Eat Don’t Compete with Jazmine DeWees

What happens when you invite God to search places in your heart you’ve learned to manage, ignore, or hide?
In this devotional episode of Eat Don’t Compete, I want to invite you to sit with Psalm 139:23–24—a prayer that became weighty yet grace-filled for me as I allowed God to thoroughly search my heart and lead me in His everlasting way.
As we read this passage across multiple Bible translations, I share why asking God to search us can be both powerful and uncomfortable. Through personal reflection, I talk about spiritual growth, the danger of becoming casual with God, and how hidden heart issues—like offense, anxiety, and misplaced comfort—can quietly shape our walk with Him.
This episode is an invitation for you to slow down, sit with Scripture, and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal what God wants to correct, heal, and sanctify—not just through you, but in you.
If you’re longing for deeper spiritual maturity, heart transformation, and honest prayer, my prayer is that this episode encourages you to let God do the internal work that leads to lasting change.
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I Didn’t Realize How Much I Was Rushing Until I Was Forced to Slow Down is an honest reflection on pace, pressure, and what God reveals when everything finally gets quiet.
In this episode of Eat Don’t Compete, Jazmine shares vulnerably about a season of slowing down, listening more closely to God, and realizing that stillness isn’t inactivity—it’s cooperation. Through personal reflection and biblical truth, she explores how God often exposes our hearts privately before anything ever surfaces publicly—and how that kind of exposure is not punishment, but grace.
This episode unpacks:
Why God slows us down when ambition gets loud
How stillness reveals what striving tries to hide
The difference between godly ambition and selfish ambition
Why hidden seasons are often preparation, not punishment
How refinement precedes true spiritual transformation
What it means to trust God’s timing over our own pace
If you’ve felt frustrated by waiting, uncomfortable with rest, or confused by a season of slowing down, this conversation is an invitation to see stillness as grace—and refinement as proof that God is investing in you.
Stillness doesn’t mean you’re behind.
Hidden doesn’t mean you’re forgotten.
And refinement is often where transformation begins.
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And take a moment today to sit in stillness—God may be revealing something to you, privately, in love.

A devotion to God’s Word rooted in Ecclesiastes 12:13.
In this Anchored In God’s Word devotional, we reflect on what it truly means to fear God, keep His commandments, and live with eternal perspective. Ecclesiastes 12:13 reminds us that after all striving, searching, and questioning, God’s Word brings us back to what matters most. This devotional is an invitation not just to listen — but to sit with Scripture, study it, and allow it to shape how you live.
For further Bible study: Read Ecclesiastes chapter 12 in full and ask:
– What does “fear God” mean in my daily life?
– Where have I been striving apart from obedience?
– How does this verse anchor my purpose?
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