Tagged with "trust"

• The Big Picture

  God is painting on a canvas bigger than we can see.

• Stand Where Jesus Stood

  Before the miracles, before the crowds, Jesus entered the wilderness and learned dependence.

• Mustard Seed Faith

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

• Seek His Face

  God desires to be desired — not for what He can give, but for who He is.

• 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

  I wonder if God's answers to my prayers reveal that He already knows what I would ask for if I knew what He knows.

• 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.

• Margins

  What is your favorite place in the Bible? Mine may surprise you.

• 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.

• Be Still

  We chase holiness like a performance, but God meets us in surrender. In the margins of our striving, His grace whispers strength.

• Meditation #1

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

• From It or Through It

  When the king renamed them, he thought he was erasing them. He wasn't.

• Here With Me

  A meditation on God's nearness — written in confinement, in awe of a presence that remains personal.

• God's Plan

  A reflection on the road of life, where every event becomes preparation for what lies ahead in God's unfolding plan.

• 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.

• The Gospel in the Grass

  Creation proclaims God’s provision, beauty, and care — inviting us to trust the One who tends both the earth and our lives.

• What Do You Want?

  A reflection on Psalm 42 and the honest longing to desire God more deeply — even when our hunger feels weak or divided.

• 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.

• Loving Judge

  David’s prayer for judgment is not reckless bravado, but quiet trust in a God whose justice is shaped by grace and whose scrutiny is meant to heal.

• 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.

• Open My Eyes

  We can perceive almost nothing of reality — which is exactly why seeking Him first is not naïve but essential.

• 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.

• 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.

• Want To’s

  When I learned to delight in the Lord rather than in what He could give, I discovered that He was quietly reshaping my desires all along.

• 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 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• A Prayer From the Wilderness

  In a season of uncertainty, I tried to obey Philippians 4 by bringing everything to God. This is a prayer that came out of the wilderness.

• God is Listening

  When we feel trapped in the pit of our own failures, Psalm 40 reminds us that God does more than hear our prayers — He leans in and listens.

• Why Indeed

  When despair rises and the future feels uncertain, Psalm 42 reminds us that even the overwhelming waves of life are under God’s control — and His presence remains with us.

• It’s You

  When we ask God to lead us, we often expect direction toward circumstances or outcomes. Psalm 43 reveals that His ultimate destination for us is not a place or achievement—but Himself.

• What About the Joneses

  When envy begins to distort our vision, Psalm 73 reminds us that everything changes when we step into the presence of God.

• A Preemptive Shout

  Throughout Scripture, God's people often praise Him before the victory is visible. Worship becomes a declaration of faith that God's rule is greater than present circumstances.

• Hold My Hand: Walking With God

  Seven reflections on trust, surrender, obedience, and steady faith for those learning to walk closely with God.

• Not Complicated

  We often complicate what God has made simple. Loving our neighbor doesn’t require a plan — it requires obedience.

• If Only...

  We often wish we could rewrite parts of our past, yet God, in His sovereignty, works through even our regrets to accomplish His purposes and shape our lives.

• Open Doors

  When we empty ourselves and open every door of our hearts, we make way for the King of glory to enter fully and reign without resistance.

• In His Hands

  God claims both what is given and what lies beyond it. In the tension between possession and sovereignty, we find quiet confidence that even what feels chaotic remains firmly in His hands.

• Not So Quiet Confidence

  In the midst of fear and pressure, true confidence is found not in our strength, but in remembering that God surrounds, sustains, and secures us.

• Something is Missing

  When our response to God becomes rushed and restrained, we miss the fullness of what His presence invites — an engaged, wholehearted expression of awe, remembrance, and worship.

• Beyond Knowing

  Psalm 136 repeats 'His lovingkindness is everlasting' twenty-six times. A meditation on why the repetition is the point — and what happens when you stop counting and let it pull you under.

• Good Gifts

  What does it mean when the Giver becomes the gift? A meditation on Psalm 16:5–6, and what we miss when we seek only what God can do rather than God Himself.

• Selah

  Selah appears seventy-four times in Scripture and no one agrees on what it means. But God doesn't do something seventy-four times just because. A reflection on what happens when we stop rushing past it.

• A Razor Blade

  We approach Scripture with conclusions already settled, marking only what supports us. A meditation on what happens when we let God's Word divide soul from spirit — and question what we thought we already knew.

• Scars That Birthed Nations

  The nations that conspired to wipe Israel from memory share a common origin: someone who decided God's promise needed a nudge. Edom, Ishmael, Moab — each born from a scar of impatience. And yet, God remains the only hope of deliverance.

• What Fear?

  When the police knocked with an arrest warrant, every fear he had imagined came true at once. What followed — 653 days in a cell, divorce, homelessness — brought something unexpected: an identity, a relationship, and power. God isn't a path out of addiction. He IS the path.

• Why Fear?

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