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1. How Your Excruciating Labor Pains Are Bearing Incredible Spiritual Fruit

... er ever being in such pain. It seemed as though it would go on forever. However, when my sweet baby son was placed in my arms, all the pain I experienced seem to fade from my memory. As I peered into  ...

Created on 15 September 2017

2. This Message Straight From Christ's Heart Can Heal Your Soul Wounds

I love speaking in women's prisons. There is a deep hunger there I seldom see outside the prison walls. I leave tingling in amazement, thinking: O God, you are still making the blind to see. It happened ...

Created on 28 July 2017

3. John and Lisa Bevere Share Strategies for Healing Your Deep Heart Pains

How do you truly get over past hurts and wounds? How do you forgive yourself? In this episode, John and Lisa share stories, strategies and practices that position you to receive healing from the pain of ...

Created on 25 July 2017

4. Letting Holy Spirit Heal Your Church Wounds

How do you navigate being hurt by other believers within your community—especially those in positions of leadership? In this episode of the "Conversations" podcast, John and Lisa share their stories and ...

Created on 21 July 2017

5. Is It Sin to Be Angry With God?

All of us, at one point or another, will experience pain. Pain is an equal opportunity inflicter; no one escapes its touch. The question is: how will we respond when pain touches our lives? Many people, ...

Created on 11 July 2017

6. Spiritual Wound Care for Bitterness' Bruises

... em to God. Don't run from them. The second step is to cleanse your wounds to prevent infection by grieving any pain you have felt from your wound. Cleansing and grieving are important parts of the second  ...

Created on 12 June 2017

7. Stop Saying These 5 Unbiblical Things to Grieving Friends

... their pain. 5 Things We Should Stop Saying to Someone Who Is Grieving 1. You need to be happy; they are in a better place now. Until you've lost a family member or close friend, you can't know how very u ...

Created on 06 June 2017

8. How Katy Perry's Mother Praises God Through the Pain

... s cries. It is called The Cry: The Desperate Prayer That Opens the Heart of God. Mary believes parents of prodigals must focus on others rather than wallowing in their own pain. For the past 11 years sh ...

Created on 30 May 2017

9. Responding to Inconsiderate Words When You're Grieving

... ld have been a much more painful loss." "Don't be so sad. You'll have another one." I know the people who wrote these messages or hugged me and whispered them in my ear meant well. I don't think for a ...

Created on 22 May 2017

10. Free Yourself of These Inhibiting Prayer Fears

For some time now, it has felt as though our family has been in a period of convalescence. Convalescence, meaning "the gradual recovery of strength or health after an illness," applies to so much in our ...

Created on 12 May 2017

11. Remember This Truth When You Feel God Isn't Defending You

In the midst of heartache, pain and trauma, it is often difficult to see what God is doing. He is the greatest defender, the most magnificent warrior. He is the one who runs after our bondage in a relentless ...

Created on 03 May 2017

12. How Holy Spirit Helps You Deal With Unresolved Grief

... iving. Sometimes new grief brings back the pain of old loss. In chapter 3 of Grieving With Hope, we find that sometimes new grief can bring up the pain of old loss. This is completely normal as it rem ...

Created on 25 April 2017

13. Clearing Clouds of Confusion in Your Darkest Hour

... e gone through some difficult or painful circumstances, our own negative thoughts influence our mind and well-being. Throughout time, negativity can become a stronghold on our entire perspective about ever ...

Created on 14 April 2017

14. Why You Can Have Unceasing Joy No Matter the Heartache

"God gave us free will to choose mind over matter or let the matters of life control our minds. The choice is ours, and that important choice will determine the direction of our faith and our ability to ...

Created on 07 April 2017

15. God's Shocking Way of Turning Your Limitations Into Blessings

It was a rambling college town that hosted the race that was to be my last for a long time. It is a town where narrow dirt-and-dust roads lead to horse farms with near-perfect views of the Blue Ridge and ...

Created on 04 April 2017

16. Cutting Off Shame's Rule Over Your Life

For two years, Diane lived with a man who was an emotionally and physically abusive alcoholic. She finally escaped from the relationship and went to live in a shelter for abused women, but the abuse had ...

Created on 30 March 2017

17. Believing for Healing—Even When the Pain Overwhelms You

I am going to be raw and honest in this post. And I hope I'll be a little bit encouraging too. I am emerging from a brutally hard season in life. But even as I emerge with my feet on more solid ground ...

Created on 24 March 2017

18. Run to This Relief When You Feel Like You're Drowning

...  ways. We suffer as a result of guilt, difficult relationships or heartbreaking losses. And when we suffer, we cry out to God. We plead for Him to take away our pain, or at least lessen it so that we're not dro ...

Created on 21 March 2017

19. Soul-Healing Words for the Hurting Wife Suffering a Divorce

Ever have one of those moments when you're talking to a friend, and she says something that makes you think, No, she did not just say that?  But the truth is she did just say that dumb, insensitive thing, ...

Created on 17 March 2017

20. What This Biblical Prophetess Can Teach You About Your Crushing Trials

...  as wind-driven sand? How do you recover when your vision is clouded by pain and your life plunges into despondency and despair? What do you do when a lifelong dream is suddenly taken away from you withou ...

Created on 10 March 2017