Tagged with "trust"

• The Big Picture

  God is painting on a canvas bigger than we can see—even when loss, confusion, or silence fills the frame.

• Mustard Seed Faith

  Even little faith is powerful when pointed toward Jesus. Mustard seed faith moves mountains—and multiplies miracles.

• Faith to Faith

  The righteousness that saves us is credited by God, received by faith, and lived out by faith—from beginning to end.

• God-Sized Praying

  Perhaps the invitation of prayer is not to ask more quickly, but to ask more deeply.

• A Meditation In Suffering

  When pain strips away understanding, surrender becomes worship. This meditation offers suffering back to God as an act of trust and praise.

• Appointments

  From a guarded sycamore tree to a ram in the thicket and a great fish in the sea, Scripture reveals a God who orchestrates divine appointments—arranging people, places, and moments for redemption.

• Be Still

  We chase holiness like a performance, but God meets us in surrender. In the margins of our striving, His grace whispers strength. This devotional invites you to lay down self-effort and discover the power of being still before God.

• Meditation #1

  A meditation of surrender—looking back on flight, self-reliance, and the quiet persistence of grace.

• From It or Through It

  Trusting God’s sovereignty when deliverance comes differently than we expect—and discovering His presence in the fire.

• Here With Me

  A meditation on God’s nearness—written in confinement, in awe of a presence that remains personal amid infinite scale.

• Roadblocks

  Reflecting on how we can unknowingly step out of alignment with what God is already doing—and what surrender truly looks like.

• Faith from Beginning to End

  Righteousness isn’t earned—it’s credited by faith. From salvation to sanctification, the entire journey is a gift of grace, received through faith from beginning to end.

• New Every Morning

  God’s mercies are not recycled—they’re freshly painted across each sunrise. His faithfulness is the rhythm behind every breath.

• The God Who Is Heard

  From Sinai’s thunder to the whisper of the Spirit, God has always chosen voice over image—inviting us not to behold Him, but to listen.

• Held on Every Side

  As mountains encircle Jerusalem, God’s presence surrounds His people—corporately and personally—now and forever.

• Heading Home

  The psalms teach us that faith does not move in straight lines—from despair to trust, and from trust to being led again toward God Himself.

• Not Subdued

  The enemy’s aim has always been to silence worship—but because of Christ, what feels destroyed is never beyond restoration, and what seems subdued is never truly lost.

• The Power of Presence

  Israel’s victories were never secured by strength or strategy, but by the light of God’s presence—a truth that still exposes the danger of self-reliance.

• Sticks and Stones

  Scripture was not given to us as a weapon to wound others, but as a living word meant to search us, humble us, and lead us into love.

• The LORD Is My Shepherd

  Psalm 23 is not a wish or a sentiment, but a declaration of settled reality. In valley and pasture alike, the Shepherd’s presence—not the absence of danger—is the source of comfort and confidence.

• Deliver Me

  A prayer of mercy, refuge, and trust when deliverance does not guarantee escape.

• I Want to Follow

  Relationship comes before understanding. God leads us into truth before He teaches us.

• Seek Him

  Prayer does not begin with effort or obligation, but with relationship. We seek God not to earn His favor, but because He has already drawn near to us.

• Why Fear?

  Fear multiplies in imagined futures, but faith finds its footing in a single, steady truth: God is for me.

• All Things

  Life does not always come together in ways we can understand. Faith holds to the promise that God is at work even when meaning feels hidden, and nothing is ultimately wasted.

• Still Waiting

  When anxiety pulls me into endless what-ifs, Psalm 39:7 calls me back to the only secure ground: My hope is in You.

• Waves

  A meditation on Exodus 20 and the unseen waves our choices send forward—into our families, our futures, and generations we will never know.

• Seek First

  What does it really mean to seek first the Kingdom of God? A reflection on priority, focus, righteousness by faith, and the quiet promise that the Father will provide what we truly need.

• Near Enough to Live

  David asks not merely for protection, but to live close enough to God that danger must meet Him first.

• Complete Protection

  David’s opening cry in Psalm 18 reveals a layered portrait of God’s protection—strength within, stability beneath, defense around, and victory ahead—awakening love as the only fitting response.

• Sunday Morning Faith

  A contrast between well-worn sayings heard in church culture and enduring truth, this reflection calls for a faith that lives beyond Sunday—one that stands in weakness, walks through darkness, and overcomes through Christ.

• Confession

  Forgiveness is freely given in Christ, yet many of us continue to live under guilt. Psalm 51 reminds us that confession is not groveling before an angry God, but returning to a gracious Father who has always been ready to restore.

• Falling Into His Grip

  What felt like collapse became rescue. In confinement, I discovered that when I fell, I had not been hurled headlong—God was still holding my hand.

• “Go”

  God’s call to “Go” is rarely comfortable or fully explained. This reflection explores learning to move in faith—trusting the One who sees the whole road while we walk step by step.

• God’s Got This

  When progress feels slow and God seems silent, Deuteronomy reminds us that His promises unfold “little by little.” The pauses are not abandonment—they are preparation.

• Never Told Why

  Trust is not understanding the script. It is staying in the story with God when you cannot see the reason.

• Whispers in the Dark

  In the quiet battles of confinement, I learned that the whispers of the enemy grow faint when the voice of my Deliverer becomes my focus.

• Returning to Need

  Jesus calls us back to childlike dependence—not immaturity, but a return to trust, attachment, and the honest admission that we are powerless without Him.