Welcome to episode 081 of Mud Stories!
Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone.
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This past week I was honored to be a guest on the Undone Redone podcast with my friends, Tray and Melody Lovvorn, in a two-part episode sharing my own mud story in detail. The first half is in episode 77, and the second half is in episode 78, and it is there, where I share some never-before-told information about forgiveness from my own personal experience. I’d love to have you join us over there!
For today’s episode, it’s just you and me, talking all about the challenge it is to forgive ourselves–which was a decade long process for me. Often we are able to accept God’s forgiveness, but offering forgiveness to our own hearts–amidst our sadness, shame, and guilt–is much harder.
In this episode we’ll discuss:
- The problem of forgiving ourselves
- How to cherish God’s forgiveness
- How to change our old patterns
- Encouragement from the lives of Peter and the apostle Paul
- Turning from what is behind and looking toward what is ahead
- How to choose joy and gratitude
- The importance of writing things down
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SCRIPTURE:
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses. Colossians 2:13 (ESV)“I, I am he
Isaiah 43:25 (ESV)
who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,
and I will not remember your sins.”But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.
Philippians 3:13b-14 (ESV)
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Philippians 2:13 (ESV)The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
Lamentations 3:22-23 (ESV)
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
LINKS:
- Tray & Melody Lovvorn on Mud Stories Part 1, Episode 63, Porn, Addiction, Betrayal & the Destructive Paradigm of Performing and Pretending
- Tray & Melody Lovvorn on Mud Stories Part 2, Episode 64, Divorce, Grace, Remarriage & Redemption
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