About this episode

Donna K Woolam discusses the struggle of believing lies about God and ourselves, emphasizing the importance of receiving God's love and mercy.

"Satan has come not to just make our life hard but actually to take our lives and offer them on his own altar of sacrifice... he does that any time that we deny the truth of who God is." An episode of "The Pursuit of God" series on the ReNew Your Mind podcast, based on Donna K. Woolam's book His Hostage Heart | Encountering the Unrelenting Love of God . ------------------------In this episode, Donna addresses the universal struggle of "believing the lie"—the subtle, slithering questions introduced by the enemy that cause us to doubt God’s goodness and our own worthiness. Drawing from her own horrified reaction to a misunderstood passage in Hebrews and the foundational narrative of the Garden of Eden, Donna illustrates how guilt and shame drive us into hiding. The core transformation offered here is the move from self-covering (fig leaves of our own effort) to receiving the divine covering of God’s love and the blood of Christ. Listeners are called to stop hiding in the broken threads of their past and instead run toward the Father, who is already pursuing them with unrelenting mercy. I remember being a young mom, standing on my bedroom floor and…

People in this episode

Host: Donna K Woolam

Topics covered

• shame
• self-worth
• God's love
• spiritual struggle
• forgiveness
• healing

Keywords

• shame
• self-worth
• God's love
• forgiveness
• healing
• spiritual struggle
• Garden of Eden

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: His Hostage Heart | Encountering the Unrelenting Love of God, The Pursuit of God, Hebrews

Places: Garden of Eden

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