You are listening to the Passion City Church podcast. To learn more about

Passion City Church, including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington

DC, visit us online at PassionCityChurch.com. Today's talk comes from Pastor

Buie Giglio. If you're taking notes today and I hope that you are the title of

this collection of talks is called SimidNap. SimidNap. Okay, so I'll spell it. C-I-M,

those of you who are taking notes, just checking, nobody's taking notes, okay? So

those new people need for me to spell it. But I'll spell it anyway. Thank you. C-I-M-E-D-N-A-P.

Now you can understand why we didn't really push that out on social media. Come to

the new collection of talks at Passion City Church. SimidNap. But SimidNap is

simply pandemic spelled backwards because what we're hoping to see God do is to

restore what's been lost in a global crisis. Now you may say when you hear that

today, I don't want to hear the word pandemic ever again and please don't take

us back to 2020. But the reality is now we've kind of gotten to the place where

we feel like we've made it through. But the question that we're still asking is

but are we over it? And I think it's maybe the right time now that there's a

little distance and a little healing and a little restoration to maybe ask that

question to look back and to trust God for full restoration for what we've been

through. That doesn't mean that God can somehow wave a magic wand and replace

things that are gone. It just means that God's promise in every season is that he

is the God who restores. And so your story won't have to always be about what was lost.

Your story in-loss can still be about what God has restored and what God has done. What

we're preaching today and speaking today is future because apparently even though we've

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