
When You Don't Like Your Story
What If Your Worst Chapters Could Become Your Greatest Victories?
- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
When You Don't Like Your Story
What If Your Worst Chapters Could Become Your Greatest Victories?
About this book
Bestselling author, cofounder of Girlfriends in God, and writer for Proverbs 31 Ministries Sharon Jaynes reveals the secret to living a better story: understanding that the worst parts of our past are the very things God uses most.
Many people don't like the story God is writing in their lives. The mistakes, failures, tragedies, and circumstances outside of our control linger in our minds and hold us back. How do we come to grips with the pieces of our stories that we wish weren't there? How do we silence the pain of what has been done to us and the shame of what we've allowed to be done through us?
In When You Don't Like Your Story, Bible teacher Sharon Jaynes shows us how God untangles our most painful emotions with the fingers of grace, putting his redemption on display. In the hardest parts of our narratives, we get to see God's greatest work--and this changes the ending of our stories. As we overcome shame, offer forgiveness, and use our stories to help others, we find freedom from the past and learn to live in the restoration of the present.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Chapter One: May I Please Have a Different Story?
- Chapter Two: Why Me? Why This? Why Now?
- Chapter Three: There’s Always a Meanwhile
- Chapter Four: The Scab You Won’t Stop Picking
- Chapter Five: Changing the Ending to Your Story
- Chapter Six: Leaving the Shame Place
- Chapter Seven: When Forgetting Is Not Enough
- Chapter Eight: Why Your Story Matters
- Chapter Nine: Speaking Up When You Tend to Clam Up
- Chapter Ten: Disqualified? Says Who?
- Chapter Eleven: Lens One or Lens Two? Which Is Better?
- Chapter Twelve: The Perfect Ending to an Imperfect Story
- Acknowledgments
- My True Identity in Christ
- Prayer for Forgiving Others
- Prayer for Receiving God’s Forgiveness
- Bible Study Guide
- Notes
- About the Author