God Doesn't Hate ALL Divorce [284]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
“Does God really hate divorce? And why haven’t my years of praying brought any fruit?”
Abuse survivors ask me these two questions regularly, and today, I’m going to use Malachi 2:16 as well as a chapter from my newest book, All the Scary Little Gods, to answer them both. Beautiful butterfly, I pray this episode is an encouragement to you as you wrestle with these important topics.
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Related Resources:
- Links to resources about the idea that God hates divorce
- My newest book, All the Scary Little Gods, is a spiritual memoir about healing from religious trauma and toxic programming.
- Are you wondering what is happening inside your own painful and confusing marriage? I wrote another book just for you called Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage: A Christian Woman’s Guide to Hidden Emotional and Spiritual Abuse.
- Flying Free is my online membership program designed for Christian women in emotionally abusive marriages. Whether you want to stay in your marriage or leave, we want to equip and support you through this program.
- Flying Higher is my online membership program for divorced Christian women. Come rebuild your life after divorce with women just like you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now. And you're listening to the |
| 0:09.3 | Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden |
| 0:16.4 | emotional and spiritual abuse. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome to episode 284 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today we're going to answer two |
| 0:28.0 | questions, one about the verse in Malachai that some translations have |
| 0:32.0 | turned into a cliche of sorts, the God hates |
| 0:35.6 | divorce message, and then we're also going to talk about why God doesn't always answer |
| 0:40.0 | our prayers. |
| 0:41.0 | So two pretty big issues I think a lot of people are struggling with. So let's |
| 0:45.0 | listen to the first question. |
| 0:46.2 | Hi Natalie, I joined your Flying Free Program in 2021 and was able to |
| 0:55.0 | a member for about two and a half years. |
| 0:53.2 | And thanks to you, I gleaned strength and knowledge |
| 0:57.1 | and was able to leave my abuser in this year in 2024. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm divorced and I'm free and I'm so much better off and I have a question about a |
| 1:05.7 | verse in Malachi my ex is trying to convince my young adult children that God |
| 1:10.6 | hates divorce no matter what and I remember there were verses in that |
| 1:15.3 | chapter about explaining sort of about how there are reasons other than adultery |
| 1:22.2 | that God does not hate divorce and I wonder if you could please go over that with me in a way that I could explain it to my kids. |
| 1:29.0 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:31.0 | I would love to explain this in a way that you could explain it to your |
| 1:34.8 | kids. I feel like isn't that the best way to learn things anyways? I don't know. |
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