Jim Bakker Show - We Need to be Spiritually Resilient | James Durham
Aired: 2023-06-26
Duration: 02:43


=== Word of God Resilience (02:43) ===

[00:00:00]  We can't really be spiritually resilient until we've truly become mentally tough.
[00:00:05]  And we're not really truly mentally tough unless we're spiritually resilient.
[00:00:10]  It takes both things for us to be balanced to accomplish God's purpose and plans for our lives and to do the things he's calling us to do.
[00:00:19]  And today, there's a term that got developed.
[00:00:23]  And talk about this generation.
[00:00:25]  They call them snowflakes.
[00:00:26]  Yeah, because the smallest little thing that disrupts them and they have a big meltdown.
[00:00:32]  And we have become so mentally and morally weak.
[00:00:37]  And as a result, we're so spiritually weak that almost anything can overcome people that does it.
[00:00:44]  But what God is calling us to do is get back to that, get back into developing that mental toughness and that spiritual resilience.
[00:00:52]  And the Bible is the handbook for doing that.
[00:00:56]  Just like your handbook for your car.
[00:00:59]  A lot of people never read it, but they could avoid a lot of problems if they did.
[00:01:03]  Right, that's true.
[00:01:04]  Well, we have an owner's manual.
[00:01:06]  And I have one right here, I believe.
[00:01:08]  Yeah, here's my owner's manual.
[00:01:10]  Amen.
[00:01:11]  And in this book, it tells us exactly how we can do that.
[00:01:15]  And one of the things that I do anytime the Lord gives me a writing assignment, the first thing I do is go to the Word.
[00:01:21]  I don't want to teach anything that isn't based on the Word of God.
[00:01:24]  Amen.
[00:01:25]  And so I began to go through the Word and look up scriptures related to that topic in every direction.
[00:01:32]  And this book is based on those scriptures that I found that support those ideas that came as a revelation to me.
[00:01:41]  And we need the Word of God.
[00:01:43]  To be spiritually resilient, you have to have the Word stored in you.
[00:01:47]  Amen.
[00:01:47]  When I was a kid, people used to do what they call sword drills because the sword is the word of God.
[00:01:54]  And the teachers would teach us to store scriptures in our heart.
[00:01:59]  And then we'd have to have drills where they would give us a situation, a scenario.
[00:02:03]  And it was up to you to come up with the correct sword to deal with that particular issue.
[00:02:09]  And we need to have those sword drills again.
[00:02:12]  We need our young people to begin to build up the storehouse of the heart to have the word of God in it and ready for whatever comes.
[00:02:20]  We need to have the word of God ready to go.
[00:02:22]  We must study the word.
[00:02:23]  Yes, we must.
[00:02:24]  You know, when I was a boy, my church, full gospel church, I grew up in it and they had Bible study, Bible lesson, all the time.
[00:02:34]  That's all we did.
[00:02:35]  It was the Bible, Bible, Bible, Bible.
[00:02:37]  And that's why today I know the word a little bit because I was born in it.
[00:02:43]  Yeah.