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Epsisode 24- Remember the Miracles: How Quickly We Forget God's Faithfulness

• Elizabeth Everett

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How is it that we can survive seasons we were absolutely certain would destroy us, only to find ourselves worrying about the next obstacle?

How is it that we can pray for breakthrough, receive the breakthrough, and then months later question whether God will come through again?

In this deeply personal episode of Grace in the Breaking, Elizabeth Everett shares a powerful message about God's faithfulness, the importance of remembering the miracles, and why so many of us forget the very things God has already brought us through.

From trauma, addiction, heartbreak, loss, disappointment, and seasons of survival mode to healing, restoration, surrender, and purpose, this episode explores how God uses even our most painful seasons to shape our character and prepare us for what is ahead.

Many of us become so focused on what God hasn't done yet that we lose sight of the answered prayers, open doors, divine protection, healing, provision, and miracles that have already taken place. We allow fear, uncertainty, and waiting seasons to overshadow the evidence of God's faithfulness that is woven throughout our story.

Elizabeth vulnerably shares how there were seasons when she had no dreams, no vision, and no clear purpose—only the desire to survive. She reflects on what it looked like to build a life, experience success, watch things fall apart, and ultimately discover that true peace comes not from certainty but from surrendering control to God.

This episode is for anyone navigating a difficult season, waiting on a prodigal, rebuilding after loss, struggling to trust God's timing, healing from trauma, overcoming fear, or wondering if God still sees them.

If you're searching for Christian encouragement, biblical hope, healing and restoration, faith during difficult seasons, guidance for the prodigal journey, or a reminder that God is still working behind the scenes, this conversation will speak directly to your heart.

You will be reminded that your story is not over, your waiting is not wasted, your healing matters, and the same God who carried you through yesterday is still carrying you today.

Because sometimes the greatest faith builder isn't looking ahead.

Sometimes it's remembering where you've been, what you've survived, and who carried you through it.

Special Ministry Update: Child Ambassador International

We also want to share an important ministry update.

New Advocates for Africa is transitioning to Child Ambassador International through Jerrod Smith Ministries. This exciting transition allows the ministry to expand beyond Rwanda and reach children around the world while continuing the same life-changing mission of providing hope, education, discipleship, care, and opportunity.

The heart of the ministry has not changed.

The children still need support.

The mission is growing globally.

During this transition, there is an urgent need to ensure that children remain sponsored and supported. Your partnership helps provide food, education, healthcare, spiritual development, and hope for children who depend on this ministry.

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• The Prodigal E-Course Series
• Child Ambassador International – Jerrod Smith Ministries

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Hi. Remember the miracles? How quickly do we forget? I mean, I want you to think about how is it that we can survive something we were certain would destroy us? Only to worry about the next thing. How is it that we pray for a miracle? We receive the miracle, and then we find ourselves months later wondering if God is going to come through. How is it that we forget? How is it that we forget the nights that we cried ourselves to sleep? Because I'm going to tell you something. God, He does not. The moments that we couldn't see a way out, the season that we thought would take us under, the prayers we begged God to answer. How is it that we forget that He did, that He never left us, that He loved us through the whole time? Today I want to remind you not just of what God has done, but of where He has brought you from, where He has brought me from. Because sometimes the greatest faith builder isn't looking forward. Sometimes it's looking back. Sometimes we need to stop striving, stop pushing, and stop worrying. We need to stop trying to figure out every detail of how God is going to move and trust that He simply is. We have to remember the miracles. We have to remember the provision, remember the healing, and remember every door that He has opened, remember every door that He has closed, and know that the protection when we didn't even know we needed it, He provided. We need to remember that the times His hand was holding us when we couldn't even feel Him. Because if we're not careful, we get caught up in life and life makes us forget. And you know what? The enemy loves when we forget. He loves when we become so consumed with what God hasn't done yet that we overlook everything that He has done already. So today we're going to remember. Welcome back to Grace in the Breaking. I'm Elizabeth Everett. And if this is your first time here, I want to personally welcome you. Grace in the Breaking, man, it was born from the reality that life breaks us before it builds us. And sometimes the very season we would never choose became the season that God uses most to transform us. This podcast, it exists to remind you that you are not alone, that God is still working, and that there is purpose in pain when we place it all in his hands. So whether you're walking through a season of loss, you are healing from your past, you're praying a prodigal home or rebuilding after disappointment. It's time to hold on to your faith while waiting for God to move. This, honey, this is the space for you because I've been there. I've walked it, I've lived it, and I've survived it through the grace of God. I lived through the seasons where I didn't think I would make it. I've walked through the trauma. I've walked through the addiction. I've walked through the sexual assault and I've walked through every bit of the rejection. I've walked through seasons where I searched for love in all the wrong places. Honey, I've walked through the seasons where I had no idea of who I was but God. I walked through seasons where I built things, where I lost things, where I rebuilt again, and then I watched things fall apart all over again and again and again. Yet here I am, still standing. Not because of my own strength, not because I had all the answers, but because of the faithfulness of God. And that's what today's conversation is about. It's about remembering. Remembering where we've been, remembering what we've survived, and remembering the miracles that we've forgotten. Every prayer God has answered and every door he has opened, we will remember that today. We will remember the seasons he carried us when we could not carry ourselves, and again I'll say it, but God. Because sometimes we become so focused on the battle that we're facing that we forget the victories that God has already won. So today, let's pause together. Let's reflect together and let's remember the faithfulness of the God we serve. Honey, let me let you in on a little secret. I didn't have dreams. I had none. Growing up, child, teenager, I had no dreams. I didn't have goals. I wasn't creating vision boards. I wasn't building business, and I was not planning my future. I was literally trying to survive day by day. Complete survival mode, strung from rejection, from trauma, addiction. I was literally just trying to survive. And some of you, you know exactly what I'm talking about. When that survival becomes your identity, when you're carrying the trauma, the shame, the addiction, even the rejection. When you're carrying the wounds that nobody sees, you stop dreaming. You stop believing, and you stop expecting. Because disappointment, it's become more familiar than hope. For years. I never asked God for purpose. I didn't ask him for influence. I sure didn't ask him for a platform, and I sure didn't ask him for ministry. I was just simply trying to survive day by day. I didn't look forward to the next day. It was all about getting through the one that I was living. Getting through the pain, getting through the fear, getting through the uncertainty. But most important, getting through the consequences of the decisions that had left so many scars upon me. And some of you that are listening today, you are right there. You are here, maybe not physically, but emotionally, spiritually, mentally. You're exhausted. You've stopped dreaming. You've stopped believing, and you've stopped expecting God to move. But I need you to hear me loud and clear right here, right now. God is not intimidated by your survival season. No, ma'am, no, sir. He doesn't look at the brokenness and see failure. He sees possibility. He sees purpose. He sees potential. And you need to look in the mirror and see it too. You need to be reminded of who you are today. You need to remember you are a daughter or a son of the most high God and you are loved beyond comprehension. God sees the person that He created you to become even when you can't. Listen, I've been there with the addiction where every day I was getting high. I wasn't getting high because I wanted to. I was getting high to forget about the pain, to step into an alternate reality where I didn't have to feel the trauma. I would run from pain and be completely lost because feeling like I was in survival, that was the only way I ever knew. I had a broken identity. But yet, God, God saw something that I could never see. I didn't see. For so many years I lived in the wilderness. But let me tell you something, friends. He saw purpose in me. He saw calling. He saw destiny. And he saw a woman who would one day be sitting right here behind this microphone, telling you that redemption is real. And honey, what he does for one, he does for all. He sees that in you too. God showed me what success looked like. I didn't ask for it. Then God began blessing. He started opening doors and opportunities came. Things began happening, and I started experiencing success. And if I'm being honest, I loved it. Because after surviving for so long, success felt like the top of the world. Being validated felt good. Being noticed felt good. And being chosen felt even better. Having life finally working in my favor felt good. And let me tell you something. There is nothing wrong with blessing. There's nothing wrong with success. There's nothing wrong with achievement until it becomes the things that we trust. Because what nobody talks about is how easy it is to build idols, not golden calves, but modern idols. You know, the success, the recognition, the bank account, the control, the validation, the relationships, the comfort shucks the security of it all. The approval, or even ministry. Anything that becomes more important than God becomes an idol. And slowly, my priorities shifted, not overnight, not intentionally, but gradually. The blessings, they began receiving all of the attention because let me remind you, I knew who God was, but I didn't have a relationship with him. And let me tell you something, the gifts became more important than anything in my life. I did not realize that it was God Himself that was giving me these opportunities, that it was God Himself blessing me. No. I, I, I, I, I, I. That was the mentality. The dreams that I started to have about becoming the best, they became more important than anything else in my life. And God loved me too much to leave me there. So when I tell you I burn it all to the ground, I was the best, the top of the success year after year after year after year at a company that I later realized didn't care about me. They just cared about how hard I worked. They knew I was motivated by money, and honey, I ran with it. It eventually cost me almost everything in my life. My relationship with my husband, my children, my sanity. Talk about experiencing success and wanting to stay there. Man, my priorities drifted. Like work was up here and everything else was down there. And God, He wasn't in the picture. Then I watched it burn. This is where so many of us stop trusting God when you've had that relationship. Not when the life is hard, but when life starts to fall apart, when in our mind we thought we had finally gotten everything right. Like I've watched it burn, not once, not twice, but multiple times. I've watched seasons I thought would last forever disappear. I've watched my dreams crumble when I started to have them for the first time in my life. I watched every plan I had unravel. I watched my marriage end, and I watched things I prayed for suddenly disappear into thin air. And every single time I thought, man, this is it. This is the season that finally breaks me. This is a season that I'm not going to come back from. I lost everything in 90 days, friends. And this was after I found God because God loved me too much again to let me keep living the life that I thought I needed when all I needed was Him. I needed to shift my priorities back to my Maker. Maybe you've said all these words too. Maybe you're saying them right now. You're living it. That you're feeling the pull, you're feeling the stress, you're feeling the emotional exhaustion. It's because your priorities are out of line. You need to remember that God is the one that's brought you through all this, not you. You are not God. So stop trying to be. Surrender that pain and that emotion today. You may be looking at a prodigal right now, you may be looking at a marriage that's fallen apart. You may be looking at your finances, going, What am I gonna do? You may be looking at your health or looking at a situation that seems impossible. But let me ask you this. Are all things not possible through God? So why are we worrying? Look what he carried us through before. Why wouldn't he do it again? Listen, I've understand, I've been there. But here's what I know now that I didn't know then. What looks like destruction wasn't destruction, it's actually preparation. So hold on tight. What I thought I was losing, honey, it wasn't loss, it was pruning. And what looked like abandonment wasn't abandonment, it was refinement, protection, hallelujah. I see doors God closed that I would keep trying to force open over and over. I saw people he removed that I kept chasing for years. And I saw distractions he exposed that I would have continued protecting. And at that time it felt like devastation, but now, honey, I see it was mercy. Praise the Lord. That's where the breaking came in. Listen, I thought I had this perfect life, but it was killing me inside the constant validation, the people pleasing, trying to be a better version of myself, wearing everything on my shoulders. I was exhausted when God was saying, Come to me, child, and just rest. I didn't know what rest was. I thought I was losing everything. And I was watching my life unravel as I was face down on the floor. But as I was praying for miracles, I was praying for provision, I was praying for restoration. Do you know what God was doing? He was working something so great on the inside of me that I can't even put it into words for you right now. The lessons, man, they came afterwards. When I look back and could see the glory, his manifestation all over my life. The season I thought that would destroy me, honey, it built me and it's building you too. It taught me to surrender, it taught me to trust, it taught me dependence on him. But most importantly, it taught me humility and patience. And it taught me that obedience moves the hand of God. It taught me how little control I actually had. And honestly, it was one of the greatest gifts that God ever gave me. Because before then, I thought peace came from certainty and control. Boy, was I wrong. I thought peace came from knowing how everything was going to work out and having all the answers. But God, God taught me something completely different, and He's teaching you today. The peace comes from knowing that God is in control, not me. Listen, I didn't learn to surrender when everything was working. I learned to surrender when I ran out of options. I was at the end of the road and I did not know what to do because I could not control the outcome. I knew I tried. The deepest encounter I ever had with God happened when everything else for me was stripped away. And when everything else is removed, you realize that he's enough. He wasn't preparing me for where I had been. He was preparing me for where I was going. I am still a work in progress. I'm not calling on you from a place of perfection. I'm calling on you from a place of repentance. From every setback, every delay, every disappointment, every unanswered question in every painful season, honey, none of it does he waste. God wastes nothing. He bottles every single tear. He doesn't waste our pain. He doesn't waste our waiting, and he doesn't waste our mistakes. Not even the things that we wish that we could erase. I had to learn how to hear God's voice, and that came in the surrender. I had to learn that my walk with him was a daily journey. Getting in his word, craving him, praying to him, even when I did not have the words, letting the Spirit intercede, and knowing that He was talking to me, opening my ears. I had to learn to set boundaries. And in the midst of this, I've been told I was mean or looked at me in certain ways. But the more I heal, the more boundaries I realize are biblical. And I don't have to people please anymore. I am a daughter of the Most High King who loves me and has great plans for me. And I want to help others come to this peace and surrender through him because it's unlike anything I've ever experienced. When I look back and realize everything he carried me through, every overdose, every car accident, every abusive situation I've been in, every trauma, he was there. He kept me alive. He kept me sane. So let me ask you something. Why do we forget? How is it that we can forget the answered prayer so quickly? Or the provision that he provided when we didn't know how there was going to be a way? How do we forget the healing in our bodies? How do we forget the faithfulness? I'll tell you, while we're human. Life gets loud and fear tries to get louder. Pain gets loud and waiting gets loud and before long. We've been so consumed with what God hasn't done yet because we got this silly little timeline in our head. The enemy, he doesn't need to convince you that God isn't faithful. He just needs to wear you out in the waiting. He only needs to convince you to stop remembering what God has done for you. The Israelites, they saw miracle after miracle. The Red Sea parted and manna fell from heaven. I mean, water came from rocks. Yet they still forgot. Fear, it creates spiritual amnesia. Fear narrows our vision. Faith, it expands it. And when we remember what God has done, our faith rises. When we forget, our fear grows. We let that root in us. So you need to remember what you've survived. I want you to think about your life for a moment. Remember the divorce. Remember the addiction, the diagnosis, the betrayal, the grief, the loss. Remember the season that you didn't think you were survived. Newsflash. You're still here, you're still standing, you're still breathing. Glory to God. That alone is evidence of God's faithfulness that you survived. Not because you're strong, but because God, God was faithful. Even when you couldn't see him or you couldn't feel him, even when you question him, he never left you, not once. And for those praying for a prodigal today, let me tell you something. You've already survived every day behind you. God carried you through every single one, so why would it be different today? The same God who pursued you then pursues you now. The same God who rescued you then rescues you now and then. And the same God that transformed you can transform them. The one that you encountered will encounter them. Don't let the waiting make you forget the faithfulness of our God. Don't let the timeline. Cause you to forget your testimony and don't let today's struggles erase yesterday's miracles. Honey, I need you to start praying again. I need you to keep believing, keep surrendering, and keep trusting. Because the good work he started, he will carry it on to completion according to Philippians 1:6. Not might, not will. He's not finished with you. Not with your prodigal, not with your marriage, not with your healing, and not with your story. This chapter is not the conclusion. It's part of the process. So hold on. Whoo! I'm gonna give you a challenge this week. I want you to do something you hadn't done in a long time. Get you a notebook. Write down every miracle that God has done, every answered prayer and every breakthrough, every provision and every door that God opened. Write down every mountain that He has carried you over, every season He has walked you through, and every time He made a way. And when that fear tries to arise to tell you that God He's not coming through, honey, you read that list, you remember because gratitude fuels your faith and remembrance, it builds endurance. Here's your invitation, friends. If this episode spoke to you, I want you to know that you don't have to walk this journey alone because the enemy he wants isolation. You need to share, like, and download. God created community, and whether you're healing from the past, you're rebuilding after loss or learning to trust God again or shucks. You're just walking through a prodigal season. Grace and the breaking, this is the place for you. The rise up mastermind, that's designed for those who know God is calling them higher and you're ready to move. You're ready to act with clarity and confidence. You're ready to have an action plan. I'm here to walk that with you. Our community and inner access membership groups, these are for support, accountability, biblical encouragement, and a safe place to get delivered and learn how to heal while you're waiting for God to move. If you're navigating the prodigal journey, you need to check out the Prodigal E series who's created specifically to heal your heart, surrender control, and establish healthy boundaries and prepare for restoration God's way while your faith is strengthened. Because let me remind you folks, healing it happens in community and growth happens through surrender. Transformation happens when we stop carrying what God never asked us to carry. And remember where you've been, remember where you've survived, and remember the God who carried you through it. The same God who was faithful then is faithful now. Why would you not think it would be any different? Because what he brought you through yesterday, he's already preparing what you need for tomorrow and the good work he gave, honey, he is bringing it to completion. I'm Elizabeth Everett. And this is Grace in the Breaking, where Grace meets you in the breaking and healing begins in the surrender. I want to share some very exciting news. We all know that Advocates for Africa has been an important part of my life, my healing journey, my surrender, and even the gifts that the good Lord is giving me. Um, there has been some changing of the guards, and there is an immediate need. The new organization will be renamed Child Ambassador International. And um, there's more information coming on that as the website launches, but as for right now, where there has been a dissolution of the current board here in the U.S. and a new strong fundamental foundation of the original founders in the vision to bring Jesus to Rwanda for food, ministry schools in order to keep the schools open and the kids coming in. We are in desperate need of your generous donations. So I am going to put a link to Jared Smith Ministry. This is going to be a PayPal link. Any amount of money is greatly appreciated. These kids deserve the continuity and not any consequences from poor management on a board side. Open your hearts, guys, because I can assure you I can personally put my name and Grace in the Breaking behind that every penny donated is going to the school and to these kids. Um don't delay. It is so much needed. All of the information will be in the show notes. And until next time, friends, I need you to keep trusting. I need you to keep surrendering, and I need you to keep remembering what God has already done because He has blessed you to bless others. I love you, and I will see you next week. Thank you so much for spending this time with me today on Grace and the Breaking. If this episode spoke to your heart, please remember to follow, download, and share it with someone who might need a little encouragement right now. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast platforms. As I close, I want to leave you with this reminder. 2 Corinthians 12.9. My grace is sufficient for you. My power is made perfect in weakness. So no matter what season you're walking through, you are not alone. And there is always Grace in the Breaking. For more information, resources, or to connect with me, visit GraceInTheBreaking.com or email me at info at graceinthebreaking.com. Until next time, friends, stay rooted in faith, hold on to hope, and remember that there is grace in the breaking.