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Why God Is Teaching You to Stop Seeking Validation from People

Shaniqua Smith Season 6 Episode 10

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Many people struggle with the need for approval and validation from others. It can show up in subtle ways—wanting people to agree with our decisions, hoping for encouragement before we move forward, or feeling discouraged when others don’t understand us.

In this episode, we talk about the process of learning to release the need for constant validation from people and focusing instead on what truly matters. Sometimes growth happens when we realize that not everyone will understand our path, our choices, or the direction our life is taking.

Letting go of the need for approval can be uncomfortable at first, but it can also create space for greater confidence, clarity, and peace.

If you’ve been feeling the tension between following your convictions and seeking the approval of others, this message offers a moment of reflection and encouragement.

Take a moment to listen and consider what it means to move forward without needing constant validation.

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Stop seeking validation from people. I'm speaking to myself or I'm speaking to the old person I used to be, probably like a couple of weeks ago. Because when I tell you when you are free from wanting validation, you get free from wanting the confirmation of other people, you don't know how much of a burden that is that is lifted. For years I had this burden on me. For years I wanted validation. I'm not gonna say, but I just I just sought after that because I felt like with the calling on my life that I needed that. That was the route to go. But God was telling me, no, if I have called you to a thing, I have ordained that thing, I have set that thing in motion, and you just gotta go with it. No matter what man says, what man tells you to do, God says, if I have done a thing, it is done in you, right? So validation is it is a destiny killer, it is a gift killer, it is a a lot of things that it will be when you are waiting for somebody, some people to say, Hey, this is what God wants you to do, or hey, this is what you should. You're just waiting for that, even if you're already operating it, like I was already operating and stuff, but I was just waiting for that, just that that validation. I was waiting for it to be said by said person or said people, but that's not what God had wanted for me. God wanted to see, wanted to wanted me to see that He has called me to it, and I just need to walk in it. So God is saying, Stop waiting for that validation, walk in it, do it, do it. If you know that it is of God, if it is of something good, not evil, and you are doing this and it's gonna help some people, it's gonna bring um revelation and clarity, it's gonna bring such a movement to whoever it is, and God has stamped it. I'm here to tell you to do that thing. Don't wait for validation, don't wait for people to say something good about you or people to say you should do this, you should do that. When you have it on the inside of you, and it is just something that just burns. Do that thing, do it and be great at it and watch God work in it. If I would have kept waiting for validation, I would never be doing this, I would never be doing nothing, right? If I would have only sought after validation, I would not have been able to hear God as clearly as I hear Him now because I will be waiting for someone to tell me to do it. I'll be waiting for someone to tell me how great I am or stop seeking validation. God has validated you, God has called you, God has placed this on your life. This is your confirmation to do it. Even if you have to do it scared, still do it.