August 22, 2025 • 20 mins
When you’re feeling alone, lost, and “not good enough,” that’s exactly when God shows up and reminds us of His truth. “This past week and a half has been tough. I’ve been in my feelings, listening to lies from the enemy telling me I’m not enough.” This episode is going to be a short, raw, and from the heart. I just needed to get this off my heart. I know I am not alone. We have to share scriptures that directly combat the lies:
“You are fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14)
“My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9)
“You are chosen, royal, holy, God’s special possession” (1 Peter 2:9)
“The enemy says I’m not good enough. God says I am His.”
Start a List of “Truths to Hold On To”
- I am loved.
- I am chosen.
- I am forgiven.
- I am not alone.
- I am enough because He is enough.
Keep building their own lists of God’s truth when lies creep in.
“Sis, if you’re listening and feel the same way I do, you are not alone. God has you, and together we’ll keep choosing truth.”
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https://unrelatedsisterspodcast.buzzsprout.com and tell us your stories and let us know if it’s okay to share (no names). Let us know if you need prayer or how we can support you in your journey. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen. Follow us on Facebook @Unrelated Sister's: Truth & Grace Conversation Podcast or Email us at unrelatedsisterspodcast@gmail.com
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SPEAKER_00 (00:01):
Dear Lord Jesus, I come to you today and I ask you
for the strength to just be openand honest and to be raw.
Give me the opportunity to justtell these people how I felt
this week.
Help me to be honest and open.
Help me to share my feelings.
(00:22):
I can't be the only one.
Lord Jesus, I pray that whoeveris supposed to hear this will
hear this.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
Welcome back, ladies andgentlemen, to Unrelated Sisters
Truth and Grace Conversation.
My name is Shannon, and I'm oneof your hosts, and I am by
(00:47):
myself today.
And first and foremost, I guessI should apologize for not doing
this episode sooner this week sothat it could release on Friday
at 6 o'clock like the otherepisodes.
But I just want to take a fewminutes and be honest with our
(01:10):
audience and talk truth a littlebit today.
This past week and a half hasbeen very, very tough for me.
I've been in my feelings.
I've been listening to the liesfrom the enemy telling me that
I'm not enough or that I'mmaking a mistake or that I'm not
(01:33):
making the right decisions.
And I've just had a really hardweek.
I've had trouble sleeping.
It's made me physically sickover the last few days.
(01:54):
Work has just been hard.
I've been in my store now for,this is my third year, and
February will be the start of myfourth year in this store, and
I've grown to love and respecteveryone that works in my
building.
This last week and a half, I'vemade decisions to change some
(02:21):
things up and to move somethings around.
A lot of people in our buildinghaven't been happy and they've
been upset and they've been justdifferent.
At the end of the day, I knowI'm doing the right thing.
(02:41):
I do.
I know I am.
I prayed about it.
You know, I talked with Godabout it.
I've talked with my peers aboutit.
I've, you know, I didn't makethese decisions lightly.
I didn't change things just tochange things.
I feel like that we have hit astump and that we've quit
(03:03):
growing, you know.
But now, for the last week sinceI've made the decisions that
I've heard all I can hearwhispered in my ear is the enemy
and the negativity thateverybody around me is saying,
(03:24):
that the enemy is saying in myear.
I'm not sure.
But I just can't be the onlyperson that feels this way.
Like I can't be the only personthat when you make a decision
that doesn't just affect you,but it affects people around
you.
When you do things that you knowat the end of the day is the
(03:48):
right thing to do.
But because everybody doesn'tagree with you, you, you know,
You carry that weight on yourshoulders.
You know, I hear a lot, right?
(04:11):
I carry a lot of people'sproblems and a lot of their
situations, a lot of theirpersonal life.
you know and into mine because iwant them to feel comfortable
enough to talk to me about thati want to be able to pray for
these people and i want to beable to help them walk through
(04:33):
difficult situations anddifficult times in their lives
but sometimes it gets to beoverwhelming it just it gets to
be overwhelming sometimes for mepersonally You know, this week I
have definitely been in myfeelings.
I have been feeling like afailure and I do not do well
(04:59):
feeling like a failure.
Just saying that word makes mewant to just bawl.
That's all I wanted to do thisweek is just crawl in a corner
and cry over and over and overagain.
I don't know if that is frompast trauma.
(05:21):
I thought I was past the pointof pleasing people in my life.
But after this week, it makes mewonder if that doesn't have
something to do with it.
I was told that I caused chaos.
(05:45):
in my building and that I don'thold people accountable in my
building and I don't do allthese things and as a leader you
have to make those harddecisions and I'm definitely
second guess every decision thatI've made this week you know I
(06:12):
just I feel vulnerable and Idon't Like to feel vulnerable.
I don't.
In the Bible, it says you arefearful and wonderfully made.
Psalms 139.14.
I have read that over and overagain this week.
(06:41):
Normally, I can feel it.
when I meet it, and I don't feelfearful this week.
I don't feel wonderfully madethis week.
2 Corinthians 12 9 says, Mygrace is sufficient for you, for
(07:01):
my power is made perfect inweakness.
I don't like feeling weak.
And I shut down.
And that's what I've done thisweek.
I have completely, 100% shutdown emotionally.
I don't like the way that makesme feel.
(07:27):
And when I shut downemotionally, I shut down
physically too.
You are chosen, royal, holy,God's special possession.
I can read these things to metoday, and I know these verses
(07:49):
today, but yet all I can hear isthe enemy, the people around me,
speaking into my bubble that I'mnot enough, that I am not good
enough.
(08:10):
even though that God says I am.
You can literally, you know, youcan literally hear the voices of
(08:33):
negativity around you andthey're not always speaking to
you.
Sometimes they're justwhispering behind you.
But the devil, the enemy, wantsyou to know that that negativity
is in your world and that thatnegativity is around you.
And I have felt it a lot thisweek.
(08:58):
I have felt a lot ofdisappointment from people this
week.
I have felt a lot of...
I felt a lot of feelings.
And I don't like feelings.
I don't like to feel negativityand I don't like to feel lost or
(09:24):
confused.
I don't like to second guessmyself.
I do a lot of things by the seatof my pants.
I jump feet first and figure itout as I go.
But when it comes...
to the people that I love and itcomes to the people that I truly
(09:44):
care about, I question everydecision that I make with them.
I question every decision.
I question God.
I question, is this out ofdiscernment or is this out of
necessity?
Why?
(10:05):
Why do we need to disrupteverybody's life and make
decisions or make changes?
We've talked about this onseveral of our episodes about
(10:29):
being a sticky note person andputting sticky notes on my
mirror.
I've taken all of that down thisweek.
I haven't wanted to see it orhear it.
I haven't, you know, I justwanted to wallow in my own self
this week.
And it's been kind of funny, Ithink.
(10:54):
You know, I talk a lot aboutbeing in the car and driving
three hours a day to and fromwork.
And everything this week hasbeen about guarding your heart.
It's been about protectingyourself from the enemy.
(11:18):
It's been about differentthings, and it's been about the
verse of the day.
I get a verse of the day to myphone every day.
(11:39):
One of them was, My grace is allyou need.
My power works best in weakness.
2 Corinthians.
And then the next day, since weare living by the Spirit, let us
follow the Spirit's leading inevery part of our lives.
(12:02):
Since we are living by theSpirit, let us follow the
Spirit's leading in every partof our lives.
And then today's verse, oryesterday's verse, was guard
your heart above all else, forit determines the courses of
your life.
(12:23):
Guard your heart above all else,for it determines the course of
your life.
Proverbs 4, 23 says, I read thatverse and I have to ask, why?
Why?
(12:43):
Why can't I just guard my heartand do what I know is best and
let everyone else come to termswith it?
You can rejoice, too, when werun into problems and trials,
(13:05):
for we know that they help usdevelop endurance.
Romans 5.3 You know, it's beenamazing this week, the fact that
every Bible verse that haspopped up in my verse of the
day, and I have two or three,know that pop up every day has
(13:29):
been regarding my heart has beenlistening to jesus you know it's
it's been it's been amazing uhyou know um jamie mcdonald you
know she just released a songthat says lifted in the river
(13:51):
you know um lifted in the water,you know.
And that's where we should livethings.
We should live them in thewater.
But we don't.
We want to wallow in ourself-pity and we want to wallow
in people's feelings that we'vehurt and we want to wallow in
(14:15):
and don't get me wrong, I'm notsaying that you know, that I'm
perfect and I'm not saying thatI don't do things the wrong way
or I don't always communicatethe best and I don't always do
the things you know that makethat make life simple for people
because I by any means do not dothat but I do try to be truthful
(14:43):
and I do try to treat others theway that I wish to be treated
and I do try to show everyone Icome in contact with the love of
Jesus.
And this week has been hard.
This week has been hard.
I haven't, you know, I normallyfind one or two people a day to
(15:07):
witness to or to talk aboutJesus with or, you know, talk
about positivity with.
And I've just not had that thisweek.
And I don't like it.
I don't like it.
So, truths to hold on to.
(15:28):
The first truth that we aregoing to hold on to for this
upcoming week is that I amloved.
And if you're listening, youneed to hold on to some of God's
truths.
Write this down.
The second one I'm going to holdon to is I am chosen.
I am forgiven.
I am not alone.
(15:50):
And I am enough because He isenough.
Build your own list of God'struths when lies creep in.
Dig into Him.
Give in to Him.
Holler for Him.
Reach your arms out for Him.
And find your way back.
(16:14):
I recently started watch onTikTok.
And on TikTok, just Melanie, shedoes a We Do Not Care.
She has a We Do Not Care club.
And it's, you know, it's meantto uplift women who are going
(16:34):
through menopause andpremenopause.
And, you know, she wants you toknow that you're not alone.
And so...
She wanted you to know thatthere's women out going through
the same things that you'regoing through.
And so I was thinking about thison the way home, and I have
(16:56):
decided that I'm going to starta not-today enemy club, right?
So my not-today enemy club, thefirst one is...
You do not, the enemy does notget to steal my joy.
(17:18):
He does not.
The enemy does not get to makeme sad.
He does not.
The enemy does not get to tellme I am not enough.
He does not.
I am chosen by the King.
(17:44):
I am enough because Jesus isenough.
I am not alone because Jesusloves me.
I hope and I pray that youunderstand and you see where
(18:08):
this is coming from today.
And if you're supposed to hearthis, I pray that you listen and
you hear it today.
Dear Lord Jesus, I come today tothank you and to give you all
the glory.
I have loved you, and in today'sepisode, I rebuke the lies of
(18:28):
the enemy.
I ask for you to restore my joyand my peace and identity today.
in Him, in you, Lord Jesus.
I pray that you love me.
I pray that the negativity thathas been around me, that you
take that negativity and youhelp me to turn it into
(18:51):
positivity with the peoplearound me.
Lord Jesus, give me the words.
Give me the things to say.
Give me the smile that eatsthrough it.
Lord Jesus, I praise you and Ithank you for everything that
you have ever done for me.
Lord Jesus, I thank you forgiving me the opportunity to
(19:13):
realize that it's been the enemyall week long.
You have subtly sent me hints,verses, Music, songs, all week
long, Lord Jesus, and I justwant you to know that I am
grateful and I am thankful foreverything that you have given
me this week, Lord Jesus, andfor everything that you are
(19:36):
going to give me and my familyin the upcoming weeks.
Lord Jesus, once again, I rebukethe lies of the enemy.
And I ask you to restore my joy,my peace, and my identity in
you.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
(19:56):
Hey sis, if you're listening andyou feel the same way I do,
you're not alone.
God has you, and together we'llkeep choosing truth.
If you loved this episode,please share it with another.
please follow us on TikTok atunrelated.sisters or on Facebook
(20:20):
at unrelatedsisterspodcast.com.
Thank you, ladies.
Dear Lord Jesus, I come to you today and I ask you
for the strength to just be openand honest and to be raw.
Give me the opportunity to justtell these people how I felt
this week.
Help me to be honest and open.
Help me to share my feelings.
(00:22):
I can't be the only one.
Lord Jesus, I pray that whoeveris supposed to hear this will
hear this.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
Welcome back, ladies andgentlemen, to Unrelated Sisters
Truth and Grace Conversation.
My name is Shannon, and I'm oneof your hosts, and I am by
(00:47):
myself today.
And first and foremost, I guessI should apologize for not doing
this episode sooner this week sothat it could release on Friday
at 6 o'clock like the otherepisodes.
But I just want to take a fewminutes and be honest with our
(01:10):
audience and talk truth a littlebit today.
This past week and a half hasbeen very, very tough for me.
I've been in my feelings.
I've been listening to the liesfrom the enemy telling me that
I'm not enough or that I'mmaking a mistake or that I'm not
(01:33):
making the right decisions.
And I've just had a really hardweek.
I've had trouble sleeping.
It's made me physically sickover the last few days.
(01:54):
Work has just been hard.
I've been in my store now for,this is my third year, and
February will be the start of myfourth year in this store, and
I've grown to love and respecteveryone that works in my
building.
This last week and a half, I'vemade decisions to change some
(02:21):
things up and to move somethings around.
A lot of people in our buildinghaven't been happy and they've
been upset and they've been justdifferent.
At the end of the day, I knowI'm doing the right thing.
(02:41):
I do.
I know I am.
I prayed about it.
You know, I talked with Godabout it.
I've talked with my peers aboutit.
I've, you know, I didn't makethese decisions lightly.
I didn't change things just tochange things.
I feel like that we have hit astump and that we've quit
(03:03):
growing, you know.
But now, for the last week sinceI've made the decisions that
I've heard all I can hearwhispered in my ear is the enemy
and the negativity thateverybody around me is saying,
(03:24):
that the enemy is saying in myear.
I'm not sure.
But I just can't be the onlyperson that feels this way.
Like I can't be the only personthat when you make a decision
that doesn't just affect you,but it affects people around
you.
When you do things that you knowat the end of the day is the
(03:48):
right thing to do.
But because everybody doesn'tagree with you, you, you know,
You carry that weight on yourshoulders.
You know, I hear a lot, right?
(04:11):
I carry a lot of people'sproblems and a lot of their
situations, a lot of theirpersonal life.
you know and into mine because iwant them to feel comfortable
enough to talk to me about thati want to be able to pray for
these people and i want to beable to help them walk through
(04:33):
difficult situations anddifficult times in their lives
but sometimes it gets to beoverwhelming it just it gets to
be overwhelming sometimes for mepersonally You know, this week I
have definitely been in myfeelings.
I have been feeling like afailure and I do not do well
(04:59):
feeling like a failure.
Just saying that word makes mewant to just bawl.
That's all I wanted to do thisweek is just crawl in a corner
and cry over and over and overagain.
I don't know if that is frompast trauma.
(05:21):
I thought I was past the pointof pleasing people in my life.
But after this week, it makes mewonder if that doesn't have
something to do with it.
I was told that I caused chaos.
(05:45):
in my building and that I don'thold people accountable in my
building and I don't do allthese things and as a leader you
have to make those harddecisions and I'm definitely
second guess every decision thatI've made this week you know I
(06:12):
just I feel vulnerable and Idon't Like to feel vulnerable.
I don't.
In the Bible, it says you arefearful and wonderfully made.
Psalms 139.14.
I have read that over and overagain this week.
(06:41):
Normally, I can feel it.
when I meet it, and I don't feelfearful this week.
I don't feel wonderfully madethis week.
2 Corinthians 12 9 says, Mygrace is sufficient for you, for
(07:01):
my power is made perfect inweakness.
I don't like feeling weak.
And I shut down.
And that's what I've done thisweek.
I have completely, 100% shutdown emotionally.
I don't like the way that makesme feel.
(07:27):
And when I shut downemotionally, I shut down
physically too.
You are chosen, royal, holy,God's special possession.
I can read these things to metoday, and I know these verses
(07:49):
today, but yet all I can hear isthe enemy, the people around me,
speaking into my bubble that I'mnot enough, that I am not good
enough.
(08:10):
even though that God says I am.
You can literally, you know, youcan literally hear the voices of
(08:33):
negativity around you andthey're not always speaking to
you.
Sometimes they're justwhispering behind you.
But the devil, the enemy, wantsyou to know that that negativity
is in your world and that thatnegativity is around you.
And I have felt it a lot thisweek.
(08:58):
I have felt a lot ofdisappointment from people this
week.
I have felt a lot of...
I felt a lot of feelings.
And I don't like feelings.
I don't like to feel negativityand I don't like to feel lost or
(09:24):
confused.
I don't like to second guessmyself.
I do a lot of things by the seatof my pants.
I jump feet first and figure itout as I go.
But when it comes...
to the people that I love and itcomes to the people that I truly
(09:44):
care about, I question everydecision that I make with them.
I question every decision.
I question God.
I question, is this out ofdiscernment or is this out of
necessity?
Why?
(10:05):
Why do we need to disrupteverybody's life and make
decisions or make changes?
We've talked about this onseveral of our episodes about
(10:29):
being a sticky note person andputting sticky notes on my
mirror.
I've taken all of that down thisweek.
I haven't wanted to see it orhear it.
I haven't, you know, I justwanted to wallow in my own self
this week.
And it's been kind of funny, Ithink.
(10:54):
You know, I talk a lot aboutbeing in the car and driving
three hours a day to and fromwork.
And everything this week hasbeen about guarding your heart.
It's been about protectingyourself from the enemy.
(11:18):
It's been about differentthings, and it's been about the
verse of the day.
I get a verse of the day to myphone every day.
(11:39):
One of them was, My grace is allyou need.
My power works best in weakness.
2 Corinthians.
And then the next day, since weare living by the Spirit, let us
follow the Spirit's leading inevery part of our lives.
(12:02):
Since we are living by theSpirit, let us follow the
Spirit's leading in every partof our lives.
And then today's verse, oryesterday's verse, was guard
your heart above all else, forit determines the courses of
your life.
(12:23):
Guard your heart above all else,for it determines the course of
your life.
Proverbs 4, 23 says, I read thatverse and I have to ask, why?
Why?
(12:43):
Why can't I just guard my heartand do what I know is best and
let everyone else come to termswith it?
You can rejoice, too, when werun into problems and trials,
(13:05):
for we know that they help usdevelop endurance.
Romans 5.3 You know, it's beenamazing this week, the fact that
every Bible verse that haspopped up in my verse of the
day, and I have two or three,know that pop up every day has
(13:29):
been regarding my heart has beenlistening to jesus you know it's
it's been it's been amazing uhyou know um jamie mcdonald you
know she just released a songthat says lifted in the river
(13:51):
you know um lifted in the water,you know.
And that's where we should livethings.
We should live them in thewater.
But we don't.
We want to wallow in ourself-pity and we want to wallow
in people's feelings that we'vehurt and we want to wallow in
(14:15):
and don't get me wrong, I'm notsaying that you know, that I'm
perfect and I'm not saying thatI don't do things the wrong way
or I don't always communicatethe best and I don't always do
the things you know that makethat make life simple for people
because I by any means do not dothat but I do try to be truthful
(14:43):
and I do try to treat others theway that I wish to be treated
and I do try to show everyone Icome in contact with the love of
Jesus.
And this week has been hard.
This week has been hard.
I haven't, you know, I normallyfind one or two people a day to
(15:07):
witness to or to talk aboutJesus with or, you know, talk
about positivity with.
And I've just not had that thisweek.
And I don't like it.
I don't like it.
So, truths to hold on to.
(15:28):
The first truth that we aregoing to hold on to for this
upcoming week is that I amloved.
And if you're listening, youneed to hold on to some of God's
truths.
Write this down.
The second one I'm going to holdon to is I am chosen.
I am forgiven.
I am not alone.
(15:50):
And I am enough because He isenough.
Build your own list of God'struths when lies creep in.
Dig into Him.
Give in to Him.
Holler for Him.
Reach your arms out for Him.
And find your way back.
(16:14):
I recently started watch onTikTok.
And on TikTok, just Melanie, shedoes a We Do Not Care.
She has a We Do Not Care club.
And it's, you know, it's meantto uplift women who are going
(16:34):
through menopause andpremenopause.
And, you know, she wants you toknow that you're not alone.
And so...
She wanted you to know thatthere's women out going through
the same things that you'regoing through.
And so I was thinking about thison the way home, and I have
(16:56):
decided that I'm going to starta not-today enemy club, right?
So my not-today enemy club, thefirst one is...
You do not, the enemy does notget to steal my joy.
(17:18):
He does not.
The enemy does not get to makeme sad.
He does not.
The enemy does not get to tellme I am not enough.
He does not.
I am chosen by the King.
(17:44):
I am enough because Jesus isenough.
I am not alone because Jesusloves me.
I hope and I pray that youunderstand and you see where
(18:08):
this is coming from today.
And if you're supposed to hearthis, I pray that you listen and
you hear it today.
Dear Lord Jesus, I come today tothank you and to give you all
the glory.
I have loved you, and in today'sepisode, I rebuke the lies of
(18:28):
the enemy.
I ask for you to restore my joyand my peace and identity today.
in Him, in you, Lord Jesus.
I pray that you love me.
I pray that the negativity thathas been around me, that you
take that negativity and youhelp me to turn it into
(18:51):
positivity with the peoplearound me.
Lord Jesus, give me the words.
Give me the things to say.
Give me the smile that eatsthrough it.
Lord Jesus, I praise you and Ithank you for everything that
you have ever done for me.
Lord Jesus, I thank you forgiving me the opportunity to
(19:13):
realize that it's been the enemyall week long.
You have subtly sent me hints,verses, Music, songs, all week
long, Lord Jesus, and I justwant you to know that I am
grateful and I am thankful foreverything that you have given
me this week, Lord Jesus, andfor everything that you are
(19:36):
going to give me and my familyin the upcoming weeks.
Lord Jesus, once again, I rebukethe lies of the enemy.
And I ask you to restore my joy,my peace, and my identity in
you.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
(19:56):
Hey sis, if you're listening andyou feel the same way I do,
you're not alone.
God has you, and together we'llkeep choosing truth.
If you loved this episode,please share it with another.
please follow us on TikTok atunrelated.sisters or on Facebook
(20:20):
at unrelatedsisterspodcast.com.
Thank you, ladies.
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