Only Through the Power of God - Valerie Garner's Story :: Listener Favorite [Episode 148]

StoryTellers Live

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Valerie, from Tupelo, Mississippi, shares the journey of her life of living on the streets, selling drugs, and going to prison, to realizing the heaviness of her sin, surrendering her life to Jesus, leading Bible studies, and becoming the director of a halfway house. (originally aired 2/17/21 as EP. 123)

**Please be advised that the subject matter contains sensitive material, including sexual and physical abuse. We ask you to listen at your discretion.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Storytellers Lab podcast where everyday women share stories of God's Love.
0:08.8	I'm Robin and I'm here with Katie and Lindy and we're on our final listener favorites episode.
0:14.8	We took a little liberty. We had asked for everyone's favorite in 2020, but so many of you on
0:20.2	social media as well as so many
0:22.1	of our storytellers live communities, came back with Valerie's story that we decided to make a little
0:27.3	bit of an exception and take one story from 2021. She originally aired in February of this year,
0:33.9	and her story is so powerful. It really is. It's a story about God's redemption. I mean,
0:38.3	he can save us from any situation that we're in and he can bring us through and be used for his
0:43.5	glory. And that's exactly what Valerie is doing today. Her story's super powerful, as Robin mentioned.
0:48.8	And I'm just excited for you to listen to it if you haven't heard it. And I'm excited for you to
0:53.1	listen to it again if you have.
0:56.8	We have some big news and we are so excited to share it with you. Lundy, go for it.
1:02.2	Okay, y'all are familiar with Discover Your Story. We've had a huge response. So many people have purchased the Bible study.
1:08.1	We have now broken it into two books. So Discover Your Story,
1:12.5	we have pulled out the writing section and called it Discover Your Story. It's a supplement to
1:17.6	our Bible study, which is now called When God Shows Up. Because we want to tell you when God showed up
1:25.1	in these women's life, everything changed. Because God changes
1:28.8	everything. And so we are excited that now we have when God shows up an eight week podcast Bible
1:34.0	study and discover your story, which is the story writing supplement. When God shows up is $15,
1:40.6	discover your story is eight. If you buy the bundle, it's $20 at storytellerslive.org. I'm so excited. I'm so excited, too, Lindy. And you know, one of the things that we have heard, especially from, we've had churches go through this in their women's ministry, and just the walls that are being broken down within the local church has been incredible. I mean, so often, we go to church on Sunday, we see women and we're like,
2:05.8	how are you? I'm fine. How are you? And nobody takes off any mask. You don't really have time to,
2:10.6	you know, right at church. But this takes you to another level of realness, of vulnerability, because you're listening to women be real and vulnerable as they share their story on the podcast.
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