Nov15 — Week One: Learning to Let God Lead
- Mandi
- Nov 15
- 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
Lamentations 3:22-23
“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.”
Ephesians 3:20
“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us.”
Reflection
Sometimes we wake up already carrying yesterday.Yesterday’s stress. Yesterday’s failure. Yesterday’s fear.
But God doesn’t work in leftovers. His mercy is new. Every sunrise is an invitation to stop replaying the old and step into what’s fresh.
The same God who sustained you through the night is already writing grace into today. You don’t have to re-earn His love or prove you’re worthy of peace. You just have to receive it.
Renewal doesn’t mean your circumstances have changed. It means you have , because you’ve remembered who your strength comes from.
His mercy doesn’t depend on your perfection; it flows from His faithfulness. And that means even when you feel unsteady, He is not.
Every morning is a reminder:You are still chosen. You are still called. And God is still working immeasurably more than you can imagine, even here, even now.
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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God doesn’t work in leftovers danggg that was good