Restored from Exile

Layers
Neglect
Abuse
Hurtful Words
Poor Choices
Broken Heart
Circumstances

Layers
Pretend
Protect
Avoid / Escape

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original condition

“Your beauty should not come from outward
adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles
and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine
clothes. Rather, it should be that of your
inner self, the unfading beauty of a
gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great
worth in God’s sight.” 1 Peter 3:3-4

True Identity
Unique Inner Beauty

ExileCast Out, Abandoned, Adrift, Aimless, Unwanted, Rejected

Undeniable Clarity
“God never promises to remove us from our
struggles. He does promise, however, to change
the way we look at them.” – Max Lucado

Personal Confession
“Until we accept responsibility for who we are,
we can never become who we were meant to be.”

Intentional Change
“Live less out of habit and more out of intent!”

The hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me
out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the
middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led
me back and forth among them, and I saw a great
many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that
were very dry. He asked me, “Son of man, can
these bones live?”
I said,
“Sovereign LORD, you alone know.”

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and
say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of
the LORD! This is what the Sovereign LORD says to
these bones: I will make breath enter you, and
you will come to life. I will attach tendons to
you and make flesh come upon you and cover you
with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will
come to life. Then you will know that I am the
LORD.’”

So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was
prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound,
and the bones came together, bone to bone. I
looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them
and skin covered them, but there was no breath in
them.

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the
breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it,
‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come,
breath, from the four winds and breathe into
these slain, that they may live.’” So I
prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered
them; they came to life and stood up on their
feet—a vast army.”
Ezekiel 37:1-10

DRY BONES - My Obvious Past
Pain teach what nothing else can.

“We can ignore pleasure. But pain insists
upon being attended to. God whispers to us
in our pleasures, speaks in our
conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is
His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” CS
Lewis

I am grateful for my past because…
The Struggle ends
when gratitude
begins.

DRY BONES – The Company You Keep
“Walk with the wise and
become wise, for a
companion of fools
suffers harm.” Pr 13:20

I must surround myself with people who see
mistakes as the price of wisdom, gifts
that prune I may grow, rather than
surround myself with people crippled by
pride.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If
you remain in me and I in you, you will
bear much fruit; apart from me you can do
nothing.” John 15:5

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it;
if one part is honored, every part rejoices with
it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one
of you is a part of it. 1 Cor 12:26-27
People with a Greater Purpose – a Vast
Army

I am stronger because I had to be.
I am smarter because of my mistakes,
I am happier because of the sadness I have known.
I am more loving because I have known loneliness.
I am wiser because I have learned to trust God.
I am grateful for my Exile, because…

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