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Philippians 4:6-7
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Trust His Process.

Not my process.

“Do not be anxious about anything.”
Hah! Easy for you to say! Do you know the relationships I’m struggling with? The past I have that keeps knocking in my mind? The way I am *anxious* about my children and their choices? The way the bills are piling up? On and On… Sometimes I read this verse and I think “Amen!” and am all for it. Sometimes I read this verse and the above thoughts race through my head.

We may not understand things that we go through or seasons that we are in. We may have things or times where certain circumstances don’t make sense. Think of Job, he was going through all of these things, lost his kids and everything he had. None of this made sense to him. In Job chapter 7, Job addresses God, all Job could do was pray to his Lord. Job 12:13 says “To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are His.” The note in my Bible under that verse says “in this life, it will not always be clear how God is working all things for good. During those times, we should entrust our lives, situations and outcomes to our heavenly Father, just as Christ did on the day of His execution.”

Trust.

I’ll be honest. Trust is difficult for me. Specifically trusting other people, but I’ve noticed that I let that affect my relationship with God. I will say that I trust His process when in reality I do everything that *I* can to fix whatever the situation or season is.
“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10 (I recommend reading Psalm 46). He tells us to be still. To know that He is God. Get alone with Him, be still in His presence and wait for His leading.

I will admit this is something I continually have to work on. I think that as we go through different and new seasons in life this is a continual lesson. God is continually growing and stretching us, we find new levels of trust each time.

I want to share with you several parts of a journal entry from December 2015. Some of it is from my personal thoughts and some of it is from my pastors sermon in April 2015 (I’d gone back and journaled from those notes). This is another reason I highly recommend journaling. 🙂

Journal entry 12/28/15
” In the midst of this Psalmists destruction (Psalm 89), he says he will sing and make God’s faithfulness known through generations. In my, what feels like destruction and arrow to my being, will I make His faithfulness known through generations? Will I continue speaking? “I will sing!” It’s not someone else job to comfort me, to help me or make me worship, it’s not their job to get me through. That’s my job. I have to choose God. I have to choose to praise and worship despite what I’m feeling! No one else has the answer for my particular problem. God walked with me into it, He will be with me through it and He will deliver me out of it! It’s up to me to choose to look to Him for help.”
“In that moment of frustration, in that moment of wanting to scream at _insert situation_ THAT is when you sing!”
“Miskail (who wrote Psalm 89) died not knowing that the promise was fulfilled in Jesus. God didn’t whisper the “ending.” God is omniscient, we must trust Him in everything. When that goes against everything we are, everything we are seeing, we must lay ourselves before the Lord. We must make ourselves trust what we can not see, because He is bigger than what we can see or hear.

What situation are you going through? What season are you in?
As we spend time with God in prayer, He is able to assure us that in all things He is working for our good. But we have to get alone with God, we have to listen attentively, we have to run after Him and protect our relationship with Him. He is calling us higher, nearer, closer. Will you answer? Will you trust Him? Will you trust His process? Surrender and submit to Him, His plans, stop trying to do it all on your own. Let Him lead.