Steps to Trusting

Erin Michele

Steps to trusting is a place where we explore how to take active steps in our faith and trusting God. Taking steps to trusting could be letting go of something you have always wanted. It could be taking on something you never expected or thought you could handle. However, it is always a turning from the path of our own desires to set our eyes on God and follow after Him. At steps to trusting, we want to encourage each other to active steps in our faith, to follow the one who is trustworthy and help each other figure out the character of the God that we follow. I hope that you will join us as we continue to explore how to take active steps to trusting.

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#StepstoThankful2024

Steps to Trusting

11/13/24 • 16 min

Season 3 Kickoff:
Building Trust Through Thanksgiving

Erin Michelle introduces the third season of her podcast, Steps to Trusting, focusing on cultivating trust in God through the practice of thanksgiving. In this episode, she reflects on how gratitude helps to see God's work, supported by scripture such as Romans 8:28 and James 1:17. Erin shares clips from upcoming guests who discuss their favorite verses and promises from God, emphasizing the importance of the faith community. She also recounts a C. S. Lewis story to illustrate how we know God through the faith of others. The episode encourages listeners to share their own verses on Instagram using #stepstothankful2024.

Connect with Erin Michele @stepstotrusting on Instagram.

Receive my free Bible journaling guide "Discovering your Next Step" by signing up for my newsletter at erinmichele.net.

00:00 Welcome to Steps to Trusting

00:26 Season of Thanksgiving

01:14 Biblical Promises and Gratitude

03:21 Kicking Off Season Three

04:34 C.S. Lewis and the Body of Christ

06:51 Sharing Verses of Gratitude
Clips from:

Becky Beresford - https://www.beckyberesford.com/

Cristi Schroeder - https://alteredstory.com/

Theresa Miller - theresammiller.com

Rose Ward - www.ministrymoms.org

Christie Thomas - https://littleshootsdeeproots.com/

Jenna Schroeder - http://www.jennaaschroeder.com

Andrea Schmidt - https://andreadschmidt.com/

Mary Rooney Armand - www.butterflyliving.org

Elise Daly Parker - EliseDalyParker.com

Teresa Whiting - teresawhiting.com

14:56 Listener Participation and Closing

For Our Good

Steps to Trusting

08/24/22 • 22 min

Sometimes we just can’t see how the circumstances we are in could be for our good. We would rather hope for change or wait for resolution. Could trusting there is meaning help us in the heartache and challenge. Join me as we walk through the promise of Romans 8:28 and look at 3 practical ways to grow this trust muscle.

Click here for a full transcript of the show.

Journaling Questions:

· How do you react to the words, “its all going to be ok?”

· Is this a message you long for? What are you longing for to make your situation ok?

· What currently feels overwhelming, painful or challenging to you?

· Does the promise that “[God will work] all thing together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28) give you reassurance?

· Does this cause you to look for deeper meaning in your challenges or suffering?

· Is this easy to see in the midst of the challenge?

· Looking back on past challenges have you seen this promise to be true?

If you are interested in more journaling questions, Click here to sign up for the newsletter and receive “What’s my next step?” a free, 5 day journaling and Bible study tool to help explore your next step to trusting God more fully.

Connect

I want to hear from you!
You can find me and join in the conversation on Facebook and Instagram @stepstotrusting.

Hashtag your story of God’s faithfulness and stepping out in faith. #stepstotrusting

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What’s in the newsletter?

Do you struggle to trust God with the big or little things? Do you want to trust God more but find yourself unsure how to grow your trust? This is part of my story and my journey. My monthly newsletter, Exploring Trust, is designed to explore deeper trust and help reveal the places in our lives we are trusting something other than God. Click here to sign up for the newsletter and receive “What’s my next step?” a free, 5 day journaling and Bible study tool to help explore your next step to trusting God more fully.

Verses mentioned in the episode:

· Romans 8:28

· John 3

· Psalm 142:3

· Jeremiah 29:11-12

· Ephesians 2:10

· 139

· Psalm 3:3

· Psalm 18:14,17

· Psalm 27

· Psalm33:7-8

· Proverbs 3:5-6

· 2 Timothy 2:13

Ephesians 2:10

Special thanks to Jim Dougherty for creating the music for the show! Check out his Album City of God on Spotify or Apple Music.

Intimacy with God

Steps to Trusting

08/17/22 • 10 min

Are you like me? Do you get confused that seeking God is seeking knowledge about Him? Join me as I talk about this struggle and the reminder that knowing God is about relationship with Him and knowing His heart. The rules and the attributes, they flow from the heart of a living God who wants us to know Him. I am thankful that God says “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13)
Click here for a full transcript of the show.
Journaling Questions:

· What is the difference between reading the Bible for knowledge or getting to know God’s heart? Have you experienced both?

· Do you have a personal relationship with God?

· What verses encourage you about God’s character?

· What are the places in your life you see trust for God increasing?

· What are the places in your life you see a need for trust to be increased?

If you are interested in more journaling questions sign up here to receive a journaling tool to help explore your next step to trusting God more fully.

Connect

I want to hear from you!
You can find me and join in the conversation on Facebook and Instagram @stepstotrusting.

Hashtag your story of God’s faithfulness and stepping out in faith. #stepstotrusting

Want to hear from me?

What’s in the newsletter?

Verses mentioned in the episode:

· James 1:17

Ephesians 2:10

Special thanks to Jim Dougherty for creating the music for the show! Check out his Album City of God on Spotify or Apple Music.

Trusting God with our Doubts? With Stephanie Cochrane

Steps to Trusting

08/10/22 • 37 min

Do you ever question how your doubts affect your faith? Do you feel like you have to find all the answers to questions about faith? Join Stephanie Cochrane and I while we discuss how to handle doubts and questions about God . Steph’s reassuring voice tells us that when we address our doubts with God, the process can grow intimacy with Him as we let Him into this space in our hearts and minds.

Click here for a full transcript of the show.

Journaling Questions:

· How does the following quote from Stephanie affect you? “If God is not who he says he is, it makes no difference if you doubt him. If God is who he says he is, then our doubts are safe with him.”- Stephanie Cochrane

· What circumstances in your life have led you to question or doubt God?

· Have you or would you be willing to ask God to keep you close and tell him your pain?

· Are you honest with God about your questions and doubts?

· Do you feel that you need to find all the answers to support your faith?

If you are interested in more journaling questions sign up here to receive “What’s my next step?” a free, 5 day journaling and Bible study tool to help explore your next step to trusting God more fully.

I want to hear from you!
You can find me and join in the conversation on Facebook and Instagram @stepstotrusting.

Hashtag your story of God’s faithfulness and stepping out in faith. #stepstotrusting

You can connect with Stephanie in the following ways: website https://www.stephaniehcochrane.com/

instagram https://www.instagram.com/stephaniehcochrane/

Sign up for her monthy newsletter, The Paradox Paper. It’s a monthly newsletter designed to help us live in paradox without panic. https://stephaniehcochrane.substack.com/

Verses mentioned in the episode:

· James 4:2-3

· Psalm 121

· Psalm 119:176

· John 20:27

· James 1:17

Ephesians 2:10

Special thanks to Jim Dougherty for creating the music for the show! Check out his Album City of God on Spotify or Apple Music.

It's not about you!

Steps to Trusting

08/03/22 • 19 min

Identity, worthiness, being enough- It's not about you and what you can do but about what God can do in you!
This is so counterintuitive. We put pressure on ourselves and are disappointed by our failures or mistakes because we fall short. We want to prove we are worthy but the problem is we are not. What if becoming who we have always wanted to be includes confessing that we are not enough and turning to God in our lack.
You will find this truth in John 3 as we look at an example of the truth that we have been talking about. What we behold can affect what we believe, how we behave and who we become. In John 3, Nicodemus sees something in Jesus and draws a conclusion about him. Let’s listen in and see how Jesus directs Nicodemus to understand what he sees in Him.

Click here for a full transcript of the show.

Journaling Questions:

· What is the place you are looking for your identity?

· Is it truth?

· Are we beholding the truth of who Jesus is?

· How does Jesus’ humanly impossible answer (to be born again) affect you?

· Are you trusting something other than Jesus to make you good enough?

· What would looking to Jesus as the way provided as our deliverance/salvation mean to you?

· Are there places in your life this has already impacted?

· Are there places in your life you still need to let this truth sink in?

If you are interested in more journaling questions sign up here to receive a journaling tool to help explore your next step to trusting God more fully.

Connect

I want to hear from you!
You can find me and join in the conversation on Facebook and Instagram @stepstotrusting.

Hashtag your story of God’s faithfulness and stepping out in faith. #stepstotrusting

Want to hear from me?

What’s in the newsletter?

Verses mentioned in the episode:

· John 3

· Numbers 21:4-9

· Ephesians 2:8-10

Ephesians 2:10

Special thanks to Jim Dougherty for creating the music for the show! Check out his Album City of God on Spotify or Apple Music.

What makes God Trustworthy?

Steps to Trusting

07/27/22 • 20 min

Listen to Tori’s tips on her own journey of trusting God as we jump into a continuation of last week’s conversation with Tori Hein. Plus hear the encouragement that it is not about what we do for identity but about relationship God and His character. We can rest in his presence!

Click here for a full transcript of the show.

Journaling Questions:

· Do you find that your relationship with God affects all other relationships?

· Do you find yourself striving or resting in God?

· What do you do to refocus yourself when you go astray?

· What area of your life do you find yourself wandering or in need of greater trust?

· What verse reminds you of God’s trustworthiness?

· What characteristic of God do you cling to encourage you along in your faith?

Want more journaling questions? Sign up here to receive your free, 5 day journaling tool to help explore your next step to trusting God more fully.

Connect

I want to hear from you!
You can find me and join in the conversation on Facebook and Instagram @stepstotrusting.

Hashtag your story of God’s faithfulness and stepping out in faith. #stepstotrusting

Want to hear from me?

What’s in the newsletter?

You can connect with Tori Hein on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/torimaehein

Check out here Work from Worth Course here at http://workfromworth.mykajabi.com/

Use the coupon code called CALLED to get $20 off your order as one of our listeners.

For more resources and ways to connect with Tory check out her link tree at https://linktr.ee/torimaehein

Verses mentioned in the episode:

· Psalm 27:13

· Matthew 6:9-13

· 2 Corinthians 4: 16-18

· John 6:68-69

· Galations 6:21

Ephesians 2:10

Special thanks to Jim Dougherty for creating the music for the show! Check out his Album City of God on Spotify or Apple Music.

Can I Trust God with my Identity? With Tori Hein

Steps to Trusting

07/20/22 • 31 min

Join Tori and I as we discuss a common struggle of feeling defined by our actions combined with the truth of where God meets us in this struggle. For many, the struggle within drives us to perform and strive.

Check out the 4 B’s Tori introduced to help us break this pattern or belief.

Behold

Believe

Behave

Become

I love this reminder that setting our heart and minds on God (beholding Him) will affect what we believe, how we behave and who we become.

Click here for a full transcript of the show.

Journaling Questions:

· What circumstance or circumstantial change would give you fulfillment?

· What are you beholding in this circumstance?

· Where is God calling you to work with Him?

· Are you trying to become something from your actions?

· What is God pointing to in your life that you are holding onto or longing for more than Jesus?

· Like the Rich Young Ruler, do you have a misplaced identity?

Connect

I want to hear from you!
You can find me and join in the conversation on Facebook and Instagram @stepstotrusting.

Hashtag your story of God’s faithfulness and stepping out in faith. #stepstotrusting

Want to hear from me?

What’s in the newsletter?

You can connect with Tori Hein on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/torimaehein

Check out here Work from Worth Course here at http://workfromworth.mykajabi.com/

Use the coupon code called CALLED to get $20 off your order as one of our listeners.

For more resources and ways to connect with Tory check out her link tree at https://linktr.ee/torimaehein

Verses mentioned in the episode:

· Matthew 19:16-22

· Genesis 2

Ephesians 2:10

Special thanks to Jim Dougherty for creating the music for the show! Check out his Album City of God on Spotify or Apple Music.

For the Sake of His Name

Steps to Trusting

04/27/22 • 19 min

I don’t know about you but I’m tempted to look at the good things in my life and think I have earned them or deserve them. Then we often question God when we see hardship in life. What if we are seeing it all wrong? What if the goodness we see and seek is from God for the sake of His Name? What if it’s not because our actions or our character but because of His?

Journaling Questions:

Have you considered the ways God has led and blessed you for His name sake?
What blessings do you see in your life that are more than you deserve?
Do you need to explore what you have thought about what you deserve and what the Bible says you deserve? (See Romans 6:23)
If you have these blessings because of God’s merit and not because of your own what does that teach you about God?
Do you find yourself working for the sake of your own name?
What would it look like to act for the sake of God’s name?

Verses on this Episode

Psalm 23
Ezekiel 36:16-22, 23, 26, 31-32
Romans 5:8
Romans 6:23
Jeremiah 14:7
Daniel 19:9

Resource link:

Roman’s Road - https://shareromansroad.com/wp/

I want to hear from you!

You can find me at erinmichele.net
and join in the conversation on Facebook and Instagram @stepstotrusting.

Hashtag your story of God’s faithfulness and stepping out in faith. #stepstotrusting

Where do you go from here? What is your next step?

We often find ourselves asking these questions and it can be overwhelming. I have gathered some verses and some questions into a journaling resource to help us process how to step in trust?

Living in Another's Shadow

Steps to Trusting

04/20/22 • 23 min

God's name and character can change everything about how we live. Knowing who He is, can breakdown walls of fear, striving, imposter syndrome, etc. I don't just want to know about God. I want to know Him. Will you join me in looking at God's name and character? Will you slow down and look at how who He is could affect your life? This episode discusses the peace and protection from living in God's shadow. Friends, I'm praying for you as you keep on stepping. What is your next step?
Journaling Questions

How does the concept of hiding in the shadow of the almighty affect you?
Does the character of the one who casts the shadow affect your feelings here?
Are you struggling with the question of enough in your life?
How does the truth of the Romans Road effect you?
What step to trust does this truth prompt in you?

Verses Mentioned on the Show

Psalm 91
Romans Road
Romans 3:23
Romans 6:23
Romans 5:8
Romans10:9-10
Romans 10:13

Resource links

Psalm 91 Strongs Concordance -https://biblehub.com/kjvs/psalms/91.htm
Elyown -https://biblehub.com/hebrew/5945.htm
Shady - https://biblehub.com/kjvs/psalms/91.htm
Beautiful name - “no rival” - https://youtu.be/nQWFzMvCfLE
Shadow - https://biblehub.com/hebrew/6738.htm
Roman’s Road - https://shareromansroad.com/wp/

I want to hear from you!

You can find me at erinmichele.net
and join in the conversation on Facebook and Instagram @stepstotrusting.

Hashtag your story of God’s faithfulness and stepping out in faith. #stepstotrusting

Where do you go from here? What is your next step?

We often find ourselves asking these questions and it can be overwhelming. I have gathered some verses and some questions into a journaling resource to help us process how to step in trust?

Seeking God with Desperation: With Theresa Miller

Steps to Trusting

11/20/24 • 35 min

Seeking God with Desperation with Theresa Miller
In this episode of Steps to Trusting, host Erin Michelle welcomes Teresa Miller to delve into profound discussions on trusting God and seeking Him with desperation. They explore the challenge of relinquishing control and placing full trust in God, admitting our need for Him. Key topics include the refinement that comes through suffering, the risk involved in trusting God wholeheartedly, and how to seek God with our whole hearts, using Bible verses such as Jeremiah 29:13 and Proverbs 2:1-4. Teresa shares personal stories and insights about her faith journey, especially relating to parenting and major life decisions, emphasizing the importance and difficulty of surrender. They also highlight the significance of abiding in God's word and maintaining a close relationship with Christ. Teresa speaks about her upcoming Bible study, 'The Posture of Victory,' and how it aims to deepen trust in Jesus.
You can connect with Theresa Miller at Theresammiller.com or on Instagram @Theresammillerauthor
You can connect with Erin at erinmichele.net
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00:00 Welcome to Steps to Trusting
00:54 Introducing Teresa Miller
01:09 Seeking God with Your Whole Heart
03:38 Trusting God in Desperation
07:17 Surrendering Control to God
08:54 Desperation in Parenting
12:20 God's Trustworthiness in Our Lives
17:46 The Power of Obedience and Faith
24:29 The Journey of Surrender and Abiding
31:16 Closing Thoughts and Prayer
34:18 Final Encouragement and Resources

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How many episodes does Steps to Trusting have?

Steps to Trusting currently has 52 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Control, Christianity, Faith, Impact, Religion & Spirituality, God, Study, Podcasts and Bible.

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The episode title '#StepstoThankful2024' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Steps to Trusting is 25 minutes.

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The first episode of Steps to Trusting was released on Sep 20, 2020.

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