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Hi, I'm Leanne Friesman and this is Restoring Word.

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We're going to talk a little bit today about joy in the middle of your battle or maintaining

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your joy in the middle of the storm.

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You know, we're called to do a lot of things in life that are often greater than what we

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could ever think or imagine.

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I'm going to share scripture today out of 2 Corinthians 12, 9.

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My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

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My power, Jesus's power, is made perfect in weakness.

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Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses so that Christ's power might

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dwell in me.

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One of the keys to going through difficult times and storms and great adversity is taking

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a heart posture of humility, of inviting God into that very, very challenging situation.

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Because when you take that position, Jesus comes in and he comes, because he already

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dwells in you.

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What he does is he comes in and he empowers you to walk through great adversity and to

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go through things that you couldn't really even imagine.

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You know, I don't know what it is that you're walking through right now.

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It could be a health problem.

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It could be a leadership situation in a business.

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Maybe you finally got that dream business and now it's a lot more than what you could

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have thought.

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Or maybe you got the promotion and now all of a sudden that promotion is very difficult.

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You know, we're a military family and we have spent a hard week on the military.

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And you know, when you're called to be in leadership, then that leadership position

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is not going to be an easy one.

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You're going to be asked to do things that are incredibly difficult.

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You're going to walk into situations where there's high pressure and you're going to

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have to make quick decisions.

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And everybody around you is going to be looking to you to stay calm and cool and collected

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and to lead.

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And maybe you're going to have to be creative on the fly.

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Maybe you're going to have to come up with spontaneous, instantaneous solutions.

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And you know that in the natural, you don't have the wisdom.

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You don't have the ability to do this.

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But I have great news for you.

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You don't have to do it in your own ability.

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Trust me, I've done it that way.

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Oh, trust me, I've done it the hard way.

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Leanne is going to make this happen.

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Oh, and then Leanne gets humbled and it's ugly.

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Have you ever been there?

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It's not pretty.

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I have.

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You know, doing it with the Holy Spirit, doing it God's way is just so much more valuable.

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And here's the real value in it.

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Once you go through a few of these things, once you survive a couple of them, you look

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back and you can say with all gratitude in your heart, God, you were so good to me.

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In the middle of that, God, you supernaturally got me through that.

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God, you gave me wisdom that I didn't even know where that came from.

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And guess what?

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It's when he, the Holy Spirit, gets all the glory because you know you couldn't have done

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it.

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You know, you know, you wouldn't have thought of that.

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It had to be God.

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See, those are the trial and error situations where you really learn to hear from him.

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And he loves you more than anything else.

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He loves to get the glory through using you in amazing tough situations.

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You know, when you walk through the fire, you won't get burned.

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When you walk through the waters, it will not overcome you.

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What a beautiful promise the Lord gave that to me years ago.

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He's so faithful.

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You know, we're all on this journey.

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And the journey, I'm going to talk about it again because it's so beautiful.

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begin to learn about him.

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We begin to learn about his character and his strengths

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and we learn how we're hearing from God

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and we're learning about how he talks to us.

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And then we become stronger.

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We go through the next phase.

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We're growing in him.

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We're growing in our trust in him.

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We're growing in our knowledge of the word

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and that's a good season too.

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But the beauty of all of that, it doesn't stop there.

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We go then into becoming more like Jesus.

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We go from glory to glory.

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We go from victory to victory.

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And that is the valuable thing that you learn

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as you walk through life.

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Oh honey, I would love to tell you

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that everything's gonna get easier.

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I would love to tell you that it's gonna get better.

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Darling, I would love to tell you

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that that wonderful supernatural,

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bigger than what you could have ever thought position

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in the military or the ministry or business,

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that it's gonna get easier.

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But honey, it's not.

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You know what's gonna get bigger?

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You know what's gonna get stronger?

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It's God inside of you.

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He's gonna give you more wisdom.

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He's gonna give you more grace.

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He's gonna give you more strength.

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He's gonna give you more power.

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He's gonna give you breakthrough.

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Oh, those storms are not gonna stop.

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They're not gonna stop.

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You know, I love to think of the disciples

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when Jesus asked them to step out by faith and trust him.

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And Jesus is reaching his hand out.

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And the disciples, they were fine

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as long as they kept their eyes on Jesus.

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But the moment that they got their eyes off Jesus,

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what happened?

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They fell.

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I've learned the hard way.

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Keep your eyes on him.

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Trust him.

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Whatever you're going through, whatever breakthrough,

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that breakthrough and that miracle and that promotion

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and that supernatural position of leadership

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that you have been placed into for such a time as this,

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you're gonna be successful

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because you acknowledge where your strength comes from.

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Hope you have a good week.

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Thank you for liking and subscribing.

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that you think needs this.

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Have a good day.