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God's Gift Through His Word

Alright, hello, hello everyone. How are you doing? So, it is late night and of course I am on sharing and this is going to be the start of my 16th days. But before we get into this, you guys know what I'm going to do. What I'm going to do, I'm going to go ahead and get the theme music and then we'll come back and talk about our topic, which is... Don't let abuse change you. Definitely don't want to do that. So let me be quiet and here we go. Alright, I am back with you guys. So yes, I was just giving you a slight intro into the title of this particular podcast slash content slash stream and it is called Don't Let Abuse Change You. So definitely don't want to do that. So I wanted to talk about that because there's just there's always something that needs to be talked about. And because I have just done that PBS special with those lovely ladies and Miss Laura Flanders. I wanted to still continue talking about that because there's other abuses that happen and sometimes we kind of don't talk about any of them. But in particular, we'll be talking just about general abuse. And I think we're going to just tailor this one to, of course, domestic violence. It might go somewhere else as well, but for now, we'll just do that. So before we get started, I normally... do bible studies on here but and not on here because I haven't been on in a while but normally do my bible studies whenever I'm going live but today I will be pulling a little bit of scripture and hopefully during this entire 60 days, I will definitely be utilizing more scripture, and I'll be definitely using John 15 for a lot of this with the relationship between Christ, the relationship between others, the relationship between the world, and definitely want to talk about that. But we're going to go ahead and just jump into this topic right now. So we do have a purpose and you have a purpose I have a purpose the lord has set a purpose for us long before our parents even knew who we were and sometimes going along our journey we run into abuse And you could either have abuse in family, abuse with relationships with significant others. You could have abuse in all myriad ways and different venues and different places and spaces in your life. And sometimes those different types of abuse, they can cause a lot of damage. And we know it. I know it. You know it. And those damages can be mental and emotional, physical, financial, and spiritual, digital, and they're hard to deal with. And as I share with you guys, I share from a lot of experience of having to really navigate the abuse of And I'm not going to put a trigger warning on here because I'm hoping I'm not going to say anything triggering. If I do, I might go back and edit it to say trigger warning, but I'm hoping this is benign enough that it doesn't cause anyone to be triggered. But if you are, if something happens, doesn't sound right or it troubles you please turn this off take care of yourself because I definitely want you to do that I don't think I'm going to be bringing up a whole bunch of things uh as far as the situation of of old abuse so it should be okay So when I talk about this, and I talk about it for a myriad of reasons, not because I'm trying to give myself a pity party and not because I'm trying to put anybody on blast, but I am trying to help others to be aware and be cognizant of abuse. And as long as I have breath to talk about it and speak about it, I will. So when I was going through my different abuses and domestic violence in my life, it was just easier to bury all of it. And some of the abuses I went through when I was younger kind of led to the abuse that I had when I was older and all these different things, kind of these escapes. And when I look back, I saw that I was trying to navigate and handle That was harmful to me. And it wasn't always easy. So sometimes people will think that you're just doing stuff and they have things to say about you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ggthw/message