Dear beloved,
This letter is for the one who says she trusts God,but keeps making backup plans.
You pray for His will,but often only if it matches your comfort.
You ask for His leading,but keep a hand on the map just in case His route takes too long.
But alignment doesn’t happen through control.It happens through complete surrender.
The Surrendered Path
Proverbs 3:5–6 says,
“Trust in the Lord with all your heartand lean not on your own understanding;in all your ways submit to Him,and He will make your paths straight.”
You can’t walk in God’s power while living by your own logic.Faith doesn’t need all the answers; it just needs obedience to the next step.
You don’t have to know the destination to follow the direction.And sometimes, the straight path God promisesdoesn’t mean the easy one.
It means the eternal one.
The steps you resist today are often the same ones that will carry you into freedom tomorrow.
“The Lord directs the steps of the godly;He delights in every detail of their lives.” — Psalm 37:23
When your heart is aligned with His,your detours become divine appointments.
Letting Go of the Illusion of Control
God isn’t asking you to stop planning.He’s asking you to stop panicking when He redirects the plan.
When you insist on understanding everything,you reduce God to the size of your logic.But when you surrender what you can’t explain to the One who can redeem,you step into alignment with His perfect will.
He’s not trying to take control of your life—He’s trying to return it to its rightful order.
Alignment doesn’t restrict your freedom.It releases it.
🔔 YOUR WAKE-UP CALL TODAY
Pray this aloud with open hands:
“Lord, I’ve trusted my own understanding more than Your wisdom.Forgive me for fighting Your direction when it didn’t fit my expectation.Align my steps with Your Spirit and my desires with Your heart.I release my need to control the outcome and choose to follow in faith.In Jesus’ name, amen.”
Then take a quiet walk or sit with your journal and ask the Holy Spirit:
“Where am I still leaning on my own understanding?”
Write down what He shows you and release it.Sometimes obedience isn’t another action. It’s a yielded pause.
When your will bows to His Word,your life begins to flow instead of fight.
Before you run to check something off your to-do list today, we encourage you to sit for 2 minutes with open hands, praying, “Teach me to do Your will.”
If this helped you today, share the letter with one friend who’s clinging to a Plan B.
With love in Christ,Camille & Shawna
“Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God;may Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.” —Psalm 143:10
