Episode #12
Recognizing God At Work: Learning to See His Hand in Your Everyday Life.
I want to hear from you! Text me here. Recognizing God at Work: Learning to See His Hand in Your Everyday Life Have you ever found yourself asking, “God, where are You?” Maybe you're walking through a season of uncertainty, waiting for an answer, dealing with circumstances you don't understand, or simply wondering why you don't seem to recognize God working in your life the way you thought you would. But what if the problem isn't that God is absent? What if we've simply stopped recognizing what He's already doing? In this episode of Prodigal Daughter: Light in the Shadows* we're beginning a deeper conversation about recognizing God at work in our everyday lives and learning to shift our focus from what 'we' think God should be doing to what God is actually doing. Following the previous episode, Lord… What If I'm Wrong?, we continue exploring what happens when surrender changes our perspective. Sometimes surrender doesn't immediately change our circumstances—but it changes what we're able to see. We'll begin with a foundational question: What if we're asking the wrong question? Instead of simply asking, “What is God's will for my life?”, what if we begin by asking: “What is God's will?” Once we understand God's will and begin recognizing where He is already working, we can adjust our lives to Him rather than continually asking God to adjust Himself to our plans. Jesus gives us a powerful example in John 5:17, 19–20 , where He explains that His Father is always working and that He does what He sees His Father doing. Jesus wasn't operating according to His own independent agenda. He was watching, listening, following, and responding to the Father's activity. That's a powerful challenge for those of us who spend so much time asking God to bless .our' plans. In Part 1, we'll explore: ✨ Why the focus needs to be on God—not our circumstances. ✨ What it means to recognize that God is already working around us. ✨ Why we can deeply desire to experience God while simultaneously missing what He's doing. ✨ How Scripture teaches us to recognize God's patterns rather than building our theology around one isolated verse or story. ✨ Why Jesus is our ultimate role model for recognizing and responding to God's activity. ✨ How surrender can change our spiritual vision. We'll also begin looking at an important biblical pattern: God often works in ways we don't immediately recognize. Sometimes He's working through a conversation. Sometimes through a closed door. Sometimes through an unexpected opportunity. Sometimes through correction. Sometimes through protection. Sometimes through provision. And sometimes through seasons when it looks like absolutely nothing is happening. Part 2: When God Is Working in the Waiting From Abraham and Joseph to David and Hannah, Scripture repeatedly shows us that waiting does not mean God is inactive. Abraham waited for God's promise. Joseph endured betrayal, slavery, false accusation, and prison before seeing the purpose behind his journey. David spent years in caves and wilderness before stepping into the role God had prepared for him. Hannah carried the pain of unanswered prayer before seeing God answer. Their stories remind us that God's activity isn't always immediately visible. Sometimes the deepest work is happening beneath the surface. And that may be exactly where you are right now. Maybe you're waiting for healing. Maybe you're waiting for restoration. Maybe you're waiting for direction. Maybe you're waiting for a relationship to change. Maybe you're waiting for an answer to a prayer you've prayed so many times that you've almost stopped asking. But waiting isn't necessarily evidence that God has forgotten you. Sometimes waiting is where God is preparing you, strengthening you, refining you, and teaching you to trust Him more deeply. As we continue this conversation, we'll wrestle with what it means to recognize God's fingerprints when His work isn't immediately obvious, and why looking at the broader story of Scripture can help us understand how God generally works. And friend, this is only the beginning. Next week, we'll continue this conversation by going even deeper into what it looks like to recognize God at work in seasons of suffering, uncertainty, chronic illness, disappointment, and spiritual dryness. We'll talk about what happens when our circumstances become so loud that we struggle to recognize God's presence, and how we can learn to look for His fingerprints even in the middle of the storm. Because sometimes we're asking God for a burning bush... while He's already speaking through the ordinary. Sometimes we're waiting for the miracle... while He's already giving us the grace to endure. And sometimes we're asking, “Where is God?” when the better question may be: “God, where have You been working that I haven't noticed?” ️ Listen to Part 1 and Part 2 of Recognizing God at Work: Learning to See His Hand in Your Everyday Life, and then join me next week as we continue the conversation. Because friend... God is working all around you. 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