How do you trust God when your heart is breaking? When you can barely breathe because you’re afraid your life has irreparably changed?
Learning how to trust God on the unwelcome days isn’t easy. These are the unexpected, unasked-for days—the ones when we’re blindsided, weary from traveling the same difficult path, and wondering how we could move forward.
How to Trust God When Life Turns Upside Down
In this episode, Jennifer Sakata shares three ways to learn how to trust God when life turns upside down. Drawing from her own experience of walking through her husband’s extended unemployment, the story of the Israelites crossing into the Promised Land, and a risky prayer she learned to pray, Jennifer invites us to consider what trusting God can look like when the way forward doesn’t make sense.
Struggling to trust God isn’t necessarily a lack of faith. Sometimes it means adjusting the direction of our faith—noticing where God has been present all along. This looks like honesty in bringing our real questions to Him while receiving the courage to take the next step with Him.
How to Trust God in Real Life
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- Why struggling to trust God doesn’t necessarily mean you have a weak faith
- How honesty can become a pathway to deeper trust
- What the Israelites crossing into the Promised Land teaches us about moving forward when we’re afraid
- A risky prayer for the unwelcome days
- How to recognize where God has been present all along
- What we risk when we refuse to trust God in difficult seasons
If life has taken an unexpected turn—or you’re simply weary from walking the same hard road, this conversation is an invitation to stop grasping for certainty and begin noticing the God who is already with you.
💬 How to Trust God Quotes:
“Trusting God means leaning into the promise that God and His Presence never leave.”
“Learning to trust God in the unwelcome places requires stepping into situations and circumstances that don’t make any sense to us—things we can’t control and don’t understand.”
“We have to close our eyes to all the impossibilities and still ourselves to the small quiet voice Who says, ‘You are safe with me.'”
Scriptures Mentioned:
2 Corinthians 12:9 – God’s response to Paul’s thorn in the flesh
Matthew 28:18-20 – The Great Commission and Jesus’ promise never to leave
Joshua 3 – The Israelites crossing into the Promised Land
Resources Mentioned:
🌿 FREE downloadable: The Welcoming Prayer by Father Thomas Keating
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Ep. 89 The Art of Vinemaking with Bette Dickinson
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👉🏼Living the Grace Life is the place where real grace meets real life. Host Jennifer Sakata helps us bridge the gap between grace as a theological idea and lived practice in everyday moments of faith, encouraging listeners to experience forgiveness, freedom, and trust that they then extend to others.