Refill Friday - The Blessing Is in the Wrestle

📖 Scripture of the Week:
Genesis 32:27b – “I will not let You go unless You bless me.”

🌿 The Word:
Let’s get real: wrestling with God isn’t just a Bible story.
It’s your midnight prayers.
It’s the “Lord, I don’t get it” moments.
It’s that quiet war between what you believe and what you’re living.

Faith isn’t always angelic. It’s gritty. It’s persistent.
It’s Jacob… limping, bruised, fully spent… and still refusing to let go.
Still clinging to a God who feels silent but sacred.
Still believing, even in the dark.

And listen: that wrestle? It does not represent weakness. It’s intimacy.

Some of the deepest encounters with God don’t come through peace.
They come through persistence.

They come when you’re exhausted but still whispering, “I’m not letting go.”

🔥 Coaching Nugget:
Wrestling doesn’t mean you lost your faith.
It means your faith has grown teeth.
When your prayers sound more like protest than praise, that’s not rebellion.
That’s a soul refusing to walk away.

If I could sit across from you this week and look you square in the eye, I’d tell you this:

God is not offended by your questions.
Not one of them. Not the raw ones. Not the ugly ones. Not even the ones you’ve been too afraid to say out loud.

He’s not offended.
He’s inviting you to bring it all.

Because real faith doesn’t hide the wrestle.
It brings it to the table.

💬 This Week’s Challenge:
What are you wrestling with right now?

Name it. Don’t pretty it up. Don’t make it cute. Don’t try to frame it nice and neat for your journal. Let it out…the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Set a timer for five minutes and journal this sentence:
“God, here’s what I’m holding that I don’t know what to do with…”

Then tell Him.
Not the Sunday school version, the raw one.
He’s not afraid of your honesty. He welcomes it.

✨ Mini-Memo from Your Word Girl:
If your faith feels like a fight right now, that doesn’t mean you’re broken.
It means you’re bold enough to bring your full self to the feet of the Father.

So don’t tap out.
Keep wrestling. Keep reaching.
And watch what happens when heaven meets honesty.

With you in the ring,
xo, Diane 💖