Why You Feel Stuck in Life | How God Helps You Move Forward

Your job is not to fix your soul. Your job is stay close to the shepherd who can. The shepherd who promises to actually restore your soul. So here's what I'm asking of you this this as this as we finish up here. Right? I want you to ask yourself, is it possible for you that maybe you just haven't established healthy soul rhythms? Like, if you just pause for a moment and just start just honestly reflect on your life, do you have healthy soul rhythms? Have you established these for your life? [00:43:06] (35 seconds)  #CloseToTheShepherd

And here's the best part about our god. He never ever stops. He will never leave you. He will never forsake you. Even when you feel stuck or tired, even when you're just not feeling it at all, he is still working in you. So devote yourself to scripture. Right? Reorient your lives around service and community with others and develop healthy Sabbath rhythms. When we do these things, he will show up, and he will restore your soul. Amen? [00:44:08] (31 seconds)  #NeverForsaken

These rhythms, they're not a formula for fixing yourself. These are the ways that we abide, right, to to, like, be linked and connected to Jesus. This is where we experience the restoration and the rest that he promises to us. This is where we get to create space for God's grace to come in and to shape us and reshape our souls from the inside out. Again, creating space for us to experience freedom from the old patterns as we begin practicing new rhythms moving forward with Christ. [00:41:07] (36 seconds)  #AbideNotFix

And then and only then does God actually appear to Elijah. And I love how they put it in first Kings 19 because it says that, yes, they actually list out these these different situations. Like, God didn't come in a in a mighty wind. God didn't come and show up in an earthquake. These things came, but God wasn't in them. He wasn't in the wind. He wasn't in the earthquake. He wasn't in the fire. It says that God came and spoke in a gentle voice, a gentle whisper, it says. [00:34:49] (30 seconds)  #GentleWhisper

Imagine just imagine your life with whatever it is that you're going through right now, whatever challenges, struggles, whatever joys in the highs, whatever, you know, hurts in the lows. Imagine your life right now If you had a small group of friends, right, that engage with you every single week, and if nothing else happened, at a very minimum, they simply asked you three questions. What did you hear Jesus saying to you? What do you understand that to mean? And how can we help you obey that? [00:26:12] (35 seconds)  #WeeklySoulCheck

Only after the restoration of Elijah did God send him back to active duty, but he didn't come punishing, yelling, or screaming. He came in a gentle whisper towards him. You see, God often meets us in the midst of our chaos and speaks to us in a gentle whisper so that we can experience restoration. And that's what Sabbath rhythms, guys, are all about. [00:35:19] (28 seconds)  #WhisperRestoration

Guys, God restores our souls as we walk with him in these healthy rhythms that reshape us. And so, man, if your soul feels tired, man, if you feel stuck, if the journey that you're on feels slow, don't give up. Don't give up. Right? Don't throw in the towel and give up. Stay close to the shepherd because it is a shepherd who leads you besides still waters and restores your very soul. [00:43:41] (27 seconds)  #ShepherdRestores

I want you to hear me very clearly here. Struggling does not mean that you are failing spiritually. Like, struggling and wrestling. Even feeling stuck, it doesn't mean that you are a failure, especially when it comes to your spiritual life. Like, sheep don't restore themselves. That's not the way it works. What we do is we actually just need to stay close to the shepherd. We can't restore ourselves, but we man, we gotta stay close to the shepherd. Right? [00:42:33] (32 seconds)  #StruggleNotFailure