How to Let Go Playlist
Letting go is often where healing begins. This playlist helps us learn how to release control, surrender fear, trust God’s timing, and walk forward in peace. These teachings reveal how God often works through waiting, surrender, and obedience in real life.
James 4:7 (KJV) “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
Letting go is one of the hardest parts of walking with God.
Not because God is far away.
But because our hearts often hold tightly to what feels familiar — our timing, our control, our fear, our plans, and sometimes even our pain.
This collection is for those learning how to release what they cannot carry and trust the Lord with what they cannot control.
These teachings explore:
• how to surrender control
• how to release fear
• how to let go of old thinking
• how to trust God’s timing
• how to move in peace instead of pressure
• how to recognize when God is teaching us through waiting
The Bible says:
“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”— 1 Peter 5:7
And sometimes letting go is not losing.
Sometimes letting go is making room.
Making room for peace.
Making room for healing.
Making room for trust.
Making room for God.
Because often the very thing we are trying hardest to hold onto…
is the very thing God is teaching us to release.
And when we do, we begin to discover:
God is faithful in the waiting.
God is faithful in the surrender.
God is faithful in the letting go.
What is different with this playlist?
How to Let Go = fruit of belief"
Will I release control because I trust Him?"
Come sit with Karen a while as she shares as she learns:
One
The Power of Instructions | Learning to Wait Upon the Lord
What if the instruction is the answer?
The Power of Instruction
What if the waiting is part of the instruction?
The Power of Instruction
In this real-life teaching, Karen Rowe shares how God continues to reveal His ways through ordinary moments — a cup of coffee spilled without a cup, a delayed delivery, a perfectly timed appointment, a long-awaited purchase, and the simple yet powerful lessons hidden in everyday life.
This teaching explores the power of trusting God’s instructions.
Not just hearing them…
but following them.
Because sometimes the answer is not in doing more.
Sometimes the answer is in waiting.
Sometimes the answer is in trusting God’s timing over our own.
Through real testimony and Scripture, this teaching walks through:
• how God orders our steps
• how waiting is often part of the instruction
• how peace becomes a guide when we trust Him
• how God aligns details we could never force
• how relationship with God teaches us to hear and follow His voice
Featured Scriptures:
Proverbs 16:3
“Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.”
James 4:7
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
Amos 5:24
“But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.”
God is not absent in the waiting.
Often, He is preparing the very thing we are waiting for.
The question is:
Will we trust Him enough to wait?
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Watch the full teaching below:
The Power of Instructions | Learning to Wait Upon the Lord
Next: Come sit with Karen a while as she continues to share as she learns:
Getting In the Water | Learning to Trust Before You Understand
Sometimes letting go is not the end.
Sometimes it is the beginning.
After getting off the lawnmower — surrendering control — there comes another step:
Getting in the water.
This teaching bridges the space between waiting and walking.
Between letting go and moving forward.
Because often we want to understand everything before we obey.
But faith does not always work that way.
Sometimes God teaches us by doing.
By trying.
By falling.
By learning.
By listening.
Surfing became a real-life picture of this truth:
You cannot learn to stay on the board until you first get in the water.
This teaching explores:
• letting go of fear of failure
• trusting instruction before mastering it
• allowing others to encourage us when belief feels weak
• learning through experience
• walking with God step by step
Sometimes the instruction is:
Wait.
Sometimes the instruction is:
Get off.
And sometimes the instruction is:
Get in.
All three take faith.
From the How to Believe Playlist
Two
Get Off the Lawnmower | Learning How to Let Go
Sometimes letting go begins with one simple instruction:
Get off.
In this real-life teaching, Karen Rowe shares how a dead lawnmower became a powerful lesson in surrender.
At first, staying on felt like doing something.
But the truth was:
If she had stayed on the lawnmower, none of the yard would have been mowed.
The battery was dead.
The only way forward was to step off, trust the instruction given, and wait.
And in the waiting, the work she could not do herself was done.
This teaching reveals how often we stay stuck trying harder, pushing longer, and forcing what God may be asking us to release.
Sometimes we need to get off:
• the lawnmower of control
• the lawnmower of worry
• the lawnmower of fear
• the lawnmower of bitterness
• the lawnmower of self-condemnation
• the lawnmower of our own understanding
Because letting go is not giving up.
It is making room for God.
Further Reflections
Letting go of control
After listening back to this teaching, Karen realized something important:
If she had stayed on the lawnmower, none of the work would have been done.
The battery had to be jumpstarted.
And because she got off at the instruction given, she was free to do something else while the way was being made.
Sometimes what feels like “doing something” in our own strength is actually keeping us from what God is trying to do.
Letting go of timing
Later, God confirmed the lesson again.
After months of prayer, waiting, and searching, the exact thing she had been seeking arrived only one hour before she got there.
If she had gone when she thought she should have gone, it would not have been there.
God’s timing was perfect.
Letting go of fear
The lesson continued in the water.
Choosing to surf again after fear, failure, and doubt became another picture of faith.
Three good tries.
Three falls.
But one time she got farther than ever before.
Not because she had mastered it.
But because she was learning.
Sometimes first we have to get off the lawnmower.
Then we have to get in the water.
And both take trust.
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Watch the full teaching below:
Get Off the Lawnmower | Learning To Submit to God In Real Life
And, finally, Come sit on the rock pile with Karen a while as she continues to share as she learns:
Letting Go of What We Hide
Sometimes the hardest thing to let go of is not timing.
Not control.
But what we carry inside.
After learning to release our timing and surrender our control, there is often something deeper God wants to uncover:
The places we hide.
The places we justify.
The places we keep covered.
But confession is not condemnation.
Confession is where we come into agreement with God and allow Him to cleanse what we could never fix ourselves.
Because letting go is not only about what is around us.
Sometimes it is about what is within us.
And this is often where freedom begins.
THREE Confession Is Not Condemnation
Letting Go of Hiding
What if confession is not about shame…
but about freedom?
What if confession is not condemnation…
but the moment we stop hiding and come into agreement with God?
In this real-life teaching, Karen Rowe shares what the Lord revealed while sitting on a rock pile — that confession is not merely admitting wrong.
It is releasing what we carry and allowing God to cleanse what we cannot fix ourselves.
This teaching explores:
• how confession breaks the cycle of hiding
• how conviction is God waking us up, not pushing us away
• how cleansing begins when we agree with truth
• how abiding in Christ keeps us connected to the Vine
• how letting go of shame makes room for grace
Sometimes the deepest thing we need to let go of is not around us.
It is within us.
The weight.
The shame.
The pride.
The self-rule.
The fear of being seen.
But God is not calling us into condemnation.
He is calling us into truth.
And truth is where freedom begins.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”— 1 John 1:9 (KJV)
Because confession is not where shame wins.
Confession is often where grace begins.
Come sit with Karen a while.
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Watch the full teaching below:
Confession Is Not Condemnation | Coming Into Agreement With God