No matter what this week sucker-punched you with, your assignment isn’t over. Your dream isn’t dead. Speak life over those disappointments and get back up! 

I’ve been there. We’ve all weathered the heartbreak from fractured relationships, wondering if things will ever get better. Sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes it does. We have asked ourselves if this is the death of something we have worked so hard for?  We’ve completely given our hearts to the hope of something better in the middle of our HARD and keep asking ourselves… “Is this it?” We have all received the call or the email and thought this might be what does me in. We’ve felt misunderstood, questioned everything. It hasn’t been the first time; it won’t be the last. 

It’s not over; it just might be a new beginning that is going to be HARD but worth it! What you speak over your circumstances matters. One of my favorite passages (Ez 37:1-14) shows how powerful dry bones can be when God is calling the shots, and we are listening and active in something dead being revived. 

Write a new chapter, turn the page, forgive yourself or that person for the hundredth time. Repeat as often as necessary until it sticks. Have a good cry. Eat the ice cream. Go for a run. Then wash your cute mug and keep going. I can’t wait to see what beautiful things break through rocky soil and bloom despite all odds. Even when others told you it was impossible, you have to fight to believe that your game-changer is the person you see in the mirror. You are unstoppable with God on your side!

Speak life. Speak brand new opportunities over that shut door. It’s always so much better than what we had in mind. 

Sweet thing, it’s going to be okay, eventually. 

So much love to you,

Jennifer Renee

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Going Deeper:

The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”

4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath[a] enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.

11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord,when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’” (Ez 37:1-14)

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