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This is Restoring Word.

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Do you feel like you've had a rough year, maybe a rough two years?

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You feel like you've been squished or squashed or stomped on or you've just been through

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a lot of difficulty?

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Well, I've got a good word for you today.

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God is a God.

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He is resilient and so are you in Christ.

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I want to read a definition for resilience.

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Now think about this, the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, toughness, the

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ability to recover from difficulties.

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That's good.

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All right.

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Now let's expand on it.

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The ability of a substance or an object to spring back to shape, elasticity.

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You know, the Holy Spirit dwells in us when we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior.

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And he comes in to empower us and give us peace that passes all understanding.

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But he also gives us strength daily.

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This is from Lamentations 3.22 through 24.

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I love this promise here.

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And this is actually from the New Living Translation, okay?

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The faithful love of the Lord never ends.

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His mercies never cease.

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Great is his faithfulness.

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His mercies begin afresh each morning.

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I say to myself, the Lord is my inheritance.

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Therefore, I will hope in him.

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Every single morning when you start over, it doesn't matter how you feel squashed or

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stepped on, or maybe you've just been stretched a little bit further than what makes you comfortable.

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You are resilient in Jesus.

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Every single morning, he breathes life into you and you come back fresh in him, fresh

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with his promises, fresh with his mercies, fresh with his anointing, fresh with his presence.

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And you get to start over again every day.

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You don't get to rehearse on the previous day.

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You don't get to think about maybe how hard that previous day was.

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No, every day is a new day with Jesus.

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Every day is a new season of strength.

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We go from glory to glory in him.

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Our best days are ahead of us, not behind us.

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We don't glory in what he's done for us in the past.

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Yes, we're thankful, but we're excited because we know with Christ, we can embrace the future

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with him, knowing that his grace and his strength is new every morning.

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You know, it becomes very precious to you, that grace, that strength, when you've gone

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through some things.

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And we're in a season of Thanksgiving where we're going back and we're thinking about

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maybe everything that we have endured over the year, maybe over the course of the last

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few years.

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And when you look back at his mercifulness, when you look back at his grace, when you

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look back at his strength, you know, last year at Thanksgiving, my family got COVID.

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You know what's amazing about that?

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What's amazing is my dad lived in this house.

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He's 89 and he never got it.

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God in his mercies, he knew he's faithful.

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He holds you firmly in his hands.

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He is good.

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And I'm much more able to focus on what the next thing I have to do when I'm able to go

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back and rehearse and remind myself of what he's already brought me through.

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You get to start fresh every day.

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Encourage yourself with that.

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Encourage yourself with the fact that when you get up and you put your feet on the floor,

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it's a new day.

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It might've been a rough one.

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It might've been a hard one, but we are resilient in him.

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We come back into shape.

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We come back. We might have been stretched. We might have felt broken. We

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might have felt like we were in pieces. But Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter,

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is the one that puts those pieces back together when things get rough. I like to

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think about Him being my Father, the one that's there for me to lead and guide

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and give me wisdom. You know, every day it seems like I have a new thing I have to

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face. You probably do too. Every day it seems like I've got to have new wisdom.

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I'm in a job where I get to learn something new every single day. In fact,

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it's a little overwhelming how much new I've had to learn this year. But His

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grace is sufficient. He is a good, good Father, excuse me, and He will continue

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to give me that grace and that strength.

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Do you know that He is in you to give you the victory? So many times we get

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inundated with the difficulties, but we have the victory in Christ Jesus because

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of what He did on the cross. He died for my sin. I receive His atoning blood. I

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repent of my sin. I invite Him into my heart and I ask Him to empower me daily.

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It isn't something that I just do once and then forget about it. No, for me I'm

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always perpetually going back and making a choice to focus on who He is, focus on

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His presence, that it's around me. I might not feel like it's around me, but

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that's not what the Word says. The Word says He's always with me. He will not

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leave me. He will not forsake me. He will give me strength. He will give me

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strength, new and afresh, every day. And I don't know about you, but I don't know

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how people do this crazy life without Him. Because things change. Things shift.

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You have different seasons. There's a new season for everything. And I want to

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declare, I wrote this down and I just kind of want to read it more over you, I

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want to declare the victorious truth over you today. You are the head and not

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the tail. You are above and not beneath. Christ's fullness is in you. You are

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vulnerable to His goodness. He is good. He has a plan. He has a grace. He's not

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going to ask you to do something that He isn't going to give you the grace

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and the strength to go through with it. You know, sometimes God asks us to do

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some pretty difficult things. I'm amazed at what some leaders are really able to

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do, but they know that they can do it in Christ. Great is your peace because you

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are taught by the Lord. Now that's a beautiful promise that I used to pray

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over my children. For my children are taught of the Lord and great is their

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peace. Well, that's a promise now. You know, they're grown and they're

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succeeding in life and their careers, but it doesn't matter how old they are or no

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matter how far they go from me. They are taught of the Lord and great is their

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peace. Whether it's a new career or raising babies or dealing with the

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changes that life has, great is their peace. That is the promise that they get

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to walk in. They are peaceful, contented, and blessed. They are my blessing and I

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love to speak that over my children. You know, he died on the cross for us so that

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we could have victory through him and we can share in what he did because of what

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he did. Not because of who we are, because we've earned it. No, Jesus went to the

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cross and died for us so that we could have eternal life and that we would have

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the ability in him.

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him to do what we're called to do. We have supernatural favor from him to operate in

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what he is telling us to do. We don't have to overthink it. We don't have to overcomplicate

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it. What is it that you got to do today? I'm sure right now as you're listening to me share

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this with you. You have a list inside of your head of all the obstacles that you have to

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face today. His mercies are new every morning. Put your feet on the floor. Trust that his

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presence is with you. It is. And he will give you strength. He is resilient and in him you

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are resilient. In him you are able to bounce back. In him you are being restored. In him

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you can walk through a difficult situation with grace and peace. In him you have faith

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and joy because you love him and because you trust him. Again, it's not because of anything

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that you've done but because of what he did for you. He's good. He's a good, good father.

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Thank you for listening today. Share this with somebody that needs a little hope and

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a little strength. Thank you for subscribing and liking the channel and have a great day.