Carolyn Shuttlesworth

“Then Hannah prayed: ‘My heart rejoices in the LORD!’” 1 Samuel 2:1 NLT

Seen & Strengthened closes with the woman who rejoices. Over the last three weeks, Pastor Carolyn taught that God sees you and strengthens you, and that he equips you to build what he has entrusted to you. Part 4 is a woman who knows who she is in Christ and doesn’t have to wait for everything around her to be perfect before she rejoices.

Pastor Carolyn confronts the “I’ll be happy when” thinking that keeps pushing joy off to some later date. Paul told believers to always be full of joy, and he wrote it from a prison. Habakkuk looked at failed crops and empty barns and said, “Yet I will rejoice in the Lord.”

The joy of the Lord is your strength in the middle of the battle, and it’s yours today.

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"A wise woman builds her home, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands." Proverbs 14:1 puts the responsibility in your hands.

In Part 3 of Seen & Strengthened, Pastor Carolyn picks up where Hagar and Hannah left off. God sees you and God strengthens you, and that strength has an assignment. God strengthens you so that you can build your home, your marriage, your children, your friendships, your ministry, and the people around you.

Pastor Carolyn walks through 6 keys from Proverbs 14, Proverbs 24, and Proverbs 31. A strong home never happens by accident. Your own words and reactions can tear down the very thing you are praying for God to build.

The Proverbs 31 woman was faithful with what was in her hands. You have something in yours. Start there.

Hannah prayed so hard at the tabernacle that the priest thought she was drunk. She walked out that same day, eating again and no longer sad, and nothing in her circumstances had changed yet.

In Part 2 of Seen & Strengthened: Becoming a Woman Established in God, Pastor Carolyn Shuttlesworth teaches from 1 Samuel 1 and 2 and Proverbs 31 on where a strong woman's strength comes from.

Key scriptures: 1 Samuel 1:1-20, 1 Samuel 2:1, Proverbs 31:17, 25, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 41:10, Matthew 6:25-34

Hagar ran into the wilderness, mistreated and sure that no one saw her. The angel of the Lord found her beside a spring of water, and she walked away calling Him El Roi, the God who sees me.

In Part 1 of "Seen & Strengthened: Becoming a Woman Established in God", Pastor Carolyn Shuttlesworth opens Genesis 16 and teaches why knowing how God sees you has to come before knowing what He has called you to do. She walks through the difference between fruitfulness and performance, reads Proverbs 31 as the portrait of a woman whose works flowed from her relationship with God, and shares a verse in Mark 6 that shows what a hard heart costs you.

This teaching will help you stay faithful when nobody is clapping.

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Pastor Carolyn wraps up her Rooted, Resilient, and Victorious series with a truth that reframes anything you may be walking through in life: God did not plant you merely to survive. He planted you to produce!

A soldier is never sent into combat and told to figure it out along the way. He's equipped and trained first. Given a weapon, a plan, and a way to call for backup before the fight ever starts.

In Part 3 of "Rooted, Resilient, and Victorious," Pastor Carolyn opens Ephesians 6 with a teaching she calls "Don't Fight Naked." You already have what you need for the battle in front of you. The problem is rarely a lack of equipment. It's forgetting to put it on.

Pastor Carolyn walks through the full armor of God piece by piece: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, the sword of the Spirit, and prayer. You'll hear why the enemy's greatest weapon has always been deception, why peace was never meant to disappear just because a battle shows up, and why your mind is the ground he fights hardest to control.

God would not have handed you a sword if He expected you to lose.

Twelve men walked into the same land. They saw the same giants, the same walls, the same fruit. Only two came back with a report worth remembering.

In Part 2 of "Rooted, Resilient, and Victorious," Pastor Carolyn opens Numbers 13 and walks you through three keys that separate a woman of faith from the crowd. You'll hear why fear makes you forget every miracle God has already done, what God meant when he said Caleb had a different spirit, and why your bad report is not harmless in heaven.

From there she moves from the palm tree to the palm branch. Part 1 showed you the roots. This teaching shows you what the branch has always symbolized in Scripture: triumph, honor, and a victory that was already secured before you ever stepped onto the battlefield. You are not fighting for victory. You are fighting from it.

Your victory is sure, but you must be prepared to fight again. David beat a lion, then a bear, then a giant, and then kept fighting. One breakthrough does not mean you can lay your armor down. Dominion is not passivity, and authority operates through surrender.

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Palm trees don't avoid the storm. They're built to stand in it.

In Part 1 of "Rooted, Resilient, and Victorious," Pastor Carolyn opens Psalm 92 and shows you why God chose one specific tree to describe how you're meant to flourish. You weren't planted by your circumstances. You were planted by the Lord, always by an instruction, and no voice, storm, or season has the authority to remove you from where He put you.

Through five keys, Pastor Carolyn walks you through what it means to be established in the Word, to stand when pressure comes, and to know exactly who you are in Christ. You'll hear why pressure doesn't cancel your position, why your emotions were never meant to sit in the driver's seat, and why comfort is one of the enemy's favorite tools to pull you into compromise.

If you've felt bent by the weight of this season, this teaching will remind you that there's still life in the roots that stay planted. You may bend, but you will not break.

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You don't walk out of the valley empty-handed. In Part 2 of The Table in the Valley, Pastor Carolyn unpacks the last three keys of Psalm 23 — and what they mean for the woman who refuses to make the valley her address.

In this episode: why God anointing your head means your mind is not available for the opposition, how your cup can overflow even when your circumstances say otherwise, and why goodness and mercy aren't just following you — they're chasing you down.

If you've been waiting for permission to believe that victory is already written over your life, this one's for you.

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This episode was recorded live at our The Unshakable Women's Bible Study. You can download your free worksheets with faith confessions to accompany this teaching, and sign up to join us live by Zoom for our next Bible Study at https://carolynshuttlesworth.com/study.

You've heard that you walk through the valley — not around it, not over it, and definitely not in it forever. But did you know God prepared something for you right in the middle of it?

In this first part of the Table in the Valley series, Pastor Carolyn unpacks Psalm 23 in a way that will shift how you see every hard season you've ever walked through. The valley is not your final address. It's not your identity. And it is not going to destroy you.

God doesn't wait for the enemies to clear the room before He blesses you. He sets a table right in front of them — and you get to eat.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Part 2 continues June 30th!