Positive Christian Motivation

From Brokenness to Redemption - 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:: 8m
Broadcast on:: 03 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Sometimes I would go off for a walk and I would just quote that scripture over and over to myself. And it took me a while of quoting that scripture to actually believe that scripture could apply to me. I thought it applied to a bunch of other people, but not to me. A whole, a future, I'm damaged, I'm rejected. Some of you just need to know today that God is the God who restores what is broken. We throw away things that are broken. We discard things that have deteriorated because we determine that they no longer have value, all right? Not with God. God loves broken things and broken people because God will take broken things and broken people and mend those things and make them whole and reclaim them for His glory that those things and those people might live according to His grand purposes for their lives. But the fact is God can only use broken things. God can only use broken hearts, hearts that are humble before Him. There was a revivalist, an author by the name of Dr. Vance Habner who once said, and I quote, "God uses broken things. "It takes broken soil to produce a crop, "broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, "broken bread to give strength. "It is the broken alabaster box "that gives forth perfume. "It is Peter weeping bitterly "who returns to great power than ever." Close quote. And it's so true that broken heart God can use. God uses broken people, why? Because broken people are humble and He resists the proud but He gives grace to the humble. God uses broken people. He bestows upon our brokenness His grace and His mercy, His patience and His kindness. Here's the thing I've learned about life. Either accept the seasons over or cry about the rest of your life. But when the season's done, the season's done, you gotta be okay with it. You gotta know that God has a bigger plan. God knows what He's doing. Even when it doesn't make sense to us. Don't go on the past. See, I'm doing a new thing. He goes on and says, "It's just begun." I've already done, I'm already starting. I'm already in the middle of a new thing. God's saying, "I'm already there, you might as well join me." But you're still over here crying over what's lost. You know what I've learned to do in my life, by the way? Don't focus on who left, focus on who stayed. Don't focus on what's lost, focus on what's left. We gotta learn to do that. Revelation 21 says this, "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. "There will be no more death or mourning or crying "or pain for the old order of things has passed away. "He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new." My favorite line's Jesus. He said, "I'm making everything new. "There's a reason I'm going through this. "I'm making everything new." When God comes in to renovate, He comes in to knock down the old stuff that He might create something new. With heaven before you, the best is always yet to come. Heaven is still before us, amen? Stop feeling sorry for yourself. God can restore the years even that you've wasted. He can restore the years at the local of Eden. You can't do anything about yesterday, but you can start right now today. It's the first day of the rest of your life in Christ always because of His great mercy and His grace toward us. God can recover all of that. Doesn't mean that your spouse may come back to you or all of this, but God can still use all things. Romans 8, 28, if you would turn to Him, He works all things out for good to those who love God, who are called according to His purpose. And God is calling you today. But you will know that He is God and there is no other God. When God creates something beautiful out of ashes, and God does something wonderful, does something out of nothing in my life. - There was one American artist that noted that when the Japanese men'd broken things, that oftentimes they will aggrandize the damage done to that thing by filling in the cracks of the broken object with gold. Interesting. They would fill in the cracks with gold because they say when something has been damaged, now it has a history and now it's more valuable. It's more beautiful. I love that thought. - You see, God is in the business of using broken people, lost people, lame people. He's in the business of taking them and changing them and teaching them how to fish for people, to find those lost souls who want to be found, who are ready to change their life. - You might be thinking my brokenness and my experiences and my trials disqualify me. When you commit your life to Christ, those things can be used by the Lord to reach others. The Lord uses the broken to reach the broken. Second Corinthians one, four. God comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others with the same comfort we receive from God. God uses our pain to help others. God does not want you to waste a hurt. - This isn't Second Corinthians one versus three. The God of all comfort comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. God's people are so powerful. People ask me sometimes, where is God in all this? Whenever a tragedy happens, I'll have people say, "Where is God in all this?" And I'll always smile and say, "He's in all the people around you right now helping you." That's where God is in all this. You know, it's interesting too. It says here that the God of all comfort comforts us and it says so we can then do what? We can comfort others with the same comfort we ourselves receive. What that's saying is that whatever pain you've gone through, God never wastes a pain. He doesn't do that, he recycles it. So whatever you go through, you'll eventually be able to help someone else go through it. In fact, some of you are going through something right now and the only thing that's gonna get you through it is knowing that one day I will help other people go through what I'm going through. God is able to mend broken hearts, broken homes, broken hopes, broken health, broken joy. It doesn't matter what it is. Jesus came to heal broken people, amen? How many of us would be included in that promise? We're all broken, we're all dysfunctional and I'm so thankful for the goodness of the gospel that He heals us and then uses us to help other broken people. (dramatic music) (dramatic music)