Worship & Word Wednesday | Proverbs 16: Why Willpower Keeps Failing You (Proverbs Victory Walk — Wk 2) | Encore

✨ ENCORE EPISODE — Week 2 of our Proverbs Victory Walk, the chapter-by-chapter journey through the wisdom of Proverbs that forms the framework of my book. I've added a fresh intro to open this week, and the teaching that follows is one of our most-loved Worship & Word Wednesday episodes. If you missed Week 1 in Proverbs 29, go back and start there — these build on each other.

Let me ask you something gently this morning: what if the thing that keeps derailing you was never a discipline problem at all?

You've tightened up. You've gripped the wheel. You've told yourself this time I'll just try harder — and somehow it still comes apart. Friend, there's a reason for that, and it's one most women never stop to consider.

In this episode, we open Proverbs 16 and uncover a truth that changes everything: pride — not a lack of willpower — is so often the real thing sabotaging your progress. Not arrogance. That quiet, exhausting "I've got this, I'll handle it myself." The self-reliance, the striving, the need to control it all. And Proverbs 16 shows us the way out isn't gripping harder — it's the humility that finally sets you free and lets God carry what you were never meant to carry alone.

In this episode:
🔹 Why pride — not discipline — may be the real reason the scale keeps winning
🔹 How subtle self-reliance and control quietly sabotage your progress
🔹 What biblical humility actually looks like on a weight loss journey
🔹 The shift from white-knuckling to Spirit-led surrender
🔹 A time of worship, faith-filled declarations, and a closing prayer over your journey

This is one more chapter of the journey I walk you all the way through in my book, The Christian Women's Weight Loss Victory Plan: How to Defeat the Enemy and Transform Your Body — a Kingdom Book Awards finalist and runner-up. If today's word stirs something in you, the book takes you deeper, chapter by chapter, through the wisdom of Proverbs applied to your weight loss journey.

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