Not every closed door is asking you to push harder. Sometimes God is teaching you that what’s meant for you won’t require you to exhaust yourself trying to force it.
If you’ve been wondering whether God is asking you to stop striving and start trusting, these signs may be your answer.
- the things you used to force aren’t working anymore
- the doors you keep pushing on refuse to open
- the harder you try, the more resistance you feel
opportunities arrive through people you didn’t chase
Jacqueline Whitney
- good things start arriving when you stop trying to make them happen
- the peace you feel about waiting is louder than the panic about not moving
- you’re being pulled toward stillness in a season you’d normally strive through
- the strategies that used to define you no longer produce results
- opportunities arrive through people you didn’t chase
- the answers start coming when you stop demanding them
- you feel a shift toward trust that you haven’t felt before
- you’re being invited into a slower, more grounded way of moving through your life
- the version of you who had to control everything is being gently retired
Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.
