Sarah E Martin

Not only does Christ know us perfectly (John 2:23), he loves us unlike anyone else. Imagine what it means for someone who knows you and all your faults, who loves you unconditionally and particularly, to be the architect of a place for you to belong.

No matter what kind of change you’re walking through—new beginnings, unexpected detours, or difficult transitions—one thing is certain: change always pushes us out of our comfort zone. And while that can be exciting, it can also feel overwhelming.

That’s why now, more than ever, you need something unshakable to hold onto.God’s presence and promises never change. When life feels uncertain, He offers peace. When you’re unsure of the next step, He gives wisdom. And when everything around you feels like shifting sand, He is the anchor that will hold you steady.

To help you navigate this season with faith and confidence, we’ve created a powerful resource just for you. Inside, you’ll discover seven biblical ways to lean on God through change—so you can experience His guidance, strength, and peace no matter what comes your way.

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Life is change. No matter how much we recognize this, we can still struggle to welcome the changes that come, whether planned or unexpected. We say goodbye to old places, we welcome new faces, we let children go, we adapt to changing workplaces, we learn and fail and try again. 

Perhaps you enjoy change and welcome a new season as a chance to air out old habits and welcome in new people, ideas, or possibilities. Or perhaps you have seen enough change in your life that the thought of it makes you want to close your fists tighter around what you can’t let go. 

God is gracious in both cases. 

If I am not careful, my mind can get stuck trying to solve problems that belong to the past, and miss what is happening in the present, what God is doing now and pointing towards.

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland” (Isaiah 43:19).

Whether you are in the midst of transition, or approaching a big shift on the horizon, here are eight ways to pray through seasons of change.

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God has a race for us to run, and we simply weren’t designed to reach the end out of sheer self-will or self-determination. He designed us to be built, little by little, by grace.

Hospitality is an unassuming presence. It’s bringing grace into a space for what others may not yet know or haven’t yet considered. It does not burden the other with conditions for belonging. It frees the guest from any expectations that may become oppressive.

“I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead” (Phil. 3:10-11).

“Hmm, I said ‘plan’ too many times. The word’s lost all its meaning now. Plan, plan, plaaan!” – Ted Lasso

The repeated familiarity with a thing—whether an idea, a word, or a truth—can often cause the impact of its meaning to slip from us. This is sometimes called a “lullaby effect.”

Growing up in church, surrounded by conversational faith, every so often I would be struck by the words we said so casually about God, about salvation, about life and death and heaven and angels. In such moments, I realized that in some way I had been sleeping.

Over the course of a life of faith, we move through both times of discovery and excitement as well as times of stagnation. We simply love to be sure of what we know, and without rhythms of abiding and worship that daily draw us deeper into the discovery and beholding God and what he has done for us, we easily allow his gospel to slip into the background noise of our lives, where we quickly fail to see its wonder, its comfort, and its centrality to our every moment. 

Yet, just as Scripture says this same Spirit that lives in believers is the same that raised Christ from the dead (Romans 8:11), we can live knowing that the gospel message we received is the same that has changed the course of history, and continues to spark new light in a darkened world.

Here are three ways to rekindle your delight for, and deepen your knowledge of, the gospel.

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When our understanding of God’s glory doesn’t go beyond our mental pictures of thunder and lightning, we miss the deepest experiences of God’s heart. Yes, these are true, awe-inspiring images from redemptive history where the invisible God breaks into the natural world and disrupts what we thought we knew. But when it came to meditating on these revelations, I realized I had not fully comprehended the implications of God’s glory when I understood “glory” as God’s expression of himself.