Learning To Trust God

by Darlene Zagata

After years of thinking that I trusted God, I have finally found out how to do so. I would pray believing that God would hear me and answer my prayers according to his will, but when I didn’t receive an answer, I would begin to worry.

I would repeat my prayer somehow thinking that this would nag God into answering me quicker. I still would not receive any response. After years of wondering what I was doing wrong, I finally received the answer. I realized that I was going about praying the wrong way.

I was not fully trusting God. I was praying and asking him to help me, yet at the same time I was worrying. Instead of putting the problem into his capable hands and faithfully letting it go knowing that God would bring the solution to full fruition, I continued to worry. I kept clinging to the problem insisting on doing things my way.

I was showing God through my continual worry that I did not fully trust that he would answer me. In other words, I was saying, “I have to find another way to solve this problem. What if God doesn’t help me?” I had let doubt creep into my mind and tear a huge gaping hole in my faith. Even though I thought that I was praying, in faith I was not.

When we pray, we are to pray in faith. To pray in faith means not to doubt. When we worry, we are doubting. When we pray fully trusting God, then we are praying in faith. When we hand our problems over to God, we must let go and stop worrying, knowing that he will bring about the best possible solution for all. We have no need to worry.

We are to trust God implicitly. He wants us to trust him. He does not want us to worry. I finally came to the conclusion that praying and worrying do not mix. By praying and still continuing to worry, I was saying, “Sorry God, I have to worry because I don’t completely trust you.”

Once I realized what the concept of praying in faith really meant it became easier to make my prayer request to God then let it go. I could proceed now without being entrenched in doubt and worry because I knew that he heard me and would bring forth the best result. How do I know this? Because now I trust him completely.