Stephanie Ike: Hope in Your Waiting Season | FULL EPISODE | Better Together on TBN
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- This week on Better Together, Stephanie Ike discusses how to hold on to hope in a waiting season. Join the conversation as Laurie Crouch, Sheila Walsh, Lisa Bevere, and Erin Weidemann join Stephanie Ike to discuss why God makes you wait.
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00:00 Intro
00:20 The Waiting Season
15:26 Overcoming Complaining
26:56 Renew Your Strength in the Lord
43:24 Overcoming Crippling Fear - บันเทิง
I am typing this in tears. I have never watched this channel and am at a place in my life where I feel like everything is falling apart. When you said "for God so loved Sheila"(that's my name) that felt like God's assurance to me. I am still here trusting in Him. I will be back to testify in Jesus name Amen!
AMEN 🙏
You will come back to Testify, God is Great and Loving
Oh wow. That really was for you.
Love this 🥹❤️
I have just prayed for you sister xxx
You can neither pray nor fast your way out of the waiting season ~Pst stephanie Ike
I Was really blessed by the entire talk
As I was listening 🎧 to this sister is to ask the Lord to trust him in this season it's so challenging to understand what is going on
Yes likewise. I thank God for their share.
This was really key for me. I've been praying and fasting not realizing that God has me in a waiting season. Then getting frustrated with God because the praying/fasting wasn't bringing the desired result.
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Yes...I so felt that.
After enduring a four- year period of unemployment, the prospect of an interview recently kindled a profound sense of hope within me. However, the elation was short-lived as, five days following the interview, I received an email conveying the unfortunate news that I was not the chosen candidate. In these trying times, I draw strength from words of Jeremiah 29:11, which remind me that God has a purpose and plan for my life, one filled with hope and promise. Likewise, the comforting message of Isaiah 60:22 assures me that, in due time, the Lord will orchestrate the fulfilment of His plans for me. My faith remains steadfast, and hope persists during this waiting season.
Would be really nice to make a comment later on when your waiting season is over,your story can rescue and comfort those who se waiting season has just begun or seems to be taking longer ..
I would love to know what your outcome was.
I am in that waiting season too. It can be a lot of things especially when all your friends seem to have everything you have prayed for. In these times, it looks like there's no hope. The season of unemployment can even be harder when all the family members are looking up yo you.
Everytime when it seems I am losing myself, I just remember that everything happens for the good of those who Love the LORD who have been called to his purpose Romans 8:28.
I also know that nothing happens is a mistake. Everything that happens has been designed by God. So I am waiting with a purpose. It can be hard at times but I am holding on.
Totally understand this
God still provides
Every Waiting season is tough but it’s comforting to know that at the end of that waiting season we will definitely receive the honor and blessing in waiting because there is always a fruit waiting for us at the end of our waiting season!!
REALLY? I HAVENT RECEIVED IT.. MAKES ME WONDER IF GODS REALLY DOING A THING OR ANYTHING
Im praying that I can get section 8 to help me out with my rent in Jesus name!!!
@@keeyonass5127not all waiting seasons are tough. Some waiting seasons is God separating and isolating you for consecration, where he is working on your heart and spirit for the next step he is taking you. The clear sign if waiting season is the Holy Spirit separating you from everyone and working on you.(NOT DEPRESSION PLEASE). So it doesn’t have to hurt or be painful is what I’m saying
@@keeyonass5127 oh he doing it!!! Look back to who you were and where you were at 5 or 10 years ago. Sometimes you don't see it till you re-evaluate and its important to do this from time to time helps you appreciate and persevere. Its also important to have people around you who can help you grow and are able to hey do you realise you're doing a great job in this area or you're falling in that area. If yiu still cant see it ask God to show you, ask the Holy spirit to bring to your remembrance. He will!
@@apiffanyfulcher6628😊
I really needed to hear this message. I'm in a season where I feel like the weights keep getting heavier and heavier, and feeling like God isn't responding to me through my tears. I felt like I was lacking in so many areas of my life, this is confirmation that God is still working, and he is still moving. I'm praying that everyone who comes across this comment feels the presence of God when it feels like nothing is moving.
I was meant to watch this. God has been telling me lately why things haven't moved forward for me. He said it's because I have to wait. He let me know He's acknowledged the fasts and heard the prayers and seen me endeavoring to get closer to Hom. But He said sometimes we just have to wait. This is so comforting, and it confirms what He's been telling me. I won't struggle against the current. Instead, I'll flow with it. Thank God for you ladies!
I didn't realise I was being impatient. I didn't realise it was my waiting season. Been frustrated forcing things and disliking people who do not belong in my life. I am sorry God. Whoever you have chosen for me, will not be able to stay away from me.. and vice versa- for your glory. Teach me to love you more than I love your promises.
Sometimes the waiting season can be very very difficult. The confusion etc is so uncomfortable. There are times i keep asking God if I need to do something different aside praying, confessing the word of God over my life, being positive minded cos i really don't understand my life anymore. But I'll forever trust in God because He is good even in my mistakes and confusion.
Exactly where I'm at now! Yes extremely confused and overwhelmed and NOTHING works to try and pull myself out of it.
God give me ears to hear what I wouldn't hear without You and give me eyes to see what I would miss without You. In Jesus' name amen.
This struck my heart
Surrendering to the season is a humbling experience. But I’ve learned so much during this time. Mainly to rely on God’s provision and not my own. It’s been hard but it’s been so rewarding spiritually.
I am currently in my waiting season and one thing God told me is that there is favor in the delay. I constantly remind Him of that word. One thing I have seen in this season is the growth of my faith. The other day in my Bible study I read Isaiah 49:23 that says "those who hope in me will not be disappointed. " So as we wait let's continue to focus on God's Word 🙏.
Amen ❤❤❤
I cannot pray my way out of a season. I cannot fast my way out of a season. Get to a place of God is working something in me and surrender to the process. It’s not just what you are waiting for but who are you waiting wit. In that waiting season God is equipping me to look more like Him. This is so powerful. Thank you woman of God for this word. God owns this season.
Currently experiencing a very difficult and looooong season! Never been thru anything like this before. Lord, help me to remember we are making pearls. It's currently been 3 years. 💜
God is still God and He is never too late❤
4 years of being dragged through the mud here. Praying for strength for all of us. To persevere. May God bless you
Let's sing through the season. Let's not lengthen the season. GOD doesn't want to frustrate us. HE loves us. ❤
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Prayers, as I have been experiencing a long transition season too. Just know that God favors us, friend. ♥️
I am waiting for three things God has promised me. The waiting is HARD. The challenging part is when the enemy keeps whispering in your ears that " are you sure you heard from God, do you think he will do it, maybe you have done something wrong. you are a sinner that is why God is not answering your prayers........." But through all these I know for sure that God is faithful and through the confusion and temptation of the enemy The Lord will give me a song in my dreams or in my waking time. A song He gave me recently was " the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercy never come to an end, they are new every morning , great is Thy faithfulness. God bless you ladies.
You can either choose to complain or trust God to hold you with His right hand and see you through the season of waiting....He is not a man to lie, He will not forsake and leave us, He promised. All things work for good, to them that love God❤
I am From Ethiopia . Oh I live right now in Santa Barbara. I came to United States as a refugee know it’s has been 17 years since I’ve been living here and California Santa Barbara. Your program is absolutely powerful. It is helping me with my life.thank you so much oh woman of God God bless you I really would like to share my story one day with you because growing up I did not have a Bible, but the story of the Bible literally is my life. Jesus Christ was a living water in my life the bridge of life when we didn’t have food in Ethiopia or not hot water. He was a water, the living water in my life I follow you every day, but I never written any comments the first time.
I went through a maddening season, moment, time of sheer hopelessness. To not hurt myself I went back to basics. Back home. Back to GOD. Back to HIS word. As if on cue HE led me to Romans 12:12:
Rejoice in your confident hope. Be patient in trouble. Keep on praying.
I wrote it down.
I memorize it.
I wash in it.
Thank you for posting that scripture!!! I needed it badly!!!
What translation is this? Love how it is worded.
@@teresawalker2976 GOD AT WORK💯
Thank you for quoting this verse it's so powerful as I'm in the waiting season and it summarises my life right now even though it's hard at times but I know the God I serve, trust and believe in, so bless you for this!
Thank you for sharing, this gives me comfort knowing someone went through what I'm going through. Those are the exact words, sheer hopelessness. Such confusion, not getting answers or solutions from anywhere.
I really needed to hear this, because I've been feeling confused why events have been taken place in my life for long periods of time, but now I upstanding that God is pruning me, maturing me and raising me up to be better for Him.
Isaiah is my favorite book ❤️
I was in a waiting room for a really long time. And I surrendered and prayed often a really short prayer, You're in control Lord; no one else. I love you and I Trust You Lord. Now I'm in the same waiting room again, saying the same prayer and trying not to be weary. I know this is not of God, but I know all things are possible with God; that He gives the desires of the heart; that He turns all things around for good for those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose...And oh so many other promises...He is with me through the water and the fire...
I hope your prayers have been answered
If anyone sees my comment? Would you join me and pray for me? I am praying for true friendships with Christian friends. I feel so alone in my faith in Christ while having great friendships with non-believers. Lord, help me 😅
Praying 🙏🏾
@ Thank you so much! Truly thank you.
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If you are still interested, I would love to pray with you.
Praying for you
Amen sisters. Keep telling your stories, enlighten our hearts and minds and souls, drawing us to Christ Jesus. We praise Him for the work HE does.
I have learned to wait 😂on the LORD, knowing in my waiting He knows what is best for me always. Thank you, again so much, for sharing!!! GOD bless each one of you!!!
But of course he is actually waiting on you
Lord please give me the strength to sing through the circumstances. I have been crying out to You for months. I know I’m in a season of waiting and every day it feels heavier. I want to sing with bold trust again. And I don’t want it to be momentarily. So here I am again Lord. I give it all to You. Please forgive me for gripping so tightly trying to fix stuff on my own. Thank you for this gentle reminder through this video that this season is your gift to me.
Nothing is wasted! Amen, thank you Lord🙏🏾🙌🏾
Well God most definitely led me here. I have been crying all month. Complaining has come easily bc it always has and worrying my prayers, I’m all too familiar with. I started my day with a prayer and then went to my usual TH-cam channel to exercise and at the end it just jumped to this broadcast. Everything that was said pertains, from the waiting (I’ve felt stuck for decades, and I’m a relatively new Christian) to hoping with dread. It all resonated and made me cry but I felt such comfort. Thank you for all the amazing godly women who make this broadcast a reality and for your prayers. Much love❤
Ha, ha! 😂 This is me too! Had just finished my exercise video and was still sitting on the floor when it jumped to this and started playing. I thank God for His Grace. I’ve been in a waiting season for marriage restoration for over 8 years and it is only recently I have begun to walk in complete hope and reliance on Him alone and stopped looking back, fretting and asking why. Thank you wonderful women of God for this timely and insightful talk.
I watched this on TBN a while back and came here to listen to it again. I prayed that morning for God to give me a message to help me. A few hours later when Better Together came on it was this message. I knew it was God. He answered my prayer. Thank You Lord!! So Powerful!! I Love all of you ladies. You have been a blessing to me. God bless you always!!
Over a year ago God spoke those same words to me and I never heard him say it until then ......."NOTHING IS WASTED" This season has been one for the books and I can't utter quick enough how much this discussion put many thoughts into proper prospective. God just has a way of letting us know we are covered. Thank you ladies for sharing such a heartfelt and life changing exchange with us. WE NEEDED THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow this is exactly what I’m going through right at this moment. Lord May I surrender and wait with hope and become the woman you need me to be
Amen ❤❤❤
I don’t know what is happening,I know God is working
"It's okay Mum, I am making pearls here!" This hit home.
Ohhhh man my heart about the little girl telling her mom “it’s okay mom I’m making a pearl” 🥺🥺🥺❤️❤️❤️
Lord bless the waiting season.
So many gems: Singing your way out of a season...there's just some thing about singing in season where you have no hope that is so irresistible to God.❤
I am making pearls...there's something about the waiting period, God is doing something and something beautiful is going to emerge❤
Enlargement in the waiting... there's an enlargement of faith, hope, hope, trust in God, how we not give way to fear❤
Hope in a “season that feels hopeless” 🙏🏾😭🙏🏾💛🙏🏾🕊
I came upon this episode accidentally and knew God is getting my attention. I am struggling with waiting in the season of where I am at. After working 35 years of nursing, mother of two adult children and now trying to wait upon God in this season of uncertainty. This episode allowed me to pause and truly trust God in this season of my life. Thank you ladies for Sharing your hearts. It bring hope and clarity in the waiting. I am reminded again to declare and speak aloud God’s word/promise in my space. Thank you. I will practise this daily.
THANK YOU SISTER'S. PRAISE GOD FOR ALL HIS LOVE AND MERCY AND FORGIVENESS AND HEALING AND ETERNAL LIFE.
44:41 My worst fear became reality. I remember when I thought about my worst fear becoming reality I thought I wouldn't be able to praise God. God tested me and the opposite happened. Now I know that I can praise God through my failures and wins.
18:42 This is good! “God, what are you already doing?”
this came timely to me, God bless you all for putting this together and being submitted his instructions. More Grace and blessings, in Jesus name Amen. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Want Him to Heal my Heart and Deliver me From Myself I Jesus Name🙏🙌
I've just come across this channel and am tremendously encouraged. I'm watching from South Africa. May God bless your ministry, awesome women of God!❤
Oh LORD 😭, I hear what you are saying. I surrender all the control, not my way, not my timing, not my ideologies, but your will be done 🙏
Amen ❤❤❤
Im in a waiting season, my longest so far, thank you for sharing your experiences.
I CRIED ON THE PART OF ISAIAH 43:19 BECAUSE I FELT GOD HAS FORGOTTN ABOUT ME I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER NOW THANK YOU
I'm so glad to hear this word of God I'm in a waiting season and I think God gonna do something new in my life at the end of this season.
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This is my first time interacting with your Chanel. You all have blessed my so much. I’m in a season of waiting, it is a challenge but I know the Lord will renew my strength. Blessings to you all .
Knowing why doesn't set you free, knowing ME sets you free......... powerful!!! Amen.
Fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 that's all i can say.. . may we be endued with boldness from above to bring the kingdom of darkness to it's knees...ahhhh
Nothing is wasted! Amen, thank you Lord. Nothing is wasted! Amen, thank you Lord.
I am being enlarged while waiting! What a Rhema Word!!!
Gods love to his children is sure boundless this episode clearly depicts it😢…thank you Lord
This is a Life Lesson Talk❤
“It’s like cranes in the sky”❤
This message is so on time in my season. I sometimes get hopeless in my waiting season. Thank you women of God for this riveting word and Stephanie for this edifying prayer.
Beautiful, singing yourself through your trials...in other words , the Bible calls us to praise Him versus complaints which will lengthen your trails,...whoa!
I definitely agree it's like a bittersweet waiting season right sister's women of God thanking God for giving us strength one day at a time 💒😇💝😇💝😇💝😇💝🕊️✝️🤗🙋🙏🏾🙏🙌👏👏🏾🌞
The way stephaine communities with God blows my mind! Laughing and prayimg to God. Because she undertands God so well and so free with God. Like 5/6. Wow! Im super inspired to communicate with my creator in that same energy. God's beauty and plans for humanity can't be comprehended. I PRAISE GOD FOR HE IS GOD!
Thank you I am going to pray the same prayer from now onwards. Lord give me eyes to see and ears to hear what I would not be able to see or hear without you. 7:12
Confirmation
Confirmation
Nothing you can do to change the season.well explained.
We definitely need mentors in the local Church. When I was coming up if you wasn't part of a special group you were excluded from certain groups. I used that time to draw closer to God.
Thank you. You guy have no idea how much you all are impacting my walk with Jesus during a difficult time of my life.
Wish Lisa would write a book on this topic. Her examples and encouragement were amazing and eye-opening and from a perspective I have never heard before
"Ask God to give you unstopped ears" love love this
We can't see what's ahead of us, only God can. And God makes us wait to humble us.... and appreciate his goodness
Being enlarged in the waiting season was the word I needed to hear!!!
Matthew 6:21
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Heavenly father, give me ears to hear and eyes to see.
Yes sing your way out of it Lisa. That is so good. God has met me this way. Praise and thanksgiving.
This message has truly blessed me today, as I am in my waiting season. I am grateful for each of your anointed testimonies. ❤
There's another in the fire 🔥, I waiting knowing that God is with me and loves me. Thank you, ladies
❤❤❤❤Thank you women of God for encouraging women like me. I love you and may God continue to Bless you . Thank you.
Stephanie Ike should own her ice cream 🍨🍦 company
Thank you so much for producing such a powerful video. Isaiah 40:31 is my favorite Scripture! Not many Christians want to talk about how to wait upon the Lord. It is unpleasant to go through winter seasons, as you mentioned, when God wants carnal or old things to die, but we want these things to continue to live. It’s impossible to grow up ⬆️ in God this way. Pruning and purging is God our Gardener’s Way! We all want to come out of our cocoons and be butterflies…but if God isn’t done processing us yet, we will damage our ability to fly into the fullness of our purpose by His design. 🦋It can be lonely but never if you realize He is omnipresent and close to the broken hearted. God would have us to worship our way out of the dread, fear, and pain so that we can encourage others along the way. I too believe in singing and dancing before the Lord. This is in effect the proving ground for real Christian life. God has turned my mourning into dancing over and over again! 🙌🏽✝️🙏🏽
From the Holy Bible:
in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 NASB1995
Amen, sister!!! God bless you!!!
Be well and be at peace.
I’m taking the promise of Isaiah 40:31 into 2024!
Amen Stephanie. I believe the only way a person can or will get through their waiting season is to remain in a posture of content, peace and stillness while you stay productive in Him. Eloyhim is in it all. Great word. ❤
I was in a very sad and unhappy state this morning, I kept scrolling on TH-cam hoping to get a message from God. God's word to me in my waiting season has always been Isaiah 43:19.Thank you ladies for this.
I was so touched by this episode today 09-01+2024 and I didn't know what good comes out of waiting for a long time.
Today I'm reminded that God is the God of seasons and you cannot pray yourself out of it😊❤❤❤
I am blessed. And I will wait for God. I learnt that when we are busy in our waiting season, it is fulfilling
Amen thank you so much for this wonderful word l will continue waiting on the Lord and l believe that he gonn fulfill his promises in my life in Jesus Name Amen
Wow just wow... i have no words for this podcast. Very blessed
Me too
I am truly so blessed after watching this video. Thank you ladies for speaking such encouraging truths and wisdom. I became so emotional throughout this video. I realized that I've been so anxious and upset about this season of God's pruning -> waiting. Thankfully, you all reminded me and so many others that this is also a time of blessing and a time to be hopeful. A time where I am invited to become closer to God. Thank you all again.
This is Sooo Powerful. In my worship time this morning, I asked God for a midwife🤔When I heard myself say it I was shocked‼️I never prayed that EVER. I said Father what does that look like? So I went straight to the word to look up midwives
Thank you, God, that you said I must forget everything that's happening to me, and you will give me freedom ❤
timely message, waiting has been a period of mixed emotions, some days better than most...
Watching this gives me so much hope during my waiting season. God bless you ladies 🙏🏾
I just got this video today from a sister I Submitted for my Uk visa today I felt so down today feeling like am gonna get denied .I don’t know why she told me listen to this I feel my wait of hope is here thanks ladies fr this enriching conversation May it reach more and more that feel down like me today .
Love it - in our waiting there are things that God wants to transform in our lives ❤️🙏🏾
This was right on time for me. God has shifted me into ministry and you (Stephanie) saying He is doing a new thing touched me deeply. I questioned my identity and my place on this journey. But He is doing a new thing which requires a new version of me.
Never been so blessed from a podcast, God bless the "better together" team in Jesus name.
I receive grace to patiently wait for my appointed time. Amen!
Prophetic conversation I'm waiting hasn't been easy. God said I would have my business. He said get through this storm and watch the blessings fall like rain then you'll see the abundant life
Amen
Thank you Father!
I love the story of the pearl season. It made me see that I am in my pearl season. But when my God brings me out, Glorryy 🙌🏽.
Bless you WOG. You have help me in so many areas of my life. God knows I needed to hear these messages and testimonials. Thank you for being available for God's people. 🙏🏾
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20:05 “God was with him”
Wow, I needed that Word today! I didn’t even recall that part about Joseph’s Story!!
Father, what a good God you are. It’s the first time I have cried tears of joy in months!! (Maybe even years)
Oh Father, what a relief. What a relief to my heart. Thank you Jesus, thank you Father, THANK YOU!! 🙌🏻🦁💪🏻👑🌄
Amen ❤❤❤
I learn so much from these anointed women of God!!
Even in this winter season God is with me
I am in this season right now. Been struggling to understand what's really happening. I thank God I came across this message. I just needed to hear this. Thank you ladies.
Refinement! He is perfecting you for it
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Good morning everyone this is a Chanel I will ever 💗 law to follow,thank sis,I pray 🙏 that God continues to bless you ❤love.
I like what it has been said that “God gives what you what your heart desires.
Praise god .Thank you lord let it be your will amen 🙏