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Priscilla Shirer says most Christian women going through divorce or a broken marriage are exhausted for a reason nobody in church will tell them. They've been fighting the wrong enemy their entire lives. You are exhausted. Not a little tired. Exhausted in the way that only happens when you have been fighting something you cannot see for longer than you can remember. You have prayed for your marriage. You have forgiven things that should not have had to be forgiven. You have sat across from a counselor and tried to explain something that doesn't make sense in any language. You have shown up to church on Sunday with your face together and gone home and cried in the car. You have done everything right. And you are still exhausted. And the fight keeps coming. Priscilla Shirer has spent twenty years watching Christian women do exactly this. The daughter of one of the most respected pastors in America. A woman whose Bible studies have sold millions of copies and whose voice has been carried into more living rooms and small groups than almost any woman alive. And she said something at a conference in front of tens of thousands of women that I have never been able to shake. She said the reason you're so tired isn't what you think. "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. The fight with your husband isn't really about what you think it's about. The betrayal that broke you isn't just a human story. The exhaustion that has followed you out of your marriage and into your healing isn't just grief. You have been fighting an enemy you cannot see with weapons you have never been taught to use. And nobody in that church building has been honest enough to say it out loud. Priscilla did. She said it from the stage and the room went completely still. "You have an enemy. And he is scheming 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." He is not trying to destroy you anymore. If you have placed your faith in Jesus — he can't. So instead he spends every day keeping you so distracted, so discouraged, so worn down by the visible fights that you never pick up the one weapon that would end the invisible one. And that weapon Priscilla says isn't your prayer life alone. It isn't your church attendance. It isn't the worship playlist you cry to in the car on the way home. It is 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. Not something you read three chapters of and close. Something sharp enough and known well enough that when the fight comes — and it will come — you actually know how to use it. But here's what most Christian women going through the hardest seasons of their lives never figure out. You cannot fight with a weapon you don't know how to use. You can hold a Bible. You can carry it to church. You can highlight the verses that comfort you in the moment. And if you don't actually understand what you're holding — you walk out into the fight unarmed. Women on Reddit who have been through divorce say it in their own words. "My divorce utterly destroyed me. But I gave God the pieces." "I believed in Jesus. But I didn't actually know Him." "I was a mess. I couldn't figure out why I kept ending up in pain. I ended up hating my husband. I ended up hating myself." These aren't faithless women. These are women who had a Bible they couldn't actually use. Who had been reading words without understanding what they were holding. Who walked into the hardest fight of their lives without a weapon because nobody ever taught them how to pick one up. 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 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 when everything in my life was falling apart. They comforted me in the moment. And two days later I couldn't tell you a single thing I had 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 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. Reacting to things that weren't actually the real problem. Fighting battles that kept coming back because I was hitting the wrong thing. Picking up every offense, every fear, every wound from my marriage and carrying it around all week without ever once reaching for the weapon that would have actually helped. Because I didn't have one. I had a book I had never truly understood. Priscilla said something else that I cannot stop thinking about. She said the enemy is completely fine with you owning a Bible. He is fine with you going to church. He is fine with you crying to worship music in the car. What he cannot stand is the moment you actually 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 up. That's when I found something that finally changed everything. A 52-week guided study that walks you through the entire Bible — one theme at a time, from Genesis to Revelation. Before you read anything each week it gives you a short explanation of exactly what you're getting into. Who wrote it. When. Why. What was happening in the world at the time. And how every single page connects to the war that's actually being fought for your peace, your healing, your 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 warning them about. And why every single line was written for the woman reading it alone at 6am in the middle of the hardest season of her life. Psalms — not just poems for hard days. The actual battle prayers of people who were also utterly destroyed. Who also cried out from the dark and wondered if God heard them. And what He said back. The Gospels — who Jesus really is. The Jesus who met the woman at the well who had been through five marriages and didn't flinch. Who told her the truth and still offered her living water. Who tells you the same thing today. For the first time in my life I read my Bible and knew what I was holding. For the first time the words started getting inside me instead of sitting on the surface and disappearing. And slowly — week by week — something shifted. I stopped reacting to everything. I stopped picking up every offense. I stopped being destroyed by the same invisible fight over and over. Because for the first time I had a dagger in my hand and I understood 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 cannot pray with the power you were made to have 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 going in — slowly, with context, week by week — until His voice on the page sounds like His voice in the middle of the fight. 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. Don't spend another year exhausted and fighting the wrong enemy. Don't spend another year holding a weapon you've never actually learned to use. Don't spend another year being a Christian woman who has been through the fire without the one thing that would have made it survivable. This is what Priscilla has been pointing women toward her entire ministry. Tap below before they sell out.