The Best Story You've Never Heard - S4, E3: Purposed
The Jada Edwards Podcast
Jada Edwards
5.0 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Your favorite series is back with a twist! Throughout The Best Story You've Never Heard, we will explore the power of life stories from young adults. Our life stories reflect how the hand of God shows up in our lives. In this episode, Atalah Stevenson reminds us that God still calls us back home even when we run in the opposite direction. It's the intimate moments between us and God when true life change happens.
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| 0:00.0 | So can you imagine finding the love of your life accidentally through a Twitter exchange? |
| 0:07.0 | Listen, this and so many more good stories are coming your way on today's episode of the Jada Edwards podcast. |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome to season four of the Jada Edwards podcast. |
| 0:19.8 | As always, God is giving us his word to share personal stories and great conversations |
| 0:25.3 | you are going to want to hear. |
| 0:28.9 | Okay, so today with me, I have the one and only, Atala Stevenson. |
| 0:33.6 | That's right. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome, Atala. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome. |
| 0:35.3 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome. |
| 0:36.9 | Welcome to your own podcast. Thanks for having me. It's okay. It's like people say, how's your date? Fine. How are you? Because you just use I'm trying. I struggle. Yeah. People say, enjoy your food. I say, you too. I'm feeling so bad. We just have automated responses. So glad you're here with us us glad you get to hang out with us for a few |
| 0:54.8 | minutes um you have listened to podcast episodes before and been a part of them in large group settings |
| 1:00.0 | but you know we've been talking about life stories i love talking to people about their life stories |
| 1:04.4 | i think it always resonates with somebody and then we get to see the hand of god like oh my gosh |
| 1:09.5 | look at my own story sometimes we don't even think about our stories comprehensively until someone asks. And you start putting it all down. You're like, God, look at you showing out. What in the world? So I'm so glad you're here with us. We're going to jump in because I always ask people to describe your life in one word. Okay, yes. Tell us what you came up with. I've been praying about this. I was getting a root canal and God gave it to me. Bam. I was like, I had nothing else to do. I had nothing else to do. So God dropped purposed on me. And I think God gave that to me because sometimes we'll look at life and say, I wish this didn't happen. I wish I can go back and change |
| 1:44.9 | this. But, you know, some stuff, what the enemy meant for evil, God even uses it for good. And |
| 1:51.4 | I had to realize that a lot of experiences that I've had were purposed. And there was a reason for it. |
| 1:57.0 | And as much as I may want to change things make things not happen God is using that for |
| 2:01.7 | his glory my testimony to continue to you know grow and even help other people yeah that's a good |
| 2:07.7 | word you can't go wrong with that especially when it's not I'm just looking at my life right now |
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