Trusting God

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  Thank you so much for adressing the subject of trust. It is a huge one for me. Fear tends to run rampant. Yes and the word of God is a powerful weapon. I have to trust God to bring my son back to himself, very hard when I see him turnig to the world. I need to trust that is faithful to his word….

  • I am so tired. I believe & thought I trust in God. I know He is there but it feels like that is all. Like you Debbie, my son(s) are lost. Thank you Nicki for sharing love

  • It has been a struggle to trust God in the midst of my greatest trials. I have lost a son, a mother, a marriage and a job position all within the past 3 years. I find that I question every purpose and forget to use affirmations to help strengthen my faith. Thank you for the affirmation of Jeremiah 29:11 it speaks volumes to my soul. It is difficult to stay focused on the good when your heart is in pain. Debbie, I will pray for your son to return to God’s ways. I know first hand how hard it is to witness the straying of your children and the consequences that can arise from these decisions. Be strong, pray without ceasing and continue to love unconditionally.

  • I’m reciting these verses and TRYING to trust God. I pray for all the women who have posted before me! Three years ago my husband revealed he had been unfaithful and lost his job. I was a stay at home mom of a 5 year old and 2 year old. One year without income and lots of anger from him. 12 months later he reveals he has been lying to our counselors, accountability partners, me, etc. and he had been unfaithful again 2 months earlier. 3 weeks later my mom is diagnosed with breast cancer. 3 weeks later I am diagnosed with breast cancer. double mastectomy, chemo, radiation, and still tension with my husband. April of this year he walks out on me and my 8 and 5 year olds. ends our marriage that I believed was God centered right from the very beginning. I must find work. I’m tired and very disillusioned. I pray as I recite these verses and other do, that God would ignite the Spirit in us to believe…….and have mercy on us and let hopeful events happen in our lives.

    • Carol I read your words and feel your pain..I understand the path you are walking, because I have walked the same path too….feel His arms of love around you, though you cannot see ahead..He is right there with you..close your eyes and just breathe…let go…trust in Him..
      He alone is faithful and He will keep all of His promises..
      when we are at our weakest in Him is our greatest strength..

    • Carol, I feel your pain so deeply. I married a man who has such deep seated emotional instability and I have had to deal with his unforgiving spirit. He has carried unforgiveness since his childhood hurts, pain, rejection, sexual abuse and I have endured so much pain, hostility, emotional abuse and all of the above. In less than 2 years I have had two operations on my head, he foreclosed on our home, left and got his own place, I lost my job one year ago, have been homeless but thank God I found employment which I will start training on the 10th. I pray for my husband that God will humble him because he is so prideful anad will take no accountability or responsibility for anything he does. He is always the victim andf everyone else has the problem. I just pray God will cleanse his heart from the hatred, bitterness, anger, vindictiveness, hostility, lies, deciet, strife, discord, discension and that one day he will be able to forgive all those who hurt him. Some dead and gone. I love my husband and I know if God would intervene He could make him the man he should be n God’s eyes. All you have endured will pass. I tell myself this everyday. I hurt so much and so deep that I could not even pray to God because I could not understand why he allow us to go through thehell we deal with in our lives. He is preparing us for what his will is for us and He needs to see that we are ready to receive our blessings. I am trusting him more. Although I want him to restore my marriage, but not until he has changed my husband. Be encouarged. God loves us so much and we are the ones he chastises more.

    • Dear Heavenly Father,
      I come before your throne with all praises and glory to you forever…I seek to serve You with my whole life Father and I lift up Carol to you right now. Father, she needs Your mighty hand of healing upon her, fill her with all strength and peace and health. Father, I pray that she trusts You at all times and as she pours out her heart to You, You would be her refuge. Father, as her soul clings to You, I pray You uphold her with Your mighty right hand. Father, Carol has been through so much, I pray that she is awakened to Your light and love and realizes You have always been there for her and though fear stalks her, it has no power to harm her as she clings to You. Lord, she seeks mercy and hope, I pray that as Carol watches in hope for You, she trusts that You hear her. Father, be with Carol at all times and in all places, may Your presence be undeniable to her.
      In Jesus’ Mighty and Powerful Name, Amen

• Thank you Nicki for sharing. I am having to trust God for my finances. I do not have any permanent employment. I know “in theory” that God will provide and have a few testimonies of God providing for me in the past, but it is still a bit of a scary journey at the moment. Last year at an Aglow meeting a word was brought “In your vulnerability there is opportunity”. I pray that as I make myself vulnerable I will have more testimonies of how this gives God opportunity to show himself faithful in my life.

  • It almost seems unbelievable n mwhat were facing today; joblessness, broken families, sickness and that word vunerability has been taken to another level, but still there is nothing else trust in but God. The maker of the heavens and earth; the giver of life. There is nothing that can separate us from the love of God. We need only to believe and have faith in who he says he is and think on these things. I find myself breaking out in a praise in my car, in the elevator; in my house; and sometimes I’m scared and anxious; but when I feast on his word as I read these blogs; I find hope.

• Nicki: You have no idea how much this devotional blessed me! I have been struggling with trusting God for provision after being unemployed 3 times over the last 5 years. I just recently lost my job again in July and have been inundated by fear, disappointment and great difficulty in trusting God through the heartbreak. Thank you for being so transparent! I no longer feel alone. May God bless your socks off, my friend! 🙂

• Great blog! My prayer request is for me to trust in GOD enough to allow him to properly heal me from all my insecurities and that I be patient and trust in his timing for my future husband, job, degree and life. I pray to stay holy and keep my flesh under subjection. For I am fearfully and wonderfully made and don’t have to settle for less.

  Father God I pray for my sister above me. for I don’t know her exact prayer request buy YOU know. I pray that she trust in you more and more each day. I pray prosperity and health for her family, ministry, job,. Heal every broken area and continue to lead and guide her. I pray your angels be encamp around her and her family. I pray that everything she touches will prosper. Strenghthen her lord . In Jesus name AMEN.

• Thank you for this encouragement. It was just what I needed to hear! I am trusting in God for provision in all areas because He’s asking me to do someting and go somewhere I have no finances for and to me it seems impossible, but not to God. :)(Luke 12:30-31)

• I found myself in your postion Nicki. As a child I lost my mother and struggled to understand why for so long. Then eight years ago I lost one of my older brothers to violence. Once again I question God. Other events have happened, I have Crohn’s disease and can’t afford the medicines I need. My dad just recently had a triple bypass surgery and it scared me half to death. God and I haven’t seen eye to eye off and on for a while now. Let’s just say when I think things are starting to go good, here comes another test of my trust in him. I believe as humans we will all have our times when we question his actions but if there is one thing I’ve learned in my 30 years of living, things could always be worse. Since I’m the first to leave a comment I will take this time to pray for you Nicki. I pray you continue your walk in faith with confidence to trust God. You have already been a guiding light to me for your blog and words of encouragement on Proverbs 31. I pray that you bless someone else with your words and when the situation comes again to test your trust in God, you will remember to trust in God even when we don’t understand. Your sister in Christ, Jessica E.

• Thanks for these great reminders! “Trusting God is a place of response.” As my husband and I stare unemployment in the face each morning. We are choosing to trust. Thank you!

• I need help in trusting that God can change me.

  • Karen, I am right there with you girl. I will pray for you to trust God to change you. I can understand your frustrations. We need to turn it over to God and let him handle our life’s (so much easier said than done)
    Praying for all on this blog. That trusting in God can change their lives.
    Diane

  • Karen,

    I am praying for you in HUGE way! Listen, Gods word is filled with wonderful things God believes about you his child. You are special and only he knows everything about you, inside and on the out.

    Call on him in this time of need I promise you that is always faithful.
    Focus on him and not what needs to be changed about you and suddenly you will notice the issues that once existed with be who you were, and not who you are meant to be!

    God bless you! I am praying for a HUGE change for you.

    Always love,
    Charlotte

• So many of your words I feel could have just as easily come out of my mouth…
  I especially like the way you said this>>
  “Trusting God is a place of response.” It is a response that needs to be in my heart always. When I am anxious, struggling, afraid, sad, etc is when I am reaching for Him to carry me through, yet I have come to realize that if I trusted in Him, I would have more peace & not be such a mess during those rough times. It is a hard habit to break! We live in such a negative world spreading the bad news all the time instead of celebrating the blessings more..
  Today I pray for all the ladies reading this to remind themselves each & every day that to Trust in the Lord without pause. That He guide & protect us in our quest to strengthen our trust in Him; to remind us that in good & bad times He is always there. In all things, He offer us a peace because we trust in Him & His will for our lives. If our God is for us, who can be against us?! In Jesus’ name. Amen

• Life seems so difficult right now. The struggles of life feel overwhelming. I pray each day for God to guide me in the right direction, give patience and understanding. I need you to pray that I can trust in my Lord to sustain me. Thank you.

  • Praying with you

• I am a very active person who has been sick with sinus problems for over eight weeks. Chest x rays have shown an enlarged heart. Medicines I’ on leave me very weak and I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever get well. I do know however that God is right here with me. Please pray for His healing touch upon me. Thank you for your words of wisdom and comfort today!

  • Ms. Willingham,

    I pray for you in your time of need and I will make it a special point to remember to pray regularly for you health. I can tell you are a women of great faith that is reaching out to others to ask for Gods healing touch.

    Hang in there many are praying for Gods healing touch.
    Your faith will pull you through!

    Hebrews 3:14
    For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

    God bless
    Charlotte

• Thanks for this blog today; it made me realize that I am not trusting God like I should be. Please pray with me as I trust God with my work situation; household salvation and health of my family (children & I) have no health insurance. Thank you. I am also praying and trusting God for the unanswered prayers that are requested on this blog. Let us not give up praying one for another.

  • Andrea, a word of encouragement that I hope helps….when my children were small I wasn’t able to afford insurance for them and I made $40 a month too much to get them on state-funded insurance. God was so good! Those were the healthiest years of my kids lives. They needed only the routine shots; no stitches, no broken bones, no major illnesses, no glasses needed, none of that. God even provided the extra money when they needed to be vaccinated. 😀 He will provide and protect.

• Hey my friend! What beautiful words this morning as I sat at the feet of Jesus. Trusting Him is something that some day I take moment by moment. These scriptures are great reminders of how faithful our God really is. Blessings upon blessings to you and your family! Just conti ue to pray for strength, wisdom, healing and rest for our family as we walk through this journey of healing from cancer.

• I’m not a doubter normally but my faith has slipped somewhat this past week. My husband and I have been believing God for the past two years to help us sell our home. We find ourselves in a situtation that is not suitable and it is getting us further in debt. We know that it is not God’s will for us to be in debt and therfore we are praying our circumstancrs will change soon. I know God is faithful and I know that He loves us, yet I just can”t understand why we are not seeing a answer. I see His handy work in others lives and I am happy for it, than Lord why not in our lives too. I read and study God’s Word everyday, we tithe and believe, what else can we do. I love my Lord and I would not want to live a day without Him in it. Thank You for listening.

• Thank you, nicki, for your words of exhortation.
  I need to trust God more in my marriage. My husband and I have been married 25 yrs. The Lord has shown me that my husband has many wounds and emotional hurts from his childhood. Please pray that God will help me to trust Him more for my husbands healing.
  I will be praying for Ms.Thornton Willingham.

  • Terri,
    My husband and I have been together 13 years, and married only 3years. My husband is terribly wounded from his childhood and some of which a result of his own bad choices.
    Because of the wounds, he does not always respond to adversity the way I would. I immediately begin to find a solution in all positive ways possible and much to my surprise the man I loved would tuck his tail and become a person I couldnt recognize.

    I am praying for you cause I truly, truly, understand that hurting people, hurt people. I am praying for deliverence of the past and new found freedom only God can give through forgiveness and healing. In Christs name!

    God bless,
    Charlotte

• God is so timely. He has been working with me for a season on trust and faith and has proved himself over and over that He is “ever present in times of trouble”. Today is yet another example of how He knows just what I need to persevere over this hurdle that is facing me for the next couple weeks. I need to remain constant in my response to this situation….I am trusting God. Nicki thank you for the “Trusting God Affirmations” God is speaking to me today through this. I pray during this time for Thornton for healing.

• To Sharleen (above) I pray for God’s divine provision and timing in the sale of your home. Our home was for sale for 1-1/2 years and my husband was working in another state (9 hours from our home) and I had to travel back and forth to spend time with him and care for our house. It was very challenging! God sold our home in the perfect timing. My husband ended up being off work for six weeks during the packing, moving, signing of paper time so I did not have to do that alone. God is very faithful and he will sell your home at the right time if that is his will for you!

  I am striving to trust God to bring a closer/deeper walk for the two men I love dearly, my husband and my son. I pray for them daily/frequently. They both need God’s touch!

  • Hello! WOW…I am blown away by all of the comments and prayers for one another here. Gods love is so powerful that he can place his love inside of all of us to where we can promote happiness and healing to complete strangers. Amazing, for I am developing a closer relationship with God and at times I struggle with trust and always have.

    • God revealed himself to me after the death of my mother. My best friend, my parent, and provider. Although, I am grown now I took care of her sick through much of her young life with many ailments and injuries.
      But I always said I made it through all the suffering with her and rarely left her side unless I was working. Now the purpose of me sharing is God showed up and held me up when I could no longer stand up on my own. He carried me through hospital and eventually her reuniting with him at death. I always said if something happened to her put me beside her. God said “No” you have to finish things here and he has carried me since Oct 2010- till now. Remarkably I still hurt but because he revealed himsslf to me I am ever changed and learning to cope with such a loss.

      I know he has you safely qaurded too. God bless you in all you do!

      Always love,
      Charlotte

• Throughout my life, I can look back over my life and see where God has provided, protected and blessed me abunduntly. However, when I am in the middle of any situation, I seem to waiver in my trust for God to take care of us. I needed this devotion today and prayed before I opened my Bible to recieve it and here it is. Once more He has provided for me. I am having difficulty right now trusting God in our finances. I see many other sisters are too. I have never been homeless, I have never missed a meal. Why do I not trust God with this? It is so frustrating to myself why I tend to hold on to this when I know God has given me everything I have and will continue to take care of me. I pray for you Sharleen that God will work out every detail of your situation. I pray that He will deliver you and comfort you at this time. I pray that you will look back on this situation and see the good in it that God has worked out for you! I pray for you Sharleen, in the name of Jesus, that you can live in the abundant joy God has for you today with a peace and love that surpasses all understanding. God be with you and yours.

• Thank you so much for these encouraging words on trusting God. I too struggle daily with my trust. This year I am facing many changes in my job and seem to be in tears daily. Your words today helped me to remember that God is near during these times and He has a plan for me. he will not leave me or forsake me. God is so good!
  Jen, I will be praying for you as you face the challenges of the next couple of weeks., and Nicki, your words were the affirmation that I needed today!
  In Him,
  Shelley

  • Shelley, I pray that God continues to provide all of your needs and that his plan for your life is to prosper you, all things will work out for the good according to HIS plan. May your tears be wiped away as you rest assured that He is the Prince of Peace. Remove all areas of self doubt and condemnation from your heart. The devil is a liar! Your price is far above rubies so God has you covered. May you walk in that peace even as your path has not been revealed. In the name of Jesus, Amen.
    Thanks for this opportunity. The power of prayer is amazing. The word says if any two shall touch and agree. I agree with all of you!

  • Dear Shelley,

    I think that the Lord had placed your name right above mine for a reason. Both my husband and I have been through numerous job changes and 5 layoff periods. One time we were both out with two young children at home. He did provide me with the gift of running and it helped me to keep sane and relieve a lot of the stress. The full story is long and complicated and continues to have a good ending. I fully understand that it’s not for everyone but I do believe that He will provide a refuge for us all in those quiet moments when He whispers to us. I learned also that there will be days when it’s not “Day by Day”, but rather “minute by minute” with rivers of tears.I would suggest that it is key to stay connected with positive, God loving people during those storms. I do believe that He will put them in your path. God bless you, press on and best wishes.
    Suzanne

  • Shelly, one of the scripture verses I’ve been clinging to lately is Psalm 73:26 “My heart and flesh may fail, but God is the strength (rock) of my heart and my portion forever.”

• Trusting God for not only a financial breakthrough but the tools to be a good steward. To be a lender, not a borrower, to leave an inheritance to our children. I trust that God will continue to provide for all of our needs and we will live our lives in happiness and overflow. I declare it in the matchless name of Jesus!!

• Trusting God… just what I needed to read today! I am a working mom and I constantly struggle with the balance between home and work. It has been very difficult for me to not feel guilty about working full time when I feel like my family needs me to be taking care of other things. Remembering to trust God helps me feel okay about the balance, and that I can do it! I know He has gone before me and that I should not feel worry or stress…. pray!

  Praying for you, Shelley, as you continue with your new job. Trust in God that you are there for a reason and you have a purpose for enduring the new challenges!

  • Anne, I’ve been where you are…..working full time and trying to be a good mom at the same time and I’ve felt exactly the same guilt. A few years after my son graduated he wrote me a letter. I love my boy to pieces but he’s severely ADHD and his growing up years were often stressful. I wasn’t always the most patient of parents and sometimes the enemy bombarded me with everything that could possibly produce guilt. T was helping his room-mates raise their little boy when he wrote me this letter. In it he said that he knew God had given him me as his mom because I was “the perfect mom for him” and he thanked me and apologized for being such a tough kid to raise. Cling to the knowledge that God knows your desire to do as He asks in how you raise your family. 🙂 And He is making you “the perfect mom” for yours in the same way He made me “the perfect mom” for mine…..even though I was far from perfect.

• Wow, this is what I needed to hear. Thanks so much for these trust statements. My families lives have been turned upside down. My husbands business is falling apart, I can’t seem to be able to find a full time job, we have to move because we can’t afford our home, bills piled to the sky, our five kids seem to be in turmoil all the time, and many other things. I have been raised in church my whole life. I have heard and read these scriptures over and over. Right now it seems my prayers are just hitting the ceiling. Thank you for these words encouraging words.
  Dear heavenly Father…I pray for the sister above me. Lord I pray peace over her life. I know that when you seem the farthest away you ARE right there. Lord give her the strength to get through these rough seas. Lord you are our strength and our song. Guide her and direct her on the path You want her to take. Use the words of encouragement that was said as a tool to strengthen her faith. Thank you Father for hearing our prayers. Please bless all my sisters of faith. In Your loving name. Amen and Amen!!!!!

  • (((((((((Chastity)))))) Papa, bring relief to Chastity and to her situation in Your perfect timing. Until Your will is manifest in her circumstances fill her, her husband, and her children with a peace that defies the circumstances. Wrap her in Your love and show her something or You that is especially for her today.

• God never ceases to amaze me in His timing. Every time I pray for a word of guidance, encouragement or understanding, He is there, right on time. I do trust God but I CONSTANTLY have to AFFIRM my FAITH with the words coming out of my mouth.
  As I read these blogs, I prayed along with each. Now I’m asking that the reader pray along with me. My daughter is in a controlling abusive situation. She is allowing the abuse to carry over to her childre, ages 3 and under. She doesn’t see it as abuse. She thinks the way her boyfriend is treating her and her children is correct. The state disagrees and will be removing the kids and putting them in my home. I actually want this. She may want this, but my grandchildren are given no choice. Please pray that they will be put in my home before irreversible damage takes place. Please pray that my daughter will have the blinders removed and start seeing things from her kids viewpoint. Please pray that our relationship may be restored. Please pray that the source of abuse may be removed.
  Thank You, Father..where ever two agree..I need You to please move mightily in this situation..Thank You,,In Jesus’ precious, Holy name..Amen and Amen.

  • Julia, i agreebwith your prayers for your daughter and ask the our Father strengthen her and you, that He would bring healing to all those invloved, and even that the abuser would give his life to Christ. I pray that your daughter’s self eateem would be built up and that she will realize her worth and value, and i pray for the safety of all involved. I thank You Father its already done, In Jesus’ name amen

  • Papa, I pray in agreement with Julia and I ask, in addition, that You give her Your strength and Your guidance in the raising of her grandbabies. Bring restoration and healing to her family. Protect all those involved from the abuse that is happening. Pursue both her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend and bring them to You in a way that is miraculous.

    Julia, I suffered abuse at the hands of my children’s father…..physical and emotional. God will open her eyes and He will either repair the situation or He’ll give her the strength to leave it. Love her through it and let Papa speak to her heart about how wrong the situation is. Its the best thing you can do. I say this from experience.

• Trusting God is a big issue for me I want to take hold and think I can do it all myself. I need to trust God in all area’s especially when it comes to my daughter, and her school choices for college. I need to lean on him and trust in him. That he has a plan for all our lives. My daughter will not listen to reason and may move to another state (this is very upsetting, and will cause her financial burdin)
  Debbie, I will pray for you and your Son that God will touch his heart and lead him down the right path.
  In Jesus name
  Diane

• My prayer is, and has been for the past eight years, that my daughter would see the light of the Lord in her life and turn from the life of numerous destructive relationships (with men) and especially the current one. I must trust that He has a plan for her and I pray that He will protect her and give her the wisdom to make a U-turn and live that plan. These situations with our adult child have broken everyone’s heart in the family. I do know that He knows all, sees all and can do all. We so desperately need the Peace of the Lord in our hearts and home. Thank you for reminding us to trust Him.
  By the grace of God we go and God bless you all.
  I am praying for Shelley after writing this.

• I am learning to (struggling with) trusting God with the timing of my Mother’s death. She is terminally ill and suffering and longs to move on to be with her Lord on the other side. It is so hard to see her suffer and not see God intervene in compassion to let her go. Diane, I am praying the God will show himself big in your daughter’s life. I pray the she will ask God for His best for her life and listen carefully. I pray that you Diane will have the grace to let this be a conversation between God and your daughter. I pray that this will not be a rift in your relationship with your daughter, that you can wisely love and support her as she stretches her wings and tries to fly. Trust in God’s love for and protection of your daughter; He loves her more than you do and wants what will draw them closer.

• Nicky, that word is from the heart of God!! Thanks so much for sharing from your heart. Yesterday I was advised that I was not successful in an interview for a job, I believe God told me to apply for. I was torn and cried openly before my son. He reminded me, to continue to trust God. That came as a blow for me as I am the only employed person in my household at this time and the bills are many. So I am really struggling to say, I’ll trust you Lord. So I am developing a trusting attitude.. I WILL TRUST YOU LORD!!!

  Diane, I pray even now that the Holy Spirit will speak in your daughters situation and that God’s will be done in her life.

  Bless You

  Coleen

• Where do “trust” and “faith” intersect?

• I don’t trust God. I believe he will save me from condemnation but don’t believe that he will ever help me over the hurdle of a tired marriage and being a tired woman. I’ve been praying for years and just need a miracle.

  Orthorad,

  Lord, I pray that your will give Orthorad a CLEAR understanding of what the difference is between “faith” and “trust.” I guess faith for me is believing that God does exist and that he did send his son Jesus to save us from our sins. Trust is believing that God will do what he says he will do.

  God Bless you today!

  Amen.

  • See above.

• This article was truly a God sent article! I have always felt like I was less of a Christian because of my trust issues that I have with the God of the universe. I realize His Greatness and that He is Awesome ( just look at the stars one night to see that) but because I feel his sense of timeing is so vastly different from my immediate sense of urgency, than I start questioning him which confirms that I don’t trust him the way I should!
  Thank you so much for showing myself and others that so many Christians struggle in this area and that as long I remember that trusting God is a response than I am on the right path.

  I pray for Diane and her daughter that the Great and Mighty Lord will intervene in this situation with her daughter’s college choices and decision, that it will be the best decision for all!
  Please pray for me in my work place environment, it is very toxic and negative and gets me down at times- my goal is to stay out of the lunch room gossip! Please pray for my srenghth in this area!

• Thqnk you for this blog. I am struggling with Lyme disease, and sometimes wonder where my life is headed. This is a perfect reminder for me to trust god and place my life in his hands. Please pray for healing. Lyme disease is very disabling and hard on a family.

  • (((((Annalisa)))))) No word to offer but you’ll be in my thoughts. There’s little that wears on a heart as much as chronic illness

• Thank you so much for this devotion. I am in a financially challenging place now and am seeking to trust God to be my Provider. While I do have a job and am SO thankful, it is not enough to pay all the bills. My house has been on the market for a year with lots of looks but no offers. Praying for the house to sell and a better paying job. Thanks again and am praying for everyone who has posted.

  Bless us, Lord, as we trust You…. 🙂

• Nicki,
  You spoke the words that my soul couldn’t. I have been living with anxiety/depression for over 40 years due to emotional trauma in my youth. I have struggled over these long years with trusting God in the darkest times. The fear envelops me – driving away any memory of earlier dark times when Jesus has carried me in His arms.

  In the past few years, the anxiety is worse than the depression. The Lord has been whispering to me that I don’t need to rely on medication – that with His strength, I can work through my trauma and overcome the anxiety.

  This week, in particular, has been extremely difficult. Your post gave me relief – reminding me that we all struggle with trust and that speaking of it to Him is important.

  I pray that Tiffany stands tall in Jesus’ light while at work and will be strengthened to disengage from the gossip there.
  Sue

• First, I want to pray for Coleen. Dear Lord, please speak to Colleen, let her feel your presence in her life, and give her the peace to know that you are with her as she is searching for a job. Lord, you already know what you have in store for her, something she will enjoy doing and will also pay the bills, with a some left over for others! Speak to her and show her your way, Lord, give her your peace and direct her in the way she should go! In our Lord’s Holy Name, Amen

  Please pray for my son, that he will be free of the delusional thoughts he is having, that he can release the anger he is feeling, and replace that with forgiveness, that he will find the peace that is in trusting Jesus. Please pray that he will be free of any substance abuse. Please pray for me because it just breaks my heart to see him struggling and I really don’t know how to help him. He is an adult I can’t strap him in a car seat and take him for help! I need God to work in our lives and work all these things to bring glory to Him. Thank you for your prayers.

• I had just risen from my knees — confessing my sin of trying to order my children’s lives rather than entrusting them to the One who knows His plans for them — when I read this devotional. It was as if God was saying, “I’ve heard your confession, Linda, and not only do I forgive you, but I’ve covered you. I’ve got this!”

  Lord, please remind Tiffany that she can trust You, also. In each situation she faces, remind her that You are working all things for good. Remind her that — even when the answers are slow in coming — You have a plan, one to prosper her and not to harm her, one to give her a hope and a future. Encourage her to worship you in the waiting, and to look for Your blessings in the midst of the holding pattern. I pray this in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus. Amen.

• Tiffany…I so understand the “lunchroom gossip” and work negativity. As a teacher working with 80 women…things definitely get messy. I pray that God will grant you discernment as to when to speak and when to be quiet, and to know how to speak up for Him when people start gossiping. It’s so hard. Here recently I have also been feeling like less of a Christian because I am having a hard time trusting God in my life. I KNOW HE will bless others, and have NO problem praying on others behalf; however, when it comes to me…I have major doubt. I have been through a great deal of “let downs” the past two years. I am 31 years old. I have been praying for a husband or companion for years, have stayed pure, and trusted God to bring someone…well, I am 31 and still single 🙂 I have also had major illnesses and have prayed for healing. At one point I truly believed God had healed me and even shared with others His mighty work, just to turn around a month later and be sick again. My financial situation bottomed out, I was passed over for 2 jobs, not because of my lack of qualification, but because of the politics involved, and betrayed by 2 of the people I trusted most…on top of all of this, I lost my puppy SUDDENLY Monday…the one consistancy in the middle of the chaos of the past two years. I have been traveling to Mayo Clinic for answers to my illness, which we still havent found; however, Doctors are finding more and more problems in my body. I am TIRED of praying just to have the opposite of my prayers as a response. Not sure what else I can do to feel God hears me. I have tried to remain faithful, even if some days it’s simply going through the motions. I am just weary.

  • Kimmie, I pray that God will touch you in a special way, that He will give you rest and a peace you may have not experienced for some time. I want to affirm you in your faithfulness to the Lord even though you are going through many difficult challenges. I will also pray for God to bring into your life a future spouse. I had two single friends two years ago that were desperate to find a marital partner, in their mid 30’s, and just in the past two weeks they were both married for the first time. I will pray for your health concerns too, for healing and that you will sense God’s love and care for you in the midst of these difficult circumstances. I know how hard it is to trust God when we don’t seem to be getting answers, so I pray that the Lord will increase your trust and bring healing and wholeness in your life. You are his precious daughter. You may try reading Psalm 139.

    I can really relate to your struggles. I have a heatlh problem right now with inner ear/sounds and pressure, vertigo and cervical degeneration, misalignment, and the doctors haven’t truly diagnosed. I get nauseous and very upset stomach when I drive especially and now even at home. I have become very anxious and depressed about the uncertainty and am having trouble trusting that God will provide healing, and of course, I am impatient and want healing on my schedule. I am trying to trust Him and claiming the promises in His Word, and trying to surrender my life completely to His care. I appreciate prayers, thank you.

• My husband and I have been in a period of alternating trial and waiting. Thankfully we’ve been using this time to learn to trust in Him but it’s a daily struggle. Just when we feel we’ve navigated our course according to His will, it seems more rapids show up. Thank you so much for these affirmations!

  Lord, I lift up to you Sue and her struggles in prayer. Strengthen her spirit, Lord. Heal her soul and let her be your testimony. I praise you and I thank you for all that I KNOW that she will accomplish in Your name! In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

• Lord Thank you so much for Nikki and her hart to get this prayer chain started. Lord I also want to lift Nancy up to you. I know she is feeling heavy with worry about her son. Lord I pray that you would do a mighty work in her sons heart. that he would be aware of his need for you, that he would stop turning to things that are only temporary. I pray that you would free him of the thoughts that are lies. That he would see how you have forgiving all of us sinners and dies for us, help him to see how we in turn are to forgive others. Lord I also want to pray that Nancy would be able to let go and let you have control of her son. I know that you are much more capable lord to help her son. I pray you would give Nancy peace and trust in you as she waits and prays for her son. Amen
  I as for prayer that I would learn to be patient and wait on God’s timing. I am a go-geter and most of the time I don’t wait on God. My husband and I are waiting to hear if we will be home owners, and in the mean time I am trying to be patient. Your prayers would be very welcomed.

• I’ve been married for nine years. I met my husband while he was working as a missionary in my country. It saddens me how weak has become his faith in God, who saved him in his darkest moment. I’m praying for him, and definitely there have been moments of complete discouragement. As it is now. I need to trust in Jesus more than ever to fight this battle, to keep my love for my husband intact, to wait with hope that He will bring my husband back to his faith.
  I pray for Sue, that God strengthen her with His love and wisdom. I pray for her that she always trust in Him through all her live. In Jesus name. Amen.
  Alicia

• It’s amazing to me how God speaks to me whenever I am having a particularly troublesome day – at least, that has been the case since I started turning to Him instead of to self-help books, organization blogs, parenting experts, etc. I have been struggling with learning how to parent my three-year-old twins with patience, love, kindness, gentleness, and reasonable expectations. I question my natural ability to be a mother every single day – I battled many years of infertility until I was blessed with these children, and that fact combined with my quick temper, bouts of depression, feelings of “WHAT AM I DOING?!” every day, has made me feel completely inadequate and unworthy to be the one in charge of guiding these tiny people to adulthood. I find myself praying through tears every day – praying for Him to show me how to be a good mother. Because I am not doing so well on my own.

  I see that some people have been skipped here and there because of the number of people replying this morning (silly refresh!)… I would like to pray for Theresa a few rows up. She said she did not trust God and has been praying for years but she is so tired. Lord, I ask that You speak to Theresa while she is praying, and please give her reassurance that You are there and listening to her. Give her a sense of peace over her heart that she may carry that forward with her into her everyday life, just as You did for me when I doubted You yet I turned to You when I was full of despair and tears. I ask that a sense of renewal come about in her marriage so that she and her husband may enjoy the blessings of marriage once again. I ask these things in Jesus’ name, Lord. Amen.

• Nicki,

  Thank you for your encouraging words about trusting God. This is one devotion that I will constantly refer back to and re-read as often as possible. I have been dealing with an issue that has consumed my life, and my husband’s, over the past year and a half. I have tried to trust God even when it was very difficult. I appreciated your honesty about your relationship with God. I, too, have felt very similar feelings over the past 18 months.

  Our prayers have finally been answered, and what we have prayed for so long, we’ve finally found. However, I thought that when I got to this point, all of my anxiety and fear would be gone, but it’s even worse. I’m terrified of losing what we’ve worked so hard for. This has been the most emotionally, physically and financially draining situation. I’m scared of going back to that very dark place. I thank God every day for blessing us with what we have prayed for, but I also pray for Him to ease my worries and fears. I need to let go and let God, but sometimes that’s easier said that done.

  I look forward to repeating your scripture verses over and over again until I have cast all my worries and fears upon God. I pray that my trust will continue to grow and my doubts will fade.

  I pray for Kimmie (and the others) above who also needs help trusting that God will eventually deliver her from all of her turmoil. I pray that Kimmie will find a sense of peace that only God can grant. I know it’s difficult to trust after so much disappointment, but I will be praying for you.

• Ok so I know you dont read this alot lol… But Im a guy and I read this after hearing about this ministry on power 88. Im 18 and I just started college. Everything can be so unfimilar and weird and some days my faith is shaken. Your devotion really encouraged me and it sounds like God is really using you. I am NOT a girly boy and im as man as can be and I dont really have to tell the guys back home about this but I need prayer and God didnt call me to get on this website for no reason he had a word for me and it was a great one. Thank you for the encouragement.

  • Papa, thank You for Heath and for his willingness to admit that he needs prayer. Help him to trust in Your provision as he makes his way through the often confusing world of college. Lead him to a fellowship of believers where he can hear Your word and receive the teaching he needs. Show him some wonderful piece of You that he’s not noticed before. Thank You for Heath, a man who is strong enough to ask for help when he needs it.

• Kimmie – I pray that you will know God’s peace during all this time of uncertainty. Know that God will never leave you, and that He has a plan for your life. I pray he will unfold his plan SOON!
  I say those words, and believe them even though I’m in a position of uncertainty myself. I am blessed with a loving husband and 4 healthy children but things are not food at my husband’s work and I fear for his job. We don’t have family in the USA and only moved to NC last year for this job, so we don’t have many real friends either. I feel alone as my husband isn’t yet a Christian. I know that all things will work together for my good, but I need God’s peace – AND PATIENCE!

• This is my first time responding to a blog with prayer. I love Proverbs 31 ministry. It’s my daily bread and devotional each morning. It’s seems almost every morning the title of the devotional is what I need. God is so Amazing! I am on vacation right now in a beautiful hotel with free coffee and my kids are sound alseep at my inlaws down the street. I’m truly in a great state of mind! However I have some big decisions that have to be made when I get back to reality(home). My kids are going back to school in a week. So that will help but I’m struggling with a very big move. I’m very excited to say my prayers for 6 years have been answered but now I’m anxious with what God has placed before me.

  My husband got a job back in Texas,where were from. I have wanted to go home since I landed in California. I resisted everything but truly love my church. For some reason people love me and put up with my crazy personality cause I’m not lacking in the friend area either. Moving is so big! I’m so happy but so torn as well. I want and need to trust my amazing father.

  Please pray a prayer of protection,that we make good choices and that this wonderful move won’t be a huge burden for my family. Thanks

• God has been teaching me all about trust for quite a few yrs now but this past 2 yrs has been to an all new level with my losing my job, my mom having cancer & then losing our house. The trust was needed second by second. Sometimes by singing the IPeter 5:7 song about Casting all our cares upon Him and sometimes there were just tears when the words were inaudible. So easy it is to take back our burde.ns and allow fear, worry & stress to take over, but that’s when we have to give it right back to Him. He is so much stronger and can carryv our burdens with ease. He is just like the guy friend in high school offering to carry our heavy books to class and a whole lot more. The prayers that have been posted were such a blessing. So beautiful!

• I need to trust God more with my finances. Prayer for kimmie: Kimmie, although I do not know what you are or have faced, I do know this, you are an adopted, loved, beautiful daughter of the KING! You are who He made you to be and He is strong in your weakness. He promises that He will never leave you or never forsake you and that He will bear your burdens. He will heal the sick and make the weak strong. Those are His promises. When you pray, even though it is hard to do, you have to trust and leave it there. Rather than focusing on what is wrong in your life, praise Him for sending you the perfect mate even when you don’t see it, praise Him on faith that He is working toward the perfect mate for you. Praise Him for healing your body, mind, and soul. Even when you don’t see it or feel it, praise Him for it. Praise Him for allowing your puppy to be your companion for those troubled years and pray that He will send you a new companion, praising Him the entire time for answering the prayer even when you haven’t seen it manifested yet. Listed to Casting Crowns “Praise You in the Storm”. I’ll be praying for all these things for you. Repeat the promises of God every day to yourself or out loud, understanding who you are to Him and His amazing love for you.

• Oh where to start…..the last 2 years have been one “trust exercise” after another. Right now I’m trying to trust Him for a relationship I know He’s asked me to commit to but which appears to be over and will take a miracle of His working to restore. As foolish as it would appear to the world & even to some of my Christians friends, I know that God has asked me to stay committed and to just wait for the “other half of my heart” to return. So I’m having to learn to trust while “walking in the waiting”. The other thing I’m trusting Him for is my health. After 3 years of helping a close friend deal with treatment for uterine cancer and watching all the struggles she’s been, and still is, going through I just received word that my latest pap was “abnormal”. This is a first for me, never had an “abnormal” before. The two situations have me feeling battered and bruised. When the pain and loneliness hit my mantra has become a cry of “I trust You Lord, help me in my distrust”.

  • My dear friend, I know about the waiting on the relationship. I was waiting for 2 months, believing honestly for reconciliation with my husband. I believed with my whole heart that we would be together again and 1 month later he committed suicide, so I don’t understand it. I am not discouraging you, I am trying to let you know I know how you feel about the waiting, everyone thouht I was crazy, but he had his own free will. Let me just say this, if it’s the Lord’s will, it will happen. Know that all things work together for those that love the Lord that are called according to His purpose. Our ways are NOT His ways, be confident that He will reconcile you if it is HIS WILL!!! I am praying for you. Also, am praying for your physical health as well.

    • Thank you Rebecca. I’m so sorry for your loss. I know that I know that Papa asked me to remain committed to this man. His voice was very clear as was the request….”Will you commit to this man regardless of his actions or his decision in this matter?” When I said “yes” I was flooded with peace and had the sense that something was “loosed” in heaven. Then Papa made me to understand that my commitment was primarily to Him and not to the man. I haven’t been released from the commitment so I wait…….its nice to have someone who understands how hard it is to wait……

  • You,dear Leslie are doing your part in trusting our heavenly Father and seeking His face. I thank God for you and plead the precious blood of Jesus over your life and circumstances. May healing flood your body,mind and spirit. For with God nothing shall be impossible. Luke 1:37. All things are.possible to him that believeth,Mark 9: 23, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding, and He WILL direct your path, prov.3:5-6. For Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever,Heb.13:7-8. We serve a great God maker of the heavens and earth,He is in control,we can rest in His arms knowing He loved us so very much that He gave His life for us,John3:16. So, we consider that the sufferings of this present time are NOT worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us,Rom. 8:18. Claim Gods promises as you walk thru this valley, He is with you He will never leave you or forsake you,God loves you. I am praying for complete healing of your body and heart. You are very precious to our Father,He sees you and has not forsaken you,trust Him with all your heart, He doesn’t disappoint, He will carry you to the mountain top,you will rejoice in His love,bringing praise to His holy name.Our job is to have faith in who God really is,He is great,strong and almighty,and His plan is to bless you,walk in His love.Dios te bendiga muchismo,todo tiempo y todo tu vida,en el nombre de Jesus.

    • Thank you so much for all the scriptures references! Prov 3: 5-6 is actually my man’s favorite verse. Papa gave me several verses…..but specifically Joel 2:25 “And I will restore to you the years the locust have eaten…..” when I was praying for direction regarding marriage and Zech 9:12 “Return to your stronghold, o prisoners of hope, today I declare that I will restore to you double” when I was in deep discouragement and confusion about this situation with “P”. My heart believes and I know that He has only my best in His plan. I want only Papa’s will. I just miss “P” so much. I’ve asked God to remove this certainty and love if it isn’t His will but mine. I’ve begged Him to make my heart and desires match His. Yet the love, the longing, the certainty all remain strong. I’m trying to trust and walk in this waiting.

• Lord, I lift Kimmie up to you and pray You will send the healing she needs soon. Remind her daily that You are with her and that You have a purpose in her struggles. Please pray for the sale of our house and for my marriage.

• This is my first response to a blog. This is such an on time word! This was sent for me personally from God because I was just talking to my godly cousin last night and a friend about trusting God in my particular situation. My husband just 1 month ago today committed suicide because I left with our 5 month old daughter because he kept turning to alcohol and we would have lost our daughter if I did not leave. So I am dealing with an emmense about of guilt, anger, unforgiveness, confusion to mention just a few emotions. We were only married 1 year and 3 months, married 2 months before we found out I was pregnant. I just don’t understand if God knew he was going to take his own life, WHY would He allow us to marry, have a child for me to raise on my own and I have nothing. I just don’t understand. I feel as though I am pulling away from God due to all this. Please pray for me and my daughter. I am hurting so very bad.

• Yes, I read the devotional and yes I was in agreement, Lord this week you’ve showed me all these things I struggle with. I hear you loud and clear, ready to walk away from reading, say a quick prayer that I’d remember this and carry on my day. And then I started scrolling through the comments and this specific day it’s hitting hard. The comments I happened to read are the exact ways I’ve been feeling and it was God speaking through the rest of your lives that registers so soundly with me. I have major trust issues. And I believe God will answer prayers for others all the time, but when it comes to me, I’m not so sure. That’s doubt I believe in a great form and it’s so frustrating to face it. My family also struggles with financial issues, and while we get by every month, it’s hard to see the light at the end because the end is so very far away. My husband also struggles with childhood issues and there is a major spiritual battle over my home, not just for him but for my children. However, what God showed me while reading this, is that other Christians are undergoing the same struggles. And that He has been faithful to me in all of this for one reason or another. Please pray for me that I remember Gods heart this morning. That this soaks in permanently. That it changes me for good. And Kimmie, you’re above me for the moment so I want you to know I’m praying for you. You remind me of my sister and I pray that God shows you His perfect will in all of this. That it is so clear to you and that you rest in His hands for the time being. I hope you are reminded how deeply you are loved by Him and do not grow tired in doing good because your reward will indeed come. Thank you for praying.

• My husband of 36years went to be with the Lord 101days ago. My heart aches as you could well imagine,but I am trusting God for each day. I choose to trust God for every step I take,I know He has the perfect plan for my life, and I desire to yield to His will for my life. BUT, I stumble and fall,my stomach feels like I’m on a roller coaster . Be anxious for nothing in prayer and supplication with THANKSGIVING let my request be made known unto God. I need to sell my house, I have peace about that decision, praise God I’m not attached to things,I just ask Father God to give me favor in this task,I need to move on.Even more I need to trust God and believe He is in control, and wait on His timing to bring the family He desires to bless with this home. I loved my husband with all my heart but I love God more,please pray for my concern,and that I will be the woman God needs me to be,and bring glory and honor to His name with my life.

• Thank you Nicki! I really needed this message today. I, too, have trust issues, coming from growing up in an alcoholic/abusive household. I am slowly beginning to learn to trust God, not just in the good times but in the bad as well.
  This message just reaffirmed that I’m on the right road to having a more trusting relationship with God.

  • Diane, I pray that as you are made strong in Christ through your good times & bad times, you begin to understand that trust with Him. I pray that you are released from generational curses, in Jesus’ name. I pray that you receive a complete filling of the Holy Spirit. I pray you receive the affirmation & confirmation you need in order to trust God with all your heart, all your soul, & all your strength. I pray that you receive blessings, and I ask that the Lord waters the seeds that have been planted in your heart today. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen!

• Wow! As always, this devotion was just what I needed to hear today. God never ceases to amaze me. Yet, I read these devotions, go to His Word, and spend time with Him in prayer with no change to my anxious heart. I am a worrier!!! I stress about the most ridiculous things. I cannot let go and let God. Yes, I have at times and it was amazing to sense that peace that passes understanding. My latest “worry” has to do with my 10 yr. old daughter and it for this that I am asking for prayer. She’s had sores (some big and oozing) for almost 2 months; it started with one. After being shoved from one doctor to another, we found out she has folliculitis. After draining two of them, they discovered she has MRSA. If it was known what she had in the beginning, it would’ve never spread this much!! She’s on an antibiotic but the sores are so many!!! She has to wear long pants to school and cover everything else with a bandage. She has to sleep in long pajamas – it’s August! It’s just stressful to deal with. Prime example, I have a small cut on my finger, so I’m keeping it covered with a band aid but worried my son or husband will have cuts and such and not do the same. Please pray that I will allow God to calm my anxious heart. I can say all day that I trust Him for everything but actions speak louder than words.

• I’m struggling with trusting God with my weight-loss journey & with my finances (or the resources He has given to me).

• What a powerful message, and one I really needed to hear. My prayer request is to trust God with my health. I have been battling lyme disease for 17 years (I am 27 now, it all started when I was 10) and have been on treatment for almost 5 years, 9 months of that being on daily IV antibiotics. I started this treatment only 5 short days after I married the love of my life. Some honeymoon, huh? 🙂 I have a hard time trusting that God will deliver me from this dsease, and give me the family I have always longed for. My deepest desire is to be a mom, and many times I get scared that God won’t provide that for me. We are also struggling financially, as all my medications are expensive, and we are still paying off my IV treatment as well. Please pray that we can trust God and turn to Him in these difficult situations, because sometimes it’s so easy to turn away from Him when things are tough.

  Dear Heavenly Father, I come before you right now for my sister in You, Brandy, and her family. Thank you for providing a relaxing time for her right now. I pray that once she gets back home and starts the process of moving, that You will help her and strengthen her, trusting that You will provide in such great ways! I pray they can find a church family that will welcome her and her family with open arms, to provide that sense of security and the desire for a church that can become her family and her stronghold. I pray that You will provide in such awesome ways that there is no doubt in her mind that she can trust in You and leave all things at Your feet. Amen

• Your devotion has really touched my heart this morning. I have been dealing with trust issues for a while now, and it has really been hard trusting God when different situations that I need help with seem to go unanswered or so I think. I know to never doubt God, but sometime it seems so hard. I know in the end he never puts on us more than we can bear.

• Thanks to you sister for this devotional, it really moved my heart today! I have problems with worrying and every time I get into a worrying episode, God tells me to trust Him! I pray during these hard moments and can feel the peace that only He can provide. Lately, my husband and I have been under spiritual attack, but I know that God is with us and will never forsake us. We are a part of a big movement in our town called Project Restoration. Project Restoration is a community wide prayer walk that we will be praying over the darkness in our town. Ever since we started this mission, God has asked us to trust in Him for it to be successful and to keep our eyes on Christ. We have asked a lot the churches and the denominations to united together as the Body of Christ, which has been challenging in the past! God will prevail and rule over our town. Please share this video to pray for our town here in Kentucky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L16l90CBvA&list=UUv0RG87f39TvfbaKI6XGDDw&index=1&feature=plcp. Thank you and God bless all the women that have responded on this blog. 🙂

• Thank you Nicki for allowing God to use you with this timely message of trust. Upon reading your personal testimony & the affimations of trust, tears began to flow from my eyes.
  I am praying for Diane (above) that God continue to heal & minister to her innermost needs. May she be a light that shines among other family members that need hope. I am thankful that You are working in every detail of her life to bring You glory.
  Personally, I am trusting God for steady financial provision (after several months of unemployment), business ideas, a church home, a ministry, healed relationships, & healing in my new marriage. Yes, everyday is a struggle but I continue to proclaims God’s goodness in my life, even in the midst of chaos, lack, fights, pain, isolation, rising debt, stress, and fear. I choose to speak life and I instead focus on His promises for me. He is a God who sees and knows my every need. Thank God for His tender care for me.

• I have been learning to trust God this last year. He’s asked me to do some pretty scary things, one being leaving a good paying job to regain balance in my relationship with Him and with my family. Regaining that relationship with God is the easy part…with my family, not so much. To complicate matters even more, we are one of the many Americans struggling against losing our home and just making ends meet, but God has been so good! He is meeting us right where we are one moment at a time! While I have no idea what our financial out come will be, I know He does. I know he is working in my relationships too. I do continue to struggle against the “need to know”, being still, and the lies the enemy speaks, but knowing God is there and in control is my source of comfort and strength; sometimes for one minute to the next. Please pray for the restoration of my marriage and a strengthening relationship with my children. Me working full time for the last 3 years has taken a bit of a toll on all of us. I can get a house anywhere and be content as long as my home is in tact. Please pray also for my part-time business to take off so I can still help provide for my family. Thank you!
  For Brandy, I pray for a peace that passes all understanding as you and God make these tough decisions together. Leaving loved one’s is always difficult and yes, you will feel the loss of not being in their presence, but their love and friendship will transcend the distance! God provided these loving friends and a wonderful church family for you here, he will do it again there, as well as use all they have taught you to bring glory to him in a new place! I pray for his strength for you and your family as you prepare and move forward. I pray for protection as well, that the voices of the world would not sway you from His path and you would boldly go forward with your eyes fixed on him! May he bless your family’s next great adventure with love, friendship and joy!!

• I need to trust GOD and not try to handle situations myself. I tend to pick and choose which situations I want GOD to intervene and which one I think I can take care of. As I read the blogs I realize that I am blessed, those little things I complain about at home and at work seem mediocore compared to others. My children are 16 and 20 years of age, I love them dearly and pray GOD continues to keep them spiritually grounded… this September I will be married for 25 years. Sometimes I am so depressed with the direction of my marriage and the financial struggles, but I do know that GOD did not bring me this far, to leave me. I ask GOD for his guidance and direction with my marriage and finances. Help me to control my spending and treat others as I would like to be treated…letting go of past issues and believing in GOD to heal my past wounds.
  I pray for all others on this blog and elsewhere that we come to care and love one another with compassion as CHRIST loves us, and that GOD will heal the broken heartedness, those struggling financially and those afflicted by illness. In JESUS name AMEN..

• Nicki,
  Thank you so much for tusting God to share this message. Like so many others I have struggled with truly relinquishing all controll and trusting our almighty Father. My heart is stirred as I associate with so many of the stories my sisters have shared. I am in a place where I need to trust God completely that he won’t hurt me, he won’t leave me, and he will heal me completely and provide for every one of my needs. I’ve gotta trust that he is good, and that he will show up in a mighty way!
  Abba Father, I take this opportunity.to lift the cares and concerns of my sisters up to you. You know their hurts, the exact place where they are at, their very thought and your Word says that you hold our evry tear. I am trusting you now to come in to the midst of every situation and provide. Heal the wounded hearts, bind up the aches, loose the captives, heal your daughters, oh Lord that we may gain a heart of trust, knowing, believing with all of our hearts that you alone are God, high and lifted up and you alone are our provision! I trust you for jobs, for financial provision, for healing, for joy & peace, for love! Be our love, our one true desire as we place our trust in youIn Jesus’almighty name I pray, Amen!!!!

• I too deal with issues of truct with the Lord. I have been having this issue for many years. I know God to be a provider, way maker and He has shown me over and over that He is faithful. I have been married for 7 years but my husband and I have been together for 23 and he committed adultery with someone that we thought as a mother and she was even our Assistant Pastor and I am willing to work on the marriage and forgive but no I am tired this has been going on for almost 3 years. I have been dealing with all kind of emotions but the Lord had kept me calm because this betrayal is just unbelivable for me. I know the Lord told me to walk away and that He has some work to do in both of us but because of my insecurities I believe I hang on because I am afraid. I know God knows what’s best for me but I just am afraid to let go because I feel we may not get back together but part of me knows that we will because we still do love each other and I can see this attack on us. God has blessed me with great discernment and the gift of prayer. I know I need to listen to God and trust Him and I truly cannot say why I don’t. In doing this I feel far from God but I know He has not left me and I know He is in my corner.

• Thank you for your timely words Nicki! From the many comments above it seems that a lot of us have trust issues. I didn’t think I did, until recently. Throughout my life I have suffered painful losses, financial difficulties, relationship problems, etc. But I always trusted God to see me through. Now I’m 57 years old and struggling to maintain that trust. Both of my daughters are in their late 20s. One of them has completely turned away from God and the other one is struggling with her faith. I thought I raised them the way God wanted but now I question myself and wonder where I failed. My husband (not their dad) tells me God isn’t through with them yet, and I know that in my head. But my heart is having a hard time hanging on. It’s broken.
  Again, thank you for your timely words and your prayers!

• I really was blessed by the devotion this morning. I have struggled with anxiety and panic attacks much of my life. I know the roor is a lack of trusting God and being content in my circumstances right now my husband is working away and is home on weekends. This came at the same time our last child left so I am alone all week. I also lost my job because of false accusations. I try to fill my time through volunteering. However I get so afraod sometimes its unbearable. Its not fear someone will break in and hurt me. Its fear that this situation will never change. I want to control things. I need to let go and trust and be content. My anxiety brings physical symptoms which cause more fear. I need to believe God and my doctors that I am physically okay.

  I pray for Diand who is above me as I write. I pray that she continue to grow in her journey in trusting God. Lord, may she experience the peace that passes all understanding as she lays all her burdens at Your feet. In Jesus Name, Amen.

  • I struggle with the same things just know I have been where you are a d. Will pray for you. It’s VERY hard going through anxiety and panic attacks and having to tell yourself your ok when it feels like your not. It’s such a mind game, even though I don’t know you I feel for you and care about what you are going through it really hits home for me, I will be praying for your peace of mind and body

• I knew I had a hard time trusting God but it’s a hard thing to admit to. I am going through struggles with my anxiety which I have had since I was 15 and I am now 24. I am a young mother and I am scared that I won’t be a good enough mother to my two year old little girl, I am worried she is going to turn to the ways of the world because mommy is caught up in her own issues all the time. I believe God gave her to me as a little gift to help me through the hard times and I want to do the best I can. I am very co dependent on being in a relationship to feel good about myself so I struggle with independence I need to trust God that I am ok by myself and that he can do all things I cannot. I will pray for you Cindy for your family I understand the fear that you are not doing the right thing with your kids I am scared of that too but I believe your husband is right, God is not done with them. I struggle with my boyfriend and step father with their lack of faith but I know I just have to trust him so stay strong and know you have a sister in Christ praying for you 🙂

• I read your devotional today and felt that God was talking directly to me, I have been trying, struggling etc… with trusting the Lord. Your article was exactly what I needed today. I have been praying the Lord will stop the divorce my wife has filed for. We are both Born Again Christians and I am praying for reconciliation. I know that this against God’s Will and I have asked for forgiveness of all of my sins. Please add us to your Prayer List. I want to pray for all of these prayer requests above me. Each one of these are so deserving of answered Prayer, I am confident that God will answer perfectly. God Bless

  • Mark,
    You will be in my prayers as you seek to trust in him through this divorce. I pray that no matter what happens–whether you are reconciled or whether the divorce continues–you will find peace in the loving arms of the Lord and trust in his perfect plan. God Bless you.

  • I will be praying for you Mark and just trust that NO MATTER what happens God knows what he is doing and would never ever give you more than he knows you can handle

• Trust, that word has eluded me in my soul in some pretty tough situations lately. Because God is so merciful and loving, He allowed me to read K-Love’s encouraging word this morning (about trust) and then your devotional on Proverbs 31 (again about trust). Trust me in this school situation and possible court summons with your daughter, trust me in this place I have called you to be a mom staying at and working from home, trust me as I am working in your marriage to make all things new and in your home to set things in order and trust me for the financial struggles. Trust me that the visions will come to pass, and you do this by taking your hands off of all of these things and trying to work them out yourself. I got this. Yes, reading your devotional and the scripture this morning encouraged me to listen more attentively and hear God’s voice and heart on these matters. Thanks for letting Him use you to say just what you needed to on this day. This week has been crazy but could have been less that if I had really trusted when I prayed. I prayed and dashed off to handle it and got frustrated when I left God behind and He seemingly did not show up and answer the way I wanted Him to. So, I am relaxing and chilling, surely resting in Him this morning and saying, “It’s on you God”. Thanks for nudging me to do that by sharing your devotional with us.

  Father, in the name of Jesus,help Jessica to trust you in it all. Help her to release every situation to your care because you care for her, and you will perfect those things that concern her. Even when it hurts, you are there to not only soothe Jessica’s wounds but to heal them. Help her to see things with your eyes and from your perspective so that she will know that you have and will answer sometimes in ways we don’t understand. Yet you are answering because you know what’s best for us and always, always work things out for our good. Establish peace for her in every area of her life and help her not to be anxious but give you her requests with thanksgiving and then you promise to give her a peace beyond her understanding. Let that peace govern Jessica’s heart, God. In Jesus’ name. Amen

• I receive the Proverbs 31 Daily Devotional every morning, and I am truly blessed to receive the word of God through the grace and love of other women. Nicki, thank you so much for sharing with us. And to all of the other women who have shared so far on this blog post, thank you for opening up your beautiful hearts.

  In the past month, I have been struggling with my self worth as I very sadly believe, like many women in our society, that worth depends upon the “perfect” image. I haven’t been able to see myself as God sees me – a captivating, beautiful, unique young woman loved unconditionally by God. I have only been able to see the outside, rather than the beautiful heart that lies inside of me. I know that I am wonderful in many ways, yet I don’t believe it. I have struggled with Bulimia Nervosa at various points throughout my life and particularly in the past month. I have a hard time trusting that God will help guide me from this low I have been in; I have a hard time trusting that I will be able to genuinely see and belive that I am the captivating woman He created me to be.

  • I struggle with the same self image issues and it’s hard to look in the mirror and not criticize but know that you are beautiful no matter what and I will be praying for you

• Dear God, thank you for Cindy’s comments above. I pray her faith will be renewed. Touch her heart and speak specifically to her to renew in her a steadfast spirit. I pray for her daughters. Thank you for giving them a Godly home and upbringing. Please help them with their trust in you…their pain…their distractions and temptations…their doubts and questions. Please lead them to answers and to Peace. My husband stopped going to church in February and will not tell us why. He still says he has no desire to go (or talk about God or pray with us). My daughter (6 yr old) and I have been praying for him and she is not bashful to ask him to come to church with us and ask him questions about his faith. This week I am going through a miscarriage. It took 2 years to get pregnant and we are all crushed about this. But God is faithful and I am hoping more than ever Romans 8:28! I am trying not to expect my plans (Shawn will return to church and we will have another child) yet ask humbly for the desires of my heart and lay it all at the alter and Trust.

• Nikki, I am so blessed by your words and the perfect timing of their arrival. For those that are joining us in prayer this day, I could really use a few extra prayers. Today is the anniversary of my father’s death. He died the day he was supposed to start as the Senior Pastor of a new church. It’s confusing. We never fully understand God’s plan. And now, a year later, we are still learning to trust that God has a better plan. Please pray that we can rest in him today and fully trust him. Thank you.

• I totally needed to be reminded of the truths in your post. I’m glad I found your site through Proverbs 31. I am having to trust God more in this moment of my life than ever before. And I am so grateful that my trust in Him has grown, and that I know now that my faith is strong. My husband has chosen to turn away from God and our marriage, and I have only had God to cling to. I am learning that He is enough. No, He is MORE than enough. My husband’s abandonment and unfaithfulness don’t define me, they define him. God defines me. And He still has plans to prosper me and not to harm me if I continue to place my trust in Him. Thank you for the reminder.

• I am trusting God to bring my husband Vikk to HIM. I trust that he will come to know the Lord. He is a great person and was put through some very difficult times as a child. I thank God every day for what I know will happen – Vikk to become a follower of the Lord and that he will lead our family in the path God has for us!

  Please pray with me.

• Wow!! God continues to amaze me. When I doubt, he sends devotions such as this. I have been lifting each of the above up to the Lord as I read through the many financial issues, health issues, homes for sale, parenting, marriage, singleness, even the one gentleman who was so moved by this devotion. I praise God for who he is and I thank you Nikki for allowing Him to use you as a vessel to speak to so many who needed to hear this truth from God today, including me. God has brought me through so many trials, yet as I face another, I feel abandoned. That is until I meditate, read His word and devotions like this and am reminded that He works all things for good. We have free will, we sin, Satan is alive – that is why this world has so many troubles. That is why we are each facing difficult circumstances! God loves us, he knows the plans He has for us, to prosper us, give us a future and hope!!! No matter how “bad” our circumstance is He will work it for good, so He gets the glory. We just need the faith of a mustard seed. I know how hard it is to have even that small of faith. But God promises never to leave us or forsake us. My prayer today is that the lives of the women (and men) here will be a testimony to God and what He does for us when we trust Him. Please pray that I can have this faith and trust in my life to work through some situations that are hurting so badly. God is good. All the time.

• I need to trust God more with my marriage. I pray for Nancy that God will give her strength at this moment in her life that he will order her steps in his word according to what he states in his word, also that he will heal her brokeness and comfort her in a way that only he can do. I know GOd is able to do the impossible. In jesus name I pray.Amen.

• Love the idea of this movement. This devotion hit me right where I live.
  I need to trust that I can be open and honest and that God can work a healing in my marriage and that He will always provide even when I don’t know how.
  Paola, I shall be praying for you to be salt and light for your husband and that he will come to faith.

• Nicki…Thank You SO Much for this reminder today as the post to sell our house was pounded in the ground this morning! I pray that we are Trusting and following the Lord’s plans for our family’s future and not our own. I pray for CMW to Trust you in her marriage; YOU know the struggles that are weighing heavy on her heart..I pray you help her place her Trust you in and find Rest in giving her struggles up to You. In Your most Holy and Precious name I pray for All these Beautiful people that have brought their struggles, praises and prayers before you! Amen!

• The timing of this devotional is God-ordained. I have a penny on my computer with the words, “In God I Trust”. I am putting a penny in a jar every day to help remind me that I will trust in God not anything else. You see, I know in my head and heart that He is trustworthy, but for some reason I look to everything else. My issue is being overweight and desire to live healthy. I do want to weigh less, feel more energetic, be a good testimony, etc. I struggle with doing all the things I know I’m supposed to do. So I am looking (trusting) in God to change me. To work in me. To give me desires to arrange my schedule, perform the actions that are pleasing to Him and honoring to him in this area of my life. I cannot trust in the scale. I cannot trust in man’s opinions. I cannot trust in a pill. I cannot trust in “performing”. I can trust in God and rest in Him that He is my all in all; my portion. Please pray for me that I would be victorious in this area as I trust in Him to do a good work in me.

• I almost skipped over reading your P31 devotion this morning; I’m so glad I was prompted to continue. As an almost 49-year old single mom of two young ones (4 1/2 and almost 6), I struggle – daily. I love them so much and waited so long to be a mom. Now, without having regular support, encouragement, and back-up from a spouse for the past 2 1/2 years, I wonder why in the world God made me steward of these two lives. The battles are wearisome and my resolve dissipates with each progressive challenge. I feel inept and often question my ability to raise them right. And, I guess I don’t trust myself to do so. So today, I need to trust God’s decision to make me Ben & Elizabeth’s mom, and that He can be my source of strength to do it well.

• I am definitely one who needs prayers for understanding…I trust God with everything in my life but it is still difficult when things are happening that I just don’t understand. I get very emotional anymore about the physical issues I am having and even though I continually lay these issues at His feet I can’t seem to help getting upset when I am not getting better. I need to understand…I will pray for those above me that have touched my heart so. Thank you for sharing bravely your own hearts and I thank you in advance for thinking and praying for me.May Jesus live and shine through you all always.

• Heavenly Father, I lift up the beautiful woman above me, and pray that you would bless her with a deep trust in you. Help her to trust you Lord with all her heart and lean not on her own understanding. Amen.

  Nicki thank you for your devo on P31 today, it was EXACTLY what I needed. I prayed out loud the affirmations and I do feel a greater sense of peace for now, but I do struggle alot with trusting God completely, especially when things are painful and not going my way. I am in alot of emotional pain at this time in my life. Thank you for your prayers.

• I want to start by praying for you Kerry, That you might be strengthened with the power through His Spirit. That you might have the strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Eph 3: 16-20
  I have memorized this verse to help me through some hard times. I too suffer from many health issues. It has been over 15 years with no answers the tests come back negative. So the Dr says it is all in my head. But the symptoms keep increasing (loss of coordination, loss of balance, spasms, etc) Insurance made me go through tests once again… they finally found one thing off and are thinking I have auto immune problems. I am asking for the new Dr not to give up on me but be able to help me walk through this.
  And that if I am to continue on my own that I have the will power to get back to diet therapy and exercise to keep myself strong, and above all else to continue to lean on a Father who will carry me when I am unable to do this any more.

  • Lord I lift up Kathy T to you this morning and ask that you would grant her good health, sound mind and strength to carry her through this difficult time. Give her the courage and strength to call upon You! In Jesus Name I pray, AMEN

• I need to trust God more in the area of finances. My husband is a 5 time cancer survivor with no insurance, so we have struggled for a VERY long time. He cannot work, and I cannot seem to make enough. I have many testimonies over the past 14 years of how God has provided, but still seem to revert to that scared, insecure, doubting woman when the bills come in and there isn’t enough money to cover them. I have just recently begun to say, out loud, “God I trust You! I don’t understand the why’s and the how’s, but I trust that Your plan is better than mine, and Your timing is more perfect than I could ever understand.” It does help to verbalize. Thank you for any and all prayers.

  Father God, I thank You for Kerry. I thank You that through all of the NOT understanding, she is still faithful. She is still crying out to You, and laying herself at Your feet. God I pray that You would fill her with such a sense of peace, that she doesn’t care that she doesn’t understand. She doesn’t care that her circumstances don’t make sense to her, because she knows in her heart that they make perfect sense to You. God I pray that You would fill her with such a sense of purpose, that she cannot help but serve You day and night, talk about You to everyone she meets, and TRUST that You are in complete control! I pray that You would reveal Yourself to her in such a way, that no matter what happens in her life, she would rejoice knowing that You are Jehovah Jireh, and that You will provide for ALL of her needs. Physical, emotional, spiritual, and everything in between. God I pray for complete healing. You created her body to work a certain way, and God I pray that You would restore Kerry’s body. I pray that every limb, every organ, every artery, would work exactly as You created it to. God I pray that Kerry would find peace in Your arms of love. Hold her close God, and don’t ever let her go. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

• Hi Nikki….not sure if I spelt your name right. I can so relate to your issue of trusting God and what you shared. My daughter, who is now 37, was involved in a head on collisin 10 years ago. With the injuries she suffered it is a miracle that she is still alive today. I can remember that day so clearly in my mind…I remember getting the phone call, because the accident was not far from our house, and I can remember blasting to the scene of the accident and blasting through the police tape that I was not even aware of that they had placed around the scene of the accident. By the time I had gotten there the mediacs and the rescue team had already gotten her out of her car and had her airlifted to Stony Brook hospital where she went through 7 months of recovery! Ptaise be to God! But I remember blasting through to that scene and I remember getting out of my Suv and I remember saying to God, “I will be SO ANGRY with you if you take her away from me!” Yet I “KNEW” in my spirit, that if He needed to take her home that it would be ok. I think during that time…those were the worst times of my life, and I stood on prayer and I stood on God’s Promises. So many people werre praying for her. She had to go through so much, you have no idea…she was induced into a comma for 2 weeks just to keep her still so that her body could heal and mend it’s self from the immediate shock it suffered….so mnay things I could share with you….but my main theme was “trust”. Trust in God that He would see her through. I never trusted God so much in my heart and in my life then I did at that time. And Praise God, He DID preform a miracle…because she survived. Not that she wanted to because she went through so much. But you know what, as humans, we forget, and as humans, scripture say’s that once the answer comes, just as giving birht, we forget the pain and we move on with our lives. I’ll never forget the pain, I’ll never forget the miracles, and I will be erternally grateful to God for what He did and still continues to do in her life. But I find myself once again having a “trust” issue with God. See, we are so human, and we do forget. After all that I went through with my daughter and all that God has done for me, you would think I would not have a trust issue still….but I do. My trust issue is I am 59 yaers of age, with limited income and some that is due to stop in 5 years, and no matter how I try…my income does not increase and I keep asking God why? What will my future hold as far as being able to have a place to live and not be a bum out on the street. I keep asking God in which way should I go? And yet I still get the answer to trust Him…ha…see..even at my age it is an issue. I know somewhere in the scripture, perhaps it’s in the Old Testament where Joseph prepared for 7 years of famine…and I think to myself, “Lord, am I being foolish and am I not planning correctly for my future?”…and still the words come…Trust Him. I had tears streaming down my face as I read your article but I could so relate…I think we come to a place where we “can” trust Him, but still yet, because of our human nature there is still that little bit of a question…because of the unknown. But as scripture say’s…”the just shall live by faith”….and sometimes faith is taking the steps of putting one foot in front of the other and having both eyes on God. Be Blessed, and know…God will get you there…one step at a time. 🙂 In His Love, Mrs. DCKennedy

• Kathy I can see in reading your post you have trusted God to get you to the place in which you are now. As sure as there is God there is hope. Continue to be strong and know that God is working through those Doctors on your behalf. He will never leave or forsake you,

  I am struggling with trusting God with my youngest daughter’s Senior year. School has always been difficult for her and this year has begun the same way. She has high hopes of attending college away however her lack of understanding, responsibility, effort and at times inability to grasp the subject matter may detour that dream. WhatI want most for her is to have a successful and happy year. Success and happy measured by God’s standards not mine.

  Lord I trust you to finish the great things you started in my daughter. Amen.

• I am so glad I read todays devotion! It addresses EXACTLY where I am and have been for the last week. I am going thru a health crisis of dizziness (for 30 yrs, this current bout lastin for 2 1/2 yrs) and recently my pulse has started racing! I have been praying for a healing and have lost my trust and faith in The Lord but STILL that is where I turn in my time of struggle. I LOVE The Lord but this has been such a trying time for me and my family and I just want relief!!! I find myself crying out “Where are you Lord?? I need you and you’re not here!” — this has been a rough week but I know I will be ok. Thank you for sharing Nicki, somehow you have made me feel not so alone! Need prayer!

• I know God cares. I preached/led worship about for over 20 years. I’ve felt his presence so many times! However, I am 6 months past a divorce (27 year bumpy marriage), miserable, lonely…not doing well, at all. I am trying to stay busy but it doesn’t help much. Perspective? (no cliches please)

  • Brian, know that God cares and loves you right there in the midst of your challenges. He is right there with you however you need to be still to feel His presence. Get in His presence and be still. Stop being busy and allow God to minister to you. Father I pray for Brian that he will slow down and be still and allow you to speak to him. Lord give him peace, help him and sustain him with your righteous right hand as he walks out this season of his life. Lord you are a rock and I pray that Brian will run to the rock that is higher than him in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

• Kathy – I will pray for answers to your health problems and healing as well. I will pray that you stay strong in God and are able to face each new day – one day at a time.

  I need prayer for trusting God with my future. My husband divorced me after 18 years together – with no warning – he was just done. He has moved on with someone else and he is with her, her children and my children almost every weekend. I thought God wanted me to wait on him – that my husband’s heart would be changed. But, I hurt so badly knowing that he loves someone else and doesn’t care what happens to me. He blames me for all of our problems. I don’t know what God wants me to do. Should I pray for restoration because I know God can do anything, or do I move on? The anxiety have from not knowing is just about doing me in. I just need to know God’s wil for me so I can have peace.

• Trusting…. Yes He asks us to come to Him and trust in all areas of our life. I understand the difficulty of trusting, and He too whispered to me in a moment of complete darkness. I am God’s miracle and have been healed physically because I trusted in Him. I just wish that everyone would trust this way – wouldn’t the world be such a more beautiful place?

• I first want to start off by praying for Kathy T. Lord I just come to you asking for your divine healing over Kathy. Your word says that by your stripes we are healed. Lord you bore our sickness and I just speak peace over Kathy. I thank you Lord because you are our healer and thank you for healing Kathy. In Jesus name i pray amen. Well i’m strugglin with trusting God in every area of my life. Fear is a big part of it. I’m afraid to move forward because i don’t know what to expect. I feel like i’m stuck..I want to move, but I always shrink back.

• Nicki,
  Thank you so much for your post today. It is exactly what I need to hear. I find myself at my desk at work after what can only be called an enormously unglued morning getting my son off to school. My nephew stayed the night and fought with my son all night long, so they both woke up tired and cranky. My son has ADHD, clinical anxiety and is possibly Bi-Polar, so losing sleep is VERY bad for him. I myself didn’t sleep well (partly due to the arguing over night lights, fans and “loud breathing”, and partly over the anxiety, worry, doubt, fear and stress I experience as I seek God for answers to my prayers regarding my marriage that ended in divorce a year ago this month.)
  I lost my patience, yelled at my son, was short and mean with my nephew and almost strangled my dogs that continually test me by messing in the extra bedroom RIGHT AFTER GOING OUTSIDE. When I got back to the house after dropping off my son, I broke down. There are days when I feel like I literally can’t continue to do this anymore. I can’t do this alone. I won’t ever “get it together” or get control of my emotions. I will never have faith that moves mountains or be able to trust God to do what I feel He is calling me to do. I don’t even know if I will ever have a two day stretch where I don’t question if I’m even sure He HAS called me to this place.
  In 2009 I married the most amazing man I have ever met. We had a dream wedding, dream home, great jobs and a future that shown so bright I hardly recognized my life. However, I have always been an extremely overly emotional person, selfish, stubborn and demanding. It feels like a nightmare now, remembering how I used to emotionally attack my husband in fits of rage and tears over ANYTHING that didn’t go my way. I had totally fallen away from God and looked to my husband to fill the void so deep in my heart that only God could fill. He stuck with me. I watched this once positive, supportive, joyful, well-respected and genuinely good man, break apart. He became angry, moody, distant and mean. He couldn’t take it anymore. And honestly, I don’t know how he did it for as long as he did.
  I, on the other hand, was so deep in my world of self-pity, depression and selfishness, that I made him the enemy. We fought continually and eventually I saw myself become someone I never dreamed possible. I had an affair and for weeks, my husband waited for me to come home. February 6th, 2011, I had a moment I will remember for the rest of my life. God spoke so loudly and clearly to me that I immediately called my husband and begged him to take me back. I told him I was wrong, I was sorry and I loved him more than I could imagine. It was like a light had come on and a fog lifted away from my eyes. I was disgusted with myself. How could I have done this to my marriage, my life, my son? He sat there quietly, and after a long pause said: “It’s too late. I filed for divorce two weeks ago. I waited for you to come home. I prayed every day. You didn’t come back. Our time for reconciliation has passed, Marci.” Nothing I said or did made any difference. I came back to God with all my heart, but I didn’t know how to ask for forgiveness. I didn’t know anything except to cry, beg, badger and push him further away. Our divorce was finalized August 2nd, 2011.
  I tried to “move on”. I tried to date other people. I prayed and called out to God every day. The overwhelming feeling I got each time I sought Him was to believe for a miracle. But how do I believe for a miracle when EVERYONE was telling me to forget it, accept God’s forgiveness and let myself heal so God could bring me a new husband? When I read the Word, I had another answer. God was telling me to trust Him, pray and fast like never before and believe that the God who makes the impossible, possible was going to heal my marriage. It sounded insane and I fought it for a long time. However, it didn’t matter what I did, the message to hold onto God’s healing power was stronger than anything else.
  It has now been almost 2 years since we separated and a year since our divorce and there has been a change in me that even surprises me. I went from a woman who couldn’t make it through a day without an emotional meltdown, to a woman who manages a thriving business full-time and continues to serve in the National Guard. I was able to buy my own home and vehicle on my own. I rely on no one but God to sustain me. There are days when I wish so much my ex-husband could see me and how far I have come. Then there are the few days like today, when things don’t go well, and I fear I haven’t really changed. These are the days I am gripped with fear that I am not in God’s Will, that I am delusional and waiting for change that won’t happen; change in myself and change in my relationship with my ex-husband. I am inpatient. I want to see change in my broken marriage NOW. I know I have work to do personally, but fear doesn’t just creep in, it plows through the front door and screams at me that he will never forgive me. He will remarry and never look back. I will be alone with my guilt, shame and regret for the rest of my life.
  A few nights ago, a thought came to me that what I need to seek healing for, before I will see other aspects of my life healed, is freedom from living in fear. I hear God. I hear what he says to me. I am certain that I am doing what He wants. What I haven’t realized, until this season in my life, is when we really get to that place where God asks us to step out in a grand gesture of faith and trust, is when we will be tested the most. God speaks in love, not fear. I know where these thoughts come from and it isn’t from the Lord. I need deliverance from fear. I need to trust God with my entire being, not just when I have a good day. I need to trust God on the mornings when my son just won’t listen, the dogs have gone insane and no matter what I do, getting to school on time just isn’t going to happen.
  Coming into work today, I opened my email, and your devotional was the first thing I read. It’s not a coincidence. God spoke to me through your words this morning. Hopelessness was starting to take over and I was trying to formulate a good excuse to go home for the day. I can see now how I let fear and other detrimental messages from the devil stray me from my ultimate task in this season, which is to get to the place of faith where, no matter what happens, I trust that God WILL work everything out in my life for good. And I need to rest in that trust, not worry about the process, timing or end result, but just KNOW that He’s got it under control and I will not be left disappointed. Thank you for your message. It means more to me than I can adequately express. God bless you.

• I am putting my trust to God. Please help me Lord.

• Lord I lift up Gabrielle to you. I pray that she put her trust in you, that she lifts all her fears to you and that in trusting in you, she can expect your greatness in whatever situation she is in. Lord please bless every part of her life and touch her heart.
  Right now I’m having a hard time trusting him with a stuff going on at work. I’m praying that he will work it all out for the best.

• I looked up some of these scriptures today and the Lord has spoken to me through Psalm 37. I am a pastor’s wife, and need to have God’s work speak to me moment by moment, never mind day by day. Blessings to you.

• Trust has always been an issue for me, especially with men. And God is a man, right! ☺ I know he has always provided for me and I find myself going thru some unexplained health issues, separation from my husband who has financially, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally DRAINED me. I have fought for my marriage but enough. I keep saying if this is God’s will it will work and just when I put my big girl pants on and try again, BAM, I am reminded all I am is a convenience to my husband, so I filed for divorce on Wednesday.

  I am in the process of buying a home on top of going through with my divorce. I keep kneeling and praying God will show me the way in my finances, my health, my spirituality, my relationships, and my trust.

  I have multiple verses taped around my home and desk at work. The two that keep me pumped up and moving forward are the following:

  MAN’S REJECTION IS GOD’S PROTECTION
  STRENGTH IN NUMBERS

  May all of us here on this blog continue to believe He is in control and we can rest our worries on his shoulders. Let us all take deep breath and imagine the arms of the Lord wrapped around us. How comforting to know He is the only man to truly meet all our needs.

  Praying for God to hear our prayers for each other. ☺

• For Marci in Iowa…
  Thursday I am going to a wedding for my best friend and her husband that have been divorced for 8 years and they are getting remarried on their original anniversary date! It took a long time and there were a lot tears and waiting and praying, but God is moving and is faithful. There is still work to be done, but they are being reconciled and God is winning!!! She had to hear all those same “move on” things but she remained faithful to what she felt God was telling to do and that was pray for her marriage.
  So I pray that for you Marci that you will have Peace and a sound mind and that God will give you an extra boost of faith and hope today.
  For those that talked about fear…I too have had those fears that are paralyzing...I wrote about them here with Scriptures that helped me.
  As for myself I have to tell myself to “trust and obey” several times a day. What Im learning now is that I need to trust in the goodness of God. Sometimes he seemed mean or basically I just didnt like his “goodness” I want to be stay at home so desperately. My daughter is two and Im expecting my 2nd in 3 weeks and we arent making financially with just our bills and rent. We only have school debt and are living without a lot of the luxury’s we had when I was working as well and we are in the red every month, so Im so sad that unless a miracle happens I have to go back to work after my baby is born. It breaks my heart to pieces and some days I have just accepted the fact that I will be sad and feel guilty daily and cry a lot because that it is the way it is. But I have to trust and obey that God is good, even if I dont get what my heart so desperately wants.

• As I have read through all these different requests I am reminded that God is an all powerful God and all these requests he has taken to heart. I have had my struggles in life, in the short 17 years that I have lived, and I know that trusting God is never easy. So I pray for all of those who are struggling with trusting God, even though it’s tough at times, I pray that God gives you the perseverence that you need. Even though I have never met any of you I know that you are all precious in God’s sight. Don’t give up, God has never left you and he Loves you all!!
  God Bless

• I am dealing with issues from my mother’s estate wherein I finally realize how the sins of a parent can be visited upon the children. I never understood those Scriptures before, but now unfortunately I do. My brother and I were appointed executors of our mother’s estate and are having to weather a heavy storm. We need to Trust that God will protect us personally from any harm resulting from our mother’s indiscretions. This earthly world can not punish her now that she has passed on but this world can, and is, punishing her children for her sins. I pray that all the prayers and request of those who have posted before and come after me, will be sent straight to Heaven. I pray that they will find comfort, peace, understand, acceptance, and most of all JOY. In Jesus Name, Amen.

• I love how God works. In my car driving this morning I was telling God I that I want to trust Him more, but I’m having a hard time doing it. Then I read the Proverbs 31 devotional and here I am!
  Yes, trust issues have been a huge battle in my life over the years. And I have realized that I carry these same issues into my relationship with the Lord. Ugh. I don’t want to, but I’m just being honest. It would take days to type out all the reasons I have trust issues, so I won’t delve into the past right now 😉

  Currently, I am having a hard time trusting Him through a purchase of a new home. We had an approval on July 16th, only to find out 2 weeks later that our offer was more than the appraisal and now the bank is reevaluating the approval. On top of all of this, I am pregnant with baby #3, due in 6 weeks. My two other children are ages 3 and 2. We are very unsettled at the moment and I am doing my best to trust God’s provision in this situation.

  I am going to pray for Stacy T. I pray for her to have renewed strength in the Lord. For her to be able to rest in Him completely. Please heal her from past hurts caused by men in her life. Allow her to be comforted by your loving arms, Lord. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

  • Wanted to share this verse:
    Psalm 118:5-8
    ” in my anguish I cried out to the Lord, and he answered by setting me free. The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? The Lord is with me; he is my helper. I will look in triumph on my enemies. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man”

• I pray for you Tiffany that you will trust in the goodness of God and that he can provide for you! For myself i need to trust that God will answer my prayer. I have to take a big decision, but I NEED God’s guidance. I feel pressed down by the importance of getting an answer from God and I don’t feel like speak to anybody. God is my only help!

• As a mother of a son whose wife has walked away from him and his 2 young children, I definitely acknowledge the need to trust God more through all circumstances not just when I’m at the end of my emotional, physical and financial resources. I daily pray for the wisdom to be still and wait on the Lord. I want God to sent somebody to help me with the childcare. Since a door has not opened, I must continue to be strong in the Lord and ask Him to hold me up.

• I need to trust God more. i prqy for my friend Darlene. Amen.

• I will pray for you Traci- that you can lean on God and trust in His love and will for you life. I pray that you will have wisdom and discernment as your new future unfolds. I pray you will be surrounded by those who love you deeply to help sustain you through these uncertain times in your life. I will keep praying for you.

  For myself- I need to trust God with several situations in my family that can cause me to doubt his love and goodness…as I am waiting on answers to prayers for my marriage and my husband (who does not walk with God) and for my daughter who just started college- she had walked away from churcn/youthgroup and had some wordly friends..in one week at college she drank so much she had to be taken to the hosptial and she also had sex with somone she barely knows. While I can’t seem to get through to her on a spiritual level- we have been able to maintain open communications and God has answered prayers alreeady in that she is realizing the errors of her ways. I pray that she would be able to withstand the temptations…I need to trust in Gods love for her, and His desire for her life that she may turn around the course that she is on.

  Nicki- than you for your beautiful post, your honest sharing has really helped me today.

  For you Nicki and for all the other people who posted, may you feel God’s peace.

• I came across your website through Proverbs 31 daily devotionals, whcih I have just recently started receiving…”being still” is an area of great improvement for me…having been a career woman my entire life, it is hard for me not to “make things happen”, but just adopting this new way in such small ways has already changed my life dramatically…it is a daily battle not to tru and “fix” everything I possibly can, but the blessings Ive received when I let go and let God are far better than the effort- I consider this site just another one of those! Reading of so many people with real, tangible obstacles is a huge eye opener and fills my heart with gratitude for so many of the basics I tend to take for granted!! I pray for Ms. Annie May- that she not only find strength, but joy and rejuvenation through her grandchildren…I can only imagine how difficult it must be, but many people have the difficulty of never having any…I also pray for your son and especailly those babies…they are the truly innocent victims that are going to need extra love from anywhere they can receieve it, and from what I’ve seen in my parents, grandparents are equipped with just that!! God bless you and your family~ watch him 🙂

• I need to trust that my marriage is in the safe, protective, loving arms of God despite our current separation.

• I have recently accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. Within the last month I have felt his presence and heard his voice. He placed on my heart a great test of faith and I trusted him. I put my house on the market and moved 600miles away to stay with family. I have no job and no money since I have been out of work so long. I did take a leap of faith and don’t regret it. I know He has a plan, but He remains silent now. I need to trust more than ever.

  I pray Lord for Annie May that You will carry her through this difficult time in her life. That You will wrap her and her family in Your arms and provide the strength that they need to persevere. Please send her help to care for the children to help ease the situation. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

• Father, I lift up Marrissa to you. I pray that you would be ever present in the purchase of this home. I pray for clarity as decisions are being made and most of all, I pray that you would increase her trust in you in all circumstances!
  I am struggling today and for the past two years with fear and trust. I was 38, mom of three daughters with the most amazing husband ever when I was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. I have fought a very exhausting fight for two years and seemingly won! I have had more surgeries than I can count and almost more days in the hospital than out. After the final surgery to remove my port and having been given the ” all clear,” something else has shown up. I am constantly sick and so ready to feel well again. I am having a hard time trusting that I will feel good again and that the cancer is, in fact, gone. I will be having a PET scan tomorrow to detect any cancer cells that may remain. Please pray that I would trust Him no matter what the outcome is but that it would come out clean! Thank you!

  • I am praying for you Tammy that God will give you peace and heal you. There is power in prayer.

  • Tammy, I am praying for you tonight and will continue to pray for you to be cancer free.

• I am truly humbled by the experiences and encouragement shared here. As I try to navigate this thing called life, I sometimes have to force myself to believe that God is. He has ordained my life even before conception and so I must trust…I must trust. I must trust that He really does know what is best for me, especially when I cannot see what that is. It is so easy to do my own thing, but I know where that will take me…I must trust God with all of my hopes, dreams and aspirations…I must trust God with my life. Afterall, it belongs to him

• I desperately need to trust that God is working hard in the hearts of my 24 and 27 year old children who have fallen away & denounced Him. I know they are the ones who have turned their backs on Him. I also know they cannot by their own reason or strength believe in Him. I am terrified and saddened for them that they are living each day without Him. God tells me in Proverbs 22:6 “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not run from it.” I am trying to trust Him.
  Dear Jesus, I lift “Handpuppets” and her husband up to you. I pray that you will grow their faith in you, and at the same time grow their love for you and each other. Heal their wounded hearts and broken marriage. Help them to come together and walk hand in hand through the rest of their lives together – trusting in and leaning on you every step of the way. Amen

• Raelene, Keep praying to God about your lack of belief in God. He will answer your prayers. I have always believed in Him.. I just could not grasp that He loved me no matter what I did. Now, I am working on trust because my job is in jeopardy and I am divorced. I am scared to death but am trusting God. I am reading the scriptures. Thank you for the devotional and blog. I have trust issues and need to work on that area.

  Thank you.

• I have learned a lot about trusting God this past year. As I battled a rare form of breast cancer, I found myself reaching out and occasionally lashing out to God more than ever before. I now need to trust that God has truly cured me and to trust that the plans he has for me and my family are right and good. The doubts and second thoughts that continually flood my subconscious all to often come to the fore front of my mind and hinder me from moving forward.

• Thank you for your devotional today. Raelene, I pray you will continue to trust the Lord with all of your hopes, dreams and aspirations. You made a great last statement….it all belongs to him!! Keep speaking truth to yourself!!

  As for me, I am struggling trusting God with my family…my marriage, my son, my daughters and my health. The circumstances are overwhelming to me. I’m frustrated, angry, fearful and feel very alone. I know the truth that God will never leave me, in my head,but it’s not moving me to trust and not fear. I need to trust the Lord. I need to and by His grace I will…. I need prayer to encourage me to trust when my circumstances scream that He is not interested in me and only wants to punish me. I KNOW (in my head) that He is trustworthy….I just need to truly trust Him with all my heart and soul. Thank you again for your devotional and your prayers.

• Praying for you Tammy! I pray that you will find peace, strength, and comfort in Him!! I pray for your family as they care for you! I actually feel horrible and selfish for my post when I hear your story. I will be lifting you up in prayer!
  I need to learn to trust that God will turn my painful and gross past into good somehow….I am struggling so much with decisions I made that have now made me miserable!! I know He has a plan for me, I just need to learn to trust in his timing!

• Father thank you for my sister Raelene. Though we have never met we are sisters in Christ and I thank you for giving me the opportunity to pray for her. I pray that you would bless her, guide her, and teach her your ways. In the good and bad times and everything in between, may she put her whole trust in you. Lord I pray that You will become strong in her weakness and that in all things she will know how much you love her. Your plan is perfect and though sometimes it doesn’t always make sense, help her to remember that you got her life in your hands. In Jesus’s Name, Amen

  I recently found out that the ministry I have been working for doesn’t want me to work for them anymore. I have been absent for several months because of a lot of health problems. As soon as I was better I planned on returning. I know that God has bigger and better plans for me but o much doubt takes hold and I begin to worry. I ask the thousand questions of how, when, where etc… The top two.are how will I afford my expenses and receive health insurance. I know God has this and I am in His waiting room. He knows my heart and my needs and He will never let go. But I struggle with continuing to trust Him for all things because my human nature wants to know instantly how everything will unfold. Oh how I long to never doubt and to always trust!

• I need to trust God more in my finances and debt! Sometime I let these distractions get to me but thank God that I don’t take it out on any of my family and friends and co-workers. God knows my heart but sometimes I feel like I am in a corner. However, I will still speak praises from my lips to you God for what you have done and continue to do in my life!

• What a perfect posting today. This has been a very hard thing for me to do…and I’ve been asking myself why. God loves us so much and he wants the best for us…so why can’t we trust him? Over the past couple years…I’ve been through job loss, loss of parent, twin sister’s diagnosis of cancer, then my diagnosis of cancer, bankruptcy and an adoption from China that had to be put on hold due to the cancer. I’ve been trying to trust him through everything I’ve been through…but some how it’s not easy. Why do I think that God will give me the opposite of what I want from him. This is something I’m really struggling with.

• God I pray for Julie. We know that you have big plans for her life. We pray in the name of Jesus that You will hold her evermore in Your willing arms in this time of uncertainty. When this time is over, we pray that she will trust You all the more. We trust You to provide for her needs and to draw her near to You in this time of transition. We love You and pray this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

  Blessed to pray for you!

  Honestly, I don’t know what I don’t trust God for right now. It’s because things are fairly “easy” right now. yest I know at any point health could crash, my husband could lose his job, or something worse. Then where would I be? WHat would I say? How would I pray? Yes this is a time of feast so I pray that I will praise God in this feast, yet always be prepared for the famine.

• Hi I’m ebony and I am 16.I would like to thank you Nicki because I like your story about trusting in god,when I read it on the bible gateway encouragement of the day. At the moment I’m finding it hard to trust god mentally as I find it hard to be alone even if it just staying in the house alone or getting sleep at night. After going to therapy I realised I have an active imagination which causes me to get anxious and over react and forget that god is with me at all time. I feel like I’m never going to be able to stop being scared and lonely and never grow up. I would really like to go to uni in 2 years somewhere out of birmingham in england. I feel now is the time to put my whole trust in god and prepare myself and not to listen to the devils lies and scheme and only to the voice of god.

• Thank you so much for sharing I have some trust issues with myself in my walk with God I struggle with prayer and right now I am on a job that I no longer want to be there I know that there is better out there for me I am a minister in dance and sometimes I lack trust in my ability of what I can do I can do instead of allowing God to do it for me.

  • And also I know that I suppose to move far as church and to do what God has called me to do.

• Thank you for your honesty. It helps to know others struggle with this – I don’t get responses when I confess this at church. Oh, well. The two biggest areas of one’s life – or three, I guess, I need to trust God over. (1) My mate. I found out when I was nearly 50 the beautiful thing God created between a man and a woman that makes one want to give and not care if they receive. But, having held hope for over ten years now, I have had it. No marriage. No sex and whatever I did (partially) with this one-time lover who asked for my hand too early in our relationship and never seemed to want to marry me again, I did not do without extreme guilt, with the Holy Spirit telling me we were coming too close to fornicating. Now, old and ugly, sometimes even inside now, who would want me? Will I spend eternity wishing I could come back to earth having that sentimental time with my husband? I fight that thought as it could lead me to insanity. (2) unable now to pay utility bills as they don’t hire old people anymore and I fight that fear frequently with prayer walks, and (3) I will be content someday again (it’s been twelve years) hopefully in a career again in my sixties.
  KK

• Thank you for this. I read it on Proverbs 31. I know that He is there, but sometimes I want to help Him get my situation moving! And He has such a sense of humor. Thank you for reminding me that He is right there with me-through the bad and good. Thank you again.

• Your devotion is timely as I need to learn to put my trust in God. I am having financial challenges and at times I am so overwhelmed. As I am writing this, I have school fees to pay for myself and my son, utility, cable & internet bills not paid yet, need money for green grocery and supermarket. I have been believing God to provide for my needs and I have been playing James Fortune & FIYA’s song “I Trust You” and believing God to carry out His promises. I have not received from Him yet however I am encouraged by your affirmations. Please pray for me. I pray that “God our loving Father, creator of the heaven and earth will provide for all our needs knowing that we are bounded by our circumstances and because of His loving kindness He will give us our heart’s desire even though we are bounded by our circumstances. Father mold our hearts to look to you and not to our circumstances or people and to surrender all our pain, hurt, fears, challenges, anxieties and worries to you in Jesus’ name, amen”.

  • Ann Marie – There are many bible verses I could list here for you – but instead I just want you to know I am praying for you and praying God provides for you quickly. Keep your faith strong in Him! He loves you SO much – more than we can comprehend!

    • Thank you Vicki for your prayers.

  • I need to trust God more that he will take away fear that he did not put within me. I need to trust the He will help me get out of my physical pain soon. It has been so long, and I can’t plan on anything or even drive myself to doctor appointments, etc. most of the time. I have leaned on my husband as my rock for so many years, and now he is disabled and can’t help me. I am thankful that he is here and that we have each other to talk to about our troubles. I don’t feel as alone. I need to trust Jesus to make Himself known to me. Please pray for me.
    I pray that God will help the lady with financial problems. I know there are MANY who are struggling with trusting God to not let them lose it all. Amen

• This Proverbs 31 was exactly what I needed to hear but also I read these blogs and realize that I must trust God. I applied for a permanent job that I did not get and was very disappointed – I love where I am working and want to stay – I must trust that God will put me where I need to be – i pray for you Ann Marie that God will give you peace in the midst of worrying – I am such a worrier – I also pray for all of these people that have different issues – Please God help each one of us to TRUST and believe that You are there for all of us. Thanks so much for this – this was God’s message to me!!!

  • Thanks Angie for your prayers. I pray that God will give you the desires of your heart as you learn to trust Him with your situations. Just may be that God has you where He wants you to be. Listen to Him.

• I am six weeks and 4 days pregnant. This is my first pregnancy. Yesterday I started to notice some light bleeding. My husband and I went to see the Doctor and were told that the bleeding could be normal bleeding having to do with the placenta or it could be that this was not a “viable pregnancy” and that we would just have to wait and see what happens. I am so scared that we will loose our baby. I want to trust in God, I have been praying to Him long and hard. I still see a little bit of blood and am very scared. I pray for faith in Jesus Christ now more than ever, may my faith be strengthened as the Lord holds my child in His loving hands.

  • Jessica, congratulations on your pregnancy… I know this is a very exciting, yet scary time. I pray that God will continue to watch over you and your child. I know it’s difficult not to worry, but try to focus on all of the positive things and continue to trust that God will bless you and your baby. When you start to doubt, revisit Nicki’s devotion on trusting God and repeat the scriptures over and over until you believe it in your heart. Praying for you.

• Dear God,

  I pray for my sister in Christ AnnMarie…I pray for Your provision and for the constant reminder that You know when a sparrow falls to the ground so therefore You know her needs and You will take awesome care of her and her son. May every need she has be met. In God’s name I pray…Amen!

  I ask for prayer for my situation. I have been married for 4 1/2 years. This is my 2nd marriage and I still have guilt over leaving my first marriage without consulting God first. That is part of the reason why I am struggling so with this stage of my life. My husband now and I lost our daughter in 2010 and our marriage hasn’t been the same since. We have since been blessed with the most precious beautiful son but we still are grieving the loss of our daughter. My husband is controlling and emotionally abusive. He has issues from his childhood that still leave him scarred to this day. He has a bad temper and it escalated to a new high earlier this month and he went somewhere I never thought he would. He physically pushed my shoulder out of anger when he was upset over our son accidentally falling and getting hurt at his hand. I always asked him to never touch me in anger and when he did that something in me snapped. Every since I have wanted to leave but I haven’t b/c I don’t want to break my son’s family up. I am mentally drained from all this. For the first time in my life I desire to truly consult God for help with this decision. I know God hates divorce and I already have one under my belt. Please pray for me to have peace and clear direction on what I should do. I want what is best for me and my son and I don’t know what that is in my frail humanity. Also my husband is not a Christian so please pray for him as well.

  • Thank you LeAnn for your prayers. LeAnn, know that God does not condemn you so you need to stop condemning yourself over your your first marriage. He loves and rejoices over you with songs of gladness.

    Lord, you have sent Immanuel, God with us, God with LeAnn. You have sent your Holy Spirit to comfort her. I call upon you our Comforter to visit LeAnn who is suffering so and I thank you, my God, that just one touch from you changes everything. Holy Spirit show yourself as comforter to LeAnn. Lord her hear is weeping and only you can touch it and make it whole. Give her peace. Let the quiet of your presence stills her soul and calms her fears. Give her the grace to come to you and pour her heart out to you. Give her strength, patience, wisdom and understanding as she seeks you in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

    Father I pray that you will touch LeAnn’s husband right where he is. Let your touch minister unto him so that he realizes that You care and love him despite his mess and his troubled past and you can change hi, Send someone to minister to him, Lord because we know that you care for all your children. Father I know that you are a wonder working God and you work all things together for our good.

    LeAnn I pray that you will learn to trust God as you seek Him and that you will listen to him what He has to say about your situation. God bless you.

• This has been a very hard year to trust God.
  I lost my job.
  My husband is under employed.
  We are one month away from losing our house.
  My adult daughter is is making poor choices and has abandened her children.
  My mother was operatrd for colon cancer.
  My husband works nights so I am alone.
  We can’t pay our bills.
  Our house needs major repairs
  Our cars need major repairs
  I injured my back and I am in pain.

  • Margay despite all the challenges that you are going through, know that God is right there with you. He has not forsaken you, so whatever you do, do not despair, God is strengthening you and upholding you with his righteous right hand. Trust God to provide for all your needs according to His riches in Christ Jesus and know that His favor surrounds you and your family. God bless you Margay, He loves you so much. Look to Him
    (Ps. 121:1-2)

• Thank you for these insights. Yes we should trust God! It is hard because of satan’s bombardments. I pray for my sisters, I also covet prayers. I am trusting God to Provide Jobs for my children who have finished university and have stayed up to 5 years without jobs. I am trusting God to give me a job too. My son does not go to church after serving God faithfully….. I am trusting God to restore what the canker worms and the locusts have eaten from our lives. I am trusting God for spouses for my children. I am looking up to Jesus who is able to do everything. Friends Let us look up to Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith. His mercies are new every morning. God bless you all as we wait upon him.

• Jesus, I need to trust You more than ever to be my God who provides beyond my limitations. (Philippians 4:19) I have been very limited in life since a bad crash. Last night I had some major God moments, and I feel as if I am healed from all that was there. It has been 4years since I was normal, so I am still trying to process this. My main prayer is that my husband will believe it when I finally work up the courage to tell him. He has faith, just not on the potential for God to constantly provide in miraculous ways level yet.

• Thank you so much for your inspiration, I have needed to hear this for several months. I have been a teacher for 23 years. During that time I have left teaching twice to persue other careers, each time ending due to a job loss by my ex husband. I have had to move to a new state and once again went back to teaching. 21 months ago I decided to trust God completely that he could guide me in my recovery from addiction. What a miracle that has been. This past summer I remarried and I know that God is totally in control. The thought of going back into a classroom totally brought me down and I spent days searching frantically for a new job. Talk about not trusting God! I know in my heart God has the plan for me, I just have to trust that plan, making his will for my life my will. Some days that is harder to do than others. Thank you for the words of affirmation to use on those days it is hard to accept God’s will. I will be praying for the list above especially those moms with lost sons!! I totally understand.

• We had to move our 24 yr-old daughter home after a suicide attempt. I praise God, she called scared wanting help. Driving 12 hours to get to her, I was praying. She could have died, or been in a coma. She is alive! And physically recovered. I need to trust God for the long haul on this one. It is a confusing and overwhelming time. Nicki, your devotion was divinely timed. Trusting for guidance and wisdom is difficult because I feel lost to the world. Knowing my sisters in Christ understand is invaluable.
  Thank you Father for the healing in Sarah! You are the Ultimate Healer! Father continue the process You have begun in her life. Thank You for her faith! and for sharing it. Bless her house and protect her body from relapse.

• Thank you Niki!!! Your words are so true and I can see by all the many comments, there are so many of us that have trust issues.
  My issues right now involve my future and the unknown. Life just isn’t turning out the way I had always thought it would. Not that it’s bad, it’s just not how I wanted life to be.
  I keep telling myself that God is in control and He will always be there taking care of me. My marriage is very good and we are both seeking Him about our future and everything. But, I still have days where I am very anxious and need to just trust the ONE who is trustworthy!!

  • Dear Lord,
    Please help Lisa to feel your presence in her life at all times. Help her to recognize Your Hand guiding her and her husband in every little detail of their lives. Let them see the miracles You have for them in their future even if it is different then what they thought it would be. Help them to release their vision for Your vision. Matthew 6:33-34 “(33) But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. (34) Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Dear Lord we pray these verses for Lisa and her husband so that you may live for today, thank God for everything He has given you today, and to not be anxious. Philippians 4:6
    Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. God is in control and His timing is perfect. Please give Lisa and her husband eyes to see Your timing and peace to enjoy the journey. In Jesus precious name. Amen.

• I find it hard to trust God with my relationships. Sometimes I get so confused between my feelings, the logical thing to do, and God’s will. But something really helped me out with this struggle, and I’m still working to improve my reactions in relationships by asking myself, “What is the wise thing to do?”

  Now, God, I pray for Lisa. I don’t know her last name or where she lives, but I just pray you watch over her and make your presence known. The future, if we let it, can be a scary thing and loom over us. Just help Lisa know she doesn’t need to fear. She only needs to trust in you… I prayed to God, and he answered me; he delivered me from ALL my fears. Psalm 34:4

• Niki these are just the words i needed to hear that trusting in God is the best thing in times of weariness. My younger brother had a car accident last week monday, he has undergone brain surgery and air lifted to the UK from africa and is still unconscious. i’m trusting God that he will perfect his total recovery in the mighty name of Jesus! i need all to agree with me!
  Lisa – God knows your future, it is great! His plans for you are not of evil but great mighty things beyond your s or wordily understanding. keep trusting in him and in his time he will settle you in Jesus name.

• God has bless my family in many ways. My oldest daughter is a recovered anorexic and now helping other with their struggles all with the help of her strong faith in God. My second daughter is finishing her last year of vet school and realizes that it was only possible with the help of God. My youngest daughter is married and they just found out they are having a baby when they were told in December that they wouldn’t be able to. Praise God. They realize this is a gift from God and his miracle and are turning their lives back to God. My husband is not a believer. That tells you a little bit about my family. With all of these wonderful things going on with my family and the fact that we recognize God’s hand in all of it, why can I not completely trust that everything will work out to His glory. I have prayed for my husband, not as faithfully as I should, for over 30 years. I find I have trouble praying for him because I don’t trust that God can change his heart to became a believer. My oldest daughter was to finish her schooling last May but is having trouble getting the research she needs to finish it. All the doors have been open up to this point and now they seem to be closed. I want to have the trust and faith that God will complete His good work in her like she does. My second daughter is doing great but I find myself worrying about her health to do what she needs to to finish her degree. My youngest daughter I am also worried about her health during the pregnancy due to a thyroid condition she has. My faith and trust should be at its highest but I sometimes find it hard to trust. I really appreciated the verses and this idea to pray for other.

• Love this, Nicki……thanks for your encouragement and this opportunity to pray for others, as well as receive their prayer.
  Lisa, I am praying for you (that is my daughter’s name also)!!!

  I request prayer for a health issue I have…..very painful and slow healing! Also, I request prayer for daughter in finances, job, all issues of a single Mom.

  Blessings on all!

• Wonderful to read all of the comments of my spiritual sisters who are seeking to trust God with the challenges they’re facing in their lives. 2012 has been a year of challenges for me which probably started in the fall of 2011 when my 91 year old mom started experiencing physical and emotional difficulties. She passed away in February and life has continued to be a roller coaster ride. My revelation moment came in May. It was the last time I tried to argue with God about why things didn’t turn out according to how I thought they should be. My son, a young man who’s dealing with a serious disability, said to me at that time, “Mom, God’s still the same even when our prayers aren’t answered the way we want. He still loves us.” Why didn’t I already understand that??! I don’t know, but it was a wake up call for me. I’m spending more time praying now, and less time debating with God!!

• This couldn’t have come @ a more appropriate time. I’m recovering from surgery and still not feeling good, but have so much on my plate. I trust God to continto provide, and I trust God with my husband to do His work in him that he may become the husband God wants him to be.I want to trust God to keep me strong in my mission even when it seems hopeless
  Helen …God has a plan and our job is to trust His ways, not ours. Your son is very smart!!

  • God bless you, Irene! I’ll pray for you and your husband. He has a plan for BOTH of you! As you probably have found out, being a wife and/or mother requires more wisdom than we have and that’s why we have to trust Him. Thanks for your note of encouragement!

• Please pray that I trust God ti completely heal my dad of cancer forever and restore his body to health completely. Praying for Helen above.

• I am praying for you and your father, Hilda!

  Thank you Nicki for your Proverbs31 post. I’ve had that moment recently of realizing that I needed to trust God. A former stay-home mom, in the wake of a devastating and painful event, I’ve been left to care for my two children (age 5 and 1) as a single mom with insufficient income. Every step (sometimes it feels like every moment) is an act of faith. I am strengthened because God has shown his love for me in so many ways. Still, it is hard to trust and not worry about tomorrow.

• Nikki, Look What You’ve Done! Your blog is truly amazing. Look at all of the responses! You have done wonderful work for God. It it so awesome that you have generated a network of prayer worriers!!! When I read these replies, I find that my issues are so small compared to the needs of others, but I also need to learn to trust God in ALL circumstances. Sometimes the waiting is the hardest part, but we know that for it to be right, it has to be in His time!! Prayers for everyone out there!!
  Nikki, you rule!! Thank you,
  Kim

• I trust in God for pretty much everything in my life except for the salvation of my children. It’s so hard to not be in control in that part of their lives. Please God help me to trust in you more that you will work miracles in their lives.

• I came across your blog accidentally! This is just the encouragement I needed today!
  I will be praying for Kimberly , the name above mine!

  Please pray that I would just rest in Him. I am so weary and have lost the joy I once had. Thank you Nikki for reminding me to speak life!

  I can be content in all things.

  blessings,
  Julie

• Praying for Kimberly to trust God in all circumstances. James 4: 7-10. What an amazing response from everyone. I need to remember to trust God when I pray for my two teenage daughters. It’s hard to wait and be patient. Thanks – Sherri

• Sept 2, 2912: thank you so much for your wonderful blog. It is such an encouragement especially this weekend. I am praying for all of the wonderful ladies above me and encourage you to trust God in all areas of your life.
  I am asking for prayers from you for my sweet little Sheltie dog, Bentli as she has had 2 emergency surgeries this week.The vet found 14 large bladder stones and removed them on Wed. On Fri she developed a severe infecting so they immediatlely did a second surgery on her yesterday. She is on aggressive treatment but is still very critical. God has blessed her (and me) with some good news today. We are waiting to hear about her bladder X-ray result today. I ask for complete healing of her infection and full recovery of her organs and complete healing for her. Much appreciation. Stacy

• Nikki,
  What words of encouragement! Something that God has really placed on my heart as I am praying through my situation of a prodigal son is that God doesn’t show up — He is ALWAYS there and it’s me who needs to come to Him. He is ALWAYS waiting – in the good and the bad, the easy and the difficult. Life is a continuous challenge, but one that I never have to walk alone…. I trust His promises because God’s promises NEVER fail! Yes, often times it is easier than others, but when I read such encouragement from postings such as yours, I see it as a gentle tap on the shoulder from my Abba Father!

• Thank you for this message on trust. It is one I am struggling with at the moment. I tend to be like many women who want to take control and fix things themselves! My marriage is not in a good place and although my husband had an affair two years ago, much has been blamed on me for my frustration and angry responses throughout our marriage. I have suffered a feeling of rejection for much of my life – not being quite good enough and have tried to be a “perectionist” which obviously does not help. I so want God to change me in this area and am also trusting Him for healing in our marriage and am also holding onto the scripture in Joel that says He will restore the years that the locusts have eaten. Waiting and trusting are not easy for me so please pray for me.

  Stacy, I pray for complete healing for your precious Bentli. May you be blessed as you put your trust in our Lord our Healer.

  Thanks

  Heidi

• I just wanted to say thank you for the encouragement today. I need them every day. I am having a hard time thanking God let alone trusting him. I lost my husband 13 weeks ago on May 31st who was 40 to a terrible car accident while he was on his way to work. In a blink of an eye everything can change. My only child left at home is a 13 year old boy. It has been very difficult trying to understand how this can happen and why he would allow it. There are so many tragic stories, so I get we aren’t the only family. We decided to cancel our life insurance policies thinking that “when we are older, we will sign back up.” I receive the daily encouragements from Proverbs 31 and haven’t read one for quite some time. I saw the title this morning and thought hmmm, lets see. I printed it out hoping that some of the verses you listed can help me heal. By the way, your first sentence states you got into your red Jeep Wrangler. That is what my husband was driving when he was hit.
  Thank you again.

• My issue with trusting God is that I don’t think I deserve anything good and I second guess myself instead of putting all my trust in Him. He has been blessing me lately in many things, yet the two areas of my life I have been praying over for about 15 years is for marriage/children and a career in professional acting. I cannot understand why at least one of these dreams is not being fulfilled and part of me believes I am not trusting God to fulfil them! The other part of me believes I don’t deserve them. And the real struggle is knowing what God wants. After hitting 40 I really feel neither will happen. Makes me feel lonely and like a failure. But I do believe God as a purpose for me!

  Heidi – I will be praying for you and your marriage! I pray that God will give you the right words to say and the right heart attitude. I pray God will allow you to focus less on being perfect. If both you and your husband are saved then I truly believe that you should fight for your marriage and use the Bible as your guide to rebuild that trust and learn how to love each other more than ever. I pray God provides true forgiveness for both you and your spouse. I pray He will lead you both to peace in your marriage and to start fresh though His grace and mercy. May God bless you, your husband and your marriage!

  • Thank you Holly J. Your prayers mean a lot. It is so important that Christians support each other and pray for each other. Both my husband and I are saved and God has entrusted us with lots, but we have let each other down. We’ve both been for individual counselling with a Christian psychologist – the next step is to go together. Please pray that this will happen soon and we can come to a place of forgiveness so that we can “not call to mind former things or ponderon thingsof the past” but allow “God to do a new thing” (Isaiah 43).

    Holly, I will pray that God will bless you with your heart’s desire as you do put your trust in Him who works all thngs together for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose. Believe that you are deserving, because Jesus made you so!
    God Bless…

    • Thank you Heidi! I will continue to pray for you. The greatest example of forgiveness is that of God, who forgives us – horrible sinners! When I sometimes have a difficult time forgiving someone the thought of His forgiveness and the sacrifice He made so we may be free really softens my heart. I pray you and your husband will reflect on that as well. I imagine it is so very hard for you but God will make a way! I appreciate your words of encouragement. Take care!

• I need to trust that whatever God has in store for me will come. I stress, worry, daydream, etc about when and how things will play out in my life (sometimes I’ll even act out situations). I always say, if God hasn’t given it to me yet, then I’m not ready. I want to believe that but it’s hard because my mind tells me that I am ready.

  Holly, I will pray that you too will except what God has in store for you. I pray that if a family (husband and children) and an acting career is what your purpose is, that you receive them with open arms and an open heart.

• Thank you for the inspired words on trusting God. I am going thru some very bad situations with my son and with my home which is in the process of trying to repair after the fire that almost destroyed it. All of the conflicts that have arisen and what has happened to my son and grandson over the past years has really distracted me from church but I keep coming back to God. I want to trust him that things will work out for the best. I want to get close to Him. I want to stop trusting in man and put all of my trust in God.

  Shautell I pray that you will have God’s will in your life and that you will be able to discern the Holy Spirit’s leading for all the hopes and dreams you have for your life. I ask God to give you peace in your situations and peace about the choices you make and I ask Him to close doors that you do not need to go thru and to open doors that lead to His chosen paths for you. God Bless you.

• My husband and I are confronted with the worst financial situation we have ever been in. We are praying for wisdom and next steps. My heart is to follow God’s lead, in step, not out front and not too far behind. I have had peace up until last evening where worry and anxiety had me reeling. Praying all night… Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.

  Shauntell: I pray that same verse over your life. May you feel God’s love and peaceful presence.

• I need and desire to trust God more with my life in general. I seem to get this big burst of faith in periods of my life where I am truly gong-ho about trusting Him and His plans for my life. And, then comes all the fear, doubt, insecurities about my future. I find myself leaning on others to complete and define me… this of course have been heartbreaking. I desire to be in a secure and consistent place of trusting God in, for and about everything concerning my life and future. I want to trust Him to heal me emotionally (stop allowing my emotions to direct and overtake me).

  God I ask that you meet every financial need in Kim’s and her Husband’s life. Kim desires to be lead by you and to trust you please hear and give them even more than they have asked… you said in your word “Those that put their trust in you will never be put to shame”… Father God, begin to work it out and show them it is you that has made it possible. In Jesus Name, Amen.

• I need to trust God for care and protection of my family. I worry about us getting hurt and it drives me to act irrationally and to dwell on negative thoughts. I need to trust God.

  Shauntell, I pray with you…Dear Lord, please cover my sister in Christ with your peace that passes all understanding that she may know that she knows you are near and that all things work together for the good of those who love you. Thank you Father for the many blessings you are pouring out on her and in her life. I pray that she will boldly ask you for what her heart desires and that you would grow her heart to desire what you have planned for her life. I ask it all according to your will and in Your Son’s Name, Amen!

• I truly thank you for this read as this topic I have been struggling with for a while now as I have been down and going through for the last past 8yrs. I have been at a great LOW…like I have never ever seen before! I am currently a single,unemployed mother to 6 children! I have a 19,14,13,9 and a set of twins who are 18months old. My kids father is incarcerated but has been saved so there has been something good to come out of his time away BUT we desperately need him home! I have been battling depression,suicidal ideations,low self esteem,unable to provide for my kids,facing eviction and shut of notices left and right and then on top of that Satan has been tormenting me doubt……got me wondering where “my God” is and why hasn’t he come to save me! I have been feeling awful about this because through it all he has provided and I must remember this. I need and am ready to have my family back, I am ready to do what I have been called to do,serve God and his people. Please pray with me on these topics for my family,finances and strength. Thank you so much….

  Lord God I come to you as humbly as I know how first thanking you and praising you for being such a mighty God. A God who sits high and sees low who knows all about us and our needs,problems and desires even before we do a God who allows us to approach him in FAITH asking for anything and KNOWING that it will be done. Lord God I ask you to continue covering my sister Shauntell,please keep it in the forefront of her mind that you are a mighty God who knows and sees her heart. Please remind her that there is a lesson that you are trying to teach her….please let her receive it. It may be patience! Please bring to her remembrance your word in Galatians 6:9 “And let us not grow weary while doing good,for in due season we shallreap if we do not lose heart”. Remind her all things are done according to YOUR will and not ours, and that you truly do know what’s best for us. Remind her Lord that you are preparing her,laying a strong foundation to build on not a weak on. Satan we rebuke you and plots that you are trying to lay, you are aliar and have no control over my sister! We THANK you Lord and count this as done…..in Jesus mighty mighty name AMEN! BE BLESSED MY SISTER!

• I need to trust God where my marriage is concerned. There have been past hurts so deep and I have been living in fear and unforgiveness. I am seeing a godly pastor for counsel. There are patterns of behavior that cause me to be afraid and distrust my husband. I don’t like the place I am in and I need to trust God with my days and moments. I love the idea of speaking the trust truths out loud.

  Shauntell, I will pray for you to wait on the Lord as He shows you step by step what He has for you.

• I want to join the movement! My family and I are trusting God right now for my unborn baby. Some days are harder then others. I am trying to remain strong. But the Lord gives me strength.

  I am 37 weeks pregnant with a baby girl, at 32 weeks I had an ultra sound and they found a mass on her left kidney. Over the next few weeks we had several ultra sounds and an mri, an traveled over an hour to Portland OR to another hospital. They all confirmed that it was a tumor and it has gotten bigger. So the plan now is after she is born we will travel back to Portland and she will have surgery to remove her whole kidney.

  This is the hardest thing I have ever gone through, but I am trusting God to 1- heal her kidney and take the tumor away. And 2- That he has a plan through all of this. I am stronger than expected, but some days I don’t even want to get out of bed.

  Lord, Thank you for this blog, for Proverbs 31 ministries, and for Nicki learning to trust you. Thank you for all these ladies who want ot Trust you more. Thank you for allowing me to stumble upon this facebook page. And the for the affirmations about trusting YOU on this blog. Thank you for the strength you have given me and please help me to continually put my Whole trust in you and KNOW that you are in control. Help us all to trust you constantly everyday.
  In Jesus’ holy name, Amen

  • I struggle with not being in control and knowing the details with God’s plan in my life. I so easily remove God from His rightful place in my heart and “attempt” to place myself there. Sad thing is, I don’t even realize that I have done that.

    Abba Father,
    I am asking You to continue to hold Tonia and her baby safe in Your faithful hands. Lord, You alone know the purpose You have for her unborn child. Give Tonia and her husband Your peace, Your strength, and Your joy. I pray for Your wisdom on behalf of Tonia. Father, You are good and I praise You. I praise Your Name because we don’t have to worry about the “how”, we just need to remember Who is providing. You are our perfect Provider, Jehovah Jireh, thank You for who You are and for Whose we are. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

• Went for a drive through beautiful horse country last night – but my mind was more focused on what my husband was saying – there’ve been massive layoffs in the company he works for and his heart aches for those who lost theirs, can we move some place where his sinuses aren’t so aggravated, he’s tired of his job and there will be additional stress as there’s more work with fewer people, etc. My head has the “right” scripture but my heart has a tug of fear “what if, what if…” & it reminds me there are wounds from the past that need to be dealt with, truly that God is in control, & will I trust Him?

  Father, I lift Shauntell to you, asking that you quiet her spirit to hear Your voice in the midst of life, that she can accept whatever You have for her, for a peace that only You can give because You are her maker – You know what will serve her best interests because of Your love for Your girl.

• Oh Papa God, I lift Shauntell before you. Hold her in your arms and the abundance of your love. May she truly recognize your faithfulness and mercy at work in her life in every situation and circumstance. Lord grant to her an extra measure of faith to replace any fear she may have for her future. How blessed we all are amoung women that You yourself are all we need and you delight when we are dependent upon you. “Who is this, coming up from the valley leaning on her beloved?” SOS Thank you Father for fulfilling all yourplans for Shautell, your plans for good to give her a future and a hope (jer 29) I bless her Papa in the mighty name of Jesus.
  I would love to say I’m holding on to that power verse in psalm “Those who trust in the Lord will never be dissappointed” and I have been telling myself that for a long dry journey. Both my husband and I have been out of work for almost a year, our home is in the midst of forclosure (25 years here) with no job prospects in sight, and no other home in sight the journey is difficult. We are looking for God to lead and open doors that man can not open. I know He (God) does not labor in vain on our behalf, that His Word does go forth and accomplishes all that He breathes life to. Lord, I ask for the floodgates of heaven to open! Thank you, Thank you Thank you for being the sustainer of the weary and the downtrodden. Amen.