#203 // Maybe you've got a person in mind. Someone who hurt you. Someone who drains you. And you're wondering if you're finally allowed to be done.

You've drawn that line before. More than once. And they stepped right over it again. So, now you're asking God the question you've been circling for a while now:

Am I allowed to cut this person off?

Here's where most of us get tangled up:

We've been taught that the point of a boundary is to protect ourselves. Get the toxic people out. Protect your peace. Cut them off and move on.

Sister, that's not the whole truth. And the piece that's missing is the reason your boundaries keep collapsing.

Here's what we're getting into on this episode of the Positioned to Prosper Podcast:

→ AM I ALLOWED TO WALK AWAY? There are two very different things tangled up inside "cutting someone off," and God doesn't answer them the same way. Pulling them apart is what finally makes this question answerable.

→ WHY WON'T MY BOUNDARIES STICK? Every boundary you've ever set got built on top of something. There are only two options for what that something is… and one of them guarantees the line collapses.

→ WHAT DOES A BIBLICAL BOUNDARY EVEN LOOK LIKE? Not what most of us were handed. And once you see what it's actually supposed to be built on, you'll understand why enmeshment, codependency and manipulation could never get a grip on it.

→ IS GOD FOR ME OR FOR THEM? Joshua asked the commander of the Lord's army that exact question, standing outside Jericho. The answer came back in one word… and it wasn't either one.

Your walls and your gates may have been burned down. That doesn't mean they can't be rebuilt. It means you get to build them right this time, in His presence, according to His word.

📖 Scriptures Referenced: Matthew 22:37-39 · Matthew 28:19-20 · John 13:35 · Matthew 5:44 · Psalm 139:23-24 · Joshua 5:13-15 · Nehemiah 2

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#202 // God says do not fear. But your heart's pounding, your stomach's in knots, and now you feel guilty about the anxiety on top of the anxiety.

So is feeling it the sin?

No, Sister. And in this week's episode of Positioned to Prosper, we're getting into how this actually works, both scripturally and physiologically.

Here's where most of us get tangled up...

We read "do not fear" and we hear "you're not allowed to feel afraid." So, every time our body reacts, we assume we've already failed. That's not what God is commanding.

The sensation of fear is going to come. But there's a difference between feeling fear and bowing to it, and once you can tell those two apart, obeying God on this stops feeling impossible.

Here's what we're getting into:

→ IS IT A SIN THAT I'M AFRAID RIGHT NOW? The difference between the sensation of fear and agreeing with it, and why confusing those two has kept you condemned instead of free

→ WHEN THE VERSE STOPS "WORKING." What 2 Timothy 1:7 actually says in the Amplified, and what to do when a scripture you've quoted a hundred times has started to sound like white noise

→ WHEN YOUR BODY IS RUNNING THE SHOW. The window you get when fear first hits, what's happening physically, and how 2 Corinthians 10:5 works in real time instead of just in theory

→ GET THE WORD IN BEFORE YOU NEED IT. Why Joshua 1 tells us to meditate when we're calm, and what James means when he says the implanted word has power to save your soul

Fear doesn't get the last say over your life. You don't have to be perfect to walk out of the anxiety, panic or foreboding that's been trying to have you. Lean toward Him, and watch how He starts leading you out.

📖 Scriptures Referenced: 2 Timothy 1:7 · 2 Corinthians 10:5 · Psalm 23:4-6 · Joshua 1:6-9 · James 1:21 · Isaiah 41:10 · Romans 8:26

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#201 // You feel it. That pull that says you were made to carry something significant. Something that matters. Something for God.

Then you look at your actual Tuesday. The laundry, the inbox, the school pickup, the thing that didn't go the way you planned. And that feeling of significance gets real quiet. You start to wonder if you're doing enough, if any of it's even working, if the big thing God put in you is ever going to look like anything from the outside.

If that's you, there's something in this week's episode of Positioned to Prosper that's going to take the pressure off completely. Because Jesus said the Kingdom of God isn't out there and it isn't someday. It's inside you, right now. And what's growing in there is bigger than you think.

Here's what we're getting into:

→ WHY YOU CAN'T SEE IT. What Jesus meant in Luke 17 when He said the Kingdom doesn't come with observation, and why you've been searching the outside for something that lives on the inside

→ THE PRESSURE-RELIEF OF THE MUSTARD SEED. Why the smallest, most hidden, most ordinary-looking thing in you is the exact thing God grows into the biggest, and why you can stop trying to make yourself big enough to matter

→ YOU'RE THE SOIL. The reason your ordinary, everyday life isn't a disqualification, it's the whole design, and why the seed of the Kingdom needs a real woman living a real life to grow

→ YOU DON'T GET DISQUALIFIED FOR A BAD DAY. Why you don't lose your capacity to carry the Kingdom because you had a rough one, got it wrong, or were short with somebody, and the protection God built right in

There's a whole ecosystem of life God wants to grow through the seed He planted in you. So the real question is, how are you going to steward the Kingdom that's already inside you?

📖 Scriptures Referenced: Luke 17:20-21 · Mark 4:30-32 · Joshua 1:8 · Matthew 13 · John 3 · John 15

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