How much should you share with your husband about your past? Should you protect his emotions from that hurt?

Here's Judy Starr. It's interesting that when we think we want to say protect our husbands from what we've done in the past, I think really what we really want to protect is ourselves because we've already hurt our husband if we've been unfaithful or if there's

immorality in our past so we really are protecting ourselves no marriage can have the intimacy

that god desires it to have unless we have a basis of honesty and transparency within our

lives this is revive our hearts with nancy-Demaz for Friday, November 16th.

You've joined us in a series called Seeking Him.

Each week during the series, Nancy's been presenting a characteristic

of personal revival. This week's focus is sexual purity, and the program might not be

appropriate for younger children. Yesterday, we began to hear the story of Judy Starr, and when

we left off, she was torn between staying

faithful to her husband, Stottler, or to leave him for a man she had gotten involved with

emotionally. Here's Nancy to continue that conversation.

There's no question, is there, that we live in a fallen, messed up world, and we are sinners and desperately

in need of the grace of God, but we do blow it. According to the book of James, we are all

sinners. We all sin in many ways, but I am so thankful, aren't you, that God is a God of grace,

that he is a redeeming God, and that he has the power to bring hope

into the most desperate and hopeless situations. Oh, I praise God every day for his grace over

my life. So thank you, Judy, for sharing your story, not only here with our Revival

Hearts listeners, but also you've done a great job of sharing not only the story, but the

word of God as it bears on this situation in a book that you've written called The Enticement of the Forbidden.

One of the life preservers God used in your life was our mutual friend, Holly Eliff. And Holly is here joining us in this conversation.

Holly, thank you for being the kind of friend that every woman needs.

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