158 | Speak Your Story: How Your Testimony Changes the World

Verity by Phylicia Masonheimer

Phylicia Masonheimer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality, Theology, Christianity

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This powerful conference session connects directly to our previous episode about our 5-month podcast break. While the last episode shared the "happy ending" of our infertility journey with baby Olivera's birth, this session was recorded in the middle of that same story - during failed fertility treatments with no promise of resolution. In This Session: * The demon-possessed man's story from Mark 5 * Why Jesus intentionally enters our broken stories * How sharing your story defeats the enemy Breaking through 4 lies that keep us silent: * "My story is insignificant" → Your story has IMPACT * "My story is a trigger" → Your story TRANSFORMS * "My story is intimidating" → Your story is INTIMATE * "My story needs a happy ending" → Your story proclaims God's goodness NOW The Connection: This session shows what it looks like to live out faith in real time during trials, before knowing how God will answer our prayers. It's the theological foundation for everything we shared in our previous episode about living out theology in pain. 📖 Scripture Focus: Mark 5:1-20 - The healing of the demon-possessed man 🎥 From Verity Conference 2024 Want more sessions like this? Verity Conference 2025 is online October 3-4! Register: https://verityconference.com [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbThBSTlQeWVHUmJfY1ZOWVAxSmVYMFJxRmhKd3xBQ3Jtc0tsTmt0Vk1SZ3lFSnNXSGpGUEd0UFRwYWF4YzhDWGJIalZvdFhGazlqbjYwREVuXzdteU5SVUVSTVV4OGtIME5jcmhtNFR0V2JvZDVaWU90RUYxNkNoelZfcVE1aWx3Q0tCcndocXNpME54dTk4ckhLMA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fverityconference.com%2F&v=2eBvqREYK7k] EWAT resources: https://phyliciamasonheimer.com/store/ [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbkgxczVqLVhWNGRIZFVHdlQ3XzBHSFFadWNid3xBQ3Jtc0tuUDZPQ09rc1pzQmZpSXE5ME1mb3BJVXdPd25hNjNPb3NPUVl6dVRheTFIM1RxYVp4RXRMejE2VXRvLTdxdnU3LUhodWR6SGRUS3ZaQWRzQWFBS1l4d0hFN0dmMlBpQ1RmUEt3MkVWall0X0l2cHY0MA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fphyliciamasonheimer.com%2Fstore%2F&v=2eBvqREYK7k] 💭 Discussion Questions: What story is God calling you to share? Which of the 4 lies resonates most with you? How can unfinished stories still glorify God? Note: This session discusses miscarriage, infertility, and child safety concerns. Viewer discretion advised.

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0:00.0	When you share your story, like the demon-possessed man did, the enemy loses. When you bring it out into the light, the enemy loses.
0:13.4	Hello, friends, Felicia here. I am coming out of my maternity leave to do the introduction for this episode.
0:22.5	If you listen to the last episode of Verity podcast, I told you that during my leave, we're going
0:28.7	to be running a series of recordings from Verity Conference 2024. These are some of the best
0:36.0	of the sessions from last year's Theology Conference here in
0:40.6	Northern Michigan. But there's more. This year, Verity Conference 2025 is completely online. So if you
0:48.5	like what you hear in these episodes that are running, it's not too late to grab a ticket to Verity Conference 2025 and watch it
0:56.4	from the comfort of your own living room. You can do that at verityconference.com. Now, one thing I want
1:03.5	to mention about this episode in particular is that this one is very special and there's a reason
1:09.8	that Zach, our videographer, our photographer,
1:13.2	and our podcast editor, put this one first. It's because in the last episode, I talked about
1:19.8	our testimony of walking through secondary infertility and the miracle of our daughter
1:25.9	Oliveira, who was born a week ago. But in this particular
1:30.0	episode, you're going to hear the recording of my teaching from Verity Conference 2024 when I was in
1:38.7	the middle of that testimony. So at the time that this session went live, we were in our third or fourth round
1:49.9	of lettrazol, which is a fertility medication. And not only did that round fail, but the one after it
1:55.8	failed as well. And so in the midst of that grief and not understanding which way to go, seeking the Lord for
2:05.2	that journey while also grieving everything that we've lost earlier in the year, I shared
2:11.1	why our story matters so much, why the testimony God has you in matters so much and why you should share it
2:19.6	even before there is resolution to it. And so it's really unique to get to share this session
2:26.7	with you because last episode kind of gave you the happy ending of the story. But last year, I was sharing this testimony without a happy ending
2:37.0	and with no promise of a happy ending and with no idea that we would not only get pregnant again,
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