#104: Skill Set: Practicing faith + building trust in the Lord with Carrie Rogers

We want to grow our faith and trust in the Lord, but we aren’t sure exactly how to go about doing it. This isn’t an episode filled with platitudes and shoulds; it’s an episode about Christ meeting us in the hardest, most excruciating moments and in our daily, walking-around life.

This is an episode full of practicals.

This episode feels less like a conversation and more like a worship service.

Author Carrie Rogers shares what it looks like to trust in the Lord in your real life, what might be preventing you from doing so, and how trust is different from “let go, let God.”

This episode is the third installment in our Skill Set series, one in which we’ll take God’s wisdom and overlay it onto our real-life struggles so we can know what practical tools are at our disposal to help us overcome our struggles with God’s truth and grace.

Key Quotes

“Jesus does all the things that have to do with our faith. Trust is our invitation to step out in the faith He gives us.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“Trust gives our faith legs.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“Trust is the action to the thing we say we believe.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“Faith is gifted and grown, but trust builds.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“A lot of us are really good at practicing worry. We’re really good at practicing fear… so why don’t we switch that? Why don’t we get really good at believing who He says He is?” – Author Carrie Rogers
“Knowing God is actually the biggest step in growing our trust.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“If we really, really knew God, we would only be able to trust Him.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“As my view of God grew, my trust grew exponentially.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“If God wants to get a hold of us, He’s going to, one way or another.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“Walking through COVID, we released the outcome to God, and called Him good and faithful and holy and right in the whole process.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“What, today, can we do to practice our faith? Can faith be a habit?” – Author Carrie Rogers
“There is no substitute for time spent in His Word.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“We have to keep up with what we’re thinking about because that’s what guides our days.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“Even in those hard, horrible moments, His goodness abounds.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“Let God be the definer of it all and not our circumstances.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“My faith will never be perfect, but I can trust God increasingly.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“I needed to hear from people who would remind me of what is true and would not rehearse worry with me.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“We surround ourselves with truth-tellers.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“Resting in God and the truth of who He is and what He’s doing is very different than checking out.” – Author Carrie Rogers
“What has most profoundly changed my life is practicing living with Jesus and not for Jesus.” – Author Carrie Rogers

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About Carrie Rogers

Carrie Rogers is passionate about God’s Word and its practical impact on the lives of women. She is the founder of Carried Away Ministries, which seeks to encourage women of all ages to engage in a passionate pursuit of Jesus. Carrie has written several Bible studies and devotional books.

She and her husband, Erik, along with their three teenagers, reside in McKinney, Texas.