“How To Trust God When You Don’t Have All the Answers” With Abby McDonald

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Proverbs 31 Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Christianity

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When life feels uncertain, we often want God to give us a clear sign. But what if His voice is showing up in quieter ways? In this episode, author Abby McDonald shares how she’s learning to let go of control and trust God even without all the details. If you’ve ever felt stuck waiting for clarity, this conversation will remind you that God’s presence is steady — even when answers aren’t.

You’ll learn:

How to keep trusting God when He seems silent.
Why you don’t need to have it all figured out before moving forward.
How to shift your mindset to help you stop overthinking every decision.
What to do when you’re afraid of getting it wrong.

Resources From This Episode:

Get Abby McDonald’s book, Surrendering Certainty: Hearing God Today by Letting Go of Tomorrow — a powerful guide to help you stop chasing clarity and start resting in God's presence, even when the future feels uncertain.
Sign up for our FREE Encouragement for Today Devotions — relatable, biblical messages delivered straight to your inbox each weekday to help you stay rooted in God's Truth no matter what life brings.
When you give to Proverbs 31 Ministries, you make it possible for us to help you and women like you know the Truth of God's Word and live the Truth every day because we know it changes everything.
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0:51.1	Music the link in our show notes. Now on to the show. Hi friends. Thanks for tuning into the Proverbs 31 Ministries podcast where we share biblical truth for any girl in any season.
0:57.9	I'm your host, Kaylee Olson, and I'm here today with my co-host, Meredith Brock.
1:02.1	Well, hey, Kaylee, and hey, listeners.
1:04.7	Guys, we have got an incredible episode for you today.
1:08.5	We just heard from our friend Abby McDonald and she taught on
1:13.3	something that I am real time struggling with and that is surrendering certainty, how we all want
1:21.3	this assurance that things are going to turn out a certain way. And that sometimes is just a real life struggle because sometimes God's quiet.
1:30.9	And he doesn't always give clarity the way we want it to.
1:34.5	And so I'm telling you, you guys are going to love this episode.
1:37.3	It's such a good episode.
1:39.0	Earlier, can I be honest, where my mind went whenever you said something I'm struggling
1:42.9	with today.
1:44.0	Before we started
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