Bouncing Back God’s Way

Are you battling a stubborn habit that you seem unable to shift?  Here is the good news.  Jesus said that He came ‘that captives will be released’ (Luke 4:18).  You can recover.  You can get back what you’ve lost, or something better.  How? By doing two things David did when the Amalekites destroyed his home and took his family captive.

The first thing David did was, he turned to God for strength. ‘David strengthened himself in the Lord.’ (1 Samuel 30:6).  Face it, if you could solve the problem yourself you would have done it.  Acknowledging your powerlessness is the first step to victory. But acknowledging it is not the same as giving in to defeat and despair.  It means you can’t but Go can, and He will when you surrender to Him.

The second thing David did was turn to God for a strategy.  ‘David inquired of the Lord, saying, ‘shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?’ And He answered him, ‘Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail, recover all.’ (1Samuel 30:8).  David was relentless, he did not stop until he had recovered everything the enemy had stolen from him.  That must be your attitude too.

You may think you have failed too often, but the bible says: ‘Though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again.’ (Proverbs 24:16).  You are righteous, not because of your performance but because of Jesus’ performance on the cross.  Knowing that will give you the faith and courage to ‘pursue, overtake and recover all’ – and bounce back God’s way.