You Can Trust God When You Don’t Understand |
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Editor's note: Jen is a new author who is very dear to us. She's been our designer for OBS for several years and we are thrilled to be sharing her brand new book. We highly recommend you pick up a copy of this excellent book. It's a great book to give as a gift as well! *
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Breathe Deep and Know: The way of God may not always make sense to you, but you can trust Him without fear. At the root of my fear is a lack of trust in the heart of God. When the story of my life isn’t unfolding the way I thought it would, when a season of suffering lingers longer than I think I can bear, when the news is too bad and bills are too high and tasks are too hard and the pain is too much — when everything looks lost and nothing seems right — it can be hard to see or understand the heart of God. And it’s difficult to trust what we don’t understand. But His ways are not at all like ours. There is always more happening than we can see. |
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Just look at Jesus: the Hope of the world born in the form of a vulnerable infant, the way of salvation forged through significant suffering. What looked like utter death and defeat on the cross was really the way to ultimate life and salvation. What looked like the end was really the beginning of all things being made new.
So that hard thing we don’t understand? That pain we fear may break us? It may turn out to be the tool for our rescue. The storm that threatens to drown us may actually be the path to freedom. When we shift the way we see our suffering and trust the heart of God, we can let go of fear and be filled with peace because we know that He is working even if we don’t understand. See, God has come to save me. I will trust in Him and not be afraid. The Lord God is my strength and my song; He has given me victory. — Isaiah 12:2 Inhale… You are my salvation Exhale… I will trust You and not be afraid.
Excerpted with permission from Breath as Prayer by Jennifer Tucker, copyright Jennifer Tucker. * |
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Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in God’s truth. Breathe out trust. The truth is that we don’t know what’s best for us. Sometimes what seems horrible and painful to us is what God is using to change us, grow us, and help us. Not everything is good, but we have to have faith that our God is good and will use everything for good. |
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• Printable pocket prayers
• Beautiful digital phone lock screens • A coupon for a free art print from Jenn's studio • Anxiety Toolkit, which includes: 7-day Breath Prayer Challenge |
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Settle your worries and breathe in and out with the Holy Spirit |
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Join New York Times best-selling author Ann Voskamp as she teaches you S.A.C.R.E.D., a daily habit, a rule of life, a way of life, that will reorient your soul in relation to God through Scripture and prayer and study. This powerful spiritual practice that Ann unpacks in this study will become your directing compass through the hard seasons where it feels like there is no way – only to find you have a WayMaker making an unexpected way into the life you only dreamed of.
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