Resilient Bold Love: Living with Courage and Faith

We live in a world that often celebrates comfort over courage — but faith was never meant to be safe. In Lion Heart: Resilient, Bold Love, Jord from Freedom Church Worcester challenges us to wake up the sleeping lion within and live a faith that roars with resilience, boldness, and love.

🦁 1. Wake the Sleeping Lion

Jord opened with a simple but piercing question:

“Why is the lion sleeping?”

Many of us are spiritually asleep — just surviving instead of thriving. We might read our Bible occasionally, pray when it’s convenient, or show up to church out of habit. But faith was never meant to be passive.

God calls His people to stand up with courage, to shake off spiritual lethargy, and to roar with conviction again. As Hebrews 10:38 reminds us, “My righteous one will live by faith, and I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.”

We weren’t created to shrink back. We were created to stand firm.

💪 2. Resilience: Strength Through Brokenness

True resilience isn’t avoiding hardship — it’s rising again after you fall. Jord reminded us that even the “teeth of great lions are broken” (Job 4:10). Battle scars don’t disqualify us; they testify to the strength we’ve gained through struggle.

When life breaks us, God doesn’t discard us — He crowns us.

“This is what God does with our brokenness. He puts a crown on it.”

Resilience means we keep showing up. It means we trust that our weakness is the very place where God shows His strength.

🔥 3. Boldness: Faith with Fire

Boldness is not arrogance — it’s confidence in who stands behind us. Jord put it perfectly:

“You might start the fight, but Jesus is the one who’ll finish it.”

When we remember that the Lion of Judah roars through us, fear loses its grip.

Proverbs 28:1 declares, “The righteous are as bold as a lion.” Our boldness comes from knowing the battle belongs to God — and He never loses.

❤️ 4. Love: The Heartbeat of It All

Without love, our resilience becomes stubbornness, and our boldness becomes arrogance. Love is the heartbeat of every act of faith.

Jord reminded us that it’s possible to be passionate and persistent — and still forget our first love. Revelation 2:4 says, “You have forsaken the love you had at first.”

Love keeps our faith authentic. It transforms religion into a relationship.

✝️ A Lion-Hearted Faith

Jesus is the perfect picture of resilient, bold love.

He endured the cross (resilience).

He faced death without fear (boldness).

And He stayed on that cross because He loved us (love).

So today, remember who you are — a lion-hearted follower of Christ. Don’t shrink back. Don’t stay asleep.

Because He is alive, and His Spirit is roaring within you.