🎧 Episode 33: It Won’t Always Be This Hard… But Also… With Christ You Can Do the Hard and Holy Things (Matthew 26:38)

Are you walking through a hard season where your faith feels heavy, your prayers feel dry, and obedience feels exhausting?

In this episode of What the Heaven?, we’re having an honest conversation about what it looks like to follow Jesus when life feels overwhelming. If you’re a Christian woman struggling with doubt, anxiety, spiritual burnout, or feeling distant from God, this episode will meet you right where you are.

Through the story of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:38), we unpack a powerful truth: it won’t always be this hard… but God is still calling you to walk in obedience while it is. Jesus Himself felt deep sorrow and pressure—and still chose surrender.

This episode is both comforting and challenging. You’ll be reminded that this season is not your forever, but also invited to stop waiting for the hard to disappear and start walking faithfully with God in the middle of it.

We also dive into what it really means to live out Philippians 4:13—“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”—not as a motivational quote, but as a call to endure, obey, and trust God in the uncomfortable and stretching moments.

✨ In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to trust God in hard seasons of life

• What Jesus teaches us about obedience in suffering

• How to stay faithful when you feel spiritually weak

• What it means to do “hard and holy things” with Christ

• How to take your next step in faith, even when it’s difficult

If you’ve been waiting for clarity, relief, or motivation—this is your reminder: you already have Christ, and with Him, you can take your next step.

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Have you ever done everything right… and still felt like your faith was barely holding on?

Welcome to What the Heaven? — a Christian podcast for women navigating hard seasons, wrestling with doubt, and refusing to let go of God anyway.

Every Friday, host Riley Shour brings you raw, honest conversations about the real struggles Christian women face — loneliness, church hurt, faith deconstruction, anxiety, identity in Christ, unanswered prayer, and the exhausting gap between believing and actually living it.

This isn't a podcast about having perfect faith. It's about faith that fights.

Each episode takes your hardest feelings straight to Scripture — because your feelings are real, God's Word is final, and following Jesus was never meant to be surface-level.

Whether you're in a season of doubt, recovering from church hurt, struggling with your identity in Christ, or just trying to figure out what biblical faith looks like in your actual everyday life — you're in the right place.

At What the Heaven? we believe God didn't call you to shrink. He called you to do the hard and holy things. Even when it's lonely. Even when it costs something. Even when you're not sure how it ends.

Topics we cover:

• Christian faith and doubt

• Church hurt and spiritual healing

• Identity in Christ and spiritual growth

• Loneliness, anxiety, and mental health from a biblical perspective

• Prayer, Scripture, and everyday Christian living

• Encouragement for women in hard life seasons

• Faith deconstruction and rebuilding your relationship with God

• God's purpose and calling for women

New episodes every Friday.

Hit follow and bring your real self. Because friend — you were made to do the hard and holy things. 🔥✝️🤘

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🎵 Music by The Atomic Age