You’re feeling a little lost. Confused. Maybe you’re feeling scared; unsure. Or maybe you’re experiencing analysis paralysis. Whatever your situation, uncertainty is plaguing you. You’re seeking direction, clarity, answers, hope, a sign, anything. If this is you, here are three signs that God is asking you to trust him more.
HOW TO KNOW WHEN GOD IS ASKING YOU TO TRUST HIM MORE.
1. YOU’RE FEELING ANXIOUS.
If you’re feeling anxious and worried, that’s a sign that God is asking you to trust him more. There’s nothing wrong with planning for the future. You’re allowed to work hard and to ask for a practical strategy to work hard according to His will. But if you’re full of worry, doubt, fear and anxiety, God is nudging you. He’s trying to get your attention to draw your eyes back to Him.
MATTHEW 31-33 SAYS So do not worry saying ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
2. YOU’RE FEELING A HEALTHY CONVICTION TO PRAY MORE
It’s on your mind. It’s on your heart. You find yourself wondering if you should be praying more. The seed has been planted and you’re feeling its impact. The thing is, a lack of prayer is a lack of trusting God. That’s hard to hear, but we’re all guilty of it sometimes. We get comfortable and complacent and suddenly we spend less time in prayer. We assume God just knows we’re thinking of Him and that we desire a relationship with him. Nope. That little nagging feeling is telling you that God is asking you to trust him more.
PHILLIPPIANS 4:6-7 SAYS Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, 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.
3. YOU’RE EXPERIENCING A SEASON OF TESTING.
Oof. We know this one well in the Hodges household. I’ve said before that I actually feel a sense of excitement whenever our world comes crashing down around us. It’s usually a strange, refreshing reminder to fix our eyes on God. I always know when things go wrong that God is trying to tell us something or he’s trying to move us. God uses our seasons of testing for our good. James:1 2-4 and Romans:5 3-5 say that God uses the pressures of life to cause us to seek his presence.
IN 2 CORINTHIANS 12: 7-10 PAUL SAYS Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses. So that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
I’ve noticed that my relationship with Christ is the strongest in seasons of testing, and I also believe that’s a clear sign that I need to get things in my life sorted out. We are meant to seek God first in all things. We’re meant to put him first in every area of our life always. And these seasons of trial are getting old. But it’s also true that we’ll be served up the same lesson over and over again until we finally learn from it.
HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO TRUST GOD? HERE ARE 4 THINGS RICK WARREN SAYS WE’RE MEANT TO DO:
- Ask Jesus to be your shepherd every single day.
- Give Him 1st place in every area of your life.
- Relax!
- Let go of tomorrow and just trust God for one day at a time. (Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34)
Tell me, which of these three signs have you been experiencing lately? 👇🏻
All three
i want God in my life. i pray more.
This is so encouraging! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Thank you for your site. I couldn’t sleep. I lost my job. I don’t know how I will survive next month. I knew I needed to talk to God. I have always spent time with Him almost every day. But when I did, I would just listen. I don’t pour my heart out to Him. So when I found your blog, it confirmed that God was asking me to talk to Him not just listening to Him. All 3 points were shouting to me. Bringing them out in the open has given me clarity to how to trust God. It has to be a dialog. A conversation. He wants me to know that I must tell Him. It’s not enough that He tells me.
I’m actually experiencing those 3. I really don’t know what’s happening to me. I’m really anxious that my faith is not that strong as it was before. I don’t feel like reading the bible and do devotions. It seems that I can’t see myself be affected to his words anymore in a way that i felt like i don’t trust him enough. I pray to him often bec I’m carrying this anxiety for weeks now.
God doesn’t love everyone; He only loves those He chose before the foundation of the world. To those He didn’t choose, He could care less to what happens to them such as going to Hell.
Dear Dave, I speak out of experience, trust me I was in the same situation as you, before I realized that it’s the devil whose trying to make you get angry and turn against God. God loves you alot, more than you can imagine. I really don’t know what the situation is but just trust God whole-heartedly. His waiting for you
it is not God’s will that any should perish but all should come to repentance 2 Peter 3 8-10
and he is the propitiation for our sins and not our sins only but also for the sins of the whole world 1 John 2
Hiii, thank you so much for this, i have been not trusting myself and always in doubts, i should trust god and will trust god, yes i was so anxious but because of this i try to let go and just go with the flow, i should come back to god
I am so lost at the moment, I cry all the time but I don’t want to give up on hope.
My husband iis so very sick he has to have a liver transplant and at the moment he is so confused. I am trying my best to be strong for him
I am experiencing season of testing
Walking thru the testing is so hard for me i known GOD is with me because of HIS promise
I feel all three, but most importantly 3. My family has always had a spiritual warfare and it has always been annoying.But I always turn to god and I always tell my mother.You’ve made a man that believes in god even though you fought
Trust God
Give him full control
God will mend all he has blessed
I am experiencing all of these and some. I feel broken and afraid. I’ve been praying and hope God hears me
Hi does hear you and is still answering your prayers, even the ones you have not asked yet
Im so thinkful to have read this
Plez help me truly understand
I know it’s me but I still don’t
Understand plez help me more plez contact me plez.
i have been experiencing all three, and I was stunned when I read it. I knew in my heart that I needed to trust God but I wasn’t certain how.
All three!
Anxious spirit mostly, actually all three.
all three Iam so thankful to God in the midst of my trials & anxiousness my Job didnt allowed by Him I was prepared in everything all of a sudden something came up with the contract that I didnt like,so I decided to dropped the job offer
The two owners and directors are targeting me and my work. They are putting pressure on me daily. I am fearful and I’m trying to trust God in everything but it appears that God favor them not me.
All three
All three and I’ve made my adjustments. I truly believe the giveth and taketh away.
I truly need My God right now my world is crushing down
May almighty God bless you more and more. Am blessed with your work
This site has open my eyes in so many ways.I’m going through a relationship break up.I have been praying sometimes but not like I should.it’s like a thorn in my side.I know I have to increase my praying.Thank you
I am experiencing them all
Praying tirelessly but no improvements. I’m lost, feel the weight of the world on my shoulders. I feel like throwing in the towel.
I feel all three. I always have a voice reminding me that I need God,more than I need anyone or anything else.
Thank you for this. I’m dealing with all 3. I’m dealing with chronic pain and seem to get stuck in my head and get confused on how to pray. God Bless You for sharing.
Last night after days of being consumed with worry and anxiety, I cried out to God and He told me to Trust Him and lean not on my own understanding. The peace that comes from hearing from God is beyond anything this world offers.
Trusting God and Being Tested. Yeap that’s it and thank you for clarity.
Lord Help Us All,