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Beyond Believing: Helping Christian Women Heal Post Divorce
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Katie Anne is a Certified Life Coach, single mother of five, and host of Beyond Believing — a faith-based podcast for divorced Christian women ready to heal, rebuild, and step into their God-given identity. She blends Biblical truth with practical coaching to help women move from survival to peace, and from fear to confidence in Christ.
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I Judged Samson for Being a Fool. Then God Showed Me I Was One Too.
3d ago00:14:42Tap to summarizeA few days ago I was on a walk, listening to Judges 16, and I couldn't believe how obviously foolish Samson was being — three times warned, three times he handed Delilah more of himself anyway. Then a second thought stopped me cold: how obvious is it to the people who love me, when I'm doing the exact same thing? This episode is the answer to that question. It's the story of a walk that turned into a confession, a chapter in Judges I'd read past a hundred times, and a framework tucked inside Psalm 37 that I'd never actually followed all the way through — trust, delight, commit, be still, wait patiently, surrender the anxiety, and only then, abundant peace. Samson skipped straight to the desire of his heart and left out everything that was supposed to come first. I did the same thing for seventeen years of marriage, dressed up in wisdom that looked biblical and wasn't. Wel'll walk through: Judges 16:4, 15–17, 20 — the one time Scripture says Samson loved anyone, and why it's the relationship that cost him everything Psalm 37:3–5, 7, 11 — the seven-step order Psalms gives for a heart to actually receive what it's aching for Why "delight yourself in the Lord" isn't the whole promise — it's step two of seven, and the psalm proves it by ending exactly where it began My own 66 days, and the six words I heard in the quietest, emptiest room of my life This episode is for you if… You've ever judged someone else's obviously bad choice and then had to sit with how blind you were to your own You did "everything a woman is supposed to do" and still ended up on ground that gave way You want to be loved so badly you've stopped asking whether it's safe to hand your heart over You've closed the door on wanting anything at all, because wanting got you hurt last time You're tired of stopping at "delight in the Lord" without knowing how to receive what it promises Scripture References Judges 16:4,15–17, 20 Psalm 37:3 -11 Additional Resources for this episode: Daniel I. Block — New American Commentary, Judges, Ruth Derek Kidner — Tyndale OT Commentary, Psalms Connect + Continue Come as you are. But do not expect to stay as you are. 🕊️ Start with the free 7-day devotional, Roots → roots.coachkatieanne.com 🍷 Get your free Thirsty Thursday Insider Pass — live Bible study every other Thursday, 7pm MT, no account needed 🌿 Join the Selah Community → coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co 📞 Book a Rooted Clarity Call → www.coachkatieanne.com/call If this episode named something you've been carrying quietly — do me a favor and leave a review. It takes 30 seconds and matters more than you know. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. #BeyondBelieving #GreatestLoveStory #KnownByGod #WhoSheIsToHim #ChristianDivorce #FaithAfterDivorce #DivorcedChristianWomen #BiblicalIdentity #Psalm139 #Hannah #Ruth #Mary #kecharitomene #HealingAfterDivorce #ChristianPodcast #GodKnewYou #IdentityInChrist
Transcribe →E:105: I Built My Marriage Wrong From the Start. God Showed Me Why.
1w ago00:15:51Tap to summarizeI had the intact home. The husband. Five kids. On paper, nothing was wrong. Everyone on the outside thought we had the ideal home. This week, I'm telling you what was actually happening underneath it — and about a woman in Scripture whose story I read years before my own marriage and never understood until it was already too late to have it going in. In this episode, we go back to Genesis 24 — the marriage the Bible describes in more detail than almost any other — and I show you exactly who Rebekah was, what the servant was actually testing for at the well, and why her answer to her family's question ("will you go?") mattered as much as anything else in the story. Then I connect it to my own foundation: growing up in a home shaped by my parents' divorce, the vow I made to give my own kids something different, and how I ended up building the exact thing I swore I'd never repeat — not because I didn't love my family, but because I didn't yet have the character Rebekah already had, long before anyone was testing her for it. If you're a divorced Christian woman rebuilding a home, a faith, or an identity from the ground up — this episode is for you. 📖 Scriptures referenced: Genesis 24:2–9, 12–14, 57–58 | Genesis 18:19 | Genesis 12:1–9 | Proverbs 30:21–23 | James 1:27 📅 Apply for coaching (Rooted Clarity Call) 🌱 Start with the free 7-day devotional: ROOTS 💛 Join The Selah Community Ready to build a foundation like Rebekah's? The Rooted Clarity Call is how you apply for Selah Healing coaching: www.coachkatieanne.com/call divorced Christian women, Genesis 24, Rebekah Bible study, Isaac and Rebekah, God's design for marriage, Proverbs 30, James 1:27, Christian marriage foundation, biblical marriage, faith after divorce, Christian women over 40, bride of Christ, character before marriage, divorce recovery coaching, unloved woman Proverbs #ChristianDivorceRecovery #Genesis24 #Rebekah #BiblicalMarriage #FaithAfterDivorce #ChristianWomen #BeyondBelievingPodcast #ProverbsWisdom #ChristianHealing #BrideOfChrist
Transcribe →E:104: What You Haven't Heard About Divorce in the Bible
2w ago00:24:38Tap to summarizeGod once commanded a prophet to marry a woman known for infidelity — not after she cleaned up her life, but in the middle of it. This episode is about what that means for you. Book a Rooted Clarity Call at coachkatieanne.com/call God told the prophet Hosea to marry a woman who kept running back to other men. Not once — repeatedly. For centuries, that story has been read as being about her sin. It isn't. It's about how far God will go to buy back what He already calls His own. This episode opens a new thread on Beyond Believing: women in Scripture who carried a reputation nobody expected God to redeem. Outcast. Adulteress. Foreigner. The unloved wife. We're starting with Gomer — and with the question so many divorced women carry quietly into church every week: does remarriage after divorce make me an adulteress? Katie Anne walks through Hosea 1–3 in full, alongside Mark 10, Malachi 2, and Romans 7 — not as a debate, but as a chance to actually hear these passages in the context they were written from. You'll discover: What it actually meant, legally and culturally, for a woman in Hosea's day to be marked as "a wife of whoredom" — and why God commanded Hosea to marry her while she was still living that reputation, not after • What Hosea's payment in Hosea 3:1–2 — thirty shekels, the exact legal price of a slave — reveals about the price God pays for people who have nothing to offer in return • What Malachi 2:16 actually says when you read past verse 16 to see who it was written to rebuke • Why Jesus's words in Mark 10 were a correction aimed at the men loosening their own standards — not a tightening of the noose on divorced women • How Pastor Matt Emadi's teaching on Romans 7:1–6 reframes what "called an adulteress" actually means for a woman who has remarried This is not an episode about whether you're allowed back in. This is an episode about a God who paid full price for you before you had anything to prove. This episode is for you if… A verse has been quoted at you like a verdict — about your divorce, your remarriage, or both — and you've quietly started to believe Scripture doesn't have room for your specific story • You've sat in a pew feeling like "divorced" is the label that gets read before anything else about you does • You've remarried, or you're considering it, and a passage like Romans 7 has left you privately unsettled about where you stand • You've watched a pastor go visibly uncomfortable teaching on marriage and divorce and walked away with more questions than you came in with • You believe God forgives — but some quiet part of you still wonders if you're the exception this time • You've decided you have to prove your worth, your safety, or your standing before anyone — including God — can be trusted with it Scripture References: Hosea 1:2 — read aloud in full · God's command to Hosea • Hosea 3:1–2 — read aloud in full · the price paid to buy Gomer back • Malachi 2:16 — quoted in part, with surrounding context (vv. 11–16) discussed • Mark 10:1–12 — discussed, not read verbatim · Jesus and the Pharisees on divorce • Romans 7:1–3 — paraphrased on air · full teaching in Pastor Emadi's linked sermon • Exodus 21:32 — referenced · the legal price of a slave • Deuteronomy 22 — referenced · the bride-price and token of purity • Revelation 3:20 — referenced · God's ongoing pursuit Referenced Teachers & Theologians: Douglas Stuart — Word Biblical Commentary, Hosea • Raymond Ortlund Jr. — God's Unfaithful Wife • R.C. Sproul — Ligonier Ministries, "Marriage and Divorce" (on Mark 10:1–12) • David Instone-Brewer — Tyndale House, Cambridge (biblical grounds for divorce) • Pastor Matt Emadi — Crossroads Church, Utah / Salt Lake School of Theology · "Dead to the Law: Alive in the Spirit: Romans 7:1-6" — https://youtu.be/VICkyBbug7I Connect + Continue 📅 Book a Rooted Clarity Call: coachkatieanne.com/call 🌱 Start with the free 7-day devotional: roots.coachkatieanne.com 💛 Join the Selah Community: coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co If this episode stirred something you don't want to carry alone — the next step is a conversation, not a comment section. Book a private, forty-five-minute Rooted Clarity Call at coachkatieanne.com/call. No performance required to book it, and no story too far along to bring. And if Beyond Believing has been part of your story, would you take sixty seconds and leave a review on Apple Podcasts? Every review helps another woman find this. She is out there looking. Share this episode with one woman who needs to hear it. You don't have to explain it. Just send it. About Beyond Believing Beyond Believing is a podcast for divorced Christian women who are done surviving and ready to rebuild. Hosted by Certified LifeCoach Katie Anne Greene, each episode combines biblical depth, personal story, and practical coaching to help you discover who God says you are — and begin living like it. New episodes every week. 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Transcribe →E:103: You Don't Have to Stop Grieving to Start Trusting God
3w ago00:16:51Tap to summarizeGrief has been close this month — the sudden loss of a beloved young friend, and the grief so many women carry for a marriage that ended. In this episode, Katie shares two kinds of grief she sees in the women she works with, a truth from a pastor who buried his own son, and the promise in Scripture that lets you grieve and trust God at the same time — without letting grief become who you are. Scripture referenced: Romans 8:17, Isaiah 61:1–3, Isaiah 53:5, 1 Thessalonians 4:13–14 If this gave you language you didn't have before, I'd love to sit with you in it. You can book a Rooted Clarity Call or start with the free 7-day devotional, ROOTS. And if you're looking for a place where you're seen and not alone in this season, The Selah Community is exactly that place. 📅 Book a Rooted Clarity Call: coachkatieanne.com/call 🌱 Start with the free 7-day devotional: roots.coachkatieanne.com 💛 Join the Selah Community: coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co KEY SCRIPTURE REFERENCES - Romans 8:17 (ESV) - Isaiah 61:1–3 (ESV) - 1 Thessalonians 4:13–14 (ESV) - Job 2:11–13 SOURCE CITATION: Luke Harding, "Pastoring through Personal Tragedy," in 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and Suffering — Relying on God's Power in Weakness (9Marks / Church Matters). Link: https://www.9marks.org/journal/the-pastor-and-suffering/Luke Harding is the Lead Pastor of Godspeed Church in East Providence, Rhode Island. grief after divorce, Christian grief, grieving your marriage, numb after divorce, blindsided by divorce, healing after loss, faith and grief, grief and faith, trusting God through grief, divorced Christian woman, post-divorce healing, grieving with hope, sudden loss and faith, Isaiah 61 healing, coping with grief as a Christian, identity in Christ after loss, Christian life coach, single mom grief, Selah Community healing, faith after tragedy #GriefAndFaith #DivorceRecovery #ChristianWomen #FaithAfterDivorce #GriefJourney #ChristianGrief #HealingAfterLoss #TrustGodThroughGrief #BeyondBelieving #CoachKatieAnne #DivorcedChristianWoman #GriefSupport #FaithOverFear #HealingJourney #ChristianPodcast
Transcribe →E:102: How to Feel Safe After Divorce When You've Never Known God's Covering
Jul 1600:13:47Tap to summarizeHave you ever thought, "I just don't let people in anymore"? There's a verse people misuse to make women like you feel guilty for being guarded — but the truth is far kinder than the guilt. In this episode, I'm unpacking Matthew 23:37 — the moment Jesus grieves over Jerusalem's willful rejection of Him — and why that passage has nothing to do with a woman who's simply never been shown true, godly covering. Through Ruth's reach for Boaz's covering and the woman who touched the hem of Jesus's robe after twelve years of exclusion, we'll uncover what it actually means to receive protection you didn't earn — and what God has been teaching me, personally, about finally letting that covering in. Scripture referenced: Matthew 23:37, Exodus 19:4, Ruth 3:9, Matthew 9:20-22 Ready to go deeper? Book a Rooted Clarity Call — a private 45-minute conversation about what's keeping you stuck, and what it could look like to become rooted in the identity God has already spoken over you. 📅 Book a Rooted Clarity Call: www.coachkatieanne.com/call 🌱 Start with the free 7-day devotional: roots.coachkatieanne.com 💛 Join the Selah Community: www.coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co Learn more about James and Jolene, and the work they are doing at their church plant at Red Rock Redemption Church divorced Christian women, God's covering, biblical protection, Matthew 23:37 explained, healing after divorce, faith after divorce, Ruth 3:9 meaning, Christian coaching for divorced women, identity in Christ after divorce, receiving God's love #ChristianDivorce #GodsCovering #BeyondBelievingPodcast #DivorceRecovery #ChristianWomen #FaithAfterDivorce #BiblicalProtection
Transcribe →E:101: I Thought Waiting Was Weakness. After Divorce, God Showed Me It Was Faithfulness.
Jul 900:16:32Tap to summarizeI always believed asking for help made me weak. This week, waiting on God finally showed me why that was a lie. I've always believed that being weak, being vulnerable, are dangerous positions to be in — especially after you've already been hurt by trusting the wrong person. So this week, in the middle of a season after my divorce that feels full of nothing but waiting, I did something I genuinely never do anymore. In this episode, we're going deep into what Scripture actually says about waiting — starting with a verse in Hebrews 11 that gets read past far too quickly, four Hebrew words for "wait" that prove it was never meant to be passive, and the uncomfortable truth that you are not the only one active while you wait. Someone else is waiting too, and he's not waiting for the same thing God is. By the end, I'll tell you exactly what I did this week that I always believed made me weak — and why it turned out to be the most faithful thing I did all week. If you're waiting on provision, waiting on your ex to become who he promised he'd be, waiting for your kids to heal, waiting to feel healed yourself — this episode is for you. Scriptures referenced: Hebrews 11:1, 11:13, 11:14–16; 1 Peter 5:8; Isaiah 40:31; Psalm 27:14; Galatians 5:5; Lamentations 3:25-26 READY TO STOP WAITING ALONE? 🌱 Start here: I built something for you. It's called Roots — a 7-day devotional for the woman who doesn't quite know who to trust right now, and is ready to find out how God is hers to lean on. Download it at coachkatieanne.com/roots 🤍 Join the community: The Selah Community inside Storehouse Wellness — your place to be seen, known, and not alone. Your first 7-days are free, just $35/month. 📞 Private coaching: Ready to do the deep work, one-on-one? This is the work we do inside Selah Healing. Apply at coachkatieanne.com/call.
Transcribe →E:100: How God Protects Divorced Women (What the Church Never Told You)
Jul 100:20:49Tap to summarizeIf you ever believed that God protects us by standing between us and whatever's coming — a wall, a barrier, something in front of us like I did, I found that's not the only posture Scripture describes. Deuteronomy 33:27 says underneath are the everlasting arms. Not just in front. Not just behind. Underneath. And once you understand why God would position Himself there, you'll never read that verse — or your own story — the same way again. In this episode, Katie Anne walks through the full canonical picture of God's protective identity: Exodus 19:4 and the eagle's wings that carried Israel to God Himself, not just away from danger. Deuteronomy 32:10–12 and the verb-by-verb picture of how God found, encircled, and carried His people. Psalm 91 and the protection rooted in His faithfulness, not your vigilance. And Deuteronomy 33:26–27 — the everlasting arms that were underneath you before you ever knew you needed them. She also takes on one of the most quoted passages in Scripture about divorce — Jesus' teaching in Matthew 19. What if it was never a verdict against divorced women, but Jesus stepping into a specific first-century legal dispute to protect her? This is episode 100 — and every identity this series has shown you (Warrior, Shepherd, Pursuer, Cherished, Seen, Known) was pointing here. READY TO GO DEEPER? 🌱 Start here: I built something for you. It's called Roots — a 7-day devotional for the woman who doesn't quite know who to trust right now, and is ready to find out how God is hers to lean on. Download it at coachkatieanne.com/roots 🤍 Join the community: The Selah Community inside Storehouse Wellness — your place to be seen, known, and not alone. Your first 7-days are free, just $35/month. 📞 Private coaching: Ready to do the deep work, one-on-one? This is the work we do inside Selah Healing. Apply at coachkatieanne.com/call. divorced christian women, God's protection bible, Deuteronomy 33:27, everlasting arms meaning, faith after divorce, christian divorce recovery, bible study for divorced women, Matthew 19 divorce explained, biblical protection of women, God as protector, single christian woman over 40, healing after divorce christian, Psalm 91 protection, Exodus 19:4 eagles wings, christian podcast for women, identity in Christ after divorce #BeyondBelievingPodcast #ChristianDivorceRecovery #DivorcedChristianWoman #FaithAfterDivorce #GodsProtection #DeuteronomyStudy #EverlastingArms #ChristianWomenOver40 #BiblicalHealing #ChristianPodcast
Transcribe →E:99: What God Says to Divorced Women About Being Loved
Jun 2500:22:43Tap to summarizeThere is something I want you to know before you press play. At the end of this episode, there is an invitation. Not an assignment. Not a challenge. An invitation — to sit with a question that I believe has the potential to change everything about the way you see yourself, the way you receive love, and the way you relate to God. You don't have to be ready for it. You just have to stay until the end. Here is what this episode is about: Most women who have been through divorce believe God loves them. What most of us have never fully received — not in the quiet, not where it counts — is that God delights in us. That there is a difference between being loved out of obligation and being cherished out of desire. In this episode, I am going to take you from the very first page of Scripture to the very last — and show you that God has been moving toward you across every single page. Not away. Toward. We are going to look at two parables in Matthew 13 that most of us have heard our whole lives — and what I found when I read them again stopped me completely. Because what Jesus is describing in those parables is not just a transaction. It is a declaration. About your worth. About what God was willing to pay. About why nothing and no one has any legal claim to your value anymore. We are also going to look at a Hebrew word in Isaiah 65 — hineni (hee-neh-NEE) — that God says twice, to people who weren't even looking for Him. And what that word means in the original language is not just 'I am here.' It is: you have my full attention. I am completely available to you. I am all in. God said that. To people who weren't looking. God is saying it to you right now. By the end of this episode, I want you to have something you may have never fully had before — not the idea that you are loved, but the settled, specific, unshakeable knowing that you are cherished. That the God of the universe looked at your field — the broken, buried, complicated, messy field of your life — and said: I want her. All of her. And I am buying the whole thing. That is what this episode is about. Stay until the end. The invitation is waiting for you there. SCRIPTURE REFERENCES Matthew 13:44 | Matthew 13:45-46 | Proverbs 31:10 | Isaiah 65:1 | Zephaniah 3:17 | Revelation 21:3-4 | James 1:17 | Hebrews 12:2 | Matthew 27:51 RESOURCES MENTIONED: ESV Women's Study Bible Roots Devotional — free download. Seven days deepening what God has already planted Selah Community — 7-day free trial, just $35/month after: coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co The Bible in One Year — Nicky Gumble (Day 49) Expositor's Bible Commentary, Vol. 8, Matthew — D.A. Carson (Zondervan, 1984) WAYS TO WORK WITH KATIE ANNE 📖 Start here — Roots Devotional (free): coachkatieanne.com/roots 🌿 Go deeper — Selah Community (Your first 7 days are free, just $35/month after that): coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co 💛 Private coaching — coachkatieanne.com/call NEXT EPISODE: Episode 100 is coming. And I want to tell you about a mother owl I watched fly underneath her baby to keep her from falling — and what it taught me about Deuteronomy 33. Subscribe so you don't miss it. God's love for divorced women | being cherished by God | what God says about love after divorce | healing after divorce Christian | divorced Christian women podcast | hidden treasure parable meaning | God delights in you scripture | Zephaniah 3:17 meaning | hineni meaning Hebrew | how to feel God's love | God's love is unconditional | Christian healing after heartbreak | identity in Christ after divorce | what does God think of me | divorced woman worth | beyond believing podcast #DivorceHealing #ChristianWomen #BeyondBelieving #GodLovesYou #DivorcedChristianWomen #HeIdentityInChrist #Zephaniah317 #HiddenTreasureParable #Hineni #PostDivorceHealing #FaithAfterDivorce #ChristianPodcast #GodDelightsInYou #YouAreCherished #CoachKatieAnne
Transcribe →E:98: How God Carries Divorced Women in Scripture
Jun 1800:17:52Tap to summarizeBeyond Believing Podcast How God Carries Divorced Women in Scripture The Greatest Love Story Ever Written | Who He Is to Her: THE SHEPHERD For the woman who has been carrying this season alone and is ready to find out what God says about that, grab your free 7-day devotional, Roots. After my divorce, I didn't go looking for a new church. I went looking for God. And what I found in the wilderness — in Luke 15, Ezekiel 34, and Psalm 23 — is that the Shepherd does not wait for you to find your way back. He comes in. He finds you. He puts you on His shoulders. And He carries you home. Nobody talks about this part of divorce. You don't just lose a husband. In many cases, you lose your community. Your seat in the pew. The version of yourself that fit neatly inside a congregation built around couples, around families — around a story that no longer looks like yours. Some of you are still going. Carrying something in your chest the people around you don't know how to hold. Some of you stopped going. Not because your faith is gone — because you stopped belonging. And some of you — like me — walked out of a religion entirely. Not out of rebellion. Out of hunger. Because the God being described in that building and the God you were desperately searching for were not the same Person. This episode is for every part of your journey. In this episode of The Greatest Love Story Ever Written series, we go deep into Ezekiel 34, Luke 15, and Psalm 23 to trace one of the most personal declarations God makes about Himself in all of Scripture: He does not wait at the door. He goes into the wilderness. He finds you. He lifts you. And He carries you — rejoicing. What we cover: — Ezekiel 34:11–16: God's personal declaration — "I, I myself will search for my sheep." Every gap the community left, He fills personally. The woman who was not sought will be sought. The woman who was not carried will be carried. — Luke 15:4–7: The parable of the lost sheep — and the detail most people read past. He doesn't ask her to walk home. He puts her on his shoulders. And he comes home rejoicing. Scholar Joel B. Green writes that this parable is fundamentally about God — its entire aim is to reveal the nature of the divine response to the recovery of the lost. — Psalm 23: The Shepherd does not promise to remove the valley. He promises to be present in it. And the table He prepares in verse five connects directly back to last week's episode on the Bridegroom — pointing to John 14:2–3 and the home He is going to prepare. — The grammar shift in Psalm 23:4: In the valley, theology becomes prayer. David stops talking about God and starts talking to Him. Explanation gives way to presence. — Psalm 23:6: The Hebrew word for "follow" carries the sense of pursuit — goodness and mercy are not waiting for you at the end of the valley. They are coming after you in the middle of it. You are not being abandoned in this wilderness. You are being carried through it. SCRIPTURE REFERENCES — Ezekiel 34:4, 11, 16 — Luke 15:4–7 — Psalm 23 (full) — John 14:2–3 THEOLOGICAL SOURCES — Joel B. Green, The Gospel of Luke, New International Commentary on the New Testament (Eerdmans, 1997) — on Luke 15 as a revelation of the divine nature of God's response to the lost — Kenneth Bailey, The Good Shepherd: A Thousand-Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament (IVP Academic, 2014) — on the cultural significance of leaving the ninety-nine and the carrying of the lost sheep — Kenneth Bailey, Finding the Lost: Cultural Keys to Luke 15 (Concordia, 1992) — on the Middle Eastern shepherd context and the cost of pursuit Ready to go deeper? 🌱 Start here — free: Download Roots , a devotional guide for the woman being rebuilt. 🤍 Join the community: The Selah Community inside Storehouse Wellness — your place to be seen, known, and not alone. Your first 7-days are completely free. 📞 Private coaching: If you're ready to do the deep work one-on-one, apply for Selah Healing KEYWORDS divorced Christian women, God carries you scripture, Luke 15 lost sheep meaning, Ezekiel 34 meaning, Psalm 23 meaning, God as shepherd, faith after divorce, Christian healing after divorce, biblical identity women, God in the wilderness, valley of the shadow of death, beyond believing podcast, Katie Anne, identity after divorce, the greatest love story ever written, church after divorce, God finds you HASHTAGS #BeyondBelieving #GreatestLoveStory #GodCarriesYou #WhoHeIsToHer #ChristianDivorce #FaithAfterDivorce #DivorcedChristianWomen #Luke15 #Ezekiel34 #Psalm23 #BiblicalIdentity #HealingAfterDivorce #ChristianPodcast #TheShepherd #IdentityInChrist #YouAreBeingCarried
Transcribe →E:97: How God Pursues Divorced Women in The Bible
Jun 1200:20:52Tap to summarizeFor the woman ready to find out what God says about who she is to Him. Grab your free 7-day devotional, Roots Here is the question underneath everything you have done since your divorce — the chasing, the closing off, the staying busy, the staying numb: Am I truly desired? This episode answers that question. From Scripture. With no conditions attached. Most women navigating life after divorce are carrying a version of the same wound: the fear that they were not truly wanted. That if he had really desired them, he would have stayed. That desire — real, pursuing, unconditional desire — is something that belongs to other women. Not her. This episode is not a comfort. It is a correction. In this episode of The Greatest Love Story Ever Written series, we go deep into one of the most overlooked theological truths in all of Scripture: God does not wait for you to come back to Him. He pursues you. Actively. Personally. Relentlessly. And in Hosea 2, He does something that should stop every divorced woman in her tracks — He writes the full covenant over an unfaithful bride and pays both sides of it Himself. What we cover: — Hosea 2:14–20: God leads His people back into the wilderness — not as punishment, but as the place where He can speak tenderly to her again. The wilderness is not abandonment. It is the destination of pursuit. — Song of Solomon 2:10–13: "Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away." This is not poetry about a human relationship. This is the language God uses to call her out of the season she has been hiding in. — The Hebrew ketubah and mohar: In ancient Hebrew marriage covenant, the groom paid the bride price and the bride's family confirmed the covenant. At the cross, God paid both sides — fulfilling both the Bridegroom and the Bride obligations. He wrote the full covenant over an impure bride and honored it completely. — The golden calf parallel (Exodus 32:4–5): The danger of sincere but misaligned worship — using the same name for God but not talking to the same Person. The single question this episode answers: Am I truly desired? The answer is yes. And Scripture says He has been proving it since before you knew to ask. SCRIPTURE REFERENCES — Hosea 2:14–20 — Song of Solomon 2:10–13 — Exodus 32:4–5 — Isaiah 54:5 — Isaiah 62:5 — Revelation 3:20 THEOLOGICAL SOURCES — Raymond Ortlund Jr., God's Unfaithful Wife: A Biblical Theology of Spiritual Adultery (IVP Academic) — on God as the pursuing Bridegroom and covenant faithfulness over an unfaithful bride — Douglas Stuart, Word Biblical Commentary on Hosea — on Hosea 2:14 and the wilderness as the place of tender pursuit — Kenneth Bailey, The Good Shepherd (IVP Academic, 2014) — on the pursuing nature of God across Old and New Testament Ready to go deeper? 🌱 Start here — free: Download Roots, a devotional guide for the woman being rebuilt. 🤍 Join the community: The Selah Community inside Storehouse Wellness — your place to be seen, known, and not alone. Your first 7-days are completely free. 📞 Private coaching: If you're ready to do the deep work one-on-one, apply for Selah Healing. Next episode: E:98 — Am I worth coming after? God answers through a role He claimed for Himself that most women have never connected to their own story. Subscribe so you don't miss it.. ivorced Christian women | healing after divorce | faith after divorce | Christian podcast for women | God's love after divorce | Hosea 2 | biblical identity | divorce and faith | Christian women podcast | Beyond Believing podcast #BeyondBelieving #DivorceAndFaith #ChristianPodcast #HealingAfterDivorce #DivorceRecovery #ChristianWomen #FaithAfterDivorce #BiblicalIdentity #Hosea2 #GreatestLoveStory #GodsPursuit #ChristianDivorce #ScriptureForWomen #PodcastForChristianWomen #IdentityInChrist #DivorceHealing #WomenOfFaith #BibleStudyForWomen #GodsLove #NewBeginnings
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