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Hi my friend, welcome to day 21, Foster Resilience.

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Romans 5, 3-4 says, Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering

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produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.

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Resilience is the ability to bounce back from difficulties and continue moving forward.

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And God uses our challenges to strengthen us and build our character.

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And when we face adversity, we can choose to respond with hope and endurance, knowing

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that God is with us through every trial.

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You see, for me, I link resilience to like taking off in an airplane, you know, especially

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when you're pursuing your dream or doing something that you've never done before, you are going

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to hit that inertia, that kind of resistance as you move into the thing that you feel created

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to do.

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And yet that resistance is necessary, see a plane means the force of the wind and all

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of that to keep it actually in air.

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You see, it's the fight and the building of the resilience that we need and the resistance

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that we face along the way, that helps our character to stay in place when we are actually

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up, you know, cruising at those 30,000 miles, like in the airplane, but when we're actually

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living our dream.

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So don't get frustrated when you feel resistance, transform it into resilience, trust that God

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will use it for good in your life and to be there with you to help you have endurance.

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So our activation for today is how do you respond to challenges and setbacks?

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Are you like one of those kids, like little balloons where you get like punched and you

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fall over?

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Or do you bounce back?

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You know, are you fully inflated with God and with hope and resilience that even when

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you kind of get beat up by life, you can bounce back that the challenges and setbacks are

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only there to like make you stronger and then identify one challenge that you're currently

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facing and write down how you can respond with more resilience moving forward.

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Ask God to help you, to give you his grace, to give you his strength and his endurance.

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And so I want to pray for you today, my friend.

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So God, thank you.

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Thank you for the strength that you provide us in times of challenges.

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God help us to have more resilience in our heart when we face difficulties.

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God, I pray for my friend to be encouraged.

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I pray that they would have the endurance needed to pursue their dreams and not give

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up.

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And God, I pray that any resistance that they're currently facing, whether fear, doubt, circumstances,

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finances, health, energy, whatever it is, things that are kind of standing in their

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way and preventing them from making progress, God, that you would transform it, break through

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in their life, but also transform it into more resilience.

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God, I thank you for their boldness to step out in the dreams and purposes that you have

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for them.

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And God, I pray that they would be encouraged in the name of Jesus.

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Amen.

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Okay, my friend.

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I hope you're building the resilience that you need towards your dream today.

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And I'll see you again tomorrow.