In “Hagar an Egyptian Cinderella,” Pastor Karen teaches that true surrender means fully casting our burdens on God instead of taking them back through worry and control. Using Hagar’s story in Genesis 16 and 21, she shows how God saw and sustained Hagar in her suffering, leading her to call Him El Roi, “the God who sees.” After years of struggle and submission, Hagar finally surrendered completely in the wilderness, and only then did God open her eyes to the provision that had been there all along. Pastor Karen reminds us that we are not our children’s savior—Jesus is—and that anxiety, anger, and control often reveal a lack of trust in God’s plans. When we finally release control and surrender, God sustains us and reveals solutions we could not see before.
