When a woman has gone through years of abuse, she needs to be reminded of the truth.

Here's what Nancy Rock says to women in these situations.

You are precious in God's sight. God did not make you to be abused.

When we allow our husbands to abuse us, we are settling for something that's not God's plan in our husband's lives either.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, June 20th, 2014.

We're continuing conversation today with Nancy Rock, that's R-A-C-H.

She and her husband Tom have been missionaries in Chiapas, Mexico, for the past 17 years.

And I had the privilege of hearing Tom and Nancy share about their ministry at my home church recently, and I was so grateful that Nancy agreed to come and share her journey with our

listeners. If you didn't hear the first part of this conversation yesterday, you need to go to

revive our hearts.com and pull up the transcript or the audio for yesterday's

program because Nancy shared with us the journey the Lord has had her on about dealing with

some of the abuse of her past, an incident that happened with a male family member when she was a

child, and how the Lord has used the opportunity to minister to other women as a means of taking her into a journey of healing.

So Nancy, welcome back to revive our hearts, and thanks so much for sharing with our guests.

I know this is really speaking into a lot of women's lives. Thank you. Thank you. In Mexico, it has spoken to lots of women's

hearts, too. I see this is really where the church needs to be working because there's so many

wounded people wandering. We started using bits and pieces of this with our ladies group at church. Every two

months, we'll have a special night where I do this. And it has helped the women become closer

to one another because they understand what the other ones have gone through. They might not

have understood before why sister so-and-so didn't want to give anyone a hug or even say hello, but it wasn't anything that was their fault.

It was that she just did not feel like she deserved anyone telling her hello.

I mean, that was how bad the trauma in her life had been.

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