Dutch Sheets: What Are You Doing Here? (1 Kings 19:9)
Dutch speaks at Expression Church of Huntington on March 3, 2023. Quotes: “My Dad was a pastor who had an affair and ended up divorcing Mom and married this lady... leaving us... just sort of destitute. It was just devastating. Everything I believed in was shattered. I started running from God and church and doing drugs and alcohol and just turned to the party scene. One night I was drunk in a bar, and He sobered me instantly. I heard His voice as clearly as I've ever heard in my life. "What are you doing here, son?" I said, "What are you doing here?"
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I feel like tonight, what He wants to say to you is, if you really want this revival, it's going to cost you. It's not going to cost you in a bad way. It's going to cost you in a good way, but it's going to cost you. He needs us to think like disciples: "Drop the net, follow me." So, he has given some of you gifts and abilities to disciple, mentor, train, father, heal. He's given some of you gifts and anointings that you came to the point where you didn't think God was ever really going to use you.
Now that he has you to a point where you have laid down ambition and the desire to do it just because you love to do it, there's a part of that that can grip us that isn't healthy. Once you get to the point where it doesn't control you any longer, the dream is his and you're not dreaming just because you want to do that. Now he can do it because while he's been preparing the Earth for 30 years, he's been preparing you.
Some of you have gifts and anointings in you that you don't know are there. You're going to find yourself doing things in the next year, two, three, four, five, ten, and you'll be surprised. If you've been following after the Lord with your whole heart, and to the best of your ability, pursuing him, obeying him, a worshiper, walking with the Lord, just in the general sense, if you've been doing that, God has been working in you in ways you don't even know about.
He has the ability to just bring it to a place of shift in a moment of time... and sometimes, he does it when you don't even expect it. When he rescued me from my life of drugs... Because, you know, my dad, he was in ministry, he was a pastor, and he had an affair and ended up divorcing Mom and married this lady... leaving us... just sort of destitute, It was just devastating. Everything I believed in was shattered.
So, I started running from God and church and doing drugs and alcohol and just turned to the party scene. I wasn't doing it out of rebellion, I was trying to find something to deal with the confusion. I was 17 years old and just thought, "I don't know if I believe in any of this... I don't know what I believe, but I certainly don't believe in this stuff." That's where I was. And he pursued me for two years. One night, he cornered me in a bar, a nasty bar. Not just to sit around and have a beer with somebody bar, I'm talking about a nasty bar.
A live band was playing, and I was stoned out of my mind. I was about this far from the speaker, and I was just letting the... I was vibrating, losing my hearing. It all started coming together really well. In that moment is when He made his move. You don't... you just don't... sometimes you just don't know what He's doing! And he can do it so quickly. He sobered me instantly, and I heard His voice as clearly as I've ever heard in my life.
"What are you doing here, son?" I said, "What are you doing here?" I was touched, but I was embarrassed. I felt his love because I thought, "He came into this pigpen? He came into this pigpen for me?" He said, "This is not who you are." He is going to show me who I am, who I was. He's been working, he'd been working, he'd been working. I used to go back to my bed at night when all my friends were gone, and the party was over.
I'd lay down, and I would just think, and they didn't know it, but I would feel the presence of God come in my room. Even in my pain and my confusion, He was working in me. When he knew the time was right, He just flipped the switch, and He snuck up on me in my pigpen. And can you believe it? I don't know... how does He even do this stuff?
The name of the bar was The Boar's Head - my own personal pigpen. He said, "This is not who you are, and I still love you, and you're mine. And this will never be who you are." Talk about messing up a good high. I'm just trying to tell you; he can do this stuff quickly. No one would've looked at me and said I was about to turn my life 180 back to God, no one.