Trust God To Restore It

• Let me give you another word: yet. “I don’t have  it yet. I haven’t found a way to get set free from   this yet. I don’t see how it’s going to work out  yet.” Timing your testimony. Don’t tell it too   early, because you don’t know what God is going to  do in chapter 8. The timing of God is so amazing.
• Every time you tell yourself a story about  the things God did then and bring it into   the presence of what you need him to do now…  He said, “Give her back what belongs to her.”   Say it out loud. “Peace belongs to me. I am  a child of God. Joy belongs to me. I am a   child of God. Freedom is my inheritance. I am a  child of God. I belong because I believe.
• I am a   child of God.” Tell yourself that story.  Preach the gospel to yourself. If Gehazi   can rehearse the great things God has done,  who was a leper and a scoundrel, can’t you? Can you trust God’s timing enough to give him  the mic and believe what he speaks? Though the   vision tarry, wait for it, for it has an  appointed time.
• It’s taking me awhile to   understand God’s timing is created to increase  my trust in him, whether that’s the fourth watch   of the night or whether that’s the fourth day  after I have lost something I love. God gives   you these little gifts. What are yours? Have  you told anybody that part of your story or   are you so consumed with your present struggle  you have stopped rehearsing your past victories?   I know I’ve told you this before, but can  I tell you one thing that happened to me? Do y’all remember me telling you in 2016  how I was on vacation with the family near
• Charleston and went over to the farmers’ market?  Yeah, you know this story. All right. Well, I’m   going to tell it for somebody else. It’s too good  not to tell you. I’m at the farmers’ market with   Holly because she dragged me there. I don’t go to  farmers’ markets of my own volition.
• But I went,   not knowing why. The whole  family was there. This girl   comes walking over to us from… She had  a bakery stand at the farmers’ market. She was so nice. Her name was  Addie Mae. She came up and said,   “I want to give your family some  sugar.” To get the kids hyper. She said,   “I love your podcast.