Chevas Phillips: When Your Spouse Finds Jesus First: Addiction, Marriage, and Surrendering to God: Page 282
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
4.9 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the person you love encounters Jesus, and you want nothing to do with it? On this episode of The Unfolding, Chevas Phillips shares her powerful story of addiction, brokenness, marriage struggles, and the unexpected way God completely transformed her life.
Chevas was drinking every day, hating church, and watching her husband Josh become someone she barely recognized after he gave his life to Christ. As tension grew in their marriage, Chevas found herself wrestling with questions of identity, control, surrender, and whether real freedom was even possible.
Now a wife, mom, worship leader at Bethlehem Church in Bethlehem, Georgia, and recording artist, Chevas shares how Jesus met her in the middle of her pain and changed what she could never change on her own.
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| 0:00.0 | Page 282 of the unfolding is the story of Chevis Phillips. |
| 0:05.4 | We had this come to Jesus moment because I wasn't going to change. |
| 0:09.8 | I married a person who is now no longer alive. |
| 0:12.9 | And he taught me that. |
| 0:14.1 | He's like, I got baptized. |
| 0:15.3 | Old Josh is dead at the bottom of a river. |
| 0:17.4 | And I was like, okay, well, that is who I married. |
| 0:19.7 | This is not. |
| 0:21.7 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:25.2 | Since the beginning of time. He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:33.8 | Another page in the unfolding. |
| 0:38.1 | Hi, this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:40.5 | From the outside, Chevis Phillips' life looked like success. |
| 0:45.1 | She was married. |
| 0:46.1 | They had a home, a future. |
| 0:48.0 | Everything the world says should make you happy. |
| 0:50.7 | But behind closed doors, she was battling addiction. Her marriage was falling apart. |
| 0:56.4 | Their life was, in her words, a disaster. And there was this growing sense that something just wasn't |
| 1:03.4 | right. And then something happened that changed everything. Her husband Josh gave his life to Jesus. |
| 1:12.9 | Suddenly, the person that she had built her life with, her ride or die, he wasn't the same anymore. And Chevis wasn't ready for change, |
| 1:19.5 | not for her lifestyle, her identity, not the way that she had learned to survive. And that's |
| 1:24.7 | where her story really begins. I did not grow up in a Christian environment. My parents |
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