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    When God Rewrites Your Story (Pkg of 10): Six Keys to a Transformed Life from Namesake Women's Bible Study
    When God Rewrites Your Story (Pkg of 10): Six Keys to a Transformed Life from Namesake Women's Bible Study
    When God Rewrites Your Story (Pkg of 10): Six Keys to a Transformed Life from Namesake Women's Bible Study
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    When God Rewrites Your Story (Pkg of 10): Six Keys to a Transformed Life from Namesake Women's Bible Study

    By Jessica LaGrone

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    This mini book with devotional reflections from the Bible study Namesake introduces you to biblical characters who met God and were never the same again. Through their stories, learn about God’s transformative power and how He wants to be as intimately involved in your story, offering an identity that shines with the purpose for which you were created.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateFeb 1, 2013
    ISBN9781426769979
    When God Rewrites Your Story (Pkg of 10): Six Keys to a Transformed Life from Namesake Women's Bible Study
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    Jessica LaGrone

    Jessica LaGrone is Dean of the Chapel at Asbury Theological Seminary and an acclaimed pastor, teacher, and speaker who enjoys leading retreats and events throughout the United States. She previously served as Pastor of Creative Ministries at The Woodlands United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. She is the author of The Miracles of Jesus: Finding God in Desperate Moments, Set Apart: Holy Habits of Prophets and Kings, Broken and Blessed: How God Changed the World Through One Imperfect Family, and Namesake: When God Rewrites Your Story Bible studies and Broken & Blessed book. She and her husband, Jim, have two young children and live in Wilmore, Kentucky.

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      When God Rewrites Your Story (Pkg of 10) - Jessica LaGrone

      Introduction

      Have you ever thought of your life as a story? Just like the characters in the Bible, your life tells a story. And just as God was intimately involved in their stories, He wants to be intimately involved in your story, too.

      When we read the stories of many people who encountered God in the Bible, we see that God rewrote their stories and changed their lives, giving them new destinies and even new names. God still longs to change our lives today, giving us new destinies and new names, when we take on the name of His Son, Jesus, and choose to follow Him as new creations in Christ. God wants to rewrite our stories, offering each of us an identity that shines with the purpose for which we were created, as we become more and more like Him. The result is a transformed life—one that brings God glory for His name’s sake.

      We can learn much about this process of transformation from the stories of biblical characters who came to know God and were never the same. This little book presents a snapshot of six different stories: Abraham and Sarah, Jacob, Naomi, Daniel, Peter, and an unnamed woman. Each story highlights a key insight we can gain related to the transformation that God wants to bring in our own lives. These six keys to a transformed life are intended to help you catch a glimpse of the new story God desires to write for you. It is my prayer that as you read these stories, you will come to know God in a deeper and more personal way and give Him permission to rewrite your own life story.

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      Believe God and Wait on Him

      Abraham and Sarah

      If we want to experience the transformation that God desires to bring in our lives, an important first step is to believe God. Not only must we believe in God; we must believe what God says. We must believe God’s promises are true and that He has the power to bring them to pass, even when our circumstances tempt us to believe otherwise. This often involves placing ourselves in God’s hands as we wait on His timing.

      A Hopeful Couple

      When I think of believing God and waiting on His timing, I think of Abraham and Sarah—known to us first in the Bible as Abram and Sarai. In Hebrew, Abram’s name literally means Exalted Father. Though it may seem strange to us that his parents named their newborn Father, to them it represented their dreams for their son’s prosperity, which in their day meant growing up to be a father with lots of children.

      Abram did grow up, and he married Sarai, whose name means Princess. But even after being married so long that their friends had children and even grandchildren, Abram and Sarai remained childless. In a culture that placed such high value on the number of offspring one had, this was a devastating blow.

      Then God began to make outlandish and epic promises to Abram and Sarai in their old age, declaring that they would become the parents of many offspring—a great nation (Genesis 12:1-4)—and later many nations (Genesis 17:1-4). God even gave Abram a powerful visual to go with this promise, telling him that his offspring would be as numerous as the stars (Genesis 15:5).

      The promise of God’s blessings in Abram and Sarai’s lives was

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