In spite of our foolishness and rebellious hearts, God has pursued us with relentless passion and patience, fully expressing to us His unfathomable love through the mercy and grace of the cross of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Whatever you need to come back from, I want you to hear this: if Jesus is alive from the dead – and he is – and if Jesus has conquered death and hell – and he has – then it’s possible for every person to have a comeback story.
He wants you to understand that there are no wasted moments. For His glory He uses everything that’s happened, everything that’s happening, and everything that will happen – past, present, and future.
Let’s face it, stillness is not exactly easy to come by in today’s culture. We are far more likely to be restless, anxious, fearful, fretful, and busy. But God’s invitation is to be still – and to find again, in the calm pause, the assurance that He is, in fact, God. His plans are undeterred, and with or without us, He is going to receive glory from all peoples on the face of the earth.
Guess what? Grace is more powerful than consequences. Grace overwhelms consequences. Even with consequences there is love and grace and the mercy of God in Christ. Jesus says to us, “I know you messed up, and I know there are consequences, but I want to walk with you through the consequences. I want to love you through the consequences. And I even want to use the consequences in this whole big story.
It doesn’t matter if you do important things. What matters is that you draw close to me.
The race has already been won, God impressed on his heart. All I’m asking you to do is show up and let my light shine through you.
I know it’s difficult. But, yes, God is working even in the midst of whatever problem you’re going through. He’s working in both seen and unseen ways. He’s working to put you on a path that you’ll never regret, a path of extraordinary goodness that’s a reflection of his character. In the meantime, your task is to dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
Chances are good that you once had a dream – a big, noble, beautiful dream – that you could envision coming true, but that dream was snatched away. An experience like that leaves you longing for a comeback.
Worship puts God in focus. When the Almighty is in view, our giant’s power over our thinking begins to flicker and fade.
Sometimes we blow it, make terrible choices, and need to come back from our own sin, failure, and mistakes. There was a dream in your heart, and you believed your life would unfold according to that dream. Yet your decisions knocked that dream off the rails.
Jesus is a dream restorer. Your life might look different now than when it was born in your heart, but heaven still has a plan for you.
God can do great things, work real transformations, but we need to let him take it down to the heart.
God is a dream-giving God. He’s given you and me dreams.
We’ll never be able to do what God purposes unless we let God take away all the facades and rip off all the layers of gunk surrounding our hearts. We need God’s power to start working at the base.
God and anybody else is an overwhelmingly powerful team.
This is a powerful, powerful, powerful way to live. Sure, this mind-set doesn’t preclude doing our best to right wrongs, seek justice, and find cures. But in the process of taking action, we must understand that God is in charge.
We need to fight a battle to see this truth. When bad things happen, the Enemy comes through the door and tells us that God doesn’t love us anymore and has no plan for us, and then we tend to bail out on God.
Who we truly are is who God created us to be. That’s what’s most important. Our true identity is seen in light of God. He determines the destiny of our life.
Our change is more about trusting and less about trying.