Permission Granted | Permission to Say No

<p>What if one of the most important things you can say in this season is simply...</p><p><strong>No.</strong></p><p>No to the opportunity that doesn&#39;t align.</p><p>No to the request you don&#39;t have capacity for.</p><p>No to constantly rescuing everybody.</p><p>No to rearranging your priorities because someone else has an emergency.</p><p>No to saying yes out of guilt while the assignment God gave you keeps getting pushed to the side.</p><p>For many women, saying no isn&#39;t difficult because we don&#39;t know what we want.</p><p>It&#39;s difficult because we don&#39;t want to disappoint people.</p><p>We want to help.</p><p>We want to serve.</p><p>We want to be dependable.</p><p>And somewhere along the way, we started believing that being a good Christian woman meant always being available.</p><p>But here&#39;s the truth:</p><p><strong>Every yes costs you something.</strong></p><p>Your time.</p><p>Your energy.</p><p>Your attention.</p><p>Your focus.</p><p>Your emotional capacity.</p><p>And sometimes saying yes to everybody else is exactly how you keep saying <strong>no to the assignment God gave you.</strong></p><p>In <strong>Chapter Four of the Permission Granted series</strong>, Dr. Tesha D. Colston is challenging us to rethink boundaries, availability, and what it really means to faithfully steward our time.</p><p>In this episode, we&#39;re talking about:</p><p>✨ Why every good opportunity isn&#39;t necessarily your God assignment<br>✨ What Jesus teaches us about allowing assignment—not demand—to determine our direction<br>✨ The hidden cost behind every yes<br>✨ Why Nehemiah&#39;s declaration, <em>&quot;I am doing a great work and I cannot come down,&quot;</em> is a boundary lesson we still need today<br>✨ Why someone else&#39;s disappointment doesn&#39;t automatically mean you&#39;ve done something wrong<br>✨ How to say no with grace without explaining yourself into exhaustion<br>✨ The difference between sacrifice that comes from obedience and sacrifice driven by guilt<br>✨ A practical <strong>Assignment Filter</strong> to help you decide what deserves your yes</p><p>You&#39;ll also be challenged to ask yourself one important question:</p><p><strong>What am I currently saying yes to that is causing me to say no to something God told me was important?</strong></p><p>Because you don&#39;t have unlimited capacity.</p><p>And God never asked you to.</p><p>Sometimes protecting the great work God has placed in front of you requires the courage to say: