Regaining Your Bearings | Bishop Dale C. Bronner

About this sermon

When the greatest victory of your life is followed by the greatest threat against your life, what do you do? In this powerful message from 1 Kings 19, Bishop Dale Bronner shows us how God Himself restores a prophet who has lost his bearings — and how the same five movements God used to put Elijah back together are available to anyone whose soul has been shaken by trauma. Drawing on a striking metaphor from mechanical engineering — bearings as the components that reduce friction in everything that moves — Bishop Bronner introduces the word for the day: equanimity. He unpacks Elijah's four trauma responses (running, isolating, exhausting, despairing) and then walks through the five ways God restores him — by feeding the body, giving space to process, cutting through the chaos until a whisper can be heard, restoring purpose, and correcting distorted perspective. The message lands on a thunderous prophetic word for everyone who has been written off, delayed, or pronounced finished: "It's not going to end the way that it looks." If you have been thrown off balance — by loss, betrayal, a diagnosis, a death threat dressed up in different language — this message is a steadying word. 📖 Scripture References: 1 Kings 18 (background — Mount Carmel) 1 Kings 19:9–13 (the still small voice) 1 Kings 19:15–18 (anointing of Hazael, Jehu, Elisha; the seven thousand) 1 Corinthians 14:33 ("God is not the author of confusion, but of peace") Mark 4:35–41 (Jesus asleep in the storm) Romans 8:38–39 ("neither height nor depth…") Philippians 4:7 ("the peace that passes understanding") Hebrews 13:5 ("I will never leave you nor forsake you") Isaiah 30:21 ("This is the way; walk in it") 🔔 Subscribe for weekly messages, and share this with someone who needs a word today. 🌐 Website: www.woffamily.org 📲 Follow us on Instagram: @woffamily 📘 Facebook: @woffamily To support the ministry: Online: www.woffamily.org/give Text: Text "WOF" to 73256 Mail In: Word of Faith Family Worship Cathedral - 212 Riverside Pkwy, Austell, GA 30168 Sunday Services: In person 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM / Online @ 6:00 PM Church Address: 212 Riverside Pkwy Austell, GA 30168