E:98: How God Carries Divorced Women in Scripture

E:100: How God Protects Divorced Women (What the Church Never Told You)

If you ever believed that God protects us by standing between us and whatever's coming — a wall, a barrier, something in front of us like I did, I found that's not the only posture Scripture describes. Deuteronomy 33:27 says underneath are the everlasting arms. Not just in front. Not just behind. Underneath. And once you understand why God would position Himself there, you'll never read that verse — or your own story — the same way again. In this episode, Katie Anne walks through the full canonical picture of God's protective identity: Exodus 19:4 and the eagle's wings that carried Israel to God Himself, not just away from danger. Deuteronomy 32:10–12 and the verb-by-verb picture of how God found, encircled, and carried His people. Psalm 91 and the protection rooted in His faithfulness, not your vigilance. And Deuteronomy 33:26–27 — the everlasting arms that were underneath you before you ever knew you needed them. She also takes on one of the most quoted passages in Scripture about divorce — Jesus' teaching in Matthew 19. What if it was never a verdict against divorced women, but Jesus stepping into a specific first-century legal dispute to protect her? This is episode 100 — and every identity this series has shown you (Warrior, Shepherd, Pursuer, Cherished, Seen, Known) was pointing here. READY TO GO DEEPER? 🌱  Start here: I built something for you. It's called Roots — a 7-day devotional for the woman who doesn't quite know who to trust right now, and is ready to find out how God is hers to lean on. Download it at coachkatieanne.com/roots [http://coachkatieanne.com/roots] 🤍  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 free, just $35/month.  📞  Private coaching: Ready to do the deep work, one-on-one? This is the work we do inside Selah Healing [http://coachkatieanne.com/call]. Apply at coachkatieanne.com/call.   divorced christian women, God's protection bible, Deuteronomy 33:27, everlasting arms meaning, faith after divorce, christian divorce recovery, bible study for divorced women, Matthew 19 divorce explained, biblical protection of women, God as protector, single christian woman over 40, healing after divorce christian, Psalm 91 protection, Exodus 19:4 eagles wings, christian podcast for women, identity in Christ after divorce #BeyondBelievingPodcast #ChristianDivorceRecovery #DivorcedChristianWoman #FaithAfterDivorce #GodsProtection #DeuteronomyStudy #EverlastingArms #ChristianWomenOver40 #BiblicalHealing #ChristianPodcast

E:99: What God Says to Divorced Women About Being Loved

There is something I want you to know before you press play. At the end of this episode, there is an invitation. Not an assignment. Not a challenge. An invitation — to sit with a question that I believe has the potential to change everything about the way you see yourself, the way you receive love, and the way you relate to God. You don't have to be ready for it. You just have to stay until the end. Here is what this episode is about: Most women who have been through divorce believe God loves them. What most of us have never fully received — not in the quiet, not where it counts — is that God delights in us. That there is a difference between being loved out of obligation and being cherished out of desire. In this episode, I am going to take you from the very first page of Scripture to the very last — and show you that God has been moving toward you across every single page. Not away. Toward. We are going to look at two parables in Matthew 13 that most of us have heard our whole lives — and what I found when I read them again stopped me completely. Because what Jesus is describing in those parables is not just a transaction. It is a declaration. About your worth. About what God was willing to pay. About why nothing and no one has any legal claim to your value anymore. We are also going to look at a Hebrew word in Isaiah 65 — hineni (hee-neh-NEE) — that God says twice, to people who weren't even looking for Him. And what that word means in the original language is not just 'I am here.' It is: you have my full attention. I am completely available to you. I am all in. God said that. To people who weren't looking. God is saying it to you right now. By the end of this episode, I want you to have something you may have never fully had before — not the idea that you are loved, but the settled, specific, unshakeable knowing that you are cherished. That the God of the universe looked at your field — the broken, buried, complicated, messy field of your life — and said: I want her. All of her. And I am buying the whole thing. That is what this episode is about. Stay until the end. The invitation is waiting for you there. SCRIPTURE REFERENCES Matthew 13:44  |  Matthew 13:45-46  |  Proverbs 31:10  |  Isaiah 65:1  |  Zephaniah 3:17  |  Revelation 21:3-4  |  James 1:17  |  Hebrews 12:2  |  Matthew 27:51 RESOURCES MENTIONED: ESV Women's Study Bible [https://a.co/d/0bMzvy5c] Roots Devotional [http://coachkatieanne.com/roots] — free download. Seven days deepening what God has already planted Selah Community [http://coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co] — 7-day free trial, just $35/month after: coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co The Bible in One Year [https://a.co/d/0iZdJNGj] — Nicky Gumble (Day 49) Expositor's Bible Commentary, Vol. 8, Matthew [https://a.co/d/0elyelDR] — D.A. Carson (Zondervan, 1984)   WAYS TO WORK WITH KATIE ANNE 📖 Start here — Roots Devotional (free): coachkatieanne.com/roots [http://coachkatieanne.com/roots] 🌿 Go deeper — Selah Community (Your first 7 days are free, just $35/month after that): coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co [http://coachkatieanne.storehousewellness.co] 💛 Private coaching — coachkatieanne.com/cal [https://www.coachkatieanne.com/call]l NEXT EPISODE: Episode 100 is coming. And I want to tell you about a mother owl I watched fly underneath her baby to keep her from falling — and what it taught me about Deuteronomy 33. Subscribe so you don't miss it. God's love for divorced women | being cherished by God | what God says about love after divorce | healing after divorce Christian | divorced Christian women podcast | hidden treasure parable meaning | God delights in you scripture | Zephaniah 3:17 meaning | hineni meaning Hebrew | how to feel God's love | God's love is unconditional | Christian healing after heartbreak | identity in Christ after divorce | what does God think of me | divorced woman worth | beyond believing podcast #DivorceHealing #ChristianWomen #BeyondBelieving #GodLovesYou #DivorcedChristianWomen #HeIdentityInChrist #Zephaniah317 #HiddenTreasureParable #Hineni #PostDivorceHealing #FaithAfterDivorce #ChristianPodcast #GodDelightsInYou #YouAreCherished #CoachKatieAnne

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