"SUPERNATURAL RESILIENCY: The Art of Getting Your Bounce Back" S1 Ep9

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2020 has fundamentally disrupted our lives and society as a whole.

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We will never go back to a pre-March 17th life.

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We are more vulnerable now than we have ever been before, but maybe we are more powerful

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than we can imagine.

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To survive and thrive in this new abnormal, you have to bounce back differently.

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Those who make gains versus those who experience losses will be evaluated by how quickly they

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are pivoted.

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In this crucial episode, we will cover the indispensable topic, supernatural resiliency,

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the art of getting your bounce back.

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And stay tuned to the end as we give you five ways to tap into your God bounce back.

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We have a surprise guest, Wisdom Window and a giveaway contest with instructions at the

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end.

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Welcome to Keep It 100 Podcast with Sean and Christa Smith.

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Join us in this space where we take on real issues with real insight under real inspiration.

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This podcast is for those not looking for temporary relief to change circumstance, but

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revelation to forever change lives.

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Hey everybody, welcome to Keep It 100.

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I'm Sean and I'm Christa.

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We are super pumped to bring you this episode.

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We believe that this will be one that will be memorable.

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I know.

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I'm so excited about this topic because I feel like it's so needed for right now.

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You know, I don't know about you, Sean, but I was looking at different words and I like

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to sometimes look in the urban dictionary at current slang or a new verbage because

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the world is ever evolving, technology is ever evolving, so we get new verbage all the

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time and I'm curious about it.

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Have you ever heard of the word techspectation?

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Before you know.

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You heard it from me.

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I heard it from you.

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Okay, okay.

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Because I thought it was such a great word.

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Techspectation, many of our Keep It 100 tribe, they'll know exactly what I mean when I explain

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the definition.

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The definition of techspectation is those three little dots after you send a text message

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and you're waiting for the response of the text you just sent.

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You know those three little dots?

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Oh, totally.

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Right?

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And then if you're having kind of an intense or maybe a vulnerable conversation, the three

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dots appear and then they go away.

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It's like, oh my gosh, like, are we okay?

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Are we good?

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You know, techspectation, it's the anticipation one feels when waiting for a text message.

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It's hilarious, right?

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So what I think was thinking about in this current season, we have been in such a crazy

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time.

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These last five months have just been so unpredictable, known whatever we called it.

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And we have to learn sometimes new words or we take some old words that take on new meanings.

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So let me give you some examples.

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Come on, bring it to us.

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So we've heard the word shelter in place.

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Now I know that I knew each of those words meant separately, but you put them together.

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Or actually had to look that up to find out what does that mean, shelter in place, right?

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Boo.

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We're so tired of shelter in place.

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And then second set of words that we've heard and become so familiar to the whole COVID

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and everything we've been in is quarantine social distancing.

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I don't like that one.

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As you well know, I'm normally an affectionate person.

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Right?

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But now it's awkward to walk up to people and like, can we hug?

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Can we handshake?

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Not right.

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What can we do?

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Where are you at?

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Some of these people become germaphos, but I seen y'all kissing your dog.

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You can't pass me some of your germaphob on me.

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Right?

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It's so interesting.

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And then one of the best examples of this at this time is the verbage essential and

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non-essential.

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True.

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Right?

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Everything became so about is this essential or not essential?

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And then there was a period of time where we were having to evaluate what was considered

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essential.

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And what was really hilarious if you actually look at it, we can all agree food, water was

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clearly important to Americans and what became surprisingly important to Americans was toilet

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paper.

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I mean, I remember when we came back, there was no toilet paper.

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I had to call Costco and actually go stand in line at eight in the morning to get a toilet

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paper, which was crazy.

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That was apocletic.

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It was.

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And so we focused so much in this time about what is essential and non-essential.

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And I don't know about you, but for me, it was like the salons couldn't open up fast enough

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because I was like, hello, my roots need to get done.

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And I know that might sound vain, but girl, I mean, I am a girl that wants to have her

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stuff handled.

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And so that quarantine for a hot minute was brutal because, you know, there were girls

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walking around with unibrow's and we're all looking each other going, we feel you sister,

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because there was like, who's going to do your waxing?

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I mean, you know, thank God we had a mass sometimes because some of our mustaches were

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like creeping out, you know, I'm serious.

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Okay, you know, the reality is we're talking about, we had such a focus on what's physically

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essential, but today we want to talk about the most important essentials and that's what's

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spiritually essential because there's been so much focus on the practicals.

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The spirituals actually are more important.

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Yes, I agree with you.

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Spiritual essential.

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I tell you what's spiritually essential right now is this word and the meat of what we're

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wanting to bring to our Keep Your 100 Tribe, it is the word resiliency.

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It's interesting because in Act 17, Paul quoted a secular poet to illustrate a spiritual

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truth.

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So I'm going to follow Paul's lead on that.

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I like it.

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I'm about to quote Tupac, y'all.

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Tupac was not just a hip hop artist, but he was also a poet and Tupac had a poem that

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was called The Rose That Grew in the Concrete and it's particularly fond in my heart because

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he saw this rose in Oakland, California, y'all.

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As he was talking about this rose, he thought it was interesting.

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He grew up where it didn't have any soil hardly.

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The concrete was merged together.

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It was just a crack in the concrete.

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There wasn't other flowers around it that could have helped given it shade or anything

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like that.

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And so he looked at this rose that grew up out of the concrete and he wrote this poem

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and what he alluded to in his poem is that the seed must grow regardless of the fact

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that it's planted in stone.

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And I think this whole poem is a metaphor for resiliency because I believe that God

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puts something in the seed of who we are as sons and daughters of the most high that

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allow us to be more prepared for the tragedies, trials, and tribulations that hit us.

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God puts the seed inside of us of a comeback even before we step into a setback.

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To define resiliency, it's really to understand that life is full of trials and those trials

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carrying experience that can set you back.

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And your ability to bounce back is resiliency.

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Resilience comes from a Latin word, which literally means to recoil.

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And we're talking about resiliency.

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We're talking about the ability to spring forth or come back.

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And I think the scripture of all scriptures for this topic is Proverbs 24-16 that says,

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Though a righteous man falls seven times, yet shall he rise again.

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I love that because the concrete represents hard circumstances, hard ground, and we can

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all agree this has been such a hard ground time.

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This has been difficult circumstances.

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It's not easy to grow in the midst of trials and tribulations.

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And we're seeing people have such a struggle at this current time.

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We're five months deep into where we're at.

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And we don't know when all of this is going to end, when life is going to get back to

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normal.

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There is not a timeline on that.

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And so we're seeing some real deficiencies in people's ability to cope right now.

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Online gambling is up.

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Alcohol sales are up.

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Pornography online sales are up.

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Domestic violence, unfortunately, is up.

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Divorce rates are up.

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So all of these breakdowns and people's ability to cope and to deal with uncertainty is so

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clear because people have lost their resiliency.

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And I believe that when we are in uncertain times, it triggers a search for what is security,

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what stability.

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But what we have to understand is when we have God in our lives, we have the God bounce

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back, which we're calling the God bounce back is our resiliency.

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And it's our resiliency that gets triggered when we face uncertainty.

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And so when we lack certainty, that is our opportunity to build the resiliency.

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When we go through hard times.

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It shows us really what our life is built on.

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And I believe this moment currently where we're at COVID-19 and all the other stuff

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we're dealing with, this is the moment that's calling for supernatural resiliency.

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This isn't just sheer will.

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This is getting your God bounce back.

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And psychologists tell us that resilience is the process of adapting well in the face

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of adversity, trauma and tragedy.

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Another definition is an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.

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Another one is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and toughness.

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You see, I think so many of us have lost our resiliency or maybe some people never fully

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matured or developed it.

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But here's the cool thing about resiliency.

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And it's something I kind of want to bring to the table today.

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When I studied it out, you studied it out.

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We found out that resiliency is actually something you can learn.

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So everyone can learn to become resilient.

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That's true.

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They actually did a study with young kids and they found out that the difference between

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young kids with resiliency and without it, it was as psychologists would term it, the

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lotus of control, which is a sophisticated way of saying the kids that develop resiliency

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believed that they can make choices to come back from whatever tough circumstance they

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faced.

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I love that.

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We're believing that you are empowered to make choices and we know in Christ we're empowered

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to make decisions that can alter our destiny.

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You know what I love, Sean, is you are such for me a picture of resiliency.

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Your life and people know parts of your story.

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I know all of your story and you have dealt with a lot of adversity, personal loss, tragedy,

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and yet you do not carry a fragrance of any victim.

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You are genuinely joyful, genuinely happy, like you are so full of the love, the kindness,

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and the peace of God.

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And that's because God does such a work in you.

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But to me, I've asked you so many times, how are you so resilient?

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So I would love for you to share with the Keep It 100 Tribe, what is a story that you saw

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where you had to consciously tap into the God resiliency in your life?

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Back when I was in college and people that have listened to our earlier podcast on origin

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stories that they would have recognized that I got saved on a college campus, right after

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I got saved, I completed my degree and I was offered a position at Intel in Silicon Valley,

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San Jose, California to work as an engineer.

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But in that time, God gave me a series of visions about the call of God in my life and

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so I said yes to God.

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So when I said yes, I joined an internship, I was the first class of internship to train

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for campus ministry.

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In that process, there was one other gal, there's actually two other gals in our internship

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and one other guy.

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One of the gals I developed a relationship with and we got engaged.

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I spent like at that time my entire savings to get the wedding ring.

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And so in the process of that, all of a sudden in the midst of starting my internship in

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the very first week, my fiance gives me the ring back and says, I can't do this.

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So this engagement breaks up with the girl that I thought I was going to build my future

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with.

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So that same week, my last living grandparent passed that I was close to.

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And then on top of that, my own mom, not approving of the decision I was making by not accepting

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the position to Silicon Valley, but essentially in her eyes, taking a vow of poverty by going

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into ministry, she disowned me, which I might mention to our listeners temporarily.

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And at that time she didn't know the Lord.

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She has since come to know the Lord and she's very proud of what her son does.

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But in the midst of it, I felt like my entire bottom fell out.

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I was not anticipating this.

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I thought when I said yes to God, I remember in prayer time saying God, I said, yes.

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I didn't say no.

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I thought when I said yes, everything would work out great.

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But in fact, all HE double hockey sticks broke out.

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And I remember every day I'd have to get up and we'd have our quiet time with the other

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interns in different parts of the church.

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So I would see my ex fiance every single day and it goes through entire internship.

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And she and I had a partner with the ministry that was on the campus.

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So I literally cried so much that I a rash formed down my face.

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And many times my prayer was simply just saying Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

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And I remember the other, I later found out the other interns were talking amongst each

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other, we don't think Sean's going to make it.

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We don't think Sean's going to make it.

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But in that time, something began to happen inside of me.

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And that thing that happened inside of me was that God began to put His purpose, His

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strength, His grace upon me.

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And day by day, I felt myself getting stronger.

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And I knew this quitting was not an option.

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Somehow some way I'm going to get through this thing because God has a purpose on my

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life and I'm going to fight for my destiny.

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And so in that, I learned Christa, three principles or characteristics of resilient people.

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The first thing I recognize is that resilient people anticipate that there will be valleys

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and storms.

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So true.

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Resilient people also have perspective on problems because the problem is not that there

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is a problem.

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The problem is thinking that having problems is a problem.

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Jesus said, in this life, you will have tribulation, but take courage.

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I have overcome the world.

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And Isaiah the prophet says in Isaiah 10, 27, that on account of the anointing, the

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yoke will be destroyed.

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And so as you are the anointed, you have to know that you will encounter yokes, meaning

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obstacles that you are called to be the solution to.

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The second point about resilient people is that resilient people identify what is under

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their control and what isn't.

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There's some things that are out of your control and you could spend the rest of your life

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spinning out of control over what's not in your control.

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can make.

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And I began to realize that I had control over my attitude.

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I had to encourage people in their walk while I felt at that point in time, discouraged,

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that I could identify what was under my control.

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And the third thing I discovered about resilient people is they recognize they can transform

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their pain into power.

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And I believe that although I felt a level of pain, it actually empowered me to minister

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to the people that I was called to.

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Because there are a lot of people that go through life where maybe in this season we're

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at, they have unexpected illness, financial woes, situations going on with close friends

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of family members, maybe even an internal struggle, they can't even begin to articulate.

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But now I feel like having gone through that, God turned that pain into power or another

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way of saying it, He can turn your adversity into ministry.

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Now Christy, I know you got a story.

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What is your story?

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Can I just tell you before I jump into my story that although my heart hurts, that you went

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through the pain that you went through with the breaking up of that engagement, can I

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just tell you that I am so grateful that you didn't get married to her because I got you?

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Amen, amen.

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That was the will of the Lord.

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My story.

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I love that question.

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My story.

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You know, I was reminded of a story when I came back from Australia and I had all these

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prophetic words and I had actually even had a job offer over in Australia to stay there

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and work there and be a part of a great organization.

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But I prayed about, and the Lord said, you're called to the U.S.

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So I moved back to the U.S. with all this expectation, unfulfilled prophetic words that I believed

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were going to come to pass and I was a part of a church plant in the San Francisco Bay

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area that was just a volunteer position.

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There was nothing paid, but I had all these hopes and dreams moving back to the Bay.

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I had dreams and words and so I was so excited.

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So I came back in August 2001 and I moved back and I'm in the Bay area and I'm staying

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with my sister and her brother-in-law and they're three little kids and I'm sharing a room with

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my nephew and they're being really gracious, opening up their home to me and I'm praying

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for opportunities and seeing what God wants to do, but I'm believing for a position of

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ministry because that's what I've just come back to school.

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I'd already worked corporate, but I was expecting to go back in to possibly corporate, but my

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heart was to do ministry.

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So I just opened and I was looking for jobs and whatnot.

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And then a very key day happened in America that all of us are forever marked by and that

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was September 11th, 2001.

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So September 11th, 2001 happened and all of the job offers that I did have were taken

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off the table because obviously majority of America and corporations went into job freeze

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because it was totally unpredictable.

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And so in that unpredictability, I found myself sitting at my sister's house in Livermore,

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California, not having a job, moving back from Australia, not sure what's ahead and

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just really unsure about my future.

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And so like anyone that's in California and you don't know why you're there, I did what

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anyone would do and I went back to Oregon.

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I was like, I'm going to get the heck out of California and I went back to where I'm

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from, which is Oregon.

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I met my parents' house this many times with God and God's like, Hey, I didn't call you

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to Oregon.

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I called you to California.

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I called you, but to the bay and he's like, I didn't have you move back from Australia

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so you could come back to Oregon.

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So I call my sister, I ask her, Hey, can I live with you guys?

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They're incredibly gracious and generous and they said, Of course.

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So I drive down, I have nothing, I have no job, no money, 9-11 has taken place.

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No one's hiring.

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I mean, it's like not a great time to be unemployed.

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Actually the worst time to be unemployed.

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And I found myself just in a very uncertain time.

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And then my sister said, Hey, I got a job.

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And of course I'm praying any job, any job.

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And then I get the any job that I'm not excited about.

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You know, when you, you know, we all know you're saying, God use me, I'll do anything.

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And then the anything comes, you're like, That actually wasn't on my list.

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I actually don't want to do that.

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And the reality is it wasn't a bad job, but because it didn't meet my expectation, right?

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So I found myself working at a mortgage broker firm and the people were wonderful, but my

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heart wasn't in it.

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But I found myself in this place of day in and day out.

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What I viewed was kind of a mundane job.

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And I remember having this come to Jesus moment where he was like, Your heart's not in this

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job.

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And either you choose to embrace this because I was not a witness to the people around me.

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I was not an example of a great employee.

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I was not owning the opportunity.

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And all I wanted to do was get out of there and get on with my life and start fulfilling

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the prophetic words that I prophesied.

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And I wasn't honoring or stewarding what was given in my hand because I didn't like it.

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And we often don't steward what we don't like.

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But the truth is God sometimes allows things we don't like into our life to develop our

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character and to develop us.

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I had an aha moment when my boss called me to a higher place.

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I'll leave that story for another day, but it's the first time I'd ever been confronted

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by a boss and in Jesus name the last time that I'll be confronted by a boss.

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But I had a come to Jesus moment where the Lord said, You can stop hating where you're

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at and start embracing the assignment in your hand.

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And it was in that moment, Sean, where I really just begin to lean into what God had for me.

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And I found myself for a year, if not a little bit more sleeping on a couch, sharing a room

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with my 10 month old nephew, working on what I viewed as a mundane job, nothing I was passionate

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about just serving the local church.

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No opportunities were happening.

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The church plant that I was a part of, the group fell apart.

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I mean, everything that I moved back from Australia didn't exist.

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And I found myself in a completely contradicting wilderness time.

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And yet the rest of the story is at the end of the year and a half working there.

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Then I got an opportunity.

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It was my first opportunity to run a school of ministry here in the Bay Area.

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And I was given my first position in ministry.

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And from that point on, every door began to open that I walked in and now I pastor, or

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I pastor for years and now I tinerate with you.

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And I get to do what I call, what's called to do.

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And I get to do what I love and what I was created to do.

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But it all came from staying the course in an assignment.

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I didn't like, I remember day in and day out choosing to honor God because I knew although

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I didn't like it, I was still smack dab in the middle of his will.

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And here's the reality.

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You know, so many of us, because we're in opposite circumstances of what we like, if

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we don't kick into our resiliency, we'll kick into our setback.

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That's right.

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And it's so true because, Kristin, so many people sit back in their setback.

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Ooh.

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And I think it was a metaphor.

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That's so good.

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That here you were on the couch.

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Yes.

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You know, sort of speaking.

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So many people, you could see them just eating hog and doze, torquing out, watching their

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movie subscription streams.

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But you decided, no, I'm going to get up, I'm going to work.

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You went back home to Oregon, but you said, no, I'm going to get back to the place where

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I'm called.

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And you did a great example that you didn't let the little things become big things.

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That's right.

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You kept perspective.

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Sharing a room with a 10 month old.

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You know?

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And you're right.

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It was just, everything about it was out of my comfort zone.

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Everything about it I didn't like, although of course, I love my family, but it was so

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opposite of what I thought.

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And we can so bounce and we're like, hey, this isn't what I signed up for.

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But yet if we stick it through and we kick into the resiliency of, you know what God

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called me here and I'm going to see it through till I see the God promise, that's when the

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good stuff kicks in.

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And sometimes we bail too early to see the good stuff.

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Yes.

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You have a great scripture you were talking about before in Psalms.

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Why don't you share that with our Keeper 100 Child?

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You know, this has been a really a life scripture for me.

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I think because just through the valleys of life and through the unpredictable storms,

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we walk through so many of those in life.

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And one of my life scriptures, which I think so connects with resiliency is Psalm 125, one

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and two.

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It's out of the passion translation, which is one of my personal favorite translations.

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It says, those who trust in the Lord are as unshakable as mighty Mount Zion, just as

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the mountains surrounded Jerusalem, so the Lord's wraparound presence surrounds his

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people protecting them now and forever.

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I find such comfort in that knowing God creates a resiliency.

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His presence is my cloak of resiliency because he protects me now and forever.

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Love that.

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And the word that jumps out is I love that those who trust in the Lord are unshakable.

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That's it.

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There's the resiliency, trusting God.

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And I think about unshakable, I think about a character in the Bible that he had the most

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inauspicious beginnings, but yet this guy would make Hebrews 11, the Faith Hall of Fame.

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And his name is Jeffna.

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Now, Jeffna in Judges 11, I told you that he made Hebrews 11, but his origin story

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is in Judges 11.

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We find out that Jeffna is the son of a harlot.

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He is an illegitimate child.

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Then his father dies.

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His brothers rejected him.

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He's denied inheritance.

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They ran him out of the city.

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He runs from home.

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He begins to hang around.

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The Bible says, worthless people in a place called Tobbe.

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And the guy, we would look at it and say, he began gangbanging, but he's kind of like

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a Robin Hood.

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He would steal from the rich and give to the poor.

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And in the midst of all of that, he's chased out of Gilead, but a neighboring enemy begins

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to attack Gilead.

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So here's how the story goes in Judges 11.

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While Jeffna is running around with gangbangers and hitting up folks and pulling off heists,

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his hometown is being hit by terrorists.

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So the leaders of the town recognize Jeffna has developed a bit of a reputation as a guy

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who can fend for himself and a leader of a small group of renegades that they ask him

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to come back and be a leader.

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And here is this thing of resilience.

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Here's a guy, son of a harlot, illegitimate child, father died, rejected by probably the

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same guys who are coming to him now, but he has to make a decision.

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And I think resilience always has a trigger event.

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Like you don't develop resilience when everything is going great.

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You develop resilience in a time of vulnerability.

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That's when resiliency is forged.

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And so for Jeffna to have his bounce back, because we're talking about the art of a bounce

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back, he had to learn how to ship to satellite dish.

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You can have a hardship, but you can also use it to allow it to take you higher.

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And in that moment, he chose that in that moment, I could be mad at these people for

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rejecting me, or I can find purpose in the fact that when they rejected me, I developed

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a skill set on how to be a leader and how to fight for what matters to me.

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Now the rest of the story goes, of course, he goes back, he defeats the enemy, and he

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actually becomes a judge.

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There's only so many judges in the book of judges.

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And then the Bible says in Hebrews 11, the time would fail for me to speak of Barak,

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Samson, and Jeffna.

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So he's mentioned in the faith hall of fame.

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And I love this because Jeffna's name means to open and to release.

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So the adversity actually released what was inside of him all along.

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And his resiliency was the catalyst to release what God had planted in him as a seed.

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That is so good.

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Listeners, are you catching that truth right there?

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What a perfect picture of resiliency in the Word of God.

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I love that.

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Hey, as always, through the Keep It 100 Tribe, I want to shift us to one of my favorite parts

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of what we do every episode.

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And that is always to give you practical takeaways.

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And we call them the Keep It 100 takeaways.

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And today we want to talk to you about the five ways to tap into your God bounce back.

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Number one, be aware that you have a choice.

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I'm going to say that again.

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Be aware that you have a choice by knowing you have a choice.

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It shifts you from feeling like a victim to being an empowered person.

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That's good.

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And what I love about this is just real quickly, even if you don't like the choices that are

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available to you at the moment in the circumstances in the midst of uncertainty, even if you only

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change your attitude, sometimes it's just shifting your attitude that shifts your atmosphere.

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And by shifting your attitude, you tap into resiliency because you recognize that you

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may not feel like you have a choice, but friends, you always have a choice and begin to phase

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out phrases like, I have no choice or I can't.

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And you begin to replace them with, I choose not to.

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Take an empowered position.

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You are not a victim to uncertainty.

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You have a resiliency within you.

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Number two, second takeaway for our Keep It 100 Tribe is to invite people you trust into

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your coping process.

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I love this.

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This is about not isolating and leaning into your community.

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So many people when they find themselves, Sean, you, we know this.

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We've seen people do this when you're going through hard times.

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You tend to isolate.

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You tend to want to get alone, but nothing could be worse than doing that.

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Get your community around you because I know so many times when I'm in uncertainty and

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I'm not sure and I can feel maybe anxiety or panic or things trying to creep in.

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I'll bring people that love me, have my best interest in mind that are materialistic.

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Have my best interest in mind that are mature in their walk with God and I'll process with

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them what's going on.

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And they're able to see things from a different perspective.

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It gets me out of my tunnel vision because when we isolate, we sometimes get out of our

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head and I believe God's saying, in order to tap into your resiliency, you got to get

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out of your head and into his spirit.

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That's so good because I believe that victory always has a vicinity.

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Victory never happens in a vacuum.

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It's because you're in the vicinity of other people that can encourage you, other people

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that have been through and the experience of getting knocked down, but they got back

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up again.

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People that have gone through the valleys and they've gone through the storms and they

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made it and so they can tell you, hey, just get back up.

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You could do it.

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You can make it.

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You got it in you.

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We need people like that.

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The third principle is watch your confession and your self-talk.

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So many people talk themselves out of coming back.

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They talk themselves out.

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Imagine a coach going in with a team at halftime because they're down and saying, well, guys,

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you're down.

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You've given up too many touchdowns with too many points.

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We're not going to win this game.

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You guys are awful.

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You're sorry.

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Just stay down.

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Game's over.

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That coach would not have a job.

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They're gone.

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But we recognize that sometimes we allow the voice of the wrong coach in our head because

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we got to understand that the Bible says that the Holy Spirit who is prophetic is a spirit

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of encouragement and the thief comes to kill still and destroys.

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You have to understand that the right coach needs to speak.

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So you have to recognize what is your confession?

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What are you saying to yourself?

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It's so good.

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If your self-talk is negative, you have to understand that the Bible says that your

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tongue is like the rudder on a ship.

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So if you're always talking negative, your life is going to become shipwrecked in negativity.

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So your self-talk needs to be, hey, I'm more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus.

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Hey, greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world.

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Hey, I'm ahead and not the tail.

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Hey, God says I'm righteous.

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And if the righteous fall down seven times, that means they're going to get up eight.

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You have to understand that that attitude of negativity is bringing more stress in your

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life so it makes it more difficult for you to get up.

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And I feel like your verbal confession is connected to your internal atmosphere.

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Number four is resilient people don't let adversity define them.

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And they do it by reframing the experience.

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Many times I've had things where things have completely floored me, completely knocked

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me down, but the way that I've been able to get back up, obviously the answer is Jesus.

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But in the same way, God always brings a purpose or prophetic promise.

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And that purpose of prophetic promise becomes a goal that I can move towards.

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So it causes me to reframe the experience.

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And in this thing of resilient people don't let adversity define them, they accept reality,

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but they're believing for a breakthrough.

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It's not that they're unrealistic, it's that they have a reality from above and not a reality

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that's bound by earth.

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And in that, they recognize, hey, trials and tribulations may play a part in their story,

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but it doesn't have to overtake them permanently.

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And no matter how bad you feel right now, it won't always feel like this.

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You'll begin to feel better the moment you say, I'm not going to let the devil have

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the final say, I'm not going to let adversity define me.

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So good.

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And the fifth way to tap into your God bounce back is to avoid the offense buildup.

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Offense builds a case against your bounce back.

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You're actually giving yourself a reason to stay in a setback when you choose to be offended.

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And when you think about it, the verbiage of an offense is the narrative of a victim.

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And when we stay in a place of victim, we're not only disempowering it, but we're giving,

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we're empowering the wrong thing, which is offense.

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And I believe that your future is so tied to forgiveness.

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You and I have to daily walk in forgiveness and refuse to be offended because resiliency

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is rooted in knowing your heart is clear and free and walking from a place of love, not

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blame and taking ownership where you need to take ownership, but also letting go where

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you don't have control.

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And I think often when things are uncertain, we want to naturally blame people.

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We want to get offended and we're looking for who's fault it is.

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And in actuality, there may be some external factors that are not anyone's fault or maybe

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there are some factors that are very much some people's fault.

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But regardless, you have to guard your heart and refuse to allow offense to become your

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narrative.

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I think it's so true and even back to Jeffna.

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If Jeffna doesn't forgive, his future was tied to forgiveness.

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I think it's very much the scene that we see today.

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We see that there are people that are angry, whether it's this race against that race,

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whether it's this political party against that political party, whether it's this side

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of the socioeconomic level to that side.

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And in the midst of it, like Jeffna, maybe our destiny is tied into actually being a

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solution and a help towards the people that have hurt us.

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And I know that's crazy thinking, but it's really kingdom thinking because if Jeffna

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doesn't forgive those who rejected him, those who cast him off, those who took his inheritance,

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he would have never made the faith hall of fame.

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We would not be talking about Jeffna today, but in that moment when a tragedy hit that

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nation, he decided to rise up and fight for what's right and God put him in the faith

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hall of fame.

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There may be somebody listening right now that you must avoid the offense buildup because

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your destiny is called in being a bridge builder.

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And I think obviously we're in this place where my heart is even sad over it, but the

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actor Chadwick Boseman died and he played Black Panther and he was also a strong follower

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of Christ.

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And he has that classic line in Black Panther.

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He says, in times of crisis, the foolish build barriers, but the wise build bridges.

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And your last point is the bridge builders in this season are going to be people that

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will not give into offense.

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DeHavilland Ford is one of Sean and I's dearest friends.

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She's a woman I personally so deeply respect.

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Her and her husband Will lead the movement 818, The Sign, which is a powerful ministry

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focused on racial reconciliation, pro-life and so much more.

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DeHavilland walks in a profound wisdom and she carries straight fire.

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So y'all get ready.

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Here's the question Sean and I asked her, what has been the secret to you finding your

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God bounce back?

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Thank you so much, Christa Smith.

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You know, when I think about a bounce back or comeback, when I think about my own life

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and I've been in situations where it felt impossible, I didn't know how I was going

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to bounce back from a situation, it was in my times of weakness that God's strength was

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actually perfected.

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You know, oftentimes when we think about somebody who has, who's had a comeback or a bounce

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back, we picture someone super strong or who's able to overcome every obstacle.

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But what I found, it's quite the opposite.

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It's in my weakness.

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It's in that place of acknowledging God, you're God and I'm not.

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And if you don't come through, if you don't break into this situation, I'm not sure how

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I'm going to get through.

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It was in those times where I leaned in to my weakness and leaned into God's strength

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that I was able to find the courage to move forward.

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Oftentimes when we think about a bounce back or comeback, we think that that doesn't involve

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fear.

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But I want to tell you today that sometimes, even in the midst of your fears, God will

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give you the courage and he'll give you the strength to face your fears, to break through,

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to bounce back in every situation.

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You know, I love the scripture that says that in my weakness, God's strength is perfected.

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So maybe you're listening to this and you're in a situation where you're not sure how you're

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going to get through.

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You're not sure how you're going to get to the other side, how you're going to bounce

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back, how you're going to come back.

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But I want to say that you serve a bounce back God.

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You serve a God who's able to take your pain, your weakness, whatever situation you're in

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and cause it to work together for your good.

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And so I just want to encourage you today, God is able to bring you through to the other

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side.

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Keep it 100 tribe, grab a hold of this truth today because we believe if you grab a hold

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of the God bounce back, the supernatural resilience that is available to you, it can shift your

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circumstances.

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Most inform us your attitude, but we want you to know you have a hall of famer in you.

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