“When God’s Yes Comes Full Circle”

Episode Description:
Have you ever waited on a “yes” from God — prayed for it, cried over it, and then when it finally came, it didn’t look the way you expected? This episode of Unrelated Sisters: Truth & Grace Conversation dives deep into the beauty and mystery of when God’s yes comes full circle — those moments when what once didn’t make sense finally clicks into place.

Sometimes His “yes” isn’t immediate. It unfolds slowly through seasons of pruning, preparation, and purpose. But when His promise finally comes around, it reminds us that God’s timing is never off — it’s orchestrated.

Together, we’ll unpack how to recognize when God’s yes is in motion, how to steward it with gratitude, and how to stay faithful in the in-between. Because when God brings something full circle, it’s never just about the blessing — it’s about the transformation that happened along the way.

📖 Anchor Verse:

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV) –

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”

Philippians 1:6 (NLT) –

“And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.”

💡 Encouragement:

When God’s yes finally comes full circle, it often meets you as a healed version of yourself — the “you” that’s ready to hold what you once only hoped for. Don’t rush the circle. Trust that every delay, detour, and disappointment had a divine purpose. God never wastes your waiting; He weaves it into your becoming.

If you’re in the middle of the circle — still unsure where the story is headed — remember: God’s yes doesn’t expire; it matures.

🪞How to Recognize and Steward God’s Full-Circle “Yes”

1. Reflect Before You Rejoice:
   Take a moment to look back. What prayers has God already answered that you might’ve missed because you moved on too fast? Gratitude brings clarity.
2. Stay Rooted in Relationship, Not Results:
   When the blessing comes, don’t let the gift distract you from the Giver. Keep your eyes fixed on the One who brought you through.
3. Use What You’ve Learned:
   God’s full-circle moments are meant to be shared. Testify. Encourage someone else who’s still waiting — your story is proof that His promises are real.
4. Guard Against Pride or Comparison:
   Remember that every circle is different. What He does for you is designed for your timeline and purpose. Celebrate others, but stay content in your own process.

🙏 Closing Prayer:

Father, thank You for being the God who finishes what You start.
 Even when I couldn’t see it, You were working. Thank You for every delay that developed me, every no that protected me, and every yes that is coming full circle in Your perfect timing.
 Teach me to trust You more than the outcome and to see Your fingerprints in every phase of my story.
 When my “yes” finally unfolds, help me hold it with humility, gratitude,

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:02

Lord we love you today. We thank you for this opportunity together here, my sister. Lord, I just pray that you speak through us today, God. And I just thank you for what you're doing in our lives and what you're gonna do. In Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_01: 0:15

Amen. Hey family, and welcome back to Unrelated Sisters Truth and Grace Conversation. I'm your host, Shannon, and I'm here today with Deb. And today's episode it's a little personal. And uh I've named it when God's Yes Comes Full Circle. So the last two weeks have been kind of a whirlwind of emotions. Uh there's been joy and nervousness, excitement and surrender all wrapped together. And it all started after uh last week's episode. Um, the one where I finally just said, okay, I'm done talking. Uh yeah, that one. Uh managing answered prayers, trusting God's yes. That one hit me right in the gut because I didn't realize how quickly God was about to show me what his yes actually looked like in my own life. So the next morning after I headed out, um after we did that episode, uh, headed to teach a breakout session at a women's conference called Season of Her Soul, Sewn and Seen. My session was called The Season of Waiting. And let me tell you, I was nervous. You know, uh I work in Rockmart and it's a small community, and all the people that were coming to the conference, they all go to church together, they they growed up with each other, they all kind of knew each other, you know, and I was thinking ain't nobody gonna want to come to my breakout session, you know. Um, and then I ended up having the most people in my breakout session. Right? Uh that's craziness, but yeah, I ended up having like we had to go find more seats for my breakout session, and uh, which was very humbling for me.

SPEAKER_00: 1:59

And um Can I say something real quick? Yeah, right. Um when you know, a lot of times when God asks us to do something, we're not real sure, but we go we go ahead and say yes. He always goes above and beyond just to show you, hey, I told you this is confirmation.

SPEAKER_01: 2:18

Yes, yes, you know, and and coming from that, like I kept asking because she asked me a month before if I would do it, and I told her yes, and then after I told her yes, I questioned myself, right? I I kept thinking, okay, Lord, is this you, yes, or is this me? Yes, because I want to do it, right? And um, and you're not, you know, it's not always about can I do it or I want to do it, right? If it's meant for him to be, you know, so the whole time I questioned myself, the whole time. And then we did that, then we did that podcast on many junior answered prayers, and I thought, and that's I guess that's why it hit me so hard, because it was kind of like uh this is what you've been asking for, right? You know, you you started asking this two or three years ago, right? Before, you know, before we started the podcast, before, you know, all of the things, you know, and so I wasn't sure. But um, and I didn't feel ready, of course, you know, and I changed it. It it was always about waiting because that's where I felt like I was at, right? And so I felt like I could talk on waiting because I feel like I've been in a season of waiting for two years. Like I just, but and that's how it grew out, you know, and we've done that podcast and season of waiting growed out, but you know, I stood there and I was reminded by uh the Eglatians, no, Ecclesiastes 3.1, to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. You know, and that verse it kind of anchors you, right? And it kind of anchored me in the moment, you know. And when I started teaching the uh 20 plus women that were sitting there, you know, we were waiting. I was talking about waiting seasons and it was about the farmer, right? I uh I c I combined the Bible with the farmer and the seasons that they go through, and in the spring, how they, you know, they prepare the the ground and they plant the seeds and they, you know, they get it ready for the season, and then in the summer they have to water it and they have to pull the weeds. Gotta pull the weeds, folks. You know, and they have to prune it and they have to get it, you know, prepared and they have to protect it from the enemy, you know. Um, and then you know, and then the harvest comes. And that's on last week's episode, the harvest, managing those prayers, like that's when it hit me. I've been in my harvest for months and didn't even realize it. Like I, you know, didn't even dawn on me. Like I I was still asking, right? I was still praying for it. I was still praying for it, and I was still asking for it. And the whole time I've been walking in it, right? I've been I mean, was it what I thought it was gonna be, you know? Was this you know, I don't think so. But it usually never is, you know, right, right? Because, you know, I don't and I don't know what I thought it was gonna be like, you know. I don't know what I thought sharing my story was gonna be like. I don't know what I thought finding his presence in my everyday life, you know, where I'm at peace all the time. Right? Like, don't get me wrong, I worry about small things, but the minute my head goes to bed and I thank him for the day, when I wake up tomorrow, I I don't worry about it no more. And that's you know, that's a peace that's hard to find. And uh I'd been walking in it for months. Like I have been at that kind of peace for months uh and never even understood it, you know. But sometimes we won't harvest before we have uh we've done the work to get to it. Um and I feel like I thought I hadn't done the work. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00: 6:13

Yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_01: 6:14

Yeah, you know, I feel like I feel like the reason I didn't realize I was in the harvest or that I've been in my harvest is because I don't feel like I've done the work.

SPEAKER_00: 6:23

I don't feel like I've and sometimes we we don't even realize that we don't have to do the work. He's already done it. He's done it. It's hard. We think, oh, I gotta do, I gotta go take the boxes.

SPEAKER_01: 6:36

Yes, yes, and that's how it and that's you know, when you sit down and you think about it, uh this March will be a year, right? That we went to that conference and decided we were gonna start this podcast. That's not long away. Like that's only a few months, you know. So we've been doing the work, and you know, we've been talking about it years before we started that we needed to do it. So I don't know. It was just this year was like a a groundbreaking.

SPEAKER_00: 7:04

I really feel like year two is gonna be it's almost like a preparation.

SPEAKER_01: 7:08

Yes, yes, for the whole thing. So, you know, and it's just been one thing right after another. So not only, you know, did we do that, but then the Saturday before that we had gone to another women's conference, a local women's conference here where we live, and it was their first conference, and it wasn't nothing huge or spectacular, you know, but it was a bunch of faithful women getting together, and it was called Victor Victorious More Than More Than Conquers, you know, and I have been and I've talked about this, right? I don't feel like I fit in with the people that go to church, and I don't feel like I fit in with the people that's you know coming out of coming out of addiction into recovery, you know, the people that are still babies in it because I've been you know I've been clean and sober for so long, you know, and and I love you, but you got a lot going on in life.

SPEAKER_00: 8:08

I have a lot going on in life. I have any kids in 16, 17 grandkids.

SPEAKER_01: 8:12

You have a lot going on in life, and that's and so we're definitely in different seasons when that comes. So, like, uh, you know, I've been asking God, like, can I just have some friends? You know, some friends that are at my level, some some people that are not having your kids. That don't well, and just don't have yes, just don't have your chaos, right? My kids grown, you know, I don't have that, you know. And so at that conference, we met Ashley and Victoria, and they have young children, so their life isn't chaos yet, but they are at a peace in their life right now that it's it matches the peace that I'm in. And you know, we went to the Bible study on Wednesday, and after everybody left, the three of us sit there and talk for like another hour and a half, you know, and I just I feel at, you know, maybe we're not best friends today, right? But I do feel like if I if I sent her a message on Facebook like that she would pray over me, you know, I feel like that uh that we have we have started headed in the direction of becoming uh I don't know where we're headed. God's got us headed somewhere big, I feel like, you know, uh, but all of us, you know, and we're all going together, and it's just it amazes me at where we're at and where he's brought us from.

SPEAKER_00: 9:33

I love how God connects us all. Like I met them through my daughter, and then uh like their friends. Right. So that's how I met them. Oh.

SPEAKER_01: 9:44

And so how it connects, and then you came and yeah, so yeah, so that's been you know, that's been enlightening for me. It's been helpful, you know, because sometimes I feel lonely. And uh give you some kids you want the lonely You know, uh and you know, these uh the the women there were the you know, they were real in their own fire for God, they're unashamed of where they came from, they're filled with grace, and you know, and I prayed for community like that years ago, you know, and our community, you know, the two of us, I love us, you know, but sometimes we need a little more, yeah, you know, um, and things like that. So, you know, when I finally stood in what I prayed for, it humbled me, right? Um, because I realized that it wasn't about the things that I wanted, it was about the heart he was shaping it in, shaping me in. Okay. It was about the heart, the heart that he was shaping in me while I was waiting, you know.

SPEAKER_00: 10:58

Um that molding, that being on that quarter as well.

SPEAKER_01: 11:02

Yes, you know, and that's just been unreal, you know. And then on October 4th, we went to see and see Brendan Lake, you know, and that was just that was like the perfect ending to the to the week, you know, from Saturday to Saturday.

SPEAKER_00: 11:17

That was worth it all the tiredness. You know what I'm saying? Like all the it was so worth it.

SPEAKER_01: 11:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 11:25

Seeing that baby worship and that everybody, yeah, because being in a room like 13,000 people and everybody worshiping. Yeah. Pouring their hearts out, man. It was it was uh it was life-changing, I think. I feel like it was too. It was a it was a faith booster for me watching my baby worship, because I didn't see him do that in a couple years. He would do it when we'll go to revivals and stuff, but he'd be helping me really doing that, even at church and stuff. You know, it he would sing and stuff, but he worshiped that night.

SPEAKER_01: 11:51

Oh yes, he did. So he did.

SPEAKER_00: 11:55

And then being with y'all, it was good.

SPEAKER_01: 11:57

It was, it was good, it was refreshing.

SPEAKER_00: 11:59

Sometimes you need to do that to get away. Even you have to even if you had to s uh schedule it out, you know, mark your little You know what? I'm gonna do I'm gonna put this in my counter, we're gonna do this.

SPEAKER_01: 12:09

Yeah, because we bought that time. We bought the I bought those tickets and I went back and looked. I bought those tickets in May. So I bought those tickets back in May. So but yeah, it's like it was just that you're a planner. Yeah, well, it's not that I'm a planner, it's just it sh it shows up when it needs to, I guess. But he uh but just his words, you know, his music, all of it all together, it was it was it was just one, it was a perfect ending to the perfect week.

SPEAKER_00: 12:43

It was definitely I needed that. Sometimes we need I feel like a lot of time in our positions and what we do. Because even outside of that, you know, every cover meetings on Monday nights, and then I feel like at work we're always pouring into people. Oh yes. Uh in our positions, and so going and actually being poured into.

SPEAKER_01: 13:00

Yes, and I feel like I needed that too. Like I have filled my cup. It definitely filled my cup. It maybe may have run it over, but uh, you know, and then so when like I text you today and I was like, you know, what do you want to talk about tonight? And you're like, I don't know, and I'm like, yeah, I don't either.

SPEAKER_00: 13:16

Like I he always comes through.

SPEAKER_01: 13:18

He does, he does, you know, and it you know, and I'd said something about doing this, but I wasn't really sure what we were gonna say or where we were headed with it, or if it was gonna make any sense at all, you know.

SPEAKER_00: 13:31

And uh, but I just want y'all to understand that finding your community and finding your you know purpose and finding just I do think uh what's the purpose of it and what you know are you thinking that we go through and you just read that scripture and we go back and look back um to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose and we have it. I think sometimes we go to to recognize and know that even in those seasons, whatever it may look like, and he brings purpose out of that. And if we can and like and he brings it back around. Yeah, that's how it's supposed to be.

SPEAKER_01: 14:11

Yeah, I mean I and that's what I feel like. I feel like you know, this this these last eight or nine months has full circled right into this week and this weekend and and all the things that happened over since between the two. I never schedule two conferences back to back. That's just a lot. You know, and that and that's just a lot. And I normally don't do that. Usually if I do one, I do one a month, uh, but the victorious one just kind of come up out of the blue, you know. I was like, mmm. Yeah, and then we made it to the Bible study, and that was so good that night, you know, and I you know, and I can't wait. I can't wait to go to the next one and those kind of things. And then uh she sent me a message, she's going to do a marriage cut a couple one with her and her husband. Um, they're still trying to work it out and get it together, but you know, it's definitely good to find that community, you know, and you know, I talk about it, I don't belong to a church, right? I don't um and so I miss that community because I don't belong to a church. Um, and it's not that one has hurt me in any time recently or anything like that. It's just I just not my place, right? It's just not where I'm supposed to be at, but I do miss the community, and so it's been really, really nice. Uh Deborah knows everybody, so it's been really nice to extend my community with you. Um, and it's it definitely makes me feel more unanxious, if that's a word.

SPEAKER_00: 15:45

I like that. Even in these last few months, um you've really stepped out of your your zone, your comfort zone. And like there's been like this spiritual I feel like you're a gold person anyway, but there's been like this spiritual boldness that's come over you, and like you're like, No, we're gonna do this. And a lot of times, I don't even think you know it, but a lot of times you push me around like and I my plates are so full right now. I'm like this now, this I'm not gonna do this right now. And then you come in, you know what I mean? And I don't even think that you know what you do. And I need that sometimes.

SPEAKER_01: 16:23

Oh yeah, yeah. Well my you know, and I feel the same way. Something definitely has in the last two months, something definitely has changed inside of me. Um But I didn't notice it until this last week, right? Uh something definitely has changed.

SPEAKER_00: 16:39

Uh, you know, uh I think there's a uh even that prophetic voice that the Lord is gonna reason in um that uh you don't even you don't even realize that because of the spiritual bonus that he's gave that he's given you and you're saying yes when you're stepping out. You're not yeah, you know, and then God's allowing you to step into these things. And uh I'm excited.

SPEAKER_01: 17:05

I'm excited for you. I know I am. I I definitely believe God restored my confidence and my calling and my you know yes, he restored your confidence for sure. Yeah, and my courage to speak. Uh he's definitely restored my community and he's given me the chance to pour into other women walking through their own seasons and waiting, you know, and it's been and it but it it comes back to I didn't even realize it, right? Like it's just been happening and you know, and uh and the more I the more that I search for him or the more that I seek for him, the more that it seems to happen. But it wasn't I I don't know, I guess growing up in a Baptist church, I always thought that when you got anointed by God, like angels were gonna sing in the heavens and and and holy water was gonna pour over top of you, and you know what I mean? Like, and I know that's crazy sounding, but do you under you you get where I'm at? Like, I always thought it was gonna be this huge, but it hasn't. Like it's just been one little incident, one little situation, one word, one prayer, one just and they've all been small. Nothing has been huge, like praying for people at work. Um, when you know, um I I shared at the at the um Bible study the other night that a tragedy has happened in the community where I work, and a six-year-old girl was on a field trip and she got away from the school, she got away from the field trip and she fell into a pool and drowned. And uh I couldn't sleep. Like, I could not sleep. Like God just kept saying, Shannon, you gotta do something, you've got to do something. So on Friday, I reached out to the officers because we have a really good relationship with the police in our community, and I was like, Look, I don't know what needs to happen here. I was like, but we've got to do something. And he's like, Well, you know, I can I can reach out to the family, and I can, and if they're okay with it, I'll let you call them. Uh and he c he he texted me back with the name and phone number, and I called the family, and it was nothing, it wasn't nothing, right? I just wanted to pay my condolences, I wanted to pray over them, I just wanted to love on them. And I told I just and I told them that on the phone, like, you know, I don't I don't need nothing, but do you need something? Is there something we can do for you? Is there something we can help you with? You know, um you know, we just want to love on you. And so we're actually trying to get a together a candle visual that we're gonna do in a few weeks. Uh that we're gonna do in a few weeks. Yes, yes, I was on the news.

SPEAKER_00: 19:55

Yes, and it's a Walmart.

SPEAKER_01: 19:58

Yes. Yes, yes, definitely that was me. That was definitely that was me, you know, and then I had to call my boss and be like, uh, I made the news, and he's like, What for? And I was like, and he goes, Well, you can you'll never get in trouble for doing the right thing, right? You know, and I was like, Well, God wouldn't let me sleep. Like, I left a Bible thing Wednesday and I tossed and turned Wednesday night, and I tossed and turned Thursday and Friday. I was like, Okay, I can't do this. Like, what do you want me to do? Like, and so I just reached out to them, you know, and then I reached out to the people that own the farm there in town because they, you know, they're devastated. They've been doing it. This is a third generation farm, they've been doing this in this community for 50 years, you know, and they're all on board at helping us get something together to just honor and uh and respect uh the family and the young girl, you know. Um, and I don't know what that looks like. And I told them that on the phone. I was like, guys, I don't know what that looks like, but we've got to do something. So uh, and yes, I did we did make the news because of it, but it's not here nor there. Uh, but you know, but we she's like, it's here, but like my boss said, you can never get in trouble doing the right thing, right? When you are a part of a family or part of a community, part of a church, reaching out in sincerity, right? I didn't know that I didn't know the family was gonna talk to the news. I didn't I wasn't looking for nariety, or I wasn't, you know, yes, you know, we wasn't looking, I wasn't, it was just hey, look, and the officer's like, this is Shannon, and she works for she's the manager of so and so, right? And uh so that's how we made the news because that's not how I introduce myself today. But it just it's okay. You know, but you do, you come full circle, and my heart has been it feels new. If that makes sense. I don't know if that makes sense. But it does, you know, even even though I have been worshiping God and I have been, you know, in my faith for quite a while, and a few weeks ago, well, I suppose about a month ago, we did a whole episode on, and you were like, you know, you have to be in your word, and you talked about how you and Kevin get up every morning and y'all do a devotional together, and I was like, Oh, that's not easy for me, but that's what I've that's what I've done different, right? So um J103 downloads uh devotionals to the uh U version Bible, and you can go in, and so I've been listening to those on the way to work, and I've been listening to uh 2819 church uh pastor uh and some of his sermons, and so I haven't been reading the Bible say so. Right, but I have been but I have been more than just worship music, right? And I don't know, I that's the difference. Yeah, that's and that it's some Billy Graham cathes podcast. Oh yeah, my aunt loves Billy Graham. We went to uh the first year I took them on vacation. I take my language. I take my aunt, I take my aunt and my mom on vacation, uh, ever since my grandmother passed away. So we've been on two vacations, and the first one we went to, we went to Billy Graham's uh up there and and walked the whole thing and got to see all uh the church and all the things. So that was pretty cool in South in uh North Carolina. So uh I don't really know where this headed, and I don't know I don't know uh what we're doing, but you know, um if you're in if you're in a place that you don't know where you're at, or if you're in a place, if you feel like you're stuck, because I think that's you know, I called it the season of waiting, but I kind of felt like I was stuck. My f my advice first is find out a way, find a way to get the the Bible into you every day because that has definitely made a difference, I think, in my in my in the way I see things, in the way I feel for things, uh, in the way I think about things, it's definitely made a difference. Um, you know, that started Charlie Kirk was assassinated, like it's just been one thing right after another, and you know, I feel like Christianity itself is under attack, or the faith of Jesus is under attack, and so I've been digging in really hard on just different things, and uh I still send, you know, Deb crazy text messages.

SPEAKER_00: 24:48

She's not explaining this to me when I get there.

SPEAKER_01: 24:51

You know, and and uh and things like that, but it's it's been more enlightening, I feel like, and I feel like I feel like my relationship with him has grown ex over just the last few weeks, like extensively. Like I feel like I feel like we are just, you know, like he's or something, yes, yes, and it's just been insane, you know. But you have to keep sewing. You and you know, every morning I wake up and I say good morning, Jesus. I don't ask for anything. I've quit praying. Like I used to pray every morning when I got up, you know, thank you, Lord, for this day, thank you, blah, blah, blah. But it became, you know, we talked about it a few weeks ago. I feel like it was had become routine, right? So when I open my eyes, the first thing I do is I say good morning, Jesus. Every night before I go to bed, the last thing I say before I close my eyes is goodnight, Jesus. I feel like if he wants us to be his children, and that's how we do our children, right? That's how we we give we kiss ours on the forehead and we tell them good night and that we love them. So, and then in the morning, good morning, honey, I love you, kind of thing. So I've been trying to do it that way and then pray during the day. So it's not so routine, because I feel like you know, we I had gotten into a routine, but I feel like I've now that I've been sewing into it, that it's just like I have all these thoughts going through my head of what's headed where we're headed next and what's happening, and uh there's so much to come. Like I can I can hear him, and I can hear him so loudly. It's just been crazy. So that's kind of where we're at, I feel like. I love it. So let's pray.

SPEAKER_00: 26:37

Father, thank you for being faithful through every season. The planning, the pruning, the waiting, and the harvest. You see us when we feel overlooked, you're always working behind the scenes. And for every sister listening today who is waiting for her yes, remind her, Lord, that you haven't forgotten her. Grow her faith, strengthen her roots, and when her yes comes, let her recognize your footprint all over it. Thank you for being the God who restores and fulfills every promise in your perfect time. In Jesus' mighty name. Amen.

SPEAKER_01: 27:07

Amen. Amen. Sis, if you're still in your waiting season, hold on. Keep planting seeds in faith, even when you don't see anything sprouting yet. Because one day you'll look around and realize you're standing in the very field you once prayed for. When God's yes comes, it won't just bless you, it'll bless everyone connected to you. If this episode spoke to your heart, share it with your sister circle, tag us, and use hashtag God's yesfull circle. We'd love to hear your story. Remember, every season has purpose, and when the harvest comes, you'll see why you had to wait. Until next time, keep walking in truth and grace.