Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, and you're listening to the

Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 27 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today we have three excellent

questions from women and they are all around this theme of should I stay or

should I go. There's so much to talk about so let's dig in.

What advice would you give to women who choose to stay with their abusers as far as how to pray for them and

intercede for them in being released from what I believe is a

stronghold that abusers are under from the enemy.

And I understand ultimately,

it's up to them to receive God's freedom from the enemy and from the strongholds that they're living in.

That's my current situation.

I'm in my fourth abuse abusive marriage and sometimes I think this is where God's called me and

then other times I think that this is what he's been trying to release me from all these years.

So I would just ask what advice you'd give for women to intercede for their husband that choose to stay.

Okay, Rachel, hi.

Hey, what is your experience with?

I mean, I can relate to what this woman is talking about I spent years praying for mine what about you?

Yeah, you know I think that the thing that we have in common you and I and this woman and many others

Is this feeling of responsibility for our husband as though the only thing that's going to help them to change is if we stay, if we pray, if we're interceding for them, and if we do that

hard enough, maybe someday they will have a soft heart, maybe they'll change their ways of blame and

Accusations that are so characteristic of emotional abuse maybe maybe they'll be the person that you know that God can have them to be, that

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