4143 You Didn't Come This Far to Come This Far
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
Release Date: 08/03/2026
4186 Lead with Your Gifts
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
There is something inside of you that the world needs. Not the version of you that has been shaped and polished by degrees, training programs, and years of professional experience — though those things matter. But it runs deeper. Before you ever sat in a classroom or clocked into your first job, God planted something in you that was never meant to collect dust; lead with your gifts. Too many of us have spent years building lives around what we've learned while quietly setting aside what we've been given. We show up to work with our skill sets. We volunteer with our expertise. We check the...
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4185 And That's A Wrap!
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
You cross the finish line. You hit the milestone. You reach that thing you've been praying over, grinding toward, and believing God for — and you exhale. And that's a wrap. Or is it? When you accomplish a goal or finally touch a long-held dream, do you stop? Do you sit down, dust off your hands, and call it done? Or does something inside you whisper, "There's more?" It's very interesting how we see life. The moments can feel like a year, when it might have been only a day. But nothing worth having comes in a moment. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join...
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4184 Come and See
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
There are seasons in life when the darkness feels closer than it should. When the weight of what you're walking through presses in from every side and you start to wonder if the light you once felt so sure of is still there. Maybe it's grief. Maybe it's uncertainty. Maybe it's a weariness that has settled so deeply into your bones that you can't remember what rest feels like. Wherever you are right now, whatever shadow has crept into the edges of your story, do something simple and holy — come and see. Come and see that the light has not gone out. Desire to be supported and encouraged by...
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4183 Don't Let the Calendar Replace the Connection
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
You married your best friend. You chose each other. And somewhere along the way, the life you're building together started pulling you apart — not because the love faded, but because everything else got louder. You're not fighting. You're not even frustrated with each other most days. You're just missing each other; sitting in the same house but living in different rhythms. And that quiet distance? It didn't happen because of one bad day. It happened one full week at a time. So when life crowds in on your marriage, don't let the calendar replace the connection. However, the biggest threat to...
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4182 Listening Is Love
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
It's not that unheard of to want to explain everything to your children. We carry decades of life behind us, and we think if we can just say the right thing at the right time, we can spare them the pain. But regardless of their age and stage of life, what they need is your presence. Not your lecture. Not your five-point plan. Your presence; listening is love. You don't have to have all the answers. You don't have to be the problem-solver every single time. What they need from you is ears to hear. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . ...
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4181 The Heat Is On
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
There are moments in life when everything feels like it's pressing in — the deadlines, the demands, the weight of expectations, and the relentless pace that never seems to slow down. And right in the middle of all of it, you realize something: the heat is on. Not just the kind that comes from outside pressure, but the kind that rises from within, the fire that tells you it's time to move, to grow, to step into the fullness of who you are and who you are created to be. No matter what happens in your day, at some point you have to be willing to go the extra mile, play full out, and do whatever...
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4180 The Soil No One Talks About
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
People will tell you about the blooming, the breakthrough, and the moment they finally stepped into the calling God placed on their life, where everything clicks because He has been planning it all along. But nobody really talks about the soil no one talks about — the stuff underneath the surface that made the bloom possible in the first place. The seasons that felt more like a burial than planting. The prayers that seemed to bounce off the ceiling. The plans you laid out in good faith that God, in His gentle sovereignty, folded up and tucked away. And if you've been in one of those...
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4179 Set the Pace for Your Daily Race
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
Have you ever watched a tennis match and noticed the winner isn't always the one hitting the hardest? Sometimes it's the one who knows when to slow down, when to push forward, and when to reset between points. With the US Open in full swing right now, there's no better time to be reminded that the way we approach our daily lives mirrors what's happening on those courts in Flushing Meadows. It's time to set the pace for your daily race — not someone else's, not the world's, but the one God specifically designed for you. Tennis is a game of rhythm. Every elite player has a routine between...
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4178 Laboring For What Lasts
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
There's something beautifully ironic about Labor Day. It's the one day of the year when we're told to stop laboring — to set down the to-do list, fire up the grill, and just breathe. But as the burgers sizzle and the kids splash in the last pool days of summer, a quiet question has a way of surfacing: What am I really working for? Today, as we celebrate the gift of rest, let's talk about Laboring for What Lasts — and why the answer to that question shapes everything. Jesus said it plainly in Matthew 6:21 (NIV): "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Desire to be...
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4177 Notice God's Goodness
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
There is a rhythm to our days that we rarely stop long enough to notice. We wake, we push, we strive, and we do it all over again. We wrap ourselves around careers, achievements, milestones, and ambitions so tightly that we forget whose we are and who we belong to. But what if this weekend, during this beautiful pause, it became the moment you chose to notice God's goodness? God did not create us to chase all the earthly things. He did not breathe life into us so we could spend every waking moment climbing ladders and collecting accolades. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other...
info_outlineA journey lasts a lifetime. It requires a chosen mindset, intentional thoughts, and actions that put an exclamation point to movement. Not a comma. Not a question mark. An exclamation point—a declaration that you meant to keep going. As you travel the various paths set before you, let this settle into your spirit: you didn't come this far to come this far.
You kept what was valuable in front of you. You pivoted where necessary. You became consistent as time moved on, even when consistency cost you something.
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That isn't an accident. That's the fruit of a decision made over and over again, quietly, on ordinary days nobody was watching.
Take a moment and think about how far you've actually come. Not in a passing way—really let yourself go back. Reflect on what that looks like in full color. Remember the version of you who didn't know what you know now, who hadn't survived what you've since survived. See how you handled change. See how you handled challenges that, at the time, felt like they might undo you. Could things have been handled better? For most of us, yes. And that's not condemnation—that's growth admitting itself out loud.
Philippians 1:6 reminds us that "He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion."
You were never meant to arrive fully formed. You were meant to keep being carried, keep being shaped, keep becoming.
So many changes have moved through your life. Relationships shifted. Seasons closed. Identities you once wore no longer fit. And in the middle of all that change, lessons were learned—some gently, some the hard way.
So ask yourself honestly: where are you today, standing in the wreckage or the wonder of all that? What have you left behind that actually needs to be brought back to the forefront? Maybe it's a discipline you dropped. Maybe it's a version of faith that was simpler and truer before life complicated it. Maybe it's a hope you buried because disappointment felt safer than expectation.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 says "there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens."
Leaving something behind for a season doesn't mean it was meant to stay buried forever.
You didn't come this far to come this far.
Read that again. Let it stop being a clever phrase and start being a mirror. You did not survive what you survived, learn what you learned, release what you released, just to plateau here. Just to coast. Just to let the momentum die quietly while you tell yourself you're content with "far enough." Far enough was never the destination. It was a mile marker.
Rise up. This is not the time to numb out and just let the mundane things in life lead. You get to set the tone for your mind, body, and spirit.
The K.I.S.S. ~ Set the tone for your mind, body, and spirit!
So what can a person actually do to keep moving? Let this phrase set the tone for your mind, your body, and your spirit.
MIND — Let your mind reject the lie that you've peaked. Every day begins with a decision about what you'll believe about yourself before you've proven anything. Renew your thinking on purpose, before the day has a chance to hand you a reason to doubt. Romans 12:2 calls this being "transformed by the renewing of your mind"—not once, but daily, deliberately, until the old ceiling you built for yourself stops feeling true.
BODY — Let your body carry out what your mind has decided, one faithful action at a time. Belief that never becomes movement is just a feeling. The body is where intention gets proven—the phone call you make, the boundary you hold, the habit you repeat even when it's small and unremarkable. James 2:17 puts it plainly: faith without action "is dead." Let your actions be the exclamation point your mind can't put there alone.
SPIRIT — Let your spirit remember that this was never a solo journey to begin with. You were not designed to sustain forward motion on willpower alone.
Isaiah 41:10 promises, "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you."
Your spirit is the part of you that keeps hoping when your mind is tired and your body is worn out—tend to it daily, the same way you'd tend to anything you actually intend to keep alive.
Nothing left to chance will ever change on its own. Chance doesn't build a life. Intention does. Intentionality is the key component to continuing on your path—not intensity, not perfection, just steady, chosen, repeated intention.
And here is where hope lives in all of this: hope is not naive about how far you've fallen or how many times you've had to start again. Hope simply insists that the story isn't finished.
Romans 5:4-5 says perseverance produces character, and character produces hope—"and hope does not put us to shame."
Your setbacks were never disqualifying. They were curriculum. Every pivot, every season you thought you'd wasted, every lesson that cost you more than you wanted to pay—it was building the exact resilience that hope requires to keep speaking.
"One step at a time leads to miles of greatness." ~ Kristianne Wargo
That's not a throwaway line. That's the entire mechanism of this journey. You don't leap into a transformed life. You take one honest step, then another, then another, until one day you turn around and realize the ground you've covered was miles, not inches.
You didn't come this far to come this far. You came this far to keep going.
"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"
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Song Title: Overcomer
Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia
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