E:91: After My Divorce, God Showed Me How I Was Harming My Children

E:97: How God Pursues Divorced Women in The Bible

Have you ever wondered what God actually says about pursuing a woman after divorce? In this episode of Beyond Believing, Katie Anne opens Hosea 2, Exodus 32, Song of Solomon 2, and Ephesians 5 to answer the question that lives underneath everything a divorced Christian woman feels: Am I truly desired? This is not a general encouragement episode. This is a verse-by-verse look at the role God specifically claimed for Himself in Scripture — the Bridegroom — and what that means for the woman who built her life in His name and watched it fall apart anyway. You'll learn: — Why Aaron's golden calf in Exodus 32 is more relevant to your story than you think — What the Hebrew word pathah (allure) in Hosea 2:14 actually means — and why it changes everything about how you understand the season you're in — What the ancient Jewish marriage covenant (the ketubah) reveals about what God paid for you at the cross — Why the wilderness you're in right now is not punishment — it's pursuit If you have ever felt like you were too broken, too complicated, or too far gone to be truly desired — this episode is for you. Scriptures referenced: Proverbs 20:25 | Exodus 32:4-5 | Hosea 2:14-20 | Ephesians 5:25-27 | Song of Solomon 2:10-13 Timestamps: 0:00 — Cold open 1:15 — Katie Anne's personal story: calling Him by the right name but not knowing who she was talking to 6:30 — The Bridegroom: Hosea 2 and the wilderness 10:00 — Hosea 2:16-17: God removes the false names permanently 13:00 — The ketubah: He pays both sides of the covenant 15:30 — Song of Solomon 2: He calls you beautiful in the winter 16:30 — Application: What the wilderness is actually for 22:00 — Selah community CTA Ready to go deeper? 🌱 Start here — free: Download Roots [http://coachkatieanne.com/roots], a devotional guide for the woman being rebuilt.  🤍 Join the community: The Selah Community [http://coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co] 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 [https://www.coachkatieanne.com/call].  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

E:96: What God Knew About You Before Your Marriage Ended

Free Devotional: For the woman who doesn't know who to trust right now — and is ready to find out how God is hers to lean on. Grab it here [http://coachkatieanne.com/roots]   Here is what divorce does that no one prepares you for. It doesn't just end a marriage. It leaves a woman asking the one question she has never been able to answer: was I ever truly known by anyone at all?   This episode answers that question. From Scripture. Before you were born.   Most women who have walked through divorce carry a version of the same wound underneath everything else: the fear that they were never truly known. That if he had really seen them — all of them — he would have stayed.   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 three women in Scripture — Hannah, Ruth, and Mary — and trace a single pattern God repeats across every one of their stories: He knew them before they understood what was happening. He covered them before they asked. He named their identity before they had done a single thing to earn it.   And He has been doing the same thing with you.   What we cover: — Hannah (1 Samuel 1): She prayed so desperately she couldn't speak out loud. The priest thought she was drunk. But God already knew her prayer before she formed it — and what Hannah received before she conceived anything was not the child. It was the peace of God. Before the answer. Before the evidence. Before anything changed.   — Ruth (Ruth 1–3): A Moabite widow who chose a God she was still learning to know. She leaned into her guide and walked faithfully toward a redeemer she didn't know was waiting. When Boaz covered her with his garment, it was a picture directly from Ezekiel 16:8 — "I spread the corner of my garment over you... and you became mine." The covering came before the formal redemption was complete.   — Mary (Luke 1:28): The angel's first word to her was kecharitomene — a Greek perfect passive participle meaning she had already been, and continued to be, completely transformed by grace. Before she agreed. Before she understood. Before she said yes. "The Lord is with you" — present tense. Already there.   And then we go to the theological anchor: Psalm 139, Jeremiah 1:5, and what the mother-child relationship reveals about how intimately God knows the women He created.   The question I want to leave you with: not whether you are known — you are, and you always have been — but whether you have truly met the One who has always known you. Ready to go deeper? 🌱 Start here — free: Download Roots [http://coachkatieanne.com/roots], a devotional guide for the woman being rebuilt.  🤍 Join the community: The Selah Community [http://coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co] 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 [https://www.coachkatieanne.com/call].  SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: — 1 Samuel 1:10–11, 1:18 — Proverbs 16:9 — Philippians 4:7 — Ruth 1:16, 2:11–12 — Ezekiel 16:8 — Luke 1:28–38 — Zephaniah 3:17 — Psalm 139:13–16 — Jeremiah 1:5 — Isaiah 44:2 — Matthew 7:11   THEOLOGICAL SOURCES for this episode:  — D.A. Carson, The Gospel According to John, Pillar New Testament Commentary (Eerdmans, 1991) — on kecharitomene and the Greek perfect passive participle in Luke 1:28 — Raymond C. Ortlund Jr., God's Unfaithful Wife: A Biblical Theology of Spiritual Adultery (IVP, 2003) — on covenant covering language in Ezekiel 16 — Charles Spurgeon, Treasury of David — on Psalm 139 — Voddie Baucham — on identity in Christ and the sufficiency of Scripture — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, Book 1 — "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you." — Blaise Pascal, Pensées — on the God-shaped vacuum in every human heart Work With Me: — Free Roots Devotional: coachkatieanne.com/roots — Apply for Coaching: coachkatieanne.com/call   divorced Christian women, God knows you completely, known by God scripture, Hannah in the Bible, Ruth and Boaz meaning, Mary favored one Greek meaning, kecharitomene meaning, Psalm 139 meaning, Jeremiah 1 5, faith after divorce, identity after divorce, Christian healing after divorce, biblical identity women, God knew me before I was born, Beyond Believing podcast, Katie Anne   #BeyondBelieving #GreatestLoveStory #KnownByGod #WhoSheIsToHim #ChristianDivorce #FaithAfterDivorce #DivorcedChristianWomen #BiblicalIdentity #Psalm139 #Hannah #Ruth #Mary #kecharitomene #HealingAfterDivorce #ChristianPodcast #GodKnewYou #IdentityInChrist

E:95: I Believed I Wasn't Worth Fighting For. God Showed Me I Was Wrong.

You didn't decide to stop believing you were worth fighting for. You were taught to stop. And this episode is the beginning of that unlearning. E:95 of The Greatest Love Story Ever Written  ·  Who God Is to You  ·  WARRIOR Most of us grew up with the image. A knight in shining armor. The one who comes riding to your rescue, sweeps in, makes everything right. And somewhere along the way, you did one of two things: you spent years chasing that image — or you decided you weren't worth it arriving.   But what if the image wasn't wrong? What if it was just pointed at the wrong subject?   In this episode, Katie Anne walks through Deuteronomy 33:26–27 — the final blessing Moses speaks over God's people before his death — and unpacks what centuries of biblical scholars have called one of the richest theological portraits of God in all of scripture. Spurgeon called it 'a short passage found in the midst of a mass of gold.' You'll discover: * What the Hebrew word ezer actually means — and why God chose it to describe Himself * Why the word ezer appears for the very first time in Deuteronomy 33:26 — the passage you're about to study * What the three-part portrait (Above, Around, Beneath) reveals about how God positions Himself toward you * What Revelation 3:20 tells you about the difference between God's warrior and the world's counterfeit version * What a man with God written on his heart looks like in real life — and how you'll recognize him * What Spurgeon, Ortlund, and Tozer each say about the posture God has always held toward you This is not an episode about being rescued. This is an episode about realizing you already are. This episode is for you if… * You've spent more of your life giving than receiving — and you've started to wonder if that was really strength or just protection * When someone offers to help you, cover you, or protect you, it makes you uncomfortable — and you don't fully understand why * You believe in God's love in theory but have a hard time believing it applies to you specifically * You grew up with the image of a knight in shining armor and somewhere along the way either chased it or gave up on it entirely * The idea of surrender feels like weakness — and Tozer's 'yield and trust' has never quite landed the way you needed it to * You want to know what a Godly man actually looks like so you'll recognize him when he shows up — and so you stop accepting the counterfeit Ready to go deeper? 🌱 Start here — free: Download Roots [http://coachkatieanne.com/roots], a devotional guide for the woman being rebuilt.  🤍 Join the community: The Selah Community [http://coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co] 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 [https://www.coachkatieanne.com/call].    Scripture References * Deuteronomy 33:26–27  —  primary anchor  ·  Moses' final blessing over Israel * Psalm 18:10  ·  Psalm 68:4  ·  Psalm 68:17  ·  Psalm 104:3  —  God riding through the heavens * Genesis 2:18  —  ezer used for Eve; the same word God uses for Himself * Ephesians 5:25  —  a husband washes his wife with the water of the Word * Revelation 3:20  —  He stands at the door and knocks     Referenced Teachers & Theologians * Charles Spurgeon  —  Sermon on Deuteronomy 33:27 (1887) * Dane Ortlund  —  Gentle and Lowly * A.W. Tozer  —  The Pursuit of God * Ezer  —  Hebrew word study: to rescue / to be strong     Connect + Continue If this episode stirred something in you — if you're ready to stop blocking what God has already promised — the next step is a conversation. Apply at coachkatieanne.com/call.   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 life coach 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. Subscribe so you don't miss what's coming next. CHAPTER MARKERS  ·  Podbean + Apple [ Add these to Podbean episode settings. They appear as a visual timeline inside the Apple player, allowing her to navigate and return to specific sections. Adjust timestamps to your final edited audio. ]   0:00  —  The lie we were handed — cold open 0:38  —  Welcome to Beyond Believing, episode 95 1:00  —  The survival response — when he went cold, you learned to go cold 3:00  —  The lie carried in — choosing steady over strong 5:30  —  The image we were given — and where it actually points 7:00  —  The question that surfaced it — the coaching moment 8:30  —  How I came to Deuteronomy 33 — proclamation 9:00  —  Deuteronomy 33:26–27 — read in full 10:00  —  Three pictures — Above, Around, Beneath 11:30  —  Ezer — the word hidden in plain sight 13:00  —  Spurgeon — the everlasting arms 14:30  —  Ortlund — the posture most natural to Him 16:00  —  But here's what I most want you to hear — re-hook 16:30  —  Tozer — yield and trust 17:30  —  Revelation 3:20 — what God's warrior actually looks like 20:00  —  What a Godly man looks like in real life 21:30  —  The night the door opened — testimony 23:00  —  Who you are — identity declaration 24:30  —  The work — coaching CTA 25:00  —  Next week: Seen — who you are to Him   faith after divorce Christian women healing God's protection and covering Deuteronomy 33 everlasting arms ezer Hebrew meaning Godly man what to look for surrender and trust God divorced Christian women podcast identity after divorce Spurgeon everlasting arms Tozer yield and trust Revelation 3:20 He stands at the door Beyond Believing podcast Katie Anne Greene coach greatest love story God Hashtags #BeyondBelieving #ChristianDivorce #FaithAfterDivorce #GodlyWoman #Deuteronomy33 #EverlastingArms #Ezer #HebrewWordStudy #GodWarrior #SurrenderToGod #TozerDevotional #ChristianHealing #DivorceRecovery #IdentityInChrist #GreatestLoveStory #ChristianPodcast #WomenOfFaith #BiblicalCounseling #CoachKatieAnne

E:94:What God Says to Divorced Women in Scripture

Learn to hear God’s voice over every other voice that has tried to define you. Get your Free 7-Day Devotional to help you: roots.coachkatieanne.com   She came to the well at noon because she had learned to avoid the eyes of her community. She had been left five times. She was surviving, not living. And God arranged to be there, waiting, when she arrived.   This episode is about what Jesus actually said to the woman at the well — and why it belongs to you. Most people have heard the story of the woman at the well. Very few have been shown what is actually happening in it.   In this episode of The Greatest Love Story Ever Written series, we go deep into one of the most theologically significant scenes in the New Testament — and I want to show you why conservative biblical scholars identify this passage not just as a moment of healing or evangelism, but as a betrothal. A covenant offer. Extended by the Bridegroom himself. To a woman the world had already written off.   We trace the full arc: * John 1: Before anything else, John establishes who Jesus is — not a teacher, not a prophet. God himself, in the flesh. * John 2: The first scene of Jesus’s ministry is a wedding. This is not incidental. The Bridegroom has arrived. * John 3:29: John the Baptist names Jesus explicitly as the Bridegroom — one chapter before the well. * Hagar in Genesis 16 & 21: The first person in Scripture to name God was a slave woman in the wilderness, met by God at a spring of water. Twice. The pattern begins here. * John 4: Jacob’s Well at Sychar. Divine necessity (dei) brings Jesus there at noon. She has had five husbands — five men who left. The man she is with now is the sixth. Jesus is the seventh. In Hebrew numerology, seven is the number of divine completion. He is not her next disappointment. He is the completion she has been counting toward. * Isaiah 54:5 & 62:5: Your Maker is your husband. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you. * Ortlund on the wedding: “Not a remote eschatological event — a vividly personal experience beckoning those who have been invited.” She left her jar at the well. She walked back into the community she had been hiding from and told them everything. She became the first evangelist of the New Testament — sent not to strangers, but to the people who knew her history better than anyone. That is what happens when the Bridegroom meets you at your well. The invitation is the same for you. Today. Ready to go deeper? 🌱 Start here — free: Download Roots [http://coachkatieanne.com/roots], a devotional guide for the woman being rebuilt.  🤍 Join the community: The Selah Community [http://coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co] 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 [https://www.coachkatieanne.com/call].  SCRIPTURE REFERENCES * John 1:1, 1:14 * John 2:1–11 * John 3:29 * Genesis 16:7–14 (Hagar / El Roi / Beer Lahai Roi) * Genesis 21:14–19 * John 4:1–42 * Isaiah 54:5 * Isaiah 62:5 * Exodus 3:14 (I AM WHO I AM) THEOLOGICAL SOURCES * D.A. Carson, The Gospel According to John, Pillar New Testament Commentary (Eerdmans, 1991) * Raymond C. Ortlund Jr., God’s Unfaithful Wife: A Biblical Theology of Spiritual Adultery (IVP, 2003) * Caryn Reeder, The Samaritan Woman’s Story: Reconsidering John 4 after #ChurchToo (IVP Academic, 2022) * Sandra Schneiders, Written That You May Believe (Crossroad, 1999) * Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative (Basic Books, 1981)   divorced Christian women, God loves divorced women, woman at the well meaning, John 4 Samaritan woman, God is my husband scripture, Isaiah 54 5, biblical identity after divorce, faith after divorce, Christian healing after divorce, Hagar in the Bible, beer lahai roi, greatest love story Bible, Beyond Believing podcast, Katie Anne   #BeyondBelieving #GreatestLoveStory #WomanAtTheWell #ChristianDivorce #GodIsMyHusband #Isaiah54 #John4 #FaithAfterDivorce #DivorcedChristianWomen #BiblicalIdentity #ChristianPodcast #HealingAfterDivorce #SeenByGod #Hagar #ElRoi

The Greatest Love Story Ever Written

The love you have been waiting for isn’t missing — it has been written over you on every page of your Bible. In the series launch of The Greatest Love Story Ever Written, Katie Anne reads a letter written specifically for you, then takes you back to the coffee shop moment that cracked the entire Bible open and changed everything for her. Featuring Psalm 141:10, Psalm 23:5, Romans 8:38–39, John 10:28–29, and Isaiah 61:1–3. Ready to go deeper? 🌱 Start here — free: Download Roots [http://coachkatieanne.com/roots], a devotional guide for the woman being rebuilt.  🤍 Join the community: The Selah Community [http://coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co] 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 [https://www.coachkatieanne.com/call].    IF THIS EPISODE FOUND YOU AT THE RIGHT TIME: The Roots Devotional is a free guide that helps you identify where you’ve been building your identity, worth, and belief — and begin rooting them in God instead. It’s the natural next step from what you heard today. Download it at coachkatieanne.com/roots [http://coachkatieanne.com/roots]   ABOUT BEYOND BELIEVING: Beyond Believing is a podcast for divorced Christian women who are done surviving and ready to rebuild. Hosted by Certified Life Coach and faith-based coach Katie Anne Greene, each episode combines biblical depth, personal confession, and practical coaching to help you discover who God says you are — and begin living like it.   SUBSCRIBE + LEAVE A REVIEW: If this episode spoke to you, the most meaningful thing you can do is share it with one woman who needs to hear it. And if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts, a review helps more women find this show. divorced Christian women, Christian podcast for women, faith after divorce, healing after divorce, God’s love after divorce, Christian life coach, divorce recovery, biblical identity, Romans 8 38 39, Isaiah 61, greatest love story, beyond believing podcast, Katie Anne Greene, Christian women podcast, loneliness after divorce, God sees me, love letter from God, divorced mom faith, rebuilding after divorce, Christian coaching #BeyondBelieving #GreatestLoveStory #DivorceRecovery #ChristianWomen #FaithAfterDivorce #DivorcedChristianWomen #HealingAfterDivorce #GodsLove #BiblicalIdentity #ChristianPodcast #FaithBasedCoaching #KatieAnneGreene #IslandOf61 #Romans8 #Isaiah61 #ChristianMom #DivorcedMom #GodSeesYou #LoveLetter #RootsDevotional