Great Women | Mary Magdalene
Wednesday, May 9th 2018
Your Past Does Not Define You!
Mary Magdalene
Your deepest pain has the potential to become your greatest ministry!
Luke 8:1-2 NLT
Soon afterward Jesus began a tour of the nearby towns and villages, preaching and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom of God. He took his twelve disciples with him, along with some
women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases. Among them were Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons…
If you don’t move forward you might miss divine moments!
John 19:25 NET
Now standing beside Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
Matthew 27:60-61 NLT
He placed it in his own new tomb, which had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance and left. Both Mary Magdalene and the other
Mary were sitting across from the tomb and watching.
God has far greater plans for you than you could ever imagine!
John 20:14-18 NLT
She turned to leave and saw someone standing there. It was Jesus, but she didn’t recognize him. “Dear woman, why are you crying?” Jesus asked her. “Who are you looking for?”
She thought he was the gardener. “Sir,” she said, “if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him.” “Mary!” Jesus said.
She turned to him and cried out, “Rabboni!” (which is Hebrew for “Teacher”). “Don’t cling to me,” Jesus said, “for I haven’t yet ascended to the Father. But go find my brothers and tell them,
‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene found the disciples and told them, “I have seen the Lord!” Then she gave them his message.
Mary was deeply afflicted, conflicted, dominated, tortured person, whose mind was not her own. She undoubtedly was considered an outcast. But, when Jesus looked at her he did not see her wild eyes, disheveled hair, and sunken cheeks, instead he saw her potential.
She had experienced so much pain in her life to that point, that she had uncommon empathy and compassion for those who were hurting. She could identify with their suffering and pain like no one else could. Her past gave her a ministry that no one else could fulfill quite like her!