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Priscilla Shirer says Christian women are exhausted, anxious, and stuck for a reason almost no one in church will tell them. They've been fighting the wrong enemy their entire lives. A woman who has spent the last two decades teaching the Bible to millions of Christian women. The daughter of one of the most respected pastors in America. Whose Bible studies have sold millions of copies and whose voice has been carried into more living rooms, small groups, and Sunday school classes than almost any woman alive. And she said something at a conference in front of tens of thousands of women that most Christians have never stopped to think about. She said the reason they're so tired isn't what they think. She said the reason Christian women keep ending up in the same fights, the same fears, the same patterns, year after year, isn't their discipline or their willpower or their faith. She said it plainly. "There is always something you can't see influencing what you can. And if you spend all of your time, your energy, your effort trying to hit at what you see popping up in your life, you're going to be so frustrated and by the way exhausted. Because as soon as you take care of one thing, another one is coming back." Read that again. As soon as you take care of one thing, another one is coming back. And here's the part that makes it so confusing. It isn't that Christian women aren't trying. They're trying harder than anyone. She's up before the kids for quiet time. Worship playlist going in the kitchen all day. A devotional sitting on her nightstand. Women's conference every single year. Pages of sermon notes. Prayer journal by the bed. Small group every week. Serving at church on Sundays. Showing up, again and again and again. And she is still exhausted. Still anxious. Still lying awake at 2am with a knot in her chest she can't explain. So the thought creeps in. Maybe I'm not doing enough. Maybe I need to pray more. Read more. Serve more. Try harder. So she adds more. And it gets heavier. Until the whole thing — the faith that was supposed to be the rest — starts to feel like one more job she's failing at. Routine instead of relationship. A checklist instead of a Person. Climbing a mountain with no energy left, wondering why everyone around her seems to feel something she doesn't. She shows up on Sunday smiling, looking like she has it together, and drives home feeling numb. Doing everything right on the outside and slowly going empty on the inside. And nobody will tell her why. Christian women are arguing with their husbands about dishes that aren't really about dishes. They're lying awake at 2am over anxieties that aren't really about their kids. They're carrying bitterness toward people who aren't really the problem. They're exhausting themselves fighting an enemy that isn't even their real enemy. And every Sunday they show up to church hoping someone will finally tell them the truth. Priscilla has watched this happen to Christian women for twenty years. She watched them read their Bibles faithfully and still feel powerless. She watched them serve in every ministry their church offered and still feel anxious. She watched them do every right thing on the outside and still feel like something invisible was eating them alive on the inside. And she knew exactly why. She said it from the stage at the Passion conference, in front of tens of thousands of young women, and the room went quiet. "You have an enemy. And he is scheming against you. There is an enemy. He is against you. He is not for you. He plans to do anything and everything in his power to stir up challenge in your life enough to cause you to shrink back." She said the enemy doesn't have to destroy you anymore. If you've placed faith in Jesus, he can't. So he spends the rest of his time on one strategy. Keeping you so distracted, so discouraged, so tired, that you never actually pick up the one weapon that would end the fight. And that weapon, Priscilla says, isn't your prayer life by itself. It isn't your church attendance. It isn't your worship playlist. It's your Bible. Used the way it was actually meant to be used. "You need a dagger of the spirit, and the dagger is called the Word of God." A dagger. Something sharp enough, close enough, and known well enough that when the fight comes, you actually know how to use it. But here's what most Christian women never figure out, and what nobody in church seems willing to say out loud. We can't fight with a weapon we don't know how to use. We can't swing a dagger we've never actually picked up. And reading three chapters in the morning and closing the book is not the same thing as knowing what's actually in our hands. And here's why all that trying never worked. Every one of those things — the playlists, the devotionals, the conferences — was an activity she performed. Not one of them ever taught her to actually understand the Word for herself. She was doing more and more around the Bible, and never once learning what was inside it. Most of us treat the Bible like ink on a page. Priscilla's exact words. We read it. We highlight a verse. We close it. And then we walk out into our day completely unarmed, wondering why we feel so beat up by the end of it. I know because I was that woman. I went to church every single Sunday for my entire adult life. I had a Bible that I genuinely tried to read. I started reading plans in January more times than I can count. I made it through Genesis. I made it through Leviticus barely holding on, wondering what animal sacrifices have to do with my life. I read Romans and closed the book not being able to explain a single thing I had just read. I read the Psalms and felt comforted in the moment but couldn't tell you two days later what I had actually learned. Year after year, the same cycle. Start in January. Slow down by March. Quietly stop by April. And carry that shame, that quiet guilt of being a Christian woman who still didn't really know her own Bible, all the way back to December. When I'd tell myself again that next year would be different. And the whole time, just like Priscilla said, I was exhausted. Fighting things I couldn't name. Reacting to people who weren't actually the problem. Picking up offenses, fears, anxieties, and carrying them around all week without ever once thinking to pull out my dagger. Because I didn't have one. I had a book I couldn't really read. Priscilla said something else in that same sermon that I haven't been able to shake. She said the enemy is fine with you hearing the Word. He's fine with you owning a Bible. He's even fine with you going to church every Sunday. What he can't stand is when you actually start to understand what you're reading. Because the moment you understand it, you can use it. And the moment you can use it, his time with you is over. That's why most Christian women stay stuck. Not because we don't have Bibles. We have stacks of them. Because we've never been taught to read them in a way that turns the words on the page into something we can actually pick up and fight with. Think about it this way. If someone handed us a sword we'd never trained with and told us to go fight, we'd lose. It wouldn't matter how heavy the sword was or how sharp the blade was or how good the maker's name on the handle was. If we don't know how to use it, we can't fight with it. That's what most of us are doing every time we open our Bible without context. We're holding the weapon. We just don't know what we're holding. That's when I found something that changed everything. A 52-week guided study that walks you through the entire Bible, one theme at a time, from Genesis to Revelation. Before we read anything each week, it gives us a short explanation of exactly what you're about to get into. Who wrote it. When. Why. What was happening in the world at the time. And how every page connects to the war that's actually being fought for our peace, our families, our minds, our future. Ephesians, the very book Priscilla preaches from when she talks about the armor, finally makes sense. Why Paul wrote it. Who he wrote it to. What he was actually warning them about. And why every single line of it is meant for the woman reading it 2,000 years later in her kitchen at 6am. Psalms: not just poems for hard days, but the actual battle prayers of people who fought the same invisible war we're fighting. The Gospels: who Jesus really is. Not the Sunday school version. The Jesus who told the enemy to leave with three sentences from the Word and ended the fight. For the first time in my life, I read my Bible and I knew what I was holding. For the first time, the words started to feel like a weapon instead of a chore. I'd open it in the morning and not want to close it. I'd read something and think about it all day. Verses I had read dozens of times suddenly meant something completely new, because I finally had the context to understand what they were saying. And slowly, week by week, something shifted. I stopped reacting to everything. I stopped picking up every offense. I stopped being exhausted by fights that weren't even mine. Because for the first time, I had a dagger in my hand and I knew how to use it. Priscilla says it like this. "Prayer is the key that unlocks the resources of heaven so that they can be unleashed on planet Earth." But you can't pray with power if you don't actually know the God you're praying to. And you don't know him by reading three chapters and forgetting them. You know him by studying who he is, on every page, from Genesis to Revelation, until his voice on the page starts to sound like his voice in your life. That's what this study finally gave me. Right now it's up to 62% off, and every order comes with a free pen pack. Let's not spend another year exhausted, fighting puppets we can't see. Let's not spend another year holding a weapon we've never actually learned to swing. This is what Priscilla has been pointing women toward her whole ministry. Tap below and grab yours before they sell out.