Embracing God's Healing and Restoration in Our Lives

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And it's a pit that it's actually a grave. But Jesus said, wouldn't you reach down and get him? Come on. Don't you feel that? Don't you. You feel the hand of God reaching down for you because you're the one. I know sometimes when I'm in the pit and I'm like, can you feel pity in the pit? You know what I'm talking about you start to feel pity in the pit and so you're not sure anybody's gonna reach down and help you. You're not sure anybody even knows you're in the pit. But God knows you're his one and he's got his eye on you. And he says, I come to get him out of the pit. [00:38:27] (45 seconds)  #RescuedFromThePit

Your pit. You may say, well, my pit's not real deep like her pit or my pit's not really as bad as that. It doesn't matter if yours is just a teeny weeny pit. God sees your pit, he sees your pain. God knows your pain. And God wants you free from your pain. You may say, well, it's not a whole lot of pain like somebody else, but God doesn't want you in your pain. God doesn't want you in your disability. God doesn't want you in your limitation. You may say, well, I can get by with it. Yeah, I know you can. I know you're strong, but God doesn't want you have to deal with it at all. Jesus came to get us out of our pits. [00:39:40] (49 seconds)  #ValueInGodsEyes

And one of the reasons we don't allow the Lord to lift us out of our pit is because the devil has made us devalue ourselves in our own eyes, in our own mind. We need to allow, we need to allow God to tell us how valuable we are to Him. Then when he reaches down for us, we just take his hand and come on up out of the pit. You understand? [00:40:47] (38 seconds)  #LetGoAndReceive

So God, God wants to renew our thinking, so we're not coping, we're not using our own tools, our own weapons, our own thoughts and our own ideas. Things that we've done traditionally, we're letting that go. That's what the Bible says when he talks about. When he talks about taking up your cross. He says, deny yourself. Deny your old ways of doing things. Deny that fig leaf. You know what I mean when I say the fig leaf? When Adam and Eve, when they were naked, they found themselves a leaf. Jesus. God had to go and kill an animal and put clothes on them. And see, most of the time, we're still fooling with our own fig leaves, trying to cover ourselves up, when all the time we've got a father who's reaching down to lift us out of the pit. [00:41:57] (61 seconds)  #GentleVoiceOfGod

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