“Managing Answered Prayers: Trusting God’s Yes”

 In this episode of Unrelated Sisters: Truth & Grace Conversation, Shannon and Deb dig into a part of faith we don’t often talk about—what happens when God actually says yes to our prayers. Sometimes His answers bring unexpected challenges, responsibilities, or new seasons we didn’t fully prepare for. Together, we’ll share stories of answered prayers that stretched us, how to steward blessings well, and why God’s “yes” requires just as much faith as His “wait.” 

 Encouragement for Listeners

God’s “yes” is never meant to overwhelm you—it’s an invitation to deeper trust. Every answered prayer carries both blessing and responsibility, but you don’t have to carry it alone. Remember, the same God who gave the provision will also give the wisdom, strength, and grace to manage it. Trust His timing, lean on His presence, and know that His “yes” always aligns with His good plans for you.

Prayer for Followers to Say

“Father, thank You for hearing my prayers and for the ways You’ve answered them in my life. Help me to steward Your blessings with wisdom, gratitude, and faith. When Your ‘yes’ feels bigger than I can handle, remind me that You are with me and that Your strength is made perfect in my weakness. Teach me to trust Your timing and Your plan, knowing that every good gift comes from You. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”

Key Bible Verses on Trusting God’s Yes

• James 1:17 – “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”
• Proverbs 10:22 – “The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.”
• Ephesians 3:20 – “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…”
• Philippians 4:13 – “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:05

Lord, we love you today. We just thank you for this time that you allowed us to gather together. Lord, I just pray that you would just speak through me and Shannon, Lord, that we would just continue to be raw and real. And Lord, I just pray that the words that we speak would be an encouragement to everyone listening. In Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_00: 0:22

Amen. Welcome back to Unrelated Sisters Truth and Grace Conversation. I'm Shannon and I'm here with Deb today. And we're going to talk about a question that I feel like many believers wrestle with, but they don't talk about it out loud because they feel like they shouldn't. Right? Um, are you mismanaging your prayers? Your answered prayers. Okay. So uh the other day I was listening to a uh I was listening to uh a podcast and I heard a question and it said, Are you misman are we mismanaging our prayers, our answered prayers? And that kind of hit me. It kind of hit me a little hard because I got to thinking about Am I mismanaging my my answered prayers? And so then I got to thinking about, well, what have I been praying about lately? You know, and I've been praying for, you know, for guidance for one. I've been I've been feeling like and I've talked about this several times on the podcast, but I've been feeling like I am in been in this season of waiting, and I feel like I've been in it for a long time.

SPEAKER_01: 1:35

Like a very long pregnancy.

SPEAKER_00: 1:39

Oh my god, like it's been awful. But um but then then I think about uh I you know, before we started this podcast, I was I had been praying for a way to share my story, you know. I'd I'd come to some of your groups and talked a couple of times, which I was very uncomfortable with and very just like well, but still, I just felt out of place or or or I don't know, right? And uh and you know, and we and it's been almost a year. April will be a year that we've started the podcast, so I know, right? It's insane. And uh I know, and we've done over 20 episodes. Uh I've done some with you, I've done some by myself, I've done some with some other people, you know. But every week I I've been able to just talk and feel very comfortable um speaking.

SPEAKER_01: 2:41

And because this is your game.

SPEAKER_00: 2:44

It is, it is, it has been for sure. But that was a prayer answered, right? But then instead of being grateful or humbled or thankful for that prayer, don't get me wrong, I am very thankful for the podcast and for where we're headed. Um I was already moved on to the next step, you know, and in life, you know, I work in retail, right? So, and and I'm gonna kind of um compare God to retail. Um summer comes, back to school comes, Halloween comes, Thanksgiving comes, east and Christmas comes. We have it all set. We make fun of it at work, right? It's called Hallow Thanksmas. Yeah, right, because it's all on the floor and it's everywhere. But that's what he did with the podcast. He answered my prayer. He gave me the heart, you know. I've had the heart to talk about it, and he gave me a way to share, you know, and we're in over a hundred countries, uh over a hundred cities. We're in like twenty two countries. We are uh we've had over 700 downloads. I don't know if that's good or not compared to podcast thingies, but I feel like it's great, you know? Uh I feel like it's amazing.

SPEAKER_01: 4:00

But if we just reach one, it's amazing.

SPEAKER_00: 4:02

I know, right? And that and that was the whole point behind it. But but then I get to, you know, but then I'm moving on, like what's next?

SPEAKER_01: 4:08

Yeah, we get away.

SPEAKER_00: 4:09

What's next, right? And and I feel like I've been feeling like I'm in this season of waiting because God's saying, just perfect what you're doing. Right? And so when I heard this question, do we mismanage our answered prayers? I had to stop and and and be like, whoa, I'm sorry. You know, please humble me. Please give me, you know, I'm you know, I am thankful and I do thank him for the podcast, but at the same time, how about we just work on what we're doing, right? Instead of worrying about what's next, or instead of thinking about what's next, or instead of go moving on to the next thing, you know. Uh I signed up and started a TikTok, you know, trying to get the word out about the podcast, but then I don't post on it, and then I don't, you know, I don't do all the things that you're supposed to do to get followers, but I don't believe that that's where we're at in our season yet. And I think I I because I is a big word, um, jumped ahead. I think I jumped ahead of where God was ready for us to be, right? Um, you know, sometimes God answers, but we miss it or we dismiss it or mishandle it. And I feel like that's where I've been. And instead of listening or recognizing, I think I've been uh mismanaging, you know, and I feel like that's where I've been, you know, and I was raised in Southern Baptists, right? Be careful what you pray for, you know, because uh he's gonna uh he may answer your prayer in a way that you you don't you don't want. You know, in John 14, 13, 14, Jesus promises that God answers when we pray in his name. I believe that, right? Um, but sometimes he just answers quietly, right? Like we don't see, you know, he's not splitting the Red Sea. You know what I mean? Like, we don't see the miracles that Moses and them seen. You know, and you know, you pray for things like praying for patience, praying for restoration, praying for, you know, God gives us every opportunity to practice patience. He gives us every opportunity to practice the grace that he's given us. Are we mismanaging that?

SPEAKER_01: 6:34

Oh yeah, I I like this when you started talking about it because when when I was reading over the mismanaging the blessing, and I talk about this a lot, you know, I prayed for my husband, you know, he was gone for 15 months in prison, and then that time the Lord really did a work in me, and I was just praying all these things, and then he gets home, and then I found myself like complaining uh about the dumbest stuff. You know what I mean? And then after I had to rip my heart out and beg, pleaded, and you know what I mean? And and the Lord gave me exactly what I prayed for. My husband's home, he's living for the Lord, you know what I mean? He's bent for a biter, he's not on drugs, he's going to church with me. All the things I prayed for. But he might not pick his shoes up. You know, he might track in. I I've talked about this before. I said I literally feel like he goes outside in the yard and like takes the water hose and like and and uh makes a big water photo and like rain dances in it or something, and then we'll tracks to the house. Right, because you just mocked. Yeah, and so and then I find myself complaining about it, and then I would find her find us in like little arguments that don't even matter, and then mismanaging the blessing that and the answer prayer, and then I'm like, at the end of the day, is this thing even really matter? Like my husband's on my husband saved my husband, the things that I prayed for, like, yeah, you know, he might not pick up his shoe, but that's what he works every day. Improvise. You know, and I find my and they just like the children uh in the wilderness, you know, that deliver us, Lord, but complain about the manna. He's gonna feed you, but you're still gonna complain. Right. You know what I mean? So I had to pre- I had to ask for repentance and uh and be intentional about keeping my mouth shut and maintaining my blessing, not mismanaging.

SPEAKER_00: 8:11

Not mismanaging it. I know, and you know, and it's it's so human-like, yeah, right? Because I mean, even in Luke 17, 11, 19, the 10 he healed 10 lepers, but only one thanked him for it. Right? So, you know, and we talk about, you know, we talk about our our past, but we don't live in our past, right? And and we have to be we have to be grateful or humbled or thankful or you know, because this is where somebody prayed for us to be, right? You know, oh yeah, you know, and but we sometimes, you know, as humans, as women, as brats of God, you know, we want to, you know, we uh we want to be the the nine.

SPEAKER_01: 9:02

Yeah, right?

SPEAKER_00: 9:03

We forget to be the one, and you know, the thankful one, and uh, and I but I do that great, right? I'm thankful all the time, but I'm not. I'm not.

SPEAKER_01: 9:18

Oh and this but y'all she has this big beautiful house that God has blessed her with.

SPEAKER_00: 9:25

I do, and uh I mean it blessed me and I do, I do, and I have a husband that cares about what that cares about what our curbapill looks like, like he cares that our yard looks nice, right? He works out in it all the time, and and it and it's six acres, so it's a lot to deal with. And I mean, we have beautiful grass, we've planted lots of you know shrubs and flowers and all the things, and um every year since we've been here, we've been here seven years, we go to Home Depot and I pick out all these beautiful flowers, but then they die at the end of the season, right? So this year we were I was like, I don't want to do this anymore. Let's just pick stuff that's gonna come back every year, right? So we go and we spend the money and we buy all these flowers, and then he's like, help me. And I'm like, oh god, do I really have to? I don't want to. It's hot, right? So he goes on about his business and he gets his daddy to help him. Well, but then he didn't maintain it over the summer as much. Uh, and weeds and all that started taking over. And so a couple weeks ago, he was like, you know, come out here and help me pull the weeds. I'm gonna go buy rock so the weeds won't come up as as quickly or as easily, and blah, blah, blah. I was like, okay, I didn't really want to, you know, he got that whole rolled eyes and you know, like you like your kids do. The dreadful, like, okay, you know, uh, and I the whole time we're out there, I complained. The whole time. And I was probably not out there more than 20 minutes. I complained the and sweated, but I complained the whole time. I whined about it the whole time we were out there. But I should be thankful.

SPEAKER_01: 11:08

Yeah, that you have weeds like that to pull out, they're so beautiful.

SPEAKER_00: 11:11

And well, and I should be thankful that he cares. I mean, if you've seen the house, the first house when you came in, their grass is so tall that they've probably got critters living in it. You know, but no, I'm not. I'm not grateful. I'm not thankful because we've been here seven years and I'm I'm the newest we're off, you know, and I think that's what happens with our blessings.

SPEAKER_01: 11:32

Yeah, and we mismanage it.

SPEAKER_00: 11:33

Right. Well, we forget the blessing that came where it came from. Yes, and then it causes us to mismanage it, you know. And I've been trying to be more intentional. Like he came in and uh right before you got here, and uh he's been out there all morning. He's been out there mowing and trimming hedges, and he's been out there doing all the things, you know, and he came in and he said something. And I was a baby, but the yard looks so good outside. He goes, Did you even get up and look? He knows I did. He knows I didn't get up to look. But I told him it looked good because I knew it looks good, right? Because he always does a great job, but I think we forget the blessing because it's not new anymore. And that just slapped me in the face because that was not part of this when I started for, like, this is like a wake-up call in reality. It is, right? Because this was not where I was headed at with this lesson when when I showed it to you this morning. Uh, you know, why do we think we know best? Yeah, because we forget the blessing. Yeah, you know, Proverbs 3, 5 through 6, lean into lean not on your own understanding.

SPEAKER_01: 12:46

But in all your ways acknowledge him.

SPEAKER_00: 12:48

But in all your ways acknowledge him.

unknown: 12:50

Right?

SPEAKER_00: 12:53

And and but I thank every morning. I thank God every before I get up out of the bed, I tell it, you know, I thank him for the day and what's gonna happen for the day, and I do the things. But what about thanking him for what I already got? I don't do those things. I don't ever take a moment to thank him for what I already have. Right? I thank him for what what's coming, but what about from where I came from? You know, and I don't know. I don't know if it's because I've decided, I've decided that my past doesn't make me who I am. So I don't think about the past, but that's the past long ago, right? Like the last 10 years since me and my husband have been married, and probably the last 12, because two years before we got married is when I found God, truly found God, you know, He has provided for me, He has kept me safe. He has, you know, they were laughing at me the other day because once a month I walk around my store and I just pray. Uh, I just I just pray over the associates, I pray over the building, I pray over the community, I just pray. And I was doing it the other day, and I have a brand new coach, he's only been with me a few weeks, and so he doesn't know my routine. And uh, but I try to do it at the first of every month. And uh he goes, I seen you walking around, I thought you were talking to yourself. I said, I was talking to the guy walking next to me, you know, and uh, but I don't do that here, I don't do it here, right? Like I come up here once a week and I turn on my you know, I turn up on worship music and and and I pray for his presence and I pray, you know, for him to help us with this podcast and stuff, but I don't think I've thanked him for my house and my home and my safety and all I don't think I've asked thanked him for a long in a long time. You know, because he already gave it to me.

SPEAKER_01: 14:55

Yeah, so that was next.

SPEAKER_00: 14:57

Yeah, right? So he's already given it to me, you know, and I hear you. That's all I'm gonna say.

SPEAKER_01: 15:06

I hear you.

SPEAKER_00: 15:07

I hear you.

SPEAKER_01: 15:08

Like you're hiding.

SPEAKER_00: 15:11

You know, like yeah, okay, yeah, because I wrote this like two months ago and I printed it this morning. But the intention of managing your answered prayers and trusting in God's yes was because or what I thought it was gonna end up being about because apparently it went totally left was you know, being yes to like going to the speaking engagement tomorrow, being more intentional about sharing uh on on TikTok and be more intentional about you know the the that ain't what he's wanting to do. In the yeah, but that's not what he apparently wanted me to realize from this podcast. Um so yeah, Isaiah 55, 8 through 9. God's thoughts and ways are higher. You know, we debate God because we want control, but pray praying or our prayers are supposed to be about surrender.

SPEAKER_01: 16:19

I'm done talking. I like this uh 1 Thessalonians 5, 63 can give thanks in all circumstances. I feel like when we carry a thankful heart, which is hard sometimes, because like you said, we get I don't for me, I get complacent and I forget sometimes. Like even in the chaos, like all my very kids are there, I'm like, oh my god. And the Lord's like, Can you pray for that? You know what I mean? After I'm doing these lessons, this is what I prayed for. I prayed for this and be able to have it. And it says the Lord will give you more relics opportunities to engage in have patience and all that good stuff. I know that's right. But when we learn to be thankful in all circumstances, it really is a game jade's atmosphere, it changes atmosphere. I will. It does if you're a carrier of uh light when you're thankful. This is the blessing. Okay, that's where I'm at right now because I'm just talking with you about this, like the things the Lord has blessed me with. I'm not being a good steward like with my clients. And so I really I was praying this morning, Lord, give me wisdom. Like, why do I think that I have to have things? Sometimes you know what I mean. And then I know I don't even need the things. And then I get the things, I'm like, why do I do that?

SPEAKER_00: 17:38

Well, so and I can answer that because I used to be there. I used to I feel like I used to be that way. Because before I got married, and my husband is an amazing steward of his finances, and if it wasn't for him, I would not I would still probably be in debt. I'm not gonna lie. But uh, like when I finally got and I'm not gonna say finally got on my feet, but when I I the first thing I did was buy a brand new car. Never owned a car, never had a car payment. But the first thing I went and done was buy a brand new car, you know, and then uh and then I borrowed money for us to go on a trip that we couldn't afford. Yeah, but I wanted us to go. And you need credit cards, you know, and then and then I went and got credit cards, you know, and I got I got store credit cards, which are worse than a real credit card, right? So old navy and coles and Walmart and and all the all the places, you know, and and I did it with good intentions, right? Oh, this is I'm gonna buy Christmas. I'm only gonna use it. But then you go in and they've got this really good sale going on, and so then you buy the stuff and you don't need the stuff, but you buy the stuff because when you were doing drugs, you didn't have the stuff.

SPEAKER_01: 18:44

Exactly. Or we did it with like you I got it like not their own way, you know.

SPEAKER_00: 18:48

Yeah, right. Yeah, no, I get what you're saying, yeah. And so and then you parent out of guilt, right? So you buy the stuff for them because you're parenting out of guilt when you really can't afford it, right? And it's and it's that's where I'm at right now.

SPEAKER_01: 19:06

That's where you're at. That's my prayers, and you said y'all have to help me clean me this. Like help me to steward what you have given me. Right. Well, and I give my ties every that's the first thing I do. So I I do that. And that's great, you know what I mean? But I don't like steward the rest of the finances like I should.

SPEAKER_00: 19:24

Right. Well, you know, and that's what like I said, you know, uh my husband, when we first got the first thing he did when we got married, he put us on a budget. And do you know how hard it was for me to live by a budget? Because I was used to saying, mm, I'll buy this today and I'll figure out how to pay that tomorrow. Right? And I used to be the one that would write the check and play beat the bank, you know?

SPEAKER_01: 19:52

like paying for the thing.

SPEAKER_00: 19:53

Yeah, pay for it, pay later.

SPEAKER_01: 19:55

So have that 10 thing on my paper. Yeah, pay her like$30 a week on you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_00: 20:02

But you get paid off at$30 a week. But uh, but he um That's okay. He but he put us on a budget and so the first thing he did was pay off the least the credit card that I had the least amount of. And then that$100 he put towards the next thing plus a little extra, right? And he wouldn't let me and then and then he would call me and say, uh, you're cut off this week. Don't spend no more money, you know, and he did that for probably the first two years we were married. You know, he would call me up and say, We're uh uh-uh, you can't spend the money today. I know he'll cut you off too.

SPEAKER_01: 20:41

Because Kevin co-signs with me as I say co-signed he's just like he don't care. Like, do if you're paying, but I shouldn't have money and savings, you know, good money and savings and savings. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00: 20:55

The first five years I didn't have money and savings.

SPEAKER_01: 20:57

But you're gonna help me.

SPEAKER_00: 20:58

I'm gonna help you. You're gonna help me. Uh yeah. I can. I can. I can tell you how to do it all day long. You just have to do it.

SPEAKER_01: 21:07

Well, I'm ready. I'm surrendered. I say that. You are you're gonna check back on you know what I mean by a month and see where I'm at. Yep. We will seriously, like, I feel like I'm not the only one. Oh, you're not. Oh god, no. Like it's ridiculous, I mean.

SPEAKER_00: 21:24

Well, but when you have an addictive personality, you change one addiction for another. Yes. Right? Like, I can't make account is um food and stuff.

SPEAKER_01: 21:39

Oh yeah. But it's not for me, like I bought for other kids, like they don't need that. But they maybe they do, but like I do they really? She said, Do they really? Maybe I try to use set healthy dangers as well.

SPEAKER_00: 21:51

Yeah, maybe. Maybe not I'm gonna say you know, or uh or you set a so what I what I we do now is I have a Christmas fund. So every week so much money goes into my Christmas fund, and that's what I use, and whatever's in that at the end of the at the Christmas season is what I spend for Christmas. I don't spend a dollar more. Uh, and then I have a uh then we have our savings account that money that I put money into out of my check every week, and then uh I have a uh what I call a blessing account. So, and I put ten dollars. That's all I put in it. Every check that we get paid, I put ten dollars in it, but that's my blessing account, you know, and you'd be amazed how much ten dollars adds up to be. You know, you get paid every week, so that's$560 a year. If you just put ten dollars in a savings account. One savings account. So, anyway.

SPEAKER_01: 22:55

But that's what that's a part of it. Like, I'm not I feel like I'm not maintaining that business goal. You know what I mean? Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00: 23:04

You know, like well, you've had the job a year now. Yeah, all right, so now it's start. You've grown, right? You've carried it, you've carried the same job.

SPEAKER_01: 23:14

I'm putting it out there.

SPEAKER_00: 23:15

Yeah, well, but you've had the same job for a year. You know, you're not moving around. Right.

SPEAKER_01: 23:21

This uh position, yes.

SPEAKER_00: 23:23

Yeah, so now it's time to sit down and give you a budget. Lord, we're gonna pray hard for her.

SPEAKER_01: 23:33

Yes, we are.

SPEAKER_00: 23:34

She likes me, she likes to get her hair done and her nails done.

SPEAKER_01: 23:37

Well, I was even thinking, like, I could get press-on nails. Like, I don't really need nails. We'll talk about it.

SPEAKER_00: 23:43

We'll talk about it. Because I still believe in self-care.

SPEAKER_01: 23:46

I know, and I try to do the press on nails one time. I was gonna do that last year or so. You know, I thought about doing this last year. But I didn't make it, I didn't accomplish that. I'm just gonna I didn't accomplish none of my goals.

SPEAKER_00: 23:57

Don't ever set New Year's resolutions because they never happen.

SPEAKER_01: 24:01

And I just need to set a realistic goal and just do better.

SPEAKER_00: 24:07

Yeah. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01: 24:08

Okay, probably I won't do press on nose. No, but I will start doing better.

SPEAKER_00: 24:13

Yes. We're gonna eat out less one palm a year a week. Yes, you know, and stay humble.

SPEAKER_01: 24:19

I'm humble. I'm like I'm humble. I'm just I I deserve that.

SPEAKER_00: 24:23

Do I just stay humble? Every good and perfect gift is from God, you know. Um we're talking about, you know, staying responsible, and we're talking about, you know, uh gifts, perfect gifts from God, and we're talking about being thankful for every circumstance. And, you know, um at work, uh I have we have a where they come in and they have all these questions they ask, and the one thing we keep getting in trouble for is my associates don't the associate engagement, right? They don't feel like they're appreciated, and I'm thinking I do all these things for them, right? But you know, the one thing I don't do, I say thank you to the ones that I deal with all the time, but the ones that I don't personally deal with all the time, are they the ones that's not getting thanked? Right? Like, so it's so comparing that to my relationship with God, I thank him every morning, but do I do it out of thankfulness or do I do it out of routine? Right? Because with my associates, I do it out of routine, right? Out of the ones that I I deal with on a daily, but I'm not doing it, I'm not doing it with the ones that I don't deal with every day, right? I say hey and th, you know, hey to them every day, and I call them by their name, but I don't thank them for being there, or I don't thank them for you know what I mean? Because that they're they're not over here doing the sweat work for me. So when I thank God every morning, and I am I thanking him because out of routine, or am I thanking him because he's done something for me? Does that you get where I'm at? You know, so are we staying humble? That's where the humble comes in. Like every good and perfect gift is from God. But am I doing it out of being humbled, or am I doing it because that's what I'm supposed to do? You know, Revelation 12, 11 says, share how God answered so others are encouraged. And you know, we do we do that on a regular basis every week. Uh every time I get an opportunity to talk about where I came from or you know, where I'm at, and even in work, I do it a lot, even though, you know, if I offend the wrong person, I could get in a lot of trouble. But I don't I don't care at this point when it comes to God. But yeah, yeah. This was like blowing my mind. You know, God doesn't mind uh mind us questioning, but he welcomes honest conversation.

SPEAKER_01: 27:14

I've been honest, right?

SPEAKER_00: 27:16

He yeah, and he welcomes that. I mean, David in the Psalms, he wrestled with God a lot, you know, and it's okay.

SPEAKER_01: 27:23

Poor Job.

SPEAKER_00: 27:24

Poor Job, you know, and um, but and it's okay. And I do it at work a lot, right? Like I question my boss a lot, but then I don't back down when I think I'm right. Yeah, I do God the same way. Like I question him a lot, but then when he's even telling me and I can hear it and I can see it. Yeah, like oh my god. Okay, so I'm gonna challenge y'all this week. Uh write down three answered prayers that you may have overlooked and thank God for them. That's good. I know you do that. I do too. Like, yeah, I know, like for real. You know, uh ask God to give us the eyes to see his answers and the heart to steward the blessings well. You know, humility to trust in him and his timing. And that's I guess where I have the hardest time is trusting in his timing a lot, right? Because I want it to be my timing, and that is never, never okay. Uh, you know, and you you were you're asking me earlier uh doing that women's conference in the morning, and you were like, Are you nervous? And before we sat down and and started going through this, I was so nervous. And now all I want to do is just like hit my knees and thank him for the opportunity tomorrow, right? You know, and um that was ever gonna be blessed. Yeah, and just you know, just be very humbled by the opportunity to share because I feel like I have a I've come up with the I have a good story. I feel like me and he has worked on it really, really hard uh this week and uh or the last actually the last month. Yeah, I've been working on it the last month, but and I and it's always stayed about a season of waiting. Uh the but it has grown from different seasons of waiting.

SPEAKER_01: 29:22

Um and how to get to it, you know, and uh season of of I think it's not a season of waiting now, it's like a season of managing.

SPEAKER_00: 29:31

A season of managing. Yeah, managing for sure. You know, from re restoration to managing our blessings, you know, and being thankful and humbled by them and not forgetting the blessings because where I'm at today is probably the hugest blessing he's ever given me. Right? Where you are with your family and your children and your marriage, the biggest blessing he's ever given you. And yet that's the two things we take for granted. Right. And um Not forgeting, you know, don't forget where you came from, I guess is the lesson. You ain't gotta live in it. Don't live in it. Don't live in it. There's a difference. But don't forget where he brought you from to thank you. Pray us out.

SPEAKER_01: 30:14

Lord, we love you today and we thank you for the season that we're in, Lord. And I just pray that you would help us, God. Whatever it is that we're not being able to manage or steward the things that you've blessed us with, Lord. I just pray that you would just open our eyes as we went to this podcast. God, I I you have dealt with me on terrible things that um I may have taken for granted, Lord. And I just um repent of that, Lord. And I want to be grateful and thankful for where you brought me from, Jesus. Yes. And I just pray that um we would be good stewards of our time, of our finances, of our friendships, of our marriages, of our work, everything that you've blessed us with. Amen.

SPEAKER_00: 30:48

In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Thank you for joining us today on Unrelated Sisters Truth and Grace Conversation. I hope this conversation reminded you that God not only hears you, He answers you, and sometimes in ways you least expect it. Don't miss your miracle because it didn't look the way you pictured it. Guard your gratitude, steward your blessings, and keep trusting the one who knows best. Until next time, keep walking in truth and grace.

SPEAKER_01: 31:17

Love you guys.