Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma Daughter.

Thanks for joining. Today, we are in Judges 12, but before we dive in, quick announcement. If you have been tracking along in the guided journals, you know that pretty soon you're going to run out of pages. The good news is the new

journals are out and on Amazon. We will put those links in the episode description, but if you

prefer a spiral version, we will be selling those every Sunday at Watermark in the town center

until we sell out. Once we sell out, we'll have the Amazon versions on Sundays

for you to snag or grab. For you, your community group, your friends, we will also have the new

junior versions available. I think this next half is really exciting because we're going to start

exploring the life of David. We're done with the challenging books like numbers and

Exodus, all that's in the past. So if you've got friends who are struggling to regularly read

the Bible now is probably a great time for them to start thinking about joining the journey

for the rest of the year. That said, I am in the podcast studio with today's divo writer, Amanda Manville. Hi, it's

great to be here. So great to have you here, Amanda. We just met. We are the same age. So it's like

a peer-to-peer conversation, but I'd love to know how you came to know the Lord. And then

fast forward, what's going on in your life today? Well, I came to know the Lord when I was really young.

I grew up in church.

I had family that were pastors, so it was definitely embedded into my life at an early age.

I kind of started falling away as I got older because I didn't really know what it meant to be a follower of Christ,

how to be a good disciple, how to read the Bible. And I kind of continued to fall away all

the way through college. And then I was at a camp. And one day I just fell to my knees and

asked for forgiveness for all the things I had been doing in

college, partying, doing all the things of the world.

And I just asked for forgiveness and felt so much relief from all the weight of sin I had been

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