Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Belizeha Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously for the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go

deeper in their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to

do it. I am so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey

because everyone is a theologian. Hello friends and welcome back to Verity Podcast.

After last week's episode on reconstructing after legalism, I thought that this week it

would be a good idea to go through my own personal testimony, how I came to know Christ,

what he freed me from, and what led me to do what I do today. I have written about this in

multiple places, if you've read any of my books or blog posts, you've probably learned

a few pieces, but I've never put it together in one cohesive place. Now, I

hesitated to do a full testimony episode because I feel like it's just a lot of talking about

myself, and maybe it wouldn't be as helpful or productive as one of our regular theology episodes

would be, but I also personally love to hear the testimonies of what Christ has done in someone's

life. And so hopefully this is something that encourages you and shows you the impact that

right theology and true intimacy with God can have on one human life. So I'm going to summarize

my own story from when I came to Christ to today as quickly as I can, and then I'm going to answer

some questions that I received on Instagram when I asked you all, what would you like to hear

about my own personal walk with Jesus and the testimony of how he set me free and why I work so

hard for other people to be set free by him today. So I was raised in a Christian home. My parents

were very intentional. They were both believers who became believers in their early 20s right before

they got married and my parents got married very young. They got married at 21 and had me by 22.

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