When God Doesn't Fix It: Lessons You Never Wanted to Learn, Truths You Can't Live Without

by Laura Story

God wasn’t going to use me in spite of ...

he was going to use my h...

what if the worst thing I had to offer—my broken story—was really the best thing I had to offer?

MYTH: GOD CAN ONLY USE MY STORY WHEN THERE IS A HAPPY ENDING.

TRUTH: GOD CAN USE MY STORY WHEN I TRUST HIM ...

WE ALL HAVE THINGS WE’D RATHER KEEP HIDDEN. FOR me, it was my doubts and fears.

didn’t want people—especially the church people—to know I didn’t have all the answers.

Has God ever asked you to do something you knew you couldn’t do? Or maybe you felt you were the wrong person to do it?

Surely God made a mistake when he wanted to use you!

In John 4 there is a story about a Samaritan woman getting water from a well.

she was the first person he told he was the Messiah.

Why would Jesus choose her to be the first?

Wouldn’t you rather get help for your child’s addiction from a recovering addict than from a teetotaler who has never experienced the temptation of a high?

God didn’t use her in spite of her story. He used her story.