Talk

Restoring What’s Been Lost in a Global Crisis

Louie Giglio
June, 25, 2023

Since the national crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has officially come to an end in the United States, Louie takes this talk to celebrate God’s provision, faithfulness, and teaching through the years of hardship and mental assault.

Key Takeaway

To move forward and out of the pandemic, we need to...

  1. Admit what has been lost

  2. Identify the marks

  3. Reconnect with the Prince of Peace

  4. Decide you are going to move on

  5. Build faith to quench fear

  6. Be grateful

  7. Exercise generosity

  8. Contend for good outcomes

  9. Wait on the Lord

Discussion Questions

  1. How did the pandemic change your life?

  2. Can you think of any stories where God used the pandemic to draw someone to Himself?

  3. What did you gain from the pandemic that you do not want to lose?

  4. Have you been able to examine your life and the ways you have been negatively affected by the pandemic?

  5. What did you lose during the pandemic?

  6. Of the things that have been lost in your life, are there any you have the capability to restore (habits, conditions, or mentalities)?

  7. While there are countless realities to mourn in this post-pandemic season, there are always things to be grateful for. What are you sincerely grateful for in this season?

  8. Who are the people around you who clearly need help moving forward? Perhaps these people need community, care, or encouragement.

  9. What role does Louie say “Exercising Generosity” plays in rebounding and moving forward in a post-pandemic age

  10. What are you waiting on God for right now? What are your prayers?

Scripture References

1The word of the
Lord
that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
2Hear this, you elders;

listen, all who live in the land.

Has anything like this ever happened in your days

or in the days of your ancestors?

3Tell it to your children,

and let your children tell it to their children,

and their children to the next generation.

4What the locust swarm has left

the great locusts have eaten;

what the great locusts have left

the young locusts have eaten;

what the young locusts have left

other locusts have eaten.

17Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
12“Even now,” declares the
Lord
,

“return to me with all your heart,

with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

13Rend your heart

and not your garments.

Return to the

Lord
your God,

for he is gracious and compassionate,

slow to anger and abounding in love,

and he relents from sending calamity.

14Who knows? He may turn and relent

and leave behind a blessing—

grain offerings and drink offerings

for the

Lord
your God.

15Blow the trumpet in Zion,

declare a holy fast,

call a sacred assembly.

16Gather the people,

consecrate the assembly;

bring together the elders,

gather the children,

those nursing at the breast.

Let the bridegroom leave his room

and the bride her chamber.

17Let the priests, who minister before the
Lord
,

weep between the portico and the altar.

Let them say, “Spare your people,

Lord
.

Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn,

a byword among the nations.

Why should they say among the peoples,

‘Where is their God?’ ”

18Then the
Lord
was jealous for his land

and took pity on his people.

19The
Lord
replied to them:

“I am sending you grain, new wine and olive oil,

enough to satisfy you fully;

never again will I make you

an object of scorn to the nations.

20“I will drive the northern horde far from you,

pushing it into a parched and barren land;

its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea

and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea.

And its stench will go up;

its smell will rise.”

Surely he has done great things!

21Do not be afraid, land of Judah;

be glad and rejoice.

Surely the

Lord
has done great things!

22Do not be afraid, you wild animals,

for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green.

The trees are bearing their fruit;

the fig tree and the vine yield their riches.

23Be glad, people of Zion,

rejoice in the

Lord
your God,

for he has given you the autumn rains

because he is faithful.

He sends you abundant showers,

both autumn and spring rains, as before.

24The threshing floors will be filled with grain;

the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

25“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten—

the great locust and the young locust,

the other locusts and the locust swarm—

my great army that I sent among you.

26You will have plenty to eat, until you are full,

and you will praise the name of the

Lord
your God,

who has worked wonders for you;

never again will my people be shamed.

27Then you will know that I am in Israel,

that I am the

Lord
your God,

and that there is no other;

never again will my people be shamed.

Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.