As I woke up and was inviting the Holy Spirit to have dominion and control over my day so I could walk in the plans of good works which Jesus had already determined for me. Ephesians.2:10. The Holy Spirit spoke one word to me about needing to have resilience if we are going to inherit everything the Father has left for us. I then got busy studying the word resilience because I knew that if the Holy Spirit was emphasizing a word it meant that I did not fully grasp what the word means.

I have found out that even though we may know and use words once the Holy Spirit breathes the word to us there is an explosion of meaning that emerges which helps change the course we are on to bring us into triumph no matter the challenge we were facing. I proceeded to look up the word in the dictionary. It was very revealing: First meaning was the capability of a body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress.

Immediately I recognised why the Holy Spirit of developing resilience to lay hold of the promises of God. If you are needing to have the capability to recover then resilience is built after the loss of something vital to ones life which the enemy is an expert at doing.

Whether it is sickness or disease or financial losses, or debt or any life threatening situation we as followers of Jesus must have the capacity to recover from them and get back on our feet. You will notice that this is after deformation has happened which has changed the look of the thing in question making it look totally out of sync.

Resilience is the ingredient necessary to recover back the right form of the situation/body that had been deformed no matter the level of compressed stress that was used to change its form. So I asked the Holy Spirit instantly to help me develop greater resilience in storm situations and every area where I was falling short on my resilience capabilities because wherever the ability to recover losses is not present we will never see the situation recovered.

I immediately started asking the Holy Spirit to help me recover every situation in my past where there has not been full recompense of everything I lost in those seasons which I have been standing on and have not yet happened which breeds lack of focus to recover them.

Amazingly enough the Holy Spirit brought back to my remembrance situations I had literally forgotten and He encouraged me to get them back by becoming more resilient till the recovery is complete.

This reality of the word resilience is in line with Jesus who is the Resurrection and the Life. John.11:25 & 26. Jesus has the ability to recover anything dead and bring it back to life no matter what caused the death as He proved with Lazarus in John.11. You can imagine how excited I became as I understood the relationship between having resilience and the power to raise the dead things in life back to their original whole state free from the deformation that had occurred.

I wanted to know more because I had never seen how important resilience was to see my faith produce creative results in the midst of the greatest challenges without flinching. Secondly resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. This was even stronger because it reminded me of the Apostle Paul who said that non of these trials and tests the enemy sent move him from what the word says.

This is an area where we all need to grow up to the point where we allow no misfortune or negative turn of events to make us change our stance or position of faith. This is because we know that our faith is our title deed secured that we will have and recover everything that has been lost. No negative occurrence can change our disposition so we are easily able to recover everything lost no matter the way it happened without losing our joy, because it hurt us and caused unnecessary pain or losses.

The conversation got more intensive because as I realised what greater resilience can do for me I was angry at how on some occasions I allowed myself to be moved by the outside noise of negative outcomes that challenge the word of the Lord. It reminded me of the Psalm where we are told that the word tested Joseph till its fulfilment which points to the fact that Joseph’s continued resilience finally brought him to the place where he ruled over Egypt as the word of the Lord came to pass.

The Holy Spirit caused me to see that Jesus was always resilient in all He did and that meant that no situation in life fazed Him including even raising Lazarus from the grave. In John.5:28 & 29 Jesus tells the people not to marvel at the fact that all those in the grave will hear His voice and come back to life. So I asked the Holy Spirit for a greater measure of resilience to operate in my life so that no life situation should ever faze me just as was the case with Jesus.

Today Precious Holy Spirit as I have come to understand the importance of having resilience and walking in it daily I ask you to help me connect with the grace that produces greater resilience within me to the point where I walk unfazed by any situation that rises up to challenge my faith. Please teach me how to use resilience in my daily walk so I am able to recover and restore all the things the enemy has robbed from me.

I declare that I will walk in the fullness of the grace of understanding how to operate in resilience to the point where I recover the lost years of good from my life. I ask You to open the eyes of my understanding so I will no longer come short of the good fruits resilience brings into my life in the name of Jesus. Amen.