If you feel weighed down by wrong things you've done, Mary Cassian wants to give you hope.

It's not just the sin. It's the guilt and the shame that accompanies the sin.

Just the whole burden of it is so dark and so oppressive and so heavy.

And those are things that we are not to be carrying around. We're to rid ourselves of that

by running to the cross and dealing with our sin and our shame and our guilt through the discipline

of confession. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Swalgamoo, along with Dana Gresh for August 6th, 2019.

Dana, you and I have had the privilege of traveling some together. We went around the world to South Africa.

We've been in a number of situations where we had to pack.

And have you noticed that I don't pack very light?

I saw you pulling a copy machine out of your hotel room once.

I mean, I'm not going to have, I'm not going to get stuck in a situation, not having anything I need. So my husband laughs at how many pairs of shoes I take and a lot of things I'm not going to wear or use. But if I need them, I've got them. Are you saying you have a lot of baggage, Nancy? I have a lot of baggage when I travel. But when we travel through life, we want to travel light. We don't want a lot of

baggage. And I've heard you share to go from the ridiculous to the sublime. I've heard you share

about how some things in your past became some baggage that weighed you down and how God brought

you to a turning point where you realized you had to get rid of

some of that heavy baggage.

I was maybe about 26 years old when I was driving down the highway listening to a program

like this, a session like this.

And the topic was talking to your children about purity.

Of course, that wasn't the story I had written in my teen years. And I had asked God to forgive me. I'd gotten out of a sinful relationship. I'd stood before God and said, God, teach me to live a life of purity. But I never really realized that that sin was still baggage. It was still on me.

Until that day, listening to this program, I heard a man ask the question,

what is the number one question on a teen girl's mind when she's talking to her mom about sex?

And without hesitation, a woman's voice said, the number one question on that girl's mind is, mom, did you wait? And that was the crashing point for me. I pulled to the side

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