11. Teaching My Son to Drive Taught Me Everything About Trusting God

Have you ever been in a situation where you knew you had to move forward, but fear made you freeze? In this episode, I share a funny-but-terrifying story from the passenger seat of my son’s first driving lesson — and how it taught me everything about trusting God. You’ll discover three “Just Keep Seeking” mindsets that can move you forward when fear tells you to stop, plus four practical steps to strengthen your trust in the Holy Spirit.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• How a Pixar movie inspired our family’s mantra — and how it grew into a spiritual truth.

• The three “Just Keep Seeking” mindsets every believer can apply when life gets hard:

  1. Don’t Give Up – Romans 15:13

  2. Take Action to Survive – Ephesians 6:10 (TPT)

  3. You Will Not Drown – Philippians 4:13 (TPT)

• Four practical steps to build and reinforce trust in God:

  1. Start Small

  2. Journal What You See

  3. Pause Before Reacting

  4. Practice Gratitude

• How neuroscience confirms what the Bible already teaches about renewing your mind.

• Encouragement to keep moving forward — even when fear makes you want to freeze.

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Why This Matters: If you’ve struggled to trust others because of past hurts or disappointments, you might find it hard to trust God, too. But through neuroplasticity and the renewing of your mind in God’s Word, you can rewire old fear pathways into trust-filled ones. God’s faithfulness in the past is your confidence for the future — because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).

Resources & Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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Next Steps:

1. Join others breaking free from their painful pasts in our free Facebook group Mind Renewal Solutions Made Simple.

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3. Take your growth deeper with 1:1 mind renewal coaching at day1ofsobriety.org/coaching

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