Somebody feels like giving up.
Somebody lacks the feeling of worthiness.
You feel alone.
Maybe you feel trapped.
Perhaps you have isolated yourself from everyone and everything.
Maybe you are experiencing what you would consider a “setback”.
You’ve been trying so hard and yet you still feel overwhelmed.
You’ve been trying to believe that He is the Redeemer of all things… but not this.
Not this one.
Not this time.
And I am here this morning to encourage you.
First of all - you are not alone.
You are not the only one who battles with these thoughts of unworthiness and doubt.
You are not the only one who suffers from feelings of insignificance and confusion and fear and uncertainty.
You are not alone.
And in my own personal experience with these emotions I have learned the necessary dependability on the One who knows loneliness and abandonment and heartbreak, and yet offers undeniable redemptive solutions.
One who knows more about physical agony and emotional turmoil than I will ever know and calls it redeemable. One who looks into the face of danger and despair and calls us out from the pit of desperation and says - “I died for that!”
I would write it in my own journal in my own handwriting to encourage this discontented heart of mine, “If God is giving a setback, remember it’s for a purpose! He is redeeming all things! Nothing He ever gives is without purpose!”
And I would encourage you with the same words today:
YOU have a POWERFUL PURPOSE!
You have something that nobody else has.
You have a story that someone else needs to hear.
You have gifts and talents that the world needs.
You have a solution to a problem that no one else can offer.
And..
He is redeeming all that you consider as lost.
He is making all things new.
And so I enter this Monday morning with a renewed mind.
To remain grateful for the season that seems like a setback.
Because it is not without point and purpose.
And I am praying for you too!
That you will sense His overwhelming love.
That you will be aware of His constant provision.
Even in the valley.
No - especially there.
He is good.
He is kind.
He is faithful.
And He is offering us, today, a better way than we’ve been living.
He’s madly, crazy, passionately in love with you!
And YOU have a POWERFUL PURPOSE!
Don’t forget that!
You’ve been trying so hard and yet you still feel overwhelmed.
You’ve been trying to believe that He is the Redeemer of all things… but not this.
Not this one.
Not this time.
And I am here this morning to encourage you.
First of all - you are not alone.
You are not the only one who battles with these thoughts of unworthiness and doubt.
You are not the only one who suffers from feelings of insignificance and confusion and fear and uncertainty.
You are not alone.
And in my own personal experience with these emotions I have learned the necessary dependability on the One who knows loneliness and abandonment and heartbreak, and yet offers undeniable redemptive solutions.
One who knows more about physical agony and emotional turmoil than I will ever know and calls it redeemable. One who looks into the face of danger and despair and calls us out from the pit of desperation and says - “I died for that!”
I would write it in my own journal in my own handwriting to encourage this discontented heart of mine, “If God is giving a setback, remember it’s for a purpose! He is redeeming all things! Nothing He ever gives is without purpose!”
And I would encourage you with the same words today:
YOU have a POWERFUL PURPOSE!
You have something that nobody else has.
You have a story that someone else needs to hear.
You have gifts and talents that the world needs.
You have a solution to a problem that no one else can offer.
And..
He is redeeming all that you consider as lost.
He is making all things new.
And so I enter this Monday morning with a renewed mind.
To remain grateful for the season that seems like a setback.
Because it is not without point and purpose.
And I am praying for you too!
That you will sense His overwhelming love.
That you will be aware of His constant provision.
Even in the valley.
No - especially there.
He is good.
He is kind.
He is faithful.
And He is offering us, today, a better way than we’ve been living.
He’s madly, crazy, passionately in love with you!
And YOU have a POWERFUL PURPOSE!
Don’t forget that!
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