Episode 115 | How To Persevere in a Hard Season

After twelve years serving at the same church, Amanda Odom and her husband stepped away from ministry in 2020, and she says she didn't know who she was without being a pastor's wife.

Amanda grew up in church outside Atlanta, but it was a best friend's invitation, and that friend's mom driving them to a thriving youth group, that led to her getting saved at 14. She met her husband at a summer camp where he was leading worship, they married within a year, and they have now been married 21 years. For most of those years he served as a worship pastor while she stayed home with their boys, and she shares how God provided month after month on a ministry income.

Then came the season she calls "so dark." Amanda talks about the nine months to a year after leaving church work, working on herself, fighting for her marriage, and waking up each day knowing only that God was sustaining her for that day. She walks through the doors God opened for a fresh start in 2021, why being seen matters so much to her, and the word He has been teaching her lately: persevere.

If you are in a season where you can't see what's coming, Amanda's story is a reminder that God still sees you.