Mary DeMuth is a writer and speaker who loves to help people live re-storied lives. She's the author of more than 30 Christian living books and is extremely passionate about prayer! It was such an honor to sit down and talk with her after hearing her speak years ago at a conference.
Mary speaks around the country and the world and is the host of the popular daily podcast Pray Every Day, where she prays for you every day of the year. She is the wife of Patrick and the mom of three adult children, currently living in Texas.
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Mary, I love how big of a role prayer plays in your writing, your speaking and your podcasting. And so I'm super excited to have you today to share with listeners about. Just how God developed this in you and gave you a heart to speak into prayer in the lives of your listeners and readers. So would you talk to us a little bit about how that started and developed in you?
Right. So I think it actually, that's a really great question. I think it started the moment I met Jesus. I was 15 years old and everything started with a prayer. So the whole relationship with Jesus, I didn't know anything about him. Um, it was completely a shock to my system to even learn about Jesus or to hear stories about him.
I didn't understand that he had anything to do with Christmas or Easter. I was completely unchurched and also a traumatized kid with lots of baggage, sexual abuse, lots of it. Um, divorce of, of, uh, mom, a couple of times and lots of abandonment, drug abuse in the home, unsafe places. I mean, just all the things that could happen to a little kid, uh, happened to me.
So by the time I was 15, I. I right before that I was ready to take my life. But then I started to go to young life and I started hearing the gospel. And so I met him at a weekend camp and I said, would you be the dad that will never leave me? Because by that time my biological father had died and that really just began this long.
Decades, long journey of prayer and really honest prayer. I never, because I didn't grow up in a church, I didn't have like, Oh, this is how you're supposed to do it. Or, you know, you have to say it this way. So, so start off with a conversation and. I also had the opportunity in college, as you can imagine with all that trauma, I was just falling apart all the time.
And once I was out of my unsafe environment and, uh, the lion's share of my healing that God has done. And I'm still in the process of course, but was because people that I knew loved me and. And lay their hands on me and they prayed for me. And so this power of prayer was at the very beginning of my Christian life.
