"4 Components of the BOUNCE:
1. The Fall in a fall you move downward rapidly, it could come to you in the form of a death; lay off; health situation, etc It seems like it will never end in the falling stage. Also be reminded that pride can cause a fall and a haughty spirit along with you can fall into sin, satan can set a trap that can cause this. Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10 states Two people are better than one because together they have a good reward for their hard work. If one falls, the other can help his friend get up. But how tragic it is for the one who is all alone when he falls. There is no one to help him get back up.
There is a great value in having brothers and sisters in faith that you can call and they can pray for you. The best place you can be when in the midst of a fall is in church. That is not the time when you should run away from church but run to church. We, the body of Christ, have been born for adversity. When a brother or sister is there for you, that is, a true brother or sister is there through adversity in your life. The difference between falling and failing is that it only becomes failure if you do not bounce back from the fall. The recovery is always built into the fall and God will use the fall to bring glory to Him. The harder you fall the higher you will bounce.
2. The Impact When contact is made with something in the fall you are going to get bent out of shape. He referenced a tennis ball that was hit by a tennis racquet. Either you will absorb or explode in the impact. It may look like you are losing but know that your turn is coming after the impact. You may lose a bit of shape in the impact and this is where a lot of small and not strong Christians quit at this point.
3. Restoration If you can survive the initial impact the spirit of restoration causes you to push back at the force. The force on the outside is overcome by the source on the inside of you. An energy within is greater at one point. The force on the outside is conquered by the source on the inside. There is a point when He who is in you will start to push back. Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.
The pastor then spoke forth that the Lord said today Faith is gonna cause you to receive restoration.
4. Elevation When you are restored to your true identity the harder the force that thrust you down and impacted when elevated from the Lord will elevate you much higher.
Don't be afraid of a big slam that thrust you down. The harder the impact the higher the elevation. In your mind's eye visualize a tennis ball in your hand. Start off just exerting a little effort to release the ball to hit the ground, not much of a rebound bounce is there? Now, the same tennis ball with you exerting a bit more force. Does it not bounce back a little bit higher. Now follow through with the exercise and put a lot of effort and thrust into throwing the ball to the ground did you notice how high up it returns with the impact of the ground. So, a mighty thrust that threw you to the ground by the enemy is rebounded in the bounce by the one that lives inside of you, Jesus. Just watch what He can and will do in your life with the grand bounce back up. Higher and higher and higher than you even could imagine. That is the God that I serve, a more than enough Father in heaven that watches out for His own that are called by His name in the kingdom of God. May each and everyone of you recover with a mighty bounce back.
You should know me by now, this is not the end of this story. I head to the parking lot after church and as I approach my car I see something wedged by my front left tire. As I get closer and stoop down to see what it is you will never believe what was there just for me? Do you remember as a kid those really super bouncy bounce balls. They were like a ball on steroids. They are small in size but what a mighty impact recovery bounce once you let it hit the ground. That is exactly what was by my tire. I was tempted to bounce it but I constrained myself because I knew the power in the bounce in this sort of ball so I laid it by the curb so I did not run over it when I pulled my car out. I got in my car and I felt led, you know a Holy Spirit nudge to see if the family parked next to me wanted the super ball for their children. So, in faith, I asked them if they wanted the ball as a memory from the service today, that I found it by my tire and all of a sudden one of the children in the car said that it was their ball. I did hear Holy Spirit in approaching them and He was faithful to show me that I heard Him correctly in asking that question. God really is good all the time and all the time God is good.
If you've had a bad fall/impact that was a hard hit then start rejoicing for the bounce will be super high with the hand of God upon it. The word FIRE came forth in all of this as the word that was spelled out by using the first initial of the four components of the bounce:
Fall
Impact
Restoration
Elevation
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| Bounce Ball |
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