Your Story & Identity: Finding Healing & Transformation through God’s Word – Healing 2025

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Stories have the power to affect us greatly. We develop our own narrative about who we are and how we see the world. We often think the great redemptive story is about us getting into heaven, but it is really about heaven getting into us.

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May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call

Eph. 1:18

1. Mary discusses the power of story in our lives and how both fictional and real-life stories can deeply affect us. What types of stories have most moved your heart in the past?

2. As we consume stories throughout our lives, we create our own narrative about how we see the world and ourselves. What is your story? How do you see yourself in the depths of your heart?

3. Mary points out that in the story of the Prodigal Son, the older brother is doing all the correct things but isn’t actually in a relationship with the father. In what ways might you identify with the older brother in that story?

4. The most important part of our story is where we are in our relationship with the Lord. How do you think your relationship with God is right now?

Text: Your Story & Identity: Finding Healing & Transformation through God’s Word

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Hi, my name is Mary Bielski and welcome to the Pray More Healing Retreat. Today we’re going to be talking about identity, who we are in Christ, whose we are in this epic love story. But as we begin, let’s start off with some prayer.

Opening Prayer

In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Heavenly Father, I praise your name. I give you glory. I thank you for the opportunity to walk these next weeks to uncover who you are and this great story of redemption. I ask that you bless my words, that it would touch hearts. I ask you to bless those who are listening today, that they would come to know you in the power of your name and the power of the gospel, and we ask this all in Jesus mighty name.

Father. Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. Welcome. I’m so excited. So those who don’t know me, my name again is Mary Bielski, like a BLT, but BL ski, a good Polish name. I’m a Catholic evangelist speaker. I’ve been speaking for the last 20 years. I’m going to share a little bit about my story, but I wear a bunch of different hats from, I’m a life coach, I’ve done mission work.

But really this whole session this series is going to be talking about story and,  , I’m going to be un breaking open some themes you’re going to see in the next weeks ahead, me talking about themes today about identity, themes about transformation, about coming to know in the him in the rough and hard times, themes of the intimacy.

How do we come into prayer and to kind of grab hold of his voice and his name and things of inheritance. How do we could not only know who we are, right? But what we have as we’re sent on mission, it’s going to be an amazing few weeks, but as I break open the content today, we’re going to be really talking about story.

There’s such a power as we talk about our personal stories and then the greater redemptive story, stories and narratives have power.   A number of years ago, I was skiing on the ski slopes and I injured my back. A wicked wipe out, just completely embarrassing. Injured my back, and for many years I never went back to skiing because I had all these memories and it was just kind of this traumatic thing that happened.

And then I was doing some inner healing work and the Lord kind of invited me back to go back to the slope. I’ll never forget, a friend went with me. We’re going on the lift, and I was going up on the slopes and there was some nervousness and all these things were unfolding as I was kind of entering into this new journey.

On Wearing the Wrong Lenses

And I’ll never forget as we’re going up the slopes, it was the evening. It was like the cool, and my friend looked over and she’s like, Mary, that moon is incredible. She looks over at the moon and it’s orange and it’s bright. At least she’s telling me this. But I don’t see it. It just looks like a white moon.

I’m like, okay. And then she’s like, no, look at the moon. It’s amazing. And she’s kind of getting all geeked out with the moon. And long story short, we get up to the top of the lip and I’m like, I don’t know what you’re talking about. And I, we realized that she was wearing, tinted goggles. Goggles that had like, that, that that sonar kind of reflective and everything that she saw was like through a, a hue of orange.

And we laughed. In that moment though, God began as I entered into this, this,  journey on the slopes. He’s, he was talking to me about,  the lenses that I see that sometimes I we’re not wearing the right lenses. Sometimes the places, because I had been hurt and injured with my back, the things of our past, the things that went wrong, it kind of can be a lens where we don’t see.

Rightly, we don’t see truth. We don’t know who we are or whose we are. In our epic love story and lies can kind of enter in our heart. And as I begin today, we’re going to talk about the new lenses of the gospel, the gospel that actually helps us to see for the first time. The key scripture I want to break up with you is in Ephesians 1:17-19, and it just says, well, I’ll just say I pray. It’s Paul praying for the spirit of revelation and wisdom that the eyes of our heart would be enlightened, that we would know the hope to which we’d be called to the glorious inheritance in the saints, the richness of that inheritance,  , and the, the immeasurable power for us who believe this is, um, Ephesians 1:17-19.

And I love this scripture because particularly it’s a life verse for me, a verse that I hold very close to my heart, the Greek word for revelation is  apocalypses, which means an unveiling. It’s literally the idea of someone who’s blind and can’t see, and something being lifted from their eyes for the first time.

Unveiled revelation unveiling, something to be seen and known in a real way. And I love, I love as we talk about this, ’cause we know this in our lives, that sometimes we don’t see, we, we literally sometimes don’t see physically. If you go down to the refrigerator or if you’ve lost your iPhone or you can’t see something, sometimes you open the fridge and you’re looking for that like mustard or that one thing and you’re like, I don’t see it.

Sometimes We Fail to See

And it’s right there in front of you. We’ve all had that experience where you’re looking for your, your readers or your glasses and you can’t find them, and they’re right there. Like sometimes we don’t see things physically. There was a YouTube video a number of years ago where they were videoing. They were, they were doing some studies on ADHD and they videoed our, our attention span.

They had two people stand in the video and pass a basketball back and forth, and you had to count. How many times the basketball went back and forth. So imagine, you know, we’re doing this whole film and I’m, I’m competitive, so you’re watching 1, 2, 3, 4, and you’re counting. And then what they would do is they would release this guy in a, in a monkey costume or really costume in the background, like walking who, like walking past.

And they did a survey to see how many people saw the gorilla. And the number was like ridiculously low. It was like 40% or something. ’cause we’re so focused on one thing that sometimes we don’t see, our eyes don’t always catch in the physical realm. We know this emotionally too. Those of us who are on social media or Instagram, there could be moments where people, you know, post something and they’re like, either you’re like, are you emotionally blind?

Or even in marriage, you know, you’re with your husband or you’re with your wife and you’re like, do you see me? Like, do you even acknowledge that I’m. Like, sometimes even emotionally we don’t see people, but even more so in this context of what we want to unveil today. Sometimes we don’t see in the spiritual, that actually throughout scripture more than anything. Christ says, he oftentimes says to the disciples, you have eyes but do not see. You have ears, but do not hear.

And there’s an important part as we talk about today about this scripture verse about revelation about story is that sometimes in the midst of that God wants to unveil our eyes to the revelation of who God is.

And this is something that can’t actually be taught, which is interesting because I’m an evangelist and I do a lot of formation and teaching, and I went to Catholic school my whole life, but I know that sometimes. You know, when we talk about, like, let me just talk about seeing, my dad had, he was colorblind, so we’d always play like jokes on him, hide his blue and green socks ’cause he couldn’t tell the difference.

Like he literally couldn’t see. And there’s, there’s actually right now a YouTube video,  , that has lenses. There’s some new technology where you can buy lenses and glasses, put them on, and colorblind people the way it bends the light, they’re able to see color for the first time. And it’s so beautiful as you see this, these videos like over and over.

I mean, I spent like a whole day watching just one, one scene where a father looks to his son’s eyes and starts just weeping. Because it’s the first time he can see color in his son’s eyes. You know, a 10-year-old little boy who, who unveils like for the first time he puts it on and he turns to the guy next to him and just. Huddles in because it’s so beautiful. There’s other reactions of people that’ll laugh hysterically, like, oh my gosh, I didn’t even know. And then others that are just stunned in the beauty of what it’s like from going from darkness to light. It’s, it’s the idea that Christ came to unveil who he is, and I can’t give that to you with information.

God Wants to Unveil to Us

I can’t tell someone what the color blue looks like. Through just telling them like, how do you explain the color blue to someone who’s colorblind? How do you explain love to someone unless it’s revealed to them, unless they encounter it? John Paul II says, this “Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself.

His life is senseless if love is not revealed to him. If he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately with it.” And when Christ comes in flesh with the story to reveal, for us it’s, it’s an unveiling of truth. It’s unveiling of mystery.

It’s unveiling who God is for the first time. But it’s also revealing who we are in this epic love story. And today we want to unpack that a little bit. I don’t have much time. I really geek out about scripture. You’re going to hear me talking a lot about scripture in the next weeks. Um, particularly Paul.

I love that his story. He has a story as you look at Ephesians. If you look at his, his life, he, he went from one way of seeing, he was blind, literally, in this spirit because he was persecuting Christians. He was a, strong Jew, and all of a sudden he had this one encounter with the Lord. He’s blinded as a symbolism, and then it’s unveiled and he can see, and his life has radically changed from this moment.

And I  feel like as we enter into this week what God wants to unveil to us, what God wants to show us is yes, we need is listen to the scripture. I pray that the eyes of your heart would be open, that you would know the hope of your calling. So he wants to unveil your calling. But before that, it says, I pray for a spirit of wisdom and revelation that you might know him.

This word, knowing in the Greek it’s very similar to the Hebrew word, a Yara. It’s not an informational knowing. It’s the knowing that sets our heart free. It’s the knowing when we come to encounter a person.  Benedict,  set this way. Being Christian is not a result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea.

The Power of Story

This is Pope Benedict. But an encounter with an event, a person which lit, which gives life a new horizon and a new decisive direction. I love this because it’s a, it’s an encounter. As we talk about understanding our stories, we talk about what God wants to do. It’s the idea that God wants to break open the story of our redemption in a beautiful way, and there’s something powerful as we talk about that, about the story of Paul, but the story of the gospel.

I’ve been kind of obsessed in the last years about the power of story. You know, we live in a world of stories, stories all around us, whether it’s YouTube or Instagram. Stories and books, love stories. Like I still remember when I was a little 16 years old watching my first love story. Y’all remember I had the big bangs, don’t judge me.

And driving home, I must have been 16, 17 years old and a weeping in the car of this like ridiculous love story that wrecked my heart. What is it about the story? I remember once I was preaching in front of a huge audience at a Steubenville conference and some teenager in the back, I mentioned, Lord the Rings or Harry Potter.

He stood up on a chair and he just starts roaring like, rah. And I was like, you know, like what is it about story that makes him so excited? Like Christmas, like I come from a big family. There’s something about Christmas time where I gather around the table and we tell stories about things that happened in our family.

And in Christmas we also come and we always watch. It’s a wonderful Life. I love it. And there’s that scene where he’s running home to his family and he yells out, Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter. You know, what is it about these stories? You know, the studies showed today that we’re a culture of stories. We actually learned from storytelling.

There’s a lot of science. If you look at Kurt Thompson and some of the, the, the story writing and how we build narratives to, to actually, develop our identity. We don’t actually develop our identity by sitting in a room and thinking about who I am. We actually come to know who we are in relationship, relationship with the world, and relationship with others.

It’s unveiled to us. It’s shown to us. It’s revealed, and we learn from our experiences in our life and begin a narrative. Moms don’t say, just give some facts. They say to their children, mothers do this and daddies do this. Kids begin to learn through a narrative of how life is and the story unfolds.

We’re a people of story. There was a great author that once said, man is eminently a storyteller. He searches for a plot, a mission, a purpose in his life story. What I want to propose as we go into this ethic love story, that there is something about our hearts that are woo to stories. Tragedy, adventure, love, mystery.

It’s what we’re made for. There’s something about a great story that that draws the meaning in our heart. And always in our life as we understand the stories that woo us, that move us, is that we’re also creating in our own story, our own narrative of how we see the world. And as I begin, as I go deeper today, I just want to ask as we start, what’s your story?

What’s Your Story?

Now, when I say that I do a lot of life coaching, I have the privilege of walking into people’s. Sacred places. I had a woman, well I’ll share that in a moment. I get to walk into people’s sacred places and, the power of story is so beautiful in these places that I unfolded. I remember I had a 19-year-old girl that was, doing coaching with me once, and I asked her, I’ll never forget, it was during COVID.

I said, you know, I’m asking her what she wants to work on. And she said to me, 19 years old, and she says to me, I want to own my story. And I found it so intriguing. You know, I lean in with my glasses. Like, tell me more, tell me what you mean. Not creepy like that. But, I was like, tell me what you mean. And she said, I’m, you know, I’m 19 years old.

My mom was an alcoholic. I’ve struggled with this whole story of my unworthiness and this woundedness from my past and the trauma that happened, and I want to own a new story. What I want to invite you into as we talk about story is I ask you what’s your story? I’m not talking about your resume or how many kids that you have, or what you do at work.

I’m, I’m asking when I say, what’s your story? What do you believe about yourself? When the lights turn off at night, when you put your phone down, how do you see yourself in terms of the grand story of your life? The meaning, the purpose. I’m not talking about what you do, but the worth that you have.

The Love Story That God Unfolds

As we unfold, the beautiful story, that Paul begins us in Ephesians, he actually ends that prayer that he gives is after he begins all of Ephesians talking about the great story, this epic love story that God unfolds. He begins in the Trinitarian model, he talks. About the father who prepared us, who chose us from the foundation of the world to be blameless and you know, blameless before him and predestined to be adopted as sons and daughters. And then he goes into the son about this beautiful story of Christ by his blood and by his offering has now reconciled us, actually forgiven us of our sins and drawn us back into, and then he goes into the Holy Spirit, this whole beautiful story.

And Paul ends this God story. Praying for our eyes to be open. ’cause so many of us, as you’re like me, can hear the story with our minds, but not know it with our hearts. We can’t know the story, of a God who called us by name. We have to encounter it. And so many times we can be like the elderly brother or the prodigal son who know or maybe have an idea that the father’s there, but we don’t see him.

We don’t know him, we don’t experience his love. The prodigal son, as we all know, runs off. To seek their, his identity, his purpose, his  being in other things in the world. And there’s been times I’ve done that through sin, definitely my earlier years college. We can just say pre Jesus was rough, but there’s, there’s also times that I’m the elderly brother, you know, where I, but we can look for our identity and what we do.

Like the elderly brother, as we all know in this story, I’m doing this briefly, but the elderly brother, as we know, he’s doing all the things. But doesn’t actually, isn’t actually in relationship with the father. And as we talk today about coming to know him, Paul says, I pray that the eyes of your heart would be open, that you would have the revelation to know him, to know him, to have an encounter.

I remember when I was 19 years old, I mean my first, I grew up Catholic and there was a moment where I met some Carmelite nuns, full habit rosary beats the floor. And basically this weekend of encountering them, I wrestled, I was struggling with depression and anxiety, all these issues in the church. 19 years old, ran up to her and she told me to keep praying.

It’s so beautiful. I was like, I don’t think it’s beautiful. I was wrestling in my story and I went out to visit these sisters. And a long story short, I, I encountered Christ that weekend and something shifted in my life. I still remember where I was standing, where there was another young lady who was discerning religious life.

She was really super holy, runs in weeping, and she’ll, I’ll never forget that she was crying out to God. And it scared the, it scared me. It scared me guys. Like I  just, I didn’t, she just came in my room sobbing, the ugly cry, and she’s like, I love him. I love Jesus. I’ll be single. I’ll be married, I’ll go wherever. I just want him. And as she’s kind of professing her love for Christ. Tears come out of my face because I don’t know that love. I’m not willing to give my life to him. That weekend, I drove home in silence. Didn’t tell. I mean, I just drove home in silence and I, I gave my life. I said, God, I want to know you in this way.

And God began to come real. The shades of my eyes began to change the, the glasses that I began to, to come. The glasses that I was wearing began to change to see who I was in him and this glory, glorious story. And I remember this moment in the chapel just being this young girl, being like coming to encounter his love for me, that he loved me, Mary Bielski, I’m late, I’m imperfect.

All the things that he loved me, like he loved me. That this love story of the father who knew you when you were in your mother’s womb, who knew you when your. Every hair in your head it says a Matthew was counted Matthew 30 10, that he thinks of you more than the, the sands on the seashore that he sent his son.

The Love of God Sets Us Free

It’s just this lavishing love story. He sent his son that you would know him, you would know his love, that the, the blood of Jesus actually frees you. You’re brought into adoption by the Holy Spirit. This word adoption is in the Greek understanding of the, of the Roman Empire. When you were adopted, you weren’t, you weren’t a second class citizen.

In fact, many times in the Roman Empire, in that time when you were adopted in the Roman Empire, you actually had higher rights than other people because you were, you were part of Rome, and you would have all the inheritance of your father. You would have the same last name as the adopted father. You would have every debt being wiped from the past.

Oftentimes they would buy like people that were in bonded slaves in a different way if we understanding it today and adopt them into family. And they would have the entire inheritance as if they were a true family member. And God saying, I offered this to you, that you would be my son, my daughter, to know him, to know the love of the father.

Do we know it? I talk all the time. I travel. People are, can you talk about the love of Jesus? And I’m like, oh, that people know that. I’m like, but now I do life coaching. And I’m like, no, we don’t know that. We don’t know that adults. We don’t know that so many of us hustling for our love and affection, working out our love through performance.

You know, wounded from our past. We don’t know the love of God that sets us free. I remember my dad, he was, and here’s the deal. I can’t give you information. I can only, I pray that they eyes, the revelation of Jesus would be unveiled to you. Like I remember driving with this Uber car driver one day and I’m driving with him.

I’m talking to about Jesus and I’m like telling him the best love story. And he’s like, meh, okay, I can, I’m like, this is it. And he’s like, I’m not love has to be revealed. There’s this moment where my dad, when he was 41 years old, my dad was a good dude, good guy. I’m going to talk about him a lot, but when he was 41, he encountered the Holy Spirit for the first time, and his life radically changed.

My dad started from one moment, he was a good Catholic, but all of a sudden he encountered the Holy Spirit and he was taking home. One day I come home to the house and there’s a cot in our living room because he bring, he’s bringing home like this homeless guy to have Thanksgiving meal with us, which I thought was a little bit okay.

Invasion of privacy here, family time. What happened to dad, love had encountered him. It’s the love of Christ. This is why Paul can be in a prison cell. He writes Ephesians in a prison cell in Rome. That’s why Paul can be in the stenchy, disgusting. And he’s singing hymns. What? What causes a man to do that?

What causes a 19-year-old girl to come in my house sobbing. What causes my dad to change his whole, it’s not information, it’s the revelation of Christ that we would know. This is eternal life. It says in John 17 that we would know him and he who sent him that you would know him. To know him in our hearts as we to know our story as beloved, to know our identity as chosen to know the story that he’s called us into.

Living In An Identity Crisis

It doesn’t matter our past somehow in the, the mystery of God’s grace as he pulls us in. He calls us into knowing who we are. When we see Jesus, he reveals who God is. But when we come to know Jesus, he reveals who man is because we’re made in His image. We are. We’re living in an identity crisis. As I travel and I preach, and I’m going to end soon with all of this, is that many of us don’t know who we are, who’s we are, we’re orphans.

Many of us in the church are orphans. Hear me, many not knowing their worth, not knowing their identity. Grasping, faking it till they make it. I’m not saying that’s wrong. I’ve did it for many years, and God wants to lift the veils of our eyes that we would know him. Paul says this in his word, he, quotes, Philippians three.

It’s one of my favorites. I’ll read the whole thing, “But whatever gain I have, I consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more? I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. For whom’s sake, I have lost all things. And I consider it garbage”.

Before this whole scripture, He talks about all the accolades, all the things he’s done. He’s like from the tribe, Benjamin, he’s gotten the, he has his masters, he has his PhD. He’s done all the things in the world. He’s, he’s, he’s won in the world’s eyes. He’s got the Instagram, he’s done it all. He’s, I counted all his garbage. The Greek in that language is like feces.

It kind of rolls garbage to know Christ and be found in him not having any, righteousness, I’ll just say it from my own memory, not having any righteousness of my own. But having righteousness found in him.

This is the journey, God, that we would, that guys that we would know, this fullness of this revelation. And then he goes on in the scripture to say that we would know our calling, that we would unveil this, this whole series as we talk about knowing our identity as the beloved.

The Bigger Picture of Kingdom

It’s going to be the story that God wants to unfold in our hearts and then mold us into his image and then send us on mission. One of my favorite theologians is, N.T. Wright, and he writes a lot on,  different authors, but particularly around Paul and understanding Paul’s under Paul’s perspective as we look at the first, century.

And I just want to read this because as I traveled, sometimes we don’t know the story of the Goss. Full. And especially as we go into healing in these next weeks that the story of the gospel, I, I sometimes go to parishes and I’ll say, what’s the good news? And the great thing about me is you’re not going to get it wrong.

So it’s like the love of Jesus. You’re right. You know, it’s like Oprah. You get a car and you get a car, and you get a car and it’s like, what’s the, what’s the gospel? Good news. And then someone will say, it’s about salvation. I’m like, you’re right. And then everyone, everyone wins ’cause it’s right. But when Jesus comes, he says, the good news is that hand.

And then He says, I came to proclaim the good news. The good news that had the kingdom of God is here is that hand the kingdom of God. What I want to just argue as we enter into our identity is this bigger picture of kingdom, this bigger picture of why Jesus came, came N.T Wright Says it this way.

“First gen century Jews believed the coming Messiah would inaugurate the kingdom of God, a restorative Eden, where redeemed human beings would be liberated from sin, death, illness, and other corruption. This kingdom was inaugurated by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. However, however, it’s far from being complete and requires active participation of God’s people to be fulfilled. It was through Israel that God would address and solve the problems of the world. With a statement of the covenant. God had called Israel to be the light of the nations, the teacher of the foolish, the guide to the blind. It was through Israel that God would address and solve the problems of the world with a statement, excuse me, problems of the world. I said that twice indeed, God’s kingdom work has come to be known in Judea as” Tikkun olam”, the repairing of the world. This means that we have a part to play in God’s redemptive work who become image bearers, who partake in God’s reparing the world.”

That’s from N.T Wright’s from God became king. And I love this because oftentimes we think the story that we’re the great redemptive story is about us getting into heaven. But the real story is about heaven getting into us, about a God who loved us from the foundation of the world, and came to know us and find our heart in him. And what’s so, what’s amazing about. The story of Ephesus is, it’s one of Paul’s most epic,  missionary works. He spends two to three years there, which is the longest of any of his missionary trips, and we know that Ephesians, the people of Ephesus are in Ephesians.

Where Are You In Your Story?

It’s mentioned again in Revelation, and God chastises them because they’ve lost their first love. And as we begin this series, as we talk about healing and wholeness, I want to look at what your story. Where are you with the Lord right now? Where are you in your relationship? Not just an idea that you go and you check the box, but how are you in loving him?

’cause it’s a season that God’s calling us back to His first love. To our first love To know Him. To know Him. Oh, to know him his love, his life. This is eternal life. It says in the word to know him. All the, in, in Luke’s gospel, they come back, they like, they’re high fiving each other. All these epic things are happening in Luke 10.

And, they’re like, you know, demons are falling at your name. And he, he’s saying, don’t rejoice over this, rejoice that your name is written in the book of life. That there’s a salvation story in your heart. What is eternal life that you would know him? This is life.

And so as we begin this series, my prayer for you today and this simple identity talk is I pray that you would spend time in the book of Ephesians in that first chapter. He’s going to walk you through that and each word. And I want you to pray in those words where you believe in, where you see him as father, him as predestine. Look at the lavishing words, spend time praying into that, and have God reveal your own story and how he wants to redeem it in the next week. Because if this is the word I want you to leave with, it says in 2^nd Corinthians 5:17 “If anyone is in Christ, he’s a new creation.”

In two Peter one, four it says, you will become partakers of his divine nature. You’ve been crucified with Christ No longer. Christ now lives with him. He no longer do I live in Him. It says an acts in him. We move and have our being Christ in you. The hope of glory. It isn’t about us getting to heaven, but heaven.

A new reality of now I am chosen, adopted, and he lives in me, and there’s a new story that he wants to unfold of the next week. So I’m so excited to journey with you. As we begin.

Closing Prayer

Let’s pray. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. And then heavenly Father, I thank you for the gift of being your children, of knowing you, of knowing. The gift of your love, the gift of your calling, the gift of our inheritance, the gift of intimacy we’re going to be unpacking in these weeks. I ask you, bless everyone listening, and as they read the Ephesians, as they read the book, God, that, that it would come alive in their heart. That they would know you, that they would know you, and the power of your resurrection God.

Not just through information, but that it would be opening their eyes, God, that we can have a people so madly in love with you that they could run the race. We ask this all in Jesus’ mighty name, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Amen.

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