Lies Women Believe, Part 1

[Music] well here at revive our hearts we're celebrating the birth of a new baby it's actually two babies two weeks ago we introduced you to the updated lies young women believe that I've written with my sweet friend Dan aggress that book for young women originally released ten years ago so this is a whole new generation of women and a lot of new things happening in the teenage girl young women world so we've updated that book we've told you about that it's available with its study guide and today we're excited to announce the official release of the updated expanded lies women belief which originally released in 2001 that 17 years ago some of you weren't even alive back then I was very much but we're very excited about this updated expanded version we're gonna be telling you a lot more about that throughout this week we're gonna have a week-long birthday celebration and let you know more about what you can expect from that message there's also an updated study guide that goes with lies women believe and these study guides will be a great resource if you want to go deeper in the message of the book you want to do this with a group small group a larger group Sunday School class whatever and that's all available through our ministry now ever since my first book was published in the year 2000 does anybody remember what that book was called Hayley does place of quiet rest thank you from the time we wrote that first book we've taken time when each book was released to we've done this in different ways but to just dedicate the book to the Lord and ask him to use it and this expanded version of lies women believe represents my 20th book and we want to take time this week to officially dedicate it to the Lord and I hope you'll join us in asking him to multiply this message to reach a whole new generation of women and to use it for his kingdom purposes in the hearts and homes of women around the world so it's route this week we want to give you a glimpse into this new resource and we'll be looking at some specific areas where believing lies impacts our lives and how believing the truth can set us free I also want to say and I'll be sharing some of this throughout the week how grateful I am for the incredible way that the Lord has used the original version of lies women belief and I'll be sharing some testimonies stories that we've received from women whose lives were deeply touched by that original version actually just saw on Facebook or somewhere on social media yesterday a new group of women at some church thing we're starting lies women believe they didn't even have the new version they're using the 17-year old one I hope they're listening and maybe they'll want to switch over to the new one but women still using this original book with a lot of its outdated stuff in it but still being blessed by it thanks to the fact that the message the truth of God's Word is timeless now from a marketing perspective there probably would have been a better title for this book it's a little awkward to hand a woman a book with lies women believe in large print on the front cover and say you really need to read this but the Lord has been pleased to give this message a warmer and broader reception than I would have ever dreamed possible when I wrote it in 2000 and the original book has now sold over 1 million copies now the original book has been translated into dozens of languages including Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Azerbaijan II bet Bosnian Bulgarian Chinese French German Hungarian Indonesian Japanese caracal Pak did you know that was a language I don't know where they speak it may be in caracal Pak I don't know Kazak korean mongolian polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Spanish Todd Sikh Turkish etc and I think this is all it's not a testimony to what a great writer I am it's a testimony to the longing in the hearts of women around the world to experience the freedom of walking in the truth one woman wrote and said to us I believe this is the only Christian book for women in the country of Bosnia because the people are poor each book soul is getting read many times how sweet is that another woman said I live and work in a country that's considered close to the gospel this week the country is hosting an International Book Fair and for the first time in many years Christian books are being sold one of the books for sale is a translation in the local language of lies women believe I'm so excited that this book is available I'm planning on buying many copies for the ladies in our church and another woman who's a retired schoolteacher shared the message of lies women believe with a group of pastors wives in Egypt she said about two hundred Egyptian women standing-room-only attended the workshop on lies women believe these women will go back to their homes and share these truths with the women that they are disciple in this book the original lies women believe has reached all kinds of women in all kinds of life circumstances with all kinds of needs and many of us in this room would say that's your testimony we received a handwritten letter from a woman who said I came across lies women believe in jail every night I would read this book to the three other women in my cell thank you for reviving my heart another woman said I'm teaching lies women believe and using the companion study guide the response has been terrific the insights in this book are revolutionary to today's Christian women me included she said my relationship actually she wrote a long letter sharing many areas of her life that had been impacted but let me just excerpt this brief part she said my relationship with my husband is better than ever mostly because of a change in my attitude and because I'm learning to shut my mouth instead of whining or nagging now I don't think I said in that book shut your mouth instead of whining or nagging but somehow that's what the Lord apply acts how the Lord applied that part up some part of that book to her she said I look forward to seeing how the Lord will work out his plan for each of my children one of whom is handicapped my addiction to food call it what it is gluttony is coming under the Lord's control and I'm experiencing freedom through obedience to his word you notice you're not experiencing freedom because she read in my book she's experiencing freedom through obedience to his book which we tried to point women to in this book another past woman a pastor's wife wrote to us about allies women beliefs study that was getting ready to start in her church she said after giving the book to one of our women two weeks ago God has put an unsaved girl in her life a single mom with a five-year-old daughter the woman told this young mom that she needed to read lies women believe she bought the book and gave it to her and the girl read it in one day and said it was written for her she's not saved yet but God is truly working this girl is a stripper in a strip club now who would have thought that lies women believe a book with that title could get into the heart of that woman I don't know how that story ended gods still writing stories and lots of women's lies so just a little bit about the new lies women believe at first we thought this was going to be just a simple light refresh a touch-up well it turned into a lot bigger project than we ever anticipated and my sweet husband Robert and I spent all of last summer sitting out on our deck here in southwestern Michigan writing lies we were writing lies I was writing lies women believe and Robert was writing lies men believe which Lord willing will be available in August very excited about that now how many here in this room have read the original lies women believe lots of hands most hands in the room you may wonder if you've already read that book why you would want to read this new version well let me let you know that approximately 1/3 of the new lies women belief is new content that's the equivalent of a whole new book within this original book and the rest of the book all of the rest of the book has been heavily edited and I use fresh and updated illustrations and insights and that's why we think that you will find it worthwhile to get the new one and read that as you have opportunity I had to just tell you this little inside glimpse it was kind of fun we were in the process it was a long crazy process of designing the cover and the words updated and expanded we're originally on the bottom of the cover one of the original designs we saw so what it looked like when I looked at it was Nancy - ma swag a moose updated and expanded I said okay my name's been updated but I let's move that to the top so it's at the top updated and expanded so why this new edition let me give you several reasons first our world has experienced huge cultural changes since lies was first released in 2001 for example social media as we know it today did not exist back in oh one and then there were certain sexual issues and themes that were not front and center twenty years ago that now most of our lives in very personal ways we've added an entire new chapter to this book on lies women believe about sexuality it's written by my good friend Dan aggress who co-authored with me lies young women believe Dan and her husband Bob have a powerful ministry on Biblical teaching about sexuality and I went to Dan and I said you've been a part of this message a part of helping share this truth about lies women believe would you help me with this chapter a new chapter on lies women believe about sexuality it's an important chapter and I'm so glad we were able to add that and then when I first wrote lies I was in my early 40s today I'm really close to the 60-year marker and I'm experiencing the beauty and the power of the truth in some fresh new ways so in this new edition I've added insights from my vantage point as an older woman I was also single when I wrote the original lies women believe and now wonder of one earth I'm in my third year of marriage and so I've added some illustrations and thoughts from my perspective as a married woman although I want to say I haven't forgotten my single sisters I was single for 57 years and I still have such a heart for what my single sisters are experiencing so there's lots in lies women believe that you'll find practical and helpful as well and then over these past 17 18 years by God's grace I've grown I've grown in my walk with the Lord and as I hope you have my understanding of his word my appreciation this is really important I've grown in my understanding of how the gospel intersects with all of life and so as I reviewed the original lies women believe I felt like there were some things that I wanted to say differently or that I needed to say differently then I was able to do back in 2001 and then hundreds maybe thousands of women have given feedback on the message of the original book a lot of them have been really encouraging they sent I've had conversations with women there been emails and letters and online reviews and there been some let me say it quite a few along the way who have expressed concern or disagreement about particular points in the book and some of them have expressed it in really sweet and gracious ways and some of them not so much I've heard probably more than once about a copy of the book getting thrown across the room and but you know what that input has been so valuable we had a team actually on our editorial team for this new book that went through and read all the critical reviews we could find and they summarized them for me and said here's what's tripping people up do you really believe what you said about this did you say it the way you want to say it doesn't need to be clarified so I'm so thankful for even the harshest critics because they have helped me I've tried to listen really carefully and to respond humbly I'm not God and my writing is not the inspired Word of God so even the criticisms helped me to clarify and define tune iMessage and I think you'll see that reflected that doesn't mean everybody's gonna agree with everything in the new one and if everybody agreed with all of it probably the book wouldn't be necessary so I we're trying to challenge our thinking and they're things that are not politically correct they're things that are different than the the way the culture is going but at least I hope that it's been said some of these things have been said in a way that's more careful that's consistent with God's Word and that's sensitive to the lives and the realities that so many women face who have backgrounds maybe that are different than my own and then I've had the joy over the years of meeting many women who first read this book years ago and they've shared how this message the concepts in this book opened their eyes and the sweet fruit that they're enjoying now years later as a result of learning to build their lives on the foundation of truth and now as I'm heading into my 60s I can't think of a better way than to invest my life than to encourage a new generation of women to experience for themselves the power of the truth to set them free I've been motivated in what turned into a long arduous painstaking year either probably other words I could use to describe this year my husband could describe what some of it was like it's like oh this is hard but I want to get it the best that I can but I've been motivated and spurred on by many of the stories that I've heard from women who discovered through reading the original book that they were believing things that weren't true and they've shared about the bondage the consequences they experienced as a result broken relationships guilt fear anger resentment and their their stories have demonstrated the power that embracing the truth has had to set them free from those areas of bondage from habits and sins that they couldn't get victory over only the truth not my book but this book the truth of gods word and the Christ Jesus who is the truth has the power to set us free so one woman said for example to say that this book has been eye-opening is an understatement there are so many lies that have controlled me and kept me in bondage my entire life now with the help of my precious Jesus I'm breaking the ties that bind me and finding freedom in the truth that story could be repeated over and over and over again thanks be to God another woman said I believe God had me in mind when you wrote lies women believe he used that book to build a solid foundation for my life as my husband a pastor went through recurring seasons of depression and he sovereignly used it to prepare me for that game-changing day when my husband ended up taking his life inside our church building and I became a widow and a single mom of four in the days ahead God's Word would sustain me and give me confidence that I could trust him completely in what he was doing every time Satan would throw a lie at me and there were many I would recite Scripture I'd love to shout it from the mountaintops that yes the truth sets us free I've lived a fruitful life since that day she says but I can take absolutely no credit for it it's all been God and how he taught me to stop believing Satan's lies and instead believe biblical truth even in the face of great tragedy and loss I think of another woman who had a horrendous background she shared much of it with me sins that had been committed against her and then sinful foolish choices of her own all of which combined almost destroyed her life over the period of many years but she closed by saying as she had read this book thank you for your willingness to step on my toes so I could hear the truth God wanted me to hear my marriage was saved and my little boy will be raised with mommy and daddy together how precious is that and again all the glory and credit goes to the Lord who is the and has given us his truth and his word now she said you were willing to step on my toes and that's just a reminder that truth is not always popular or easy it's definitely not popular or easy to confront people in our lives maybe your kids maybe a friend maybe a colleague to confront others with ways of thinking or living that are contrary to the truth to challenge them to repent and to return to the truth that's hard it takes courage it takes faith that God's going to do the work in their lives and we got to be careful it takes compassion got to be careful how we do this in fact Galatians 6:1 says when you see somebody overtaken in a fault tell him about it confront about it but do it with a spirit of meekness humility lest you become tempted by the very same sin and you get dragged down too so we need to do this carefully and humbly and I've tried to do that in this book but I want to share with you a couple verses in the last chapter of the book of James James chapter 5 verses 19 and 20 as I was putting the finishing touches on the original lies women belief I was out walking one day and I'd been memorizing a portion of James 5 I was reciting and meditating on these verses and all of a sudden I realized this is why I've written this bucket and it the verses came back to me as I thought about the launch the release of this updated and expanded lies women belief here's what James 5 says my brothers we could add sisters in there if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins we have an enemy who hates God's people he hates the men and women made in the image of God he said to Steve a deceiver a destroyer a Defiler he wants to kill he wants to destroy God has given us the truth that sets us free from those lies and my prayer is that God will use this book as he has the original one to unmask the deceiver and the lies that he tells us to strip that mask off him to strip the covering off of some of these lies that look so good feel so good seem so bright even is that fruit did to Eve there in the Garden of Eden they look so appealing but they're lies they're things that aren't true and they end up leading us to the ways of death but I don't want to just cover uncover the lies what I really want to do is to lift up the truth to point women to Jesus and His Word so that they can return from their wandering from believing the lies they can return to the truth and they can be set free now we'd like to send you a copy of this brand-new edition the updated expanded edition of lies women believe when you support revive our hearts with a gift of any amount this week and would you join us in praying that the Lord will take this new version that he will take the truth the message that's that that's in its pages and he will send it to the hearts of women in this country and around the world that they will come face-to-face with the truth in fresh new ways and that God will use it to set many thousands of women free in the days ahead by the power of his truth

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Length: 21min 30sec (1290 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 19 2018