Full Circle Faith

Full Circle Faith—those moments when God brings you back to places of past pain, not to shame you, but to showcase your remarkable transformation. Have you experienced this powerful spiritual phenomenon? That moment when you walk into a place you once left broken, only to suddenly realize you're no longer the same person who walked out?

The journey of spiritual growth rarely follows a straight line. As we explore through powerful biblical examples—Moses returning to the wilderness as a deliverer, Joseph circling back to Egypt as a ruler, Peter revisiting the fire where he once denied Christ—we discover a profound truth: God strategically returns us to familiar places to highlight our unfamiliar growth. These full circle moments aren't coincidences; they're divine appointments designed to transform our perspective.

What makes these moments so powerful is the stark contrast between who we were and who we've become. The job that once crushed your spirit? You now walk through those doors with confidence and authority. The relationship that drained your soul? You can now pray for that person without a hint of bitterness. The neighborhood you barely survived? You return with resources to bless others. This is the redemptive nature of full circle faith—turning wounds into witnesses and pain into powerful testimony.

But these moments also present a critical choice. When faced with old triggers and familiar patterns, will you descend to former ways of responding, or will you stand firm in your new identity? Like executives who don't "come down" to handle problems but manage from their position of authority, you're called to address old situations from your new perspective without reverting to old mindsets. Your transformation isn't just personal growth—it's evidence of divine intervention in your story.

Have you recognized the full circle moments in your own life? Take a moment to reflect on where God has brought you back just to show you how far you've come. Then step boldly into those places, not shrinking in shame but standing in strength, knowing the place hasn't changed—but you certainly have.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

We'll be the last ones standing. Be a light in the dark. Been so long on this journey. Yeah, we've come so far. This is our moment. Waited all our lives. Yeah, we've been chosen. We will rise. This is a time oh oh oh. Outside, oh oh oh. He takes a whole life to climb your way to the top, but it only takes a second to fall. One minute.

Speaker 3: 0:58

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. Meeting you where you are, no matter what time of the day it is. Welcome to the Crown Table Unleashed. Are you ready to be motivated, inspired and encouraged? It's time for you to get in step with the Spirit. Here is your host, jeffy Clark III.

Speaker 2: 1:48

Here is your host, jeffy Clark III, today, but we are still here, indeed, hallelujah, praise god. God is so good to us day in and day out. Listen, I'm happy for you. I'm glad you was able to come in, step in and tune in on today. We're gonna get right here until I teach him. If I had to give this thing a title today, it will be called full circle faith subtitle.

Speaker 2: 2:00

When god brings you back to a place just to show you you've changed. Hallelujah god. I know he has taken some of us back to some of the same places we have been. We felt like, though we have um past this thing, but here we are, looking this thing in the face again. So have you ever walked into a place you once left broken and suddenly realize you've no longer the same person who walked out? That's full circle faith. God doesn't just deliver us from things. Sometimes he takes us back to old places not to shame us, but to show us you've grown, you've healed and you've changed, hallelujah.

Speaker 2: 2:39

Deuteronomy 8 and 2 says remember how the lord, your god, led you all the way in the wilderness these 40 years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart. Genesis 15, 20 says um, you intended to harm me, but god intended it for good, to accomplish what is now being done the saving of many lives. Exodus 3 and 1 and 4, four says Moses returns to the wilderness where he once fled, and their God calls him into destiny. Hallelujah, full circle of faith and encounters. When God brings you back, it's never by accident. Israel circled the wilderness, joseph circled back to Egypt and Peter circled back to the fire where he once denied Jesus, this time not to fail but to be restored.

Speaker 2: 3:34

God uses familiar places to highlight unfamiliar growth. Hallelujah, I can show, testify to this here, thing on today. Listen here Um, the mirror of maturity, maturity before you circle, uh, returning exposes your maturity before, when you was at this same place, um, um, you cried there. But now you in the same place and you are testifying on that very thing. Ok, before the place broke you. Now, the place, now, that place can't not, can't shake you. Faith becomes a mirror. You don't just see the place differently, you see yourself differently.

Speaker 2: 4:15

Hallelujah, come in full circle, make sure life a testimony. The job you thought you'd never leave, now you walk in authority. The relationship that once drains you, you can now pray for, without bitterness, the neighborhood you barely survived. You now blessed with resources. Come on here, somebody. Revelation 12 and 11 says they overcame him by the blood of the lamb. The lamb and by the word of their testimony, returning full circle. Trans transforms old wounds into powerful witness. Hallelujah.

Speaker 2: 4:49

When God circles you back, it's not to repeat the past, is to redeem it. Joseph didn't return to Egypt as a slave, but as a ruler. Ruth didn't come back to Bethlehem as a widow, but as a future ancestor of Jesus and Jesus himself. He went back to Calvary, but he didn't go back as the same man who carried the cross in weakness. He went back resurrected in glory. Hallelujah.

Speaker 2: 5:18

Reflect on this, ask what places has God circled me back to recognize? Um, don't see it as punishment, see it as proof of growth and release this. Let go of the shame. Embrace the change. And then I need you to come on here and rejoice. Give God praise that you are not who you used to be. Come on here, somebody. You got God praise that you are not who you used to be. Come on here, somebody. You got to know that you have been changed. You have no. You got to know that you've been uplifted. You got to know that you are not the same person, how people see you. You are totally different. You are this magnificent uh um creation that God has created. I'm not the same sad person that's been sad. I'm not the same depressed person. I'm not the same sad person that's been sad. I'm not the same depressed person. I'm not the same person uh um that failed all those many times, those many years ago. I have completely changed and I know even some of you parents out here that feel like you have failed, and maybe your children are hanging over the fact that you were a bad parent or that you were not sufficient enough or that you could have been better. But I come to tell somebody on today if God has done the work, if God has leaned in on you, if God has had you to put your best foot forward in this new season of your life, you are that changed person. Don't allow, don't allow the enemy, even if it's inside of your kids, to tell you that you are not changed or that you are not sufficient or that you are not good enough. When God has come in and done the work and I tell you this if God has come in and done the work. You are indeed changed if, if you have put in the time, if you have put in the, the, the, the study, the, the relationship, the prayer time, if you have done it all, I'm telling you, and God has leaned in on your very life and he has come in, he has uprooted your very life and he has come in, he has uprooted all of those things. He has got uprooted, all of those things. Stop letting the enemy remind you of who you were and you walk in who you are now. It does not matter what happened in your past, but it is about who you are now, because when Jesus got up on that cross, he sanctified it, he crucified it and he laid that thing to rest. It was canceled out and it was forgotten. Now you have to believe that and as long as you keep entertaining the fact that, who you used to be, if you keep dipping and dabbing in who you used to be, you can never walk into who you are. Who you are Full circle. Faith means God trusts you enough to revisit the scene of the trial, because he knows you'll come out testifying when he brings you back. Don't shrink to shame, stand in strength. The place hasn't changed, but you have Hallelujah. Walk in your beautifulness of your change in your life. Walk in to this new you. I'm telling you, it's a beautiful thing. I had to realize this for myself and I'm going to get up out of here. I had to realize this for myself. I was in a situation where I wanted to be angry and I knew that I could and I wanted a situation to go a certain way and the encounter was nothing like what I thought it was going to be. The Holy Spirit was definitely present. I definitely realized that I was not the same person and was in that moment that I embraced who God had made me to be. And I realized that if I choose to fall, if I choose to sin, here you go. I'm using the word choose because that's what it is. If I choose to do that, if I go into that with that mindset or not, with God, who God has made me to be, I'm choosing to fall and I'm choosing to sin, and that's a whole different kind of ball game. It's no longer operating in the season of a mistake or a season of I'm trying to be better, because God has already made you better. You've already accepted the fact that you was better. Do not go into a place. Hello, do not go down into a place, hear me, do not go down into a place, hear me, do not go down into a place. Knowing God has completely flipped you and you literally see the space, the space in time. I can't really describe it, but it's like it's like an empty space and you have the ability to choose in that moment to either continue to be who God has called you to be or fall into the place of your old self and choose to operate within that sin, within that destruction, within that chaos, okay, and and then and then fall down. See when God has brought you up, when God has brought you to a certain place that you no longer deal with the things that are at your feet, when God has brought you to a certain level. You can feel the descent, you can feel that I have to come down in order, in order to operate in this, but if you stay here, you can still handle your business as kingship, kingship, coming down CEOs. Don't come down to handle, don't come down to handle. They handle business. They stay up top and they and they handle business. You have to stay up top. Handle what's happening down here, okay, handle what's happening down here, and and and, and. That's how you stay in what God has brought you into your new self, whatever that looks like for your, for your life, your situation. Listen here, this episode was quick, it was sharp and it was a sword for life. You hear me, it was a sword for life. Listen, I hope you guys are having an amazing day. I hope you continue to have amazing day. Listen here. Oh, listen, I'm dropping stuff. Good god, I might have dropped it on my foot too, y'all. But listen here, guys, you go ahead. You have an amazing day and you walk in your new self as you go forward on today, okay, you don't let nobody tell you who you used to be. You, you, you outshine that. You come through that thing. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Look at you looking beautiful. Look at you shining. Look at you over that thing. Uh-huh. Look at you. Not allow your circumstances, your situation, to define you. Come on now. Come on now. You're no longer that person that's popping off at the mouth real fast. You are no longer that person. Hallelujah, look at you. Come on, come on here somebody. I'm proud of you. I'm glad that you are now in a place where you are giving forgiveness. Look at you now holding on to bitterness and jealousy. Praise God'm proud of you. I'm excited for you. I'm excited for your new journey. I'm excited that you have been now been set aside. Hallelujah, for God's glory and God's work. You all have an amazing day. I love y'all and I see you back here next Wednesday, same place, same time. Not this time, the right time.

Speaker 1: 11:52

I love y'all this is, this is outside.