Running on the Treadmill of Performance:: Anna Nash [Ep 24]

StoryTellers Live

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Anna calls herself a recovering Southern, Bible-belt good girl. Growing up in a nurturing Christian family and a wonderful church, Anna had all the support and tools to build a strong faith.

But being someone who enjoys keeping rules and achieving success, Anna began building her sense of worth in her performance and achievements. Inevitably, goals, pursuits, or people fail us... leaving us disillusioned with life and maybe even disappointed with God.

For Anna, these moments allowed her to experience God's faithfulness and provision in new and powerful ways. And she began learning to trust God with her past, present, and future,

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1:17.9	storyteller Anna, calls herself a recovering Southern Bible Belt Good Girl. Growing up in a
1:23.9	nurturing Christian family and a wonderful church, Anna had all the support and tools
1:28.4	to build a strong faith.
1:30.2	But being someone who enjoys keeping rules and achieving success, Anna began building her sense
1:35.5	of worth and her performance and achievements.
1:38.2	God revealed to her that she was much more caught up in perfecting Christian Anna than in
1:43.7	Anna needing and pursuing Christ.
1:45.7	And I'm sure many of you can relate, I know I do, to placing your identity in your resume
1:50.9	or reputation or even in things like our children's good behavior.
1:55.2	And eventually these goals or pursuits or people fail us.
2:00.0	And in those moments when we feel let down and disillusioned with life
2:04.6	and sometimes disappointed with God, those are the moments where we can grow.
2:08.9	For Anna, these moments allowed her to experience God's faithfulness
2:12.5	and provision in new and powerful ways.
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