Resilience Is Built, Not Borrowed

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Well, hello, my valued listeners, and welcome back to another episode of Living in Your Power.
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I'm your host, Dr. Marlene Greenleaf, and as always, I am grateful that you are here with me today.
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Now, as we continue our March theme, Rooted and Resilient, Strength That Endures,
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today we're reflecting on something foundational.
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Today's episode, the second in our March series, is entitled,
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Resilience is Built, Not Borrowed.
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So let's dive in.
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Now, encouragement is beautiful. Motivation is helpful.
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But resilience, resilience cannot be borrowed.
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You can borrow inspiration. You can borrow advice. You can even borrow confidence for a moment.
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But endurance? Endurance must be built.
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There are seasons when we try to lean on someone else's strength.
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Their certainty, their clarity, and their boldness.
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But when pressure intensifies, what sustains you is not someone else's faith.
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It's your own roots.
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And roots, my dear listeners, it grows over time.
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Now, our anchored scripture today comes from James 1, 2, and 4 in the King James Version.
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And it says, my brethren count it
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all joy when ye fall into diverse temptations knowing this that the trying of
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your feet worketh patience but let patience have her perfect work that he may be perfect
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An entire wanting nothing.
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Now I want you to read that slowly. James 1 verses 2 to 4.
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Now it says, The trying of your fate worketh patience.
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And patience does not perfect work.
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Resilience is not instant. It is formed through testing. Not because God desires
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you to struggle, but because testing produces strength that comfort cannot.
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Patience builds maturity. Maturity builds stability.
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And stability builds endurance.
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Now that, my dear listeners, is resilience. Not dramatic, not loud, but steady.
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Now, I want you to notice something in that scripture that we just read.
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It says, but let patience have her perfect work.
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You hear that keyword? Let. Let patience.
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So that means we can resist the process.
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We can rush it. We can fight it.
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We can complain through it. Or we can allow it to strengthen us.
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Sometimes the very thing we are praying away is the thing building our endurance.
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And if we cut the process short, we cut the growth short.
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Resilience develops when we stay, when we endure, and when we remain faithful,
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even when progress feels slow.
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I want you to remember that you are not behind You are being built.
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Now I want you to sit with this gently,
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Where is my faith being tried right now?
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Am I resisting the process? Or allowing patience to strengthen me?
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What would shift if I trusted that this season is producing something within me?
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Remember, resilience is not borrowed from comfort. It is built in commitment.
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So I'm going to repeat this again for you. So I want you to sit with this.
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Where is my fate being tried right now?
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Am I resisting the process or allowing patience to strengthen me?
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What would shift if I trusted that this season is producing something within me?
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So I want you to sit and think about these things. Write it down,
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of course, in your journal. and be honest with yourself.
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This is your reflection and invitation, so I want you to be honest with yourself
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and sit with these and gently think on them in response.
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And remember, resilience is not borrowed from comfort. It is built in commitment.
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So in closing today, my dear listeners, I want you to remember that you do not
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need dramatic strength.
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You need steady faith.
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And steady faith grows over time.
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Every challenge, every delay, every
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moment of perseverance, it is building something deeper than you can see.
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So stay faithful and stay grounded.
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I want to thank you for joining me on this episode in our March series of Rooted
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and Resilient Strength That Endures.
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So until next time, dear listeners, I want you to continue to live boldly in your power today.
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And if it gets tough, just breathe.
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You still got the strength to rise.
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So until next time, continue to live in your power.