Hope Reclaimed

Divorce is never the easy answer, but when we surrender any challenging situation, God will always meet us to bring redemption and healing. In this episode of The Rclaimed Podcast, Joy shares her story with Ellie Herringshaw about the ending of her difficult marriage and how she experienced the freedom and acceptance of Jesus even while she was still healing and grieving. Joy is a soon-to-be published author and her book of poetry, I Was Married is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2019. Follow her social media to learn more @joyhkova.

Navigating singleness and dating can be extremely challenging, and post-divorce, the stakes are even higher! In this episode of The Rclaimed Podcast, Ellie Herringshaw dialogues with Kaitlyn Raley about their similar seasons of singleness. They discuss how they decided to date after divorce, online dating tips and tricks, and those dreaded break-ups. Although it may be an unwanted season for a time, singleness is important and it can be incredibly healing!

Rest can be a struggle for everyone, but especially during a season of healing. In this episode of The Rclaimed Podcast, Mark Herringshaw and Ellie Herringshaw discuss how God is calling His children to work from rest, rather than work for rest.

In this episode of The Rclaimed Podcast, Ellie Herringshaw talks about Reclaiming Independence after a breakup or divorce. When a relationship is broken, our default may be to run to something like friends, Netflix or food, but God wants to be our refuge! In that way, we are being called not only to be independent, but independently dependent on God alone!

Kaitlyn Raley shares her story with Ellie Herringshaw in this episode of The Rclaimed Podcast. In 2016, Kaitlyn went through a divorce after experiencing domestic abuse and betrayal in her marriage. Ellie and Kaitlyn discuss healing, reclaiming and the importance of surrender in the healing process.

After painful experiences, there are often moments of doubt and unbelief in our walk of faith. Tough questions are posed: Is God there? Is He good? Ellie Herringshaw speaks with Mark Herringshaw about Reclaiming our Faith after seasons of doubt. The father-daughter team dialogue about the famous prodigal son story and the warning Jesus gives about trying to do life on our own.

Mark Halstensgard was given 10 days to live after being diagnosed with a severe case of Stevens-Johnson syndrome. In this episode of The Rclaimed Podcast, Ellie Herringshaw interviews Mark about his experience receiving miraculous healing after his diagnoses. Although Mark's physical healing was almost instantaneous, the emotional healing is still ongoing. Mark shares his theology of pain, sickness as well as healing.

After stressful and traumatic events such as divorce, self care is a must! However, it can be challenging to take the time and the energy to be kind to ourselves. In this episode, Ellie Herringshaw dialogues with returning guest, Mel Noel about self care, self compassion and identity. Contrary to what we might believe, self care is not selfish. "We cannot give out of an empty cup." Self care simply all boils down to self awareness, hearing the voice of God for what we actually need, and setting boundaries for ourselves and those around us.

Do you need a pep talk? After a hard few weeks, Ellie Herringshaw needed one, and her Father, Mark Herringshaw was willing to provide! Hope is never lost and in this scripture packed episode of The Rclaimed Podcast, that's exactly what we learn! This episode is also available on video form on youtube: https://youtu.be/TCDwqFzvMj8

Romans 4:19-22 // Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Hebrews 11:1 // Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

Jeremiah 29:11 // "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Proverbs 13:12 // Hope deferred makes the heart sick,but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

Proverbs 10:12a // The hope of the righteous brings joy.

Laminations 3:21 // But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope.

"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." - Jim Rohn

1 Corinthians 13: 13 // And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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God is in the business of restoration! In this episode, Mike and Roxy Lynch share their story about how God healed their marriage after Mike had an affair several years ago. Roxy had the faith to believe that God would restore their marriage and that it would not end in divorce. Through constant prayer and community, God brought healing to their marriage.

References

Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Psalm 27: 1-4 The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid. When the wicked advance against me to devour me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall. Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident

2 Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

James 5:16 Therefor, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Mike and Roxy Lynch

Ally Force Ministries // www.allyforce.org

Mike and Roxy Lynch both grew up in the Minneapolis area. They were both Christians when they married in 1983. Seven months later, they moved to Atlanta GA where Mike started a successful career in sales. He had many prosperous years before the tide began to turn. Because of some bitterness and sin in Mikes life, things started falling apart. He grew cold toward God, and his marriage was crumbling.

11 years into the marriage and with 3 children, Mike had had enough and he left his wife and children for what he thought would be a better life. God had other plans. Mike’s wife Roxy would not allow the enemy to break up the family. She spent six months in constant prayer for him, trusting God to heal Mike, her and the family. Roxy also made a commitment to the Lord during this time that if He healed this marriage she would serve Him however and wherever He wanted.

After 4 months of separation, Roxy was led to an inner-city ministry in Atlanta called Blood-N-Fire ministries. While there God told her that the Pastor was the man she had been praying for to minister to Mike. Under the agreement with Roxy, that if he went to see this man one time she would sign the divorce papers, Mike went to visit with the Pastor once, which turned into every week. Over the next couple of months, much healing took place within Mike and he returned to his family a changed man of God. In the process, Roxy also had become a changed woman of God.

Mike and Roxy quickly became involved in the inner-city ministry and it didn’t take long to know they were called to be full time. Knowing this was ministry to the poor made it a difficult decision to make as there would be no salary. They would have to raise their own funds. Two years from first beginning to serve at BNF ministries Mike left his job and took the leap of faith. He began serving as administrator and an associate Pastor. This is where he and Roxy eventually received their ordinations.

Two years later, in 1999, God again asked them to take another leap of faith and do what neither of them wanted to do, sell all and move to Minnesota. A few months later,  after 17 years in Georgia they packed a truck and moved back to Minneapolis.

Since then They have co-founded a multi-million dollar a year ministry which has been giving to the poor and needy locally and around the world for 10 years now.

They left that organization in 2005 to begin another journey of faith. What they now do is multi faceted and includes things such as;

Receiving goods and sending them locally and around the world to orphanages and needy people.Disaster relief around the Country. When disaster strikes, BNF Mpls, Muncie, IN, and San Antonio, TX,