I Want to Trust You, but I Don't by Lysa TerKeurst
Week 5: Chapter 4 — When You Have More Faith in Your Fears Than in God
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Fear has a way of making its worst-case scenarios feel more certain than God's promises — this chapter gently confronts the way fear can quietly become its own kind of faith.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Lysa makes the striking observation that we can end up having more faith in our fears coming true than in God coming through for us. Have you ever caught yourself in that pattern? What fear were you treating as a near-certainty?
2.She introduces the practice of asking "what if" questions — not to spiral into anxiety, but to process doubts honestly and redirect them toward God. How is that different from the anxious "what if" spirals most of us are familiar with?
a.Try it now: What is a "what if" fear that lives in the back of your mind about a current relationship?
b.Now finish this sentence: "But what if God..." — how does that reframe the fear?
3.The chapter explores how past betrayals condition us to anticipate future ones, even when the present situation doesn't warrant it. Can you identify a current relationship where you're bracing for a repeat of something that happened in a different relationship?
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