Trust and Healing

*Please allow these powerful words of Sylvia Gunter to encourage and warm your heart. Sylvia’s tender heart for the Lord is such a blessing. Let these words from the Lord speak and help you. Blessings, Ed 😊

Father God has spoken a promise over your life that cannot be broken: “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5). Your Father has not abandoned you. He is not distant or disinterested in your story. His perfect love drives away fear and gently quiets the anxious places in your heart (1 John 4:18).

So come and rest in His love. Let your heart receive from your heavenly Father the blessing your soul has longed for, the affirmation, protection, and tenderness that perhaps your earthly father could not fully give.

Be blessed with fresh encounters with the Father heart of God. May He meet you personally and intimately, revealing the depth of His affection for you. Be blessed to receive His perfect healing, the kind of healing that reaches the deepest places of your soul and restores what has been wounded.

Your Father delights to bring healing, recovery, and restoration where trust has been broken. His work is not rushed or mechanical; it is careful and personal. He restores your heart according to the beautiful design He dreamed for you before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).

As you drink deeply of your Father’s love, He renews innocence within you. He gently restores childlike faith—the simple trust that knows it is safe in a Father’s embrace (Matthew 18:3). In His presence, your heart learns again what it means to rest, to believe, and to belong.

A Prayer of Response

Father God,

Today I choose to trust You. I choose to believe that Your heart toward me is kind, good, loving, approachable, and welcoming. I choose to align my will with Your will. I bind my mind to the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). I bind my emotions to the Holy Spirit, inviting His healing and His alignment within me.

Thank You for inviting me to know You as Father, not merely as my Master, my Judge, or my King, though You are all these and more. You are my Abba, my Papa.

“How majestic is Your name in all the earth!” (Psalm 8:1). I stand in awe of who You are, yet I am overwhelmed that the God of the universe welcomes me close as His child.

Thank You that You created me to be loved by You and to love You in return. Thank You that Your heart delights in me—that You enjoy having me near You.

The greatest blessing in my life is nearness to You. Thank You for drawing me close so that I may experience joy, peace, and fullness of life in Your presence (Psalm 16:11).

Thank You for holding me in Your everlasting arms (Deuteronomy 33:27).

Today, I accept Your invitation to come closer to rest deeply in the safety of Your Father’s heart.

Amen.

© 2026 Adapted from Safe In The Father’s Heart: Finding The Love You Have Always Wanted by Sylvia Gunter and Elizabeth Gunter Powell. An archive of our devotionals is available at on our website.