When you know who you are in Christ, you have positioned yourself spiritually to be favored by God.

Dr. Tony Evans says God has great things in mind for you, but his intentions are even bigger than you may imagine.

The only reason whether you're a man or woman,

God favors you is so you can favor somebody else

with the favor that God use the favor you.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior

pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas,

and President of the Urban Alternative.

Physical fixes can help you manage your misery,

but achieving a lasting cure only happens with a biblical prescription.

Today, Dr Evans brings us some scripture-based therapy that can help get twisted up lives,

straightened out again. Let's join him as he begins. In Luke chapter 13 we're

introduced to a lady without a name. Her name is not given to us so we don't know what to call her but we are introduced to

her in verse 10 and he Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And there was a woman who for

18 years had had a sickness caused by a spirit

and she was bent double and could not straighten up at all.

So she went to church, she got her spot, but when she came to church she brought an 18- year problem with her.

There was a spine injury of some sort or a spine disease

that it caused her to bend over and you've seen people like that who can't straighten up

it says because she was bent over. Far too many people a day live their lives, bent over.

In other words, they can't get stuff straight.

Stuff stays crooked in their lives, crooked in their relationships, crooked in their

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