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Becoming Whole
Relationships and sexuality are areas of life that can be beautiful or confusing, life-giving, or painful. Becoming Whole is a conversational podcast for men, women, and families seeking to draw nearer to Jesus as they navigate topics like sexual integrity, relational healing, spiritual health, and so much more.
Becoming Whole
Beyond Same-Sex Attraction: Finding Wholeness in Christ
What does it mean to be truly yourself while following Jesus? Kyle Bowman's transformative journey from embracing a same-sex lifestyle for eleven years to discovering her authentic identity in Christ challenges our assumptions about sexuality, spirituality, and personal transformation.
Kyle's story begins with a seemingly typical childhood where performance became her pathway to connection. As she discovered her attraction to women, she fully embraced that identity until emotional turmoil and emptiness led her to reconsider the faith of her youth. The turning point came through an unexpected friendship with a Christian who demonstrated Christ's love without judgment or condemnation.
Whether you're wrestling with same-sex attraction, pornography, or any struggle that feels deeply embedded in your identity, Kyle's testimony offers hope without empty promises. Her message is revolutionary: God isn't trying to strip you down to nothing—He wants everything that doesn't belong to fall away so your authentic self can emerge. Join us for this powerful conversation that might just change how you view your own journey toward wholeness.
Free Resources to help you on your journey to Becoming Whole
👉Men's Overcoming Lust & Temptation Devotional
👉Women 21-Day Prayer Journal & Devotional - (Women overcoming unwanted sexual Behavior)
👉Compass 21-Day Prayer Journal & Devotional - (Wives who are or have been impacted by partner betrayal)
Welcome everyone to Becoming Whole. I'm James, one of the spiritual coaches and the director of projects here at Regen, and I'm joined by our coaching director, my wonderful supervisor and friend, kyle Bowman. Kyle, thanks for being on our show today.
Speaker 2:Always glad to be with you, James.
Speaker 1:So, friends, today we're going to get to hear some of Kyle's story what it's looked like to walk through her journey, and how her experiences of overcoming and walking through her journey of same-sex attraction impact the way she ministers to others. And so, whether or not you have particular USB same-sex attraction, or even if you listen to this podcast because you've experienced betrayal or you're a parent trying to figure out how to parent your kids, there's going to be some really deep insights from Kyle today on how to ultimately grow closer to Jesus, which is what we're all about here at Regen. So, kyle, whenever you're ready, could you just share your story with us and how you got to this place you're in today?
Speaker 2:Yeah, sure. So I grew up in what I would call a typical home. You know my parents were educators, you know typical kind of middle-class family in the DC area, and I was an only child. And so, you know, when you're an only child, it feels like relationships with parents are even more pronounced, right, because you're the only kid, they don't have to give their time to any other kid. And so, you know, had a very good bonding relationship with my dad.
Speaker 2:The relationship with my mother was very different. She was focused a lot on my performance and how well I did in school and how well I did in other activities, and there was that part of me that just wanted to experience just the nurture and the care and the emotional connection. And so for me, the way I got that attention was through performance. And so there came a point as I started to, you know, get a little older and mature and even started to develop sexually, you know I noticed that I had just this bigger draw toward women. And so you know, as a person growing up in the 70s, like I knew nothing about homosexuality and what that was, all I knew was that there was something I was experiencing, the feeling that wanted to connect so much more deeply with women and so Around.
Speaker 1:what age was this, Kyle, that you started to?
Speaker 2:I was probably around 11 or 12, I think, and so you know you start to kind of seek that out and I had really I had good female friendships growing up, like I had like a core group of girls that I hung out with. So I didn't feel, you know, like I was separate or apart. At least at that time I didn't, and so you know those were good. But then as I started to get older, closer toward like getting you know in high school and getting ready to leave high school you know in high school and getting ready to leave high school I came kind of to the knowledge about homosexuality and so, because a lot of this kind of started stirring when I was developing sexually, for me then there was sexual desire that got attached to it and romantic desire that got attached to that. And so once I found out what homosexuality was, I was like, oh, maybe that's me, because this is how I feel, and I feel like I would do better in a relationship with women than I would with men. And not that I had any sort of never had bad experiences, you know, overall with men. So there wasn't. I didn't have any abuse in my background, but there was just this deep longing for emotional connection and in my mind that also included some sort of romantic or sexual connection to that. And so there was a point at which I decided that and I actually was out of college by that time that I decided that this was a lifestyle I was going to pursue and I did that, and I did that for 11 years. That and I did that for 11 years. And in the middle of that, you know you, there are things that you feel like will really, um, satisfy you. They give you that, that deep satisfaction, like you know, the kind of satisfaction when you go, wow, everything is right with the world, kind of thing. And it wasn't that there was more emotional turmoil and too much emotional dependency. That just wasn't healthy. And so I started feeling that.
Speaker 2:And I grew up in a Christian home, so it's not like I didn't know anything about Christianity. I didn't know about what it meant to have a relationship with Jesus, but I could certainly tell you that Jesus died for my sins, you know, and that's probably about the extent of what I would share, be able to share. And so there came a point where I thought, well, maybe I need to go back and try this Christianity thing again because I'm just not satisfied in the stage of life that I'm in and the stage of life that I'm in. And so I had a really good friend who, unbeknownst to me at the time, she knew about my lifestyle and the way I was living, but she was a devoted Christian and she had been praying for me all along. She had been praying for me and she was a person who showed me the true character of Christ in that she, you know, she never judged me, she never spoke down to me. She always showed me what it's like to be loved by Jesus.
Speaker 1:Was that pretty typical for you, kyle, that sense of like God wouldn't be, or, you know, christians wouldn't be these judgmental people, but people who actually love? Or was that not quite what you saw?
Speaker 2:Well, I wasn't expecting, because I knew it was. I understood that it was against God's design.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So my expectation was you know, christian people are not gonna. So my expectation was you know, christian people are not going to, they're not going to go along with this. And I think too, in the time period it wasn't a time period where it is like today where everybody was willing to come out and share their sexuality it was still very much taboo. So my expectation wasn't to be, you know, embraced and loved and brought in Um, but she was a person who, who just chose to treat me differently. And so I came to her one day and I said you know what? I want to go to your church, because if everybody is like you at your church, I want to go there. And so I went.
Speaker 1:You hadn't been going to church, I'm guessing.
Speaker 2:I hadn't been going to church since I graduated from college is when I stopped going to church and I was in a more traditional. I grew up as an Episcopalian and so, you know, stopped doing that and then started going to her church and loved it, and the Lord just stirred a hunger and a desire to pursue Him and I just said, okay, I'm going to, you know, take all of this in. And that's exactly what I did. I just started taking in, understanding what is it? What does it really mean to be a Christian, beyond just knowing that Jesus died for your sins and understanding that way, like, what does it mean to to confess that you are a sinner? What does it mean that we needed a Savior? What does it mean to have the Holy Spirit indwell you and lead you through your life? And what does it mean to be a student of the Word of God?
Speaker 2:So I just started just taking in all of that word of God. So I just started just taking in all of that and I think you know so many people, james, ask me. They say, well, you know, kyle, what was it? What was the thing? Because I think a lot of people want to be able to go and say that to their friend or their son or their daughter and go. Well, this person did this and this is what changed their life. And for me, I did not focus on change. I focused on what it means to follow Christ, and one of the things that we used to say in our Path Through Wilderness program often is we're not pursuing healing, we're pursuing the healer. Wow, and I think that is the thing that just flipped everything on its head for me is that I don't have to pursue the change because that's going to be God's job. My job is to pursue Jesus.
Speaker 1:That's going to be God's job. My job is to pursue Jesus. Kyle, what on earth taught you this? I don't feel like most of us are taught this. How did you figure that out as an early 30-something going to this friend's church?
Speaker 2:I really think that it was just something. Once I was able to open my eyes, I think it was just something the Lord did in me. I don't think back then I could have articulated it that way. I can articulate it this way now, but I don't think I could have. Then I would have probably just said well, you know, I'm just going to church and I'm reading my Bible. I would have said, probably very casually, very cavalierly right, like you know, I'm just doing this, this is what I'm doing, and not really understanding that the Lord was in his sovereignty, in his mercy, in his grace for me, me was teaching me himself what it meant to pursue him.
Speaker 2:And you know I'm wired a certain way. You know the Lord knows I'm a learner, you know he loves, he knows I love to ingest all the information and do all the reading. And so he just ignited, you know he gave me this passion to go, just like you go, and you get all this information in these other places. You can dive into the word in the same way. And then that's what I did, and I went to all the Bible studies and did all the things and the Lord did the change in my heart, like I didn't have to sit around going oh God, please take this away. I don't think I ever prayed that prayer. I think it was always. You know, help me to be the person I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 2:And I think the other thing that gave me a lot of freedom was, you know, I always tell people like I'm not the girl that's going to be, you know, the girly girl, if you will, I'm not going to be the one that's trying to be all cute, made up and all this. And part of what I was thinking was, man, I'm going to have to change just all of who I am. And God gave me the freedom to know that, while there were some things outwardly that needed to be changed, they weren't so dramatic that they would take me out of who he created me to be, and that I could better reflect his son to me, to others, if I was just going to be who he created me to be. And so once I was able to settle into that comfort, then I was like, oh, oh, oh, okay, this is cool and great, like I can still, you know, be the girl in the jeans and the tennis shoes and the whatever, and not have to worry about trying to present some other persona that wasn't really me.
Speaker 1:You didn't feel like you had to fall into the stereotypes that were and are still present for many women and many men in our culture of what it means to be a woman or man.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, absolutely. For me, what I've discovered, what it means for me to be a woman, is to be the person that God has created me to be, so that I can reflect Jesus to the world, because if I try to be somebody else, they're not going to see Jesus, they're going to see fake. Kyle is what they're going to see.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness. I don't know if the listeners are feeling this, but I'm like. I want the faith that Kyle has and I often think this when we get to meet. But I'm also like man what a word to the church in the US and where we're located. We probably have some listeners around the world, but at least in our context like how many of us are convinced I've got to be the fake, acting like I have it all together, persona Christian thing that seems like everyone else is trying to do, and you're like God was just cutting through some of that mess in your life.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, absolutely, and it was like I said, it was the most freeing thing that I could have ever experienced, and I think that people, if you talk to people who know me, they will tell you that what they see is the authentic me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, One of the things that blocks joy you know, a sense of being glad to be together, this relational joy One of the things that blocks it is wearing a mask, and I think that's part of why, Kyle, you are one of the most joyful people I know. It's like God helped you take off some of those masks in your 30s and throughout your life so that you could be who you were made to be, Kyle, was there sort of like a moment of like I'm now surrendering my life to Jesus, a conversion, a born again kind of experience? Or was it just kind of like I started following Jesus and he just started to do what only he can do?
Speaker 2:No, I did have a specific conversion experience and it's pretty cool because it was, I don't know. People are probably familiar with the Gideon Bible and they used to have pocket New Testaments and in the back of them there was like the prayer you know Okay.
Speaker 1:And so.
Speaker 2:I prayed through that.
Speaker 1:So tee it up a little bit, like you're at your friend's church now, and then you come across the Skideon Bible or what was the context I got it.
Speaker 2:I can't even remember how I got this little pocket.
Speaker 1:I mean they put them in hotel rooms, but they usually put the full-size one right, so maybe that wasn't the topic.
Speaker 2:This was only a New Testament and it was small. It was probably like a six-point font. Oh my goodness, it was so super small. But in the back of it I had it and I remember just going through it and I would read different things in it and for some reason I flipped to the back of it, would read different things in it and for some reason I flipped to the back of it and in the back of it it just had a prayer to just to walk you through, you know, giving your life to Christ, and then it had a place for you to sign and date when you did it and that's what I did.
Speaker 1:Wow. But you're already in this context of like you were beginning to follow Jesus as like a disciple. You're like I want to learn from him, I'm going to this church, and then it sounds like a couple years into that, you kind of had this sort of definitive moment, like I've decided to follow Jesus, no turning back. Is that how it was?
Speaker 2:Well, it was a little closer. It was so like when I started going to my friend's church I had started reading scripture, and that's when I had started with that. So, we're talking maybe some months into that, not years into that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, that's incredible. What about? So? We got this time in your 30s where you're coming to this church. You know you're loved by your friend. You want more of what she's got. You know the people around her you're hoping in that church would be like that. What are some of the relationships like that God put in your life? Small group of people who loved you well, where there are some older women who were doing that like 11 am prayer on a Saturday or whatever they do and covering the whole world in prayer. What was some of the? Was there some relational elements to this for you?
Speaker 2:Yeah for sure, and there was a part of it that was difficult, because when you spend 11 years living a certain way, that means you're totally immersed into that way of life, and so now I'm being pulled 100% out of that, away from this large community that I was connected to very regularly and engaging with people all the time, and now stepping out of that and then having to create new community. And so the first couple of years were hard because it took a while to get the community. Of years were hard because it took a while to get the community. One was I just had to feel safe enough and my friend she was probably she and her husband were the people I felt the safest with. And then also I had a best friend who was also a believer, and so my connections were really small and so, but it was hard because I am, you know, I love to be around people, I love to connect with people, I love to sit down and have conversations and engage with people. And so the first, I would say probably two to three years were hard because it took me that long to feel comfortable enough in community and to feel like I could trust people in community.
Speaker 2:And so as I started going to small groups at my church, and then it was God. It was just so gracious to me. He gave me a couple of mentors. There was one gentleman I'll never forget him, his name is Elder Carter, and he just took to me for some reason and he was always speaking lives to me, he would talk with me about the scriptures and he would encourage me in my walk and you know, for whatever reason, he just kind of just gravitated to me and and mentored me and and even fathered me in a way and so and and that. As I got to connect with him and then I started connecting with the people in my small group and then I just you know, then the friendship and the community started growing as I started becoming more active in my church.
Speaker 1:It's really amazing because it sounds like he was really developing primarily an attachment with him through your friend. Your friend was the one kind of inviting you your one or two friends that you had tight-knit community with but he was really doing something just like you and him for a while, for a while, yes. That's hard. Yeah, that's really difficult.
Speaker 2:And there's a thing of then trying to. Is there a way for me to maintain certain friendships without me not honoring who I was becoming in Christ?
Speaker 1:Yeah, how did that work out for you? Did you end up maintaining any?
Speaker 2:There were one or two people who would stay in contact with me.
Speaker 1:From your previous community, yeah, from the previous community, a couple people.
Speaker 2:What is also just as beautiful is that there were several in the community who also gave their lives to Christ and had just so tremendous transformation.
Speaker 1:Did they also experience desires shifting and things like that? Yeah?
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow, they did, they did.
Speaker 1:That's a paradigm.
Speaker 1:If I'm listening in my 2025 millennial brain, as I imagine there's you know others listening when we're recording like that doesn't sound right, like to our ears, right Like wait. Desires toward the same sex, shifted. Like how do you think about that, kyle? Because I mean one of the things that I love, bob Reagan, who used to work with us he's retired. He would always say to me that and he experienced a very similar story to what you all have heard from Kyle. But he would tell me that when he's working with men, with SSA and I apply this to the work I do with and he would as well to men with opposite sex attraction or a mixture or whatever he would say the only orientation he's concerned with changing is your orientation toward Jesus, which is very similar to the heartbeat of what God did in your life, kyle, in that time.
Speaker 1:So in some sense at Regent we don't like assume what God may or may not do, but there's actually parallels here. Like for my journey with pornography, it was like God, I desire this thing so bad, but part of my journey has been not desiring that anymore. So I think there's a lot of areas in our life where, if we look objectively, we can see desires get shifted by God over time. Like I desire to pig out on donuts every day in college and now I don't, you know, or whatever it is right. So how do you think about that, kyle, in your life and the lives of those that you've seen walk through a similar journey?
Speaker 2:Well, I think one important thing is to know that, you know, not everybody's journey looks the same Right, and I think you know there can be. For people who have same-sex attraction, they can have this feeling of chronic uniqueness and to say, well, you know, my thing is just so very different and it's going to, you know, feel different and it's going to, you know it's going to be harder or maybe it won't ever change, because they feel like it's so embedded. And I think part of the reason why it feels so, a part of who you think you are, is because you know you're not a human without being sexual. Right. Sexuality is imprinted in us by God and so when you're talking about sexual orientation, you're talking about something that is inherent to who you are, because if you take it away, you're not human anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it said God created them male and female, so there's something about creating us as sex beings that is intrinsic, actually, to our Absolutely beings that is intrinsic actually to our absolutely uh and so and so I think part of being able to kind of walk this out is acknowledging just that feeling, is that this feels so inherently right to me, and I don't know that that gets acknowledged all the time. When people are walking with others who are working through SSA, they don't get somebody who can understand that this feels so inherently right to me. I think that's one thing.
Speaker 1:And, by the way, I'll just say on that that there's a somewhat popular image. I forget who originated it, but they describe how we often think that we're just like driving our emotions, like we're driving a car, but actually it's much more like a little person on a large elephant. The elephant represents the emotions and in some sense emotions are dumb. They're not dumb in the sense of like unintelligent, but they're literally not like uh, rational, right, that doesn't get, not that they're bad. You might hear not rational and think that means they're bad. That's actually enlightenment that taught us that. But they're not bad, but they're just kind of like like a big elephant, like they're this big, powerful thing that does also need direction. But part of what I'm trying to highlight here is how even those of us who think we're intellectual we think we're, you know, more left brain oriented or whatever we're still actually being driven more often than not by our emotions to one degree or another.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they play a big part.
Speaker 1:We have to acknowledge that.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, and so I think again, being able to acknowledge that and then understanding that your journey may look very, very different than someone else's and it may take a long time, it could really take a long time, and are you willing to trust the Lord in that and also to know to even start thinking about what do you? What does healing mean? Because I think that's another thing that trips people up, and I think that happens, you know, with any unwanted sexual behavior. You know healing means I am never going to get tempted ever again in my whole entire life. This is going to be absolutely gone for me and I don't have to deal with it anymore.
Speaker 2:But if Jesus came to walk in the flesh so we could understand how to walk in the flesh when fleshly things rise up, I don't think you get to experience this depth of intimacy with him to walk you through the hard stuff and you know I just kind of think about you know, the psalm says weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
Speaker 2:You might have to weep some nights, but in the weeping you get to experience how God can meet you, you get to have it out, and you get to have it out, if you need to have it out with God during that time, if you have a really great deep temptation and you just don't understand why you can't engage in this activity, and you have it out with God and you say, god, I don't think this is fair.
Speaker 2:I don't think it's fair that I had these feelings and then I'm not allowed to engage in them and so being able to even just acknowledge that as well and know that, if you can look at healing in a way that this thing is not going to be the driving force of my life, this is not the thing that I'm going to wake up every day and have to deal with.
Speaker 2:I will have days and times where this isn't a thing and I can see a person of the same sex and not be drawn to them, and hopefully, when that happens, you can stop and celebrate the fact that that didn't happen and to know that there might be things that happen in your life that make you more vulnerable to being tempted, and know that even God wants to meet you there. It's no different than a person who is trying not to overeat and they have something emotional happen and the first thing they want to do is turn to food for comfort. It's no different, and so that's another thing. If those who struggle with SSA can divorce themselves from being so different than anybody else who is struggling with any other kind of unwanted sexual behavior, this journey becomes a very different journey.
Speaker 1:We all are called to carry our cross. Jesus calls us all to do that. Jesus calls us all to do that, and it sucks that some of our crosses, in certain times and places, feel way heavier than others. Like in our culture. In 2025, this cross can feel unbearable.
Speaker 1:But I want to read this quote. I don't actually know how to pronounce this D Cassad, or something like that, said it, not sure who, but God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas. God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas. And I can't help but think, kyle, that you might not be the incredible woman of God you are today if it wasn't for having to walk through so many difficulties.
Speaker 1:One other really notable thing, too, is you said earlier, earlier, like you didn't experience sexual abuse, you had a pretty good relationship with your dad, you had a somewhat normal upbringing, and it just strikes me that so many of us have bucketed in like this is what leads to same-sex attraction If you're abused and you have a bad relationship with your dad or something like that. Like that will lead to that. But I think it just highlights we're just really complicated and all of us are actually looking for that satisfaction you talked about in all kinds of places. So, whether it gets sexualized and it becomes this person of the same sex or this person of the opposite sex will solve my issues, or this job will solve my issues, or whatever, we're actually missing the heart of God, that he's the one who wants to meet us even now in our issues. And so, kyle, you've already talked a lot about as we land this plane.
Speaker 1:You've already talked a lot about how this kind of impacts the way you minister in different ways to others, but are there any other things you'd highlight of? Like? My journey and what I've been through and what I've experienced with God leads me to minister to others in these particular ways. Are there any other pieces you'd want to add?
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure. I have so much more grace for people, and it's sad that there are a lot of people that I talk to that have not experienced grace. There are a lot of people that I talk to that have not experienced grace. They've experienced lots of legalism and rules and regulations and you know you're a sinner and this is wrong and you shouldn't be doing this, which you know.
Speaker 2:There's truth in that right. There's truth to confessing sin. There's no, you know that has to be done. But there's also, like there's a sadness that I allow people to sit in. Sit in because and I know this can be hard for some people to hear but there is even sadness in not sinning anymore. There's a sadness in here's this thing that I depended on, and you probably depended on it for more than what you know, more emotional support than you know, and so saying goodbye to something that you feel was nurturing you, caring for you, carrying you, is hard, and so even just allowing people and helping them enter into the grief of that and giving them the space to grieve.
Speaker 1:We do this really radical homework assignment in Awaken 360. I think it's in the heart module, which is in January through March, where we write a counting the loss of our sexual sin letter, as if we're writing it to a personified version. You gave me this, you comforted me when no one else was there. I mean, it feels so weird, it feels so uncomfortable, but it's such an important step in this process to acknowledge I wasn't going to this for nothing, like there's reasons I was going to sin, like there's reasons I felt like this would solve all my deepest heart cries. And so if we don't take some stock in that and acknowledge man, like there's actually a sadness to this, the next part of the assignment, by the way, the second week, is counting the cost. So we've now grieved it some, but now we also need to recognize this thing you promised this, but dot, dot, dot. And then the next letter begins you know you really cost me this and that, and so it's a very powerful exercise to grieve.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I've done something similar like that with clients, and then the other thing I've had them to do is, after they've had the grief, then go back and look at that, what you grieved, and then see if you can find something that God has promised.
Speaker 1:Ooh.
Speaker 2:Right, so maybe you know.
Speaker 1:Can you give us actually a personal example? So?
Speaker 2:like you could say you know, like I got comfort from being in this same-sex relationship. I felt seen and I felt known. But then you maybe go. Maybe you find I think it's in Jeremiah I have loved you with an everlasting love, right. Or you go to Psalm 139, you are fearfully wounded. I knitted you together in your mother's womb. Knitted you together in your mother's womb. Like you find that promise that God has for you, so that you actually know that you're not just giving up something and hoping, like God has some specific promises about filling in what you are giving up.
Speaker 1:Promises about filling in what you are giving up. You're making me think as well of 2 Corinthians, I think, chapter one like. We share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, all of us, even if we don't seek them out, even if we're not causing them ourselves, although we probably do cause a handful but we also. Therefore, how much more do we abound in the comfort God actually wants to comfort us, which is funny to say, because in America we're, you know, some of the most comfortable people and et cetera. But frankly, friends, we often go to these external comforts because we're not actually comfortable inside, we're not being comforted by God. And so, kyle, as we close out today, would you just pray over our listeners? I want you to pray for that comfort, but also that really struck me earlier, that idea of just praying that they'd be who God made them to be and not someone else. What a freeing, powerful thought. So could you pray that over our listeners? Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Oh gracious God and Father. Oh gracious God and Father. You have made each of us individually. You didn't make robots. You don't want just a bunch of clones, but you have uniquely designed each and every person to function in this world in a way that's going to best reflect your son Jesus to others. And so, lord, for those folks who are same-sex attracted and feel even out of place, god, they feel like I don't have a place, I'm not like the other girls, I'm not like the other guys, I have interests that they don't have, or they dress differently than I do, and I just feel so different.
Speaker 2:God, I pray that you would meet that person right now, and I pray that you would remind them that you're not trying to strip them to nothing, that what you want is for all of the stuff that doesn't belong to fall away, so that the real them comes out. And you do that, god, through their personalities, you do that through even their quirkiness, and you do that through the things that they love and the way that they like to dress. And all of those things, god, are gifts you have given to each one of us. And so, lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that, whatever mold that they were trying to be shaped into. God, I ask that you would break it. Break that mold so that they can be all of who you've called them to be.
Speaker 2:And so, lord, and I pray that those who were wearing masks, those who were carrying false personas, god would you free them of that and allow their true selves to shine through. And, god, I pray that, as they do that, that they will feel more loved and valued by you, because they just never had an opportunity to feel it before, because they were covered up with so much other stuff. And so, lord, I pray that every person listening will know your heart for them, will know your immense love for them'll know that what you're calling them to is not something that's so hard and so difficult, or that you're trying to be mean to them, but that you're calling them into perfect love with you, so they can experience what it means to live the abundant life in your son Jesus. And I lift this prayer in his name Amen.
Speaker 1:Amen.
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