Fit For Her Journey
The FIT FOR HER JOURNEY podcast was created to inspire and uplift women on their journey to personal growth and fulfillment in faith, health, and wellness. Through real insight, wisdom and the word of God, join Allie as she shares a bit of church, a bit of life, health and wellness and a lot of the word, God’s Word! Allie deep dives into the word of God and shares with her audience empowering and heartfelt reflections while creating a safe space for women, where vulnerability, truth and growth can exist on their journey. Life comes with its own challenges and setbacks, and Allie invites her audience to draw near to God for hope, grace and restoration. Be encouraged to surrender, abide, and step into the incredible will of God that He created for you. Be her. You are her. Become FIT FOR HER JOURNEY.
Fit For Her Journey
Navigating The Reality of Weariness
Feeling spiritually exhausted? You're not alone. This raw, honest conversation tackles the reality of growing weary in your faith journey - something many Christians experience but few openly discuss.
When prayers seem unanswered, God feels distant, and others receive their breakthroughs while you're still waiting, weariness can settle in like an unwelcome houseguest. The tendency to question if God still hears you or if His plans for you have changed becomes overwhelming. The enemy's whispers grow louder, and exhaustion threatens to derail your faith entirely.
Drawing wisdom from Isaiah 40, we explore how God - who never grows weary Himself - provides renewed strength precisely when we feel most depleted. Unlike the world's approach of "figuring it out ourselves," Christian perseverance means waiting on God's timing while actively trusting His promises. Tune in as Allie shares practical strategies for overcoming spiritual fatigue when growing weary is your reality.
Whether you're in a prolonged waiting season or simply exhausted from life's demands, this episode reminds you that your weariness isn't a spiritual failure - it is indeed a human reality that God meets with divine strength.
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You are now listening to the Fit for Her Journey podcast with Allie Gibbs. Welcome back to another episode of the Fit for Her Journey podcast, where we have a bit of church, a bit of life, health and wellness and a lot of the word, god's word. I am your host, allie Gibbs. What's up? Fit for Her Journey family? If you're new here, welcome. It's so great to have you and I'm so glad you are tuning in If you have been listening and rocking with us over here at Fit for Her Journey. Welcome back, family.
Speaker 1:Now listen, we just came out of Holy Week and we should all have so much to be thankful for, but still many of you are walking in a current season of heavy weariness. Growing weary is a real thing. Y'all, getting weary in life is real. That's why it really does bother me when Christians who try to make it seem like being a Christian is easy, that the walk might be easy, that the journey in faith is easy they often try to make the walk in the journey in faith. They often try to make the walk in the journey in faith. Picking up your cross daily to follow Jesus is all glorious, gracious and beautiful. Now don't get me wrong. There are moments when it absolutely is, especially when you actually see it happening. It is so amazing and fulfilling to the point that you always want to experience it. But the reality of it is there are many times and I mean many when your waiting season seems so extended and delayed, when you don't see your prayers being answered, when life around you becomes so overwhelming that you just don't know what is right anymore. I know this to be true for me personally through my own experiences. You start thinking and believing that your prayers are falling short and not reaching God. You don't see things happening with the vision God gave you. God, you don't see things happening with the vision God gave you. You start questioning your faith God and if what he actually purposed you to do in the earth is actually even real. And with that, the enemy, of course, is getting louder and louder, trying to convince you that everything you are thinking is true. And in all honesty, you feel surrounded and just simply tired.
Speaker 1:And oftentimes you even see and hear people sharing their testimonies of how God moved on their behalf in their life. You're seeing miracles happening for other people and you're still in your same spot, with no real indication that your circumstances, situation or season is actually going to change. But even through a pained heart, you still have joy for others, for how God has moved. You're actually trying to not operate in that spirit of comparison, jealousy, covetousness. You even hear pastors preach, speakers speak, teachers, teach all about remaining faithful and obedient, because your time is coming and the if God did it for me, he'll do it for you, saying that we all have heard time and time again. But when you're feeling weary, what do you do? Does hearing all of that actually help?
Speaker 1:For a Christian who has received blessings, it's easy to talk about what the Lord has done and or the miracle he has performed, or the miracle he has performed and I know it is used to help keep others encouraged. But many people don't talk about the waiting in real time. Many don't talk about when they were feeling weary and getting weary and the many times they wanted to give up. It's often like how people only post their gifts and blessings on social media, but they don't share the behind the scenes of the work it took. They don't share the transparent truth that they too grew weary and even hopeless, or how that in that season it almost took them out. It leaves the question of what did you do when you were weary and couldn't see the blessings coming and that things from God seem silent?
Speaker 1:See, unbelievers are accustomed to figuring things out, working endlessly to make things happen, believing that they did a thing and attained the desired results all on their own and with their own abilities. At least that's the mindset at hand. And I must say the enemy is very convincing at helping people believe. There is truth in that. But for us Christians, our hope and trust is to be anchored in the Lord and when we are getting weary and feeling like we are not hearing from God, we need more of our brothers and sisters in Christ to help us see that we are not the only ones facing the struggle of weariness. Not just dressing it up when it's wrapped around a testimony, but instead speak to it in a real and authentic way.
Speaker 1:When weariness pulls up in your driveway and is at your front door knocking, you hear me. What have you done? And or what are you doing in a season of growing weary? Let me read to you Isaiah 40, verse 28 through 31. And it says have you not known, have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint and to him who has no might. He increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted. But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint.
Speaker 1:Sis, what this is telling us is that God, who is everlasting, who is the creator of all things, who is all knowing and ever present, never suffers a setback, and he helps you and I who actually do. It's reminding us that, as humans, we grow weary at times. It is inevitable in our humanity. We can't escape it. Our own human strength to endure things in this life will fail, but there is hope. So I want you to hear me. Only the promises of God can sustain us through perseverance. And what does perseverance mean? It means persistence in doing something, despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. So, to make it plain, will you face difficulty? So to make it plain, will you face difficulty, yes. Will you struggle, yes. Will you get exhausted? Yes. And will you get weary, yes, but here's what Isaiah is telling us to do. He says wait for the Lord. Okay, hold on to God's promises by faith, until the time of fulfillment.
Speaker 1:I know you feel like God gave you a vision, an idea, a dream, but it's been a while and it hasn't happened for you yet. I know some of you are even actively working towards it and the end results just don't feel near. You feel like in your current situation, god must have forgotten about the thing he gave you, the word he spoke to you. You feel like he must have chosen somebody else for the job, or you have been working at it for so long. You're convinced that it's just not going to happen. You are weary and what you feel is real, but something else that is real is that the Lord will renew your strength. In him you are sure to find endless supplies of fresh, new strength that just keeps giving and giving and giving.
Speaker 1:We can't let our weariness and lack of patience keep us from trusting God's timing. What God has for uses is for you. No one can take it. God makes no mistakes. He didn't change his mind about you, even though he already knew you would come to a place of weariness. He hears your prayers and he is still working on your behalf, even when you don't see it or feel that he is distant.
Speaker 1:I share this because I, too, grow weary, like I'm not even going to hold y'all I do. I too, cry out to God in my weariness. Like God, do you hear my prayers? Do you still have plans for me? Because, lord, your daughter is tired, I'm tired. Okay, in those times, as in all other times, we need to take time to be still and silent before God and trust him to speak to our hearts. In those moments when we are quiet before him, he often brings to mind scripture, which is just what we need to calm our mind and bring comfort to our heart that renews and supplies us with fresh strength.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but in our own ways, as humans, we lack patience. Often, viewing God's timing as Lord, it's taking too long. I could do this by myself. Let me just go in and let me volunteer some help, god, because I mean, what are we doing here? But patience, like silence, requires discipline, and when we are patient, we begin to see that God is absolutely at work in our life.
Speaker 1:I know for me, growing weary hits me completely at random. It is so random y'all. But I also notice it more when the difficulties and uncertainties in life are right in my face, and especially when I come to a place of becoming impatient. It may show up when my husband and I aren't really getting along. You know the tit for tats that take place in marriage because you know, to be completely honest, marriage is not easy. If you know, you know. Or when my children test my patience, when I don't see the results in business or in tasks that I hope for, and when I feel isolated oh, that's not a good feeling. And definitely when I feel God is distant, like where is my father? Growing weary is real for me, just like it is for many of you.
Speaker 1:I don't have a miraculous miracle to share about overcoming weariness. I ain't even going to hold y'all. But what I do have and can share are some ways that have and are helping me in times of weariness as a Christian, and my prayer for you is that they also may help you too. The Lord knew we would grow weary and have times of feeling weak in spirit in life and we would be surrounded by difficulties that would test our faith. So let me just share number one I've learned to recognize and acknowledge those feelings of weariness because they are real. They are indeed your interpretations of what you feel. But to that we must notice and be mindful of our feelings and how they can become deceptive and misguided if we place them on a pedestal before God's truth.
Speaker 1:For example, if you're working on a job expecting a promotion, but you've been there less than a year and you don't get that promotion. But now you're in a season of growing weary and you feel overworked that's your interpretation. Weary and you feel overworked. That's your interpretation. If you signed up for a gym membership and only made time to go five times in a whole month and you're not seeing the results you wanted to see, you begin to get discouraged and may feel like working out doesn't work for you. That's your interpretation. If you go to a new church and the pastor is teaching biblical truths from the Bible about sin and repentance and because it doesn't align with your own narrative and it actually convicts you to change your ways, you feel like that pastor is too radical. That's your interpretation. And lastly, when you have prayed and asked God to move on your behalf and open doors for you, but you haven't taken that first step he told you to take, you get weary because you feel like God is silent and has abandoned you. That's your interpretation.
Speaker 1:Now, do you truly believe that God, who created all things in and of the world, would actually forget the plans he has for you? Do you actually honestly think he would change his mind, leaving you stranded, leaving you to just be weary? Let me just tell you the very nature and character of God proves that he would never do that. He's too holy for that. He is too much of a father. Come on somebody to abandon you like that. See, in reality, the problem is that in our weariness, we are the ones who change our minds and turn away from God, even believing that if we give up or do it our own way, things in life would actually turn out better for us. Hmm, sound familiar. It is in those times of weariness that we forget that the scripture reminds us that every good and perfect gift is from God. In James 1.17, it says Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights. This doesn't mean by your own will, abilities and intentions, but by God's will.
Speaker 1:Number two find comfort in God's word. It is plain in Isaiah when he says he gives power to the faint and to him who has no might, he increases strength. This is something that I had to learn to do, and that was to turn to God's word. When I felt weary or faint at heart, I would pray and meditate on scriptures that gave me comfort in God's word. I tuned into God's promises, one passage of scripture that I meditate on when I start worrying, especially when my mind isn't at rest, and that is this Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Another one is found in Galatians 6, and let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not give up. We also have this promise from Jeremiah 31, 25, for I will satisfy the weary soul and every languishing soul I will replenish. There are so many truths and promises that will speak to your circumstances and season of weariness. Just read your whole Bible and you will find them.
Speaker 1:Okay, we as Christians have to do a better job at just reading God's word, sitting with his word, meditating with his word, praying over his word. You can't know what you don't know. So why would you turn away from God in weariness? You shouldn't, I shouldn't. Instead, I encourage you to remain steadfast in the test of faith. Lean closer to God in those moments and seasons, seek him more diligently and fervently, continue to pray and ask for clarity and guidance and trust that he will answer you.
Speaker 1:Is it hard to wait? Absolutely. We're human, we want what we want and we want it now. Right? I shared in a previous episode that I actively struggle with my patience in waiting on people, which has reflected in my relationship with God. However, the more I die to my flesh, the more I am able to see the good works being done in me for the glory of God. Trust me, it's hard for us all, especially knowing there are no guarantees that our waiting will ever end in this actual lifetime. Yeah, it's true that the desires we long for, the prayers we've been praying and even the news we're waiting to hear can tempt us to grow weary, discouraged, to worry and even to wonder if God cares. Sis, I'll be the first one to tell you he cares.
Speaker 1:And lastly, number three, take care of your needs physically, mentally and emotionally. You can start by allowing yourself to be present in the moment. I encourage you to exercise and get active, and not just because I'm a personal trainer, even though I'm going to always leave you with that encouragement, because the reality is it's good for you overall. I know for me, getting a good workout session in rather it be at the gym or at home even getting a two to three mile walk in helps me both physically and mentally. I also want to share to get acquainted with rest. I know some of you may stay up pretty late scrolling on the socials watching your favorite reality TV show, but get accustomed to rest and eat nutritious foods that help your body feel good. This definitely helps with your overall health and helps you to redirect and or change your mindset on certain habits you have developed. And, lastly, get outdoors.
Speaker 1:I personally enjoy sitting outside on my patio just to get some quiet time to myself, to get some fresh air, to spend time in prayer or just to meditate on God's word. Listening to nature, getting fresh air and sunlight brings me into an expression of gratitude in the little things you know. So often we seek God for the big things in life, but rarely do we just sit and thank him for the small things or find joy in just the sound of the birds chirping, feeling the warmth of the sun on our face, or even that he added your name to the wake-up list today. Come on, is anybody thankful for that? I know I am. So hear me, truly hear me, as I want to leave you with this.
Speaker 1:Yes, growing weary at times is real in any waiting season, but remember that the wait can be a process of growth in your faith and spirituality. Trusting God's timing is key in knowing that he is for you, not against you, is key in knowing that he is for you, not against you, and seeking comfort in him as he renews your strength. So I challenge you today that, in any moments of weariness, go back to the scriptures shared in today's episode and meditate on them, reflect on them, pray over them and lay your weariness down before God and let him replenish your strength. No matter how many times it takes, he will be right there waiting for you with open arms. Amen, family. That's it. That's all.
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