Through personal stories of divine intervention, Sylvia shares how God transforms seemingly impossible situations when we trust and surrender to Him. Her journey from walking away from faith to finding total peace illustrates how God never abandons His people, even when we temporarily abandon Him.
• Experiencing hypocrisy in marriage led to mistakenly attributing human failures to God’s character
• Hurricane Dolly coincided with divorce announcement, creating overwhelming circumstances
• God transformed a failing sales territory into a #1 national position within nine months
• Near-death experience in 2012 taught the power of complete surrender to God’s will
• Writing a healing book prepared Sylvia for her father’s terminal diagnosis in 2023
• Daily surrender of anxieties brings the peace that “transcends all understanding”
• God sees our entire journey and prepares us for future challenges we can’t yet see
If you’re feeling lost or facing impossible circumstances, remember that God never stops pursuing His lost sheep. Start with small, consistent steps toward Him, and watch as He transforms your impossible situations into testimonies of His faithfulness.
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.
Speaker 2:
Hey, lightbringers, it’s Sylvia Worsham. Welcome to Released Out Revealed Purpose. In this episode, we’re going to be talking about what is impossible for us is possible for God, and why he always comes back for his lost sheep. Easter just came and went and with it came a time of reflection for me because, as all of you know who listen to the podcast, easter is when I received my second chance at life in 2012. And I’ve never forgotten that my journey with Christ has not always been as close as it is today. And I wanted to discuss this journey with you today because I know that most of you have told me that you want to have a closer relationship with him and you don’t even know where to start. So I’m going to talk to you about what was happening in my life back in 1999 when I married my first husband. I was very young he was 12 years my senior and I jumped in there, really not understanding why, but I did it anyways, even though the Holy Spirit, as I was walking down the aisle, was saying don’t do this.
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I thought that being a good wife meant going to church on Sundays. I had gone to Catholic church my whole life. I had gone to Catholic school. My whole life I had gone to Catholic school, but never once had I been taught to have a relationship with him. I didn’t even know where to start, and when I married him and we started going to church, what I started to experience was hypocrisy. I would see this person that I was living with be this kind and loving husband in public, especially at church, and everybody would comment how loving he was to me. And then we’d get home and he would be a totally different person Very, not much, not very affectionate, very, almost standoffish. And there were just a couple of instances that I experienced his true character.
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And, unfortunately, because I experienced this and we kept going to church, I started to turn away from God because I associated the hypocrisy that I was living with as reflective of God’s character, and that is not who God is. That is who my ex-husband was, but that’s not who God is. And sometimes, when we live with individuals that claim to love God and then turn around and do quite the opposite of what unconditional love looks like, which is the love that God gives us freely and the love that his only son, jesus Christ, died for us, giving us unconditional love even though we didn’t deserve it. We are all sinners and he died a very brutal death on the cross as atonement for our sins and our future sins, because we’re fallible, we’re human beings and we will never, ever live up to the godly expectations that Jesus lived to. I mean, he was perfect. So I made the mistake of confusing what I was seeing at home as a reflection of who God was and I turned away.
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I turned away for the nine and a half years I was married and in 2008, as Hurricane Dolly was making landfall in South Texas and the roof of our home was being ripped away and our little boy was like playing in that room ripped away and our little boy was like playing in that room and water was coming in. It was like a mess. And I remember my son’s father asking me while he rocked on a chair we used to rock our son to sleep in. He asked how many months we had been in therapy and I responded rather quickly, seven months. And he said, well, I think we should get a divorce. And it just came out of nowhere and I remember it being just a swift kick in my ego, but somewhere deep inside of me I felt peace and it’s interesting that I say this, but bear with me.
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We had lived a loveless marriage for a long time and it was time to move on, and I was scared. I was a single mom what I would consider a single mom and I didn’t want to change my son’s circumstances quite that dramatically. So I remember praying to God and I remember feeling this enormous need like in my heart space, to start connecting with God again. And I’ve always been a writer, I’ve always had journals, and I just started to journal. I started to talk to him via my pages and I would write him letters, started to talk to him via my pages and I would write him letters. Dear God, you know, this is what’s going on. I’m really scared. What do I do? And the issue here is that, as he asked for a divorce, I had just accepted a promotion with Pfizer, after being denied four different times.
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What made this a little bit more stressful for me was that I had vowed to help these two women that we had employed to be our nannies and housekeepers in South Texas, because they needed our financial help and I knew my son’s father was not going to employ them, and so I asked God. I said please help me, please help me. I need to stay securely in this home for our son’s sake. I don’t want to change up his environment too much. And it was a recommendation from the marital counselor, who was also saying you know, your son doesn’t need any more change. You need to stay in the house with your boy. He agreed to move out.
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All these things started to happen and I remember thinking how am I going to make this work? Because I had just stepped into a role that expected a great deal from me. I mean, it looked like an impossible mountain to climb and I remember feeling so overwhelmed because I did not know how I was going to do this. I couldn’t see in front of me and it was really scary. And I know women that are listening on this podcast who have gone through a divorce. They know exactly what I’m talking about. It is terrifying because it’s the fear of the unknown, and it is one of the greatest fears out there, probably as great as the fear of death and the fear of public speaking. The fear of the unknown is something that I discovered as I was interviewing people for In Faith I Thrive for the book that I just released in September of last year, and in all the interviews, men and women said the fear of the unknown is what I fear the most and I thought how interesting is this? We’ve all gone through it in dark chapters of our life, not really understanding what’s going on.
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I realized that in 2008, I believed in Christ. I didn’t trust him, though I didn’t have that relationship. I had let him go years before and I’d stopped talking to him and including him. And now I was talking to him every day via my pages and I made a consistent effort and it was very intentional In that in order to create a new habit in my life. I knew that I had to do it Consistently, every day, whether I felt like it or not. And I would do it every morning Because, as most listeners know, I’m an early riser and you know who you are. Some of you guys are early risers, others are night owls. Whatever fits your schedule is when you connect with him and ask him. Ask him to help you, ask him to help you.
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So here I am, facing divorce and facing a new promotion and managers basically saying you have six months to turn this territory around. Now, the sales territory I took over was second to last in the region and out of like 300 reps that I was competing with and they had high hopes for me. So I put a lot of pressure on myself. I mean, I felt an enormous amount of pressure to perform and so it began. I left it at God’s feet. I said I need your help. I don’t know what to do with this. This seems impossible to me, and I’m going to reference something here because, as I was reading my Bible this morning, matthew 19 has a verse that says Jesus looked at them and said Matthew 19 has a verse that says Jesus looked at them and said with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. Well, he placed a desire in my heart in those moments and said you will be number one in your region and in the country as a saleswoman for Pfizer, as a saleswoman for Pfizer. And it came out of nowhere and I was like, okay, this is crazy. No-transcript. I mean everything.
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He doesn’t just see your journey like as soon as you’re born, and your thoughts and all your tribulations and circumstance, and everything. He sees your parents’ choices and your grandparents’ choices and all that generational trauma that sometimes gets passed on in DNA. Yes, you heard me right DNA. There’s generational trauma that you sometimes carry. That is not your own trauma, but that was your grandparents’ trauma. And this informs informs how you see life and whether you think it’s possible or not. So he sees it all and he knows what’s coming down your path and he knows and he’s equipping you with everything you go through. You’re learning something and I learned the lesson in perseverance during this these years. So here I am thinking okay, well, you’re the man I guess. Now I need to trust you. And he kept prompting me just focus on what you can do.
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And I remember just looking at my training at Pfizer and leaning on my training and leaning on why I had won other awards and what had made me so successful when I started there. And it was baby steps and lo and behold, within nine months of taking over the territory, within nine months of everything happening personally for me, I started to climb those numbers and before I knew it, I was number one in the region and number one in the country for a while, up until Draper Hall came in right at the last bit and took over the number one spot in the country right towards the end. But for almost a year I held the number one spot and I was the number one sales woman for pfizer in that year and I stood on stage in front of 300 of my peers at pfizer I mean, this is the number one company in the world and I had faced the impossible and people. I heard rumors through the rumor mill, as you sometimes do in corporate America. She’s not the right candidate, all these things. And you know, as a woman, as a Hispanic woman, I really just like I gave it my all Because I had so many things stacked against me.
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But I leaned into God and I learned to trust him and trust in his promptings and his guidance. And then, not only was that important, was I also acted in a timely way Because, you see, god puts people in motion, it starts to move people and then, when you get that prompting, there is a time stamp on that and you need to do it in that time frame or the opportunity ceases to exist. And then he has to start all over again with people, because he’s moving people in your life and putting things in place that are going to help you reach this place, that are going to help you reach this. And do you know why this was so important? Because he saw the motivation of my son’s father. He knew he was going to come after me financially and he started taking furniture from the house and I had to replace the furniture and I needed money for that. That year, when I won, I won not only the top award, but the highest paid bonus was paid to me that year.
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And I’ll reiterate again what we deem impossible is possible for Christ. What is impossible is possible for Christ. What is needed from us is for us to turn to him and ask him to help us, and he moves mountains, he moves obstacles out of the way, and it’s very easy for him. What you need to do is trust him and you do what you can do and what he’s asking you to do and prompting you to do in a timely fashion. This is 2008, 2009. Here I am not top saleswoman, top awards. I’ve learned to trust him and to hear his promptings and act on them Essential in a close relationship, wouldn’t you agree?
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Here comes 2012. I’ve met the love of my life. I make a wrong move and I end up in a hospital On Easter weekend of 2012, with six doctors in my hospital room basically saying you may or may not survive the night, and I remember closing my eyes in full surrender to Christ, to his will, and that’s a lesson he needs to teach me now so that I understand what that looks like in the future. I need to understand the value of surrender. So I need to be exposed to an experience like this, because I don’t know about any of y’all, but I like my little fix of control. To let go of control is very difficult for me.
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It was in those years, very, very difficult and for me to say your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, and to just give it all to him and surrender, that is a very big step forward in our relationship, because now it’s a give and receive. I give and I receive from him and it changes the relationship again, the dynamic, because he knows what’s coming in 2020 and 2023. And in 2020, he promised me to write my first book, and he does this to heal my belief systems and heal and accept and forgive my father, because he knows my dad is going to receive a terminal diagnosis in 2023. Like I said, he sees it all and it’s all part of a plan. We don’t see it. That’s why it’s important for us to like turn to him and to seek his guidance on how to be so that we can heal those wounds within us, because he knows our heart, he knows what we can and cannot take and he knew that I could not take leaving that anger and resentment towards my father before he passes on.
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So he guides me to write the book and I do it obediently, because at that point in our relationship I was acting on promptings pretty quickly and I heal those wounds and I heal those belief systems and it transforms me from the inside out, so much so that just days ago I was playing on a pickleball court and one of the girls who’s known me for a long time, said man, sylvia, you have changed. You changed so dramatically Like your anger and resentment is gone. It’s like it’s a whole new Sylvia. And I said, well, that’s God transforming me Because I allowed him, I allowed his guidance into my life. I asked for it and he gave it to me willingly.
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Because you see, guys, god loves us so much and he’s for us every step of the way. We’re the ones that make it difficult, we’re the ones that turn away from him and abandon him, it’s not the other way around. So if you find yourself in a situation where you’re battling these thoughts of like God has abandoned me. Realize that’s doubt and that’s not of God. God is all about unconditional love, about grace and mercy. I mean, he sent his only son to die in the most horrific way to atone for our sins. Does that really sound like a God that’s going to abandon you in your greatest hour of need? So here comes 2023.
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And, just like God knew, my dad received a terminal diagnosis. And now here goes my control again, like I have zero control. And I turned to him again and the prompting is surrender your anxieties daily to me. Surrender your anxieties daily to me. And it kind of reminds me of Philippians 4. And I’ll read that one to you guys as well, because it is something that is very good to remind and to remember. It says finally, brothers and sisters, remember. It says Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me or seen in me, put it into practice and the God of peace will be with you. This is from Philippians 4. I will tell you in Philippians 4 too, verse 6, you see, you hear and you read do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God, and the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Well, let me put it to you this way I laid it all at his feet. In 2023.
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I would go into my war room and just cry and release all the anxieties and all the fears, because I don’t know about any of you guys listening, but one of my greatest fears was to lose a parent, and I was losing. I could see the stages of this thing and I had no control, and I saw the grief it caused in our mother, and I had no control over that as well. All I could do was leave it at God’s feet and, just like Philippians 4 states, I felt the peace. Peace washed over me. I felt with an inner knowing that everything was going to be okay, that my father was going to be well received in heaven, that his time was coming to an end and he was giving us time to say goodbye, and I took that to mean that when I surrender daily all my anxiety, I will find the peace that only God can give me. And let me just say this I did. The day my father passed on, passed away was Father’s Day of last year, and although my pain was so great, the days leading up to that moment, the actual moment, was very peaceful for me. My father was no longer in pain and I knew how he was going to be received in heaven. I’d read several books on the subject matter of near-death experience. People who had gone to heaven experienced heaven, experienced Christ, and I knew how my father was going to be received and that gave me so much peace. But you see, guys, I wouldn’t have gotten to that point if I hadn’t first started to just turn to him every day.
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Your journey is different than mine. I don’t know the circumstances of your life or relationship with Christ, but I do know this If you’re one of his lost sheep, he’s always been there. He will come for you. He will help you see your own light when you follow the promptings of your heart and soul to turn to him during the darkest chapters. Use your dark moment and circumstances to turn to him, because that’s where he wants to be. He’s always been next to you. He’s always been for you. He loves you unconditionally. He’s already atoned for all your sins. You are forgiven and you are free of all of the things that hold you captive when you believe and trust in him. And I’ll leave you this reflection In this stage in my life.
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I look forward to talking to him every morning, because the peace I have found in him I have found nowhere else. The peace I have found in turning to him and loving him first and putting him first has really given me the strength to face some of my greatest challenges. And I’m facing one of my greatest challenges right now and I’m at peace. And for anyone who has ever known me before and how anxious I once was, you know it’s because God has transformed my life.
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So, guys, reflect on your life, reflect on the relationship you currently have with him. Is it where you want it to be, or do you feel a prompting in your heart and soul to turn to him and start getting to know him? You want a relationship like the one I have. It takes work, it takes consistency, it takes leaning into him, it takes trusting him to take the reins of your life and make it the most beautiful life and most joyful life you will ever live. I’m Sylvia Worsham. Thanks so much for tuning into this episode titled what is Impossible for Us is Possible for God. Have a wonderful week, stay safe, love y’all.
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