Ashamed 2 Affirmed: Healing from Abuse Part 1

How do you deal with the uncertainty and unsettledness of knowing someone you love is lost at sea and you don’t know what the outcome will be? How do you keep going in the waiting for answers? Ann Marie talks about the loss of her brother in 2025 in a boating accident and where she sees God moving in the face of  grief.

With eyes open to the needs of others plus a massive heart, Kate tells us how God led her to set up a social enterprise to develop skills and confidence in teenagers and young women. We hear how following His voice has brought her through many challenges and how He has been faithful to use even her ADHD as a tool to connect with and encourage other people.

In this second episode with Jenny Hewett, author of “AUnited Heart: Coming Home to God and Myself After Satanic Ritual Abuse” we unpick subjects like how you forgive people who have so seriously harmed you and why there are times when God feels distant as well as hearing more of her process of knowing her true identity in God.Jenny’s book is available on Amazon.

Today’s guest, Jenny Hewett, author of “A United Heart:Coming Home to God and Myself After Satanic Ritual Abuse” shares some of her shocking childhood experiences and how she is healing from the damage done to her. Among other things, she talks about the intense sense of shame thathaunted her for most of her life and how encounters with Jesus have brought her deep healing and joy.Jenny’s book is available on Amazon.

Have you ever got into a mess and not known how to getthrough? In this episode Ike describes how God rebuilt him after his work burnout.  We also discuss practical issues like why we need to go to church at all, how we handle annoying people there and how to keep your fire burning for Him. If you want to give your life to God you can say a prayer like this:Jesus, I believe you are the Son of God, thatyou died on the cross to rescue me from sin and death and to restore me to the Father. I choose now to turn from my sins, my self-centeredness, and every part of my life that does not please you. I choose you. I give myself to you. I receive your forgiveness and ask you to take your rightful place in my life asmy Saviour and Lord. Come reign in my heart, fill me with your love and your life. Live in me. Thank you, God.

Ever had God deconstruct your thinking about him? That’swhat happened to Jonathan in what he describes as his second conversion. He discovered that so much of what he thought was true just didn’t match up with who his Heavenly Father really is. He tells his story of how he learned to comein honesty to God and where that revelation took him.

What happens when we take time to be still with God? Ro andElaine talk about recent conversations and encounters with Him and how we love Him and ourselves more when we’ve sat with Him.Reserve your place now at our first Void 2 Valueconference, “Out of the Pit”, on 27th June 2026 on the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/out-of-the-pit-meeting-jesus-in-our-mess-tickets-1982616360906

We long for quick solutions to our problems but sometimesthe battle lasts a long time, so how do we hang onto faith and not dive into fear? Amanda talks about experiences and tells us some of the Bible verses that she's been standing on and how she keeps her mind on God while she waits for His healing.Rom 4.17 “…God who gives life to the dead and calls intobeing things that were not.”

Changing churches can be messy and navigating your way through this can be tricky. So how do we do it well? In this episode Elaine and special guest Sarah talk about the decisions, the emotions and the lessons learned throughtheir experiences.

Really the title of this episode says it all. From a background of abuse, gangs and self-destruction to finding God in the middle of it all, this is Amanda's remarkable story. This testimony reminds us that there's absolutely no one that God can't reach and He might not use the people you expect to lead others into a relationship with Him.