Restore Our Fortunes | Pastor Tim Payne

Well, what's going on, guys? We are so glad we are right here in Beckley, West Virginia. I want to welcome everybody for all those in Pensacola. Man, I'm glad you made it to the house. Hey, let's put our hands together. Let's clap for Pensacola. How about Navarre? Navarre, we give you a big shout out. So excited for all of you guys that showed up today in Navarre. And then what about Blackwater? Let's welcome our prison campus. Come on. God behind bars campus. We're so glad that you guys joined us today. And then our online campus. Come on, let's welcome them. Come on, house. Let's go. Let's welcome everybody watching online. And as you can see on my beanie, Pando, we got the Pando app. So our messages are now reaching prisons all across America. Let's welcome everybody right now that's watching. Man, I love it out here. This is amazing. We were out here setting up, getting ready for the message. No wind, no wind whatsoever. We're like, this is really nice. And then we started praying right before this. And as you can tell, the wind pick up. Man, I'm telling you today, God is going to speak. God is God's word is his breath on a page. And and God's word is going to blow into your life today. So I hope that today that you're ready to receive it. And I hope that you're ready to believe that God's got a word for you today.

Hey, before we jump into it, let's just talk about a couple of things coming up real fast. All right. Let's let's start with next Sunday night is night of worship, night of worship. I know you guys come on. Y'all do better than that. Come on, make some noise. I know you are excited, but you hadn't bought your tickets. Listen, tickets are only ten dollars. And I want you to buy tickets. They will. They they sell out every year. They sell out. We just wait until the last minute. So I want you to secure your tickets. And here's what I want you to do. I want you to get an extra ticket and I want you to bring somebody with you. Somebody that's discouraged. Somebody that man, they just feel stuck. Somebody that they're in a season where they're questioning the goodness of God. I want you to get that to somebody who needs the presence of God and the power of God in their life, maybe to renew them, maybe to reinvigorate them. I want you to do that. Be a blessing to somebody. And that's going to be powerful. I believe it's going to be our best night of worship yet. I can't wait. And so we got that coming up next Sunday night. It's going to be incredible. That's on the 25th. And then listen to this. We have February 8th. February 8th is Super Bowl Sunday at church.

And it's going to be powerful. I want you to wear your jerseys. I want you to come. Man, we're going to have food. We're going to have drinks, free food, free drinks outside. Man, it's going to be an incredible environment. Now, listen, we want you. We're going to get you out of church. We're going to get you home. I know you got houses to clean and parties to prepare for. But I want you to come. We're going to have games. Man, it's going to be family friendly. We got 30 second theology with Pastor Craig, which is always powerful. I'm telling you, man, in this message, you're going to laugh and you're probably going to cry. It's going to be powerful. I can't wait. And man, Super Bowl Sunday at church on February 8th is going to be great. And then the next week, we're going to launch a brand new series about the word that God gave me for this year, for this year. And we're going to launch a brand new series entitled Acceleration, Acceleration. That's going to start February 15th. So, well, let's jump into it today. Today, you know, in 2025, God gave us the word, gave me the word that we're going to thrive in 2025. And I'm so proud of you guys, because we started the year off saying, hey, we got to get in the word of God. And I challenged our church to give God, to spend time with God, to give God the first of your day.

I challenge some of you guys, I challenge all of us. But I challenge you to say, you know what? Hey, let's give God the first hour. You want to talk about a powerful hour to give God the first hour of your day and to say, God, Lord, we want to meet you. And you know what? It was so fun as a pastor watching so many of you grow and say, Pastor Tim, I've never grown like this before. Pastor Tim, I've never learned like this before. Pastor Tim, I've never. Experience God and his power in my life before and what a year 2025 was it just just thinking back I mean God God did so many good things man. We we resurrected lift Women's ministry that was powerful and we had we had lift we had two nights of worship We had revival in the spring we had revival in the fall We had some amazing pastors pastor Josh Palmer man. He came pastor Josh did such an amazing job and we had pastor Todd Bishop he came and man just did such an amazing job It was just so powerful. We had man. We had LB. We had pastor Tim Seidler pastor Danny Anderson man, we just had some amazing pastors speak some amazing truth pastor Justin Enoch right here from West Virginia I mean what a year it was. I want to read you some stats real quick you know if If you're gonna experience what God has for you this year it's always great to look back and reflect on what God did last year and Then then we give thanks for last year, but we don't stay there. We move forward I want to read you some stats here real quick. This is incredible. Listen to this last year I'm gonna start with the most important number last year. We had 470 people 470 people cross the line of faith 470 salvations man. We had listen to this we had we had Let me see if I'm even looking at this right, holy cow

210 baptisms, that's right 210 in fact some of y'all remember at the beach we baptized 114 at one time. That was amazing but 470 total salvations 30 kids salvations I mean in Blackwater alone in Blackwater guys alone. We saw 154 men cross the line of faith in Blackwater alone. We saw 45 baptisms I love that we launched the panda app We launched the panda app and you know what as a January 8th We have almost 4,400 new subscribers a hundred over 121 thousand views Resulting in 42 salvations throughout prisons and in the men and women that Incarcerated them encouraging their families to watch we've already seen God rescue 42 people I love that Unbelievable man, just absolutely Incredible. Well, we we watch God do some amazing things in our church, but I'm telling you this year God's taking us to new heights this year. We're gonna see new things now in Psalm 126 in Psalm 126 We read this first verse first one. It says when the Lord brought back his exiles to Jerusalem You can read that story in the book of Ezra. You can read that story in the book of Nehemiah But when the Lord brought back and I got a word God's got a word for y'all for some of you You feel like man last year was hard. It wasn't a great year. It was a tough year God's gonna bring you back this year. God's gonna bring you back this year for some of you 2025 was a year of loss for some of you 2025 was a year of sorrow and grief, but I'm telling you God's gonna revive You this year. God's gonna help you get your spirit back verse 1 It says when the Lord brought back his exiles to Jerusalem It was like a dream verse 2 we were filled with laughter and

we sing for joy and the other nation said What amazing things the Lord has done? for them You may hear a little noise in the background. It's alright. Stay with me. Listen to this Yes, the Lord has done amazing things for us What joy for those of you that? 2025 was a year of thriving and it was a year that God blessed you man. Tell somebody about it and And tell them, you know 2026 is gonna be amazing. Yeah, we got things to fix in 26, but you know what as a church, we're gonna come together We're all gonna get in the mix and you know what God's gonna do some amazing things in 2026 but you and I ought to testify Let the redeemed of the Lord say so You and I got a story to tell you and I got a God to brag on you and I got got Testimonies to share with people and stories to say listen, this is what God did in my life This is what God is doing in my life And you know what just like these people these surrounding nation said look what God is doing for his children The people that know you best Ought to be blown away By the goodness of God in your life Scripture tells us that the righteous will abound with blessings. Come on. Tell your neighbor right now Turn to him right now. Come on. Turn to him and say blessings coming my way Come on tell him blessings are coming my way Blessings are coming my way They're coming your way now in 2026. Listen to this. God's got a word for you. I Love this verse 3. Yes, the Lord has done amazing things for us. What joy restore our fortunes Lord as Streams renew the desert and then it says this those who plant in tears Will harvest with shouts of joy they weep as

They go to plant their seed But they sing as they return with the harvest now last year we talked about we got to get planted Gotta gotta grow roots so we can bear fruit. And you know what this year? I believe we're gonna see fruit We're gonna remain in him. We're gonna see fruit. We're gonna see a lot of fruit this year. So get ready I love this chapter this song if you please Psalm 126 and it reminds me no matter how cold it gets No, man. I mean these trees. They're beautiful with the snow on them The Sun came out but but man, it's cold here. It is cold here And sometimes we look in our life and we feel like man Things are dead. But you know what this snow is gonna water this ground as This snow through this winter coming into spring melts. It's gonna water and you know What new life is gonna grow and what looks beautiful right now with the snow on the trees? But as you can tell there's no leaves. I mean the trees look dead. You know, what's gonna happen? God is gonna allow this season right here winter To turn into a new season and next week we're not just gonna look back and talk about the great things God has done We're gonna look forward and we're gonna talk about the great things that God has for us in 2026 so let's just bring some application in here. I don't know where you're at. I Don't know where you're at. Maybe you're in a season right now where it just you just maybe feel spiritually frozen If maybe you feel like you've been in a season of backsliding you've been in a season where you just You just pray but you don't feel like your prayers are making a difference. You don't feel like your prayers are connecting with God I don't know where you're at. Maybe you feel like man just spiritually cold. He's a pastor Tim. I I just I just feel Sometimes I wonder if I feel like God are you even there? Let me tell you something your tears your sorrow is gonna turn into joy what I know about our great God is He's the same yesterday today and forever and you know what God will carry you through a season of grief God knows how to carry you through a season of great loss. Maybe you had to close down a business Maybe your marriage didn't make it Maybe right now as you're listening to me, maybe you're walking through divorce the pain and The heartache and the heartbreak of divorce

and you feel like I Don't even know if God's there pastor Tim you feel like when you look around at the landscape of your life you you just Don't feel alive Let me tell you what this verse Was true for the exiles and it's true for you Listen to this those who plant in tears Will harvest with shouts of joy they weep as They go plant their seed, but they will sing as they return with the harvest. Hey Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes if I could say it Ecclesiastes reminds us that for everything there's a season and I Just prophesy and declare over your life today That no matter what was behind you in 25 That God is bringing you into a new season in 26 So get ready get ready. God's gonna do a new thing. Do you believe it? And do you receive it? I hope that you do. Well, we got 66 young people here right here. They're on the mountain skiing and You know, it's funny when we came here last night. There was It's not snow on the ground. We went to bed. I looked out the window. It wasn't there's barely a little snow, but there wasn't snow here on the ground. And this morning we woke up. I opened the open the curtains, looked out, and it just snowed all last night. And God did a new thing. God's getting ready to do a new thing in your life. And and next week, I want you to come back. We're going to talk about what God not did for us. We're going to talk about what God has for us in 2026.

Awesome. Would you bow your heads? Would you close your eyes right now? Let's pray. Let's pray. Heads are bowed and eyes are closed. I want to ask you a question. And that question is number one, I want to ask you a question. If you're watching this and you're a child of God, do you have peace? Do you have the peace of God in your heart right now or has your surroundings, has your environment, has your situation made you feel discouraged or depressed? I mean, are you willing to confess that? Are you willing to be honest with God and say, God, I need you. I need you, Lord. I need you to revive in me. Maybe you're in a season of tears right now. You're in a season of sorrow right now. Maybe 2025 was not the best year of your life. Are you willing to believe God for more this year, for better this year? Can you say that I've tasted and seen the goodness of God? Come on, lift, lift your hands up to the Lord. Would you, I want to pray together. Would you lift your hands up right now? Let's just pray together. God, I just pray over your people today. God, I pray you would fill them with the power of your Holy Spirit. God, I pray that you would fill them with your promises. God, let them know that the best is yet to come. Lord, let them know that just like the exiles,

Lord, that your children that were returning home, God, they where they had so many years of sorrow, so many years of suffering, Lord, as they were returning home to your goodness in Jerusalem, their hearts leap for joy and they sang in tears, turned into joy. God, we're thankful for all that you've done this year for the good days and the bad days, for the hard days, for the things, Lord, that you've taught us. God, thank you. And Lord, I just pray over your people today, God. Lord, I pray over everyone that today, Lord, I pray that you would encourage them, that you'd revive them. Lord, if it feels like it's frozen in their life right now, God, that you'd remind them, Lord, that you have good things for them and that, Lord, their heart will once again be filled with joy. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Awesome. All right, everyone. Everyone look in here. We never like to end a gathering without giving you an opportunity to accept Jesus, to be your Lord and Savior. Here's the gospel. The gospel is that while we were sinners, Christ died for us. There's not one person apart from Jesus that ever lived that's not a sinner. There's not a perfect person except for Jesus that walked this earth and was perfect. You may have had an awesome mom, awesome dad,

maybe got an awesome relative, awesome friend. They're awesome, but they're not perfect. The only perfect one is Jesus. And Jesus came to this earth and he came for one reason, and that was to make a path for you and I to get back to God. Why? Because sin created a gap. Sin created a chasm between us and God. Your sin, my sin created a chasm between us and God. And Jesus came and he laid down his life on that cross. The meaning of the cross was that God was reaching across the chasm so you and I could come across the cross so we could go from death to life. And Jesus laid his life down. He shed his blood. That was the only way you and I could be pressure washed, power washed, forgiven. The Bible says that God would take our sins and though they were like scarlet because of the blood of Jesus, they would be white as snow. And scripture tells us that if you would put your faith and trust that Jesus loves you, your sin, my sin, we deserve the wrath of God. But in his goodness, Jesus took our place on that cross and Jesus absorbed the wrath of God so you and I could embrace. We could embrace the love of God. No wonder they call him the savior. Listen, friend, wherever you are today. Today is the day of salvation.

Jesus wants you to go to heaven. Jesus did everything necessary. No matter your sins, no matter what you've done, the blood of Jesus can wash away your sins. No matter. Maybe you're in prison right now for murder, and you're like, Jesus can't forgive me. Let me tell you something. The blood of Jesus, there's no sin that's greater than the blood of Jesus if you today would call on the name of the Lord, you'd be saved. If you place your faith and trust in Christ alone, that Jesus loves you, he bled for you, he died, they buried him, and three days later, he rose again. And listen to Romans 10, 13, for whosoever will call on the name of the Lord, they will be saved. Are you ready, friend? Are you ready to call on his name? Are you done with the sleepless nights? Are you done with worrying about where you're going to spend eternity? Are you done with feeling fear, like if I die, I don't know what's going to happen? You feel impending doom? You nervous about what might be after this life? Then I want you to pray this prayer with me right now. Wherever you are, let's pray it together.

And you're not praying to me. You're not even going through me to get to God. There's one mediator. That's the man, Christ Jesus. We're going to pray to Jesus. When you call on Jesus, you confess with your mouth you're a sinner. You believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead. Romans 10, 13, if you do that, you'll be saved. Let's pray together right now. Heads bowed and eyes closed. Let's pray. Let's pray. Would you repeat after me? Would you say, Jesus, today I ask you to forgive me of all of my sins. Thank you for loving me, bleeding for me, dying for me, and I believe you rose again. Today, Jesus, I confess that Jesus is Lord, and I believe in my heart that you love me, and I'm asking you to save me. I give you my life. I receive your life. Now teach me how to live. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. All right, look up right here. Come on, Navarra, look up Pensacola. Open your eyes. Come on, Blackwater, look up. Everyone looking right here. Everyone, don't move. This is a holy moment.

Look up right here. Come on. We got to celebrate this because you know what? There were men, there were women today that the devil had you an hour ago, but King Jesus has set you free. You're now a child of God, and you know what? You're going to celebrate as part of the family of God with the family of God on the count of three. If you prayed that prayer today, maybe you prayed it again because you're like, I'm just not sure I'm a Christian. I'm not sure I'm a child of God, but you prayed that prayer. You meant that prayer. You know what? Your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, and we're going to celebrate you on the count of three. Do not be shy. I want you to raise that hand up on the count of three. Hold it up high. We're going to clap for you. We're going to celebrate you. I want all of our campuses. I want you to celebrate. Come on. This is greater than the Super Bowl. This is bigger than the National Football Championship. Come on. This is what it's all about. Come on. We want to empty hell's opportunity to still souls. We want to populate heaven, and you are part of that miracle today. Hold your hand up on the count of three. Here we go. One, two, three. Let's go, church. Come on. Let's celebrate. Come on. Let's celebrate. Oh, I see those hands. Come on, Navar. Let's go.

Come on, Blackwater. We see you guys. Hold your hands up. Hold it up loud and proud. We're so proud of you, Pensacola. Come on. Let's celebrate. This is amazing. Hell lost another one. Hell lost another one. And you know what? Heaven. Heaven gained another one. I love it. Well, what a word from God's word today. And you know what? We're going to move into a time of response because the word of God is powerful, and God's house will be called a house of prayer. Here's what I want to encourage you to do right now. I want to encourage you. We're going to go into a time of prayer. I want to challenge you guys. I want to challenge you to come forward and pray. In Navar, last week at the panel, had the privilege to lead there. I know Adam did in Pensacola. Man, in Navar, we had a bunch of people down front praying. I want to encourage you to get out of your seats right now and come pray. God spoke your heart. You got something to pray about. Come pray. We're going to go back. Into a time of worship and response. Love y'all