Hi, friend, you're listening to the Thursday replay on the Jesus Over Everything show with Lisa Whittle.

I hope you enjoy this re-air of one of our Five Word Prayers Daily devotional shows we aired last year.

Hi, and welcome to Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and i welcome you to just

five minutes with me which i trust and pray will be five minutes well spent well today is all about a

game changer the game changer of life it's something that god showed me back in 2012 that absolutely

changed the course of my life forever and I cannot wait to share it with you

today on the Five Word Prayers Daily. Back in 2012, I was in a difficult season of my life.

I had just released a book called Whole, which told a lot about my life growing up as a pastor's daughter.

And some of the hard things our family went through in that.

And it was difficult for several reasons, one of which was that it was a story that

hadn't been told publicly like that for almost 20 years. My father was still living at the time,

and I wanted to honor him and honor the church in the very public telling of a very public,

for lack of a better way to say it, fall from grace, but neither

the church nor my father was without responsibility in the situation or the way it was handled.

And in the end, I wound up writing this book twice. I threw the first version, 55,000 words

in the trash and started over, if you can believe it. A little insider information

about that book actually, I wound up writing chapter one seven times, seven versions of the same

until the eighth time I finally scrapped all those versions and wrote a new version and that was the

one we went with. Just a really tough book to write. But I was in a place that I had released

this book hole into the world, and yet at the same time, I felt very broken. And so that made me

feel very fraudulent as an author. It was like the more God had begun to heal me, the more

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