Hope Can Come From Our Broken Stories: Alice Marie Johnson & Christina Zorich
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
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🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes the people we least expect to make a difference in the world are the ones that show up in ways we never thought possible, and are used by God in big ways to draw others to Him.
Alice Marie Johnson had been sentenced to life in federal prison, but she didn’t let it define her. She consistently clung to her faith and then became a minister to other prisoners—despite the tragic circumstances—and she is now an active criminal justice reform advocate. While following anti-human traffickers in Southeast Asia to film a documentary, Christina Zorich witnessed the crippling heartache victims faced, and saw how God can bring hope and healing to anyone, anywhere.
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Interview Quotes:
“I knew that the Lord was with me, because I had peace even standing there [in the courtroom] that I can't even explain to this day how I could be calm hearing that sentence, that executed sentence of death being pronounced over me.” - Alice Marie Johnson
“I asked the Lord, ‘Please show me my purpose in this. Show me what you have for me in this. There's got to be more than this. If You could use me in prison, use me wherever I am, Lord. Let my life stand for something.’” - Alice Marie Johnson
“I know that it was a sovereign hand of God. For someone to see me as a human being worth a second chance, worth redemption, I know that it was God.” - Alice Marie Johnson
“Going on the journey [following anti-traffickers in Asia] was actually in some ways so simple, because I had to be so dependent on God. I had to be so dependent on just getting every little opportunity, appreciating it, and if I made a mistake, I had to learn from the lesson.” - Christina Zorich
“I realized the simplicity of the experience really helped guide me and made my life just simpler in a way. Because when you're doing something for the first time, that wide-eyed openness makes you appreciate things and value things. And the experience and the journey changed me in many ways.” - Christina Zorich
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| 0:00.0 | Feeling anxious and overwhelmed, Jesus listens is a wonderful way to bring peace, |
| 0:05.3 | joy, and hope into your life. This 365 daily devotional prayer book by Sarah Young |
| 0:11.9 | contains short, heartfelt prayers based on scripture. Jesus listens is available wherever you buy books. |
| 0:21.8 | Sometimes the answer may not come when you want it to come, but keep praying and keep believing |
| 0:27.7 | and keep hoping. And I promise you God who is promised to never leave you nor forsake you, |
| 0:35.6 | the same God who was with me and who is with me now. He is faithful. He is faithful to hear your prayers. |
| 0:44.8 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Sometimes the people we least expect to make a difference in the |
| 0:49.8 | world are the ones that show up in ways we never thought would have been possible and are used |
| 0:54.8 | by God in big ways to draw others to Him. Alice Marie Johnson had been sentenced to life in |
| 1:04.1 | federal prison, but she didn't let it define her. She consistently clung to her faith and then |
| 1:08.6 | became a minister to other prisoners despite the tragic circumstances. And she's now an active |
| 1:13.6 | criminal justice reform advocate. While following anti-human traffickers in Southeast Asia to film a |
| 1:19.4 | documentary, Christina Zorick witnessed the crippling heartache victims faced and saw how God |
| 1:24.5 | can bring hope and healing to anyone anywhere. Let's start with Alice's story. |
| 1:30.7 | I'm Alice Marie Johnson. I'm a criminal justice reform advocate, author, and former prisoner. |
| 1:40.8 | I grew up in a small town called Olive Bridge, Mississippi. Both my parents were strong Christians. |
| 1:48.5 | There were nine of us. I'm number six of my siblings, eight girls and one boy. I had the experience |
| 1:56.8 | of growing up in a black community, a very Christian community. But my mother and my father, |
| 2:03.4 | they taught us things that would carry me through life. One of the lessons that they taught us, |
| 2:10.2 | not to be judgemental, but to accept people as who they are. Because we knew what it felt like |
| 2:16.9 | to be looked at and judged by the color of our skin. At the age of 14, even though I had loved |
| 2:25.6 | the church all of my life, I became, I won't say disenchanted, but doing those times, it was going |
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