Trusting God with the People You Love | Your Nightly Prayer

One of the greatest challenges of faith is trusting God with the people we love most. This devotional encourages believers to release anxiety, surrender outcomes to the Lord, and find lasting peace through His sustaining presence.

Greg Grandchamp

Published Aug 04, 2026

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Few things reveal our hearts quite like the people we love.

When someone we care about is struggling, making difficult decisions, facing illness, drifting from God, or simply living beyond our ability to protect them, we often discover how quickly concern becomes worry.

We pray.

Then we continue worrying.

We surrender.

Then we quietly pick the burden back up.

Greg Grandchamp shares a powerful illustration of this struggle. It's as though we hand one end of a stick to God while refusing to release the other end ourselves. We tell God we trust Him, but we still grip tightly to control, believing our anxiety somehow protects the people we love.

Yet anxiety has never protected anyone.

Only God can.

Psalm 55 reminds us that God never asked us to carry what only He can sustain. Our responsibility is not to control outcomes but to faithfully love, pray, encourage, and trust the One whose hands are stronger than ours.

Scripture

"Cast your cares on the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken."

Originally published August 10, 2026.

Grandchamp is an author and speaker. His book, “In Pursuit of Truth, A Journey Begins,” is an easy-to-read narrative that offers answers to the most common questions new believers and non-believers have about Jesus Christ (Amazon.) Greg speaks on living out our faith in our daily lives – and on creating true disciples of Christ.
Greg doesn’t pretend to be a pastor, a theologian, or a Bible expert, but offers the perspective of an everyday guy on the same journey as everyone else – in pursuit of truth.
Greg can be reached by email or on Facebook @ Greg Grandchamp - Author.

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