Her Battle, His Victory: Amy Dial’s Story of Redemption and Freedom in Ring of Fire

In this episode of Hope Unlocked, Kristin Kurtz welcomes back Amy Dial, founder of Fit for the Kingdom Outreach, to celebrate the release of her new book Ring of Fire. Amy shares the powerful story behind the book—her near-abortion testimony, the tactics of the enemy, and how Jesus redeemed her story with hope, healing, and restoration. Written as both memoir and ministry tool, Ring of Fire exposes lies, reveals truth, and points readers to their identity in Christ. If you’ve wrestled with shame, fear, or unanswered questions about your worth, this conversation will ignite hope and inspire you to pick up Ring of Fire today.

Want to hear more from Amy? Don’t miss her powerful testimony in Episode 108 of Hope Unlocked - It’s the perfect companion to today’s conversation and a deeper look into her journey.

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Ring of Fire: A Journey Through Pain, Purpose, and God's Power to Restore

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introducing Amy Dial and Her Ministry
• 3:44 The Journey to Writing "Ring of Fire"
• 9:01 God's Protection in Our Darkest Moments
• 16:07 Identity Crisis and Remembering Who God Says We Are
• 23:24 The Labor of Writing a Painful Testimony
• 32:49 The Truth About Our Identity in Christ
• 41:50 Book Launch Details and Call to Action
• 50:34 Closing Prayer and Contact Information

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:16

Welcome to the Hope Unlocked podcast. I'm your host, Kristen Kurtz, and I'm also the founder of New Wings Coaching. I help and empower wildhearted and adventurous women of faith feeling caged and stuck, unlock their true purpose and potential, break free from limitations and thrive with confidence, courage and hope. If you're curious to learn more about coaching with me, head to newwingscoachingnet and be sure to explore the show notes for ways to connect with me further. Get ready to dive in as we uncover empowering keys and insights in this episode. So tune in and let's unlock hope together. Welcome to the Hope Unlocked podcast. I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host. I pray this episode is like a holy IV of hope for your soul. Please help me. Welcome Amy Dial to the show. I'm so, so, so excited to have her here today. She was back with me on episode 108, if you want to go, listen to her amazing, amazing, powerful testimony. But, Amy, before we get into why you're here again today, could you just tell us a little bit about yourself?

Speaker 2: 1:16

Yes, thank you so much for having me back. It's always an honor to come and speak with you. So I am Amy Dial, I am the founder of Fit for the Kingdom Outreach and I have a ministry that utilizes faith-filled fitness. If you want to call it that, we say it's movement with a message. I get to host women's boot camps and different training groups where I get to preach the gospel to them and it's all Holy Spirit led, holy Spirit ordained. I sit with the Lord before my workouts, I get the format, I get the message, I even get the music lineup. So it is an amazing way to get the word down in our bodies while we're moving. And now he is expanding Fit for the Kingdom Outreach. So it started as a fitness ministry, but now he is expanding the reach.

Speaker 2: 2:19

I have just completed my first book, which is my testimony, and that's what we're going to be talking about today. I'm so excited. It's Ring of Fire and it is a story of my personal testimony. We'll talk about it more later, but from cover to cover it shows the tactics and the plans, exposes the tactics and the plans of the enemy and it reveals the answer has always been, is always and will always be Jesus Christ, and it just highlights over and over that our identity and value and worth come from Him, not from our mistakes or things that happened to us. What we walked through where the enemy would. His whole goal is to try to use that to hold us back from intimate relationship with the father, and so I'm very excited that we it's been about a two year process.

Speaker 2: 3:19

It's been quite a struggle. The Lord was walking me through my own identity crisis, my own matters of healing and deliverance for sure, and just opening up my voice, continuing to make connections with people like yourself that are kingdom-oriented, kingdom-minded and have helped me walk the journey to healing and hope and restoration and encouraging me to release my voice. So I thank you for that. I love that we get to work together Personally through individual coaching. It has been an intricate part of seeing this. You've been an intricate part of seeing this book come to birth, so I thank you so much for that because I don't think without you that I would be here today.

Speaker 1: 4:05

So well, it's been such a joy to come alongside you. I, you know, I've been touted kind of a spiritual midwife to help, you know, bring things to the world. And you know my, my heart is that women wouldn't self abort these callings and the things that he's called us to bring to the world, because it's so beyond us, isn't it?

Speaker 2: 4:26

Yes, it is. It is and it's beautiful that you have been such a spiritual midwife to me in this, because when the Lord calls us to something especially as powerful as what he's called me to, it's not something that we can do on our own. And I think about that verse in Zechariah I think it's 4.6, where he says not by might, not by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord, and we definitely need to be Holy Spirit-led and guided and directed. But also we need to be connected with other kingdom-minded builders and coaches and things to lift the kingdom up together, because we can't carry that on our own shoulders.

Speaker 1: 5:17

Absolutely Like I think of you know we're not called to be isolated.

Speaker 2: 5:21

Oh, we're not.

Speaker 1: 5:22

I mean, I've had visions before of like seeing women try to birth their babies on their own and it's like that doesn't go well.

Speaker 2: 5:30

No, it doesn't go well. And then what happens when there's complications? And who's going to coach you alone when you want to give up? Because I'm telling you that the enemy of our soul has given me so many opportunities to quit, to give up, to just hang my head in defeat. But I knew what the Lord called me to and I knew I had given Him my yes when he started talking to me about these things and also rising me up as a kingdom speaker and making connections and opening doors for me to go preach and speak in different places. He was working out with me the verse connections and opening doors for me to go preach and speak in different places.

Speaker 2: 6:06

He was working out with me the verse Revelations 12, 11. It says, you know, basically, it says that we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony, the power of the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. But I would always stop at the first part of that verse because when I gave the Lord my yes to writing my testimony and putting it in a book, I was like, yes, lord, I'll do it. But I didn't really want to think about the last part of that verse. I really had to work through that. The Lord really had to deal with me about that, because until I was able to say that verse to completion and to mean it, still do it, because the cost of not doing it is something that I can't live with.

Speaker 1: 7:12

Yeah, absolutely. So you said this was like a two-year process for you. Do you remember, like the moment when he like basically I don't know if he gave you a vision of a book or what was it Like? I'm just kind of like, let's backtrack a little bit to the beginning of um, how this came to be. Like what was that birth announcement? You know we've got the birth coming here, but it's yeah, redates coming. But that initial like what did that look like for you? Because I feel like somebody out there is listening and it's like, yeah, you know, maybe I'm supposed to do that too but, I don't know.

Speaker 2: 7:50

Well, it was not a. I just woke up one day and the light went on. He began talking to me about it for quite a while and it was roughly about a year and a half to two years ago when it got, and I knew I was always in the back of my mind yes, I'll do that and I'm excited to do that, but I just kind of like I'll get to it later or I need to be at a better spot before I start and that's just a stall tactic by the enemy Sometimes. In my case, it was fear that I've never written a book before. I'm not qualified, I don't know anything about it. When the problem was, I was still trying to apply it in my own strength and not by the Spirit of the Lord, and he really was working with me for quite a while and I just kept getting more and more conviction until finally, one day I was like, okay, well, just kept getting more and more conviction until finally, one day I was like, okay, well, I don't want to be the mom that says to her kids on her deathbed. You know, the Lord always wanted me to write a book and I know there was someone out there that needed to read it. I hope you guys do better than me when the Lord gives you an assignment.

Speaker 2: 8:59

I didn't want to be that kind of mom. I wanted to leave a legacy where they would know and I even talk about this in the acknowledgments of my book specifically aimed at my granddaughter. But I want the same for my kids. I want them to know that when the Lord calls you to do hard things, you can do it. And, as a matter of fact, you need to do it, because there will be no peace when the Spirit is urging you to do something. There will be no peace and I don't want to face Him when I go before Him and Him say listen, there were tons of women who needed your book, either to avoid an abortion or to get healing from their abortion. Their relationship with me has been destroyed by it because they think they're unredeemable. Why weren't you faithful to do what you did? And I just couldn't. I couldn't live like that and I thought about myself in that moment when I went through it, if I would have had someone to talk to, because my experience happened in November 2005.

Speaker 2: 10:08

And the premise of the story is that I almost aborted my son. He's now 19 and serving in the Army. But I was in the abortion clinic within minutes of going through the procedure and the Lord showed up and said remember who you are. And I snapped to and got out of there. But on the way out I saw the women who did not have the same outcome. I thought that the Lord showed me that to rub my nose in what I almost did.

Speaker 2: 10:45

I didn't understand at that time that he was showing me to reveal at a later date these are the women you're called to minister to, and so, because I will never forget their faces, I couldn't sit on the assignment at hand and finally, I just gave my fear over to him. I was like, okay, lord, you're going to have to do this and I literally started. It's actually like I wasn't an author in the very beginning. I was scribing what Holy Spirit it was. I wonder if it's how they felt when they were writing the Bible, because I was literally. I was literally scribing in a Google Doc what Holy Spirit was telling me and yeah, it was so cool and I would sit back and look at it when I was done. I'm like, wow, I can't believe it.

Speaker 2: 11:34

Yeah, holy Ghost Rider, I can't believe we just did that. And then it evolved over time and we eventually got it into a more palatable format and cleaned some things up, because it was it was pretty rough, like I was writing down exactly as fast as I could what he was saying and um. So we fixed the grammatical errors and made it look more aesthetically pleasing. And as it evolved he kept taking it further and further back, because I thought the original premise of the story was my testimony and I was like I don't know how we're really going to make a book. I mean, it's an incredible testimony, but I don't know how we're going to make an entire book from it. So I'm thinking like maybe a booklet or something, something smaller. But as I gave him my yes and was faithful to sit down pretty much every day not every single day, but I would do it in chunks where I would sit with it for a while and we would go, and then he'd let me rest for a while and I'd go back to it, it was so patient and faithful. And what he kept doing as it evolved is he was taking it further and further and further back to the beginning.

Speaker 2: 12:45

So the original book actually opens with what happened in the garden, with the original sin, and that was not part of my plan, so that was totally him.

Speaker 2: 12:58

But it's the framework that he laid to reveal, in my case, how I got to where I was, because I was raised in the church but I only had religion. I didn't have a relationship, and he took me all the way back to where it started, where it started in the garden, when Satan tempted Eve. That was the original sin that severed, potentially severed for everyone, pretty much for everyone. It severed our intimacy with God, the Father, and so we are perpetually in a place of trying to get back there, but it's the blood of Jesus that brings us back there, and so I was able to highlight that show the tactics and show how, over and over and over, satan does the same thing to us all, and he'll keep throwing something until it sticks, but it's the same thing. The original sin is a sin of pride, and it starts with a thought that he puts in your mind and then you question God's sovereignty.

Speaker 1: 14:03

Yeah, exactly, and it just makes me think of you know that word, like that fiery word that he spoke over. You remember who you are and wouldn't you say, like one of the massive, like identity crisis questions that the enemy will throw at you is who do you think you are? Absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 2: 14:25

Who do you think you are? Absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 14:27

Who do you think you are to even try to write a book?

Speaker 2: 14:30

Absolutely. Well, let me tell you what do you want to say about that? Well, what I want to say about that is it's not up to us to remember who we are. It's up to us to understand and remember who God says we are, because he has the final authority and the final word. My thoughts and my ideas can be messed with by Satan if I allow it.

Speaker 2: 14:54

If I'm not standing in my authority and my identity as a daughter of the king, but if I don't yet know him, like for the woman who's reading the book that's not yet a daughter of the King, she doesn't have that identity yet. Um, it was given to her at birth, but, like I said, we all have sinned and fallen short. So that identity was severed and blocked from our understanding, manipulated, perverted, however you want to say it. And until she comes to the full understanding of, no, I'm made in the image of God and this is who God says I am, and I've got to accept Jesus Christ to be able to stand in that authority and be washed in His blood, then I can turn around and remind the enemy who God says I am.

Speaker 1: 16:02

Yes, amen. I mean, come on, I feel like there's some gold in the books that you in the to sharing with us. Um, do you have the book in front of you that you could share? Just maybe a little sneak peek, yeah let me pull it up.

Speaker 2: 16:12

It's on my computer. We don't have the printed copy yet. We are currently um off to the replication. Um, there's so much, let me see. Um, there's so much, let me see. Oh Lord, where do you want to go? Um, well, I think, like for for my book.

Speaker 2: 16:36

Um, like I said, the Lord took us, took me back to the beginning with what the garden looked like and how it was supposed to be. Um, one of the things to share from that was when the Lord banned Adam and Eve from the garden and he told Adam you're going to have to work, you're basically going to have to work by the sweat of your brow. You're going to have to toil and work and, you know, do all the things to keep um, to keep taking dominion, cause we originally were ordered to to multiply and to take dominion. We're still ordered to take dominion, but now it's not that free and easy life that, um, that we were given in the garden automatically, so we've got to get back there through the blood of Jesus. And so when the Lord told Adam okay, you're going to have to toil, you're going to have to work, that is a prophetic picture for us. For what? Because that involved him tilling the ground, uprooting, pulling out weeds, watering the soil, tending the soil, turning it over daily. To me that's a prophetic picture of our willingness to be submissive to the Holy Spirit, to be in the Word, to continue.

Speaker 2: 17:56

It's not a one and done situation. We've got to continually. There's not striving, but we've got to continually maintain that relationship and through that relationship, and through that relationship and the leading of the Holy Spirit, those things will come to pass. Sometimes it's painful it is, sometimes it's not, as it's not as difficult to to maybe tend the ground as others. We're kind of flowing in the spirit and things are. Things are seeming easier, so to speak, but there's a continual movement, a continual busting up the foundation. When we're led by the Holy Spirit it's much easier.

Speaker 2: 18:40

But sometimes it's a painful process because there are some deep-seated things, wounds in our heart, maybe false beliefs, ideologies, wrong, wrong theology, which I was absolutely subscribing to for a large portion of my life. Those things have to really be dealt with by the Holy Spirit and it's not always. It's not always a pain-free process. It's a beautiful process, but there's, there's effort to it. And then he tells Eve you're going to basically have pain in childbirth, and so to me that is like our process of deliverance, because, think of it, you're talking about Eve's delivery process. So when we're getting deliverance from the Holy Spirit and he's reshaping our heart, reforming our thoughts, there's definite pain in the process, but it's evident to be birthed into that new, healed creation that he makes for us.

Speaker 1: 19:50

Yes, that he makes for us, yes, and I, I just you know, I have to say just, even in the time that I've known you and worked with you, like the, the growth and the.

Speaker 1: 20:01

I like to call it like a super bloom. Um, it's a phenomenon, truly it's. It's an amazing phenomenon. If you guys don't know what a super bloom is, go check it out. But just the ways that he's worked in you and you've really grabbed on to the identity of who he's called you to be, to boldly go out there and you know speak your truth that he has given you to release your sound in the world in an area that, um, really there's a war.

Speaker 1: 20:35

there's a war on the womb and there's a war on life, and there's just so much confusion in this world that, um, I'm just so proud of everything that he has. Um, how do you just step into and you just continually give your yes, Thank you.

Speaker 1: 20:56

So what would you say to you? Know, the woman who's listening in today that she's just had a hesitant? Yes, she knows that she's got something that she's called to or build, but she's just hesitating. She's like I don't really know, Like I'm not, I'm not, I'm not the right one, I don't know how to do this. Like, what would you say to her?

Speaker 2: 22:01

Well, first of all, I would say to her I completely understand, and so does so does God, but that does not get you off the hook, so to speak, with what he's called you to do, because every single one of us and I even talk about this in the book every single one of us, when we are formed in our mother's womb as infants or as coming to be creations, the Lord deposits everything that we need to fulfill what he's going to call us to do. And I used to think of it like this. I used to think, oh, while he was forming me, he was taking a little of this and a little of this and a little of this, putting it together, and one day he would call me to walk in all that I've been created for. But I now come to understand it we're made in His image, right, and when we are made, every one of us is made in His image, whether we know Him as our Lord and Savior or we don't. We are all made with the same opportunity to come back to relationship that was lost in the garden. Everybody has the same opportunity, regardless of how they came to be or the circumstances they're born into, or whatever.

Speaker 2: 23:19

The Lord is not slack concerning His promises, and he promises that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, and he's not a respecter of persons. So it's not well if you're born into the right social class or in the right location. No, he went to the cross for every single one of us, because all of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory, and so he died for every single one of us, because all of us had sinned and fallen short of the glory, and so he died for every single one of us. Now, not all of us will receive him, and he gives us free will to do that, but whenever he creates us and he makes us in his image, each one of us he makes unique and he puts different characteristics of himself in us. It's not something separate of himself, it is these particular characteristics of God. Go into Kristen and these particular characteristics of Amy.

Speaker 2: 24:18

Go into Amy, and at the right time, our character, our development and our timing will all come together and Holy Spirit will say OK, now this is your assignment, I want you to go, do it, and he won't let us just dismiss it. We'll continue to feel that tug. We have a choice, we have free will and we have a choice to ignore it. But we will be very unsettled and restless and will always be coming back to us until we say yes. And if we choose not to, we will always regret it because we know deep down in our heart that's what we were called to do.

Speaker 2: 24:58

And so I would say to her you don't have to rely on yourself, you just have to give yourself over to those parts of God, god's character, that were placed in you, because at the right time, in the right season and when you are ready, holy Spirit will open those doors and say okay, go, this is what I want you to do. But you've got to understand you're not going in your own strength. As long as you submit to Him and His leadership, he opens the doors and he walks through first and he makes the connections and you follow him by faith.

Speaker 1: 25:34

Yes, so good, amy. Oh my gosh, you just said somebody free.

Speaker 2: 25:39

Come on, and I would add this to like I said before, one day we are all going to have to stand before him and I don't think any of us want it on our conscience that when we stand before him, he to look at us and say I had these people that needed this and you were the one who carried the anointing in the earth, why didn't you? We're not going to have any words for that. There's going to be no words.

Speaker 1: 26:08

Yeah, absolutely. And I like to say to people all the time too, is like there are people literally waiting for what it is that you're called to release. For sure, there are people waiting to read your book. Amen, it's already like, it's already in your book of life.

Speaker 2: 26:25

Amen, and I know I needed it at the time that I was walking through it and I didn't have it. So had had that book been been there, I don't think I would. I know I wouldn't have walked through because when I came out of that abortion clinic with my son Well, my son's still in my womb and all that I wasn't able to come out victorious and excited. And I still had years and years and years it was almost 17 years before I could even speak about it Because in all those years the enemy had me held in shame and condemnation and kept taking me further and further and further down through my wrong decisions, because I was driven by fear, guilt and shame and so because I didn't have that when I needed it. I don't want any woman to be in that same situation.

Speaker 1: 27:26

Yeah, well, and when you said, like when I had a vision as you were talking, when you said, like when I had a vision as you were talking, when you said that we know when we stand before him, I was actually seeing him as we're stepping out here and now, like this world releasing what it is that he's calling us to release, I saw him standing before us Wow, with us standing behind us.

Speaker 2: 27:52

Yes, amen.

Speaker 1: 27:52

Sometimes standing on his shoulders, for sure.

Speaker 2: 27:56

And under his and under his adjoining, under his wings, you know, because it's he's all encompassing and that's the that's the whole crux of the book. It's ring of fire he's always been. It's based on Zechariah 2.5. It actually says Wall of Fire in the Bible.

Speaker 2: 28:14

But when the Lord showed me, he was taking me back in the Spirit to my time in the abortion clinic, because I kept asking Him how did I get so close? So close Because after that abortion, that day I was going to go home and commit suicide by hanging and I was married, had three children at home, I had had an affair, extramarital affair, and that's how I got pregnant with my son. And so I was within moments of doing the unthinkable and I had already made my decision. The enemy already had had me on the ropes. So I had already made my decision, okay, already had had me on the ropes so long. I'd already made my decision Okay, when I go home I'm going to end my life.

Speaker 2: 28:53

And I chose the most painful possible way because I thought that I had to exude every ounce of suffering because of what I was about to do, was about to do, and I just I'm grateful that the Lord, he, covered me. He called me forth and I was able to remember who I was and come back to life, because I was completely taken over by the enemy at that point completely. I'd just about given up hope. But there is a reflex in the spirit Even whenever you've completely let go of what you think is any fragment of yourself, hope still remains. And I'm grateful for that, because there was just enough hope in my spirit where I was like because no one would look at me and I was weeping, weeping, weeping and no one would talk to me. They wouldn't look at me. They were looking at the father of my child, talking to him, and I remember thinking I just wish somebody would see me.

Speaker 2: 29:59

And in that instant Jesus showed up. He saw me. He saw me all the time. He saw me walk in, he saw me do all the things, and that's when I was asking him. I was like Lord, how were we so close? And you got us out.

Speaker 2: 30:12

And he showed me in the spirit the very real demons that I was seeing in there. I didn't see them that day, but since he's taken me back in the spirit, I have seen them in open visions and I would see them dropping on to people walking around, but they never got near me and I was asking him how did I get so lucky? How did I get so lucky? And he expanded my vision and I saw a ring of fire around me and he said I was always there protecting you. Now, he did not draw me into the abortion clinic, he allowed me free will and my choices landed me there, but even in there he was protecting me and guarding me. And I think about that scripture where David says in Psalms. David says even if I go down to Sheol to hell, you're there. And he was. I was literally in hell that day and he was there protecting me. So I'm so grateful for that.

Speaker 1: 31:14

I mean in this message of of life, it's, it's one of your main messages that there'd be that war on your life and your choice I mean the enemy is such a punk seriously. He definitely is. You're a punk, seriously. I mean he definitely is. You're such a punk, seriously. I mean I'm telling you.

Speaker 2: 31:33

Well, I wanted to make sure that everybody knows this podcast episode is going to be releasing on your release day, which happens to be what day Happens to be Labor Day and I was so surprised when Holy Spirit told me because I was trying to decide okay, what day are we launching, what are we going to do? I knew I was getting close. You know you can feel those birthing pains and I knew I was getting close, braxton Hicks I felt like I was ready to pop and I was starting to kind of panic and try to do things on my own, which I tend to do sometimes, in my own, which I tend to do sometimes, and the Holy Spirit has to tap me on the shoulder gently and be like hello, remember, I'm your guide, I'm your counselor. Ask me. And he did that. And I asked him. I said, okay, holy Spirit, what day are you going to do it?

Speaker 2: 32:22

And instantly I heard it drop Labor Day. I panicked when I heard that because that was just a little over a month away at the time. I heard it and I was like no, like this Labor Day. And he said, yeah, the time is right, labor Day. And then I rejoiced because I thought about it. I was like that is so like God to take what the enemy means for evil, the weapons of destruction, and turn around and put it back in his face because the enemy was trying to stop the birth of my son and this labor of love that the Lord has called me to. And now the Lord's turning around and being like guess what, satan, we're launching on Labor Day.

Speaker 1: 33:06

Exactly. I love that you said like labor of love, because I was actually my next question that I wanted to ask you was like what was, what would you say was the biggest labor of love in writing this book? And then how did?

Speaker 2: 33:21

God show up in that process. Oh, wow, the biggest labor of love was when I was having to recount my actual testimony in vivid, vivid detail, because he told me don't spare any details. The truth needs to be told. A large part of this purpose of this book is to expose. It's all about exposing the tactics of the enemy and highlighting. We're not just looking at the tactics of the enemy and giving him a proverbial high five. We are exposing the tactics of the enemy, but we're highlighting the overcomer is Jesus Christ, and this is the purpose that he came to earth for. This is why he came to restore things. This is what he wants from us. This is what he expects and he's longing for. This is his heart on the matter. And so we glance at the enemy, but we gaze upon Jesus. And I just want to be really clear about that because I don't want anybody to get the idea that we're highlighting Satan. We're simply exposing his tactics, how he aimed them at me directly and how it really applies to most. He does the same thing with most of creation. You can take your story and insert it in. The details will be different, but the playbook is pretty much the same. He doesn't have any new things. He comes to kill, steal and destroy. That's his three things.

Speaker 2: 34:47

And so I would say my biggest labor of love over it was when the Lord then that was the longest part of the book. The longest part of the struggle was getting through my testimony. I've been able to tell my testimony over and over and over. I can speak publicly about it in any venue. I'm actually a leader for 40 Days for Life, which is 40 days of praying and fasting to see into an abortion. I'm a community leader in my area, volunteer leader, and I'm able to proclaim my testimony orally. But there was something, and I wasn't prepared for this. There was just something about seeing it in black and white print and I did not know that that would be such a struggle. And I really believe it's because when I tell my story it may or may not be forgotten, some of the details may or may not be remembered, but when you write it down in black and white print it is there for all eternity. And it really took another level of healing and really stepping out of the boat, like we were talking about earlier, by faith to say, lord, okay, you're going to have to get me through this and I'm seeing it stare back at me, knowing that everyone who knows me, loves me, has supported me, and most especially my son that was involved in the situation. He's heard me talk about my story over and over and over and, before I even started speaking about it publicly, I sat him down and told him and I asked for his forgiveness, which he graciously gave me. But just knowing that it's going to be there for all eternity, that was a next level of oh God.

Speaker 2: 36:49

I wasn't ready for this. I could not have done it without the Holy Spirit, and it took me such a long time. I would start. There would be new wounds and new areas that I didn't even know existed. So it was actually a healing process for me. I'm grateful for it because it brought things to the surface that were hidden in the recesses of my heart that I thought, hey, we're all good, I'm able to speak about it without getting emotional. Now I can get, I can speak about it without crying and breaking down, and that was such a journey for me over the course of that 17 years. So I thought, well, I'm perfectly healed, I'm perfectly good. Years. So I thought, well, I'm perfectly healed, I'm perfectly good, but there's always another layer to be dealt with and it was a difficult process. I would have to stop A lot of times.

Speaker 2: 37:37

I would run to my prayer closet and just go to war in spirit. In the prayer I would take communion, I would listen to worship songs. Sometimes I would take a walk with the Lord and then we'd be okay, we'd go back and we'd be a little bit more. And once it got out there, and after I saw it and I stared at it, I was like, okay, that painful part that I didn't even know was there, the Band-Aid's been ripped off, there had been some oozing and some bleeding around it, but the Lord was always so faithful to tend to my wounds and love on me and just embrace me and I would hear Him say I'm proud of you, you know. And so that got me.

Speaker 2: 38:25

It was really like three chapters right in the middle of the book that it was a moment by moment situation, like I don't know if I can do this, and of course the enemy was going all in with all the lies, all the tactics, all the attacks, and the Lord would say put on your armor.

Speaker 2: 38:42

And I would run to my prayer closet and put it on and we would get you know, and so I think that was probably the biggest labor of love. But I'm so, so, so, so glad that we did it, because the book would not be complete without it, and I know that there are women who need this book, and not just women. The church needs this book because we tend to not talk about the difficult things in the body of Christ, and that has to change. This is what's considered by default, is considered a hidden sin or the secret sin, and it can't. It can't be that way. That's how the enemy thrives, is in the darkness and we've got to turn the light on. We've got to have more people in the body of Christ to stand up and say, hey, if you've, if you've dealt with this, it's okay. Jesus can heal you and redeem you and restore you and reconnect you. Let me help you through that.

Speaker 1: 39:40

Yes, yes, girl, oh my gosh. I just want to say, like whoever's listening right now, absolutely Like this book is going to shift and even as you walked through this for the last couple of years, there's new, there's new layers, there's we're. We're in the sanctification process and many of us have walked through, you know, some massive trauma, massive things that would take most people out. But you know, looking at you and I know your story and just in working with you, you know being that overcomer that now you've, you've done this thing, you're, you're trailblazing. You know writing this book literally like walking through the trenches to get to the other side. Right Came out of the trenches to get to the other side. You've had your own deliverance in the coming delivery of this book.

Speaker 1: 40:39

Yes, for sure. So what would you say? You know a woman or a man's listening in right now who picks up the book. What ultimately like, what truth and encouragement do you pray like gets unlocked in them?

Speaker 2: 40:54

I pray more than anything that they would know that their identity, your identity, my identity, we are all made in God's image. Our identity is not flawed, it's not confused, it's not mixed up. There's no identity confusion. That is given to us because we are made in the image of Christ, in the image of God, and if we know Christ, we have the mind of Christ. The problem is is that Satan puts a mask, puts scales, over our eyes. So when we look at ourselves or we think about who we are, we have a distorted view. It's like there's a misalignment and we all tend to default to well, I'm messed up because I messed up, or I'm bad because I did bad, or I'm a hot mess or I'm whatever, or God can't really love me after what I've done. I mean, when I think about what I did, what I almost did, where I was in the years following, I gave God plenty of excuses or plenty of opportunities to walk away and say that she's unredeemable, yet he never did so. I just want to say that to the woman, to the man listening there is nothing you can do that is going to make God retract his love for you. He's going to give you free will and he's going to hope and pray and wait, wait. Jesus gently waits and tenderly knocks on our heart. He waits for us to either accept him as our Lord and Savior or to come back to him, like the story of the prodigal son I talk about. I relate myself to the prodigal son in the book and you know, Jesus is tenderly waiting, god's tenderly waiting, for that moment of restoration. That is what Jesus came to earth for. He left his holy, he left his kingdom authority, kingdom dominion. He was in heaven with God, the Father, and he laid it all down willingly to come to earth through the birth of a woman because he had to enter. Satan's a legalist and he took, he usurped our legal authority in the garden by tricking Eve when she fell for it. He was like gotcha. Now I have dominion in the earth. So if we don't know Jesus, yeah, satan has dominion in the earth over us.

Speaker 2: 43:29

If we come to know Jesus, he came to redeem us. He came to earth as a man, walked as a man, lived as a man, died as a man. He rose again as a deity. He rose by the power of the Holy Spirit. That same Spirit lives in us if we have accepted Jesus. He did all that willingly so he could give us back the opportunity to stand in the authority. We have to do it through Him. We have to accept Him as our Lord and Savior. When we do, we're washed in the blood we put on the righteousness of Christ. So when God looks at us, he doesn't see our past failures and mistakes, he sees the righteousness of Christ.

Speaker 2: 44:13

If we sin and we, you know, because no one's perfect we sin, we fall short by operating in the flesh. We need to be quick to repent and say Lord, reestablish that connection with relationship. He didn't come for religion, he came for relationship and every one of us is offered that. The Lord desires that we would take advantage of that. We don't have to. He's not going to force us, but if we don't, we are guaranteed that we will not overcome Satan. We won't overcome death, the grave, and our ultimate future will be in hell. Hell is not meant for anyone. It was meant for the angels that fell and Satan, and it's not God's heart that anyone should perish. But he's going to because he loves us. He's going to give us the opportunity to choose. Jesus came so we would have a choice and that choice is victory if we walk in him.

Speaker 2: 45:12

So I just want every woman, every man that's listening right now, that picks up the book, I want them to understand. You have the opportunity for intimate relationship with Jesus by accepting him as your Lord and Savior. That gives you guaranteed victory and the keys over death, hell and the grave, and the authority to take dominion over Satan and this earth. But it's not automatic. You've got to rise up, you've got to understand it, one Number one. You've got to understand who you are and what you're entitled to, what power and authority has been given to you under the blood of Jesus and walking in authority of Holy Spirit and the name of Jesus. But you've also you can't be enough to understand it. You've got to apply it and the victory is assured.

Speaker 1: 46:08

Well, listeners, can you tell this Amy's a fiery one. I mean, I love, like you and I are both verbal processors, so I love just what you speak, your sound, all of it, and I cannot wait to like hear the testimonies from people who actually get to read your book. The Words on Paper right, amen. So where can people find your book?

Speaker 2: 46:35

Okay, so it is not out yet. We're going to launch it on. Like I said, this is playing on september 1st. Yeah, um, which is the celebratory launch date, the actual um it. It will be on a um, a print on demand site. I think it's called bookme or uh. I'll link it in the show notes. I'll be sure to look at me, I'll have to ask my publisher what the thing is book, bookme or something like that. So I'll have that um, I'll have it linked in the show notes.

Speaker 2: 47:09

And then the following week, on September 8th, will be the hard launch. That will be where you can get it on Amazon and Kindle. The hard launch, that will be where you can get it on Amazon and Kindle and my goal is to get to get a lot of. So the Kindle price will, for one week will be $1.99. And then the goal of that is to get it in the hands of readers in the digital version and the, the Kindle version, and for reviews to be done, because we want to post those reviews within the first three to five days during that week of the 8th.

Speaker 2: 47:47

We want to post those reviews because we want to get this book to number one status. It'll be in the Christian healing category. We want to get it to the number one status as quickly as possible so as many women, and even men if they need it, can get access to it, because once it's listed as a bestseller it'll go up the listing and if they just do a search or whatever, it'll be easily found. We want to make it easily accessible to all the people that need it. So if you guys would, you know, download the Kindle version for $1.99 and leave a review quickly, that would be amazing. The print version it'll be in paperback on Amazon. It should be that same day, so you can also buy it in paperback version. But I believe, from what I'm understanding, I believe the only reviews that count are Kindle. I don't know why it's done that way, but we really want to get those pushed up within three to five days of launch so we can get that to that number one status. That would be amazing.

Speaker 1: 48:53

That's good to know and we'll be sure to. I'll link up the Amazon once that launches. We'll put that in the show notes as well. Okay, thank you. Thank you so much for sharing today. I'm so proud of you. This book is coming soon. Yay, we're recording a week exactly before this baby's coming. We're in the hospital right now.

Speaker 1: 49:17

We're packing our bag, the bags are packed, we're putting our feet up a little bit, resting, breathing, doing a little pushing. Like is it? It's literally like in the physical some of the things you're experiencing, I'm sure so. Would you be open to praying us out today?

Speaker 2: 49:37

Yes, I would, and thank you so much for having me. It's been such a joy and such an honor. It's such a blessing to have you on again. Thank you All right, lord. We thank you so much for this time. I thank you for Kristen's heart to serve, father. We thank you for no glitches in technology. We thank you, lord, that this podcast is going to go out to the masses. Father. We thank you for this Hope Unlocked channel. Father, we thank you for all the listeners that tune in. And, father, I just speak right now. Blessings and favor over Kristen and all that she touches.

Speaker 2: 50:13

Father, I thank you so much for the ones that need this book. Father, prepare their hearts, prepare their mind and get this book before them in easy, tangible ways. Let it be a weapon of healing in the reader's hands. Father. Let it be something that gives you all glory and all honor. I thank you so much, holy Spirit, for getting me across the finish line. It has been such a journey and I pray that this will heal, it'll deliver, it'll even educate if it needs to. And, father, I pray more than anything that where the intimacy relationship has been severed or has been altered in whatever way by sin and by the enemy and just life in general, distractions, whatever, father, I know that you will put it back in proper alignment and I just speak. Blessings over that.

Speaker 2: 51:06

And, father, for the ones that are going to get their hands on the book that don't yet know you, father, man, let it tug on their hearts, let the Holy Spirit speak to them directly and let it minister the gospel in mighty powerful ways.

Speaker 2: 51:22

Father, I pray that many will come to know you, that they will be able to understand their kingdom identity and be able to stand in it. And, father, I thank you so much for this. I give you glory and honor and I am so excited that you were releasing this. I thank you, father, that you have taught me the word, the Greek word, heneine, and it means here I am, send me. It's not just a simple here I am, send me, but it is an excitable here I am, send me. And, father, I thank you that you have taught me that word and you've taught me to stand fully in it, and you have been faithful, faithful, faithful, to show up and carry me through the entire process. So, just bless, bless this book for kingdom service. We give you glory and honor in all things in Jesus mighty name Amen.

Speaker 1: 52:12

Amen, I've got like pinatas and firecrackers going off over here for you. Come on, I'm so excited. Oh God, seriously, oh my gosh. Well, and then also, what is the best way for somebody to contact you outside of the book, and I'll link that in the show notes as well.

Speaker 2: 52:29

The best way is my website and it is wwwamydialcom. It's real simple. It's A-M-Y-D-I-A-Lcom and people can see about the book there. They can subscribe to my email series. There's also a free seven-day devotional that they can go on and grab. That's really powerful and I highly suggest it. It's about standing in our kingdom authority and overcoming, and then people can also book me to speak there. They can book a call with me on working with my women's fitness. And now the Lord is expanding us into I don't think I finished talking about this earlier, but the Lord is expanding us into further reach and we're going to be doing individual coaching with identity restoration.

Speaker 1: 53:25

So beautiful. Yeah, girl for it. Girl, come on, thank you. Well, I'm going to close with our anchoring verse over Hope. Unlocked it's may the God of hopefully, with all joy and peace, and believing so that, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you may abound in hope. And that's Romans 15, 13. So thank you, amy, for being a brave voice who is setting so many free, and I will be back with another episode next week. We'll see you later.

Speaker 2: 53:52

Thank you.

Speaker 1: 53:53

Bye, bye.