What do you do when you trust Jesus—but you still don’t know what’s going to happen?

When the money is tight. When your prayers seem unanswered. When you’re anxious about your family, your future, or what comes next. When you desperately want God to show you the entire plan.

In this episode of Meant To Live, Paulo Cardoso gets practical about what it actually looks like to trust Jesus every day.

Because faith isn’t always about knowing where the road leads. Sometimes, it’s simply trusting God enough to take the next step.

Paulo shares five practical ways to build daily trust in Jesus:

• Put Jesus before your phone, social media, and the noise of the world
• Be completely honest and vulnerable with Jesus
• Remember who you are and make sure your roots are planted in Him
• Stop asking God for the entire map and take the next turn
• Stop living tomorrow today and give God what you cannot control

Along the way, Paulo talks about anxiety, unanswered prayers, identity, obedience, vulnerability, and the pressure we put on ourselves trying to control things that haven't even happened yet.

You don't need to understand everything before you trust God.

You don't need to see the whole road.

You just need to know who you're walking with.

If you're in a season where you don't know what's next, this conversation is for you.

Jesus, I don't understand what's happening. But I know I'm Yours. Help me trust You today.

00:00 — How do we actually trust Jesus every day?
02:29 — 5 practical ways to trust Jesus
03:00 — Put Jesus before your phone
06:25 — It's about a relationship, not religion
07:40 — Be real with Jesus
12:28 — Jesus already knows what you're carrying
16:00 — Remember who you are and where your roots are
19:00 — Are you working on your outward life but ignoring your inward life?
24:00 — Stop asking Jesus for the whole Google Map
27:00 — Take the next turn
29:00 — Faith means obedience before understanding
31:00 — Stop living tomorrow on Monday
33:00 — How much of our anxiety comes from trying to control tomorrow?
36:00 — The five takeaways
40:00 — You don't need to see where you're going—you need to know who you're walking with

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What do you do when life gets hard and you feel like you can't handle what’s in front of you?

In this episode of Meant to Live, Nathan Weaver shares a personal story about cancer, fear, faith, and one powerful lesson he learned from Joshua 3: remember what God has already brought you through.

When the Israelites crossed the Jordan River, God told them to take stones from the middle of the river and build a monument on the other side. Those stones were a reminder of what God had done—so when another difficult season came, they wouldn't forget His faithfulness.

Nathan shares how that story changed the way he looks at the hard things in his own life, including the moment he was facing the possibility of death after being airlifted to San Francisco.

Hard seasons don't always mean you're on the wrong path. Sometimes the challenges you face are building the strength, character, faith, and resilience you'll need for what comes next.

If you're facing something difficult right now, remember this:

You've overcome hard things before.
You are not alone.
God has been faithful before.
And you can face what's next.

In this episode:

• Why we forget what we've already overcome
• How difficult experiences build resilience
• The lesson Nathan learned from Joshua 3
• Why we need our own "stones of remembrance"
• How faith changes the way we face adversity
• Why challenges can be part of growth
• Why you shouldn't face hard things alone

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