A tiny mustard seed of faith is all it takes for God to transform your marriage during times of crisis. Sylvia shares her personal experience from 2022 when her marriage was under spiritual attack and how surrendering control to God changed everything.
• Turning exclusively to God during a marriage crisis led to divine intervention
• Understanding spiritual warfare in marriage and how the enemy often targets the husband first
• The importance of healing emotional wounds that can silently damage relationships
• Why seeking professional help for marriage challenges is critical for true healing
• How one mustard seed of faith can grow into transformative change
• Recognizing and protecting marriages that have a spiritual assignment
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Transcript:
Speaker 1:
If you’ve ever struggled with fear, doubt or worry and wondering what your true purpose was all about, then this podcast is for you. In this show, your host, sylvia Worsham, will interview elite experts and ordinary people that have created extraordinary lives. So here’s your host, sylvia Worsham.
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Hey, lightbringers, it’s Sylvia Worsham. Welcome to Release Doubt. Reveal Purpose. In this episode, we’re going to be talking about mustard seed of faith and what that means for God transforming your life, and this past weekend we sat in Gateway North and heard our pastor, carlos Ortiz, talk about the mustard seed and the parables in Mark and Matthew, the New Testament, and how God described the mustard seed was all it takes is a little mustard seed of faith for God to transform you, for you to move mountains and to make your life better. And I will tell you, I’ve had personal experience with the mustard seed of faith.
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I had an example in 2022, when our marriage was in really a tough spot. When our marriage was in really a tough spot, my husband was about to make a decision that would have impacted our marriage in a very bad way. It would have led us back down the path of fear which had pretty much dominated our marriage the first couple of years. And I remember that so well because I turned to God and only God during this time in my life and I had a mustard seed of faith and I prayed fervently to him and I just was very honest with God. I talked about how he knew my heart. He knew what I could take. I knew I had wounded my husband early on in our marriage by making a choice that, in hindsight, was a bad one, and then came time for him to make a decision very similar to mine, and he was in a position to do that. But, like I said, it would have reverted back to being in a fear space, and that’s not what god intends for marriages. What god intends for marriages is to be united, to be one, one flesh, and you see it throughout the New Testament and Ephesians and how Paul wrote of what he envisioned the marriages to look like and feel like. And it’s like the woman submitting to the man, like she submits to Christ, and I have submitted to Christ before. So he taught me that many years ago, in 2018. And he commands the men to love their wives as God loved the church, and that it’s such a beautiful way that he describes marriage right, but that’s not normally how marriages are, unless they’re God-centered, and ours has been moving in that direction.
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But it’s taken years to get to this spot and in 2022, it was a really bump and time where I felt complete loss of control, and it was in those moments that I turned to God and said I have zero control of this situation, of this circumstance, and I am releasing all my anxiety and all my fears to you. You know my heart, you know his, you know what he needs, you know what I need. I’m going to leave this in your hands. And I just prayed for days, and it was interesting because that small mustard seed of faith that I had in Christ really grew to this beautiful circumstance, and I’ll share with you some details. So those days, really critical, god sent a messenger to deliver his message to my husband, who was traveling, on the day that my husband was going to make a decision. This gentleman called him and and this, this gentleman was Jason Black, our financial advisor and a man of God, a man, someone I have reached out to numerous times to share with me the word of God and to understand it very well. And he showed up so prominently, so truly. I felt like it was God’s message to my husband. And he asked my husband, my husband asked him, if I were to make this decision, what do you think God would say? And then Jason proceeded to share like three different scenarios with him If you make this decision, he’ll be okay with you. He won’t be super happy with you. He’ll be okay. If you make this, he definitely won’t be happy with you. If you make this decision, he’ll be super happy with you. He won’t be super happy with you, he’ll be okay. If you make this, he definitely won’t be happy with you. If you make this decision, he’ll be super happy with you. And my husband took the decision of where God was going to be super happy with him, right that outcome, and he later told me he said that was originally going to be my decision, but I was in doubt.
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And see when, when marriages come under attack, that is what is known as spiritual warfare, and it’s very common. When we start moving in the direction of Christ, when we start to identify with Christ and his ways and our marriage was headed in that direction where we were really started to get very God-centered that’s when the enemy attacks, and they usually go through the husband. It’s where the husbands start doubting, because they’re easier targets than the female. The females tend to be closer to God, they’re the ones that are going to church a lot, they’re the ones pulling their husbands towards Christ and they’re the ones strongest in their faith. That’s why the men come under attack first because they are the leaders of the family and they are the ones that God actually gives the responsibility to lead the family, and Satan knows that. So they’re going to go and attack the male a lot of the time.
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So I want to caution marriages that stick with it. Stay with Christ, turn to Christ, stay fervently, pray fervently when you’re facing a circumstance that can crumble your marriage, facing a circumstance that can crumble your marriage. Do not allow the enemy to persevere. Do not stop them dead in his tracks. I stopped them dead in my tracks because I listened to God and only God. I did not allow anyone else to influence me in this situation. I didn’t talk to my parents, which I normally do. I didn’t talk to any personal friend. I did not talk to a soul except to Christ, and Christ sent someone that was his warrior to talk to my husband. He knew what my husband needed to hear in order to make a decision that would benefit our marriage, and that he did. And I have to give my husband credit, because he could have easily gone in the opposite direction, but I knew in my heart of hearts he was not going to do that.
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However, my wound was reopened, because there’s times in marriages that we don’t realize a wound gets opened up by these circumstances. And I know that our marital therapist, caroline Anthony, who works for Center for Relational Care here in Austin, caroline Anthony, who works for Center for Relational Care here in Austin she has been working tirelessly on COD’s behalf to help us see the error of our ways and help us heal the wounds from the inside out. Because what happens, guys, is when you don’t heal your wounds, they project. You may not realize that you’re projecting the wound out into the world. You’re throwing that energy out into the world and so, therefore, you’re going to receive the same kind of energy back. So I I really want to recommend you guys to seek help If you are facing challenging times in your marriage.
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Do not try to do this alone. Alone sucks and alone is is not the way to go. When we have so many resources available to us and there’s a lot of therapists that that accept insurance, so you don’t have to pay out of pocket. Ours doesn’t. But she’s christian-based and that’s what we like and we like her very much and we’re working with her. But God is using everybody and when he uses everybody, all it takes is your one mustard seed of faith and it can impact an entire relationship, a marriage. He will send who he needs to send, because he sent Caroline.
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He knew that my wound was open, that there was something else that was going to hurt me in the long run, and she felt that and started to push a little bit back and I kept saying, no, but I’ve talked to God and I’m okay and I really don’t want to talk about this. And she just kept pushing and I’m glad she did, even though it was really uncomfortable because it brought up, brought to the surface, a wound that had been opened up in 2018 by my husband and had been reopened in 2022 when this happened and had it not been addressed, it would have continued to hurt our marriage in the long term. So I want to encourage you guys to get the help that you need and to reach out to people that are close to God, people that are believers, that can help you with his word, that can help you in deciphering what he would want for you guys to do. Reach out to people that have your best interests at heart. Okay, keep that in mind when you are facing challenges and please don’t do this alone and realize that the enemy is out there to divide, conquer and destroy Especially strong marriages and marriages that have a spiritual assignment and I know mine does Because we have felt God’s providence throughout our entire marriage.
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I know I have. I don’t know about my husband, I can’t speak for him, but I can say for me I have felt his presence and I have felt his providence and there’s a very powerful reason beyond our marriage that our union satisfies his will in a way. So stay present, stay connected, don’t allow the enemy to penetrate your marriages and ask for help. I’m Sylvia Worsham. Thank you so much for tuning into this week’s episode of Mustard. Seed of Faith is all God needs to transform your life and your marriage. Have a wonderful week, stay safe. Love you all. Bye.
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Now God needs to transform your life and your marriage. Have a wonderful week, Stay safe. Love you all. Bye now. So that’s it for today’s episode of Release Doubt Reveal Purpose. Head on over to iTunes or wherever you listen and subscribe to the show. One lucky listener every single week who posts a review on iTunes will win a chance in the grand prize drawing to win a $25,000 private VIP day with Sylvia Worsham herself. Be sure to head on over to ReleasedOutRevealPurposePodcastcom and pick up a free copy of Sylvia’s gift and join us on the next episode.