Tag Archives: trust

The Art of Releasing || When the Void Becomes the Invitation

The art of releasing begins the moment we stop gripping what is already gone. Losing access to a place can feel like losing everything, but a void will not stay empty. Releasing with grace and gratitude makes room for something as wonderful or even better. This is not passive surrender. It is active trust.

The Art of Noticing || Intuition

When you already know, and have for a while, but nobody else realizes it yet… just wait. It will show itself for them. They don’t have to say a word. Neither do you. Don’t waste your energy. Give it to God.

Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session Seven – The Strong Man of Fear (and the Spirit of Control)

Session Seven confronts the strong man of fear and its primary strategy of control. Fear says safety depends on management; Scripture says God gave a spirit of power, love, and sound mind. The post examines how fear and control operate, their biblical confrontation, and the process of renunciation so that the heart can transfer its dependence from self-protection to the faithful presence of God.

Verse & Vision | July 2, 2026

Isaiah wrote to a people who had just watched their safest place fall, and his answer wasn’t comfort, it was correction: the city was never the Rock. It was only ever a picture of one. This post traces bitchu and Tzur Olamim back through their roots, into Corrie ten Boom’s hidden room and Ravensbrück, and asks the question underneath all of it. What have you quietly built your safety on, and what happens to your trust when it shakes?

Verse & Vision | June 30, 2026

I sat down this morning to write about someone else’s hypocrisy. I’m ending the post writing about my own instead, because Luke 6:27 wouldn’t let me get away with the version I wanted to write. This isn’t a takedown. It’s a mirror.

Verse & Vision | June 29, 2026

Psalm 4:8 is not a sentiment. It’s the conclusion of a theological argument David has been making to himself across the whole psalm — from distress, through trust, to this: In peace I will lie down and sleep. The Hebrew word levadad means you alone, exclusively, no other candidates. Not the locked door. Not the plan. Not the hoped-for outcome. Batach — the safety that comes from leaning full weight and finding it holding. Sleep is where control ends. David slept anyway. Not because the danger had passed, but because he knew who held the night.

Verse & Vision | June 20, 2026

“Do not fear” appears hundreds of times in Scripture, but Isaiah 41:10 gives it a reason that changes everything: for I am with you. The Hebrew word ‘azartîkā — I will help you — shares its root with ‘ezer, the word used for Eve in Genesis 2, describing a rescuing strength that arrives from outside when your own runs out. God is not promising that the hard thing won’t be hard. He’s promising He is present inside it. The hand that holds you does not belong to the visible world. And it does not let go.