What's Your Story? - The Value of a Life.

In the last year and a half of my life I have had the privilege of meeting an insane amount of ladies since our Inspire launch last year in March.

With meeting all these different women and girls I began to see a theme woven through each of our ministry events, meetings and opportunities to serve the community around us.  The theme? Every single one of us has a story.  A story that pushes us, motivates us, drives us to pursue or do something more in this life. To give back.

I had to smile when I began to realize that through Inspire the gift God has most given to me has been people and awesome friendships.  Friends who have spoken into my life, come along side of me, shared with me their lives & journey's.  I am overcome with gratitude for this gift.  I have learned through so many of them and am continuing to learn now how to share my life and story with others.

After this last Inspire event I felt more confident than ever that I was sharing exactly what I felt was the heart of God on rest & beauty in our lives.  As I spoke about resting in what God can do in our lives and who God created us to be, God allowed me to actually speak from that place of rest in Him. He wants to speak and work through each of our lives and stories.  There is such freedom in knowing that God can bring His beauty from all of our brokenness and pain and then use it in other lives.

That night as we highlighted several stories, I began to realize that there is something so indescribably powerful about each of our stories and the way we connect to people through what we go through.  When we submit our lives and stories to the One who created us He will use the trials, the failures, the pain, the loss and ultimately the victory we have to connect and help other people. When we connect  our lives to the stories of restored people & redeemed lives we are given that same God given hope that God can and will work all things out for His good.

With that being said, my heart is to publicly show each story we showed that night plus few more we have in our back pockets.  My hope is that through these quick glimpses into a few friends journey's that you will see yourself and the realness of lives. We pray that you will experience hope in each short synopsis from their walk. My prayer is that possibly their tirals but more importantly their victory will speak volumes to you as you see first hand how God's hand was on them and His story and was written all throughout their lives. 

Watch as you see how God takes what the devil intends for evil and uses it for His glory and good over and over again. He continues to speak through these ladies lives to inspire others to rise up and allow God to use their story to help others receive hope that God truly works all things out for His glory. Be encouraged that God's desire is the same for you...He has purpose for your life and wants to work through your story too.

So, take a moment to encourage your heart, connect with a few of these stories and be inspired to heal and walk in all that God calls you to today. 

Our first story is from Erin Rohling, an absolute dear friend & inspiration. This clip just scratches the surface of her story but listen and let God speak to your heart. She and her husband, Paul pastor a growing church in Marlette, Mi called Hope Community Christian Church. http://www.hopeccchurch.org/

If you have a story of how you have overcome something, how God used it and would like to be featured in our Inspire. What's Your Story? summer video series, please email me and we can talk.  My email is amyterm@gmail.com

Be Inspired!
Amy