Nov14 — Week One: Learning to Let God Lead
- Mandi
- Nov 14
- 2 min read
Because healing is more than what we eat, it’s who we become.
Introduction
Healing is often talked about in terms of food, supplements, routines, and protocols. Those things matter. But they are not the whole story.
Chronic illness affects more than the body. It affects confidence, identity, hope, and faith. It changes how we see ourselves and how we relate to God.
For many of us, the hardest part of healing isn’t what we eat, it’s learning how to keep trusting when our bodies don’t cooperate. It’s learning how to stay hopeful when progress feels slow. It’s learning how to feel safe in a body that has scared us.
That is why these devotionals exist.
Daily Bread is a space to check in with your spirit — not just your symptoms. It is a place to remind yourself that God is near, that you are not alone in what you’re walking through, and that healing is not something you have to force.
This Week’s Focus: Letting God Lead
This week, we are focusing on surrender, not as “giving up,” but as releasing the burden of trying to control everything on our own.
You are not responsible for saving yourself. You are not required to be strong all the time. You do not have to figure your entire life out today. You are allowed to rest before you are restored.
As we move through this week’s Scriptures, I encourage you to slow down, breathe, and allow God to meet you where you are, not where you wish you were.
Today's Scripture
Psalm 73:26
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
2 Corinthians 12:9
“My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.”
Reflection
We spend so much of our lives praying for strength, yet most of the time, what we really want is comfort.We want the obstacle gone, the burden lifted, the waiting over.
But what if the struggle is the strength?What if the very thing you’re begging God to take away is the thing He’s using to anchor your faith?
Paul didn’t become powerful when his circumstances improved.He became powerful when he stopped trying to prove himself strong and allowed God’s strength to take over.
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t’s not that God enjoys watching you wrestle, it’s that He’s forming something through it that can’t be built in ease: endurance, humility, dependency, unshakable trust.
Every time your strength fails, it’s not a setback, it’s an invitation. An invitation to see that God never asked you to carry the weight alone. The heart that leans is stronger than the heart that resists. The faith that bows is stronger than the faith that demands.
You don’t need to hold it together today. You just need to hand it over.
If This Spoke to You
Reply/comment below and tell me which part you’re waiting on right now. I’d love to pray specifically over you this week.
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Wishing you a Great Day Ahead,
Mandi 🤍
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Dealing with cancer twice, sometimes it’s really nice to be reminded that I don’t have to be strong all the time. I need to remember that even when my body fails God doesn’t.
Soooo good!!!! Needed the part of knowing that you are not the one who is responsible for saving yourself
MANDI! I literally just got a whisper from God yesterday about the waiting, the rest you need to recuperate and grow again. This is such a God wink moment, that we need to rest, restore and renew our energy through Him that gives us breath.