshal who continue to be attacked by terrorists every day Jensen Franklin media minister indries recently committed the largest amount of funding ever towards the initiative from Darkness to light we have a comprehensive plan that will be completed in three phases phase number one provides physical safety that is why we are building civil defense centers and over 800 safe houses making sure every family in the region has a safe

room in case of terrorist attacks we've been called to be the light in the darkness even in the nation of Israel that is why we have committed the single largest amount of funding in our history to rebuild and renew the esol region together we can bless that nation in an unprecedented way together we can demonstrate that Faith combined with Collective action can illuminate the darkest moments and Forge a brighter more hopeful future for the esal community one of the most important elections of our lifetime is happening in just a few months if it's anything like

the the 2020 election your vote matters more now than ever in state after State during the last election the direction of our nation was decided by as few as 10 to 20,000 votes most disturbing is the 20 million evangelicals Nationwide that believe the Bible is the inspired word of God that believe Jesus lived a perfect life born of a virgin died on a cross and rose from the dead 20 million evangelicals Nationwide did not vote in 2020 if you're a Christian I want to challenge you to be sure you're registered to vote and that you

vote your values the future for our children and our grandchildren is on the line and we cannot sit this one out [Music]