THE THEOLOGY OF QUIETNESS — CONVERSATION X, PART I

WHEN GOD ASKS YOU TO RELEASE THE OUTCOME

When Trust Means Surrendering the Future You Imagined

What happens when you have prayed, believed, waited—and somewhere along the journey, you realize that you are not only trusting God?

You are also holding tightly to a particular picture of how the story should end.

Sometimes the hardest thing to surrender is not the prayer.

It is the outcome.

In Part I of Conversation X, Berry Mwamba explores one of the most difficult dimensions of faith: trusting God when His answer may not look like the answer we imagined.

Through Jesus in Gethsemane, Abraham and Isaac, and Paul’s unanswered prayer concerning his thorn, we discover that biblical surrende ...