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I desire to talk to you today most Ready to Rise. Nosotros all face up things in life that endeavor to push button usa down. It's like shooting fish in a barrel to lose our passion and call back that's the way it's always going to be, but God didn't create to exist overcome, he created you lot every bit an overcomer, and he's put something in your spirit called "Bounce Back". Bounciness back ways when you become knocked down, you don't stay downward, there'due south a force breathing in your management making things happen that you couldn't make happen, giving you strength that you didn't have. It causes you to rise upward.

Because y'all take bounced dorsum that difficulty cannot defeat you. It may concur you dorsum temporarily, merely it'due south merely a matter of time before you rise support. You may have things that have come confronting y'all now, thoughts will tell you "You'll never get well. This pandemic has ruined your finances. You'll e'er struggle with this addiction". Don't believe those lies. You may be down, but that's non your last destination. God is saying, "Get ready to ascension. Get ready for favor. Get ready for breakthroughs. Go set for healing". What was meant for your harm, God is turning to your advantage.

Micah vii:8 said, "Rejoice not over me my enemies when I fall, for I shall arise". He wasn't lament about the problem, he wasn't discouraged over being knocked downwards - he understood this principle that there was bounciness-back in his spirit. In the middle of the difficulty he was speaking victory. If yous're going to come out of that challenge you have to practise like Micah, "This trouble didn't come to stay, it came to pass. God being for me is more the world being against me. I shall arise".

When y'all say that, forces of darkness tremble. When you declare "I shall ascend" angels go to work. No more than, "It'south never going to change. My business never going to brand it. My child will never get dorsum on course" - zip that up. If you talk defeat, yous're going to have defeat. Say with Micah, "Yes, I've had difficulties, I'chiliad not denying the problem, not acting like information technology doesn't exist - all I'thou saying is: I'grand non staying here, I shall arise. I will see the goodness God. My latter days will be better than my former days".

God hasn't brought yous this far to leave y'all. He won't let yous go far a problem that he can't become y'all out of. And that person that walked out on y'all, they didn't stop your destiny. Quit giving them that much power, thinking that they ruined your life. God has somebody ameliorate coming.

David said (Psalm 40:2), "God lifted me out of a pit and he set my anxiety upon a stone". You lot may be in the pit then to speak, y'all don't see how yous could get out - the skillful news is: y'all don't have to get out by yourself, the Most Loftier God is about to lift you out, he'south about to free you lot from that addiction, he's about to plow the medical report around, he's about to open new doors, bring new opportunities, new relationships. That pit is not your destiny. Get ready to rise.

Paul said (Romans eight:11), "The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives on the within of yous". The forces of darkness did their best to stop Jesus, but they couldn't keep him from rising. That tells me: nothing you face up can proceed you from your purpose - no pandemic, no sickness, no habit. The enemy may have washed his all-time, but his best volition never be enough.

Few years dorsum we had a big hurricane here in Houston. I noticed all the different kinds of trees that were blown downward, huge oak trees that were 3 or 4 anxiety around. I saw pine trees over a hundred feet tall laying in k later thou: big trees, small-scale trees - none of them could withstand the hurricane-force winds. At that place was only one type of tree that wasn't blown downward - it was the palm tree. It'south because God designed the palm to withstand the storm. Dissimilar most other trees the palm is able to curve, and so it doesn't break.

A certain kind of palm can curve all the way over to where the summit is virtually touching the footing. During the hurricane it may stay that way for three or iv hours all aptitude over, looks like it's done, but when the wind dies down, when the storm is over information technology stands right support to where it was earlier. All these other trees downwards on the ground - what'south the departure? God put bounce dorsum in the palm tree. It may get pushed over, but information technology's only temporary.

Psalm 92:12 says, "The righteous will flourish like a palm tree". The reason God chose a palm and not oaks or pines is he knew nosotros would go through storms, he knew things would try to push this downwards and keep usa from our destiny. So he said, "I'm gonna make you like a palm tree. I'm going to put bounce back in your spirit". And you may become through difficulties, a loss, a disappointment, but at some point the winds volition stop, the storms will pass and like that palm tree you'll come up right support. You may exist aptitude over at present, you're facing challenges, thoughts are telling yous, "It's never going to work out" - get fix to rise, you lot have bounced back power. When that storm is over you're not going to be laying down, defeated, beat up - yous're gonna ascent upwards good for you, blessed, prosperous. You're not going to look like what you lot've been through, nobody is going to exist able to tell that y'all even had that difficulty.

What I love about God is he doesn't merely bring you through the storm, he makes the enemy pay for bringing the trouble. When the palm tree has been over during the hurricane, you would think that's damaging the tree and making it weaker. But research shows just the opposite - when the tree is being pushed over and stretched past the winds, that'due south strengthening the root organization and giving information technology new opportunities for growth. When the palm tree straightens back up later on the storm, it's actually stronger than it was before. When you lot come up out of that tempest, when you straighten back upwards y'all're not going to exist the same - you're going to be stronger, healthier, better off, fix for new growth.

When you're in difficult times yous need to remind yourself, "I may bend, but I'm non going to break". God won't let you lot face anything that's too much for you to handle. And things may be coming against you, but note this: down is not your destiny, defeat is non how your story ends, sickness, trouble, lack, not having plenty is non permanent. I believe even now the winds are starting to subside, forces that have hindered you are beingness broken, powers of darkness are beingness pushed dorsum, you're well-nigh to run into breakthroughs, liberty, joy, victory.

In Micah chapter seven, Micah lists all these negative things that have happened to him, he talked about how he was overwhelmed with sorrow, he'd gone through bad breaks - it'south very depressing. If he would take stopped at that place, nosotros wouldn't exist reading most him. He went on to say in poesy 7, "Only equally for me, I'yard not giving upwardly. I'm sticking effectually to meet what God is going to exercise. I know he volition make things right". He had this mental attitude of religion, "I've come also far to finish now". He was expecting God to turn it around. That'due south why he said in the next verse, "Don't rejoice when I fall, I shall ascend".

But sometimes we've been in the storm and then long, we forgotten what it's like to be standing dorsum up. The enemy would love to convince united states of america to settle for being bent over, living in dysfunction, biting over who hurt united states of america, thinking that we'll never be happy again. We demand to do like Micah, "Yes, I've had some bad breaks. Yes, life has thrown me some curves, but I'm not giving upward on my dreams, I'k not settling for mediocrity, I'1000 sticking around to see what God is up to. I know he's going to make things right".

Don't get talked out of your dreams. Don't let the delays, the unfair babyhood, the unexpected tempest convince you that you've seen your best days. God is upwardly to something. What looks like a setback is all a part of his plan. He may not have sent the difficulty, but he wouldn't accept allowed it if information technology was going to keep you from your destiny. If you'll have this to the organized religion, God will brand things right in your life, he'll restore what the enemy tried to steal, he'll pay you dorsum for the wrongs, he'll open doors that you couldn't open, he will get you to your destiny.

In Genesis 37 Joseph was a teenager and God gave him a dream that he would be an leadership, he would take peachy influence. He had many older brothers, only he was the favorite son of their father Jacob. Because he was born subsequently in Jacobs life, Jacob treated him differently. He even had them make Joseph a special robe of many colors. I'grand certain Joseph was proud of that robe, made him stand out, gave him prestige. His brothers were jealous of Joseph, they didn't similar the special treatment, they didn't like the fact that he had these dreams and he thought he was going to do something great.

I day his father asked him to travel to another city to check on his brothers. They were out working in a field. When they saw Joseph coming from a distance, wearing the colorful robe, they thought, "This is our large hazard to get rid of Joseph". They took the robe off of him and threw him into a pit. They were going to put blood on the robe and tell their father "He had been eaten by a wild animal", only well-nigh that time a caravan of Ishmaelites came passing by. The brothers decided to sell Joseph as a slave, instead of leaving him there to die.

It'due south interesting how God volition always accept the right people show upward at the correct time. That caravan had been traveling for months, they had left long before Joseph went to check on his brothers, but God has everything figured out, he knows what you're going to demand, when you're going to demand it, who's going to need to exist there. You don't take to worry, God has it all lined up, he's going to get you to your destiny. People can't stop you, a bad break, injustice - God is ordering your steps. He'due south in control not simply of your life, he's in control of the circumstances around you.

Now Joseph was no longer the favorite son, wearing the colorful robe - he was a slave in a foreign country, working for a man named Potiphar. Year after year went by, Joseph kept doing the right affair, being skillful to people that weren't being good to him. I can imagine many lone nights he thought about home and about that robe he used to have, and what information technology meant. Tears would fill his optics, thoughts would whisper "It'southward not fair. Y'all'll never accomplish your dream. Y'all'll never meet your begetter again. Yous'll never have that robe of many colors". Only deep downwardly I can hear Joseph praying, "Male parent, thanks that what you started in my life you volition finish. I don't run into a way, but I know y'all have a way. I believe I will ascent again. What y'all promised me will come up to laissez passer".

13 years after Joseph was thrown into the pit, the Pharaoh had a dream and he didn't know what it meant. Joseph was in prison. Someone remembered that he could translate dreams and they called Joseph in, he told the Pharaoh what the dream meant, how information technology had to practice with the food supply and how they needed to shop upward grain and get prepared for the famine. The Pharaoh was and so impressed with Joseph, his advisors discussed: who should be appointed for the new position? Pharaoh told them: no one could do it meliorate than Joseph. He put Joseph in accuse of the whole nation. He said in poetry 44, "No i will move hand or foot in all of Egypt without your approval".

He had his staff bring a royal robe and put it on Joseph. He took off his prison wearing apparel, took off his slave clothes and he put on a robe of honour, a robe of influence, a robe of authority. Imagine now Joseph thinking back about the robe his brothers took away from him, that robe that represented favor. He was disappointed at the time, he wanted information technology back, it didn't seem fair, simply now he realized: without losing the robe of many colors, he would have never had the robe of authority, that robe that said "I'1000 in charge of a nation".

If yous knew what God has in store for you, you wouldn't be discouraged over the robe of many colors that you lost, that task that didn't piece of work out, the person that walked away, that loan that didn't become through. If yous could meet the robe of authority that's coming: the robe of influence, the robe of abundance, the robe of unprecedented favor, you lot wouldn't be bitter over who hurts you, upset over the time in the pit, frustrated by what you lost. What God has in your future is so amazing, you lot'll never complain about your past. You may be downwardly now, but like Joseph, become ready to ascent. Favor is coming similar you've never seen. God is about to practice something unusual, something uncommon that will catapult you to a new level.

Your story doesn't end with the robe of many colors that you've lost, doesn't stop with the dream that didn't piece of work out, a relationship that didn't make information technology, a business that went down. The robe of many colors were merely foreshadowing what God was most to practise. It was supposed to be temporary, it wasn't supposed to last. If the door airtight - have information technology and move on. Don't spend your life wishing you had the robe of many colors back, when God has something so much ameliorate in your future. Don't become effectually biting because someone threw y'all in a pit, someone betrayed you, someone cheated you in a business organization deal, a dream didn't work out - God saw it, he wouldn't accept let them accept the colorful robe, he wouldn't have left that bad suspension happen if it was going to keep yous from your destiny.

How many of us are longing for the robe of many colors, wishing we could go back to when we knew nosotros were favored, before the setback, before the health issue, earlier the pandemic? Here's the primal: not having the robe of many colors doesn't hateful that you don't have favor, it means greater favor is coming. Y'all had to lose that robe to step into the awesome future, that God has in store. You oasis't seen heard or imagined where God is taking you.

You may experience like you're in that pit - that's okay, the pit is leading you to the palace. You had a setback, that's okay, information technology's setting you upwards for greater honour, greater influence, greater say-so. Don't sit around wishing for the robe of many colors, get ready for the greater things that God is about to exercise.

Joseph was in accuse of the food supply, there was a great dearth in the land and the only place they had food was in Egypt. One twenty-four hours his brothers, the same ones that threw him into the pit traveled to the palace looking for food. Joseph came out, only they didn't recognize him. The final fourth dimension they saw Joseph he was in the pit, defeated, no futurity, simply God has the final say. They knew him in the pit, but now he was so blessed, had so much influence, so much prestige - they didn't recognize him.

That's the fashion God vindicates. When he raises yous upwardly you'll be so blessed, so favored, that your enemies don't recognize you. 13 years earlier Joseph was down and his brothers were up. Joseph was in the pit, they were on top. At present Joseph was upward and his brothers were downward, Joseph was in accuse and his brothers were in need. When you let God fight your battles, there will be a solar day like with Joseph when the tables are turned. You volition exist up and those that tried to stop you lot will be down. God knows how to make things correct.

You may be in a tough time, simply stick in there and see what God is up to. Go along believing, keep praying, keep dreaming - your time is coming. The pit is merely temporary, the depression, the sickness, the lack is non how your story ends. God is working behind the scenes. Y'all are closer than you think, it's going to happen sooner than it looks, God is about to surprise you. Joseph woke up ane morning in prison, seemed similar another ordinary day - a few hours later he was the prime number minister of Arab republic of egypt. There wasn't any sign of it. That'southward the way God works: many times you don't see anything happening and suddenly things fall into identify, suddenly your wellness turns effectually, all of a sudden you meet the right person, of a sudden you're promoted.

The Psalmist said (Psalm 68:1), "Let God arise and his enemies be scattered". Allow means you have to permit it. You tin allow it or you cannot allow it. We can't stop God from arising, this is talking near in our thoughts. When y'all permit God ascend, you brand him bigger than your bug, bigger than that sickness, bigger than the financial trouble. Yous focus on his greatness, yous recall about his ability, you talk about how he's brought you through in the past, you go around bragging on what he'southward done, declaring his promises: "No weapon formed against me will prosper. What was meant for my harm God is turning to my advantage".

The bigger you make God, the smaller your problems become and the more faith volition rise in your heart. But the enemy is always trying to get u.s.a. to permit the problem arise. Perchance your child is off course, it's easy to talk almost "How he's not making practiced decisions, how he's never gonna attain his destiny, I don't know what I did incorrect". Yous're letting the wrong thing arise, turn information technology around and beginning letting God ascend, "Father, thanks that as for me and my house we volition serve the Lord. Thank you that my children volition be mighty in the state. Give thanks you, that my seed, the seed of the righteous is blessed".

That's letting God arise. That's what causes things to modify. When you speak defeat you bring defeat on the scene, but when you speak victory you bring God on the scene. He created the universe, he flung stars into space, there's zilch that he can't do. Maybe you're struggling in your finances: business is tedious, you tin can't go to work. You tin can either let that defeat arise, you lot'll feel discouraged, worried or y'all can let God arise, "Father cheers that I will lend and non borrow. The economy is not my source, Yous are my source. You said you would prosper me even in the desert".

When you permit God arise, the scripture says your enemies will exist scattered. Depression, lack, trouble cannot stand against our God. When you let him arise, bondage that accept held y'all back are broken. Problems that look permanent will plow around. When God arises, favor comes, new doors open, things that you couldn't brand happen. Now the question is: are you letting God ascend are you letting the problem arise? All through the day it's so important to proceed a song of praise in your center.

Instead of worrying, thinking nearly all the things that are wrong, what might non piece of work out, in your thoughts, "Lord, thank you that there's nothing yous tin't do. There's not a mountain you can't move. Y'all're a way maker, a hope keeper, a miracle worker". Have the same time that you lot'd normally worry and turn it into worship. That's non simply being positive, that's letting God arise, that'south what allows the almost powerful force in the universe to become to work on your behalf.

"Well, Joel, this all sounds skillful, merely I don't think I'thou gonna rise back upwardly. I've made a lot of mistakes, nobody did me incorrect similar Joseph, I brought the problem on myself". Jesus told a story about a young man like this in Luke 15. He asked his father for his inheritance early, he left home and went out and spent all the coin partying, living wild, making poor decisions. When he ran out of funds, he got a chore working in a hog pen feeding hogs. He was so drastic and so hungry, he had to swallow the hog food to survive.

One day he was sitting around depressed, mad at himself, feeling condemned. He began to think nigh home and how even the servants at his father'south house had a hot meal every 24-hour interval, they had plenty of nutrient. Here he was out there starving. Verse 17 says, "He came to himself and said: I will arise and go to my father's house". He fabricated a determination that he wasn't going to stay in that defeat, he wasn't going to sit around guilty, depressed, chirapsia himself up, simply he was going to go back home.

He didn't know how his begetter would answer, he didn't know if he'd tell him to stay off the property, but when the male parent saw him a long manner off he took off running toward his son, he hugged him and kissed him.

Now, the son was wearing these dirty clothes, he'd been in the pig pen, smelly. The start thing the male parent said was, "Go get the best robe and put it on my son". Not any robe, non one that's been used, not a paw-me-down - go go the finest robe. It's interesting that God gave Joseph a royal robe of influence, a robe of authority. God gave this young man a robe of award, a robe of favor.

Both of them rose out of what was holding them dorsum. The difference between the two is: God calls Joseph to raise up. He didn't have to do anything to make it happen, he just kept honoring God, being his best and Pharaoh called him in. Merely with the prodigal son he had to brand a decision, that he wasn't going to sit down effectually discouraged, defeated, thinking about all the mistakes he had made. If he had not said, "I will arise" he would accept never seen the glaze a favor.

I'chiliad wondering: are you waiting for God to exercise something for you, when he'southward waiting for you lot to say, "I will arise. I'k not going to become through life beating myself up, living condemned. Yes, I've made mistakes, simply I know I'm forgiven, I know I've been redeemed"? If y'all'll arise, at that place's a robe of favor waiting for yous, a robe of honor. Those mistakes you made didn't cancel your destiny. Quit listening to the accuser reminding y'all of everything you've washed wrong, God has already forgiven yous. Now forgive yourself and motion on. It'south time to arise and get to your father's house.

Proverb 24:16 says, "A skillful person falls seven times, simply they rise again". Become your fire back, get your passion back, nil yous've washed is too much for the mercy of God. He knew every fault we would ever brand, he's already taken into account all wrong turns, he has a programme even for the times when we missed it. Now arise and get become that road that belongs to you lot, yous tin can still go who you lot were created to be.

When the winds accident in your life, the storms come up, remember this phrase "There's bounce dorsum in your spirit". You may bend, but you're not going to interruption. Similar the palm tree yous're going to come right support. All through the day let God arise. In your thoughts proceed thanking him for his promises, making him bigger than what y'all're facing. If you'll do this, I believe and declare: like with Joseph you lot're going to see promotion, vindication, breakthroughs. God is going to make things happen that you didn't see coming. You may have lost the robe of many colors, just get ready for the robe of authority, the robe of influence, the robe of favor, in Jesus name.

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