Exhausted from trying to appear perfect at work, home, church, and online? In this episode, discover why God's power shows up best in your weakness, and why you don't have to pretend to be strong when you're not.

Have you ever felt like you're one bad day away from everyone finding out you don't actually have it all together?

The pressure to appear perfect is relentless. At work, you hide your struggles. At home, you hold everything together even when you're falling apart inside. At church, you smile and say "I'm fine" when you're anything but. Online, you post the highlight reel and bury the mess. It's exhausting, and it's a myth. Nobody has it all together. Not the pastor. Not the influencer. Not the leader everyone admires. Behind every polished exterior is a person who struggles, doubts, fails, and needs grace just like you.

In this episode, we look at Lysa TerKeurst, president of Proverbs 31 Ministries, whose life looked like the picture of Christian success, until everything unraveled publicly through her husband's infidelity and a painful divorce. Instead of hiding, she wrote and spoke honestly about the devastation, the grief, and the days she didn't know how to keep going. Her honesty gave countless others permission to stop pretending too.

Through her story and 2 Corinthians 12:9–10, you'll see that God doesn't wait for you to be whole before He uses you. His power works best in weakness. When you stop pretending and let Him meet you in your broken places, that's when His strength shines through.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

1. Why the pressure to appear perfect is both exhausting and spiritually damaging
2. How Paul's "thorn in the flesh" reveals God's surprising response to our weakness
3. What it looks like to stop performing and let God's power show up in your honest, imperfect life

You don't have to fake strength to be loved by God or used by Him. When you are weak, that's exactly when He is strong.

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