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• Share God- not your opinion!
• Help her find her identity in Jesus, not in her wounding.
• Don’t wait for my feelings- they’re not more spiritual than my will.
• If we can smell like Jesus, we hardly have to say a word.
• It’s not enough to choose to forgive… the healing happens as we name the hurts and bring them to Jesus.
• Ephesians 1
• In order to have a Resurrection, there MUST be a death!!! Death to self.
• Release the desire of perfection and seize the power of Action. “Don’t wait until you’re ‘perfect’ before you begin.
• Jesus is enough for this minute!
• Teach her that Jesus is enough for Today!
• Look at your house, what would make the biggest difference right now? I’ll wait while you do it.
• Listen with Christ ears.
• God created us to be loved by Him.
• What a person feels is at least as important as what actually happened.
• He will take your wrong note and turn it into a New Song!
• Be careful not to identify or associate a woman with her wound.
• I love you more than my right to hold onto this.
• Identity in Jesus!
• Be aware!! It is easy to create a dependency on us, when we want to point them to Christ +encourage dependency on Him. Caution!!
• Most of the time I don’t feel like I’m becoming more like Jesus- I feel like I was run over by a 10 ton truck and dragged. 
• Learn to accept compliments.
• Take her to Jesus. 
• Overheard in the hallway- “She is ALWAYS eager to hear a personal story.”
• Be authentic, not a faker.
• Encourage dependency on Christ!
• What a person feels about a situation is often more important than what actually happened. Let her express her feelings.
• Strive to be a terminal for God’s healing.
• NO DISAPPOINTING LOOK! NO Judgment.
• Don’t live like an orphan when you are loved by the King of Kings, you are a Child of God!
• To truly be a spiritually mature Christian, I must choose 1) to die to self, and 2) to offer sacrifice of thanksgiving for difficult circumstances.
• There is something about telling the story that causes change…
• We are the fragrance of Christ to these ladies and the aroma of Christ to God.
• As lay listeners, we are the Care Giver, but God is the CURE giver.
• Help her think through the process, don’t do it for her.
• Look for healing truth.
• Ask if you can take her to Jesus (just as I would do if I were in that place).
• Let her come up with her own words! Don’t always rush to “fill in the blanks” during conversations!