September 26, 2025 • 21 mins
You blew it again.
You promised it would never happen. You meant it when you said the prayers, swore the oaths, made the commitments. But somehow, here you are… face down in shame, silence, and self-hate. And now the enemy whispers:
"God’s done with you."
In this raw, vulnerable, and deeply redemptive episode, Dan gets brutally honest about a truth most of us are afraid to ask out loud:
What if God still wants to use you?
Not later. Not when you’ve cleaned up. But now—when you feel the most ruined.
This episode will challenge everything you believe about failure, purpose, and grace. Because the call of God doesn’t come with an expiration date, and your worst moment might be the setup for your greatest ministry.
Key Highlights:
- Failure isn’t the finish line—it’s the forge.
- God uses people with scars, not people without them.
- Your relapse didn’t revoke your calling—it revealed your need for grace.
- In a world full of polished testimonies, people are desperate for something real.
- If you're still breathing, you're still called.
Scriptures Covered:
- John 21:15–17 — Jesus restores Peter after betrayal: “Do you love me? Then feed my sheep.”
- Romans 11:29 — “For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.”
- 2 Corinthians 12:9 — “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
- Psalm 34:18 — “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”
Final Truth:
You don’t get to un-call what God already called.
Your story isn’t over—it’s being rewritten by grace. You might be bruised, scraped, and limping—but you’re not done.
Your scars make you safe to the suffering.
Your failures give you credibility in rooms where perfection never could.
And your yes, even if it’s trembling, is still enough.
He’s not looking for polished.
He’s not looking for perfect.
He’s looking for you.
So get up, family. Feed His sheep.
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Episode Transcript
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(00:00):
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.
(00:22):
We've lived it.
Addiction, shame, relapse,regret, but we've also seen
resurrection.
We've seen what has.
Happens when broken people getanchored in something real
rooted and recovered is morethan a podcast.
It's a battleground for thesoul.
A place where scars tellstories, where scripture speaks
(00:43):
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 (01:09):
Welcome to another episode of Rooted and Recovered.
I'm your host, Dan Pyles.
Thank you so very much from thebottom of my heart for hanging
out with me here for just alittle bit as we continue this
journey that we call recovery.
Today's podcast episode issomething deep.
(01:30):
Uh, that I want to share withyou something that I struggled
with many times early in myrecovery.
And if I'm honest with myself,family, there's still times that
I still struggle with it today.
And I'm coming up on nine yearsin recovery.
October 16th, 2016 was myrecovery date.
(01:52):
Uh, so we're not too far fromthat.
Uh, so I'll be coming up on nineyears of recovery.
Family, if I'm honest with you,uh, there's days that I still
feel like this, and the title oftoday's episode is, what If God
Still Wants To Use You?
(02:13):
Think about that for just amoment.
What if God still wants to useyou?
I'm just gonna lay it out there.
You failed again.
Not just in some small way youswore you'd never go back.
You made the promises, you saidthe prayers, and you know what
(02:36):
you meant them, but somehow youfound yourself in that place
again, relapsing, regretting,breaking what you finally
thought that you've gotten pastand that you were healed from.
And now the shame is loud.
(02:56):
That voice in in your head andsays, you knew better.
God's done with you.
You used up your last ounce ofgrace.
So what do we do?
Family?
We sit there, we sit in silenceof failure, and then we begin to
wonder, did I really blow it forgood?
(03:17):
Maybe you're still showing up,maybe you're still serving,
maybe you're still going tochurch, maybe you're still in
group, you're still trying topray.
But deep down, if you're honestwith yourself, you just don't
feel usable anymore.
You feel like you're just exexisting in the shadow of what
(03:38):
could have been.
But let me tell you somethingthat might shake you up even.
The most deepest, darkest timesof your life, God still wants to
use you, not the future polishedversion of you, not the one who
(03:59):
never messes up again, not theone who finally gets it all
right.
He wants to use you right now.
Wreckage in the wrestling, inthe rawness because your failure
doesn't avoid your callingfamily.
Your wounds don't cancel yourpurpose, your your mistakes that
(04:23):
you and I are gonna make.
Guess what?
They don't surprise him.
And Grace doesn't hand out pinkslips when we mess up.
Let's talk about Moses again.
Yeah, the same Moses.
Who split the sea.
You read the book of Exodus, hesplit the Red Sea.
That same Moses in the book ofExodus who stood toe to toe with
(04:46):
Pharaoh.
That same Moses in the book ofExodus, who brought down the 10
Commandments.
You know what, before all ofthat family, he was a murderer.
He was a fugitive.
He was a man with anger issuesAnd that's the guy.
God chose to lead a nation.
(05:07):
Why?
Because God never called thequalified.
He qualifies the called, let merepeat that to you.
God never called the qualified.
He qualifies the called and thecall of God doesn't come with a
return policy family.
(05:28):
It comes with mercy.
It comes with power and it comeswith a plan that includes your
scars.
So if you're listening to thisepisode wondering, is God done
with me?
Let me be the voice today thatcuts through the static.
He is not.
(05:51):
He is not.
Family.
He still wants to use you, notjust in spite of your failure,
but through it Why?
Because you've seen some things.
You've walked through hell andsurvived.
You've been humbled.
You've learned to depend.
(06:13):
You've seen what it's like tolose and to get back up again.
Family that doesn't disqualifyyou.
That equips you in a world fullof plastic Christianity.
In polished testimonies, peopleare desperate for something.
(06:34):
Real family.
They're not looking for perfectleaders.
They're looking for healed ones,honest ones, human ones, ones
like you and me.
So here's the question.
This episode is going to wrestlewith what if God still wants to
use you?
(06:54):
Not when you feel ready, butright now when you feel the most
ruined.
Because if you're stillbreathing family, you're still
called.
And if you're still standing,there's still something for you
to do.
You see, failure doesn't endyour calling.
(07:16):
What it does, family, itprepares you for it.
Let that settle in for just asecond.
Most of us think that failure isthe finish line.
We blew it.
We slipped, we sinned, werelapsed, we messed up again,
and we assume that's it, thatGod can't use someone like me
(07:39):
anymore.
Come on, man.
I know I'm talking to somebodybesides myself.
We blew it.
I mean, we really blew itfamily.
And now we're sitting therethinking that God can't use this
busted, broken mess anymore.
But what if failure wasn't theend?
(08:03):
What if it was the forge, theplace where God actually refines
your calling?
What if the very thing that youthought disqualified you was the
tool God's using to shape you.
You see, you don't have to cleanyourself up before God can use
(08:23):
you.
You don't have to be perfect or,or polished or, or put together.
You see, God specializes inusing in broken people Because
they know they need him.
And there is no better proof inthe Bible than Peter.
Peter was a disciple of Jesus.
(08:45):
Peter walked with Jesus.
He saw miracles.
He made bold declarations.
He looked at Jesus Square in theface, said, I'll never leave you
Only to crash and burn under thepressure.
Three denials, three betrayals,three chances to say I don't
(09:05):
know him.
And yet, even after that, itdon't get much worse than
betraying Jesus, denying Jesuslike Peter did three times.
But yet.
As you read in the scriptures,Jesus still sought him out, not
(09:27):
to shame him, not to fire him,but to restore him.
If you look at John chapter 21,verses 15 through 17, it paints
the scene of restoration.
Jesus asked Simon, do you loveme?
He says, yes, Lord, feed mysheep.
(09:49):
Then he goes on two other timesand asks him if he loves him.
Three denials, threeaffirmations, and then a
commissioning after the be,after the betrayal family get
this after the betrayal, notbefore Jesus gave Peter his
(10:11):
mission.
Because your lowest moment isn'tthe thing that cancels your
destiny.
It's often the thing thatqualifies you for it.
You see, we keep trying toimpress God with our
performance, but he's notimpressed by spiritual resumes.
He's moved by surrenderedhearts.
(10:33):
You don't have to bring him yourcleaned up life.
You just have to bring him youryes, even if your yes is
shaking, scared and barelystanding.
Think about who God used.
Moses.
A murderer turned into adeliverer, David an ER turned
(10:57):
into a worshiping king.
Rahab a prostitute.
Who turned into a protector ofthe spies?
Paul, a Christian killer, turnedinto one of the most powerful
church planters.
You see, God doesn't call thepolished family.
(11:17):
He calls the willing becausewhen he uses someone broken, all
the glory goes to him.
Your fall didn't kill yourcalling family.
You know what it did?
It burned away your ego.
It stripped off your pride.
It revealed the cracks that youdidn't want to see, and now, now
(11:41):
you're ready to walk in yourpurpose.
Not with swagger, but withsurrender.
God doesn't waste pain.
Family, he repurposes it.
He turns your pit into aplatform.
Your relapse into a revelationand your wreck into a witness,
because now, now you know.
(12:03):
What it's like to need grace.
Now you can speak withauthority.
Now your message won't betheory, it will be testimony.
Family, you are not damagedgoods.
You are a redeemed vessel andmaybe just maybe God allowed you
to walk through what you did soyou could reach the people.
(12:27):
Others never could.
Not in spite of your story, butbecause of it.
Think about this for just amoment.
Have you ever mentally crossedyour own name off God's list?
Not because he said you weredone, but because shame
(12:50):
whispered it loud enough for youto begin to believe it.
Maybe you said things like.
God can't use me after what I'vedone.
I've gone too far.
I had my shot and I blew it.
But here's the thing.
(13:10):
Family.
You don't get to un-call whatGod has already called.
Did you hear what I just said?
You me, we don't get to un-callwhat God has already called.
You know why?
Because in Romans 1129, it tellsme that the gifts and the
(13:33):
calling of God are withoutrepentance.
That means he doesn't revokethem.
When you and I fail, he doesn'twithdraw them because of our
weakness.
In fact, it's often our weaknessthat becomes the witness.
Think about this.
(13:54):
What if your worst mistake.
Is the stage for your mostpowerful ministry.
Now, let that hit deep for aminute.
That very thing you're ashamedof, that very moment that you
tried to bury could be the exactplace where God wants to bring
(14:15):
healing to someone else.
Why?
Because people don't needpretend perfection.
They need someone who's walkedthrough the fire and still says,
God is good, grace is real, andyou are not too far gone.
(14:38):
Family.
Your failures give youcredibility in rooms where
religious pride could neverenter Your brokenness gives you
access to the hurting.
Your scars make you safe to thesuffering.
So maybe you're not meant toforget the failure.
(15:01):
Maybe you're meant to redeem it.
You see, grace doesn't justcover you.
It commissions you.
God doesn't just say, I forgiveyou.
He says, now go feed my sheep.
Tell your story.
Love the hurting.
(15:22):
Reach the lost.
Preach the word.
He doesn't just restore you Hereleases you into purpose, and
that's the beauty of grace.
It doesn't just wipe the slateclean it hands you the chalk and
(15:43):
says, let's start writing again.
And as we get ready to wrap thispodcast up, I just feel
compelled to tell you over andover again as long as there's
breath in my lungs, family.
You are not too far gone.
You're not too broken, you'renot disqualified, and you
(16:06):
haven't missed your moment.
The cross didn't just cover whatyou did.
It called you to what you weremade for.
If you've still got breath inyour lungs, then God still got a
purpose on your life.
(16:28):
You may have stumbled.
You may have fallen flat on yourface, but failure is not the
same thing as finished.
Did you hear me?
Failure is not the same thing asfinished.
(16:48):
Peter denied Jesus publicly,loudly, shamefully.
Jesus still said to him, feed mysheep.
So family.
If you are in the middle of thisright now, the Lord is speaking
to you today.
(17:08):
You might have messed up, youmight have relapsed.
You might that one thing thatyou said that you was never
gonna do in your life again,guess what you did.
And you wiped out and you havehit the floor, and you got the,
the, the face burns and thescrapes and the bumps and the
bruises to prove it.
(17:31):
And you might be sitting therethinking, this is it.
I have messed up too.
This is it.
I have blew my last chance.
I have messed up too many times.
I have used, I've used all mygrace cards.
I'm out, I'm empty handed.
God is looking at you today andtelling you to feed my sheep.
(17:55):
Come on man.
That's for somebody listening tothis today.
You really feel the enemy hasbeen pounding into your brains.
That you're disqualified, thatyou've blown it, that, that
someone else needs to step upand do it.
Someone else with bettercredentials, someone else with a
better background, someone elsewho, who is further in their
(18:19):
recovery and you're believingit.
You're now starting to take theback seat, but God is looking at
you and telling you today, feedmy sheep.
So stand back up, family.
Get back up.
Yes, you've fallen.
Yes, you've got bumps andscrapes and bruises.
(18:41):
It hurts, but stand back up.
Wipe off the shame.
Refuse the lie that says you'redisqualified and step into it
because the ones who have beenbroken, the deepest family.
Often carry the most dangerouskind of grace.
(19:05):
I just feel today in, because Iknow family, I know what it's
like.
I know what it's like to reallymess things up in life and I've
done it.
And guess what?
Even after nine years ofrecovery, there's still things
in my life that I mess up.
I feel that I, that I've, I'veblown it, that it's done, that
(19:27):
it's over with, that God justneeds to use somebody else
besides me.
But the word of God tells usthat even in the most darkest,
deepest betrayals, Peter deniedJesus three times and Jesus
(19:49):
still looked him in the face andsays, do you love me?
Then feed my sheep.
Jesus is looking at you and Itoday family, and he's asking
you and me the same question.
Do you love me?
And the answer better be yes,Lord, I do love you.
(20:13):
Then he's telling you and metoday, then go feed my sheep.
Family.
You've got a powerful recoverytestimony.
You have a powerful story.
You have a powerful life.
Don't let mistakes and failuresblock that and cover that light
(20:35):
up.
Jesus is calling you and Itoday.
Do you love me?
Then go feed my sheep.
Let's go family.
Let's go feed his sheeptogether.
Amen.
Until next time, family, I loveyou.
I honor you.
Thank you so very much forhanging out with me today.
(20:56):
Stay rooted, stay recovered, andlet's get to work.
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.
(21:18):
If this episode stirredsomething in you, don't keep it
to yourself.
Share it, live it, let it takeroot.
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.
(00:22):
We've lived it.
Addiction, shame, relapse,regret, but we've also seen
resurrection.
We've seen what has.
Happens when broken people getanchored in something real
rooted and recovered is morethan a podcast.
It's a battleground for thesoul.
A place where scars tellstories, where scripture speaks
(00:43):
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 (01:09):
Welcome to another episode of Rooted and Recovered.
I'm your host, Dan Pyles.
Thank you so very much from thebottom of my heart for hanging
out with me here for just alittle bit as we continue this
journey that we call recovery.
Today's podcast episode issomething deep.
(01:30):
Uh, that I want to share withyou something that I struggled
with many times early in myrecovery.
And if I'm honest with myself,family, there's still times that
I still struggle with it today.
And I'm coming up on nine yearsin recovery.
October 16th, 2016 was myrecovery date.
(01:52):
Uh, so we're not too far fromthat.
Uh, so I'll be coming up on nineyears of recovery.
Family, if I'm honest with you,uh, there's days that I still
feel like this, and the title oftoday's episode is, what If God
Still Wants To Use You?
(02:13):
Think about that for just amoment.
What if God still wants to useyou?
I'm just gonna lay it out there.
You failed again.
Not just in some small way youswore you'd never go back.
You made the promises, you saidthe prayers, and you know what
(02:36):
you meant them, but somehow youfound yourself in that place
again, relapsing, regretting,breaking what you finally
thought that you've gotten pastand that you were healed from.
And now the shame is loud.
(02:56):
That voice in in your head andsays, you knew better.
God's done with you.
You used up your last ounce ofgrace.
So what do we do?
Family?
We sit there, we sit in silenceof failure, and then we begin to
wonder, did I really blow it forgood?
(03:17):
Maybe you're still showing up,maybe you're still serving,
maybe you're still going tochurch, maybe you're still in
group, you're still trying topray.
But deep down, if you're honestwith yourself, you just don't
feel usable anymore.
You feel like you're just exexisting in the shadow of what
(03:38):
could have been.
But let me tell you somethingthat might shake you up even.
The most deepest, darkest timesof your life, God still wants to
use you, not the future polishedversion of you, not the one who
(03:59):
never messes up again, not theone who finally gets it all
right.
He wants to use you right now.
Wreckage in the wrestling, inthe rawness because your failure
doesn't avoid your callingfamily.
Your wounds don't cancel yourpurpose, your your mistakes that
(04:23):
you and I are gonna make.
Guess what?
They don't surprise him.
And Grace doesn't hand out pinkslips when we mess up.
Let's talk about Moses again.
Yeah, the same Moses.
Who split the sea.
You read the book of Exodus, hesplit the Red Sea.
That same Moses in the book ofExodus who stood toe to toe with
(04:46):
Pharaoh.
That same Moses in the book ofExodus, who brought down the 10
Commandments.
You know what, before all ofthat family, he was a murderer.
He was a fugitive.
He was a man with anger issuesAnd that's the guy.
God chose to lead a nation.
(05:07):
Why?
Because God never called thequalified.
He qualifies the called, let merepeat that to you.
God never called the qualified.
He qualifies the called and thecall of God doesn't come with a
return policy family.
(05:28):
It comes with mercy.
It comes with power and it comeswith a plan that includes your
scars.
So if you're listening to thisepisode wondering, is God done
with me?
Let me be the voice today thatcuts through the static.
He is not.
(05:51):
He is not.
Family.
He still wants to use you, notjust in spite of your failure,
but through it Why?
Because you've seen some things.
You've walked through hell andsurvived.
You've been humbled.
You've learned to depend.
(06:13):
You've seen what it's like tolose and to get back up again.
Family that doesn't disqualifyyou.
That equips you in a world fullof plastic Christianity.
In polished testimonies, peopleare desperate for something.
(06:34):
Real family.
They're not looking for perfectleaders.
They're looking for healed ones,honest ones, human ones, ones
like you and me.
So here's the question.
This episode is going to wrestlewith what if God still wants to
use you?
(06:54):
Not when you feel ready, butright now when you feel the most
ruined.
Because if you're stillbreathing family, you're still
called.
And if you're still standing,there's still something for you
to do.
You see, failure doesn't endyour calling.
(07:16):
What it does, family, itprepares you for it.
Let that settle in for just asecond.
Most of us think that failure isthe finish line.
We blew it.
We slipped, we sinned, werelapsed, we messed up again,
and we assume that's it, thatGod can't use someone like me
(07:39):
anymore.
Come on, man.
I know I'm talking to somebodybesides myself.
We blew it.
I mean, we really blew itfamily.
And now we're sitting therethinking that God can't use this
busted, broken mess anymore.
But what if failure wasn't theend?
(08:03):
What if it was the forge, theplace where God actually refines
your calling?
What if the very thing that youthought disqualified you was the
tool God's using to shape you.
You see, you don't have to cleanyourself up before God can use
(08:23):
you.
You don't have to be perfect or,or polished or, or put together.
You see, God specializes inusing in broken people Because
they know they need him.
And there is no better proof inthe Bible than Peter.
Peter was a disciple of Jesus.
(08:45):
Peter walked with Jesus.
He saw miracles.
He made bold declarations.
He looked at Jesus Square in theface, said, I'll never leave you
Only to crash and burn under thepressure.
Three denials, three betrayals,three chances to say I don't
(09:05):
know him.
And yet, even after that, itdon't get much worse than
betraying Jesus, denying Jesuslike Peter did three times.
But yet.
As you read in the scriptures,Jesus still sought him out, not
(09:27):
to shame him, not to fire him,but to restore him.
If you look at John chapter 21,verses 15 through 17, it paints
the scene of restoration.
Jesus asked Simon, do you loveme?
He says, yes, Lord, feed mysheep.
(09:49):
Then he goes on two other timesand asks him if he loves him.
Three denials, threeaffirmations, and then a
commissioning after the be,after the betrayal family get
this after the betrayal, notbefore Jesus gave Peter his
(10:11):
mission.
Because your lowest moment isn'tthe thing that cancels your
destiny.
It's often the thing thatqualifies you for it.
You see, we keep trying toimpress God with our
performance, but he's notimpressed by spiritual resumes.
He's moved by surrenderedhearts.
(10:33):
You don't have to bring him yourcleaned up life.
You just have to bring him youryes, even if your yes is
shaking, scared and barelystanding.
Think about who God used.
Moses.
A murderer turned into adeliverer, David an ER turned
(10:57):
into a worshiping king.
Rahab a prostitute.
Who turned into a protector ofthe spies?
Paul, a Christian killer, turnedinto one of the most powerful
church planters.
You see, God doesn't call thepolished family.
(11:17):
He calls the willing becausewhen he uses someone broken, all
the glory goes to him.
Your fall didn't kill yourcalling family.
You know what it did?
It burned away your ego.
It stripped off your pride.
It revealed the cracks that youdidn't want to see, and now, now
(11:41):
you're ready to walk in yourpurpose.
Not with swagger, but withsurrender.
God doesn't waste pain.
Family, he repurposes it.
He turns your pit into aplatform.
Your relapse into a revelationand your wreck into a witness,
because now, now you know.
(12:03):
What it's like to need grace.
Now you can speak withauthority.
Now your message won't betheory, it will be testimony.
Family, you are not damagedgoods.
You are a redeemed vessel andmaybe just maybe God allowed you
to walk through what you did soyou could reach the people.
(12:27):
Others never could.
Not in spite of your story, butbecause of it.
Think about this for just amoment.
Have you ever mentally crossedyour own name off God's list?
Not because he said you weredone, but because shame
(12:50):
whispered it loud enough for youto begin to believe it.
Maybe you said things like.
God can't use me after what I'vedone.
I've gone too far.
I had my shot and I blew it.
But here's the thing.
(13:10):
Family.
You don't get to un-call whatGod has already called.
Did you hear what I just said?
You me, we don't get to un-callwhat God has already called.
You know why?
Because in Romans 1129, it tellsme that the gifts and the
(13:33):
calling of God are withoutrepentance.
That means he doesn't revokethem.
When you and I fail, he doesn'twithdraw them because of our
weakness.
In fact, it's often our weaknessthat becomes the witness.
Think about this.
(13:54):
What if your worst mistake.
Is the stage for your mostpowerful ministry.
Now, let that hit deep for aminute.
That very thing you're ashamedof, that very moment that you
tried to bury could be the exactplace where God wants to bring
(14:15):
healing to someone else.
Why?
Because people don't needpretend perfection.
They need someone who's walkedthrough the fire and still says,
God is good, grace is real, andyou are not too far gone.
(14:38):
Family.
Your failures give youcredibility in rooms where
religious pride could neverenter Your brokenness gives you
access to the hurting.
Your scars make you safe to thesuffering.
So maybe you're not meant toforget the failure.
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Maybe you're meant to redeem it.
You see, grace doesn't justcover you.
It commissions you.
God doesn't just say, I forgiveyou.
He says, now go feed my sheep.
Tell your story.
Love the hurting.
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Reach the lost.
Preach the word.
He doesn't just restore you Hereleases you into purpose, and
that's the beauty of grace.
It doesn't just wipe the slateclean it hands you the chalk and
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says, let's start writing again.
And as we get ready to wrap thispodcast up, I just feel
compelled to tell you over andover again as long as there's
breath in my lungs, family.
You are not too far gone.
You're not too broken, you'renot disqualified, and you
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haven't missed your moment.
The cross didn't just cover whatyou did.
It called you to what you weremade for.
If you've still got breath inyour lungs, then God still got a
purpose on your life.
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You may have stumbled.
You may have fallen flat on yourface, but failure is not the
same thing as finished.
Did you hear me?
Failure is not the same thing asfinished.
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Peter denied Jesus publicly,loudly, shamefully.
Jesus still said to him, feed mysheep.
So family.
If you are in the middle of thisright now, the Lord is speaking
to you today.
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You might have messed up, youmight have relapsed.
You might that one thing thatyou said that you was never
gonna do in your life again,guess what you did.
And you wiped out and you havehit the floor, and you got the,
the, the face burns and thescrapes and the bumps and the
bruises to prove it.
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And you might be sitting therethinking, this is it.
I have messed up too.
This is it.
I have blew my last chance.
I have messed up too many times.
I have used, I've used all mygrace cards.
I'm out, I'm empty handed.
God is looking at you today andtelling you to feed my sheep.
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Come on man.
That's for somebody listening tothis today.
You really feel the enemy hasbeen pounding into your brains.
That you're disqualified, thatyou've blown it, that, that
someone else needs to step upand do it.
Someone else with bettercredentials, someone else with a
better background, someone elsewho, who is further in their
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recovery and you're believingit.
You're now starting to take theback seat, but God is looking at
you and telling you today, feedmy sheep.
So stand back up, family.
Get back up.
Yes, you've fallen.
Yes, you've got bumps andscrapes and bruises.
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It hurts, but stand back up.
Wipe off the shame.
Refuse the lie that says you'redisqualified and step into it
because the ones who have beenbroken, the deepest family.
Often carry the most dangerouskind of grace.
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I just feel today in, because Iknow family, I know what it's
like.
I know what it's like to reallymess things up in life and I've
done it.
And guess what?
Even after nine years ofrecovery, there's still things
in my life that I mess up.
I feel that I, that I've, I'veblown it, that it's done, that
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it's over with, that God justneeds to use somebody else
besides me.
But the word of God tells usthat even in the most darkest,
deepest betrayals, Peter deniedJesus three times and Jesus
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still looked him in the face andsays, do you love me?
Then feed my sheep.
Jesus is looking at you and Itoday family, and he's asking
you and me the same question.
Do you love me?
And the answer better be yes,Lord, I do love you.
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Then he's telling you and metoday, then go feed my sheep.
Family.
You've got a powerful recoverytestimony.
You have a powerful story.
You have a powerful life.
Don't let mistakes and failuresblock that and cover that light
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up.
Jesus is calling you and Itoday.
Do you love me?
Then go feed my sheep.
Let's go family.
Let's go feed his sheeptogether.
Amen.
Until next time, family, I loveyou.
I honor you.
Thank you so very much forhanging out with me today.
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Stay rooted, stay recovered, andlet's get to work.
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.
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If this episode stirredsomething in you, don't keep it
to yourself.
Share it, live it, let it takeroot.
We'll see you next time righthere where scars become
testimonies and hope rises fromthe ashes.
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