Positive Christian Motivation

Walking Through Life's Challenges and Rising - Powerful Christian Motivation

Make God's word your ultimate source of daily motivation as you tune in to this impactful episode filled with motivational messages, empowering life advice, inspiring teachings, and stories. Enjoy this remarkable blend of spiritual insights and empowering inspiration that motivates you to become the best version of yourself and nourishes your spiritual connection with God.

Duration:: 13m
Broadcast on:: 07 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Remember of TIC, certain restrictions apply. - How many you got children? When your children were babies, they crawled around. And then one day, miraculously, for the first time ever, they stood up on their own two feet. What were the exact next thing they did? Fell down, but not one of you said, oh, stay there, baby. Did you? What did you say? Get up, come to mommy, come to daddy and baby, get up and fall down. And you say, do it again. And take a few steps, get up and fall down. And you say, do it again. Now, sometimes the baby fell on their back sides. But sometimes the baby fell on their face. And you not only allowed them to fall on their face, you encouraged them to do it again. 'Cause you knew if they never fell and got up, they never learned how to walk. They never fell and got up. They never learned how to run. They never fell and got up. They never learned how to maximize their potential. But some of us in this room today have fallen down. Oh, we've been knocked down and life has not been fair. And we've stayed in that down position. And I'm saying to you today, it's time to get up and fly like you were born to fly. A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback. - No doubt there are many people in this room and you need a comeback. It could be in your family. It could be physically. It could involve the area of finances. There are some here today and you need a relational comeback. Some need an emotional comeback. Maybe it's a habit or an addiction. You need to break and you've tried and you don't have the power and you don't have the ability and you need a comeback. Maybe there are some of you and you've been told you're not gonna make it. You can't make it. There's a God who can bring about a comeback. - God is planning your comeback. He's planning your comeback. No matter how pessimistic, no matter how negative it looks today, you're going to come back. It's a time of the comeback. It's time to get up off the mat if you've been knocked down, if you've been through something, if you've been through financial setback or some kind of terrible thing has hit you in your health and are something's happened to your family, we need to believe that it's time for a comeback. It's no time to quit. It's no time to give up. It's no time to moan and groan. I'll bring you out with great substance. They're not just gonna come back, but they're gonna pick up stuff through the experience that they go through that I'll turn around and use for my glory. They're coming back with great substance. We may be down, but we're not out because we serve a comeback God. And I want you to know the attitude of our God is I'm not gonna give up on anybody. The power of the Holy Spirit, I preached it when I'm on top of the world and I preached it when I've hit rock bottom and I still believe that I serve a God who can give every family a comeback, every marriage a comeback, every situation, every drug addict, every alcoholic, you can have a comeback. You've been through hell, you messed up, you did something you shouldn't have done. It's time for a comeback at the scent of water. The Bible said there is a river whose streams shall make glad again. That's the river of the Holy Spirit. And if you can get a scent of that river while I'm preaching, God can orchestrate your comeback. There's a river flowing that the dead can come to life again. The out can get in again. Well, I had the chance and I blew it. Well, this is your comeback and the out can get in again. The down can get up again. The depressed can dance again. It's time for a comeback. 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King Supers, fresh for everyone, prices and product availability subject to change, restrictions apply. See site for details. - When you have a pity party, nobody brings gifts and nobody shows up but the devil. He's the only one who wants to come. So what do you do? You grab hold of the promises of God and say, you know what? I wish I wouldn't have gone through that but I'm coming out with great substance. I'm coming out with something I didn't have and I'm gonna know how to be used even greater of God because everything I went through. God is a God that makes a way of return, a comeback. And it's time for you to experience the spirit of a comeback. - Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times. He also hit 714 home runs but he failed almost twice as much as he succeeded. And on and on we can go reminding ourselves of comeback stories. I hope that you have a comeback in Christ today. As a pastor, I deal with defeat in people's lives constantly. People who are walking through pain and struggle and defeat and discouragement and yes, failure. The all experience failure in life. Now, if you are in Christ, you are not a failure. You may fail but we are more than conquerors to him who loved us. Amen? We are victors, not victims and we have the opportunity always when we fail to come back, when we lose to get up again and get going. That if you are not dead, you're not done. If you are still breathing, there is a life to be lived, a purpose in your life to be fulfilled in Christ. You can rebound, you can recover, you can be restored. Because what I want you to hear today is that it's never too late for a new beginning. Never too late for a new beginning. So don't stare at the past. Don't live your life looking through the rear view mirror, that's dangerous. It's okay to glance at your rear view mirror. Know what's going on to your side or behind you. But don't try to drive your car looking through your rear view mirror. Look through the big screen. The windshield is a lot bigger and hopefully a lot better going forward. We glance at the past but we gaze at our future and our future is in Christ. I love this particular proverb, proverb 24 over 16. It says though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again. But the wicked stumble when calamity strikes. It isn't as exciting though the righteous fall seven times they rise again and we focus on they rise again. But before I focus on that, I started focusing on the part right before that. The righteous are going to fall. And not just once, here he says seven times but it's worse than you think. Because if you know anything about the Bible in the way the Bible uses numbers. The number seven is the number that's used not only when it's a number of completion but it's a number of infinite capacity. So when it says the righteous fall seven times, he's not saying the righteous fall seven times. He says the righteous fall and they fall and they fall and they fall and they fall and they fall and they fall and they will fall. So many times you will not be able to count how many times your righteous fall. God's expecting you to fall and to fail and to lose and to mess up. See if you entrust your life to God and if you choose to follow Jesus, here's the promise you're going to fall. Not just once, not just twice. Not just six or seven times. It's just going to become a part of your life. So get used to it. But they... At Independent Financial, we know you work hard for your business. That's why we work hard for you. With our business high-yield money market account, your business can earn up to 4% annual percentage yield. That means you'll have easy access to your funds while you boost your bottom line. Ready to get started? Visit iffinancial.com/businessmoneymarket today for details. Independent Financial, banking for business, banking for life. Member of TIC, certain restrictions apply. Crys again. See, the difference between the resilient and those who lack resilience is not whether they fail or not. It's actually the differential of one. It's not the differential of 1,000. It's not the differential of 100 or 10. It's just the differential of one. See, it doesn't matter how many times you fall, you just got to get up one more time than you fell. Or no matter how many times you fall, you get up. No matter how many times you lose, you get back on the game. See, you're not defined by your failures. You're not defined by your losses. You're not defined by what has caused you to fall unless you stay there. When you get up, you're now defined by what you overcame. Not what overtook you. The mercies of God are renewed every morning. God gives you a blank sheet. Every day for a new start. No one in this room is perfect. We can live our life without regret. We can live our life without limitation by the power of the Holy Spirit. Without the frustration of what might have been, if only, you need to walk out of your emotional, financial, marital grave. You need to live, love, laugh and be happy. It's time for your comeback. Your life can be an exciting, victorious, triumphant life. If you have failed, and we all have failed, but maybe you're sitting in the middle of a failure right now, maybe you're at a time in your life where you are down and nearly out. You want to quit. You want to run away. Maybe you're thinking about going back to your old life. Go back to the old friends. Go back to the old clubs. Go back to the old junk. Because you've failed so much. You think, "I just can't." Well, guess what? You can't do it, but the power of Christ will restore you and redeem you and renew you. And it is because of His cross and the resurrection, the power of Jesus Christ that we can be forgiven and renewed and restored. The love of Christ, it changes everything. You can't come back without the Father. He loves you. And all He's waiting on is you in this service right now to turn to Him. And you can have a come back. At Independent Financial, we know you work hard for your business. That's why we work hard for you. With our business high-yield money market account, your business can earn up to 4% annual percentage yield. That means you'll have easy access to your funds while you boost your bottom line. Ready to get started? Visit iFinancial.com/businessmoneymarket today for details. Independent Financial, banking for business, banking for life. Member of TIC, certain restrictions apply.