62 | 🏀 Weak is the new strong

There’s something powerful about story…

… especially stories we encounter in real time with actual people…

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… which is what James and Alex encountered along the way to pick pick up Angel…

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Ancient rabbis believed that each time a story of redemption was told, the retelling of the story carried the exact same power and imparted the same possibilities to those who heard it as the person who lived the story actually experienced.

In other words, you find yourself wrapped in that same power of the past again in the present.

Perhaps you’ve experienced it—

— You hear of a miraculous healing and sense faith rising

— You hear of a restarted relationship and sense yours can mend

— You hear of a financial breakthrough and sense hope for your situation

— You hear of another person facing Post Traumatic Stress, Moral Injury, Suicide… and you sense you can push forward too…

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Again…

There’s something STRONG about story.

Especially the “overcoming” version that’s transparent about the obstacles and failures encountered along the way.

Revelation 12 says that we overcome by two things— the blood of Jesus AND the power of your story (see Revelation 12:11).

That is, we overcome by—

— That past work that Jesus has already done 2,000 years ago, and

— The ongoing work of declaring what He’s doing in our lives right now.

When we share the stories— when you share your story of overcoming— people
in midst of their valley sense there might be a way forward.

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This is one of the reasons we find so many instructions throughout the Bible to talk about the stories of God’s past provision.

For instance,

— God told the Children of Israel to continually talk about how they were redeemed from slavery and walked through the Red Sea (see Exodus 12).

— He reminded each generation to tell the next generation the stories of breakthrough and blessing, including all of those which happened during their lifetime as well as those leading up to it (see Psalm 145:4).

— The Children of Israel even created monuments to elicit questions and conversations, so they could retell the stories (i.e., Joshua 4:21-22).

Each time a story was told— and retold— of how God interrupted a catastrophe and ignited hope, the same power was unleashed again.

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Our prayer is that this story is one of those moments for you.

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