Hey everyone and welcome to get your hopes up. I'm Christi right and I'm so glad you're here.

Romans 1513 says, may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him

so that you may overflow with hope by power of the Holy Spirit.

Our God is the God of Hope, and he wants you to overflow with hope.

So let's start our week by getting our hopes up again.

Now today we're talking about how to share your story and why you should, but let's start by just

acknowledging that this is heart.

Do you feel this when you have a story you want to share and it's just weird or crazy or maybe like you're

not sure what other people would think it's hard it's hard to share your story we're

not sure what someone else is going to think. We're not sure if

they're going to believe us, if they're going to write us off, if they're going to

think we're crazy, or maybe they're going to think we're bragging. Like, wow,

it must be nice to be you.

That must be nice, good for you, with your husband, with your baby,

with your house, with your new job, great, go on, so happy for you, love that for you, right? Like we just, we anticipate the eye rolls,

we fear people talking about us behind our back, we worry about our reputation, or even the trustworthiness of our word and our story will they believe us

sounds crazy have you ever had a crazy God story a crazy, or maybe God spoke something to you and even what he said

like kind of rattled you. Like in a good way but also kind of like messes with

your head kind of way like messes with your

beliefs, like you had an idea about God and this doesn't match that idea about God.

Like does God say that? Would God do that?

Well, I've got one of those stories.

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