“God Can’t Lift an Unbowed Head” — A Special Message From Meredith Brock

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever felt the pressure to figure it all out, force it to happen, or keep your head up even when your heart’s worn out — this message is for you.

In this keynote from She Speaks, Meredith Brock shares her honest story of learning to surrender the striving and live from a place of trust instead of trying. With laughter, vulnerability, and deep biblical wisdom, Meredith reminds us: We don’t have to prove ourselves to be used by God. We just have to stay surrendered.

You’ll learn:

Why God can’t lift what you won’t lay down.
How to recognize when you’re striving instead of surrendering.
What Scripture teaches about letting God fulfill His promises — not forcing them.
How to make a freeing perspective shift that takes the pressure off your performance.

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The First 5 app is turning 10 — and we couldn’t have done it without you. For the past decade, this app has helped women all over the world meet with God first … before the chaos of the day begins. Now, we want to invite you to help carry that impact into the next decade. When you give to further all God is doing, we’ll thank you with two copies of our newest devotional study, 30 Bible Verses Every Christian Should Know — one to keep and one to share with a woman you know who’s in need of hope. Give a 10-year anniversary gift!

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0:00.0	What if the first thing we reached for in the morning was God's Word? That simple idea became the first five app, and over the last 10 years, it's helped millions of women around the world build steady, scripture-first habits to start their day. Now we're celebrating a decade of life change and inviting you to help carry that impact into the future. When you give a 10-year anniversary gift
0:22.0	to Proverbs 31 Ministries, we'll say thank you by sending you two copies of our brand new
0:26.8	devotional study, 30 Bible verses every Christian should know. Be part of what God is doing next. Give
0:33.3	today by clicking the link in our show notes. Now on to today's episode.
0:44.0	Thank you. today by clicking the link in our show notes. Now on to today's episode. Well, hey friends, thanks for tuning into the Proverbs 31 Ministries podcast where we share
0:48.1	biblical truth for any girl in any season. I'm your host, Kaylee Olson, and I'm here today
0:52.6	with my friend and my co-worker and my co-host, Shea Hill. Hey, Kaylee, happy to be with you today. I'm your host, Kaylee Olson, and I'm here today with my friend and my co-worker and my co-host
0:55.0	Shea Hill. Hey, Kaylee, happy to be with you today. I'm so excited you're here. Shea, we just
1:00.1	wrapped up our annual She Speaks conference where we get to spend a few days with hundreds of women
1:05.9	who are called to be communicators. And during our time together, we train them to be effective in their
1:11.5	calling to write, speak, or lead in ministry. And it's always such a fun time. But it's exhausting,
1:19.0	right? Are you recovered? I think I'm starting to recover. Yes, for sure. But it was so amazing.
1:25.0	It was so amazing. But now that we're a little bit more refreshed and like slightly recovered, I wanted to ask
1:30.5	you, what was your favorite moment at the conference or what was a highlight for you?
1:33.9	I think one of the highlights for me was on Saturday.
1:37.8	Everyone, all the attendees got to choose their own workshop schedule.
1:41.6	And we had so many different options that they could attend. And I
1:45.9	actually got to assemble a panel workshop, which is like my dream. Like let me assemble a team of
1:51.8	people and let me just ask the questions. And I mean, my panelists were like friends. Some of I had
1:57.8	only met online, but then we got to meet in person. And I knew it was
2:01.4	going to be really good, but it really blessed me, like, just being together with those women
2:05.9	and getting that face-to-face time. So that was probably my favorite part was that that Saturday
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