Rooted: 30 Days to Strengthen Your Faith Through StruggleSample

WEEK 3: Nourishing the Roots

Focus: Developing spiritual practices and a renewed mind to strengthen your identity in Christ.

Day 21: Letting the Holy Spirit Lead

"Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit." Galatians 5:25

There’s a difference between asking God to bless our plans and asking God to lead our lives.

Too often, we rush ahead. Make decisions. Move fast. Then we pray after the fact: “Lord, please bless this.”

But the life of faith is not about God catching up to us. It’s about us keeping in step with Him. Letting Him set the course, the pace, and the timing.

To walk by the Spirit means to pause and listen. To surrender the need for control. To stop striving to make things happen and instead ask: “Holy Spirit, what do You want here?”

He leads through conviction, through Scripture, through peace, through godly counsel. But we must be willing to follow - especially when His way doesn’t match our own or we can't see His bigger picture.

God doesn't ask us to understand His plan; He asks us to act in obedience to follow it in faith. Trusting His character.

Walking with the Spirit is not a ritual or a checklist of things to do and say. It’s a relationship. One marked by trust, humility, and daily dependence.

And when we let Him lead, we don’t just avoid the consequences of our pride, we bear fruit. Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. All things this world desperately needs.

Let Him lead today. He created you on purpose, for purpose. You can trust where He is asking you to go.

Reflection Questions:

• Are you trying to lead or be led?
• What is one area you can surrender to the Spirit today?
• How might your choices change if you walked more closely with Him?