Denise Cabrera tells women that the Christian life needs to be lived in community with other believers.

You should be able to establish relationships in your church where when you're struggling with

something, with a temptation, you should be able to go to an older lady that's mentoring you

and share with her where you could feel loved and taking care of

because that's that's what it's supposed to be we're supposed to be a family this is the

revive our hearts podcast with nancy damas walgamuth co-author of true woman 101 for March 29th, 2019.

Most of us don't like it when others make assumptions about us.

Nobody likes being put in a box. But oddly enough, it's something

we do to ourselves all the time. Anytime we think, I could never do that, or when we say to God,

I'll serve you in this way, but don't expect me to serve you in this way, we're imposing limits on

ourselves that God may want to remove. In fact, my own experience,

it seems that God often puts me into situations where I feel helpless, desperately needy,

so I'll be dependent on him to do whatever he's calling me to do. And I think that's a good thing.

That's exactly what happened to Denise Cabrera.

Yesterday, she shared with us that as a young pastor's wife, she felt inadequate and unqualified to minister to the women in her church. But as her husband, sweetly and patiently

kept shepherding her heart, God began to awaken a desire in her

to share what she was learning with others. If you missed yesterday's program, you can listen at

revive our hearts.com. Denise and her husband Felix are originally from Puerto Rico. They've spent

much of their married life planting a church in Oklahoma. And now, as you'll

hear today, God has a new work for them to tackle. Let's listen to more of her story.

In 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico.

This is Revive Our Hearts Ambassador Denise Cabrera.

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