1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,400 2020 has fundamentally disrupted our lives and society as a whole. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,880 We will never go back to a pre-March 17th life. 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:12,360 We are more vulnerable now than we have ever been before, but maybe we are more powerful 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:13,560 than we can imagine. 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:18,640 To survive and thrive in this new abnormal, you have to bounce back differently. 6 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:23,560 Those who make gains versus those who experience losses will be evaluated by how quickly they 7 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:24,560 are pivoted. 8 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:29,560 In this crucial episode, we will cover the indispensable topic, supernatural resiliency, 9 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,480 the art of getting your bounce back. 10 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:36,880 And stay tuned to the end as we give you five ways to tap into your God bounce back. 11 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:42,720 We have a surprise guest, Wisdom Window and a giveaway contest with instructions at the 12 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:45,720 end. 13 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,920 Welcome to Keep It 100 Podcast with Sean and Christa Smith. 14 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:55,800 Join us in this space where we take on real issues with real insight under real inspiration. 15 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:00,100 This podcast is for those not looking for temporary relief to change circumstance, but 16 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:02,360 revelation to forever change lives. 17 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,840 Hey everybody, welcome to Keep It 100. 18 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:07,640 I'm Sean and I'm Christa. 19 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,720 We are super pumped to bring you this episode. 20 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,960 We believe that this will be one that will be memorable. 21 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:14,960 I know. 22 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:19,160 I'm so excited about this topic because I feel like it's so needed for right now. 23 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,640 You know, I don't know about you, Sean, but I was looking at different words and I like 24 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:28,520 to sometimes look in the urban dictionary at current slang or a new verbage because 25 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,800 the world is ever evolving, technology is ever evolving, so we get new verbage all the 26 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,040 time and I'm curious about it. 27 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,600 Have you ever heard of the word techspectation? 28 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,680 Before you know. 29 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:41,680 You heard it from me. 30 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:42,680 I heard it from you. 31 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:43,680 Okay, okay. 32 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,600 Because I thought it was such a great word. 33 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,360 Techspectation, many of our Keep It 100 tribe, they'll know exactly what I mean when I explain 34 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:51,360 the definition. 35 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:56,200 The definition of techspectation is those three little dots after you send a text message 36 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,800 and you're waiting for the response of the text you just sent. 37 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:01,040 You know those three little dots? 38 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:02,040 Oh, totally. 39 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:03,040 Right? 40 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,160 And then if you're having kind of an intense or maybe a vulnerable conversation, the three 41 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,200 dots appear and then they go away. 42 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,520 It's like, oh my gosh, like, are we okay? 43 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:11,520 Are we good? 44 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:17,560 You know, techspectation, it's the anticipation one feels when waiting for a text message. 45 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:18,560 It's hilarious, right? 46 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:23,000 So what I think was thinking about in this current season, we have been in such a crazy 47 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,080 time. 48 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:28,560 These last five months have just been so unpredictable, known whatever we called it. 49 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:34,360 And we have to learn sometimes new words or we take some old words that take on new meanings. 50 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:35,840 So let me give you some examples. 51 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:37,080 Come on, bring it to us. 52 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,840 So we've heard the word shelter in place. 53 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:44,680 Now I know that I knew each of those words meant separately, but you put them together. 54 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:49,280 Or actually had to look that up to find out what does that mean, shelter in place, right? 55 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:50,280 Boo. 56 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,360 We're so tired of shelter in place. 57 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,480 And then second set of words that we've heard and become so familiar to the whole COVID 58 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,600 and everything we've been in is quarantine social distancing. 59 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:01,600 I don't like that one. 60 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,400 As you well know, I'm normally an affectionate person. 61 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:05,400 Right? 62 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,800 But now it's awkward to walk up to people and like, can we hug? 63 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:08,800 Can we handshake? 64 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:09,800 Not right. 65 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:10,800 What can we do? 66 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:11,800 Where are you at? 67 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,800 Some of these people become germaphos, but I seen y'all kissing your dog. 68 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,120 You can't pass me some of your germaphob on me. 69 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:18,120 Right? 70 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:19,120 It's so interesting. 71 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:24,760 And then one of the best examples of this at this time is the verbage essential and 72 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:25,760 non-essential. 73 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:26,760 True. 74 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:27,760 Right? 75 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,520 Everything became so about is this essential or not essential? 76 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:34,880 And then there was a period of time where we were having to evaluate what was considered 77 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:36,120 essential. 78 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,480 And what was really hilarious if you actually look at it, we can all agree food, water was 79 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:45,600 clearly important to Americans and what became surprisingly important to Americans was toilet 80 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:46,600 paper. 81 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:47,600 Right? 82 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,600 I mean, I remember when we came back, there was no toilet paper. 83 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:55,680 I had to call Costco and actually go stand in line at eight in the morning to get a toilet 84 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:57,840 paper, which was crazy. 85 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:58,840 That was apocletic. 86 00:03:58,840 --> 00:03:59,840 It was. 87 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:04,880 And so we focused so much in this time about what is essential and non-essential. 88 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:09,280 And I don't know about you, but for me, it was like the salons couldn't open up fast enough 89 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,240 because I was like, hello, my roots need to get done. 90 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,160 And I know that might sound vain, but girl, I mean, I am a girl that wants to have her 91 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:17,280 stuff handled. 92 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:21,680 And so that quarantine for a hot minute was brutal because, you know, there were girls 93 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,440 walking around with unibrow's and we're all looking each other going, we feel you sister, 94 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,480 because there was like, who's going to do your waxing? 95 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:32,200 I mean, you know, thank God we had a mass sometimes because some of our mustaches were 96 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,280 like creeping out, you know, I'm serious. 97 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:41,360 Okay, you know, the reality is we're talking about, we had such a focus on what's physically 98 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:46,640 essential, but today we want to talk about the most important essentials and that's what's 99 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:52,400 spiritually essential because there's been so much focus on the practicals. 100 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,280 The spirituals actually are more important. 101 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:57,360 Yes, I agree with you. 102 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:58,360 Spiritual essential. 103 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:03,480 I tell you what's spiritually essential right now is this word and the meat of what we're 104 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,920 wanting to bring to our Keep Your 100 Tribe, it is the word resiliency. 105 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:12,760 It's interesting because in Act 17, Paul quoted a secular poet to illustrate a spiritual 106 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:13,760 truth. 107 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,560 So I'm going to follow Paul's lead on that. 108 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:16,560 I like it. 109 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,560 I'm about to quote Tupac, y'all. 110 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:23,600 Tupac was not just a hip hop artist, but he was also a poet and Tupac had a poem that 111 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:28,520 was called The Rose That Grew in the Concrete and it's particularly fond in my heart because 112 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,120 he saw this rose in Oakland, California, y'all. 113 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,360 As he was talking about this rose, he thought it was interesting. 114 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,280 He grew up where it didn't have any soil hardly. 115 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:38,800 The concrete was merged together. 116 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:40,680 It was just a crack in the concrete. 117 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,600 There wasn't other flowers around it that could have helped given it shade or anything 118 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:45,600 like that. 119 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:50,280 And so he looked at this rose that grew up out of the concrete and he wrote this poem 120 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:56,040 and what he alluded to in his poem is that the seed must grow regardless of the fact 121 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,840 that it's planted in stone. 122 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:02,840 And I think this whole poem is a metaphor for resiliency because I believe that God 123 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:08,320 puts something in the seed of who we are as sons and daughters of the most high that 124 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:16,840 allow us to be more prepared for the tragedies, trials, and tribulations that hit us. 125 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:22,440 God puts the seed inside of us of a comeback even before we step into a setback. 126 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:26,800 To define resiliency, it's really to understand that life is full of trials and those trials 127 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,560 carrying experience that can set you back. 128 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,520 And your ability to bounce back is resiliency. 129 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,920 Resilience comes from a Latin word, which literally means to recoil. 130 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,000 And we're talking about resiliency. 131 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,160 We're talking about the ability to spring forth or come back. 132 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:48,680 And I think the scripture of all scriptures for this topic is Proverbs 24-16 that says, 133 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:53,880 Though a righteous man falls seven times, yet shall he rise again. 134 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,920 I love that because the concrete represents hard circumstances, hard ground, and we can 135 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,400 all agree this has been such a hard ground time. 136 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,240 This has been difficult circumstances. 137 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,160 It's not easy to grow in the midst of trials and tribulations. 138 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,560 And we're seeing people have such a struggle at this current time. 139 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:13,720 We're five months deep into where we're at. 140 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,880 And we don't know when all of this is going to end, when life is going to get back to 141 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:18,960 normal. 142 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:20,760 There is not a timeline on that. 143 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:26,480 And so we're seeing some real deficiencies in people's ability to cope right now. 144 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:27,800 Online gambling is up. 145 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:28,800 Alcohol sales are up. 146 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:30,880 Pornography online sales are up. 147 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,280 Domestic violence, unfortunately, is up. 148 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:34,280 Divorce rates are up. 149 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:41,160 So all of these breakdowns and people's ability to cope and to deal with uncertainty is so 150 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:44,680 clear because people have lost their resiliency. 151 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:51,840 And I believe that when we are in uncertain times, it triggers a search for what is security, 152 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:52,920 what stability. 153 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,800 But what we have to understand is when we have God in our lives, we have the God bounce 154 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,840 back, which we're calling the God bounce back is our resiliency. 155 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:05,620 And it's our resiliency that gets triggered when we face uncertainty. 156 00:08:05,620 --> 00:08:11,880 And so when we lack certainty, that is our opportunity to build the resiliency. 157 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:13,560 When we go through hard times. 158 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,720 It shows us really what our life is built on. 159 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:21,320 And I believe this moment currently where we're at COVID-19 and all the other stuff 160 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:25,880 we're dealing with, this is the moment that's calling for supernatural resiliency. 161 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:27,720 This isn't just sheer will. 162 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,760 This is getting your God bounce back. 163 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:35,240 And psychologists tell us that resilience is the process of adapting well in the face 164 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,400 of adversity, trauma and tragedy. 165 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:44,320 Another definition is an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. 166 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:49,320 Another one is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and toughness. 167 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:55,240 You see, I think so many of us have lost our resiliency or maybe some people never fully 168 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:56,600 matured or developed it. 169 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,640 But here's the cool thing about resiliency. 170 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:00,840 And it's something I kind of want to bring to the table today. 171 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,760 When I studied it out, you studied it out. 172 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:06,920 We found out that resiliency is actually something you can learn. 173 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,840 So everyone can learn to become resilient. 174 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:10,840 That's true. 175 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:15,200 They actually did a study with young kids and they found out that the difference between 176 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:20,320 young kids with resiliency and without it, it was as psychologists would term it, the 177 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:26,080 lotus of control, which is a sophisticated way of saying the kids that develop resiliency 178 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:31,120 believed that they can make choices to come back from whatever tough circumstance they 179 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:32,120 faced. 180 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,120 I love that. 181 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:38,600 We're believing that you are empowered to make choices and we know in Christ we're empowered 182 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,120 to make decisions that can alter our destiny. 183 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:46,280 You know what I love, Sean, is you are such for me a picture of resiliency. 184 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,840 Your life and people know parts of your story. 185 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:55,200 I know all of your story and you have dealt with a lot of adversity, personal loss, tragedy, 186 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,120 and yet you do not carry a fragrance of any victim. 187 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:05,240 You are genuinely joyful, genuinely happy, like you are so full of the love, the kindness, 188 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:06,800 and the peace of God. 189 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,120 And that's because God does such a work in you. 190 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:13,960 But to me, I've asked you so many times, how are you so resilient? 191 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:19,160 So I would love for you to share with the Keep It 100 Tribe, what is a story that you saw 192 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:24,120 where you had to consciously tap into the God resiliency in your life? 193 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:28,160 Back when I was in college and people that have listened to our earlier podcast on origin 194 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:32,280 stories that they would have recognized that I got saved on a college campus, right after 195 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:37,040 I got saved, I completed my degree and I was offered a position at Intel in Silicon Valley, 196 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,560 San Jose, California to work as an engineer. 197 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:44,280 But in that time, God gave me a series of visions about the call of God in my life and 198 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:45,840 so I said yes to God. 199 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:50,520 So when I said yes, I joined an internship, I was the first class of internship to train 200 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:52,000 for campus ministry. 201 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,280 In that process, there was one other gal, there's actually two other gals in our internship 202 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:57,400 and one other guy. 203 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,000 One of the gals I developed a relationship with and we got engaged. 204 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,520 I spent like at that time my entire savings to get the wedding ring. 205 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:10,440 And so in the process of that, all of a sudden in the midst of starting my internship in 206 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:15,800 the very first week, my fiance gives me the ring back and says, I can't do this. 207 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:20,360 So this engagement breaks up with the girl that I thought I was going to build my future 208 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:21,360 with. 209 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,360 So that same week, my last living grandparent passed that I was close to. 210 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:31,520 And then on top of that, my own mom, not approving of the decision I was making by not accepting 211 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:35,680 the position to Silicon Valley, but essentially in her eyes, taking a vow of poverty by going 212 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:40,960 into ministry, she disowned me, which I might mention to our listeners temporarily. 213 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:42,840 And at that time she didn't know the Lord. 214 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,240 She has since come to know the Lord and she's very proud of what her son does. 215 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,960 But in the midst of it, I felt like my entire bottom fell out. 216 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:51,360 I was not anticipating this. 217 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,600 I thought when I said yes to God, I remember in prayer time saying God, I said, yes. 218 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:56,600 I didn't say no. 219 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,520 I thought when I said yes, everything would work out great. 220 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,560 But in fact, all HE double hockey sticks broke out. 221 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:06,000 And I remember every day I'd have to get up and we'd have our quiet time with the other 222 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,920 interns in different parts of the church. 223 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:12,800 So I would see my ex fiance every single day and it goes through entire internship. 224 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,120 And she and I had a partner with the ministry that was on the campus. 225 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:21,800 So I literally cried so much that I a rash formed down my face. 226 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:26,120 And many times my prayer was simply just saying Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. 227 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,600 And I remember the other, I later found out the other interns were talking amongst each 228 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,480 other, we don't think Sean's going to make it. 229 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:32,960 We don't think Sean's going to make it. 230 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,560 But in that time, something began to happen inside of me. 231 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:41,240 And that thing that happened inside of me was that God began to put His purpose, His 232 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,400 strength, His grace upon me. 233 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,720 And day by day, I felt myself getting stronger. 234 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,320 And I knew this quitting was not an option. 235 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,000 Somehow some way I'm going to get through this thing because God has a purpose on my 236 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,360 life and I'm going to fight for my destiny. 237 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:59,240 And so in that, I learned Christa, three principles or characteristics of resilient people. 238 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:04,120 The first thing I recognize is that resilient people anticipate that there will be valleys 239 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:05,120 and storms. 240 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:06,240 So true. 241 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:11,000 Resilient people also have perspective on problems because the problem is not that there 242 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,160 is a problem. 243 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:16,160 The problem is thinking that having problems is a problem. 244 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:20,360 Jesus said, in this life, you will have tribulation, but take courage. 245 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,160 I have overcome the world. 246 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:28,040 And Isaiah the prophet says in Isaiah 10, 27, that on account of the anointing, the 247 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:29,800 yoke will be destroyed. 248 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:34,960 And so as you are the anointed, you have to know that you will encounter yokes, meaning 249 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,560 obstacles that you are called to be the solution to. 250 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:44,600 The second point about resilient people is that resilient people identify what is under 251 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:46,640 their control and what isn't. 252 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,360 There's some things that are out of your control and you could spend the rest of your life 253 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:53,000 spinning out of control over what's not in your control. 254 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:58,020 But in doing so, you fail to be empowered by the things you can do, the decisions you 255 00:13:58,020 --> 00:13:59,020 can make. 256 00:13:59,020 --> 00:14:02,160 And I began to realize that I had control over my attitude. 257 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:08,240 I had to encourage people in their walk while I felt at that point in time, discouraged, 258 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,160 that I could identify what was under my control. 259 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:12,520 And that's what resilient people do. 260 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:17,440 And the third thing I discovered about resilient people is they recognize they can transform 261 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:19,600 their pain into power. 262 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:24,480 And I believe that although I felt a level of pain, it actually empowered me to minister 263 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,160 to the people that I was called to. 264 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,920 Because there are a lot of people that go through life where maybe in this season we're 265 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:36,400 at, they have unexpected illness, financial woes, situations going on with close friends 266 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,960 of family members, maybe even an internal struggle, they can't even begin to articulate. 267 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:46,360 But now I feel like having gone through that, God turned that pain into power or another 268 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,760 way of saying it, He can turn your adversity into ministry. 269 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,240 Now Christy, I know you got a story. 270 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,320 What is your story? 271 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:59,640 Can I just tell you before I jump into my story that although my heart hurts, that you went 272 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,680 through the pain that you went through with the breaking up of that engagement, can I 273 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:10,240 just tell you that I am so grateful that you didn't get married to her because I got you? 274 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:11,240 Amen, amen. 275 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,120 That was the will of the Lord. 276 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:14,120 My story. 277 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:15,120 Okay. 278 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:16,120 I love that question. 279 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:17,120 My story. 280 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:21,200 You know, I was reminded of a story when I came back from Australia and I had all these 281 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:26,200 prophetic words and I had actually even had a job offer over in Australia to stay there 282 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,320 and work there and be a part of a great organization. 283 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,520 But I prayed about, and the Lord said, you're called to the U.S. 284 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:38,680 So I moved back to the U.S. with all this expectation, unfulfilled prophetic words that I believed 285 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:42,680 were going to come to pass and I was a part of a church plant in the San Francisco Bay 286 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:45,160 area that was just a volunteer position. 287 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,920 There was nothing paid, but I had all these hopes and dreams moving back to the Bay. 288 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,680 I had dreams and words and so I was so excited. 289 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:59,000 So I came back in August 2001 and I moved back and I'm in the Bay area and I'm staying 290 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,680 with my sister and her brother-in-law and they're three little kids and I'm sharing a room with 291 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,160 my nephew and they're being really gracious, opening up their home to me and I'm praying 292 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,680 for opportunities and seeing what God wants to do, but I'm believing for a position of 293 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,080 ministry because that's what I've just come back to school. 294 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:17,360 I'd already worked corporate, but I was expecting to go back in to possibly corporate, but my 295 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:18,880 heart was to do ministry. 296 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:22,600 So I just opened and I was looking for jobs and whatnot. 297 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:28,800 And then a very key day happened in America that all of us are forever marked by and that 298 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,680 was September 11th, 2001. 299 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:36,880 So September 11th, 2001 happened and all of the job offers that I did have were taken 300 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:41,480 off the table because obviously majority of America and corporations went into job freeze 301 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,840 because it was totally unpredictable. 302 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:49,400 And so in that unpredictability, I found myself sitting at my sister's house in Livermore, 303 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:54,720 California, not having a job, moving back from Australia, not sure what's ahead and 304 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,560 just really unsure about my future. 305 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:02,440 And so like anyone that's in California and you don't know why you're there, I did what 306 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,400 anyone would do and I went back to Oregon. 307 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,560 I was like, I'm going to get the heck out of California and I went back to where I'm 308 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:08,960 from, which is Oregon. 309 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:12,320 I met my parents' house this many times with God and God's like, Hey, I didn't call you 310 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:13,320 to Oregon. 311 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:14,320 I called you to California. 312 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:18,120 I called you, but to the bay and he's like, I didn't have you move back from Australia 313 00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:19,920 so you could come back to Oregon. 314 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,160 So I call my sister, I ask her, Hey, can I live with you guys? 315 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,600 They're incredibly gracious and generous and they said, Of course. 316 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:31,760 So I drive down, I have nothing, I have no job, no money, 9-11 has taken place. 317 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:32,760 No one's hiring. 318 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,880 I mean, it's like not a great time to be unemployed. 319 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:37,600 Actually the worst time to be unemployed. 320 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,300 And I found myself just in a very uncertain time. 321 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:43,000 And then my sister said, Hey, I got a job. 322 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,040 And of course I'm praying any job, any job. 323 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,760 And then I get the any job that I'm not excited about. 324 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:51,360 You know, when you, you know, we all know you're saying, God use me, I'll do anything. 325 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:55,440 And then the anything comes, you're like, That actually wasn't on my list. 326 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:57,040 I actually don't want to do that. 327 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:01,960 And the reality is it wasn't a bad job, but because it didn't meet my expectation, right? 328 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,880 So I found myself working at a mortgage broker firm and the people were wonderful, but my 329 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,120 heart wasn't in it. 330 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:10,120 But I found myself in this place of day in and day out. 331 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:12,960 What I viewed was kind of a mundane job. 332 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:16,760 And I remember having this come to Jesus moment where he was like, Your heart's not in this 333 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:17,840 job. 334 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:22,680 And either you choose to embrace this because I was not a witness to the people around me. 335 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,360 I was not an example of a great employee. 336 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:29,360 I was not owning the opportunity. 337 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:32,840 And all I wanted to do was get out of there and get on with my life and start fulfilling 338 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,280 the prophetic words that I prophesied. 339 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:40,400 And I wasn't honoring or stewarding what was given in my hand because I didn't like it. 340 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,620 And we often don't steward what we don't like. 341 00:18:42,620 --> 00:18:46,440 But the truth is God sometimes allows things we don't like into our life to develop our 342 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,320 character and to develop us. 343 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:52,760 I had an aha moment when my boss called me to a higher place. 344 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:56,640 I'll leave that story for another day, but it's the first time I'd ever been confronted 345 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,560 by a boss and in Jesus name the last time that I'll be confronted by a boss. 346 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:05,600 But I had a come to Jesus moment where the Lord said, You can stop hating where you're 347 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:09,080 at and start embracing the assignment in your hand. 348 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:15,400 And it was in that moment, Sean, where I really just begin to lean into what God had for me. 349 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:21,040 And I found myself for a year, if not a little bit more sleeping on a couch, sharing a room 350 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:26,040 with my 10 month old nephew, working on what I viewed as a mundane job, nothing I was passionate 351 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,120 about just serving the local church. 352 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:29,760 No opportunities were happening. 353 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,640 The church plant that I was a part of, the group fell apart. 354 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:36,520 I mean, everything that I moved back from Australia didn't exist. 355 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:40,840 And I found myself in a completely contradicting wilderness time. 356 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:46,080 And yet the rest of the story is at the end of the year and a half working there. 357 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:47,080 Then I got an opportunity. 358 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:51,640 It was my first opportunity to run a school of ministry here in the Bay Area. 359 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,760 And I was given my first position in ministry. 360 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:58,760 And from that point on, every door began to open that I walked in and now I pastor, or 361 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,160 I pastor for years and now I tinerate with you. 362 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,280 And I get to do what I call, what's called to do. 363 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,040 And I get to do what I love and what I was created to do. 364 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,440 But it all came from staying the course in an assignment. 365 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:15,800 I didn't like, I remember day in and day out choosing to honor God because I knew although 366 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:20,840 I didn't like it, I was still smack dab in the middle of his will. 367 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:22,160 And here's the reality. 368 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:26,880 You know, so many of us, because we're in opposite circumstances of what we like, if 369 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:31,160 we don't kick into our resiliency, we'll kick into our setback. 370 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:32,160 That's right. 371 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,640 And it's so true because, Kristin, so many people sit back in their setback. 372 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:36,640 Ooh. 373 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:37,640 And I think it was a metaphor. 374 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:38,640 That's so good. 375 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:39,640 That here you were on the couch. 376 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:40,640 Yes. 377 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:41,640 You know, sort of speaking. 378 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:46,160 So many people, you could see them just eating hog and doze, torquing out, watching their 379 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,000 movie subscription streams. 380 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,280 But you decided, no, I'm going to get up, I'm going to work. 381 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,640 You went back home to Oregon, but you said, no, I'm going to get back to the place where 382 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:56,880 I'm called. 383 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:01,240 And you did a great example that you didn't let the little things become big things. 384 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:02,240 That's right. 385 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:03,240 You kept perspective. 386 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,240 Sharing a room with a 10 month old. 387 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:05,240 Yes. 388 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:06,240 You know? 389 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:07,240 And you're right. 390 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,120 It was just, everything about it was out of my comfort zone. 391 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:13,520 Everything about it I didn't like, although of course, I love my family, but it was so 392 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,240 opposite of what I thought. 393 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,840 And we can so bounce and we're like, hey, this isn't what I signed up for. 394 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:23,240 But yet if we stick it through and we kick into the resiliency of, you know what God 395 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:27,720 called me here and I'm going to see it through till I see the God promise, that's when the 396 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,160 good stuff kicks in. 397 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,920 And sometimes we bail too early to see the good stuff. 398 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:32,920 Yes. 399 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,320 You have a great scripture you were talking about before in Psalms. 400 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,200 Why don't you share that with our Keeper 100 Child? 401 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,800 You know, this has been a really a life scripture for me. 402 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:45,120 I think because just through the valleys of life and through the unpredictable storms, 403 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:47,240 we walk through so many of those in life. 404 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:53,080 And one of my life scriptures, which I think so connects with resiliency is Psalm 125, one 405 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:54,080 and two. 406 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,880 It's out of the passion translation, which is one of my personal favorite translations. 407 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:03,120 It says, those who trust in the Lord are as unshakable as mighty Mount Zion, just as 408 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:08,600 the mountains surrounded Jerusalem, so the Lord's wraparound presence surrounds his 409 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,680 people protecting them now and forever. 410 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:17,080 I find such comfort in that knowing God creates a resiliency. 411 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:23,040 His presence is my cloak of resiliency because he protects me now and forever. 412 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,040 Love that. 413 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,360 And the word that jumps out is I love that those who trust in the Lord are unshakable. 414 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:28,360 That's it. 415 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:31,680 There's the resiliency, trusting God. 416 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,320 And I think about unshakable, I think about a character in the Bible that he had the most 417 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:40,760 inauspicious beginnings, but yet this guy would make Hebrews 11, the Faith Hall of Fame. 418 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:41,760 And his name is Jeffna. 419 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:47,080 Now, Jeffna in Judges 11, I told you that he made Hebrews 11, but his origin story 420 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:48,560 is in Judges 11. 421 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,800 We find out that Jeffna is the son of a harlot. 422 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,200 He is an illegitimate child. 423 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,160 Then his father dies. 424 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:57,720 His brothers rejected him. 425 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,760 He's denied inheritance. 426 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,760 They ran him out of the city. 427 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,120 He runs from home. 428 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:04,360 He begins to hang around. 429 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:07,480 The Bible says, worthless people in a place called Tobbe. 430 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,960 And the guy, we would look at it and say, he began gangbanging, but he's kind of like 431 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:11,960 a Robin Hood. 432 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,120 He would steal from the rich and give to the poor. 433 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:20,160 And in the midst of all of that, he's chased out of Gilead, but a neighboring enemy begins 434 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:21,800 to attack Gilead. 435 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,360 So here's how the story goes in Judges 11. 436 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:29,800 While Jeffna is running around with gangbangers and hitting up folks and pulling off heists, 437 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,480 his hometown is being hit by terrorists. 438 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:37,440 So the leaders of the town recognize Jeffna has developed a bit of a reputation as a guy 439 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:43,880 who can fend for himself and a leader of a small group of renegades that they ask him 440 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:45,640 to come back and be a leader. 441 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,720 And here is this thing of resilience. 442 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:52,920 Here's a guy, son of a harlot, illegitimate child, father died, rejected by probably the 443 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,320 same guys who are coming to him now, but he has to make a decision. 444 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,200 And I think resilience always has a trigger event. 445 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,760 Like you don't develop resilience when everything is going great. 446 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,560 You develop resilience in a time of vulnerability. 447 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,800 That's when resiliency is forged. 448 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:13,400 And so for Jeffna to have his bounce back, because we're talking about the art of a bounce 449 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,200 back, he had to learn how to ship to satellite dish. 450 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,360 You can have a hardship, but you can also use it to allow it to take you higher. 451 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:26,200 And in that moment, he chose that in that moment, I could be mad at these people for 452 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:31,880 rejecting me, or I can find purpose in the fact that when they rejected me, I developed 453 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:37,240 a skill set on how to be a leader and how to fight for what matters to me. 454 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,480 Now the rest of the story goes, of course, he goes back, he defeats the enemy, and he 455 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,840 actually becomes a judge. 456 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,640 There's only so many judges in the book of judges. 457 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:52,240 And then the Bible says in Hebrews 11, the time would fail for me to speak of Barak, 458 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,920 Samson, and Jeffna. 459 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,320 So he's mentioned in the faith hall of fame. 460 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:01,520 And I love this because Jeffna's name means to open and to release. 461 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:07,320 So the adversity actually released what was inside of him all along. 462 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:13,400 And his resiliency was the catalyst to release what God had planted in him as a seed. 463 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,040 That is so good. 464 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,840 Listeners, are you catching that truth right there? 465 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,960 What a perfect picture of resiliency in the Word of God. 466 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:21,960 I love that. 467 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,640 Hey, as always, through the Keep It 100 Tribe, I want to shift us to one of my favorite parts 468 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,400 of what we do every episode. 469 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,560 And that is always to give you practical takeaways. 470 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,920 And we call them the Keep It 100 takeaways. 471 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:38,160 And today we want to talk to you about the five ways to tap into your God bounce back. 472 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,120 Number one, be aware that you have a choice. 473 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:42,120 I'm going to say that again. 474 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:46,000 Be aware that you have a choice by knowing you have a choice. 475 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,760 It shifts you from feeling like a victim to being an empowered person. 476 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:50,760 That's good. 477 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:55,120 And what I love about this is just real quickly, even if you don't like the choices that are 478 00:25:55,120 --> 00:26:00,480 available to you at the moment in the circumstances in the midst of uncertainty, even if you only 479 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:06,520 change your attitude, sometimes it's just shifting your attitude that shifts your atmosphere. 480 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:11,840 And by shifting your attitude, you tap into resiliency because you recognize that you 481 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:17,840 may not feel like you have a choice, but friends, you always have a choice and begin to phase 482 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,320 out phrases like, I have no choice or I can't. 483 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,920 And you begin to replace them with, I choose not to. 484 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,760 Take an empowered position. 485 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,960 You are not a victim to uncertainty. 486 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,600 You have a resiliency within you. 487 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:37,720 Number two, second takeaway for our Keep It 100 Tribe is to invite people you trust into 488 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:39,720 your coping process. 489 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,040 I love this. 490 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,640 This is about not isolating and leaning into your community. 491 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,640 So many people when they find themselves, Sean, you, we know this. 492 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,320 We've seen people do this when you're going through hard times. 493 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:51,320 You tend to isolate. 494 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,200 You tend to want to get alone, but nothing could be worse than doing that. 495 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,320 Get your community around you because I know so many times when I'm in uncertainty and 496 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:03,520 I'm not sure and I can feel maybe anxiety or panic or things trying to creep in. 497 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:08,120 I'll bring people that love me, have my best interest in mind that are materialistic. 498 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:12,360 Have my best interest in mind that are mature in their walk with God and I'll process with 499 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:13,360 them what's going on. 500 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:15,720 And they're able to see things from a different perspective. 501 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:20,000 It gets me out of my tunnel vision because when we isolate, we sometimes get out of our 502 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,080 head and I believe God's saying, in order to tap into your resiliency, you got to get 503 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,160 out of your head and into his spirit. 504 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,480 That's so good because I believe that victory always has a vicinity. 505 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,120 Victory never happens in a vacuum. 506 00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:36,280 It's because you're in the vicinity of other people that can encourage you, other people 507 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,320 that have been through and the experience of getting knocked down, but they got back 508 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:40,480 up again. 509 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:44,400 People that have gone through the valleys and they've gone through the storms and they 510 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,440 made it and so they can tell you, hey, just get back up. 511 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:48,440 You could do it. 512 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:49,440 You can make it. 513 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:50,440 You got it in you. 514 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,440 We need people like that. 515 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,760 The third principle is watch your confession and your self-talk. 516 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,760 So many people talk themselves out of coming back. 517 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,600 They talk themselves out. 518 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:05,200 Imagine a coach going in with a team at halftime because they're down and saying, well, guys, 519 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:06,480 you're down. 520 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,320 You've given up too many touchdowns with too many points. 521 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:10,600 We're not going to win this game. 522 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:11,600 You guys are awful. 523 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:12,600 You're sorry. 524 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:13,600 Just stay down. 525 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:14,600 Game's over. 526 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,720 That coach would not have a job. 527 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:17,720 They're gone. 528 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:22,840 But we recognize that sometimes we allow the voice of the wrong coach in our head because 529 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:28,080 we got to understand that the Bible says that the Holy Spirit who is prophetic is a spirit 530 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,800 of encouragement and the thief comes to kill still and destroys. 531 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,800 You have to understand that the right coach needs to speak. 532 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,080 So you have to recognize what is your confession? 533 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:38,440 What are you saying to yourself? 534 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:39,440 It's so good. 535 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,400 If your self-talk is negative, you have to understand that the Bible says that your 536 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,960 tongue is like the rudder on a ship. 537 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:51,800 So if you're always talking negative, your life is going to become shipwrecked in negativity. 538 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,360 So your self-talk needs to be, hey, I'm more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus. 539 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,920 Hey, greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. 540 00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,520 Hey, I'm ahead and not the tail. 541 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,160 Hey, God says I'm righteous. 542 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,280 And if the righteous fall down seven times, that means they're going to get up eight. 543 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:10,000 You have to understand that that attitude of negativity is bringing more stress in your 544 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,680 life so it makes it more difficult for you to get up. 545 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:20,280 And I feel like your verbal confession is connected to your internal atmosphere. 546 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:24,520 Number four is resilient people don't let adversity define them. 547 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,320 And they do it by reframing the experience. 548 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,480 Many times I've had things where things have completely floored me, completely knocked 549 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:36,760 me down, but the way that I've been able to get back up, obviously the answer is Jesus. 550 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:42,440 But in the same way, God always brings a purpose or prophetic promise. 551 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:46,840 And that purpose of prophetic promise becomes a goal that I can move towards. 552 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,880 So it causes me to reframe the experience. 553 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:55,240 And in this thing of resilient people don't let adversity define them, they accept reality, 554 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:56,680 but they're believing for a breakthrough. 555 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:01,720 It's not that they're unrealistic, it's that they have a reality from above and not a reality 556 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,240 that's bound by earth. 557 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:08,480 And in that, they recognize, hey, trials and tribulations may play a part in their story, 558 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,280 but it doesn't have to overtake them permanently. 559 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:15,560 And no matter how bad you feel right now, it won't always feel like this. 560 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:19,840 You'll begin to feel better the moment you say, I'm not going to let the devil have 561 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,960 the final say, I'm not going to let adversity define me. 562 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:24,280 So good. 563 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:30,600 And the fifth way to tap into your God bounce back is to avoid the offense buildup. 564 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,120 Offense builds a case against your bounce back. 565 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:39,040 You're actually giving yourself a reason to stay in a setback when you choose to be offended. 566 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:44,200 And when you think about it, the verbiage of an offense is the narrative of a victim. 567 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:49,000 And when we stay in a place of victim, we're not only disempowering it, but we're giving, 568 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,720 we're empowering the wrong thing, which is offense. 569 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,720 And I believe that your future is so tied to forgiveness. 570 00:30:55,720 --> 00:31:00,720 You and I have to daily walk in forgiveness and refuse to be offended because resiliency 571 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:06,560 is rooted in knowing your heart is clear and free and walking from a place of love, not 572 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:11,120 blame and taking ownership where you need to take ownership, but also letting go where 573 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:12,800 you don't have control. 574 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,920 And I think often when things are uncertain, we want to naturally blame people. 575 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,080 We want to get offended and we're looking for who's fault it is. 576 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:24,120 And in actuality, there may be some external factors that are not anyone's fault or maybe 577 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,280 there are some factors that are very much some people's fault. 578 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:32,120 But regardless, you have to guard your heart and refuse to allow offense to become your 579 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:33,120 narrative. 580 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,240 I think it's so true and even back to Jeffna. 581 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,600 If Jeffna doesn't forgive, his future was tied to forgiveness. 582 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,120 I think it's very much the scene that we see today. 583 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,520 We see that there are people that are angry, whether it's this race against that race, 584 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:50,000 whether it's this political party against that political party, whether it's this side 585 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,760 of the socioeconomic level to that side. 586 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:58,200 And in the midst of it, like Jeffna, maybe our destiny is tied into actually being a 587 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,040 solution and a help towards the people that have hurt us. 588 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:06,320 And I know that's crazy thinking, but it's really kingdom thinking because if Jeffna 589 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:12,280 doesn't forgive those who rejected him, those who cast him off, those who took his inheritance, 590 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,000 he would have never made the faith hall of fame. 591 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:20,560 We would not be talking about Jeffna today, but in that moment when a tragedy hit that 592 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:25,360 nation, he decided to rise up and fight for what's right and God put him in the faith 593 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:26,360 hall of fame. 594 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,840 There may be somebody listening right now that you must avoid the offense buildup because 595 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,240 your destiny is called in being a bridge builder. 596 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,400 And I think obviously we're in this place where my heart is even sad over it, but the 597 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:43,360 actor Chadwick Boseman died and he played Black Panther and he was also a strong follower 598 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:44,360 of Christ. 599 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,320 And he has that classic line in Black Panther. 600 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:52,920 He says, in times of crisis, the foolish build barriers, but the wise build bridges. 601 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:58,080 And your last point is the bridge builders in this season are going to be people that 602 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,160 will not give into offense. 603 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,360 DeHavilland Ford is one of Sean and I's dearest friends. 604 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,600 She's a woman I personally so deeply respect. 605 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:11,320 Her and her husband Will lead the movement 818, The Sign, which is a powerful ministry 606 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,040 focused on racial reconciliation, pro-life and so much more. 607 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:19,320 DeHavilland walks in a profound wisdom and she carries straight fire. 608 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,240 So y'all get ready. 609 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,680 Here's the question Sean and I asked her, what has been the secret to you finding your 610 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,240 God bounce back? 611 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,080 Thank you so much, Christa Smith. 612 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:34,200 You know, when I think about a bounce back or comeback, when I think about my own life 613 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,640 and I've been in situations where it felt impossible, I didn't know how I was going 614 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:45,200 to bounce back from a situation, it was in my times of weakness that God's strength was 615 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:46,840 actually perfected. 616 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,000 You know, oftentimes when we think about somebody who has, who's had a comeback or a bounce 617 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:56,520 back, we picture someone super strong or who's able to overcome every obstacle. 618 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,160 But what I found, it's quite the opposite. 619 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:00,520 It's in my weakness. 620 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:04,280 It's in that place of acknowledging God, you're God and I'm not. 621 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:08,720 And if you don't come through, if you don't break into this situation, I'm not sure how 622 00:34:08,720 --> 00:34:09,960 I'm going to get through. 623 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:15,480 It was in those times where I leaned in to my weakness and leaned into God's strength 624 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,920 that I was able to find the courage to move forward. 625 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:23,920 Oftentimes when we think about a bounce back or comeback, we think that that doesn't involve 626 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,040 fear. 627 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:30,520 But I want to tell you today that sometimes, even in the midst of your fears, God will 628 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:35,040 give you the courage and he'll give you the strength to face your fears, to break through, 629 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,520 to bounce back in every situation. 630 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:44,080 You know, I love the scripture that says that in my weakness, God's strength is perfected. 631 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:48,280 So maybe you're listening to this and you're in a situation where you're not sure how you're 632 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:49,280 going to get through. 633 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,400 You're not sure how you're going to get to the other side, how you're going to bounce 634 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,320 back, how you're going to come back. 635 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,880 But I want to say that you serve a bounce back God. 636 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:03,240 You serve a God who's able to take your pain, your weakness, whatever situation you're in 637 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:06,560 and cause it to work together for your good. 638 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:11,240 And so I just want to encourage you today, God is able to bring you through to the other 639 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:12,240 side. 640 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:17,600 Keep it 100 tribe, grab a hold of this truth today because we believe if you grab a hold 641 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:22,960 of the God bounce back, the supernatural resilience that is available to you, it can shift your 642 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,400 circumstances. 643 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:29,160 Most inform us your attitude, but we want you to know you have a hall of famer in you. 644 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,240 Hey, thanks so much for connecting and tuning in today. 645 00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:36,200 We hope that you 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