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Speaker 1: I got the ball ones on my lilt. The ball
was on all right. You know what's going sounds tonight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, Phil, you know what's be getting? Truth
bringing chains, some men of hoofs bringing boats to your brain. No,
you're no woman, it's me my five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm in a zoom. I'm in.
Speaker 2: I leave you No my home ride up saying my baby,
you're living in bone.
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see you're living in boney?
Speaker 2: What I to see you living in bony? What'd I
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Speaker 1: Doctor z? Uh Oh? I back for not the one?
Speaker 2: What up? Bowl?
Speaker 1: Was bow? Welcome back to Living Bowlingwood, Doctor Z, the
podcast where faith, faith fuels the journey, truth flights the way,
encourage leads the charge. Hold up now, I'm your host,
doctor Z. And today were talking about something we all
need in these times, something serious. I just got to
talk about it. You know, it's the power of resilience.
It's bouncing back from life's challenges. You know, we all
go through things sometimes, but it's in those times that
we have to know how to bounce's back and be resilience.
And overcome the challenges and have courage to keep going
and moving forward and overcome those challenges. Now, first off,
I going to get going and talk about what resilience is.
You know, sometimes people don't understand. I know a lot
of us know what resilience is, especially us bold ones
because we've been through it in life, you know. But
resilience is more than just surviving hardship. You know, it's
the ability to rise again and to fall and stand,
to be shaken but not destroyed. And I did do
a poem about rising and being shaken up and resilience.
It's on the Empowerment Blueprint podcast. If you haven't heard it, guys,
go check it out. It's a great poem. I wrote
it for Black History Month. And let me get back
on topic. But yeah, to fall and stand, to be
shaken but not destroyed, you know, to overcome, to be resilience.
And in a Bible and Second Corinthians, fourth chapter eight
through ninth, first it says that we are hard pressed
on every side, but not crushed, perplexed but not in despair,
persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed. So
resilience is that God given bounce back power, and we
got to know how to use that. You know, it
doesn't mean you don't cry. It doesn't mean that you're
not gonna get tired or feel pain. It just means
that you refuse to stay down. You refuse to back down.
You're gonna refuse to give up when things happen in life,
and sometimes life happens to us. But God built us
strong to be able to be resilient and bounce back
in a powerful way whenever things like that do happen
to us. Now I'm gonna get into the setback that
sets you up, you know, the setback. Oh my god,
both once we know about that, huh excuse me, boas
we know about those setbacks. Oooh, those those setups you know. Now,
some of the greatest stories of triumph begin with tragedy,
loss or disappointment, you know. So in the Bible, there's
some stories of actual triumph, you know, and tragedy, loss
and disappointment. Like I was saying, the first one I'm
gonna talk about is Joseph. He was thrown in a pit,
false accused, imprisoned, and still ended up in the palace. Okay,
Joseph went through it. Baby and a pit false accused. Hey,
a lot of us go through this every single day
and falsely imprisoned also too. Come on now, but guess
what God gave us the gifts to be resilience and
a bounce back and to overcome through those tragedies and disappointments.
The second story of that's in the Bible is Job.
He lost everything, but God restored him double. And you know,
I can say in my life experiences, I've lost everything
before and what God did for me is what a
friend told me was gonna happen. God restored it double triple,
quadruple and so and still getting blessed to this day.
So God, like I said, gave us the gift to
bounce back double triple, quadruple and be better. Okay, the second,
well not the second, but the third amazing story. One
of my favorites is Jesus. He was crucified, he was
hung up on the cross that you know, we all
know the story of what happened to Jesus Christ. But
three days later he got up. Why because he was
resilient and he had that power within him that God
gave him to bounce back, and he refused to stay
down and he rose on the third day. Now, hear me,
that situation that almost broke you, it's setting the stage
for a comeback. Listen to me, believe me, I've been there,
I've done that. Resilience is spiritual warfare. And when you rise,
hell loses. The devil's not gonna win the day. And
when you keep going, generational curses break. And when you
don't give up, you provide. Well, no, when you don't
give up, let me get it right. You prove the
enemy wrong. And that's what we're here to do. That's
what God blessed us to do. That's why God instilled
in us resilience to be able to fight back against
the wilds and have resilience against spiritual warfare. Now, US
bold winds know about that, Boas and US general curse breakers,
we know about that also because we've been through hell
and we've been back and we fought to get back
where we need it to be. Now, how to cultivate resilience?
How do you do this? Because everyone hasn't had that yet.
You know, resilience isn't natural. I can tell you that.
Not everyone's the same. You know, it is developed. It
does take time. It's not gonna happen overnight, but here's
how you build it. The first thing you gotta do
is root yourself in the word. Your emotions shift, but
God's truth remains. So it says in Psalm chapter of
first verse, those who trust in the Lord are like
Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken. So if you got
to root yourself in a word, open up that, get
that book, and that will help you to start to
grow and build up your resilience to be able to
fight back. Number two, speak life over yourself. Your word
shape your reality. Say I will rise, I will heal,
I will overcome, I will be better. And another one
that I know about is that I am I am affirmation.
Excuse me, you can try those also, I am wonderful,
I am amazing, I am great, and I or I
will be better, or I will be stronger next time,
or I will work on this or that. You know,
speak life over yourself and believe me, you're gonna see
a change happen. It's not gonna happen overnight, but you'll
start feeling it and you'll have resilience and you'll see
yourself develop over time. Next, surround yourself with faith filled people.
You need warriors around you, not worriors. Get rid of
those toxic individuals. We only need bonds around us. So
if you got some people around you that's not faithful,
and they worrying you and getting on your nerves and
bothering you more than they're helping you out and supporting you,
get rid of those folks and surround yourself with faithful
people that will support you in your path, in your
journey for resilience and building that up and developing that. Okay, next,
take care of your body and mind. It's so important.
It's so important. I heard someone today saying, oh, I
don't meditate. No, I don't do that. That's not what
I do. I do something else. Well, you know what,
Meditation is important regardless if you don't do it, maybe
someone else does it. But it is a tool that
you can use. So there's all other types of tools
you can use too, like eating healthy and exercising and
mentally and spiritually and emotionally taking care of yourself too.
You know, that's the same of that's the same thing
as taking care of your body and your mind. So
resilience requires rest. It's okay to pause, you know, Jesus rested,
and so should you. Because again, guess what I be resting.
I be getting my risk us bold ones beget I
risk boom. You know what I'm saying, and a generation
of curse breakers do too, because it's hard work out
here in these streets. You know what I'm saying. I
got a bold move tip for you. All right, write
this down. Write down three things you've overcome in life. Ooh,
that's gonna help you so much to see your resilience,
reflect on what it taught you. You didn't make it
through that just to survive, you know, you made it
to teach, to empower to lead. So make sure you
write those three things down, all right. And now I'm
just gonna go over the test which becomes your testimony. Oo.
When you got that testimony. Oh yes, everything you faced
is not wasted. Your resilience is not just for you.
It's for the ones watching you, the ones coming behind you,
the ones who need to know that you can be
knocked down and still rise in power. In Revelations Chapter
twelve eleven verse, it says they overcame by the blood
of the lamb and by the word of their testimony.
So your bounce back. Story is a weapon. It's a light,
a road map, so share own it and let it
remind you that the power of God lives in you.
Is not on you, it's in you, and that nothing
in your face can cancel His plan for your life. Now,
I'm gonna get into my final words and prayers before
I get out of here tonight. Guys, Now, I want
to say that you may feel tired, but you're not finished.
And you may have lost something. You might have lost everything,
but you haven't lost everything. You know. You might have
lost everything you thought you lost everything, but that's an illusion.
You haven't lost everything. You still have some stuff left,
you know, And as long as you're still breathing, you've
got purpose and power. So let's pray God, thank you
for resilience. Thank you that we're not defined by our pain,
but by your promise. Help us to rise, to trust
and to walk in victory no matter what life throws
at us. Remind us that through you we can recover,
we can rebuild, and we can come back stronger than before.
In Jesus' name, I pray Amen. All right, Thank you
both once for tuning in bo to another amazing episode
of living boldly with doctor Z. And remember resilience isn't
weakness hiding pain no way, it's strength rising with purpose
and your remaid to bounce back. So before I get
out of here tonight, I just want to tell you
guys to make sure that kah Oh that you keep healing,
you keep grounking, and it's always keep living. Only love
you guys such such nyolo