Elisa Morgan - She Did What She Could: Five Words of Jesus That Will Change Your Life

This book makes me want to get up and do something. Now. Today.

Dr. Kevin Leman, author of Have a New Kid by Friday and Have a New Husband by Friday

This book is not only inspiring and thoughtful, but its a profound challenge to each of us to stop focusing on what we cant do and invest our lives and energies in what we can. She Did What She Could is empowering to anyone who has ever asked, What difference could I possibly make?

Margaret Feinberg, national speaker and author of The Sacred Echo and Scouting the Divine

Elisa Morgan has been unleashing power in people for a long time. This book is a little time bomb that will go off when you know your gifts and your limits and say yes to God in the midst of them.

John Ortberg, pastor of Menlo Church and author of Faith and Doubt

I loved She Did What She Could! What is amazing to me is that one little phrase issues such a profound challenge for the heart and at the same time gives a deep and abiding peace. Thank you, Elisa, for this beautiful Bible teaching and the tender stories that call me to live a great big life, doing what I can today and believing God for what I can do tomorrow.

Angela Thomas, speaker and best-selling author of Do You Think Im Beautiful?

What an empowering book! She Did What She Could made me yearn for a deeper, more loving relationship with Jesus. It caused me to take a hard look at what I can do me, an ordinary woman, profoundly and passionately loved, and to act out of that love. Simply, with a sincere heart. Not to be seen, not out of duty, obligation, or guilt, but to please and serve the One who loved me first. I want to live loved.

Fern Nichols, founder and president of Moms In Touch International

Elisa Morgan paints a vigorous picture of life on the front lines. This book is a convincing reminder that we all have Kingdom work to do, that the opportunities are all around us, that God is powerfully accomplishing his purposes for the world through us, and that more much more! will be accomplished when his sons and daughters serve him together.

Carolyn Custis James, president of Synergy Womens Network, Inc., and author of The Gospel of Ruth

I love this book because it challenged me in such a way that I am now compelled to respond. And really, isnt that what we all want in a book? Elisa brilliantly weaves truths from biblical examples into our modern-day opportunities and spurs us on to action. It brings me great joy to recommend this amazing book.

Lysa TerKeurst, speaker, president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and author of Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl

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She Did What She Could: Five Words of Jesus That Will Change Your Life

Copyright 2009 by Elisa Morgan. All rights reserved.

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Edited by Susan Taylor

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Morgan, Elisa, date.

She did what she could (SDWSC) : five words of Jesus that will change your life / Elisa Morgan.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-4143-3378-6 (hc)

1. Christian women Religious life. 2. Social justice Religious aspects Christianity. 3. Mary, of Bethany, Saint. 4. Bible. N.T. Mark XIV, 3-9 Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title.

BV4527.M635 2009

241.677 dc22 2009022879

Repackage first published in 2017 under ISBN 978-1-4964-3227-8.

ISBN 978-1-4964-3294-0 (ePub); ISBN 978-1-4964-3293-3 (Kindle); ISBN 978-1-4964-3295-7 (Apple)

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To the Marys.

You have each shaped my she.

She Did What She Could came to me in a gradual, reverberating ripple until its message lodged itself solidly in my heart and now motivates my every day. I didnt expect it. I didnt ask for it. At times, Im not sure what to do with it. But I do believe She Did What She Could is from God, and my commitment is to seek his leading in its expression and investment.

Others have been tenaciously at my side through the development of the concept, the writing, and the final expression of this book. There were many times when I couldnt seem to move ahead or didnt even know if I was supposed to. I am so grateful for their picking up a corner of my mat and taking me to Jesus as the paralytics friends did for him in Mark 2.

To those who read and advised, thank you for your wise input. Kenna Barron, Valerie Bell, Dr. Craig Blomberg, Carla Foote, Carol Kuykendall, Karen Marchant, Evan Morgan, Naomi Cramer Overton, Kendall Parkhurst, Karen Parks, Shelly Radic, Dr. Liz Selzer, Georgia Skiles, Dr. Brian Stafford, and Philip Yancey, your investment made She Did What She Could tighter, clearer, more applicable to more people, and better biblically.

To Rick Christian and Lee Hough, thank you for representing She Did What She Could with such passion. And Lee, thank you for your valuable writing input in readying the first draft for the eyes of others.

To my friends at Tyndale Carol Traver, Sue Taylor, Becky Nesbitt, Maria Eriksen, and Ron Beers thank you for embracing She Did What She Could with your whole hearts. Wow!

And to the board, staff, field leaders, and volunteers of MOPS International, thank you for first receiving the message of She Did What She Could, then reproducing it in a movement of individuals whose lives were changed, and now wanting to make others different by SDWSC-ing every single day.

Most of us care. We really do. We care about our own lives, for sure, and also about the lives of those around us. We care about poverty and injustice, about orphans and the sick. We care about the folks who live and work alongside us and about what happens in their families, in their hearts, and in their heads. And yet, weighed down by everyday responsibilities bringing home a paycheck, putting food on the table, shuttling kids around we question our ability to make a difference. When were bombarded by the latest celebrity-help-the-world-athon, we shrug our shoulders in futility.