From Surviving to Celebrating

The children of Israel had an army at their backs and a sea in front of them — and God's instruction was not to fight harder but to be still. In this message, Catherine Reyes shares one of the most vulnerable stories of her journey as a mother: learning she was pregnant with their fourth child in four years while starting a business with no guaranteed income, receiving a frightening report about her baby's brain at the anatomy scan, and the Lord's firm, repeated word — "I will fight for you. You need only be still." She traces that same invitation through the Exodus story and into the present, exploring what it looks like to move from a slave mentality that performs and strives into the childlike dependence God is actually after. And then she goes somewhere unexpected: celebration. Not the kind that waits until everything works out, but the kind that marks what God has done right in the middle of the wilderness — even if it starts with something as small as cheering for yourself after making the bed. If you've been white-knuckling through a hard season, trying to be strong enough, strategic enough, spiritual enough to push through on your own, this message is an invitation to put it down and let Him fight for you.