Hello, sweet friends. I'm going to start today's episode with a little testimony. I've been doing that

this summer and I found it to be really encouraging to me to really pause and savor the words that you guys

send to me and to be able to pause and give glory to God and thank him, and also to be able to share

it with the broader audience, because when we hear each other's testimonies, it gives us greater

faith to say, yes, Lord, do it in my life too. It's encouraging to hear God breaking through

in someone else's journey, because we all need places of breakthrough and we can cheer each

other on and we can also grow in our faith to say, yes, Lord, here am I, do it in my life.

I agree with your goodness and I agree with your healing and I'm open to more.

So today I'm going to share with you from a listener.

By the way, I always get the

permission from the listeners and they stay anonymous because this is such a tender topic,

but these women are brave enough to let me share this. So this is one listener. Dear Francie,

I've been following your podcast since the fall of 2020 and have been blessed from it

from the very beginning. I was in a very difficult place in my

marriage and spiritual walk at the time regarding some issues in my life causing a great deal of

shame over sex and a legalistic mindset that had me in a death hold. I earnestly wanted to be

close to God and my husband, but just felt like the two were in opposition because of where my mind was at.

By God's grace, he helped me to listen to the reason my husband offered me on the issues, and I began to open my mind.

I earnestly asked God to heal my mind and our marriage.

Not long after that conversation, I came across your podcast. It was like a breath

of fresh air straight from heaven, coming wafting towards my soul. I went straight back to the

beginning and soaked up every one of those podcasts. God began to paint a new picture of marriage

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