✝️Encouraging Mondays: Trusting God with our Connections
💕Good, Blessed Encouraging Mondays, Family, Friends & New Encouragers!
Today’s message is entitled:
“Trusting God With Our Connections”
📖 SCRIPTURE READING — NLT
Proverbs 3:5–6
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart;
do not depend on your own understanding.
Seek His will in all you do,
and He will show you which path to take.”
ENCOURAGING MONDAYS REFLECTION
“When Trust Replaces Guessing”
❤️Family…
This message is not about distrusting people — it’s about trusting God first.
So many relational wounds come from leaning on our own understanding instead of God’s wisdom. When we guess instead of discern, we often carry confusion, disappointment, and unnecessary heartache.
God is gently reminding us that He sees what we cannot see.
He knows the motives, the timing, and the purpose behind every connection in our lives.
Trusting God means releasing the need to figure everything out and allowing Him to guide who walks with us — and how closely.
Today, God is inviting us to trade control for trust.
To release anxiety and lean into alignment.
To stop guessing and start surrendering.
Key spiritual truths highlighted today:
• Trust vs. control
• Discernment vs. guessing
• Alignment vs. anxiety
• Surrender vs. self-reliance
✝️ ENCOURAGING THOUGHT FOR TODAY
If you’ve been feeling:
• uncertain
• conflicted
• unsure about a relationship
Pause and remember:
You are not alone in discernment.
God walks ahead of you.
God directs your steps.
God is still speaking.
God is still guiding.
God is still faithful.
🍎TEMPLE CARE CHECK-IN
Trust shows up in how we care for ourselves, too.
This journey is not about guilt or extremes.
It’s about awareness, stewardship, and grace.
You may be:
• consistent
• restarting
• adjusting
• learning
• observing
And all of it still counts.
🍎Gentle Temple-Care Truths to Reinforce
• Our bodies are God’s design
• Habits follow the heart
• Clean choices can be simple and convenient
• Awareness leads to freedom, not fear
🙏🏼CLOSING PRAYER
Trustworthy LORD,
Help us trust You beyond what we can see or understand.
Guide our hearts and our relationships.
Teach us to lean on You fully and follow where You lead.
May You guide and guard our friendship connections from this moment forward.
In Jesus’ trustworthy Name,
Amen.
❤️CLOSING BLESSING
Much love to you all!
Walk gently and confidently this week.
🙏🏼DAILY PROCLAMATION
Before we close, I want to invite you — only if you feel led — to say a daily proclamation with me.
This is the proclamation I return to daily.
Not out of perfection, but out of surrender.
🙏🏼From Survival to Surrender — My Daily Proclamation
God, today I stop negotiating with You.
I stop hiding parts of my life behind excuses, wounds, and fear.
I stop managing sin instead of surrendering it.
I stop calling survival “strength” when it is really exhaustion.
I release every attachment that feels good but pulls me away from truth.
I let go of relationships, habits, and cycles that soothe me temporarily but cost me spiritually.
I acknowledge what I already know:
what does not align with You cannot heal me.
Today, I surrender control.
I surrender comfort.
I surrender timing.
I surrender the false intimacy I’ve used to avoid true wholeness.
I choose alignment over appetite.
Obedience over urgency.
Healing over hiding.
God, I no longer want to survive — I want to live whole.
I invite You into every area I’ve kept guarded, delayed, or divided.
Lead my life.
Heal my heart.
Reorder my desires.
From this moment forward, I choose surrender —
not because I am weak,
but because You are strong.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
🛜STAY CONNECTED WITH ENCOURAGING MONDAYS
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it’s a digital ministry and growing community rooted in faith, reflection, and peaceful transformation.
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Wherever you connect, may God’s peace meet you there.
