When God transforms someone's life, Dr. Julie Slattery says it takes time for healing and change.

You know, none of us would say, when I came to Christ, I was completely free from every sin, from every addiction.

No, it's a process and God is gracious with us in that process.

This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast for May 22nd, 2024. I'm Dana Gresch with Nancy De Mas Walgamuth,

author of Adorn, living out the beauty of the Gospel together. I want you to think about a time in your life when you've gone through a difficult season.

Some kind of suffering, trial, hurt, maybe trauma.

Now who came alongside you in those challenging times?

How did they help you through it? Or how do you wish people would have

been there for you? And then here's the next question, how can you be there and do that for

someone you know who needs help?

Sometimes we just don't know the right things to say or do,

and we can be uncomfortable talking about others suffering. There's a first in Romans chapter 15 where the

apostle Paul said this to the believers in Rome. Keep in mind that he probably hadn't

even met most of them yet, But he told them my brothers and sisters I'm

convinced about you that you are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and

get this, able to instruct one another.

Now, how could Paul say that, that you're able to instruct one another?

You think of that as being maybe for pastors, for professional counselors.

But Paul knew that these believers could actually

help one another because he had such confidence

in the power of the word of God

and in the presence of the Holy Spirit in their lives.

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