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FINALE | FAITH IN THE FURLOUGH | Building While You Wait · Rise and Thrive with Dr. J. Nicole Podcast

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  Welcome back to Faith in the Furlough.
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  I'm Doctor J Nicole, and today we're ending this series with a
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  powerful reminder. Waiting is not wasted time.
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  Furloughs can really feel like everything is on hold.
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  Your job is on hold. Your paycheck is on hold.
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  Maybe even your future is on hold.
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  But here's the truth. While you wait, you can build.
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  And what you build in this falls can carry into your next season
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  stronger than before. Write the vision and make it
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  plain on tablets that he may run.
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  Who reads it? For the vision is yet for an
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  appointed time, but at the end it will speak and it will not
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  lie, though it tarries. Wait for it because it will
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  surely come. God is saying while you wait,
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  right? Build, prepare.
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  It's that simple. Think about it, the furlough may
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  have put a pause on your income, but that doesn't have to pause
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  your progress. The Bible is full of people, not
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  characters. Full of actual people who built
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  in seasons of waiting. Noah.
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  He built the ark and there wasn't a drop of rain insight.
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  People thought he was crazy and taunted him.
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  Right? Joseph managed Egypt before the
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  famine. the Exiles in Babylon, they were told to build houses,
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  plant gardens, and prosper while they waited to return home.
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  Waiting seasons are building seasons.
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  What you create now, whether that's that side business, you
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  write the book refreshing that resume, you're building
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  healthier habits, you're developing spiritual discipline.
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  All of those things will outlast this furlough.
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  So don't treat this season as wasted time.
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  Treat this like training talk. It's time to get in the gym, OK,
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  it's time to train and at an appointed time you will reap a
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  harvest. Now don't get me wrong, waiting
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  is hard, but God never weighs a weight.
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  He uses these pauses to refine vision, to strengthen faith, and
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  to stretch capacity. We find out who we are in these
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  seasons. We find out what we're capable
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  of when we're uncomfortable. And sometimes we find out who we
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  can be when we have to really stretch beyond those limits.
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  So what if this furlough is less about what you lost or what's on
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  hold and more about what you're about to be, about who you are
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  becoming? What if this is the moment where
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  God gives you the fresh ideas, the deeper wisdom, the renewed
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  courage to step into what's next?
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  So here's something you can do because you know, I'm all about
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  practical application. So I want you to write down one
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  vision that you've had on the back burner.
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  You might need to go dig out an old journal or notebook or check
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  the notes on your phone, but you're going to write it again.
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  Write that vision down. Create a small, simple step by
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  step planning and start building it now.
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  And if you're not sure where to start, obviously, right, talk to
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  God. He'll give you the vision,
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  right? But also, if you just need help
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  breaking it down into smaller steps, you can use all sorts of
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  tools for that, right? For example, if you've dreamed
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  about writing a book, outline your first chapter.
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  If you've wanted to start a business, secure the name of the
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  business or the domain name. If you've long to grow
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  spiritually, commit to 15 minutes of prayer or journaling
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  to God daily. And just in case, you know, I
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  love that the 1% rule, that's doing something for 15 minutes a
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  day. So this is a 1% commitment, 15
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  minutes, one step at a time. It builds momentum and momentum
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  brings breakthrough. Even if it is just 1%, you're 1%
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  closer. You're 1% further than you were
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  before that. So let me leave you with this.
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  The furlough may have paused your paycheck, but has not
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  paused your purpose. This is your time to build.
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  While you wait. This is your time.
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  So don't wait to build. Let us pray.
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  Lord, we thank you for turning waiting seasons into building
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  seasons. Show each person watching what
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  they can plant right and creating this further.
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  Give them clarity of vision, discipline to build and bake to
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  wait on your appointed time in Jesus name, Amen.
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  If this series has blessed you, please share this with someone
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  that's walking through the fire alone so that they know that
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  they are not alone. And make sure you're subscribed
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  because more encouragement and biblical perspective is on the
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  way. And remember, waiting is not
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  wasted. Build while you wait because
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  God's appointed time is coming. I love you and I hope this bless
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  you. Take care, see you next time.