even as we just think about mary magdalene about her life i think back um like with
esther you know she wasn't so much about preserving her life she was about
extending her life and the way that she was going to extend it was by being obedient
right and so much of it right now in our lives is right at the tip of our obedience
and you and i can blame circumstances all day long we can say but you don't understand
the demons that i have either from my family lineage or from story that has happened to me
in the past or a wound that actually occurred and something that has really devastated me
it becomes what i carry and i again go back and say if god is able to heal us from the very things
that we're talking about today the wounds that are deep the truth that god can over god can overcome
even things that that difficult maybe it's not just all for our own sake either like mary
all of a sudden she becomes and finds herself at the as a testimony to the resurrection i was there
when it happened i saw him in person now at that point the whole story doesn't seem to be about her
seven demons right it just doesn't seem to be that way that's something that occurred to her that god
changed in her and that set her on a new course but just like christine said the beauty of it is
that she stayed the course and she finds herself now that's right testifying to the power of god
for centuries in years and decades to come right because that's the thing that transformed her so
not just the healing came to her but your healing is also going to come through you and it's going
to come to all the nations because of his great power yeah so good and and we've got to remember
that there wasn't this continuum where she was scared then she got courageous then everything
was hunky-dory you know the disciples did not believe mary when she came back and said i saw him
they didn't believe her and so i think we tend to think in this linear process like once i overcome
all of my fear then i'll get courageous then i'll get and we think of it almost like steps along the
way but i think biblical courage oftentimes it's doing it scared right and not necessarily being
celebrated after you do it you know missy my 11 year old just started horseback riding lessons
and she was at the top of one of those little steps you needed to get on the horse for the
first time on the saddle and she looked at me and she said mom i'm scared and i said i know baby
and there's about 10 seconds and i thought it's her choice as to whether she swings that
leg over the saddle or not it's her choice am i going to force her to do it and i just smiled
and she looked at me and i thought she's right at that kind of precipice
and then she swung her leg over and later she goes mama i did it but i was afraid i said i know
baby that's bravery bravery sometimes isn't that you think you can do it it's trying it even when
you've got a little bit of fear and i think some people think well i can't be courageous for jesus
because i'm still a little scared and i'm like oh honey you may not get rid of all the scared
do the next right thing and god will equip you right i think it and that's that's so powerful
going back to what shelly said it's not about what you feel but it's about being obedient that's
right it's it's being obedient to the word of god and as you obey him the courage will be there
you know but if you're waiting on a time when everything is perfect and i feel prepared and
there's no fear you will be waiting you'll never do it but it's the obedience that's right obedient
i love you god more than anything that's right and i say yes to your will and i say yes to your way
that's right you know and it's through your obedience that he gives you all the courage
that you need to take those steps you know and he continues he continues to elevate you yeah yeah
the next step comes into view after you take the first step yeah right yeah so i don't know about
you but yeah it doesn't mean it becomes it becomes easier not because not because you don't feel the
fear but because you understand the god that you serve right he's faithful right when i obeyed him
when i obeyed him that time he showed up you know and that's when you begin to rely and you
can have that faith because your faith is not in your circumstance it's not in your ability
it's not in your capabilities not in your fame it's not in your gift but it's in his word it's
in his word because he's a promise keeper and so because he's a promise keeper i can step out
because he's going to show up you know so so every time it's the relationship
i see it every day in people's lives and i don't see lives of faithfulness because
they were super courageous people i see lives of faithfulness because they took a step of courage
and turns out one step leads to the next step and trust is built like you're saying cc with every
step we take yeah and pretty soon you look up and have a life of faithfulness you'll look up and say
right how did this occur yeah i didn't even know that i was acting courageously i was just trying
to show up today with some kind of obedience in my heart and that leads to beautiful things right
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