We want the blessing. The answered prayer. The growth. The breakthrough. The next season.

But what if the blessing comes through breaking?

In Genesis 32, Jacob wrestles with God all night. He refuses to let go without a blessing. He walks away with a new name and a limp. Changed. Weaker. Marked.

In this episode, we talk about what it means to stay in the wrestle instead of walking away. We look at why God sometimes reshapes your character before He releases the yes, and why surrender can feel like losing when it is actually preparing you.

We cover:

• Why God may shape your character before He answers your prayer • What it looks like to wrestle instead of dropping quick prayers and moving on • Why humility, softness, and dependence might be the real blessing

You may not walk away from wrestling with more control or more clarity. But you will walk away different. And sometimes becoming different is the greater gift.

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We talk a lot about having a “personal relationship with Jesus.” But what if we’ve made it so personal that it never leaves the house?

In this episode, we’re wrestling with what happens when faith stays private. When quiet time is strong… but real life doesn’t change.

We talk about:

• Why faith that never leaves your couch eventually becomes useless
• The difference between hearing the Word and actually living it
• What it looks like to take Jesus into grocery stores, volleyball games, and messy conversations

Your faith was never meant to stop with you. Let's start living like it. FInd more from Amanda!

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There’s a quiet pressure many of us carry to be further along by now. To perform better, handle things better, make progress faster. And when we don’t, we assume something is wrong.

This episode is about those seasons. The ones that feel shaky, uncertain, or like you’re going backward. The ones where comfort gets pulled out from under you and everything feels harder than it used to.

We talk about:

• Why upward performance isn’t the goal every day. Training is.
• What it means when God “stirs the nest” instead of leaving you comfortable.
• How to stop labeling uncomfortable seasons as regression.
• The pressure to perform that God never actually placed on you.

Using Deuteronomy 32:11 and the way birds actually learn to fly, we look at what it means to be in a growth season instead of a setback season.

You may not be off track. You may just be learning to fly.

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