God’s Glory Shows Up in the Ugly

2024: A Year of Breaking, Growth, and God’s Glory

2024 was an eye-opener for me—a year that broke me in ways I didn’t fully understand until 2025 began. It was a year of deep pain: my will was shattered, my emotions unraveled, my heart was broken, and my mind teetered on the edge of breaking.

For most of my life, I’ve been a people-pleaser—trying to keep everyone happy, following my parents’ expectations, and now working to maintain peace between my husband and my family. But in 2024, everything came crashing down. My husband and I faced major challenges that forced us to lean completely on God. While my husband was already grounded in faith, I needed an extra push to surrender fully.

Adding to the chaos, we made the decision to move someone into our home, and that’s when everything spiraled further. All hell broke loose.

A Betrayal That Opened My Eyes

At the start of 2025, something happened that changed my perspective—it was a betrayal. While I won’t share the details, it left me angry. This new wound added to the anger I had been carrying throughout 2024: anger, insecurity, and the feeling of being a visitor in my own life.

Yet, even in my anger, I remember how people around me kept sending messages of strength. They prayed for me, and at the time, I appreciated it but didn’t grasp how much those prayers were working. It wasn’t until 2025 that I realized their prayers carried me through. To endure everything we went through required supernatural strength. Like Antwone Fisher said, “I’m still standing! I’m still strong!”

Romans 8:18 says, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.” This verse reminded me that the price of glory is high. Great suffering often precedes great glory.

God’s Plan in the Pain

God spoke to me through a friend, saying He was going to “regulate and reestablish.” I didn’t fully understand at the time, but when the betrayal occurred, I realized this was God answering a prayer I had prayed months before. Though the betrayal was ugly, it was God’s way of realigning my life.

Growth Is Messy, but Necessary

Growth is a process, and processes are rarely pretty. Plants grow in dirt. Butterflies emerge from cocoons made of regurgitated nutrients. That transformation comes from something as unappealing as vomit.

I want to encourage you today: growth, refining, pruning—all of it will be messy, painful, and frustrating. It might feel like the storm will never pass. But in the storm, God gets the glory, and you emerge as the person He’s called you to be.

Romans 8:28 reminds us, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.” Everything you’re going through is building your faith, trust, and character. The ugly moments are shaping you into God’s masterpiece.

Trust the Process

I love you, and I want you to experience freedom in Christ. Whatever you’re facing, know it’s for your good and His glory. Stay strong, keep the faith, and remember—you are being transformed through the mess. Peace and blessings. 

Answering the Call: When God Speaks Your Name

One of the first revelations I received from God was about Him speaking. From a young girl, I would hear God audibly call my name, but I would hear it in my mom’s voice. I would always run to where she was and ask if she had called me. She would always say, “No, that was God. See what He wants.” Now, I always thought she was being funny when she said that until I got older and read the story of Samuel in 1 Samuel 3.

When Samuel was a kid, he was the assistant to Eli the priest. One night after Eli and Samuel had gone to bed, Samuel heard someone calling his name. He ran to Eli and asked if he had called him, and Eli said no and told him to go back to sleep. This happened two more times, and on the third time, Eli realized that God was the One calling Samuel. So, Eli told Samuel, “Go lay back down, and if your name is called again, say, ‘Speak Lord, your servant is listening.’”

At that moment, I realized that my mom was not just making a statement in response to what I asked; she was speaking to me biblically like Eli did with Samuel.

From that point on, I would say, “Speak, Lord; your servant is listening.” Most of the time, I would not get a response. I was always lying down, so I would just go back to sleep.

Then, God dropped this in my spirit one day. When I was younger and my mother would call me, I would always yell, “Ma’am?” from wherever I was. She wouldn’t respond, so I would yell again. After the second time, I would go to where she was to see what she needed, and then she would tell me. So, God showed me that sometimes when He calls you, He wants you to get up and go to where He is.

This may mean getting up and going to another room or just sitting up and being alert. Whatever it is, if you hear God call your name and you respond but hear nothing after, you may have to get up and go where He is.

I love you guys, and I want y’all FREE in Christ! Peace and blessings.

How Sacred Whisperings Began: The Journey Behind the Divine Inspiration

In a world full of noise, what if the most profound truths come in quiet moments? Welcome to Sacred Whisperings, a space where I share the revelations and inspirations God has placed on my heart. My name is Lauren B, and this faith-based blog is born out of a desire to explore the sacred messages we often overlook in the busyness of life.

As long as I can remember, I have always been able to “figure things out.” What I mean by that is when I see something that I don’t understand, I’ll sit with it and analyze it. After doing that for a short time, the situation will just begin to make sense. This is especially true when it comes to the Bible and biblical interpretation.

What I didn’t know was that this is called having a revelational anointing. That means that God speaks to you through revelations, and that’s a part of your spiritual gifting. My Apostle told me this in 2021, and everything started to make even more sense because now I had a name to go with what this is!

When these divine revelations would come, I began writing them down so that:

1. They were not swirling around in my head, and
2. So that I would not eventually forget them.

I thought about turning them into a book, kinda like the book Phil gave Haley on Modern Family when she went off to college. Instead, I decided to turn them into a Christian blog to share with everyone. I love reading people’s faith stories and biblical perspectives, so I decided to add to the conversation, so to speak.

So here we are. Each post will have a different revelation from God along with a brief explanation and biblical breakdown of what it means. Please comment, like, and share with friends, family, and anyone else you believe will be blessed by these revelations!

And remember: I love you and I want you FREE IN CHRIST. Peace and blessings.