If you grew up without the blessing of a father, Blair Lynn has some counsel for what to do with your pain.

Facing the truth about our wounds, I think, is the first step to healing.

And it helps us know what's going on in our heart so that we can actually start this process of giving those hurts and those pains over to the Lord. So ask the Holy Spirit to help you to tell the truth.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walganov, author of Choosing Forgiveness.

For August 15th, 2025, I'm Dana Grash.

Thank you. forgiveness. For August 15th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh. Blair Lynn is talking to us this week about the pain of fatherlessness and how there can be true healing. We're listening to Part 2 of a message Blair gave at a recent True Woman conference.

She's helping us understand what it means that we've been adopted into God's family.

She's also stressing the importance of forgiveness and providing an action plan for women with

absent fathers to find healing.

It's a powerful message that speaks to the hurt so many women have experienced.

Let's listen.

We have a testimony in the word of who our God is.

And recently I've been studying through Ephesians, and it's been so beautiful. Every book, every book I study,

I'm like, man, this is the best book ever. You know, why didn't I study at sinner? You know,

but one of the themes or two of the themes in Ephesians is the fact that God reconciles us to

himself through Christ and then he reconciles us to one another. In the context of this book, Ephesians, you have Paul, he's writing to these Gentile believers,

and there's not like there's one particular issue.

However, we do see that there is some ethnic hostility.

We see that in the mix, that there are Jews and they're Gentiles,

and there's division over how they

should be taught. And Paul says, you know, you're saved by grace through faith, but there were certain Jews

have said, well, you need to follow these traditions and these laws. Paul's like, no. So Paul

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