Karen Luritt says some of your closest friends will give you the greatest opportunities to show forgiveness.

Take the suit of back.

Your girlfriend, your best girlfriend, will offend you at some point.

But forgiveness immediately releases that person and holding against them.

You're listening to the Reviver Hearts podcast on February 27, 2023.

I'm Dana Gresh.

Our host is the author of Adorned, Nancy DeMoss Walgamer.

I know a couple of homeschooled young women who made rope in one of their classes.

They took three strands of twine and interwove them to create a rope that could withstand far more pressure than any one of those strands alone.

That's a great illustration of what we read in Ecclesiastes

chapter four, where it says a cord of three strands is not easily broken. Now, the biblical writer

wasn't trying to make a big point about how to make rope. He was talking about the power of

relationship. And we're about to hear a message for my good friend Karen Luritz.

Karen has learned about the power of relationships to strengthen us when life is threatening

to unravel. She delivered this message at the very first True Woman conference. It's a taste of

what we call a breakout session, a chance for those attending a true woman conference to participate in a

smaller session based on their particular needs and interests. Now, let's listen as Karen shows

why close relationships with our sisters in Christ are so important. I've been living in Atlanta for 30 years.

For the last 28 years, there's a group of women.

There's 14 of us, and we call ourselves the stones.

And we're talking about where it says in the Old Testament

that when the children of Israel are crossing the Jordan River,

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