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Trusting God Without Needing All the Details · Purpose of Heart Podcast

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Purpose of Heart the Podcast, where real stories meet God's promises.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Priscilla Allman, and every week we dive into powerful conversations about purpose in the pressure, through caregiving, illness, grief, addiction, and more.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: If you've ever asked God, where are you in this?
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: You're in the right place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be sure to follow the show and let's find purpose together.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever been asking God for clarity and He gives you a next step?
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  SPEAKER_00: Not the full plan, not the timeline, not the explanation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just trust me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Purpose of Heart, the podcast where we walk through real life with a real and ever-present God, learning how to live with intention, faith, and surrender.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's conversation is one that meets us in the middle of uncertainty, trusting God without needing all of the details.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me be honest for a second.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trusting God sounds beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Until the rubber meets the road, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Until we're actually asked to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we don't just want direction sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want confirmation, clarity, and control.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want the outcome before the obedience, the guarantee before the step, the full blueprint before the next move.
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  SPEAKER_00: But God often works differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: Isaiah 55, 8 through 9 says, For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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  SPEAKER_00: God doesn't reveal everything, not because he's withholding, but because he's inviting us into relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if we had all of the details, we wouldn't need faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hebrews 11:1 reminds us now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you catch that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Faith lives in what we cannot see yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which means if you can already map it out entirely, that's not necessarily faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you can control every single outcome, that's not surrender.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have all of the answers, you're not depending on God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes the very discomfort you feel is evidence that God is stretching your faith, not punishing you, not abandoning you, but developing you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's look at Abraham.
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  SPEAKER_00: God tells him in Genesis 12:1, get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not a land that I've already explained, not a place with a full itinerary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just I will show you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he could have justified it in many ways, or said, Oh, well, you know, I have the things I need here, or I'm comfortable, whatever it was.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he had no idea what was on the other side of that obedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, what if the step God is asking you to take is connected to something far bigger than you or I could ever see?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's crazy, you know, when you think about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But his plans truly are bigger and greater than anything that we could ever think of.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, when we feel like we need all the details, it often comes from a deeper place, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Could be the fear of failure, the fear of loss, the fear of being out of control, any number of fears or insecurities or deep desires.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Proverbs 3, 5, and 6 gives us a different posture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, and all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice it doesn't say first understand and then trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says trust even when you don't understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because leaning on your own understanding will always limit you to what you can see, what you can understand, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And in our finite minds, we can only see what we can see, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We can use some things based off our experiences and things like that, but God's ways are past finding out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we've seen and we've talked about this on the podcast before, but that God doesn't move in the same direction at every single um time that he gives us direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we talked about that before um with David, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the battle that he was going up to fight, it was the same enemy, things like that, but God led him differently each time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so while he could have strategically said, I have this information from the past, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: He, you know, went to God first, which was, you know, what helped them to have, or what was the cause for their victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But trusting God, it always connects us to what he already knows, which is everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: We often want God to give us the full picture at once.
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  SPEAKER_00: But God is a God of progressive revelation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 119, 105, your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my back.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lamp doesn't show the entire road, it shows just enough for the next step.
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  SPEAKER_00: We could say, like, why is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, he could just tell us all the information at one time, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, just let me know all of the details.
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  SPEAKER_00: But God is not just trying to get us to a destination, he's shaping who we are becoming along the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: If he gave us every single thing at once, we might rush the process, we might skip the growth, we might rely on the plan instead of on him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or we might just rely on ourselves instead of him, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: So instead, he says, walk with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of us are in seasons where it's not even about movement, it's about waiting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And waiting can feel like silence, it can feel like delay, it can feel like God forgot, or you just kind of like are in a place that has just like no service and like in around.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Isaiah 40, 31 says, but those that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting is not wasted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting is where strength is built, character is defined or refined, and trust is deepened.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is working even when you don't see it, even when you don't understand it, even when it doesn't make sense yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even Jesus modeled trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right in Luke 22, 42, he prays, Father, if it is your will, take this cup away from me, nevertheless, not my will but yours be done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus didn't deny the weight of what he was about to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for context, if um any of you don't know, um, this uh scripture was um surrounding the time when he was about to go to the cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so he knew what he was about to go through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and so he didn't deny the weight, he didn't pretend it was going to be easy, but he chose the father's will all most of all.
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  SPEAKER_00: And because of that surrender, we have salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your surrender matters more than you realize.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what does it actually look like to trust God without knowing all of the details?
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  SPEAKER_00: It looks like taking the first step, even if you don't see step 10.
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  SPEAKER_00: Saying yes when it could be uncomfortable, letting go of the timelines you created.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna be honest, that's a hard one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Choosing peace over panic, returning to his word when your thoughts get loud.
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  SPEAKER_00: It looks like waking up and saying, God, I don't have all the answers, but I trust to you as the one who does.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're in a season right now and things are feeling unclear, or you're asking God, what's next?
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  SPEAKER_00: And he hasn't given you the full picture.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to remind you that God isn't confused about your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's not behind, he's not guessing it, he's not trying to figure it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: He sees the beginning, the middle, and the end, even before the first day that you came to this earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's inviting you to trust him right here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not when it all makes sense, not when you feel ready, but now.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: And it's a good time to take a little bit of time to realign your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: If this episode spoke with you, I want you to carry this truth with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't need all the details when you know the one who holds them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep walking, keep trusting.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is faithful, and I will see you in the next episode of Purpose of Heart the Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, friends, I'll see you soon.
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• 12:49
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to walk with you again in next week's episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you there.