In this podcast Martha talks about growing up in a religious community as well as a religious home. Martha grew up in a home where perception from the outside was very important. Often times she would hear the words, “if you (do this or do that), you are going to hell”. She talks about how, when you grow up in that setting, you don’t actually experience the love and kindness of God.
Martha realized that she had developed the need to get the approval of everyone around her. She later found herself in an unhealthy marriage and experienced sexual abuse. She opens up about how sexual abuse is not something that is often talked about in marriage, but she believes it truly is something that often times happens, and believes it should be addressed.
There was a season in Martha’s life that she turned to having affairs in her marriage to fill the pain, which caused more pain. Martha eventually left her husband. It was a hard decision because she made a vow before God. Martha then talks about the true love of Father God and how it saved her. God’s love, if you are willing to accept it, is able to completely change and transform you. God’s love is able to open your eyes.
Martha’s favorite scripture is Ezekiel 37:1-6:
The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
Through this scripture Martha new that God would breathe life into her again and that she would once again be made whole.
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