This is My Story 2025, Part 1: Your Mess is Your Message // Jamie Nunnally

Every day you are writing your story. Every situation, every decision, is adding a sentence, a page, or a chapter to the book of your life. In this message, 

Everyone has made a mess of their lives at some point or another. But God doesn't waste pain. If you'll surrender your story to Him, He'll turn your scars into sermons. He'll turn your breakdowns into breakthroughs. Pastor Jamie Nunnally shares how your mess can become your message.

1. Your story is history.

Guilt says "what I did was bad." Shame says "who I am is bad." But God says "What I did and who I am has made you brand new."

Christian, God has not only forgiven, but forgotten your sin.

Isaiah 43:25 NLT 

To blot or wipe out in Hebrew is to "obliterate or exterminate."

The blood of Jesus isn't just white-out that covers your sin—it's an eraser that completely removes it. 

1 John 1:9 

Honesty with God is the first step to healing from God. Shame grows in the dark, so bring it out into the light. Admit it, quit it, forget it.

2. Your story is His story.

When talking about your past, your pain is not the headline—His power is.

Romans 8:28 

Don't glorify your pain; glorify God through your pain.

3. Your story is ministry.

Your past can help someone's future. Ministry isn't just what happens on a stage at church; it's what happens when you sit with someone in the middle of their storm.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

The ministry you're called to often comes from the mess you went through.

The most powerful ministry tool you have is probably not your preaching, but your past.

4. Your story is prophecy.

The Bible says God is no respecter of persons, so when you share what God has done for you, you are prophesying what He will do for someone else.

2 Corinthians 1:10 NIV 

On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us

If He did it before, He'll do it again!

Your testimony is God's promise for someone else's problem. When you testify, you prophesy!

5. Your story is victory.

Revelation 12:11 NKJV

You get to help God defeat His enemy with your testimony.

6. Your story is a journey.

Your story isn't over—its still happening. 

2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NLT

When we stop short of finishing the story, we come away with the wrong conclusion. Don't write someone off while God is still writing their story.

The very thing you think disqualifies you—your brokenness, your past, your mess—is the very thing God can use to bring beauty and healing to others. 

It's time to stop hiding the chapters of your life that you hate, and start letting God use them. Someone's healing is on the other side of your honesty. Let Him turn your mess into your message.

Have your surrendered your story to the Lord?