A Kiss from Rose | Let’s Pop It

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I CAN’T LOSE WITH GOD!

When God is leading, even what looks like a loss can become part of the victorry.

LET’S POP IT! 🎈

Pop the fear that says, “What if this doesn’t work?”

Pop the anxiety that keeps rehearsing everything that could go wrong.

Pop the belief that one disappointment means the whole story is over.

Because when I’m walking with God, I refuse to measure victory by one moment.

“If God be for us, who can be against us?” — Romans 8:31 (KJV)

Now that doesn’t mean I will get everything I want.

It doesn’t mean every door will open.

It doesn’t mean I won’t experience rejection, disappointment, delays, losses, or moments that make me ask, “God… what in the world are You doing?”

It means those things do not get the final word.

Joseph had a pit.

But the pit didn’t win.

He had slavery.

Slavery didn’t win.

He had a false accusation.

That didn’t win either.

He had prison.

And, prison STILL didn’t get the last word.

Genesis 50:20 tells us Joseph eventually understood that what others meant for evil, God meant for good.

That’s why I’ve got to stop calling every uncomfortable chapter a loss.

Sometimes the door closing protected me.

Sometimes the relationship ending redirected me.

Sometimes the delay developed me.

Sometimes the “no” kept me from something I would’ve regretted saying yes to.

And sometimes what looked like I was losing was God moving me into position for something I couldn’t see yet.

💌 Grandma’s Corner

So here’s what we’re popping today:

🎈 POP! There goes the fear of failure.

🎈 POP! There goes the need to understand everything.

🎈 POP! There goes the belief that rejection means I’m forgotten.

🎈 POP! There goes the panic because something didn’t happen on my timetable.

🎈 POP! There goes the idea that one bad chapter gets to name my entire story.

Because Romans 8:28 says:

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God…”

Notice it doesn’t say all things feel good.

It says God can work them together for good.

Now, that’s different!

So if God closes it, I trust Him.

If God redirects me, I follow Him.

If I have to wait, I’ll wait.

If I have to start again, I’ll start again.

If something doesn’t happen the way I pictured it, I’ll leave room for God to show me something I couldn’t picture.

Because my confidence isn’t that everything will go my way.

My confidence is that God will be with me whichever way it goes.

And as long as He’s with me, disappointment can teach me, rejection can redirect me, waiting can strengthen me, mistakes can mature me, and even a setback can become part of my testimony.

So today I’m walking differently.

Head up.

Faith intact.

Expectation alive.

Because I don’t need every situation to look like a win to know God is still working.

I CAN’T LOSE WITH GOD!

Even when I lose something…

I still haven’t lost HIM.

And, when you’ve still got God—

you’ve still got everything you need to keep going.

🎈 POP THAT!