A New Season, Same Faith: Connie’s Update

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast. I'm your host,

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Connie Morris, and this is Faith on the Go, where you take the word with you

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on your drive to work, while you're getting ready in the morning,

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or even in those quiet moments before prayer.

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Real life, real word, and real growth, all while you are on the go.

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Before we get into today's word, let's take a moment to center ourselves with a familiar prayer.

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The prayer of Jabez.

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Oh, that you will bless me indeed and enlarge my territory.

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Let your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.

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Father God, we come before you this day asking that you will indeed bless us,

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not just with what we have, but in who we are becoming.

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Enlarge our territory, Lord. Expand our capacity, our mindset,

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and our ability to receive what you have for us.

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Let your hand be upon us, guiding us, covering us, and leading us in every decision we make.

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And Father, keep us from harm, physically, emotionally, and spiritually,

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that we may walk in peace and not in pain.

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And Lord, just as you heard Jabez when he cried out to you, Hear us now.

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Your word says that you granted his request. And we believe that you are the same God today.

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So we come boldly before you, knowing that you hear us, knowing that you see

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us, and knowing that you respond to the prayers of your people.

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Have your way in this moment as we sit, listen, and receive your word.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Hello, this is Connie Morris, the podcaster for you, and I want to take a moment

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just to give you some updates on what's happening in my life.

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I'd like to title this one, A New Season, But I'm Not Going Anywhere.

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I want to say hello to my friends, my family, and my foes out there.

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I just want to sit down for a minute and just talk to you about what's happening in my life,

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but not as a podcaster talking to an audience, but to someone who has,

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over the past two years has come to feel like many of you are on the same journey with me.

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You have been supporting me, downloading my podcast, and sometimes they're long,

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sometimes they're many, but that's okay.

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I just share what's on my heart. Some has been here from the beginning and just

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have been faithfully listening to me, even when you couldn't hear me when it was the beginning.

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And so I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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You have listened to the devotionals, the histories, the teaching,

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the hard conversations, scripture, when you didn't want any scripture,

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the research and my personal stories and everything in between.

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Did you know it's been almost two years? I have been going strong.

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There have been weeks when I released three, four, five, and at one time, seven episodes.

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Sometimes I will finish one message and already be thinking about the next one.

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There was always something else I wanted to share, another scripture,

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another lesson, another piece of history, another story that needed to be told,

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and another perspective that I wanted us to consider.

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And I love doing it, and I still do. But somewhere along the way, I realized something.

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I may have been giving you more than you had time to receive or even listen to.

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And that made me think, because good content should not get lost because the

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next episode came too quickly. Some of us have...

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These messages, and you deserve time to listen, to think. It's time to go back

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and listen again, and maybe even time to cheer then with somebody else.

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So I started to ask myself a different question.

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Not how much can I produce, because God is always talking, whether it's through

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my Diary of a Black Woman podcast or the Morris Perspective podcast.

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But I began to think and consider my audience.

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How can I make sure that I produce what I produce to have enough time for you

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to absorb, to listen, to apply it to your life.

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And that's why beginning in September, 2026, that's right around the corner.

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Things are going to slow down a bit, just a little. Not before anyone starts

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wondering, I'm not going anywhere.

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I'm not ending in either podcast. I'm not walking away from something that I

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have spent two years building.

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I believe I'm entering into a new season.

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You know, God's always changing. Remember, he said, be faithful in the least

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and do not despise small beginnings.

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And so I know that when we do what he told us to do, and remember,

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I was sharing with you that everything in my life has evolved around what God had told me to do.

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And he told me to do a podcast and he wanted, he'll change the days,

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five days, three days, seven days.

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And so it was an opportunity for me to be faithful, be flexible in all that He's called me to do.

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But guess what? God is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.

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And so there are some new professional opportunities that are in front of me

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right now. I'm exploring the possibility for growth, leadership,

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promotion, and that's in my personal life.

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And I want to give myself space to see those opportunities and where they may lead.

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I don't know exactly what every door will look like yet, but that's okay.

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Part of growing is being willing to explore what comes next.

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But one thing I know is these podcasts are coming with me. And you know,

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when they come with me, you get to share some more.

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Of my journey. They are just a part of who I am.

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They are a part of my voice and they are part of the work I believe I am supposed to continue doing.

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I'm simply learning that not everything has to happen at the same speed.

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So beginning in September, we're going to have a new rhythm.

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It's going to start here in September. Pay attention here. So on Tuesdays,

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I'm going to do Diary of Black Women podcast, the Faith on the Go series.

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Every Tuesday, same time.

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I call it 1700 hours or 5 p.m. We will meet for Diary of a Black Woman podcast and Faith on the Go.

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If you are new to Diary of a Black Woman podcast, this podcast is really me

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sharing my life with you through the devotionals based on scripture,

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prayer, lived experience, and lessons God has taught me along the way.

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And let's not forget the dreams that he gives me that really opens the door.

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The last dream I had that I shared and you should listen to it is the what if series.

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What if God telling you that those things that you are dealing with are subject

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to change and they did change for me?

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What if God tells you that the job you love, that you apply for,

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that you've been training for for the last six months is only temporary and God said that to me?

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And God may be speaking to others out there to get the faith stirred up.

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If you feel stuck, begin to find out where God wants you to be.

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So over the time that I started this two years ago, I've written over 360 devotionals.

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And I'm telling you, we have not even touched the surface of any of them.

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Most of the devotionals came through prayer, came through dreams, came through prophecy.

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They came through different seasons in my life.

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They came through things I experienced, things I had to learn,

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things I had to overcome.

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And moments when scriptures met me exactly where I was. and I wanted to share those things with you.

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I don't want to rush through them and say that they're all recorded.

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I want this to become something I simply want.

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It's not something I'm simply trying to get done. I want to enjoy every single

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second like you know I do. Some of the sessions can be 30 minutes,

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and sometimes they can go over an hour.

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But there's still a good word for you.

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And even though I share them with you, I absorb them myself.

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I listen to them again, and I get a second blessing from it.

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So I want us to just walk through these together. I want us to take time with

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the scripture. sure. I want us to think about what it means.

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How do I apply it to my life? I want us to look at how it connects to our everyday life.

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And most importantly, I want us to allow God to use the message to help us grow.

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That is what the next season of Diary of Black Women is really about.

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It's not about how many devotions I can release or how many episodes I can release.

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It's about how deeply can we grow through them?

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One devotion at a time, one scripture at a time, one week at a time.

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And the next step in our relationship with God, I share with you that I moved here.

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To Nebraska and things were different. It's kind of like God pulled me away

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from everything and to set things up for what he has for me next.

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And so if you feel like you're alone and you said nothing is moving,

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God has taken too long, God is working behind the scenes to set things up for

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you so that you can be ready.

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So don't you slow down. Don't you give up. Don't you start using your mouth

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to create negative worlds around you.

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And don't you fret because God is working things out behind the scenes.

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And that's why I always encourage you with my faith on the go messages.

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Our relationships with God doesn't happen only on Sunday mornings.

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It happens while we are driving to work. It happens while we are making dinner.

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It happens while we are walking. It happens while we're at work.

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It happens when you are sitting quietly trying to make sense of something.

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It happens in our celebrations. It happens in our disappointments.

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It happens when we are strong. And it certainly happens when we need God to strengthen us.

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Faith goes with us. So you can carry these devotions with you wherever life takes you.

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And now, instead of rushing from one devotion to the next, I want to give each

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session, each episode, a chance to breathe.

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A chance that you can look it over.

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Again and listen to it again. Because some scriptures need more than just a

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few minutes. Some lessons need time to settle.

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I even listen to my messages like three or four times.

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Because every time I listen to it, I get a different meaning, a different word.

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I said that. That's powerful. I want to put that to work.

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We have to remember that when God tells us something, it is good as done.

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So we don't have to doubt or waver. He says, I'm going to make you rich.

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Then you need to just wait for it.

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You don't need to doubt it. It'll happen tomorrow or maybe the next day.

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But when it happens, you know that when God spoke it, it was already in motion.

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So I want you to remember that each episode takes time to grow and to share.

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And so we do have a long journey ahead of us, or maybe not, because God is coming

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back. Jesus is coming back soon.

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And so let's not race through it.

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Let's grow through it. This is Diary of a Black Woman podcast.

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Faith on the Go. And beginning in September, our day is Tuesdays.

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So pay attention and just be ready for what God has for you.

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And I'll see you on the next episode.

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Family, thank you for spending time with me today.

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To every woman listening who has ever felt hidden, overlooked,

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or pushed aside, hear me clearly.

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God has not forgotten you, and neither have I.

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Now let's go before the Lord and close this out with a word from God,

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because someone out there needs this reminder today.

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Jeremiah 29, 11, verses 11 through 14.

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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you

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and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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Then when you call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you,

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you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and bring you back from captivity.

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Father God, we thank you for your word, that it is true, that it is living, that it is for us.

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You said you know the plans you have for us, plans to prosper us and not to

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harm us, plans to give us hope and a future.

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So today we receive that, not just in our minds, but in our hearts.

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When we feel overlooked, remind us you still see us.

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When we feel forgotten, remind us you still have a plan. And when we feel hidden,

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remind us you are still working.

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Your word says that when we call on you, you will listen.

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So we call on you now. Hear us. Strengthen us.

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Guide us. Help us to seek you with our whole heart, not halfway,

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not sometimes, but fully.

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And as we seek you, let us find you in every season, in every place.

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Even the hidden one. Restore what was lost, renew what feels broken,

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and remind us that nothing in our lives is wasted in your hand.

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Lord, we trust you, we believe you, and we stand on your word. In Jesus' name, amen.

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This is Diary of a Black Woman podcast, and I'm your host, Connie Morris,

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and I'll see you on the next episode.