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126. When the Ship Breaks Apart: Trusting God With the Outcome

126. When the Ship Breaks Apart: Trusting God With the Outcome

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There are seasons when the thing we thought would carry us suddenly starts breaking apart. The relationship changes. The child makes choices we never expected. The ministry doesn’t grow the way we hoped. The business doesn’t produce the fruit we imagined. The door doesn’t open. The plan falls apart. And somewhere in the middle of it, we start asking: God, did I hear You wrong? That is exactly where Acts 27 met me. I’ve read through the Bible year after year, and yet this chapter stopped me like I had never seen it before. Paul is headed toward Rome—exactly where God said he would go—and still the journey becomes violent, uncertain, and completely out of his control. The winds are against him. The sailors lose their ability to navigate. They begin throwing cargo overboard. Eventually, they lose the ship itself. And yet God never loses Paul. That is the truth I could not get away from: The ship was destroyed. The promise wasn’t. In this episode, I’m walking you through Acts 27 and some of the questions the Lord has been pressing into my own heart: What “ship” am I confusing with God’s promise? What cargo am I carrying because I’m afraid of what will happen if I put it down? Where am I confusing stewardship with control? Where am I requiring visible fruit to reassure me that I’ve been faithful? And maybe the most important question of all: What do I know about God when I can no longer see the stars? I get very personal in this episode about my own struggle with productivity, doing enough, ministry outcomes, and the temptation to believe that if something God has placed in my hands is truly from Him, it should automatically “work.” But Acts 27 challenges that thinking. Sometimes the headwinds do not mean you are going the wrong way. Sometimes the gentle south wind does not mean you are going the right way. And sometimes the thing falling apart is not evidence that God has abandoned you. Maybe it is simply the ship. One of the most freeing distinctions I’m learning in this season is the difference between stewardship and control. I can love my children. I cannot control their choices. I can counsel faithfully. I cannot produce repentance. I can build, create, invite, market, teach, and serve. I cannot manufacture growth. I can plant. I can water. God gives the growth. And maybe some of the heaviest cargo we are carrying is responsibility God never actually assigned to us. If you are in a season where you cannot see how things are going to work out—if you feel like the stars have disappeared, the storm has gone on far too long, or the ship you trusted is beginning to break apart—I hope this episode reminds you of something deeper than your circumstances: The condition of your ship is not the measure of God’s faithfulness. You belong to Him. And sometimes faith looks less like having certainty about the outcome and more like being able to say: I believe God. Companion Blog I’ve also created a companion blog for this episode: What If God Isn’t Trying to Save the Ship? You can use it to revisit the Scriptures, reflection questions, and practical application from today’s conversation at your own pace. Ready for Deeper Support? If this episode brought something to the surface and you realize you need a safe place to untangle what you’re carrying, I would be honored to walk alongside you. Through biblical counseling and faith-based coaching, I help individuals, couples, parents, and families work through difficult relationships, generational patterns, boundaries, codependency, church hurt, spiritual abuse, parenting struggles, identity, conflict, and the places where fear and control have quietly taken over. You can learn more about current counseling and coaching opportunities through the link here > You’ll also find information there about my Created on Purpose retreat in Mallorca, Spain, along with any current retreats, workshops, gatherings, and upcoming events. And if today’s conversation about control, responsibility, relationship patterns, and learning healthier ways to respond resonated with you, the Happy Kid Toolkit course is coming very soon. This course will walk you step by step through recognizing the unhealthy roles we fall into when we feel afraid, hurt, overwhelmed, or out of control—and help you practice more truthful, healthy, biblically grounded responses. Whenever you are listening, the show notes and my website will always point you toward the most current resources and opportunities available. And if you know someone whose ship feels like it is breaking apart right now, would you send her this episode? You don’t have to fix her. You don’t have to have the right answer. Sometimes simply saying, “I thought of you while I listened to this,” is enough. Friend, you do not have to keep every ship afloat. You do not have to control every outcome. You do not have to do enough to make God faithful. He already is. And you belong to Him....
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