Episode 14: Rooted & Recovered - Grace Doesn’t Expire

Have you ever felt like you’ve run out of chances? Like this time, grace won’t come through? Like you’ve crossed the line where mercy used to be?

This episode is for the one who feels disqualified, discarded, and done. But here’s the truth: grace doesn’t come with an expiration date.

Join Dan as he dives deep into the lie the enemy loves to whisper: “This time, it’s too late.” Through raw honesty, biblical truth, and personal reflection, you’ll discover that your failure isn't the end—it's the invitation. Because grace isn’t porcelain—it’s bloody, it’s bold, and it never backs down.

This isn’t grace that waits for you to get it together. This is grace that gets in the dirt with you.

Key Highlights:

• Grace doesn’t retreat when you relapse—it rescues.
• Romans 5:20 — “Where sin increased, grace increased all the more.”
• The cross wasn’t a one-time offer. It’s a permanent payment.
• Why Lamentations 3:22–23 is the anthem of every comeback story.
• You’re not the sum of your stumbles—you’re the proof of God’s persistence.

Scriptures Covered:
Romans 5:20 • Lamentations 3:22–23 • John 8:1–11 • Psalm 34:18 • Hebrews 13:8

Final Truth:
Grace doesn’t count the comebacks. It celebrates them.
You haven’t run out of chances. You’ve just run out of reasons to stay stuck. And grace? It’s still here—louder than shame, stronger than sin, and ready to begin again.

Transcript

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This world doesn't hand out healing. It offers quick fixes, cheap pies and empty promises, but real recovery, it takes roots. Roots that dig deep into truth, into identity, into the unshakeable grace of God. We're not here to sugarcoat the struggle. We've lived it addiction. Shame, relapse, regret. But we've also seen resurrection. We've seen what happens when broken people get anchored in something real rooted and recovered is more than a podcast. It's a battleground for the soul. A place where scars tell stories, where scripture speaks louder than shame, where freedom isn't just a word. It's a war we win daily. So if you're tired of surface level answers, if you want truth that convicts, hope that heals, and conversations that cut through the noise, you're in the right place. Welcome to Rooted and Recovered.

Dan: 1:13

Welcome to another episode of Rooted and Recovered. I'm your host, Dan Pyles, and I'm so thankful that you, uh, are joining me today for another powerful episode. This one is titled Grace That Doesn't Expire, and I wanna start the podcast out by asking you a simple question, one that I've had to ask myself many times. You ever feel like you've used up all your second chances? You know, like you've, like, you've stumbled or, or you've messed up in life just one too many times, you know, may maybe, maybe you relapsed again or, or maybe you let someone down again and now you're wondering if God's done handing out mercy. Like maybe we've crossed the line where grace runs out, maybe. We've crossed that line where forgiveness feels like a memory and not a promise, but here's the truth. Family that hell doesn't want you to remember is Grace doesn't come with an expiration date. Let me repeat that to you. Grace doesn't come with an expiration date. There's no fine print there. It's, it's, there's no limited supply. There's not too many times family. The grace that found you and me at our worst is the same grace that will walk with you at your weakest. Why? Because grace isn't based on how strong you are, it's based on how faithful he is. You're still breathing. God, my friend is still working. If you're still broken, then you are still eligible. You haven't been disqualified. You've been marked not by your mistakes family, but by his mercy. So before we go any further in this season, let this sink in. You're not too far gone. You're not too late. You're not too messed up. you are still standing and grace still holds. The problem is family, and I have been victim of this myself. I have done this. We treat grace like it's fragile. Let's be real for just a moment. Some of us walk on eggshells around grace. We, we treat it like it's some, some delicate thing that if we drop it, it'll crack. Like the moment we mess up it, it might slip through our fingers and shatter. But family, that's not biblical grace. Grace is not some porcelain doll sitting on some religious shelf somewhere. Guys, grace. It's bloody grace. It's a bloody beaten savior hanging on the cross, reaching for you and me while we were still stuck in our mess. Guys, I got some great news for you today. Grace isn't scared of your relapse. It doesn't retreat when you mess up. It's not whispering in our ears. You better not do that. Again. It's screaming. Even in our lowest, even in our mess ups, it's screaming. Even now, I choose you guys. Grace is a rescue mission. It's not a reward, That's why Romans five 20 says that where sin increased, grace increased all the more. Did you catch that? Sin increased. So guess what happened? Grace got louder. Grace got bolder, grace went deeper. That means God didn't sin grace because you were doing great. He sent it because we were drowning. Not just once. every Time Shame tries to pull you under. Every time Addiction tightens its grip. Every time regret whispers in our ear that will never change. Grace shows up with a rescue rope and it never lets go. Family Relapse didn't cancel your story. It revealed your need. You don't blow it beyond repair family. You expose just how much you still need a savior, and that my friend, is where transformation starts. Relapse doesn't mean you're fake. It doesn't mean you're hopeless. It means that you're still human, that you're still in process. But more importantly is that God is still present in it. You see the cross. The cross wasn't a one time offer, guys, the cross, it was a permanent payment and that means there's still room for you and me at the table. Relap and all baggage and all mistakes and all failures and all. There is still room at the table of grace for you and I. Guys, God doesn't toss you out when you fail. That voice telling you that, that lie from the devil that's been pounding on you and beating on you and screaming in your, your ear, that that God's done with you guys. That's not the voice of the shepherd. That's the voice of shame. That's the voice of the accuser guys.'cause Jesus doesn't back away when you and I fall. He moves closer, he gets down in the dirt like he did with that woman that was caught in adultery. He kneels down in the wreckage and he lifts up our face with love and compassion and he says, I'm not here to condemn you. I'm here to restore you. Guys, grace doesn't just wait at the finish line. Grace runs into the fire to find you. This isn't about how many times you and I have failed. You could have messed up 99 times and God would still say, get up. Let's go again. This journey guys that we are on. It has nothing to do with impressing God. This journey we are on, it's about trusting him. It's about trusting the process. It's about coming back again and again because you know, the one who restores is stronger than the thing that wrecked you. And that's why Grace will never tell you and me that it's done with us. Instead, it looks us in the eyes, dusts us off and says, let's go Again. Not because we deserve it, it has nothing to do because we earned it, but because Grace doesn't quit where we fall, it begins there. Now let this truth grip you. Family. You haven't run outta chances, you've just run outta. Reasons to stay stuck. One of my favorite all time verses in the Bible is in the book of Lamentations and it's Lamentations, chapter three verses 22, uh, and 23 it says, because of the Lord's great love. We are not consumed for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great. Is your faithfulness now, I just taught on a Bible study on this at my church, uh, not too long ago. And when you read the book of Lamentations, Jeremiah, the prophet. Is writing this and he is lamenting over the fall of Israel and he is in the middle of wreckage. He is in the middle of the, the worst. Time of his life, he is seeing the temple destroyed. The walls of of, of the nation of Israel have falling and everything's in flames and everything has been destroyed. And, and nothing, when you look at it through your eyes, there's nothing good that you could see. But notice Jeremiah didn't say when things get better. Or you know, when I get through this in the middle of his wreckage, in the middle of the worst case scenario in Jeremiah's life, he says, we are not consumed. Why? Because of the Lord's great love for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great. Is your faithfulness family. You woke up today, you got breath in your lungs, you're you, you're alive, and you're here. Then guess what? Grace showed up today with you. Let that settle in your spirit. If you're still breathing family, you haven't been abandoned. That's a lie from the devil. If you, if you opened your eyes this morning, God. God whose compassions never fell, the the God whose mercies are new every morning because of his faithfulness. If you opened your eyes this morning, God opened heaven's mercy over your life again with no questions asked. You see, the enemy loves to convince you and I that we're damaged goods that we're too far gone, or we're too messed up to matter. But lamentation says that you are not consumed, and that word consumed means destroyed, used up, burned out. And let's be honest, we felt all those things at some point in our life. Addiction consumed our peace, shame consumed our identity, regret consumed our past, but God's compassion says not today. Every time life tried to eat you alive, grace stood in the gap every time you thought that. This is the end. Mercy whispered, this is a new beginning. Why? Because his compassions never fail. You see, we talk a lot about failure, our own failure, but this verse flips the script. God's compassion never fails. Not when you relapse, not when you rage, not when you return to the, to that thing that you thought you left behind. Not when you walk into church, uh, with nothing to offer, but a broken heart and, and a busted pass. He doesn't withdraw his compassions, he multiplies it. God doesn't ration mercy like it's some type of medicine. He floods it like rain guys mercy. It's not based on your behavior, it's based on his nature. You didn't earn mercy yesterday. I didn't earn mercy yesterday and we don't have to earn it today. Because it never came from you or I in the first place. Guys, mercy flows from the very heart of who God is and he doesn't change. The Bible says that he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That means you don't wake up to grace that was less than yesterday. You wake up to Grace that knows where you've been and still shows up anyway every morning. Again, there's something so powerful about that word every. It doesn't say his mercies are new when you behave. It doesn't say his mercies are are new on Sundays. It doesn't say his mercies are new. When you've been clean for a year, it says every morning, which means today, no matter what. Yesterday looked like no matter how bad you messed up yesterday. You might have, you might have been the worst version of you, but guess what? Grace came knocking and it'll come again tomorrow. In the next day. In the next day. Why? Because grace doesn't recycle old memories. It delivers fresh ones. Family. You don't have to survive today on leftovers from last week's faith. God already stocked this morning with mercy Custom built for where you are right now at this very moment. So before you carry the weight of yesterday into your new beginning, remember this, you are not consumed. You are. Covered. Now, I wanna reflect on something here for just a moment, and I want you to be honest with yourself. I, I want you to take some time and really think about this. Where have you convinced yourself that grace ran out? Maybe, maybe it was the relapse after nine months of being clean. Maybe it was that night you prayed. And still picked up. Maybe it was that look in someone's eyes when they said, I'm disappointed in you. Somewhere along the way, the whisper crept in and the enemy began to pound into our heads. This time you've gone too far this time. God must be done with you. But family, that voice isn't God. that shame disguising itself as holiness. Grace didn't dry up in your worst moment. It rushed in quietly, relentlessly, fully aware of who you are and still choosing you. What would change in your life family? Think about this. What would change if you really believed God wasn't tired of you? Think about that. What would change if you really believed God wasn't tired of you? If you really believe. God doesn't roll his eyes when you come back again, if you really believed that Jesus doesn't cross his arms at you, but opens them what would happen in your life today if you really believed that He is not shocked, that he's not disappointed and he's not second guessing his love for you. Wouldn't that change the way you approach him? You'd stop hiding. You'd stop performing, and you'd stop trying to earn back what was never taken from you. You'd stop seeing yourself as a screw up trying to get better, and you'd start seeing yourself as a son or daughter walking back home. Guys, he is not just the God of second chances, he's the God of another one. Grace doesn't operate on, on punch cards there. There's no limit to how many times you and I can come back because grace doesn't count the comebacks. It celebrates them. You say, but I should be past this by now. God says, but you're still mine and I'm not finished. So you might feel like a repeat offender, but God still sees us as redeemed. He sees you and I as a redeemed son or daughter. You've been forgiven more than once. You've been carried when you should have been crushed. You've been held together by hands that never have let you go. Guys, that's not weakness. That's Grace. Doing what Grace does, guys, and I'm so thankful for this, but Grace doesn't get tired. And as we get ready to wrap this podcast up, I just feel compelled to remind you. You're not disqualified, you're not discarded, and you're not done. You are not the sum of your stumbles, the sum of your mistakes. You're the proof of God's persistence. Grace didn't give up on you when you fell apart. Grace didn't walk out on you when you relapsed. Grace didn't turn away when you question your worth. No family. Grace leaned in and today that same grace says, I'm still here. Let's begin again. You might feel like you've used up all your chances, but family, the cross didn't come with fine print. Grace doesn't expire, so rise up, not because you've earned it, but because you're called to it. Until next time, family stay rooted, stay recovered, and let's get to work.

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You are not just surviving. You are becoming, becoming rooted in truth, becoming recovered by grace, and becoming the person God always knew you could be. Thanks for joining us on Rooted in Recovered. If this episode stirred something in you, don't keep it to yourself. Share it, live it, let it take root. We'll see you next time right here where scars become testimonies and hope rises from the ashes.