Hi my friend, welcome to day 21, Foster Resilience.
Romans 5, 3-4 says, Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering
produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from difficulties and continue moving forward.
And God uses our challenges to strengthen us and build our character.
And when we face adversity, we can choose to respond with hope and endurance, knowing
that God is with us through every trial.
You see, for me, I link resilience to like taking off in an airplane, you know, especially
when you're pursuing your dream or doing something that you've never done before, you are going
to hit that inertia, that kind of resistance as you move into the thing that you feel created
to do.
And yet that resistance is necessary, see a plane means the force of the wind and all
of that to keep it actually in air.
You see, it's the fight and the building of the resilience that we need and the resistance
that we face along the way, that helps our character to stay in place when we are actually
up, you know, cruising at those 30,000 miles, like in the airplane, but when we're actually
living our dream.
So don't get frustrated when you feel resistance, transform it into resilience, trust that God
will use it for good in your life and to be there with you to help you have endurance.
So our activation for today is how do you respond to challenges and setbacks?
Are you like one of those kids, like little balloons where you get like punched and you
fall over?
Or do you bounce back?
You know, are you fully inflated with God and with hope and resilience that even when
you kind of get beat up by life, you can bounce back that the challenges and setbacks are
only there to like make you stronger and then identify one challenge that you're currently
facing and write down how you can respond with more resilience moving forward.
Ask God to help you, to give you his grace, to give you his strength and his endurance.
And so I want to pray for you today, my friend.
So God, thank you.
Thank you for the strength that you provide us in times of challenges.
God help us to have more resilience in our heart when we face difficulties.
God, I pray for my friend to be encouraged.
I pray that they would have the endurance needed to pursue their dreams and not give
up.
And God, I pray that any resistance that they're currently facing, whether fear, doubt, circumstances,
finances, health, energy, whatever it is, things that are kind of standing in their
way and preventing them from making progress, God, that you would transform it, break through
in their life, but also transform it into more resilience.
God, I thank you for their boldness to step out in the dreams and purposes that you have
for them.
And God, I pray that they would be encouraged in the name of Jesus.
Amen.
Okay, my friend.
I hope you're building the resilience that you need towards your dream today.
And I'll see you again tomorrow.