Trusting God When Life Feels Uncertain: A Deep Dive Into Faith and Patience

Explore the strength in trusting God during life's challenges. Discover how faith grows in silence and waiting, even when the path seems unclear.

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Yo, what's up, family? Welcome to another episode of the I Can't Help Them Podcast. Listen, I'm your host. I'm your boy Rotten Footman, also known as the Purpose Pusher. Yeah, I done changed me, gave me a little name, Purpose Pusher. Got my uh, you know what I'm saying, my program coming out very soon, so y'all be on the lookout. But I am the purpose pusher right now. So, y'all see I changed it up a little bit today because today we're gonna really get into something. So this episode, we really gonna get into it. So I wanted to put on a suit and tie for today, you know what I'm saying? Just, you know, just spice it up a little bit, change it up a little bit, you know what I'm saying. But today, listen, we're talking about one of the hardest parts of walking with God. This is what we're gonna talk about today. Not when things are good, not shopping when doors open, but trusting him when it doesn't look like he's coming through. Trusting God when it looked like he ain't coming through. Now we all listen, we all done did nothing. Listen, when the bills are still there, when the prayers are still unanswered, when the opportunity still hasn't come, when the healing still feels delayed. What do you do when God feels solid? Yeah, that's what we talk about today. What what you do, what you do, what you, what you do, what you do? See, faith is easy, you know what I'm saying, when things make sense. And I and I want to let y'all know, I'm doing this because I'm in this right now. We're gonna talk about it a little bit, but I'm in this, I'm in this place right now. It's easy to trust God when the check came through, when the door opened, when relationship, when the relationship worked, uh, when the diagnosis changed. But real faith shows up when none of that ain't happening. You know what I'm saying? When you pray but ain't nothing moved. When you believe and the timeline was straight. Faith only works when life makes sense. Isn't real faith. I'm gonna say that again. Faith working when life makes sense isn't real faith. You know what I'm saying? And you know, faith doesn't work because what we see, but faith works because what we don't see. Ooh, Hebrews 11 and 1. Y'all know what that scripture said. We all say it all the time. Faith is the confidence in what we hope for and assure about what we do not see. We say it, we quote it all the time, but do we really live by?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Yeah, do we do we really live by what the scripture says? Listen, sometimes disappointment when life turns. Listen, sometimes disappointment with life turns into disappointment with God. And Christians don't always know how to say that. And I and I'm gonna be honest, listen, I have had a lot of disappointments in in my life to where I felt like I was disappointed in God. I've had times where I'm like, God, now why do you allow that to happen to me? Like I'm doing this thing, I'm trying it, I'm trying to go forth, I'm trying to move forward, but it just seemed like there's a blockage, or it seems like I'm not getting the support that I need, or it seems like this relationship is not working the way that I felt like it should have been working. I mean, even right now, I am in a season right now where my job let me go out the blue. Like, just out the blue, my job let me go, and I'm in a place where, like I said earlier, bills are still due. I still got other stuff that I want to do. I had the rest of my year planned out with the money that I was making. I had my year planned out of what I was gonna do, the vacations that I was gonna take. All of these things I had planned out, and now I am looking for another job or another career. I'm gonna say career. I don't really want no more jobs, I want a career. I'm looking for another career. And it's hard. And the reason that it's hard, because the things that I think I need to be doing, because a part of me wants to go out and do it on my own and go ahead and get a job real quick to make some quick money. But the thing is, I know I get comfortable at that job making that money, and I won't do the things that God has required me to do or wants me to do because he has blessed me with the spirit of entrepreneurship. But I always go to a job because I'm afraid and I am scared. But the disappointment comes in where I feel like I'm doing something that he's telling me to do, but I'm not seeing no results. We being real, we being real. Like it's a hard place to be in. It's a hard place to be in when you have all these things coming up and you're trying to trust God, but you're seeing your circumstances and you're seeing the things that are that are piling up on you, and you feel like God is solid. You feel like he's not coming through for you. You feel like, yeah, you're trying to have the faith, you trying to trust, you trying to, but it ain't happening, G. It ain't happening. Listen, because sometimes as Christians, we feel guilty, but the truth was some of us have asked, God, where are you? And I I done asked, I've been asking that every day. God, where are you in this situation? Where are you? I need to hear your voice. I need to hear something. I thought by now, listen, I thought by now I'd be displaced. I thought this would change. You know, that tension is real. Even biblical figures felt that. David, David said, How long will you forget me? That's what David said. David was honest. David was an honest man. And one thing about faith, faith is not pretending you're fine. Faith is staying connected while confused. Because even though I'm confused, like I'm telling y'all, I'm confused in this season because I don't know which way to go. I don't know where God is really directing me to. Um, I'm seeking him daily. I'm trying to uh I'm communing with him daily to try to find out what is going on and where do he want me to go from here? Because it'd be easy for me to go ahead and just get a job, but but is that what he really wants me to do? Is that really what he wants me to do? Or does he have a plan that I just don't see? Or he's working behind the scenes and I just don't see it. So these are things you know you have to consider when you're in that place of feeling like God is not there. You definitely have to sink it. You definitely have to think it. Listen, when things take too long, you started interpreting it as delay and denial. Listen, you think maybe God said no. You think maybe I missed it, maybe he forgot me. Listen, the one thing I one thing for me is, I'd be like, man, maybe I missed it. I say that a lot. I ain't gonna lie, maybe I missed it. Maybe I felt like this with God, but God, this really wasn't you. Because I don't feel like you would put me in this position or you would put me in this place. And a lot of us have that mindset, like, yo, God, I might have missed it. I might, this might not have been you like I thought it was. But a lot of times it is God, but sometimes he just has to redirect us and realign us because sometimes it might have been God, and then we end up putting that thing before God, even though he meant it for us, we now have created it as an idol and put it before God. And we know our God is a jealous God, and there should be nothing before him. So, you know, God's timing rarely matches our urgency. And when I tell you, listen, God's timing does not match our urgency. Listen, because I'm in the urgent place right now. And you know, God probably sitting up there like, yo, yeah, you might feel like it's urgent, but in my timing it's gonna work out. In my timing it's gonna work out. In my timing, it's gonna work out. Yeah, you coming to me with all this stuff, but in my timing, it's gonna work out. Don't worry, son, I got you. Don't worry, daughter, I got you. In my timing, it's gonna work out. And I don't know who needs to hear that, but I want to let you know in his timing, it's gonna work out. That even speaks to me because in his timing, it is going to work out. Listen, in his timing, it's gonna work out. All you gotta do is just wait and trust in him. But in his timing, it's going to work out. And that doesn't mean that he stopped working just because it's not to your urgency, because he's working. We just don't see what he's working on, and probably what he's working on is far more than what we can imagine, as the Bible said, eyes have not seen, ears have not heard the things that I have in store for you. So we looking at it in the natural, and we might need to be changing our, you know, put it on our spiritual antennas.

SPEAKER_01 9:44

You know what I'm saying? I'm just I'm just saying, I'm just being real, G. Like, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 9:50

Silence is uncomfortable because we equated movement with noise. Silence is uncomfortable because we always think we gotta hear something. We always feel like it's a sound, we always feel like that something needs to be said, but that's not the case. But God works invisibly, roots grow underground first. Character is growing in the waiting. Your character is growing in the way. Trust grows in silence. Just because you can't track him doesn't mean he's absent. And that's a lot of what we do. We try to track God. Yeah, me too. I'm God, what you doing? We at, we at? You over there? Wait, you over there? You over there? Listen, we try to track God, we can't track him. We can't track him. He gonna He gonna do what He wanted to do. We can't track Him. We could try, but we can't track God. And trust me, as easy as it's coming out of my mouth, it's not easy because we steady still be trying to track the guy. We be trying to track God. I tried to track him this morning. God, what you doing? We at like, come on, God, let me know something. Give me a sign, give me an inclination that everything, I know everything gonna be alright, but I need something tangible. You know, we want that tangible thing. I need something tangible, God. I still trust you, I still believe you, but I need something tangible to know that it's gonna be alright. But he ain't gonna always give you that. And you gotta trust him. Listen, God can be active in ways that we can measure. He can be active in ways that we can't measure. We we don't know what he's doing. We don't know. We don't, we don't know. We think we know, or we try to figure out, but we don't know what he's doing for us. We don't know what he has in store for us. All we can do is trust him. And again, like I said, when it looks like he ain't coming through, it's hard. I ain't listen, I'm not here to fight with nobody when he comes. It is hard. You hear what I tell you? It's hard. It's hard, it's hard. I know some of you are tired. Some of you are tired, some of you are tired. You're not fate tired, but your soul is tired. You're tired of hoping, you're tired of waiting, you're tired of trying to stay positive. Listen, but this is what you gotta do. You gotta keep showing up. You gotta keep showing up. Even if your prayer is short, even if your worship is quiet, if your faith feels shaky, because consistency and confusion is still worship. You don't have to feel strong to stay faithful. And I'm telling you, like in this season of my life, listen, listen. When them when I when you say them prayers are short, listen, listen, I did prayer on Monday night, and I I was surprised I even prayed for it, because prayer is an hour. I was surprised I prayed for an hour because I ain't been not listening. God, we at now I'm I'm used to praying for an hour, but in this season, like my prayers has been short because I'm like, God, we have. But I still been talking to him every day. I still been talking to him. Like, God, I appreciate you. I thank you. I magnify you, God. I know that that job was just a resource and you are the source. And God, I'm coming to you because I need you in my life right now. I need you in every area, God. You know everything that I have before you. You know everything that I got going on. You know every bill that needs to be paid. God, you know every uh uh other thing that needs to be paid as well, oh God. God, I need you to come through. I need you to come through, God. Come through for your boy. Make it evident that you are with me. Let me know that this is you, God. Blow my mind. Listen. I'm just being honest because me, man, I take it in my own hands. I'm gonna give me a job, work 50 to 60 hours a week, tire myself out trying to get this money to do what I need to do. And then this season, I don't believe that's what God wants from me. I believe God wants me to work in my purpose, working, working the things that I have already created, working the things that I have already built but haven't put out there, working the things that He has even put on the inside of me that I haven't even started yet. But I think that's the season I'm in right now. And I believe some of you are in the same season. Because I know I'm not alone in this thing. So I'm just letting you, I just want to encourage you today. Like, it's it's gonna be okay. All is well. As the the statement on Sunday was, all is well, all is well. It might not seem like it, it might not feel like it, but all is well. Listen, all is well. This is the mature place. This is the mature place. Trusting God beyond outcome, trusting God beyond outcomes. Meaning what that means, even does, even though it doesn't happen when I want it, I still trust, I still trust God. I still, I still trust him. I still trust him. God is still good even when life is uncertain. Just because life is uncertain don't mean he ain't a good guy. He's always a good guy. He'll always be a good guy. He'll never stop being a good guy. Just because he's not coming through how we want him to come through, or just because he's not doing what we feel he should do, or in the timing that we feel he should do it, he always comes through. He always makes a way. He always is there. He never leaves us, he never forsakes us. It just might not be in the time we feel. You know? It just might not be in the time that we feel. And this is a very, this is a very sober podcast today, because I I want y'all to understand that I'm in the same, I'm in this place right now. Like I really am in this place. It's it don't look like he's coming through for me, but I have the faith and I know that he's doing something behind the scenes. I just can't see it. I have the faith that he's doing something behind the scenes. But let me say this clearly: just because it doesn't look like God is coming through doesn't mean is it? You may not see it, you may not feel it, you may not understand it, but silence is not absence, and delay is not abandonment. And unanswered right now is not an unanswered forever. Hold on. You know them old mothers when they used to ask us, you get you still holding on? Yeah, I'm still holding on. I use that one mother all the time. You still, I'm glad you're coming back every Sunday. I'm glad you're coming back. Keep coming back, keep going to the altar, keep going before the Lord. Keep reading your word, keep reading your Bible, keep praying. Don't ever stop seeking them. Don't ever stop. Don't ever stop. Don't ever stop. Don't ever stop. Just because it doesn't look like what it don't look like. Don't ever stop. Keep praising, keep seeking them, keep keep loving them. Because he's gonna come through. He's gonna come through. 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SPEAKER_01 19:16

And y'all be blessed.