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What if David had looked at the giant and decided the risk was too high? What if Esther had kept quiet to keep her crown? What if Mary had heard the angel and said this will cost me too much?

Every one of them had a reason to say no. Every one of them said yes anyway.

We have been reading about their courage for two thousand years. Heaven may be waiting on yours.

This episode came out of one song played over and over until it started asking questions back.

Joseph had the dream at seventeen. Between the dream and the throne came the pit, the slavery, the false accusation, the prison, and the man who forgot him. Not one of those chapters looked like a dream coming true. Every one looked like a dream dying. He did not say you meant it for evil but God meant it for good in the pit. He said it decades later, when the story was finally readable.

That is the pattern. God writes forward. We read backward.

Moses spent forty years on the backside of a desert with somebody else's sheep. A prince demoted to a shepherd. A leader with nobody to lead. If he had written his resume at year twenty it would have read like failure. Then a bush burned, and everything he learned in Pharaoh's house prepared him to stand in front of Pharaoh, and everything he learned in the wilderness prepared him to lead a nation through one.

The forty years were not a detour. They were the training.

Theresa shares two seasons of her own in this episode.

Five months in a headset taking customer service calls, some of them cruel, landing in the same place her husband's words used to land. Nobody there knew she had spent years on the radio. Early that year she heard the Holy Spirit call her a voice revivalist, wrote it down, and then put the headset back on. Looking back she can see it. She was on a microphone five to eight hours a day with hard callers and no applause. She was not being benched. She was being rebuilt. Then a position opened at the station she had left eighteen years earlier, and it now carried a new name. Victory 91.5, the Sound of Revival. He said the word in private, then put it on the building.

And the season she spent substitute teaching after her husband died, and what God said to her in the car on the way to church the night before she went back. You are not a substitute teacher. You are my undercover agent for the Kingdom of God. Nothing about Monday morning changed. Who walked in did.

There is a question at the end of this episode worth sitting with. Where has God repeated Himself in your life? Not the random moments. The theme underneath them. The word that keeps showing up. The kind of woman who keeps ending up in your messages. The chapter you have had to live four different times before you finally listened.

That repetition is God writing your story.

Your next step is the Calling Activation Study. One live session where we do story mapping together and you find the story that connects your calling to the people you are meant to serve. Details at theresacroftlive.com/seminar.

This episode was inspired by the song What If That Is You by May The Lord Studio on Spotify. Go Listen to IT!!

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Hosted by Theresa Croft, a Visibility Strategist who helps Christian women move from their calling to their story to being found with a message for their ideal audience.

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