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Here are the questions I left you with at the end of my teaching today. I am anxious to dialogue.
What’s your story?
Identify yourself in the game: Overcome with problems or Ready to be a lifter?
How would your story lift someone?
Does your story point to Jesus (as the deliverer) or yourself?
What does it mean to ‘let God move you’?
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My story: Severe low self esteem, Depression, Anorexia, Infertillity.
to name a few...
I am definately on the other side of these circumstances. Even tho things have not turned out the way I would have chosen for my life I have hope and peace in my life when it once was filled with sadness and dispair.
Identify myself: I am ready to be a lifter, God has been using some of these things for years to connect me to others.
How would my story lift others:
My hope is that people I connect with will experience my compassion and not feel alone because I can relate to pain and sadness, even if their circumstances are very different, I know what hopelessness feels like. If they were experiencing any of the things that I have been through, I would hope that they would be able to see that God can and will heal the broken places inside you and make you whole, and give you peace.
The process of dealing with problems changes who I am. Completely changes who I am.
Prayer and the process of praying does not necessarily change my circumstances but it does change my heart, and my attitude towards my problems and keeps me focused of Jesus and his power, not on my issues of the moment.
Does my story point to Jesus,
I really hope that it always will, I could not have gotten through any of it on any strength of my own.
What does it mean to let God move me? For me, I think it is the process of the situation and trusting that this is what he needs me to go through to make me who he created me to be. Knowing full well that things might not turn out the way I would choose for myself, but trusting God's
choices for me. Even if I never understand the out come trusting that he knows best.
This was a great sermon, We all have something in common, problems and a history of brokenness of some sort, it kind of makes me feel really connected to every one who heard the message.
Thanks for sharing Jen. You do have a story and believe you are a lifter. Your growth has touched my life.
I am overcome with problems.. Rasing children as a single parent--seeing them fail because of my failures.However I am finding out that weekly attending and prayer is helping my problems seem less.I feel so fortunate to have been almost dragged to church to this church after so many years of dening that I need God and his guidance and forgiveness in my life.For a long time I blamed God for some of the issues in my life and lack of love in my life..Now I realize he has always been with me otherwise I would not have survived.
I am not ready to be a lifter--I still need the lifting--but i know God is working on me..
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