Episode # 36 // Held in His Hands: Trusting God in All Things with Jamie Klusacek
What a joy to be back in your earbuds today! Today we kick off a new series called “Held in His Hands.” We get to talk about how God meets us in our suffering and dark days when it feels like He has left us.
Jamie Klusacek shares with us the beauty of walking with God amid suffering and how to find joy and purpose in the path God has for you, even when it looks different than you thought it would.
If you’re struggling to get into the Word of God or just need some support as you process hard things, be sure to check out our free Held in His Hands prayer guide. This guide is filled with Scripture, reflection questions. and prayer prompts that will encourage you to fix your eyes on Christ! Grab it here.
MEMORABLE QUOTES
Maybe I’m not as perfect as I thought I was.
I think you think sometimes when you give your life to God, you know, that it saves you from experiencing any suffering.
Pain was on the pathway to His purpose.
I found myself praying to God and asking Him to save my child…and He didn’t.
I didn’t need to know the why all the time, but I did need to still trust Him.
Sometimes we don’t get the why, but it doesn’t mean that we have the right to not trust Him.
We think that where God guides, there will be no suffering.
If you just say yes to the Lord and start walking in alignment with Him, that thing that feels like it’s holding you, that stress, that weight, it will be lifted.
The great thing about being a Christian is that God will lead you into suffering, but He will give you the strength to endure.
I would rather live in full yes to God in full surrender to God and full obedience to God any day than walk my own way with my own strength trying to deal with things.
Say yes to the Lord because it is more than worth it.
He has your best interests at heart in light of eternity.
You might not see it now, but when you look back in retrospect, you will see the grace and the goodness of God on your life in that season.
Sometimes we need to release the good because He has something so much better in store for us. But if we never release our idea of what our lives should look like in order to follow and pursue Him fully, we just will never experience it.
I want to live with yes to God.
Sometimes you can do all the right things and you still go through suffering.
God marks our character through suffering…in order to mold and shape us.
The one thing that gets you through suffering is honestly and completely your relationship with God.
Consistency breeds craving.
When you’re going through tough things, it’s a real temptation to just get busy. Busyness is a bandaid.
A lot of times, the deep things that God’s calling and He’s doing and you’re walking through or He wants to develop in your character, the only way you’re going to walk through that thing in strength is solitude with the Lord.
God, I’m gonna sit with you in this thing and allow You to speak to me, to mold me, and to shape me. Don’t rush to busyness as your source to sort of mask and cover up some of the suffering that you’re having, but sit in solitude with the Lord.
We might be getting by, but God wants us to do more than get by.