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4158 Knocked Down But Not Knocked Out

Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

Release Date: 08/18/2026

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

Have you ever paused in front of a mirror and thought, almost? Almost healed. Almost confident. Almost the woman you know you're meant to be — but not quite there yet. That pause, that space between where you were and where you're going, can feel like the loneliest place in the world. But what if that's actually one of the most sacred places where you need to love the in-between? Because most of us have been taught — by the world, by our own expectations, sometimes even by voices inside the church or community or your job or your family — that we earn the right to love who we see only...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Life has a way of catching you off guard. One minute you're standing tall, feeling like you've finally got your footing — and the next, something comes along and sweeps your feet right out from under you. Maybe it's a phone call you weren't expecting. A door that closed when you were sure it was about to open. A season that turned harder than anything you could have prepared for. And there you are. On the ground. Catching your breath. Wondering what just happened. Knocked down but not knocked out.

A lot of us have been there more times than we'd like to admit. And if you're one who has that familiar ache in your chest, you are not done.

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Knocked down? Maybe. But knocked out? Not even close.

Often when we're flat on our backs staring at the ceiling — we forget that we were never promised a life without struggle.

Jesus Himself said in John 16:33, "In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

He said you will. That means the hard stuff isn't a sign that something has gone wrong with your story. It's just part of the story. And the Author of that story is still writing.

What I've learned — and what I'm still learning, if I'm being real — is that the moments that knock us down have a way of revealing what we're actually standing on.

When everything around you shifts, when the circumstances you thought were stable suddenly aren't, you find out pretty quickly whether your foundation is built on things that can be shaken or on something that holds.

If your foundation is rooted in Christ, it holds. Every single time.

The K.I.S.S. ~ Knocked down but not knocked out!

Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that getting back up is easy. It's not. Sometimes getting back up looks like dragging yourself out of bed and choosing to show up for the day even when every part of you wants to stay under the covers. Sometimes it looks like whispering a prayer through tears because that's all the strength you have. Sometimes it's just putting one foot in front of the other and trusting that God sees the step even when you can't see the staircase.

But here's what I want you to notice — in every one of those moments, you're still moving. You're still choosing. And that matters more than you know.

Because you can't control what happens around you. You can't control what other people do, what falls apart, what shifts without warning. But you can control how you respond. You can choose whether the thing that knocked you down gets to define you — or refine you.

2 Corinthians 4:8–9 puts it so beautifully — "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed."

There's a "but not" that follows every blow. And that "but not" is the grace of God holding you steady when your own strength has run out.

So if today finds you on the ground, let me ask you this — what if this isn't the end of your story but the turning point?

What if the very thing that knocked you down is the one thing that teaches you just how strong your God really is?

What if getting back up — even slowly, even imperfectly — is exactly the kind of faith that moves mountains?

You don't have to have it all together. You don't have to bounce back perfectly or pretend the hit didn't hurt. You just have to get back up. One breath. One prayer. One decision. 

"One step at a time leads to miles of greatness!" ~ Kristianne Wargo

Because the woman who keeps getting back up? She's not the woman who never falls. She's the woman who knows Who's reaching down to pull her to her feet.

So rise, my sweet friend. Dust yourself off. Steady your heart. And take the next step — even if it's shaky, even if it's small.

You're not knocked out. You're being shaped. And everything ahead of you is still waiting for the woman you're becoming.

"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"

 

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Music by Mandisa - Overcomer

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Song ID: 68209
Song Title: Overcomer
Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia
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