02/04/2026
Sometimes in life, we hold on to relationships, titles, environments, or even painful seasons… not because they’re good for us, but because we’ve invested so much in them.
We keep hoping. Holding on so tightly… that it starts to hurt — like gripping something with all your strength, afraid that letting go means failure.
But sometimes, staying is what actually keeps us stuck.
Letting go of something you’ve invested years in can feel harder than remaining in a place that’s hurting you. Deep down, we tell ourselves we can still fix it… that things will change.
But holding on can also be a way of protecting our pride — even when it’s costing us our peace.
Does that make sense?
By the title “Breaking up Illegal Marriages,” I mean the invisible bonds we create with things that never truly chose us back.
We “marry” situations, people, or seasons — committing our energy, our expectations, and our responsibility — as if it’s our duty to make them work. But sometimes, that attachment only exists on one side.
- And that’s why there’s no growth.
Either the situation has already given you everything it could… or it was never meant to grow in the way you imagined. But we keep holding on, believing there’s still more — because we don’t want to accept that it was just a season.
So we stay loyal to something that was never a real agreement… only an idealization.
In this episode, I’m sharing something very personal…I talk about what it means to release something you once believed was for ever… something you prayed for, hoped for, and trusted would work out.
And the truth is — I had to let that hope go.
But here’s the good news: God can bring results from places you didn’t even plant.
You can dedicate years to something… and still receive your harvest somewhere else. Because by faith, nothing we do with purpose is ever wasted.
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I hope it speaks to you 🤍