Second Time Single: Preparing For Promise After Pain // Relationship Goals: In Real Life (Part 4) // Michael Todd

Transformation Church

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🗓️ 8 March 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This message is for anyone preparing for promise after pain. In Week 4 of Relationship Goals: In Real Life, Pastor Michael Todd reminds us that restoration is possible after any level of devastation, destruction, death, divorce, or disappointment. Looking at the story of Ruth, we see how she unexpectedly became a second-time single, yet God redeemed her story and restored her legacy through her relationship with Boaz. If you’ve experienced heartbreak or loss, this message will encourage you to trust God again, make faith-filled decisions, and move forward beyond disappointment. We pray it empowers you to let God take the broken pieces of your story and restore them into something greater than you imagined.

Scripture References:
Ruth 1:1–5 NLT
Ruth 1:9–11,16 NLT
Proverbs 3:5–6 NLT
Ruth 1:20–21 NLT
Ruth 2:1–3 NLT
Proverbs 31:27 NIV
Ruth 2:11–12 NLT
Ruth 3:1–6 NLT
Joel 2:25 ESVMatthew 1:5 NLT

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0:00.0	Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so glad you're here, and wherever you're listening from, we believe God will transform your life through today's message. I don't ever want to present that following God is easy.
0:25.6	I don't ever want to present to you that doing what God asks you to do will always make you feel good.
0:41.0	I wish that would have happened before I got up here.
0:44.7	It's the fourth time I've cried in 2006.
0:49.3	And this only, we only three months in, huh?
0:51.5	That's for me, that's a world record.
0:59.0	You needed that cry? I did too. You hear me.
1:01.0	And ain't nothing wrong.
1:12.1	But sometimes, I told somebody, I almost preached the message today called tenderhearted.
1:22.1	Because I felt that one of the greatest attacks of the enemy is not to take you out,
1:23.3	is to take your tenderness.
1:32.3	When you stop caring about people, stop caring about things and stop caring about how it affects people. And I never want to become a professional Christian or a professional pastor. I never
1:39.7	want to do this automatically. I want to stay tender to God's voice. And I thank God that those moments
1:48.8	can still happen. I thank God for His grace. Somebody else needed that. Said, it won't always.
2:05.5	I promise I promise I'm gonna preach yeah the Lord will perfect
2:08.9	concerning this telling you that sooner or later
2:18.3	and turning my favor
2:22.3	is turning around for me
2:28.3	You believe that for yourself,
2:31.3	Give God a shot of praise. Nah, I said if you believe it for yourself give God a shot of praise nah I said if you believe it for yourself it's turning
2:39.3	around look at your neighbor and say it's turning around for me come on look at one more
2:44.4	person say it's turning around turning around it's turning around for me.
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