This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, January 19, 2015.

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down the landmark decision that effectively made abortion legal in the United States through all three trimesters of a woman's pregnancy.

Yesterday, many churches marked this upcoming anniversary by observing Sanctity of Human Life Sunday.

Now, for many years, Jennifer Smith approached Sanctity of Human Life Sunday with a sense of dread.

Typically, prior to kind of sharing testimony and kind of working through things with God,

I felt so sad.

Most of the time I would skip it if I had foreworn.

If I knew it was coming, I wasn't going to church that Sunday because I just couldn't take it.

It was like reliving it, even though I knew

that I was saved and born again and made new, it was like just over and over being pounded

with your sin. And it was like, it just hurts so bad to know that you were capable of doing that and to just relive it over and over.

It's violent.

It's excruciating from even a physical sense, but mostly a spiritual and emotional sense that it just hurts so bad.

Jennifer is the director of the Pregnancy Care Center here in Niles, Michigan, where

revive our hearts is based. We began listening to her story last week. Today we'll find out

how she finally stopped dreading Sanctity of Human life Sunday. Perhaps you can relate to that dread

yourself. I want to encourage you to listen carefully to this story about God taking the broken

pieces that we have to offer him and turning them into something beautiful that can bring him glory.

That's what happened to Jennifer Smith.

And I believe that's what God wants to happen with you as well. But before we pick up with Jennifer's

story, let's review what we heard last week. I was out partying with friends. The next thing I remember about that night was waking up in a hotel room.

I had no idea how I got there.

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