Aug. 28, 2025
Heartbroken
What does it feel like when a dream you’ve held onto for years begins to slip away? In today’s episode, host Stephanie Muiña invites us into a heartfelt conversation about heartbreak in seasons of waiting. Together, we’ll explore how God can use those moments of longing—not to define us by what we lack, but to gently guide us back to Him as our true source of identity and joy. With vulnerability, Stephanie shares her own story of trusting God through uncertainty, drawing wisdom from Psalm 51:10, and learning to surrender old dreams for a renewed, steadfast spirit.
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You're listening to the My Morning Devotional podcast, episode 1344. Today's Devo is called Heartbroken.
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Hey there. We're the Alessies, a ministry family working together in our church in Miami, Florida. And if you're like us, when days get busy and to do lists get longer, it can be hard to find devotional time. That's why we've partnered with our friend Allison to produce a five minute daily dose of heaven. This is the My Morning Devotional podcast. Happy Thursday, everyone.
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Stephanie here. And I've just loved talking about this breaking in me before the breakthrough with all of you.
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And I pray that it's encouraged you. If it has, please let me know on Instagram in the comments of this, this devo on wherever else we stream this and wherever else we share, please just reach out to us and just let me know if this is, is helping you this week because this is very, very aligned with what I'm even going through.
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You know, as I've said before, I'm in the middle of looking for a house. And even though it's really not that big of a deal, I have a beautiful home right now and I'm. I'm searching for something bigger because our family's growing. I'm very content.
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However, it's a waiting season. And this waiting season has reminded me of some past waiting seasons that I've had.
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And today I want to talk about how the Lord can sometimes break our hard heart. That before you get to the breakthrough, sometimes he has to break off a hard heart. I'm reading from Psalm
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10, and it says, create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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I may cry on today's devo. I don't know why, but, you know, in the waiting season. And I've. I've been through a few waiting seasons in my life, not, not a ton. I'm sure some of you guys have your own testimonies, how you've waited years for children, years for spouses, but I, I am aware of the heartbreak that, that happens in the waiting season.
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And, you know, we're all born with these dreams. We all have these visions of our future. And as you get older, you start to realize that those dreams aren't coming true.
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And the visions that you had as a little girl, they're not happening. And you come to terms with it and you find a lot of peace in it. But there is a little bit of a heartbreak that happens where you're pretty much breaking up with A dream. That's what it feels like that you're just having to let go of something that you dreamt about, you wrote about, you shared with your friends about.
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And when it's not happening, that's very painful.
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That's very painful. However, what it does start to show you is that it causes you to question, why was I so attached to that? Why did that define me? Because it's okay to want things and to want things badly, too. I think that's what God created in us. To dream for children, to dream of marriage, to dream of homes, to dream of accolades.
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That is something God placed in us. However, God never wanted us to be defined by that.
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God never wanted us to be identified by our accolades, by our marriage, by our parenthood. He wants us to be defined by Him. You know, they say that God is a jealous God and that he loves us more than we could ever love Him.
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And he yearns for us to worship him and us in our foolishness. We can get so caught up with the things of this earth and we can make. We could be clinging on so tightly to certain dreams that we had where we completely forget that our identity needs to be Jesus Christ at all times. And, you know, to go back to that first love, which is Jesus is where the Lord wants us to be. And this Psalm, Psalm 10, how it says, create in me a pure heart, oh God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. It makes me cry because that's just been my season. I'm about to turn 30. I'm not about to turn 30. I'm going to turn 30 in June next year. But I'm feeling the effects of my 20s coming to an end. So what I've done in my 20s, I've done, I can't change. And I'm sure some of you guys relate to that feeling of, I've done most with my life what I can, and I still have so much more to go. But I have to come to terms with what I've produced. And it can create a weirdness in you, an inner conflict. But this Bible verse is saying, create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. This breaking that happens of a heart breaking off the things that we so badly yearned for, the dreams that we just fantasized about day and night. When that is broken, even though it's painful, it allows us to go back to our first and true love, which is Jesus, who is the only one that can fulfill us, who is the only one that can give us a true joy. Who's the only one that makes me feel like myself? He's the only one that gives me confidence. Listen, I have kids and I have marriage and I still need the Lord. I still need God to give me confidence and it allows me to finally pray this prayer. Create in me a pure heart, oh God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. So if you're waiting for a breakthrough to happen and it has not happened yet, and it's painful, let me challenge you to lean into that pain, lean into that discomfort.
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And then when you mean it authentically, pray this prayer. Create in me a pure heart, oh God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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Let's pray. God, I just thank you for this moment. I thank you for this opportunity to share my testimony with others. I thank you for this opportunity to connect with people that are waiting on their breakthrough. And God, it is painful and it is taking a very long time, much longer than we expected.
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But God, there's a reason for it all. You are a God of purpose. You have it all stretched out before you. You have our entire lives written out before you.
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You know the end from the beginning. So God, we trust you. We rely on you and we allow this breaking in us to break off things in us for the breakthrough to come. So create in us a pure heart and renew a steadfast spirit within us. And in Jesus name we pray. Amen. So there you have it. Your 5 minute daily dose of heaven. Thank you so much for tuning in today.
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You're listening to the My Morning Devotional podcast, episode 1344. Today's Devo is called Heartbroken.
00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:30.280
Hey there. We're the Alessies, a ministry family working together in our church in Miami, Florida. And if you're like us, when days get busy and to do lists get longer, it can be hard to find devotional time. That's why we've partnered with our friend Allison to produce a five minute daily dose of heaven. This is the My Morning Devotional podcast. Happy Thursday, everyone.
00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:37.840
Stephanie here. And I've just loved talking about this breaking in me before the breakthrough with all of you.
00:00:37.840 --> 00:01:00.049
And I pray that it's encouraged you. If it has, please let me know on Instagram in the comments of this, this devo on wherever else we stream this and wherever else we share, please just reach out to us and just let me know if this is, is helping you this week because this is very, very aligned with what I'm even going through.
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You know, as I've said before, I'm in the middle of looking for a house. And even though it's really not that big of a deal, I have a beautiful home right now and I'm. I'm searching for something bigger because our family's growing. I'm very content.
00:01:15.250 --> 00:01:22.140
However, it's a waiting season. And this waiting season has reminded me of some past waiting seasons that I've had.
00:01:22.859 --> 00:01:38.140
And today I want to talk about how the Lord can sometimes break our hard heart. That before you get to the breakthrough, sometimes he has to break off a hard heart. I'm reading from Psalm
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