How do you trust God when your heart is breaking? When you can barely breathe, afraid after your life has changed irreparably?

Learning to trust God on the unwelcome days isn't easy. In this episode, Jennifer Sakata shares three ways to trust God when life turns upside down—through honesty with God, recognizing His Presence, and finding courage to take the next step when the way forward doesn't make sense.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Jennifer's journey learning to trust God through her husband's extended unemployment
• How honesty with God grows trust
• What we can learn from the Israelites as they crossed into the Promised Land
• The risky prayer Jennifer has learned to pray on the unwelcome days
• What we risk when we don't learn how to trust God
• Why struggling to trust God isn't necessarily a lack of faith

Sometimes learning how to trust God isn't about trying harder to have faith. It's about adjusting the direction of our faith—recognizing where God has been present all along, risking honesty with God, and receiving courage to step forward with God when it doesn't make sense.

"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.'"

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

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