This is Restoring Word.
Do you feel like you've had a rough year, maybe a rough two years?
You feel like you've been squished or squashed or stomped on or you've just been through
a lot of difficulty?
Well, I've got a good word for you today.
God is a God.
He is resilient and so are you in Christ.
I want to read a definition for resilience.
Now think about this, the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, toughness, the
ability to recover from difficulties.
That's good.
All right.
Now let's expand on it.
The ability of a substance or an object to spring back to shape, elasticity.
You know, the Holy Spirit dwells in us when we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
And he comes in to empower us and give us peace that passes all understanding.
But he also gives us strength daily.
This is from Lamentations 3.22 through 24.
I love this promise here.
And this is actually from the New Living Translation, okay?
The faithful love of the Lord never ends.
His mercies never cease.
Great is his faithfulness.
His mercies begin afresh each morning.
I say to myself, the Lord is my inheritance.
Therefore, I will hope in him.
Every single morning when you start over, it doesn't matter how you feel squashed or
stepped on, or maybe you've just been stretched a little bit further than what makes you comfortable.
You are resilient in Jesus.
Every single morning, he breathes life into you and you come back fresh in him, fresh
with his promises, fresh with his mercies, fresh with his anointing, fresh with his presence.
And you get to start over again every day.
You don't get to rehearse on the previous day.
You don't get to think about maybe how hard that previous day was.
No, every day is a new day with Jesus.
Every day is a new season of strength.
We go from glory to glory in him.
Our best days are ahead of us, not behind us.
We don't glory in what he's done for us in the past.
Yes, we're thankful, but we're excited because we know with Christ, we can embrace the future
with him, knowing that his grace and his strength is new every morning.
You know, it becomes very precious to you, that grace, that strength, when you've gone
through some things.
And we're in a season of Thanksgiving where we're going back and we're thinking about
maybe everything that we have endured over the year, maybe over the course of the last
few years.
And when you look back at his mercifulness, when you look back at his grace, when you
look back at his strength, you know, last year at Thanksgiving, my family got COVID.
You know what's amazing about that?
What's amazing is my dad lived in this house.
He's 89 and he never got it.
God in his mercies, he knew he's faithful.
He holds you firmly in his hands.
He is good.
And I'm much more able to focus on what the next thing I have to do when I'm able to go
back and rehearse and remind myself of what he's already brought me through.
You get to start fresh every day.
Encourage yourself with that.
Encourage yourself with the fact that when you get up and you put your feet on the floor,
it's a new day.
It might've been a rough one.
It might've been a hard one, but we are resilient in him.
We come back into shape.
We come back. We might have been stretched. We might have felt broken. We
might have felt like we were in pieces. But Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter,
is the one that puts those pieces back together when things get rough. I like to
think about Him being my Father, the one that's there for me to lead and guide
and give me wisdom. You know, every day it seems like I have a new thing I have to
face. You probably do too. Every day it seems like I've got to have new wisdom.
I'm in a job where I get to learn something new every single day. In fact,
it's a little overwhelming how much new I've had to learn this year. But His
grace is sufficient. He is a good, good Father, excuse me, and He will continue
to give me that grace and that strength.
Do you know that He is in you to give you the victory? So many times we get
inundated with the difficulties, but we have the victory in Christ Jesus because
of what He did on the cross. He died for my sin. I receive His atoning blood. I
repent of my sin. I invite Him into my heart and I ask Him to empower me daily.
It isn't something that I just do once and then forget about it. No, for me I'm
always perpetually going back and making a choice to focus on who He is, focus on
His presence, that it's around me. I might not feel like it's around me, but
that's not what the Word says. The Word says He's always with me. He will not
leave me. He will not forsake me. He will give me strength. He will give me
strength, new and afresh, every day. And I don't know about you, but I don't know
how people do this crazy life without Him. Because things change. Things shift.
You have different seasons. There's a new season for everything. And I want to
declare, I wrote this down and I just kind of want to read it more over you, I
want to declare the victorious truth over you today. You are the head and not
the tail. You are above and not beneath. Christ's fullness is in you. You are
vulnerable to His goodness. He is good. He has a plan. He has a grace. He's not
going to ask you to do something that He isn't going to give you the grace
and the strength to go through with it. You know, sometimes God asks us to do
some pretty difficult things. I'm amazed at what some leaders are really able to
do, but they know that they can do it in Christ. Great is your peace because you
are taught by the Lord. Now that's a beautiful promise that I used to pray
over my children. For my children are taught of the Lord and great is their
peace. Well, that's a promise now. You know, they're grown and they're
succeeding in life and their careers, but it doesn't matter how old they are or no
matter how far they go from me. They are taught of the Lord and great is their
peace. Whether it's a new career or raising babies or dealing with the
changes that life has, great is their peace. That is the promise that they get
to walk in. They are peaceful, contented, and blessed. They are my blessing and I
love to speak that over my children. You know, he died on the cross for us so that
we could have victory through him and we can share in what he did because of what
he did. Not because of who we are, because we've earned it. No, Jesus went to the
cross and died for us so that we could have eternal life and that we would have
the ability in him.
him to do what we're called to do. We have supernatural favor from him to operate in
what he is telling us to do. We don't have to overthink it. We don't have to overcomplicate
it. What is it that you got to do today? I'm sure right now as you're listening to me share
this with you. You have a list inside of your head of all the obstacles that you have to
face today. His mercies are new every morning. Put your feet on the floor. Trust that his
presence is with you. It is. And he will give you strength. He is resilient and in him you
are resilient. In him you are able to bounce back. In him you are being restored. In him
you can walk through a difficult situation with grace and peace. In him you have faith
and joy because you love him and because you trust him. Again, it's not because of anything
that you've done but because of what he did for you. He's good. He's a good, good father.
Thank you for listening today. Share this with somebody that needs a little hope and
a little strength. Thank you for subscribing and liking the channel and have a great day.