UNSHAKABLE FINDING YOUR STRENGTH WHEN LIFE TRIES TO BREAK YOU

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
On today's show, we are talking about unshakable, finding your
strength when life tries to break you. The phone call
came at two seventeen a m. The kind that changes everything,
the kind that divides your life into before and after.
I stood in my kitchen, still in my pajamas, gripping
the counter so hard my knuckles turned white. The doctor's
words hung in the air like smoke. Cancer, advanced options limited.

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Have you been there, not necessarily with the diagnosis, but
with that moment when life suddenly shatters your carefully constructed plans,
when the foundation you thought was solid suddenly feels like
quicksand beneath your feet. Sister, I see you there, wondering
how you'll possibly take another step, questioning whether you have
what it takes to face what lies ahead. Let me

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tell you something that may sound impossible right now. This
breaking point is not your breaking point. It's your breakthrough point.
Strength beyond circumstances. We often misunderstand strength. We think it's
the apps of weakness, the lack of struggle, the elimination
of fear. But that's not strength. That's fantasy. Real strength

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isn't found in perfect circumstances, but in persevering through impossible ones.
It's not about feeling powerful, but about moving forward when
you feel completely powerless. Remember David facing thelive Scripture doesn't
tell us his knees weren't knocking. It doesn't say his
heart wasn't racing. What made David strong wasn't the absence
of fear, but his decision to move forward despite it.

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The Lord is my strength and my shield. My heart
trusts in him, and he helps me, Psalm twenty eight seven.
Notice David doesn't say the Lord takes away my problems.
He says the Lord is my strength in the midst
of them. The power of decided women. There's something magnificent
about a woman who has made up her mind. When

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you decide, truly decide that your circumstances will not determine
your destiny. Something shifts in the atmosphere when you plant
your feet and declare, this situation may be bigger than me,
but it is not bigger than my God. Heaven takes notice.
I've watched women face financial devastation and build new legacies
from the ashes. I've seen mothers of children with disabilities

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become fierce advocates who change entire systems I've witnessed twives
walk through betrayal and heartbreak, only to discover depths of
forgiveness they never knew possible. What these women share isn't
exceptional circumstance. It's exceptional decision. They decided that their story
wouldn't end in the valley. They decided that their pain
would become purpose. They decided that what was meant to

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destroy them would instead define their strength. She is clothed
with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of
the future. Proverbs thirty one, twenty five. This verse doesn't
describe a woman who hasn't known hardship. It describes a
woman who has faced her fears and chosen strength anyway,
Strength and surrender. Here's the paradox that changed everything for me.

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My greatest strength came when I finally admitted my weakness
standing in that kitchen, and at two seventeen a m
I finally whispered words I'd been too proud to say
for years. God, I can't do this, not alone, not
on my own strength. And in that moment of complete surrender,
I felt something shift. Not my circumstances they remained just

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as devastating, but something in me changed, a weight lifted,
A peace descended that made no logical sense given what
I was facing. My grace is sufficient for you, for
my power is made perfect in weakness. Second Corinthians twelve nine.
This is the secret that strong women know. Admitting your
need for God is it weakness. It's your greatest source

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of strength. Surrendering your illusion of control doesn't diminish your power.
It connects you to a power source beyond yourself, strength
and community. The myth of the strong, independent woman who
needs no one has damaged too many of us. We
think asking for help somehow diminishes our strength. We believe
vulnerability equals weakness. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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After my diagnosis, I reluctantly allowed my friend Sarah to
create a meal schedule. I awkwardly accepted Rebecca's offer to
drive my children to school. I uncomfortably let my sister
clean my house when the treatments left me too weak
to stand, and in doing so I discovered something profound.
Allowing others to support e doesn't diminish your strength, it

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multiplies it. Two are better than one. If either of
them falls down, one can help the other up. Ecclesiastes
four nine to ten. The strongest women I know aren't
lone rangers. They're connected warriors who know when to offer
help and when to receive it. Your unshakable core life
will shake you. That's guaranteed. Jobs will be lost, relationships

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will end, health will fail, dreams will die. But being
shaken doesn't mean being destroyed. When in earthquake hits, buildings
with deep foundations may sway, but they don't collapse. The
shaking reveals what's truly solid. The same is true for
you when life's earthquakes hit, and they will. What matters
isn't whether you feel the tremors. What matters is whether

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you've built your life on something unshakable. Therefore, everyone who
hears these words of mine and puts them into practices,
like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds
blew and beat against that house, Yet it did not fall,
because it had its foundation on the rock. Matthews seven,
twenty four to twenty five. Your circumstances are changeable, but

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God's character is not. Your feelings fluctuate, but his faithfulness
does not. Your strength may fail, but his supply is inexhaustible.
Your next step, sister, I don't know what two seventeen
a m moment you're facing right now. I don't know
what diagnoses, what betrayal, what loss, what fear has you
gripping the counter with white knuckles. But I know this,

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you have access to strength beyond your own. You have
a God who specializes in impossible situations. You have sisters
who will hold your arms up when you can't yourself.
And you have a decision to make. Will you define
your life by what has happened to you? Or will
you decide that what happens through you will be greater
than what has happened to you. The path forward isn't

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about mustering more strength. It's about connecting to the unshakable
source of all strength. It's about surrounding yourself with women
who will remind you of who you are when you forget.
It's about taking one step then another, even when those
steps are small and shaky, because that's what unshakable women do,
not because they never tremble, but because they keep moving
forward even when they do. And one day, perhaps sooner

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than you think, you'll look back at this valley and
realize it didn't break you after all. It revealed a
strength within you that you never knew existed, So in closing,
remember a strength that was there all along, waiting for
this moment to be discovered.