Supporting Your Suffering Friend, with Jani Ortlund

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Walking with a suffering friend can be intimidating. Jani Ortlund says: your presence is what’s most important. Supporting a suffering loved one involves clinging to God’s promises, cultivating an empathetic heart, and relying on the Holy Spirit.

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0:00.0	When a loved one is suffering, how do you help them?
0:04.0	What if you aren't sure what to say or do?
0:07.4	Jenny Ortland says,
0:08.6	You don't have to have the right Bible verse to answer the right question.
0:13.5	You don't have to be anybody else but who God made you to be at that moment.
0:19.4	Just make that space for that person
0:22.2	to be able to come in and just be him or herself. This is the Reviver Hearts podcast
0:30.1	with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of A Deeper Kind of Kindness. For August 29th, 2025,
0:38.4	I'm Dana Gresh.
0:53.1	So, be honest. When a friend is suffering, are you ever tempted to run the other direction?
0:55.8	You love your friend. You wish you could help them, but maybe you're worried you won't have the right words to say, or you're scared of
1:00.5	their questions. Maybe you think, what if I don't know, the right answer for that? I know I've
1:05.7	had those kinds of thoughts myself, and if this sounds like you, then I'm excited for you to listen to today's episode of
1:12.3	Revive Our Hearts. My dear friend, Janney Orland, has lots of experience supporting suffering
1:18.6	people. She joined us for one of our biblical help for real life online events to talk about this
1:24.9	topic with Aaron Davis. And Janney invited women not to run away from
1:29.8	suffering loved ones, but to lean in with truth and hope. Here's Aaron to introduce her now.
1:37.1	Jenny Ortland is a beloved teacher and writer. I know her as a woman of profound grace.
1:43.4	She's a pastor's wife, a mom, before, a grandma, and a friend.
1:47.4	And I have something special I want to talk to her about. So thanks for being with us here tonight,
1:52.7	Janie. Thank you for having me, Erin.
1:55.3	Janie, I'm confident you've faced your own suffering. But tonight, I really want to hear your
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