Divine Reversal – God Can Overturn It
In this uplifting message, the preacher declares that God specializes in supernatural turnarounds, transforming sickness into health, poverty into abundance, and sorrow into joy. Drawing from the story of Esther, where Israel’s enemies were defeated and their fortunes reversed, the sermon encourages believers to stand on God’s Word and trust in the finished work of the cross to see every negative circumstance in their lives divinely reversed.
Overview
Preaching from Esther 9:1, the speaker declares that God specializes in "divine reversal" — a supernatural turnaround in which negative situations (sickness, poverty, sadness, generational curses, delayed answers to prayer) are overturned and made to work for the believer's good. The message roots this reversal in the finished work of Christ at Calvary, urging believers to fix their attention and faith on God's Word rather than on visible circumstances, since what is meditated upon and spoken shapes what eventually manifests.
Key Scripture Passages
- Esther 9:1 — On the very day Haman's decree was set to destroy the Jews, the situation was "turned to the contrary" and the Jews gained power over their enemies; the central proof-text for divine reversal.
- John 1:1 — "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God"; cited to show that lasting change begins with attention to God's Word.
- Isaiah 53:5 / 1 Peter 2:24 (referenced as "by His stripes") — the basis for standing in faith for divine health.
- Galatians 3:13–14 — Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, "being made a curse for us," so that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles; used to explain the believer's inherited blessing.
- John 19:30 — Jesus' cry "It is finished," presented as the legal declaration that every curse (poverty, sickness, sorrow, reproach) has already been paid for.
- Ephesians 6:12 (paraphrased: "we wrestle not against flesh and blood") — used to explain that Haman's earthly power was underpinned by a spiritual force that had to be confronted.
- Genesis 45:1–4 (Joseph and his brothers) — illustrative reference: Joseph's brothers did not recognize him after his elevation, picturing the transformation divine reversal produces.
Sermon Outline
- Called to follow Christ's example
- Just as Jesus submitted to baptism, His followers are likewise called to obey — introduced briefly as a picture of obedience before the main message.
- A word for those in prolonged waiting
- Illustration of a man of God who fasted 40 days annually for years yet still awaited an answer to a 17-year prayer — used to validate long seasons of unanswered prayer without losing faith.
- Defining Divine Reversal
- "A supernatural turnaround brought by God, when negative situations are changed and made to work for your good."
- Clarified that only God — not merely people who "prayed" — is the one who answers; human intercessors point to God but cannot themselves produce the turnaround.
- The principle of attention
- What you give attention to is what changes — illustrated by the everyday example of caring for one's hair or skin to see improvement.
- Applied spiritually: to walk in divine health (or any reversal), one must give sustained attention/meditation to the Word of God, not merely the visible circumstance.
- Categories of reversal promised
- Sickness turned to health
- Sadness turned to joy
- Famine turned to abundance
- Poverty turned to prosperity
- Contrast: counterfeit "lifting" vs. Calvary's finished work
- Illustration from a film depicting a man who resorts to occult sacrifice for prosperity — used as a foil to argue that if darkness can produce results through sacrifice, God (who is sovereign over life, death, riches, and poverty) has already made a far greater sacrifice through Christ.
- Declaration that Jesus paid the price at Calvary for sickness, poverty, and sorrow, and believers must have faith to activate — not earn — what is already paid for.
- "It is finished" as a legal declaration
- Christ's words from the cross framed as covering poverty, sickness/infirmity, bloodline crises, disappointment, failure, sadness, and reproach.
- Until believers embrace this reality, they continue to live under curses they no longer need to bear.
- Walking in the blessing of Abraham
- Believers are called to speak and stand on identity statements ("I am lifted," "I am healed," "I am blessed") as an act of faith corresponding to Galatians 3.
- Unrecognizable transformation — the Joseph pattern
- Just as Joseph's brothers did not recognize him after his elevation, divine reversal is expected to change a believer's life to the point that others see them differently.
- Esther 9:1 — the case study of reversal
- Haman's decree to destroy the Jews was reversed on the very day it was to take effect.
- Haman's confidence rested in access to the king ("the ears of the king"), a form of worldly power that could not stand against God's intervention.
- The battle is framed as fundamentally spiritual: "we are not fighting against flesh and blood" — until the spirit behind a circumstance (infirmity, generational curse, family confusion/backbiting) is conquered spiritually, it will not change in the natural realm.
Theological Insights
- Sovereignty and reversal as a biblical pattern: Esther's narrative is a well-known Old Testament example of "peripeteia" (sudden reversal of fortune) that scholars often connect to God's providence, notably because Esther is unique among Old Testament books in never explicitly naming God — His hand is seen only in reversed circumstances (cf. Esther 4:14; 6:1–13).
- Christus Victor and substitutionary atonement: The sermon's emphasis on "it is finished" (John 19:30) reflects the doctrine that Christ's death was a completed, once-for-all transaction (cf. Hebrews 10:12–14), meaning believers appropriate finished benefits by faith rather than working to earn them.
- The curse of the law and covenant blessing: Galatians 3:13–14 connects Christ's crucifixion (echoing Deuteronomy 21:23, "cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree") to the transfer of Abraham's covenant blessing (Genesis 12:2–3) to all who believe, Jew and Gentile alike.
- Spiritual warfare behind natural circumstances: Ephesians 6:12 undergirds the claim that generational curses, sickness, and relational strife have a spiritual root that must be addressed through prayer and faith before change is seen in the natural — a theme paralleled in Daniel 10, where an angelic messenger describes unseen spiritual conflict behind a delayed answer to prayer.
- Faith and confession shaping outcome: The sermon's "what you pay attention to, you will see" principle echoes biblical teaching on meditating on the Word (Joshua 1:8; Romans 10:17, "faith comes by hearing... the word of God") and speaking faith-filled declarations (Mark 11:23; Proverbs 18:21).
- Reversal as a motif across Scripture: The sermon's list (sickness to health, sadness to joy, famine to abundance, poverty to prosperity) mirrors broader biblical reversal language, such as Psalm 30:11 ("You have turned my mourning into dancing") and Isaiah 61:3 ("beauty for ashes... the oil of joy for mourning").
Word & Context Study
- "Divine Reversal" — defined in the sermon as "a supernatural turnaround brought by God, when negative situations are changed and made to work for your good." In Esther, the Hebrew idea behind this reversal is sometimes summarized by the term venahafokh hu ("and it was turned upside down/to the contrary," Esther 9:1), which became the traditional theme of the Jewish festival of Purim.
- Haman and "the ear of the king" — Haman was the Persian noble (identified in Esther as an Agagite, Esther 3:1) who used his personal access and influence with King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) to issue a genocidal decree against the Jews (Esther 3:8–13). The sermon uses his reliance on royal favor to illustrate the limits of human/political power compared to spiritual authority.
- "It is finished" (Greek: tetelestai) — Jesus' final statement in John 19:30. In first-century usage, this term was also stamped on paid financial debts and completed transactions, reinforcing the sermon's picture of Calvary as a fully paid price rather than a partial one.
- Purim's background — Esther 9 records the origin of the feast of Purim, still celebrated by Jewish communities, commemorating the very reversal the sermon highlights: from planned destruction to deliverance and celebration (Esther 9:20–22).
Application
- Refuse to let years of unanswered prayer signal that God has forgotten you; continue standing on His Word as the man of God in the sermon did for 17 years.
- Deliberately shift daily attention and meditation toward Scripture rather than toward the visible problem (bank account, diagnosis, broken relationship).
- Recognize that intercessors and "prayer warriors" are instruments, not the source — direct ultimate faith and gratitude toward God, who alone answers.
- Rehearse and speak faith-filled identity statements ("I am healed," "I am lifted," "I am blessed") as an act of standing on what Christ has already finished.
- Address the root: when facing recurring family conflict, generational patterns, or persistent sickness, pray against the spiritual root first, expecting the natural circumstance to follow.
- Do not seek shortcuts to breakthrough through compromised or ungodly means; anchor hope in the price already paid at Calvary rather than in worldly substitutes.
Reflection & Discussion Questions
- What situation in your life have you been "praying about for years" without seeing an answer, and how does the sermon's teaching on divine reversal encourage you to keep standing in faith?
- The preacher says, "what you pay attention to will happen." How might shifting your daily focus from your problem to God's Word practically change your outlook and actions?
- How does understanding Christ's "it is finished" as a completed, legal transaction change the way you pray for healing, provision, or breakthrough?
- Ephesians 6:12 reminds us we wrestle "not against flesh and blood." What spiritual roots might be behind a recurring struggle in your family or personal life, and how can you address them in prayer?
- Esther 9:1 shows a reversal that happened on the very day destruction was planned. What does this teach about God's timing, even when a breakthrough seems delayed until the last moment?
- Like Joseph's brothers who didn't recognize him after his elevation, how might a genuine divine reversal in your life change the way others perceive you — and are you prepared for that change?
Conclusion
The central call of this message is simple but bold: no matter how entrenched a negative circumstance appears — sickness, poverty, sorrow, generational curses, or years of unanswered prayer — God is still the God of divine reversal, able to turn every one of them to the contrary for the believer's good. Because Christ has already declared "it is finished" at Calvary, the invitation is not to strive for a blessing yet to be earned, but to fix attention on God's Word, believe what has already been paid for, and stand firm until, as with Esther and the Jewish exiles of Persia, what was meant for destruction is turned into deliverance, honor, and abundant life.
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so then we have no choice about doing it amen so if jesus got baptized and we are the follower of
jesus christ we also have to be baptized but today i have to come i have come with a message
that says god can overturn it oh somebody hallelujah oh somebody said god can overturn it
are you here this morning god can over what overturn it i have a message that god can
overturn every circumstance that you find yourself in it could be sickness it could be poverty it
could be generational curses it could be sadness it could be sorrow it could be disappointment
but i need to tell you that god if you can believe and trust in him that he can overturn that
situation you know there are some things that sometimes is so you know when we look at it we
have been going through from years after years after years i was listening to a powerful man of
god i call him a powerful man of god because i know this man live for christ this man i know that
every year he at least fast for 40 days no food just water and i listened to his message he said
there's something i've been praying about for 17 years that thing just held me i just kept quiet
because i was thinking about this man that had dedicated his life for christ
this man that fast 40 days sometimes he passed out i remember there was one fasting that he was doing
i was laying down i saw him dead practically dead and i begin to pray father don't let him die
but this man came out and said there is something that i have been praying about for 17 years and
i'm still praying oh someone hallelujah so i tell you that sometimes there are some situations that
we see year by year and we are asking ourselves father when are you going to answer that problem
but god said i should bring a word unto his people that he can overturn that situation
hallelujah oh somebody he can do what he can overturn that situation amen so the message is
divine reversal write it down divine reversal amen and what is divine reversal it's a supernatural
turn around brought by god divine reversal a supernatural turn around because since how many
of us know that sometimes when we're going through some trust and tribulations we look on to somebody
we have someone that when we know that we call that person it's almost like the person can speak
some words into our heart and then we are free but sometimes you know that the person can listen
and listen but the person cannot help you the only person that can help us and bring us to a place of
divine reversal is god amen hallelujah you know sometimes you know we even sometimes i hear a lot
lord of man of god oh i am the one that prayed and the cancer went i am the one that prayed that
this and i'm saying if you pray and god don't answer do you know nothing will happen oh someone
hallelujah sometimes we know we are i'm the one that prayed no it's god that answers after we have
cried oh someone after you have said all that whatever you are god is the only one that can do
what answer that prayer amen amen so divine reversal is a supernatural turnaround brought by god
when negative situations are changed and made to work for your good negative situations
we're talking about divine reversal negative situation and then what i what i changed and
made to work for your good hallelujah so uh divine reversal means sickness can turn to what to health
amen and since when things turn your heart has to be on the word that turns it hallelujah he said in
the beginning was what the word and the word was with god and the word was god do you know that
yesterday i think i passed the marriage came to and we're discussing something said something i
said come let's do my hair but so and then we're and she said something she said apostle anything
that you want to change you need to pay attention to it we said it if you want to have beautiful hair
what do you do do your hair will just be beautiful just like that no hallelujah anything you want to
see a change you pay attention to it you want to look your hair to look beautiful you start doing
things to your hair amen to make it look you want your beautiful skin or just beautiful skin just
come no that is the same way since the things that we pay attention in the physical we need to pay
attention in the spirit so if you want to walk in divine health what do you do pay attention to the
word of god that says that by the stripes of jesus you have what be made whole you pay attention you
meditate on the word of god you stand on that word until you see that thing what turn since the day
god is going to turn you might not know it oh hallelujah like that man saying to us that he's
waiting for 17 years he don't know when his answer is going to come but as long as he stands on the
word of god he says that he had the faith to believe that that thing can turn oh someone
hallelujah hallelujah so sadness god can turn your sadness to joy god can turn your famine to
what abundance an area of famine an area that you are saying when am i going to get an answer
why is it that i'm operating in luck like this god can turn that place of famine into abundance
god can turn poverty to prosperity since i'm telling you i've been meditating on lifting
and i need to tell somebody today you know i've been watching some the other day i was watching
this ai movie and i watched this guy he was so poor he was living in this um what do you call
it abandoned place and then somebody came to me and said if i can take you to this witch doctor
and you make the sacrifice and when they went to that witch doctor the witch doctor said to them
if somebody can die in your family every year my god then the money will come but you know i begin
to pay attention to that ai movie i wanted to see what is going to happen because you know that some
of these movies they do it because of what something that has actually happened so then i
begin to see that the guy did the sacrifice and then within 24 hours a contract started calling him
they started calling him for this contract they started calling him for this and with this month
this man's life has changed i begin to say to god father so if you are the creator of the heavens and
the earth you said you are the one that makes one rich and one poor you are the one that kill it and
bring it to life you are the one that brings down to the grave and the one that raises up
that means that you can do more than what these people are doing in their dark world
oh somebody tells you anybody said god is a lifter
because the thing about it is we are not paying attention to our god lifting us up
amen we mostly we children of god we pay attention with the things that we go through
father look at me look at my bank account but no the kingdom of darkness what are they doing
they are making the sacrifices to make sure that they get there but i need to tell somebody today
if in the sacrifice jesus has already paid on the cross for calvary on your behalf if you can have
faith alone to believe that jesus has paid the price for my sickness jesus has paid the price
for my poverty jesus i paid the price for my sorrow we will not live in that position of what
he's been in the dust but we will understand that we have been lifted or somebody said in christ
jesus there is a lifting christ jesus or somebody said i am lifted because of christ jesus he has
paid the price on the cross of calvary already so somebody is going to pay a price in the kingdom of
darkness but you need to activate that price that has already been paid on the cross of calvary on
the blood with the blood of jesus or somebody said it is finished oh one thing that jesus said when
he went on the cross of calvary he said it is what it is finished everything has been what paid for
somebody my poverty somebody shout it is what paid for oh somebody shout my sickness and infirmity
the crisis in my bloodline the disappointment and failure the sadness and the reproach
that is grace on my family until we believe that this is paid for we walk in the curses
until we come to a place where we know that Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law being
made that curse for me it is written classes everyone the hang of the tree that the blessing
of abraham comes upon the gentile what is the blessing of abraham hallelujah some of us don't
even know the blessing that we are under so how can the blessing because we have already said that
what you pay attention to will happen what are you paying attention to hallelujah because in the
physical realm you see everything hallelujah but then i was watching that ai move how he all of a
a sudden he laid down like this and he said hmm everything is standing for me the contracts are
coming this is coming my god within six months there was a lifting this man that had nothing
he was living in a mansion how about you two laying down on the cross of cavalry
begin to stand upon the word of god begin to say ah in christ jesus i am lifted i am rich
i cannot be poor i am healed i cannot be sick i cannot be cursed i am blessed
i am with faithful abraham i am blessing the city i am blessing the country all nations
and this man was laying there and the things were manifested so child of god you also need
to lay there and let your healing manifest savior there has to be a lifting in every area of your
life people will see you and they will not recognize you just as joseph brothers they came
somebody that they grew up with they probably laid on the same bed they probably ate the same food
they probably oh showered in the same bathroom but when they saw him they did not recognize him
because in oh in god oh somebody shout in god there is a lifting oh somebody shout in this season i
am lifted hallelujah so esther chapter 9 verse 1 it tells us let's read it together my god my god
it says what now in the 12 months that is the month other on the 13th day of the same when the
king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution in the day that the enemies of the
jews hope to have power over them though it was turned to the contrary that the jews had
rule over them that hated them since the people of israel found themselves with an enemy called
himan haman thought that he had the power because he had the ears of the king you know that some
people think that they have power because they have the ears of people that can destroy you
but the word of god says we are not fighting against what flesh of blood we are fighting
against what so pay attention to no man that's what i'm telling you most time there is a spirit
that is behind if you are able to deal with the spirit you are able to deal with that thing
hallelujah until you conquer it in the spirit you cannot conquer it in the flesh
oh somebody i conquer in the spirit i conquer in the flesh i need to tell you that the infirmity
there is a spirit behind that generational curse that is in our background that's what that's the
spirit behind that confusion that is in our families this one backbiting instead of coming
together and be one i need to tell somebody that's what that's the spirit behind and until we conquer
that thing in the spirit it will not manifest in the flesh so that day there was a divine reversal
for the people of israel they found themselves with an enemy called haman haman thought he could
destroy all of it of them but that day that he set up the gallows then