Hope in Trials | Your Story Isn't Over Yet

Have you ever found yourself waiting on God while life seemed to be standing still?

In this episode of The Warrior Woman Podcast, I share a personal season of my life—a season marked by grief, uncertainty, financial challenges, and learning what it truly means to trust God when the outcome is not yet visible.

As a teenager, I often prayed for God to give me a testimony. I never imagined that one of my greatest lessons in faith would come through the loss of my mother and the difficult seasons that followed. Yet it was during those moments that I discovered God as my Keeper, Sustainer, Provider, and Deliverer.

Together, we explore what it means to hold on to hope when life doesn't change overnight, how to keep believing when prayers seem delayed, and why your current season is not the end of your story.

We also reflect on powerful scriptures that remind us that God's promises are still speaking, even while we wait.

Featured Scriptures:
• Habakkuk 2:3
• Romans 5:3-5
• Hebrews 6:19
• Psalm 27:13-14
• Isaiah 40:31
• Psalm 34:19
• Jeremiah 29:11

No matter what trial you may be facing today, remember this:

Though it tarry, wait for it.

Your story isn't over yet.

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Welcome back, warriors, to another episode in our podcast. Yay! It's been a minute, but I've been a tad bit busy. My god, look at this. My headphones. This heat in Jamaica is overbearing. Honestly, it's I don't know, man. I can't wear my thing anymore. I can't wear my headphone anymore because the heat has melted. You see that little cushiony area on the on the headset? It's gone, it's rubbed out. I don't know if anyone has been experiencing damages to their properties. Listen, the other day I had to throw in like about seven pairs of shoes, church shoes. So I'm down to like uh probably one, two, three now because I had to throw away everything as much as I tried. And before that, I had to throw about four. Listen, you know, it doesn't matter how much I try to revive them, bring them to the shoemaker to get them sorted out. Nothing helped. Nothing helped. So I mean, if you're in this heat with me and you're suffering, if you're suffering with me, say I am also suffering. I'm weathering the heat. My god, if anyone knows what I'm talking about as it relates to the shoes, um going bad. You take it up to wear it and you walk out of it. Hello, you walk if the bottom over there is something crazy. But nonetheless, we keep on pushing, we turn on the fan, or we're going to get some breeze. Oh, we don't have to like AC. Not using the AC because uh JPS uh taxi. Yeah, but anyways, okay. Um, we're thankful for the heat. You know, we're thankful for whatever weather we have because you know, it means all of that we still have life, right? Yes, we still have life. So welcome back uh you know to the warrior woman podcast. I am your host, Janelle. If you're new here, um uh, you know, this is the platform where I use the topics in my book, my first book that was written, Wake Up Warrior, a biblical review to life's battlefield. I use the chapters in that book for an episode in the podcast, you know. So while the book would have had, you know, the theoretical view of you know what happens on the spiritual battlefield, you know, um, we sit here and we talk a little bit uh more practical. We talk about the practicality of life, you know, as a warrior in the kingdom of God. I remember, you know, when I would have uh been uh inspired by the Lord to write this, you know, write this book. It was never just about me, you know, putting words together, but I mean at first, you know, and sending them out into the world, but uh I I really took this assignment very seriously and I thought it was uh you know something bigger than that. You know, I um I've I've I've set out to encourage warriors because uh you know like my heart has been encouraged through the thick and the thin and you know through the trials of life. I I do believe that others will be strengthened, you know, to fight the battles that are ahead. Sometimes uh they're battles that nobody knows about or even see. Uh, I believe that I can be that little sister in your head or big sister in your head that tells you that, listen, man, wake up warrior, you know, keep fighting, keep pushing because victory is ahead. You're not fighting for victory, but you're fighting from a place of victory, right? So I do believe that uh people are strengthened, the people have been strengthened based on the testimonies that I would have received. And I am ever so grateful that the Lord would have, you know, um seen it fit to use me in this time and in this season to bless the heart of someone, you know, to encourage someone. Um and uh, you know, I don't take this mandate very lightly. I I move with it uh with urgency and sincerity in my heart because I do believe that I don't I don't have to know you, you know, to to encourage you, right? I don't have to be in your space every day to be uh to be able to relate to what you're going through. I believe that on this battlefield that we're on, you know, we we all have different paths and you know, different uh challenges that we go through, you know, but uh one thing remains constant is that our God is faithful. He never leaves, he never forsakes us, and he is unchangeable, right? So we have conversations here that are relatable, you know, conversations that remind us that the lessons, you know, the things that we go through in this life, they're not to punish us, but you know, you know, they're lessons that can be learned from them. Like it's like we're in a classroom, right? And we're learning, praise God, real life situations. We're learning how to handle them. So we are in uh we are what we're at chapter number uh let me put it page 113. We're at page 113, and that is hope in trials. Let me just put it that way. We're at page 113, and the title for this uh um chapter is hope in trials, you know? Yeah, right. So um, so God has been extremely good to us. If you have been here from the beginning, um and you have been encouraged, um, please feel free to share in the chat. And if you have not yet subscribed, please take this opportunity to subscribe, you know, and like the video as well. Um, we're on a mission, we're on a mission to encourage as many as we can to reach as many as we can, you know, it's uh for the kingdom and the growth of the kingdom of God. It's not about us, it's not about me, but it's about uh the work of God. All right, so it's about the work of God, you know. One thing being on this journey and uh, you know, hearing from other people when they call me or they send me an email, I um not that I didn't know before, but you know, it has become more real. It has become more real that people out there are facing some real, real troubles. There, people are struggling, people have some real trials that they're going through. Sometimes we go through, and uh you know what we're going through seems so heavy and weighty on us, but then when we hear somebody else go through some worse uh triple, but we are going through, we said, Nighty God, how they manage that, you know, you know, but God never gives us anything that we cannot bear, you know. So um, you know, there are warriors out there, people of God, that uh, you know are out there fighting for their lives, right? And uh um being a warrior doesn't mean that uh, you know, you don't cry sometimes uh because you wonder, whoa, go on in a life. No, not making a sense, you know, it being a warrior doesn't mean that you you're never ever gonna feel discouraged, right? Because uh, you know, we're as much as we're not of this fish, we're also in the flesh, right? You know, so there are these feelings, these emotions are gonna come upon us, you know. Um, standing and declaring that I'm a warrior for God does not mean that you're always gonna understand God's plan. Hello, no, not at all. And um, you know, it's hard sometimes. It's hard sometimes when nothing around us is making sense, you know, nothing around us looks like what you pictured in your mind, right? But uh, like I said earlier, one thing remains constant is that uh, you know, the God who recruited us, right, and puts us on the battlefield has never ever left us, and he knows uh what the battlefield looks like, hence he will not put you somewhere that you know the enemy is gonna come in and just sweep you out or just uh you know wipe you out like that, right? Right, so being a warrior means that you're gonna you know get up one more day and we're gonna fight even when the strength is not there to do it, right? You know, because I'm a warrior for God. I know I know that if I show up, then the Lord Himself will show up for me as well. Sometimes being a warrior means that you know you're holding on to hope while you're standing in the middle of the storm, right? And um that's uh that is normal for a warrior, you know, because uh today we're talking about uh you know having hope in the midst of trials. It's not when the trial is over, it is not when you have already received your breakthrough, right? It's not after you know everything worked out so perfect and so nice and you're on the mountaintop right now, but it's hope while you're still walking through you know the the the the the winds uh and it is hope while you're in the waiting room and uh you know you've been there for quite a long time, years. You know, some people are waiting for years, like myself. You know, some people are in the waiting room for years and months. Lord have mercy because you know talk to people, you talk to people, you find out that listen, look something we are going through and nothing compared to what others are going through. You know, it is having hope while you're still praying and you can't see the hand of God, you can't see it a move yet, but you're still a prayer because you're hopeful that something is going to, you know, something is going to turn in your favor for the glory of God. It is uh, you know, um having hope while you're still hurting is one of the hardest things to do, right? Because uh every one of us face trials, and uh we may not understand that while we're on the other side, but as soon as we come over, we get to understand that nobody you know is exempted. None of us as saints of the living God believe us, we're not exempted from trials, right? We all have experienced seasons that test our faith, right? But our hope has never been based on our circumstances, our hope has always been rooted in the faithfulness of God, and today I want to talk to us um about this uh, you know, because I know that there are others out there who would have gone through the test of time and they held on to hope and they are able to walk out on the other side with their testimony. You know, I I remember as a little girl growing up, I was baptized in the single digits, you know, and uh I would have received the Holy Ghost. I'm trying to remember if I received the Holy Ghost before I got baptized or after I got baptized, but I know it wasn't hard. And for some reason, back then, I don't know, it wasn't hard for people to receive the Holy Ghost. You find, you know, like people are not really tarrying for for too long before you know that they they got the Holy Ghost, especially when we were, you know, kids, uh, you know, younger in our younger stage of life. And I I hear evangelist masters mentioned the other day that it is easier for a child to get the Holy Ghost, you know, know than um than an adult. Maybe not just know, but you know, overall, it's easier for a child to get the Holy Ghost over an adult because you know a child don't don't have anything that is hindering them, they're not too um peculiar or you know have too much in their mind as to what others may be saying, or they don't have anything that is uh blocking them from receiving, so they go with that humble heart, and that's why the Bible says, you know, you know, except we be like little children, we can't enter, right? You know, we we don't uh as children, children don't hold grudges, they don't have anything that is holding them back, they don't have the burdens that they're carrying, and as such, you know, they walk in the presence of God with a free spirit with one aim, one determination to speak in tongues, to get the Holy Ghost and leave, right? And so they walk in and they're able to get it. I realize that today is a little bit hard. You have to do a lot of teaching, you know, to get people to understand the importance of the Holy Ghost, um, you know, what it does in your life and uh, you know, what you need to do to prepare yourself to receive of that Holy Ghost. Yeah. So there's a lot that goes into it today. But I remember, you know, um growing up, and uh, of course, like I said, I don't remember if I got the Holy Ghost before or after, but I know it was in my earlier years when I was in my single digits, right? And uh um, you know, growing up and uh, you know, becoming uh a preteen and teenager, uh, I remember being asked to moderate service one day, and you know, I practiced, I practiced, I practiced so hard. And I know that the Sunday when I went there, I don't know if I if I don't think it was good, good, good, but I don't think it was bad, bad, bad either, you know. Um, because of course it's their first time and it's a learning, you know, learning process, you know. So I I remember um going up and you know moderating, and uh, you know, of course I'm gonna have to do it again because I need to perfect this, right? And uh I remember like every Saturday evening when I'm know when I know that I'm gonna be moderating the following Sunday, you know, as a little girl, you know, one thing with the most dion, they use you up, they use you up, they use you up as a child if you're baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost. My God, they are going to use you. And I have to give God thanks for the foundations that I would have received back then. Because, listen, talk about sending down your roots, my God, our roots were trained, we're sent way down because that is what has been keeping us, has been holding us together. And you know, you there are many of them who would have experienced what I experienced because back in those days there were a lot of little children, a lot of teens in the church. And though some of them may have faltered by the wayside, they have their roots. And I'm telling you, they're not going too far because they're coming back home. They have to come back home, right? And that is one thing that I admired and loved about our pastor back then. Like, look here. Um, you be prepared because you may be called upon at any point in time to do something, to do something, give a word or something, to bless the something in the kingdom of God. Right. And I remember, you know, after doing it for the first time, I started, you know, paying attention a little bit more, and I started being a little bit more intentional. Not that I, you know, I understood what that meant back then, but now I do. And I used to ensure that on Saturdays I practiced. I remember once today I practiced so hard, practiced all the songs that I was gonna sing, and the next day when I went to church, the Holy Spirit moved in a completely different direction. I couldn't sing my songs, couldn't sing my songs, and then I realized that you know, I have to give away for the Holy Ghost because it's one thing about again among Zion, my home church, is that look here, we give room to the Holy Ghost, so no program now go take preeminence over the move of God. No program. So you could have planned 10 different exhortations. I'm quite a feminist, and who for the dish for the data? If Holy Ghost move, Holy Ghost have to move, right? Everything I've put aside because Holy Ghost is moving, and you know, that's one thing that I grew up in, and I I will never forget, I will never forget that, and I will always give way to the Holy Spirit, Lord. Have your way, it's not my will, but your will, let it be done. And uh, you know, growing up and you know, getting involved and you know, doing all these things in church. I remember, I remember they used to say, look again, because owl, because now I would have gotten, I would have gotten a little bit seasoned in it, and you know, I would have you know got gotten a little bit more mature in God and you know, naturally, right? And you know, probably about 15, 16, yes, you know, you you get a little bit, you get the hang of things, and you're now able to manage things. I remember them always telling me say, Boy, I'm just you're old, you know, you're old, but you sound like you're fat you went up on the mic, still no reach there yet. But I'm getting there, right? And I remember um I don't know if anybody grew up uh where their parents were in church. My dad wasn't um a Christian then, but my mom, you know, um, she was uh, you know, the church secretary evangelist, and you know, she used to run things at church a lot. And uh when it comes to testimony time, you dare not let testimony service finish and you don't have a testimony. So you find that there are times when um even three, four of us are getting up and testifying the same thing. Once I was flying, but now I can't say blessed be the name of the Lord, you know, and um I got to a point one day when I said to God that instead of me trying to study a scripture to go and recite, trying to give me some real testimonies, you know, I don't even understand, you know, what it is like to actually testify. I used to hear the young adults and you know, other people testify of how God came through for them. And you know, when we have convocations and people come from different churches and hear the young people and uh testify how God provided a message, Jesus, God does something for me too. I remember praying one time I was praying, I was asking God, I was saying, God, I want to know what it feels like to live, you know, to be able to testify of her goodness because everything that I want, no, I can I can get it. I go to my mother and I asked for it and I can get it. Granted that, I never probably she'll provide, you know, daddy gave it to her, and of course, or my bigger sisters would give it to her, and then she provided. But granted that, uh all I had was in my mind, like, you know, everything that I want, my mother gave it to me. Right? So I want to know what it feels like, you know, to be able to pray for something and you provide it for me. I didn't pray to me, I prayed a sister, brother. Didn't pray to me, I pray. I remember used to have a prayer partner who was my godsister. You know, God bless her soul. She died um recently years ago. I mean, I still feel like it was yesterday. And you know, um, you know, we used to pray a lot together. And uh I I'm pretty sure because she reminded me later on other words, you used to pray for either. I remember when my mom passed, uh, I was in my first year in university. I'm the first year, first semester. First semester just ended and she died in the January. Right? And I remember it was a time when I uh I like ball, I'm gonna ball, ball, ball, and can't tap, I'm gonna cry and can't, I'm gonna grieve and can't stop grieve. I remember my god sister, um, she looked at me one day and she said, Alright, she said, I think it's time for you to stop. No, because uh you pray for this. Not that I prayed for my mom to die, but you know, you you you prayed to be in uh an area or a season where you're experiencing the hand of God. I know the struggle is real. I know what you're going through. I can't relate because both my parents are alive. This is what she said to me. But now is a time for you to just woman up and just trust God to carry you through. Just woman up and change your prayer. No, know God that I don't have my mother come through for me in ways that I I can only think of, I mean, only dream. It I misses and I'm a listen to her. I think we were in mothers at the time in Mandeville. And she was just talking to me and talking to me. And uh, you know, we just stop ball and say, All right. And I think we prayed and we left. People often got I remember um, you know, consistently praying that prayer. I remember I I would have gotten to seasons in my life as a university student where I had no taxi fear. Granted, you know, everybody like I had access to my father, have access, had access to my sisters, you know, who um would have always been there for me. But I believe when the Lord wants to prove himself, when the Lord wants to reveal himself to you in a completely different way. And I think a message was preached the other day where it says that the Lord will dry up some resources that we would have had access to so that we can depend on him completely. So while I would have had access to those people, I didn't have access to them. You know, if you know what I mean spiritually, I did not. And so I got into a place where it was a consistent praying and faith, leaving out of my house. At one point, we used to start taking it for joke, you know, leave out of your house without fear. And uh, I mean, you're not telling the taxi man, you don't have any fear, you know. But for somehow, when you get to the your destination, the taxi man is saying, Thanks be to God, we lived close to universe, we live close to school, right? Not walking distance, but uh, you know, there are times when we come out of the taxi and taxi would like, it's all right, princess, you're good, you're good, have a good day, you know, and and and and and those are times uh proved to me that God is indeed carrying me through. I remember there were days uh when uh um evangelists and uh you know men and women of God would show up, would call me and say, while they were praying for me, the Lord showed them that I needed groceries, and that was how I went through until the Lord would have uh impressed it on my sister's heart, you know, to pay for the work and travel program, and that was a door that the Lord opened for me. So while I was in my season of depending on God to work things out and make ways in different uh avenues, right? God was doing his thing. So while he was revealing himself to me as a provider and way maker, he was preparing another way out there for me, a door that would have opened my God the possibilities to endless opportunities for me. So I remember there were times when I, you know, I felt like I was so blessed, you know, traveling back and forth now on the work and travel program and making enough money. I I remember when people were still blessing me with food. People say it was like, you know, it was like seasons of uh, you know, abundance and God just coming through for me in in ways that you know I prayed for. I remember uh, you know, we were cooking. I I would cook uh you know, sometimes we'd have early classes and I'd go home and cook, and I would call like you know, some of my friends uh and tell them to come and eat uh, you know, because we had enough food. And it was later on after, you know, after everything would have ended and passed, my friend would tell me, say, girl, I try not to know the days and when you call me, I said we come for food, hungry, we're not having food, no food at my house. And it just goes to show that when you know, when the Lord, when you trust God, when you're going through your go through, when you're going through your trials and you're going through the rough and the tough, and you're hopeful, you're trusting God's faithfulness that when he opens doors for you, praise God Almighty, then he's not only blessing you, but he's a blessing you so that you can bless others. So when I heard her talk about the days or hungry days, she said, hungry, hungry, and when she looked at how God just uh provided for her, like she literally after just give God thanks, like God, Father, God, oh, you're so good to me, oh, you're so good to me, right? You know, so um that that that's that's just a part, that's just a part of uh, you know, my journey in going through trials, in going through my tests, and uh just seeing how God would have uh open doors of opportunity for me, right? And how God really does answer prayer because while I was there praying, I didn't know what I was praying about, but God had a plan, God had a plan for me, and I am indeed grateful that I can testify today, right? I can testify today that uh while I did not have the Lord would have blessed someone who is uh who was praying for me to come and bless me, you know, to come and bless me, and this is how God works. This is how God works. He he reminded me in that moment that you know I am watching over you, man. He's he's watching, and just in case someone feels as though that they're not seen by God or they feel as though you know um they're going through this alone, I want to use this experience to to encourage you that uh, you know, the Lord does care, right? And he is more than able, he is more than able, you know. What I discovered during that season, praise God, of my life, was that uh um even though in my younger years I would have thought that it was my mother that was keeping me, you know, when she died, you know, of course, um she was no longer there, right? But God himself proved that he was more than capable of taking care of me. He was my provider, my sustainer, my source, you know, and you know, even through the trial, um, he's there. Sometimes it it can feel painful because I tell her there are days when I wake up and I say, why everybody just live life like it's normal? Like it's it's it was just so hard to come to terms with. Like, I would walk and I'll see people smiling and people happy. I mean, I say, How is it that you know, and and I feel like I don't know when I'm going to genuinely smile again. That's how I felt. Boy, I don't know. If anyone has ever lost, you know, someone, um, let me know if that's how you feel. Uh, I mean, I mean, you know, it it's it's it's uh it's like a piece of you is missing, and uh, it's not something that you get over um easily, you know, it happens with time, and uh, I don't think you you fully get over it because uh you know if you should sit down and think about it, you find yourself balling your eyeballs out because you're like my god, how could this happen? And how did I even you know um get to this point, get to this far without her, without whoever I would have lost her, you know, but god, but god, but god. So the today I I I want to encourage somebody, you know, I want to encourage somebody that uh you know you may be in pain, you may be feeling as though you know you're going through the rough and tough of things, right? But understand that uh sometimes God is doing a deeper work than we can see, you know. Um, I just the other day I I heard somebody telling a story of uh of uh you know some people who went to a restaurant and uh you know they would have ordered their meals and uh you know they see where other people around them are getting their food that would have ordered after them. And they call the server to ask that what would what what happened? What happened to our order? And uh, you know, the server would have explained to them that, well, you kind of are now the kind of order that you have requires a little bit more work, you know. They're doing the the kitchen stuff is working on yours because yours is not just ready and put on because the others, because that table would have ordered things that were ready to go, right? But for you, for the things that you ordered, we have to cook it fresh, and it takes a little bit of time, you know. So sometimes uh the blessing that God has in store for us uh, you know, is is something that is going to last, it's gonna be permanent, and as such, it's taking a little bit longer, you know, than we would have expected. Just hold the forth, you know, he's building your faith, he's uh building your endurance, and he's teaching you that his presence is more valuable than that thing that you're praying for. And I can testify of that because uh you know, even though I may be in a waiting season, I have you know gotten to the stage in life where I just want to be in the presence of the King of Kings because I understand that his presence is more valuable than that thing that I am praying for, right? And that is hope. That is where hope comes in. You know, hope is uh not us pretending that everything is okay. Um, you know, there is no pretense when it comes to hope, it's not us uh the denying the reality of things, you know. Sometimes things happen and you're in a denial, you know, you have not yet accepted what is happening, but hope is not that, you know. We we see what is happening, we have come to terms with it, right? But we hold on nonetheless because, right? Because so when we look at hope, biblical hope, it is the confidence in the character of God, it is the car the confidence in the character of God, it is that settled assurance that regardless of what I see, regardless of what I am feeling now, God remains faithful. And it was in last season that we spoke about the revelations of Jesus Christ. He is, you know, a rock, he is uh our consuming fire, he's a risen savior, right? He's our bomb in Gilead, right? It is through our trials that uh this hope comes alive that uh he is going to come through because after all, he changeth not, right? And so if he was the bomb in Gilead back then, he still is. So I'm trusting him for my healing. Yeah, biblical hope is uh the belief that if God brought me through yesterday's storm, he will not abandon me in today's battle. And uh uh, I don't know, perhaps uh you know this is why the enemy fights uh hope so hard. Because if he can steal your hope, he can weaken your faith. I'm gonna tell you something. When your faith is weakened, when your faith is shaken, brother, when your faith is shake a little bit, you know, there's no unction to pray because you say, What makes a prayer say? That is what a weak faith does. If if if if if an enemy can get your faith to be weakened to a level, he can silence you so you don't pray no more, right? You pray less to the point where you don't stop prayer, right? And if he can silence your prayers, he can cause you to surrender before your breakthrough arrives. Come on, somebody. But today I came to remind somebody, a sister, a brother, that your story is not over yet, your trial is not your final chapter. No, it is not, it is not your disappointment, it's not the conclusion of the whole matter. No, not at all. Praise God. And this is something that we often say that denial, praise God, delay is not denial. So the God who began a good work in you, he's still working, he is still working. The God who carried you before is still carrying you now, right? The God who made a way back then is still capable of making a way today. You know, uh as I'm saying this, I I'm taking it back to the the first uh the message that you know I uh the Lord would have placed or impressed upon my heart for the beginning of June. Right? And I remember I spoke on the topic of standing in six, I believe waiting for seven. Praise God. And uh, you know, throughout scriptures, uh, six is uh often associated with man because you know on the sixth day was when God created man, right? Um so so the number six biblically represents humanity, it represents limitation, labor, effort, you know, everything that reminds us that we are not God. That's what the number six represents. But seven, on the other hand, represents completion. It is God's perfect number, it represents fulfillment, it represents the finished work of God. And I remember how you know that word just jump into my spirit. I tell him, and my God, many of us uh find ourselves standing in six. Yes, we're standing in our limitation, we're standing waiting, we're standing in our labor, and we're waiting on seven, we're standing, my God Almighty, in a place of you know, we have we have spent a lot of efforts getting things done while we're waiting for the manifestation of God, right? My god, we're standing in a place where we have done all that we can do, we have done all that we know how to do. Yes, yet the promise has not yet fully appeared. Hands up if you're in that place, hands up if you're in that place, my God Almighty. And uh, this is where hope becomes very much necessary, sister brother. Yes, because hope is what uh is going to keep you standing in six when seven has not yet arrived. Well, we're counting, so we must get there. Hello, somebody. We're counting six, seven. We have to get there. Praise hope. Hope is what uh keeps you praying when the answer not comes yet. Come on, somebody, right? Right, it is what keeps you believing that you know that door is gonna open in someday, one way or another, right? And the enemy understands that if he can get you to abandon your position in six, if he can get you to abandon your position in your limitation, if he can get you to abandon your position in your waiting season, then you will never witness what God was preparing for you in seven. You will never get to witness completion, you will never get to witness the breakthrough that God intended for you to experience, and that is why discouragement is one of the greatest weapons that was ever formed against us, right? Sometimes the delay is so overwhelming, it is overwhelming because just beyond that overwhelming feeling is that glory that is awaiting. Hello, somebody, my god, sometimes the waiting is so exhausting. Hello, especially the people working out, especially the people in the patience. Listen, hard, hard, hard, hard. Because the enemy he wants us to walk away from the place where God is about to reveal his faithfulness to us. But I came to encourage somebody today. Don't abandon six. Come on, man, don't despise six, don't quit in a six, right? Don't surrender because the same God who brought you thus far is the same God who is able to carry you into completion, right? The same God that will will shall carry you into completion. Right. God's a purpose is still unfolding, he's a faithfulness, does not change. Hold your position, daughter of the king, hold your position, son. Keep trusting, keep believing, keep showing up because a seven is God's perfect number and it belongs to him. It belongs to him. Before we go any further, I want to, you know, to share uh few scriptures that would have helped me, you know, through through all the difficult seasons of my life. And I want us uh to, you know, to write them down because I'm not even gonna ask if you're in a trial right now because all of us are going through something. I want us to write these down and meditate on them, pray on them, speak them over your life, let them become uh the anchors for your soul. Praise God. The first one is Habakkuk chapter 2, verse 3. And you know, this verse uh reminds me that uh, you know, God's promises have an appointed time. Sometimes the vision seems delayed, sometimes the answers you know that we're praying for seem like it's uh it's a crawl. Yeah, feel like it's a crawl, man. But God's timing is is never accidental, as I heard um our elder said the other day. If God spoke it, it will come to pass. Yes, it will come to pass. The second scripture is Romans chapter 5, verse 3 to 5. Right? And uh for this scripture, I I I love it because it teaches us that uh trials are not meaningless, you know. Tribulation produces uh perseverance, perseverance develops character, character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint those who trust in God. Hello, somebody. Listen, man, hold on to these scriptures, write them down and hold them dear to your heart. All right, the third scripture that I want to share with you is Hebrews 6 verse 19. Right, and uh here I see where the writer describes hope as an anchor for the soul, and anchor does not remove the storm, but it keeps the ship from drifting, right? So hope is that anchor that keeps us grounded when everything around us feels like it's upside down, it goes a white, it is uncertain. You see, hope is that that anchor that holds us in place. Um, the next scripture is a Psalm 27, verse 13 to 14. But everybody, one of her favorites, uh right, one of her favorites. So David said here that he would have fainted unless he believed he would see the goodness of the Lord. Sometimes, you know, hope is uh simply believing that God is still good, you know, even when life is difficult. Hello, um if you tell about that. Listen, man, God could tell me everything very delusional, you know. Very delusional when it comes to God, because listen, you have done it already. I know you can do it again, you have done it for others. There's a thing that people say, Lord, I see what you do for others, do it for me. That is what I believe that if he did it for you, he can do it for me too, amen. All right, the next scripture is Isaiah 40, verse 31. This passage reminds us that waiting on God is not wasted time. Yes, as we wait, God renews our strength, he equips us for the journey that is ahead. All right, and uh the other one is uh Psalm 34. Listen, verse 19. Many Are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them all. Notice that you know the scripture does not deny that there is affliction, right? And this was also, you know, something that the Lord impressed upon my heart recently. You know, it it it it it tells us that uh you know the the reality of life is that the trial come, you know, it's a good idea, it's gonna be there, right? But while we're going through, we're being uh assured of the certainty of God's deliverance. Hello, we're not gonna be left there, we're not gonna be left in that state. God promised at the end of it, my God Almighty, deliverance, restoration, whoop. Listen, somebody, right? And uh the last one is everybody's favorite, everybody's favorite, Jeremiah 29, verse 11. Yes, we know that scripture all so well. So when life, for some reason, you know, feels a little bit uncertain, just remember that God has a plan for your future, and that plan is to prosper you, that plan is to give you hope, and that plan is to bring you to an expected end. So, whatever season you find yourself in today, don't allow your current circumstances to have the final word. Hello, somebody. Let God's word have the final word, let his promises have the final word, let his faithfulness have the final word in your life today. Let hope, hope that maketh not a shame have that final word in your life today. I want to pray with somebody. I want to pray with you briefly before we go. Heavenly Father, I lift up every listener, praise God, that is under the sound of my voice today, whether they're listening this recording, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night, wherever they are located on this globe. My God, you know their story, you know the battles that they have shared with others, you know, the battles that they have kept to themselves, you know, and they're they're fighting it in silence, they're they're suffering in silence, as our pastor would say, you know, the tears that they have cried behind the closed doors, you know, the prayers that they have prayed repeatedly. My God, sometimes you have some of them sounds they feel like they sound like a scratch record. I've heard it before, Lord. I can't pray both anymore. I feel like a scratch record. Praise God. You know, the promises that they are still waiting to see fulfilled in their lives, Lord God. I pray that someone that is listening today will feel encouraged, my God. My God will feel encouraged to keep on trusting, to keep on pushing, Lord God. Breathe a breath of fresh air upon them even now. Breathe hope into their spirits. Hallelujah to God. Remind them that you're faithful, remind them that you are present. Mighty God, remind them, my God, that you have not abandoned them. You will never abandon them, Lord God. For the one who is grieving, Lord God, I pray that you will be their comfort, Lord God Almighty. You see the ones that are going through financial struggles, be their provider, my God, like you did for me, my God. Provide for someone, give somebody else a testimony for those that are facing uncertainty. I pray God that you will guide, leader, protect them, my God Almighty. For someone who may be feeling weak, I pray God that you will be their strength, Jesus. Hallelujah to God. Remind them that you are walking beside them even now. Lord God, I pray that you will help those, my God Almighty, that uh you know are feeling somewhat forgotten to remember that you are indeed God. Teach us uh how to trust you in the waiting, teach us uh, my God, how to continue to have hope, knowing that uh, my God, you will never ever leave us, forsake us, my God, or leave us to suffer for those, my God, who are standing at the crossroads, strengthen them to remain steadfast because uh, Lord God, there is a glory that is awaiting them, there is completion, there is fulfillment that is awaiting them. Help them not to quit, help them not to surrender, help them not to walk away from the very place where your faithfulness is about to be revealed unto them. Lord God, I pray that for everyone who taps into this episode that they will leave feeling encouraged, that they will leave feeling strengthened, may they leave reminded that their story is not over, my God, that their trial is not their final chapter. Father, we declare and we speak over their lives even now that hope will rise again inside them. Lord God, strength will rise again, faith will rise again, courage will rise again, Lord God. We trust in you and you only, Lord God, as we ask all these things in the mighty and matchless name for Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we say amen and amen. Praise God. I want to thank you for joining. I want to thank you. I want to thank you for joining me uh for another episode of the Warrior Woman Podcast. Remember, remember that your battle may be real, but uh, so is your God. He's real in the battle, he's real, this, realest, real, real. So keep standing, keep believing, keep trusting, and never forget that the same God who brought you thus far is more than able to carry you the rest of the way. Until next time, stay encouraged, stay prayerful, and keep waking up the warrior that is on the inside. God bless you.