Trusting God When It Still Hurts with Tim Timberlake

Stay True with Madison Prewett Troutt

Madison Prewett Troutt

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to another episode of Stay True Podcast! This week, Madi and Grant sit down with Pastor Tim Timberlake, author, speaker, and lead pastor of Celebration Church, for a powerful and honest conversation about pain, purpose, and how God uses our hardest seasons to shape us. Together, they dive deep into what it means to trust God when life hurts: when the delay feels endless, the prayers seem unanswered, and the pain feels bigger than the purpose. This episode is for anyone walking through something hard (the heartbreak, the waiting, or the silence) and wondering if God is still working. We pray this podcast reminds you that pain is never wasted in God's hands. He's present in the heartbreak, He's shaping purpose through the process, and He's writing beauty into every broken place.

Always stay you and stay true!

Questions/topics discussed and answered:

• How do you trust God's timing when life feels delayed?

• How can God use pain to prepare you for purpose?

• Why does God sometimes allow long seasons of waiting or difficulty?

• How do you keep praying and believing when nothing seems to change?

• How can gratitude and joy exist even in the middle of pain?

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's one thing to be trusted with blessings.
0:02.0	It's something completely different to be trusted with pain.
0:04.8	Is it okay to wrestle?
0:06.0	Is it okay to have questions for God?
0:08.0	If God does not remove it, if God does not change it, it's because God is changing you.
0:14.6	Lord, don't deliver me until you've developed me.
0:17.5	And don't take me out of this until you've done what you need to do.
0:20.3	Just like Jacob did in the Old Testament, wrestle with it until God changes the way you walk.
0:25.2	Can I be very frustrated with what I'm struggling with and that I haven't received what I desire
0:31.3	from God? At the same time, how do I maintain that faith and that hope?
0:36.2	I think we do ourselves a disservice when we try to hide or suppress what we actually feel
0:41.5	as if Jesus doesn't already know it.
0:43.5	Didn't ask her what her digits was, didn't ask her what her Instagram was.
0:47.9	I didn't say, hey, what's your Snapchat?
0:50.3	I didn't ask it any.
0:51.2	Because I just had I had a resolve.
0:53.8	If this is from God, he will make it happen.
1:03.0	What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of Stay True podcast. I'm your host, Madison
1:07.9	Pruitt Trout. We got Grant Trout in the podcast studio with our new friend, Timberlake.
1:14.9	Welcome to Stay True Podcast.
1:16.8	I'm so excited that you're here.
1:18.9	And we have his new book with us, The Bumpy Road to Better.
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