Hi, I'm Leanne Friesman and this is Restoring Word.
We're going to talk a little bit today about joy in the middle of your battle or maintaining
your joy in the middle of the storm.
You know, we're called to do a lot of things in life that are often greater than what we
could ever think or imagine.
I'm going to share scripture today out of 2 Corinthians 12, 9.
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
My power, Jesus's power, is made perfect in weakness.
Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses so that Christ's power might
dwell in me.
One of the keys to going through difficult times and storms and great adversity is taking
a heart posture of humility, of inviting God into that very, very challenging situation.
Because when you take that position, Jesus comes in and he comes, because he already
dwells in you.
What he does is he comes in and he empowers you to walk through great adversity and to
go through things that you couldn't really even imagine.
You know, I don't know what it is that you're walking through right now.
It could be a health problem.
It could be a leadership situation in a business.
Maybe you finally got that dream business and now it's a lot more than what you could
have thought.
Or maybe you got the promotion and now all of a sudden that promotion is very difficult.
You know, we're a military family and we have spent a hard week on the military.
And you know, when you're called to be in leadership, then that leadership position
is not going to be an easy one.
You're going to be asked to do things that are incredibly difficult.
You're going to walk into situations where there's high pressure and you're going to
have to make quick decisions.
And everybody around you is going to be looking to you to stay calm and cool and collected
and to lead.
And maybe you're going to have to be creative on the fly.
Maybe you're going to have to come up with spontaneous, instantaneous solutions.
And you know that in the natural, you don't have the wisdom.
You don't have the ability to do this.
But I have great news for you.
You don't have to do it in your own ability.
Trust me, I've done it that way.
Oh, trust me, I've done it the hard way.
Leanne is going to make this happen.
Oh, and then Leanne gets humbled and it's ugly.
Have you ever been there?
It's not pretty.
I have.
You know, doing it with the Holy Spirit, doing it God's way is just so much more valuable.
And here's the real value in it.
Once you go through a few of these things, once you survive a couple of them, you look
back and you can say with all gratitude in your heart, God, you were so good to me.
In the middle of that, God, you supernaturally got me through that.
God, you gave me wisdom that I didn't even know where that came from.
And guess what?
It's when he, the Holy Spirit, gets all the glory because you know you couldn't have done
it.
You know, you know, you wouldn't have thought of that.
It had to be God.
See, those are the trial and error situations where you really learn to hear from him.
And he loves you more than anything else.
He loves to get the glory through using you in amazing tough situations.
You know, when you walk through the fire, you won't get burned.
When you walk through the waters, it will not overcome you.
What a beautiful promise the Lord gave that to me years ago.
He's so faithful.
You know, we're all on this journey.
And the journey, I'm going to talk about it again because it's so beautiful.
begin to learn about him.
We begin to learn about his character and his strengths
and we learn how we're hearing from God
and we're learning about how he talks to us.
And then we become stronger.
We go through the next phase.
We're growing in him.
We're growing in our trust in him.
We're growing in our knowledge of the word
and that's a good season too.
But the beauty of all of that, it doesn't stop there.
We go then into becoming more like Jesus.
We go from glory to glory.
We go from victory to victory.
And that is the valuable thing that you learn
as you walk through life.
Oh honey, I would love to tell you
that everything's gonna get easier.
I would love to tell you that it's gonna get better.
Darling, I would love to tell you
that that wonderful supernatural,
bigger than what you could have ever thought position
in the military or the ministry or business,
that it's gonna get easier.
But honey, it's not.
You know what's gonna get bigger?
You know what's gonna get stronger?
It's God inside of you.
He's gonna give you more wisdom.
He's gonna give you more grace.
He's gonna give you more strength.
He's gonna give you more power.
He's gonna give you breakthrough.
Oh, those storms are not gonna stop.
They're not gonna stop.
You know, I love to think of the disciples
when Jesus asked them to step out by faith and trust him.
And Jesus is reaching his hand out.
And the disciples, they were fine
as long as they kept their eyes on Jesus.
But the moment that they got their eyes off Jesus,
what happened?
They fell.
I've learned the hard way.
Keep your eyes on him.
Trust him.
Whatever you're going through, whatever breakthrough,
that breakthrough and that miracle and that promotion
and that supernatural position of leadership
that you have been placed into for such a time as this,
you're gonna be successful
because you acknowledge where your strength comes from.
Hope you have a good week.
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