August 29, 2025 • 21 mins
Have you ever felt like you’ve run out of chances? Like this time, grace won’t come through? Like you’ve crossed the line where mercy used to be?
This episode is for the one who feels disqualified, discarded, and done. But here’s the truth: grace doesn’t come with an expiration date.
Join Dan as he dives deep into the lie the enemy loves to whisper: “This time, it’s too late.” Through raw honesty, biblical truth, and personal reflection, you’ll discover that your failure isn't the end—it's the invitation. Because grace isn’t porcelain—it’s bloody, it’s bold, and it never backs down.
This isn’t grace that waits for you to get it together. This is grace that gets in the dirt with you.
Key Highlights:
- Grace doesn’t retreat when you relapse—it rescues.
- Romans 5:20 — “Where sin increased, grace increased all the more.”
- The cross wasn’t a one-time offer. It’s a permanent payment.
- Why Lamentations 3:22–23 is the anthem of every comeback story.
- You’re not the sum of your stumbles—you’re the proof of God’s persistence.
Scriptures Covered:
Romans 5:20 • Lamentations 3:22–23 • John 8:1–11 • Psalm 34:18 • Hebrews 13:8
Final Truth:
Grace doesn’t count the comebacks. It celebrates them.
You haven’t run out of chances. You’ve just run out of reasons to stay stuck. And grace? It’s still here—louder than shame, stronger than sin, and ready to begin again.
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(00:05):
This world doesn't hand outhealing.
It offers quick fixes, cheappies and empty promises, but
real recovery, it takes roots.
Roots that dig deep into truth,into identity, into the
unshakeable grace of God.
We're not here to sugarcoat thestruggle.
(00:27):
We've lived it addiction.
Shame, relapse, regret.
But we've also seenresurrection.
We've seen what happens whenbroken people get anchored in
something real rooted andrecovered is more than a
podcast.
It's a battleground for thesoul.
A place where scars tellstories, where scripture speaks
(00:48):
louder than shame, where freedomisn't just a word.
It's a war we win daily.
So if you're tired of surfacelevel answers, if you want truth
that convicts, hope that heals,and conversations that cut
through the noise, you're in theright place.
Welcome to Rooted and Recovered.
Dan (01:13):
Welcome to another episode of Rooted and Recovered.
I'm your host, Dan Pyles, andI'm so thankful that you, uh,
are joining me today for anotherpowerful episode.
This one is titled Grace ThatDoesn't Expire, and I wanna
start the podcast out by askingyou a simple question, one that
(01:35):
I've had to ask myself manytimes.
You ever feel like you've usedup all your second chances?
You know, like you've, like,you've stumbled or, or you've
messed up in life just one toomany times, you know, may maybe,
maybe you relapsed again or, ormaybe you let someone down again
(01:56):
and now you're wondering ifGod's done handing out mercy.
Like maybe we've crossed theline where grace runs out,
maybe.
We've crossed that line whereforgiveness feels like a memory
and not a promise, but here'sthe truth.
(02:17):
Family that hell doesn't wantyou to remember is Grace doesn't
come with an expiration date.
Let me repeat that to you.
Grace doesn't come with anexpiration date.
There's no fine print there.
It's, it's, there's no limitedsupply.
(02:37):
There's not too many timesfamily.
The grace that found you and meat our worst is the same grace
that will walk with you at yourweakest.
Why?
Because grace isn't based on howstrong you are, it's based on
how faithful he is.
(02:58):
You're still breathing.
God, my friend is still working.
If you're still broken, then youare still eligible.
You haven't been disqualified.
You've been marked not by yourmistakes family, but by his
mercy.
So before we go any further inthis season, let this sink in.
(03:22):
You're not too far gone.
You're not too late.
You're not too messed up.
you are still standing and gracestill holds.
The problem is family, and Ihave been victim of this myself.
I have done this.
We treat grace like it'sfragile.
(03:44):
Let's be real for just a moment.
Some of us walk on eggshellsaround grace.
We, we treat it like it's some,some delicate thing that if we
drop it, it'll crack.
Like the moment we mess up it,it might slip through our
fingers and shatter.
(04:05):
But family, that's not biblicalgrace.
Grace is not some porcelain dollsitting on some religious shelf
somewhere.
Guys, grace.
It's bloody grace.
It's a bloody beaten saviorhanging on the cross, reaching
(04:27):
for you and me while we werestill stuck in our mess.
Guys, I got some great news foryou today.
Grace isn't scared of yourrelapse.
It doesn't retreat when you messup.
It's not whispering in our ears.
You better not do that.
Again.
It's screaming.
(04:48):
Even in our lowest, even in ourmess ups, it's screaming.
Even now, I choose you guys.
Grace is a rescue mission.
It's not a reward, That's whyRomans five 20 says that where
sin increased, grace increasedall the more.
(05:13):
Did you catch that?
Sin increased.
So guess what happened?
Grace got louder.
Grace got bolder, grace wentdeeper.
That means God didn't sin gracebecause you were doing great.
He sent it because we weredrowning.
Not just once.
(05:33):
every Time Shame tries to pullyou under.
Every time Addiction tightensits grip.
Every time regret whispers inour ear that will never change.
Grace shows up with a rescuerope and it never lets go.
Family Relapse didn't cancelyour story.
(05:54):
It revealed your need.
You don't blow it beyond repairfamily.
You expose just how much youstill need a savior, and that my
friend, is where transformationstarts.
Relapse doesn't mean you'refake.
It doesn't mean you're hopeless.
(06:15):
It means that you're stillhuman, that you're still in
process.
But more importantly is that Godis still present in it.
You see the cross.
The cross wasn't a one timeoffer, guys, the cross, it was a
permanent payment and that meansthere's still room for you and
(06:38):
me at the table.
Relap and all baggage and allmistakes and all failures and
all.
There is still room at the tableof grace for you and I.
Guys, God doesn't toss you outwhen you fail.
That voice telling you that,that lie from the devil that's
(06:59):
been pounding on you and beatingon you and screaming in your,
your ear, that that God's donewith you guys.
That's not the voice of theshepherd.
That's the voice of shame.
That's the voice of the accuserguys.
'cause Jesus doesn't back awaywhen you and I fall.
He moves closer, he gets down inthe dirt like he did with that
(07:23):
woman that was caught inadultery.
He kneels down in the wreckageand he lifts up our face with
love and compassion and he says,I'm not here to condemn you.
I'm here to restore you.
Guys, grace doesn't just wait atthe finish line.
(07:45):
Grace runs into the fire to findyou.
This isn't about how many timesyou and I have failed.
You could have messed up 99times and God would still say,
get up.
Let's go again.
(08:05):
This journey guys that we areon.
It has nothing to do withimpressing God.
This journey we are on, it'sabout trusting him.
It's about trusting the process.
It's about coming back again andagain because you know, the one
who restores is stronger thanthe thing that wrecked you.
(08:28):
And that's why Grace will nevertell you and me that it's done
with us.
Instead, it looks us in theeyes, dusts us off and says,
let's go Again.
Not because we deserve it, ithas nothing to do because we
earned it, but because Gracedoesn't quit where we fall, it
(08:54):
begins there.
Now let this truth grip you.
Family.
You haven't run outta chances,you've just run outta.
Reasons to stay stuck.
One of my favorite all timeverses in the Bible is in the
book of Lamentations and it'sLamentations, chapter three
(09:16):
verses 22, uh, and 23 it says,because of the Lord's great
love.
We are not consumed for hiscompassions never fail.
They are new every morning.
Great.
Is your faithfulness now, I justtaught on a Bible study on this
(09:41):
at my church, uh, not too longago.
And when you read the book ofLamentations, Jeremiah, the
prophet.
Is writing this and he islamenting over the fall of
Israel and he is in the middleof wreckage.
He is in the middle of the, theworst.
(10:02):
Time of his life, he is seeingthe temple destroyed.
The walls of of, of the nationof Israel have falling and
everything's in flames andeverything has been destroyed.
And, and nothing, when you lookat it through your eyes, there's
nothing good that you could see.
(10:23):
But notice Jeremiah didn't saywhen things get better.
Or you know, when I get throughthis in the middle of his
wreckage, in the middle of theworst case scenario in
Jeremiah's life, he says, we arenot consumed.
(10:44):
Why?
Because of the Lord's great lovefor his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning.
Great.
Is your faithfulness family.
You woke up today, you gotbreath in your lungs, you're
you, you're alive, and you'rehere.
(11:06):
Then guess what?
Grace showed up today with you.
Let that settle in your spirit.
If you're still breathingfamily, you haven't been
abandoned.
That's a lie from the devil.
If you, if you opened your eyesthis morning, God.
God whose compassions neverfell, the the God whose mercies
(11:29):
are new every morning because ofhis faithfulness.
If you opened your eyes thismorning, God opened heaven's
mercy over your life again withno questions asked.
You see, the enemy loves toconvince you and I that we're
damaged goods that we're too fargone, or we're too messed up to
(11:52):
matter.
But lamentation says that youare not consumed, and that word
consumed means destroyed, usedup, burned out.
And let's be honest, we felt allthose things at some point in
our life.
Addiction consumed our peace,shame consumed our identity,
(12:15):
regret consumed our past, butGod's compassion says not today.
Every time life tried to eat youalive, grace stood in the gap
every time you thought that.
This is the end.
Mercy whispered, this is a newbeginning.
(12:37):
Why?
Because his compassions neverfail.
You see, we talk a lot aboutfailure, our own failure, but
this verse flips the script.
God's compassion never fails.
Not when you relapse, not whenyou rage, not when you return to
(13:00):
the, to that thing that youthought you left behind.
Not when you walk into church,uh, with nothing to offer, but a
broken heart and, and a bustedpass.
He doesn't withdraw hiscompassions, he multiplies it.
God doesn't ration mercy likeit's some type of medicine.
(13:21):
He floods it like rain guysmercy.
It's not based on your behavior,it's based on his nature.
You didn't earn mercy yesterday.
I didn't earn mercy yesterdayand we don't have to earn it
today.
Because it never came from youor I in the first place.
(13:44):
Guys, mercy flows from the veryheart of who God is and he
doesn't change.
The Bible says that he is thesame yesterday, today, and
forever.
That means you don't wake up tograce that was less than
yesterday.
You wake up to Grace that knowswhere you've been and still
(14:06):
shows up anyway every morning.
Again, there's something sopowerful about that word every.
It doesn't say his mercies arenew when you behave.
It doesn't say his mercies areare new on Sundays.
It doesn't say his mercies arenew.
(14:27):
When you've been clean for ayear, it says every morning,
which means today, no matterwhat.
Yesterday looked like no matterhow bad you messed up yesterday.
You might have, you might havebeen the worst version of you,
(14:49):
but guess what?
Grace came knocking and it'llcome again tomorrow.
In the next day.
In the next day.
Why?
Because grace doesn't recycleold memories.
It delivers fresh ones.
Family.
You don't have to survive todayon leftovers from last week's
(15:11):
faith.
God already stocked this morningwith mercy Custom built for
where you are right now at thisvery moment.
So before you carry the weightof yesterday into your new
beginning, remember this, youare not consumed.
(15:34):
You are.
Covered.
Now, I wanna reflect onsomething here for just a
moment, and I want you to behonest with yourself.
I, I want you to take some timeand really think about this.
Where have you convincedyourself that grace ran out?
(15:56):
Maybe, maybe it was the relapseafter nine months of being
clean.
Maybe it was that night youprayed.
And still picked up.
Maybe it was that look insomeone's eyes when they said,
I'm disappointed in you.
Somewhere along the way, thewhisper crept in and the enemy
(16:22):
began to pound into our heads.
This time you've gone too farthis time.
God must be done with you.
But family, that voice isn'tGod.
that shame disguising itself asholiness.
Grace didn't dry up in yourworst moment.
(16:44):
It rushed in quietly,relentlessly, fully aware of who
you are and still choosing you.
What would change in your lifefamily?
Think about this.
What would change if you reallybelieved God wasn't tired of
(17:10):
you?
Think about that.
What would change if you reallybelieved God wasn't tired of
you?
If you really believe.
God doesn't roll his eyes whenyou come back again, if you
(17:31):
really believed that Jesusdoesn't cross his arms at you,
but opens them what would happenin your life today if you really
believed that He is not shocked,that he's not disappointed and
he's not second guessing hislove for you.
(17:55):
Wouldn't that change the way youapproach him?
You'd stop hiding.
You'd stop performing, and you'dstop trying to earn back what
was never taken from you.
You'd stop seeing yourself as ascrew up trying to get better,
and you'd start seeing yourselfas a son or daughter walking
(18:20):
back home.
Guys, he is not just the God ofsecond chances, he's the God of
another one.
Grace doesn't operate on, onpunch cards there.
There's no limit to how manytimes you and I can come back
because grace doesn't count thecomebacks.
(18:42):
It celebrates them.
You say, but I should be pastthis by now.
God says, but you're still mineand I'm not finished.
So you might feel like a repeatoffender, but God still sees us
as redeemed.
(19:03):
He sees you and I as a redeemedson or daughter.
You've been forgiven more thanonce.
You've been carried when youshould have been crushed.
You've been held together byhands that never have let you
go.
Guys, that's not weakness.
That's Grace.
(19:24):
Doing what Grace does, guys, andI'm so thankful for this, but
Grace doesn't get tired.
And as we get ready to wrap thispodcast up, I just feel
compelled to remind you.
You're not disqualified, you'renot discarded, and you're not
(19:46):
done.
You are not the sum of yourstumbles, the sum of your
mistakes.
You're the proof of God'spersistence.
Grace didn't give up on you whenyou fell apart.
Grace didn't walk out on youwhen you relapsed.
(20:08):
Grace didn't turn away when youquestion your worth.
No family.
Grace leaned in and today thatsame grace says, I'm still here.
Let's begin again.
You might feel like you've usedup all your chances, but family,
(20:30):
the cross didn't come with fineprint.
Grace doesn't expire, so riseup, not because you've earned
it, but because you're called toit.
Until next time, family stayrooted, stay recovered, and
let's get to work.
(20:50):
You are not just surviving.
You are becoming, becomingrooted in truth, becoming
recovered by grace, and becomingthe person God always knew you
could be.
Thanks for joining us on Rootedin Recovered.
If this episode stirredsomething in you, don't keep it
to yourself.
Share it, live it, let it takeroot.
(21:14):
We'll see you next time righthere where scars become
testimonies and hope rises fromthe ashes.
This world doesn't hand outhealing.
It offers quick fixes, cheappies and empty promises, but
real recovery, it takes roots.
Roots that dig deep into truth,into identity, into the
unshakeable grace of God.
We're not here to sugarcoat thestruggle.
(00:27):
We've lived it addiction.
Shame, relapse, regret.
But we've also seenresurrection.
We've seen what happens whenbroken people get anchored in
something real rooted andrecovered is more than a
podcast.
It's a battleground for thesoul.
A place where scars tellstories, where scripture speaks
(00:48):
louder than shame, where freedomisn't just a word.
It's a war we win daily.
So if you're tired of surfacelevel answers, if you want truth
that convicts, hope that heals,and conversations that cut
through the noise, you're in theright place.
Welcome to Rooted and Recovered.
Dan (01:13):
Welcome to another episode of Rooted and Recovered.
I'm your host, Dan Pyles, andI'm so thankful that you, uh,
are joining me today for anotherpowerful episode.
This one is titled Grace ThatDoesn't Expire, and I wanna
start the podcast out by askingyou a simple question, one that
(01:35):
I've had to ask myself manytimes.
You ever feel like you've usedup all your second chances?
You know, like you've, like,you've stumbled or, or you've
messed up in life just one toomany times, you know, may maybe,
maybe you relapsed again or, ormaybe you let someone down again
(01:56):
and now you're wondering ifGod's done handing out mercy.
Like maybe we've crossed theline where grace runs out,
maybe.
We've crossed that line whereforgiveness feels like a memory
and not a promise, but here'sthe truth.
(02:17):
Family that hell doesn't wantyou to remember is Grace doesn't
come with an expiration date.
Let me repeat that to you.
Grace doesn't come with anexpiration date.
There's no fine print there.
It's, it's, there's no limitedsupply.
(02:37):
There's not too many timesfamily.
The grace that found you and meat our worst is the same grace
that will walk with you at yourweakest.
Why?
Because grace isn't based on howstrong you are, it's based on
how faithful he is.
(02:58):
You're still breathing.
God, my friend is still working.
If you're still broken, then youare still eligible.
You haven't been disqualified.
You've been marked not by yourmistakes family, but by his
mercy.
So before we go any further inthis season, let this sink in.
(03:22):
You're not too far gone.
You're not too late.
You're not too messed up.
you are still standing and gracestill holds.
The problem is family, and Ihave been victim of this myself.
I have done this.
We treat grace like it'sfragile.
(03:44):
Let's be real for just a moment.
Some of us walk on eggshellsaround grace.
We, we treat it like it's some,some delicate thing that if we
drop it, it'll crack.
Like the moment we mess up it,it might slip through our
fingers and shatter.
(04:05):
But family, that's not biblicalgrace.
Grace is not some porcelain dollsitting on some religious shelf
somewhere.
Guys, grace.
It's bloody grace.
It's a bloody beaten saviorhanging on the cross, reaching
(04:27):
for you and me while we werestill stuck in our mess.
Guys, I got some great news foryou today.
Grace isn't scared of yourrelapse.
It doesn't retreat when you messup.
It's not whispering in our ears.
You better not do that.
Again.
It's screaming.
(04:48):
Even in our lowest, even in ourmess ups, it's screaming.
Even now, I choose you guys.
Grace is a rescue mission.
It's not a reward, That's whyRomans five 20 says that where
sin increased, grace increasedall the more.
(05:13):
Did you catch that?
Sin increased.
So guess what happened?
Grace got louder.
Grace got bolder, grace wentdeeper.
That means God didn't sin gracebecause you were doing great.
He sent it because we weredrowning.
Not just once.
(05:33):
every Time Shame tries to pullyou under.
Every time Addiction tightensits grip.
Every time regret whispers inour ear that will never change.
Grace shows up with a rescuerope and it never lets go.
Family Relapse didn't cancelyour story.
(05:54):
It revealed your need.
You don't blow it beyond repairfamily.
You expose just how much youstill need a savior, and that my
friend, is where transformationstarts.
Relapse doesn't mean you'refake.
It doesn't mean you're hopeless.
(06:15):
It means that you're stillhuman, that you're still in
process.
But more importantly is that Godis still present in it.
You see the cross.
The cross wasn't a one timeoffer, guys, the cross, it was a
permanent payment and that meansthere's still room for you and
(06:38):
me at the table.
Relap and all baggage and allmistakes and all failures and
all.
There is still room at the tableof grace for you and I.
Guys, God doesn't toss you outwhen you fail.
That voice telling you that,that lie from the devil that's
(06:59):
been pounding on you and beatingon you and screaming in your,
your ear, that that God's donewith you guys.
That's not the voice of theshepherd.
That's the voice of shame.
That's the voice of the accuserguys.
'cause Jesus doesn't back awaywhen you and I fall.
He moves closer, he gets down inthe dirt like he did with that
(07:23):
woman that was caught inadultery.
He kneels down in the wreckageand he lifts up our face with
love and compassion and he says,I'm not here to condemn you.
I'm here to restore you.
Guys, grace doesn't just wait atthe finish line.
(07:45):
Grace runs into the fire to findyou.
This isn't about how many timesyou and I have failed.
You could have messed up 99times and God would still say,
get up.
Let's go again.
(08:05):
This journey guys that we areon.
It has nothing to do withimpressing God.
This journey we are on, it'sabout trusting him.
It's about trusting the process.
It's about coming back again andagain because you know, the one
who restores is stronger thanthe thing that wrecked you.
(08:28):
And that's why Grace will nevertell you and me that it's done
with us.
Instead, it looks us in theeyes, dusts us off and says,
let's go Again.
Not because we deserve it, ithas nothing to do because we
earned it, but because Gracedoesn't quit where we fall, it
(08:54):
begins there.
Now let this truth grip you.
Family.
You haven't run outta chances,you've just run outta.
Reasons to stay stuck.
One of my favorite all timeverses in the Bible is in the
book of Lamentations and it'sLamentations, chapter three
(09:16):
verses 22, uh, and 23 it says,because of the Lord's great
love.
We are not consumed for hiscompassions never fail.
They are new every morning.
Great.
Is your faithfulness now, I justtaught on a Bible study on this
(09:41):
at my church, uh, not too longago.
And when you read the book ofLamentations, Jeremiah, the
prophet.
Is writing this and he islamenting over the fall of
Israel and he is in the middleof wreckage.
He is in the middle of the, theworst.
(10:02):
Time of his life, he is seeingthe temple destroyed.
The walls of of, of the nationof Israel have falling and
everything's in flames andeverything has been destroyed.
And, and nothing, when you lookat it through your eyes, there's
nothing good that you could see.
(10:23):
But notice Jeremiah didn't saywhen things get better.
Or you know, when I get throughthis in the middle of his
wreckage, in the middle of theworst case scenario in
Jeremiah's life, he says, we arenot consumed.
(10:44):
Why?
Because of the Lord's great lovefor his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning.
Great.
Is your faithfulness family.
You woke up today, you gotbreath in your lungs, you're
you, you're alive, and you'rehere.
(11:06):
Then guess what?
Grace showed up today with you.
Let that settle in your spirit.
If you're still breathingfamily, you haven't been
abandoned.
That's a lie from the devil.
If you, if you opened your eyesthis morning, God.
God whose compassions neverfell, the the God whose mercies
(11:29):
are new every morning because ofhis faithfulness.
If you opened your eyes thismorning, God opened heaven's
mercy over your life again withno questions asked.
You see, the enemy loves toconvince you and I that we're
damaged goods that we're too fargone, or we're too messed up to
(11:52):
matter.
But lamentation says that youare not consumed, and that word
consumed means destroyed, usedup, burned out.
And let's be honest, we felt allthose things at some point in
our life.
Addiction consumed our peace,shame consumed our identity,
(12:15):
regret consumed our past, butGod's compassion says not today.
Every time life tried to eat youalive, grace stood in the gap
every time you thought that.
This is the end.
Mercy whispered, this is a newbeginning.
(12:37):
Why?
Because his compassions neverfail.
You see, we talk a lot aboutfailure, our own failure, but
this verse flips the script.
God's compassion never fails.
Not when you relapse, not whenyou rage, not when you return to
(13:00):
the, to that thing that youthought you left behind.
Not when you walk into church,uh, with nothing to offer, but a
broken heart and, and a bustedpass.
He doesn't withdraw hiscompassions, he multiplies it.
God doesn't ration mercy likeit's some type of medicine.
(13:21):
He floods it like rain guysmercy.
It's not based on your behavior,it's based on his nature.
You didn't earn mercy yesterday.
I didn't earn mercy yesterdayand we don't have to earn it
today.
Because it never came from youor I in the first place.
(13:44):
Guys, mercy flows from the veryheart of who God is and he
doesn't change.
The Bible says that he is thesame yesterday, today, and
forever.
That means you don't wake up tograce that was less than
yesterday.
You wake up to Grace that knowswhere you've been and still
(14:06):
shows up anyway every morning.
Again, there's something sopowerful about that word every.
It doesn't say his mercies arenew when you behave.
It doesn't say his mercies areare new on Sundays.
It doesn't say his mercies arenew.
(14:27):
When you've been clean for ayear, it says every morning,
which means today, no matterwhat.
Yesterday looked like no matterhow bad you messed up yesterday.
You might have, you might havebeen the worst version of you,
(14:49):
but guess what?
Grace came knocking and it'llcome again tomorrow.
In the next day.
In the next day.
Why?
Because grace doesn't recycleold memories.
It delivers fresh ones.
Family.
You don't have to survive todayon leftovers from last week's
(15:11):
faith.
God already stocked this morningwith mercy Custom built for
where you are right now at thisvery moment.
So before you carry the weightof yesterday into your new
beginning, remember this, youare not consumed.
(15:34):
You are.
Covered.
Now, I wanna reflect onsomething here for just a
moment, and I want you to behonest with yourself.
I, I want you to take some timeand really think about this.
Where have you convincedyourself that grace ran out?
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Maybe, maybe it was the relapseafter nine months of being
clean.
Maybe it was that night youprayed.
And still picked up.
Maybe it was that look insomeone's eyes when they said,
I'm disappointed in you.
Somewhere along the way, thewhisper crept in and the enemy
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began to pound into our heads.
This time you've gone too farthis time.
God must be done with you.
But family, that voice isn'tGod.
that shame disguising itself asholiness.
Grace didn't dry up in yourworst moment.
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It rushed in quietly,relentlessly, fully aware of who
you are and still choosing you.
What would change in your lifefamily?
Think about this.
What would change if you reallybelieved God wasn't tired of
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you?
Think about that.
What would change if you reallybelieved God wasn't tired of
you?
If you really believe.
God doesn't roll his eyes whenyou come back again, if you
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really believed that Jesusdoesn't cross his arms at you,
but opens them what would happenin your life today if you really
believed that He is not shocked,that he's not disappointed and
he's not second guessing hislove for you.
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Wouldn't that change the way youapproach him?
You'd stop hiding.
You'd stop performing, and you'dstop trying to earn back what
was never taken from you.
You'd stop seeing yourself as ascrew up trying to get better,
and you'd start seeing yourselfas a son or daughter walking
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back home.
Guys, he is not just the God ofsecond chances, he's the God of
another one.
Grace doesn't operate on, onpunch cards there.
There's no limit to how manytimes you and I can come back
because grace doesn't count thecomebacks.
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It celebrates them.
You say, but I should be pastthis by now.
God says, but you're still mineand I'm not finished.
So you might feel like a repeatoffender, but God still sees us
as redeemed.
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He sees you and I as a redeemedson or daughter.
You've been forgiven more thanonce.
You've been carried when youshould have been crushed.
You've been held together byhands that never have let you
go.
Guys, that's not weakness.
That's Grace.
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Doing what Grace does, guys, andI'm so thankful for this, but
Grace doesn't get tired.
And as we get ready to wrap thispodcast up, I just feel
compelled to remind you.
You're not disqualified, you'renot discarded, and you're not
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done.
You are not the sum of yourstumbles, the sum of your
mistakes.
You're the proof of God'spersistence.
Grace didn't give up on you whenyou fell apart.
Grace didn't walk out on youwhen you relapsed.
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Grace didn't turn away when youquestion your worth.
No family.
Grace leaned in and today thatsame grace says, I'm still here.
Let's begin again.
You might feel like you've usedup all your chances, but family,
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the cross didn't come with fineprint.
Grace doesn't expire, so riseup, not because you've earned
it, but because you're called toit.
Until next time, family stayrooted, stay recovered, and
let's get to work.
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You are not just surviving.
You are becoming, becomingrooted in truth, becoming
recovered by grace, and becomingthe person God always knew you
could be.
Thanks for joining us on Rootedin Recovered.
If this episode stirredsomething in you, don't keep it
to yourself.
Share it, live it, let it takeroot.
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We'll see you next time righthere where scars become
testimonies and hope rises fromthe ashes.
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