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

E:98: How God Carries Divorced Women in Scripture

Beyond 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 [http://coachkatieanne.com/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 [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]  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

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

For the woman ready to find out what God says about who she is to Him. Grab your free 7-day devotional, Roots [http://coachkatieanne.com/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 [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