We must labor to rest in Christ. In spite of trials and tribulations, we must train our spirit to be trained by the Holy Spirit to rest. We must rest to become restored and renewed to hear what is being said. One word from the Holy Spirit can change the trajectory of our lives. B.U.S.Y. doesn't always mean productivity. The acronym for B.U.S.Y. is Being Under Satan's Yoke! The enemy desire is for us to wear ourselves out to where our bodies cannot reset, regroup, and refocus. When we rest, we can commune with our Father which art in heaven! Let us learn to enter into rest. Rest means we trust God.
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I am thankful for the timing of the Lord. I have always heard that He might not come when you want Him to, but He's right on time. God's timing is IMPECCABLE! While we're waiting, we must wait with a good attitude without murmuring or complaining and press towards the mark of the higher calling. That means work. Faith plus work equal results!
We show God that we possess faith when we proactively move. While we are working, God is working behind the scenes. When God moves, His reward is with Him! It doesn't take God alot of time to show up. Ask the five wise virgins and the five foolish ones. They were wise because they were preparing. The five were foolish because they were not! When the Bridegroom came, His reward was with Him. We must trust the timing of God and prepare for when His super meets our natural!
Titus 3:10: man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
A heretick is someone who is schismatic, factious, a follower of a false doctrine. We are to correct them twice and then reject them or to refuse, decline to shun, and avoid. We are not supposed to have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. They may have been possibly turned over to strong delusion and their conscious may have been seared with a hot iron fter they refused to be corrected multiple times. Their hearts have become calloused to the truth through denial, deflection, and plain rebellion to the things of God.
The highest form of love is correction. Who God loves, He chastens, corrects, and disciplines. Correction is for protection and keeps you from danger. Though correction is not pleasurable at the time of correction, it yields the peaceable fruit of God. It develops humility, peace, and joy. When God corrects us, He is demonstrating His love towards us. When a person corrects or warns us, they are demonstrating the love of Christ!
John 5: 1-17
There were times in scripture when Jesus asked, "Do you want to want to be made whole? Because He is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore, He is still asking the same question today. In spite what has been plaguing you and your family, we must believe that we can never made whole, but made whole by Him. The man at the pool had been suffering for 38 years. How long have you been suffering from your infirmity?
I love how the scripture said Jesus saw Him lie and knew he had been lying down a long time. Jesus sees us lying down at the place of despair and near the breakthrough and knows we have been there for a long time. Instead of waiting for the angels to trouble our waters, we should simply tell Jesus yes to who is over the waters and the angels! Yes, I want to be made whole in every area of my life! Do you want to be made whole? If you do, take up your bed and walk? In other words, get up and start moving
There are seasons when God allows us to see the areas of our lives that have been neglected, damaged, delayed, or left unfinished—not to condemn us, but to call us into restoration.
August is the month of alignment.
Alignment means bringing every part of your life back into agreement with God’s purpose. It is a time to examine your faith, family, mind, decisions, and future. It is a time to ask:
- Am I still walking in the direction God gave me?
- Have disappointment, trauma, fear, or delay caused me to stop building?
- Are there broken places in my life that I have learned to live around instead of allowing God to restore?
- What needs to be removed, repaired, or repositioned?
God is calling His people to rebuild.
You Can Rebuild What Was Broken
Ruins are evidence that something once stood in that place. They may represent broken relationships, abandoned dreams, weakened faith, emotional wounds, financial setbacks, family struggles, or plans that never came to completion.
But ruins do not have to be the end of your story.
When Nehemiah learned that the walls of Jerusalem had been broken down, he did not ignore the devastation. He prayed, developed a strategy, gathered the people, and began rebuilding. He understood that restoration required both faith and action.
The same is true for us today.
You cannot rebuild everything overnight, but you can begin with one surrendered decision. You can pray again. You can believe again. You can forgive. You can create a new plan. You can return to the assignment that fear, pain, or discouragement caused you to abandon.
God is not asking you to pretend that nothing happened. He is inviting you to rebuild with wisdom from what you survived.
Five Areas That May Need Alignment
1. Rebuilding Your Faith
Faith is the foundation upon which everything else is built. When life becomes difficult, our faith can become weakened by disappointment, unanswered questions, and prolonged
waiting.
This month, return to God’s Word. Rebuild your prayer life. Remember what God has already brought you through. Faith does not mean you never feel afraid. It means fear no longer has permission to control your decisions.
2. Rebuilding Your Family
Every family has areas that need healing. Miscommunication, generational patterns, unresolved pain, rejection, and unforgiveness can create invisible walls between people who love one another.
Alignment requires honesty, healthy boundaries, forgiveness, and the willingness to establish a new foundation. You may not be able to control every family member, but you can choose how you will respond and what patterns will end with you.
3. Rebuilding Your Mind
Your life cannot move forward while your mind remains imprisoned by the past.
Negative thoughts, regret, shame, fear, and self-doubt can convince you that rebuilding is impossible. But Romans 12:2 reminds us that transformation begins with the renewing of the mind.
You must replace thoughts of defeat with God’s truth. You are not disqualified. You are not forgotten. You are not too old, too late, or too broken to begin again.
4. Rebuilding Your Future
Your past may explain where you have been, but it does not have the authority to determine where you are going.
God still has a plan for your life. Alignment may require you to adjust your priorities, release distractions, create structure, and become intentional about your next steps.
A rebuilt future does not happen by accident. It is constructed through prayer, preparation, discipline, and obedience.
5. Walking in Your Rebuilt Life
Rebuilding is not only about repairing what was damaged. It is about becoming strong enough to maintain what God restores.
Your rebuilt life will require new habits, stronger boundaries, greater wisdom, and a deeper commitment to your purpose. You cannot rebuild your life and then return to the mindset, relationships, and behaviors that contributed to its destruction.
This is your season to walk differently.
Do Not Miss Your Season of Restoration
Psalm 102:16 declares:
“For the Lord will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.”
God receives glory when broken lives are restored. Your testimony will not only be about what happened to you. It will also be about how God strengthened you, realigned you, and helped you build again.
This August, do not simply turn another page on the calendar. Make a decision to come back into alignment with God.
Rebuild your faith.
Rebuild your family.
Rebuild your mind.
Rebuild your future.
Then walk boldly in your rebuilt life.
Begin Your Rebuilding Journey Today
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This is more than an eBook. It is an opportunity to pause, examine your foundation, and develop a faith-filled plan for your next season.
Do not continue living among the ruins when God has given you permission to rebuild.
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Restoring what was broken. Building what God ordained.
2 Timothy 1-5: Perilous Times
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Joshua 1:9: Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Being strong and courageous is no easy task, especially when their are insurmountable odds against you. God calls us to be courageous and strong when: 1) What you see is the opposite of what God said; 2) when God tells you you will make the Promised Land; 3) when it feels like you are losing; 4) when people have tried their best to assassinate your character; 5) when your math is not God's math; 6).when you want to throw in the towel; 7) when people you thought would be there leave. When you are down to nothing, God is up to something! When we are weak, God is strong because we are made perfect in our weakness. If God gave you an assignment, remember, When God calls you to it, He will perform it. Stay obedient, walk in love, walk in faith, walk in forgiveness, and remain faithful.
