Carolyn Shuttlesworth

You can grow up in church, know all the right things to say, and still let your feelings make your decisions. In Part 1 of the Spiritually Strong series, Pastor Carolyn Shuttlesworth draws a clear line between being spiritually familiar and being spiritually strong, and she shows women how to build roots that hold when life shakes the table.

Teaching from Romans 8:14, Colossians 2:6-7, and John 14, Pastor Carolyn walks through four keys. A spiritually strong woman is led by the Spirit, and while her flesh will always have an opinion, it doesn’t get the final authority. Her prayer life is built on relationship with the Father, so prayer establishes her before trouble comes instead of becoming her emergency response. She feeds on the Word daily, the way Jeremiah devoured God’s words, and she knows her authority in Christ because she understands her position in him.

Pastor Carolyn reminds every woman that a hard moment doesn’t mean you’ve failed. You get to choose your response, and the Holy Spirit is faithful to lead you.

Download the free study guide, with discussion questions, the Spiritual Strength Challenge, and this week’s declaration, all at CarolynShuttlesworth.com/study. You can also sign up on that page to join our Unshakable Women's Bible Study by Zoom to join us live for the next one! 

Part 2, “Where’s Your Fruit? The Evidence of a Spirit-Led Life,” is coming next.

“Then Hannah prayed: ‘My heart rejoices in the LORD!’” 1 Samuel 2:1 NLT

Seen & Strengthened closes with the woman who rejoices. Over the last three weeks, Pastor Carolyn taught that God sees you and strengthens you, and that he equips you to build what he has entrusted to you. Part 4 is a woman who knows who she is in Christ and doesn’t have to wait for everything around her to be perfect before she rejoices.

Pastor Carolyn confronts the “I’ll be happy when” thinking that keeps pushing joy off to some later date. Paul told believers to always be full of joy, and he wrote it from a prison. Habakkuk looked at failed crops and empty barns and said, “Yet I will rejoice in the Lord.”

She draws a clear line between happiness, which moves with your circumstances, and Biblical joy, which is rooted in your relationship with God. She also separates preparation from worry, because a woman of faith can prepare for tomorrow without being afraid of tomorrow. The teaching closes on remembering what God has already done and on the harvest that comes to the woman who stays faithful.

The joy of the Lord is your strength in the middle of the battle, and it’s yours today.

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"A wise woman builds her home, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands." Proverbs 14:1 puts the responsibility in your hands.

In Part 3 of Seen & Strengthened, Pastor Carolyn picks up where Hagar and Hannah left off. God sees you and God strengthens you, and that strength has an assignment. God strengthens you so that you can build your home, your marriage, your children, your friendships, your ministry, and the people around you.

Pastor Carolyn walks through 6 keys from Proverbs 14, Proverbs 24, and Proverbs 31. A strong home never happens by accident. Your own words and reactions can tear down the very thing you are praying for God to build.

Comparison pulls you off your own construction site. Strong lives get built brick by brick, long after the emotional moment has passed. She closes with legacy, which is what you are putting into people while you are alive.

The Proverbs 31 woman was faithful with what was in her hands. You have something in yours. Start there.

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Hannah prayed so hard at the tabernacle that the priest thought she was drunk. She walked out that same day, eating again and no longer sad, and nothing in her circumstances had changed yet.

In Part 2 of Seen & Strengthened: Becoming a Woman Established in God, Pastor Carolyn Shuttlesworth teaches from 1 Samuel 1 and 2 and Proverbs 31 on where a strong woman's strength comes from.

She walks through what Hannah did with her pain and why prayer can change you before your situation changes. She also opens up Proverbs 31:25, the woman clothed with strength and dignity who laughs without fear of the future, and draws a clear line between wisdom that prepares and worry that obsesses.

Key scriptures: 1 Samuel 1:1-20, 1 Samuel 2:1, Proverbs 31:17, 25, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 41:10, Matthew 6:25-34

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Hagar ran into the wilderness, mistreated and sure that no one saw her. The angel of the Lord found her beside a spring of water, and she walked away calling Him El Roi, the God who sees me.

In Part 1 of "Seen & Strengthened: Becoming a Woman Established in God", Pastor Carolyn Shuttlesworth opens Genesis 16 and teaches why knowing how God sees you has to come before knowing what He has called you to do. She walks through the difference between fruitfulness and performance, reads Proverbs 31 as the portrait of a woman whose works flowed from her relationship with God, and shares a verse in Mark 6 that shows what a hard heart costs you.

This teaching will help you stay faithful when nobody is clapping.

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Pastor Carolyn wraps up her Rooted, Resilient, and Victorious series with a truth that reframes anything you may be walking through in life: God did not plant you merely to survive. He planted you to produce!

Working from Psalm 92 and the picture of a flourishing palm tree, Pastor Carolyn breaks down what it actually looks like to bear fruit in every season, not just the easy ones. She unpacks why harvest always starts with a seed, why you cannot control the timing of what you've planted (only the watering), and why so many believers dig up in doubt what they planted in faith.

You'll hear the difference between a moment of doubt and a full walk into unbelief, why delay never means denial, and how some of what you sow becomes a harvest for someone else entirely, your children, your grandchildren, the people watching your life.

This episode closes out the series with a final declaration meant to plant itself in you: you did not just survive. You remained fruitful. Your harvest is sure! 

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A soldier is never sent into combat and told to figure it out along the way. He's equipped and trained first. Given a weapon, a plan, and a way to call for backup before the fight ever starts.

In Part 3 of "Rooted, Resilient, and Victorious," Pastor Carolyn opens Ephesians 6 with a teaching she calls "Don't Fight Naked." You already have what you need for the battle in front of you. The problem is rarely a lack of equipment. It's forgetting to put it on.

Pastor Carolyn walks through the full armor of God piece by piece: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, the sword of the Spirit, and prayer. You'll hear why the enemy's greatest weapon has always been deception, why peace was never meant to disappear just because a battle shows up, and why your mind is the ground he fights hardest to control.

God would not have handed you a sword if He expected you to lose.

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Twelve men walked into the same land. They saw the same giants, the same walls, the same fruit. Only two came back with a report worth remembering.

In Part 2 of "Rooted, Resilient, and Victorious," Pastor Carolyn opens Numbers 13 and walks you through three keys that separate a woman of faith from the crowd. You'll hear why fear makes you forget every miracle God has already done, what God meant when he said Caleb had a different spirit, and why your bad report is not harmless in heaven.

From there she moves from the palm tree to the palm branch. Part 1 showed you the roots. This teaching shows you what the branch has always symbolized in Scripture: triumph, honor, and a victory that was already secured before you ever stepped onto the battlefield. You are not fighting for victory. You are fighting from it.

Your victory is sure, but you must be prepared to fight again. David beat a lion, then a bear, then a giant, and then kept fighting. One breakthrough does not mean you can lay your armor down. Dominion is not passivity, and authority operates through surrender.

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Palm trees don't avoid the storm. They're built to stand in it.

In Part 1 of "Rooted, Resilient, and Victorious," Pastor Carolyn opens Psalm 92 and shows you why God chose one specific tree to describe how you're meant to flourish. You weren't planted by your circumstances. You were planted by the Lord, always by an instruction, and no voice, storm, or season has the authority to remove you from where He put you.

Through five keys, Pastor Carolyn walks you through what it means to be established in the Word, to stand when pressure comes, and to know exactly who you are in Christ. You'll hear why pressure doesn't cancel your position, why your emotions were never meant to sit in the driver's seat, and why comfort is one of the enemy's favorite tools to pull you into compromise.

If you've felt bent by the weight of this season, this teaching will remind you that there's still life in the roots that stay planted. You may bend, but you will not break.

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You don't walk out of the valley empty-handed. In Part 2 of The Table in the Valley, Pastor Carolyn unpacks the last three keys of Psalm 23 — and what they mean for the woman who refuses to make the valley her address.

In this episode: why God anointing your head means your mind is not available for the opposition, how your cup can overflow even when your circumstances say otherwise, and why goodness and mercy aren't just following you — they're chasing you down.

If you've been waiting for permission to believe that victory is already written over your life, this one's for you.

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