I know what it's like to walk in that shame.

I walked in that shame for about 10 years.

You know, I got out of the relationship I was in as a teenager.

I stood before God.

I said, forgive me and teach me to live a life of purity.

But what I didn't do was heal the shame and the pain.

It was this unresolved hurt in my life that began to define me and

limit me. Eventually, that became such a heavyweight that I told my husband. And when he said,

I don't know that I need to say this, but I think you need to hear it, I forgive you. It felt

like the voice of God in my life. If you are locked in this prison of shame that I was,

the key to your healing first is Jesus and confessing to him, but he's given you a second key.

And that key is to tell someone godly that loves you and that's going to say, I see you, I hear you,

and I'm still here.

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Welcome back to the Coffee and Bible Time podcast.

I'm Ellen, your host. If you grew up in the church in the

90s or early 2000s, you probably heard a lot about purity. And for some, that brought amazing clarity.

But for others, it left confusion or possibly even shame.

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