#196 When God Separates Without Explaining

When life pulls something out of your hands and God doesn’t explain himself, what do you do with the questions that won’t stop? We sit with the real tension of letting go while still believing, especially when your heart is emotionally tied to what changed. If you’ve been cycling through confusion, guilt, and fear about what happens next, this conversation meets you right where you are.

We walk through three honest questions many Christians ask in painful transitions: “What did I do wrong?”, “If this is God, why does it hurt so much?”, and “What am I supposed to do now?” Along the way, we ground the message in Scripture and practical reflection, including John 15:2 on pruning and fruit, Ecclesiastes 3:1 on seasons and purpose, and Proverbs 3:5-6 on trusting God with your whole heart. We also talk about grief and emotional shock, and why needing an answer can keep us stuck when God is asking for faith and obedience first.

The takeaway is clear: this season is not designed to destroy you, but to refine you. We’re learning to trade self-blame for discernment, to stop calling pruning punishment, and to move forward with faith without apology. If this encouraged you, subscribe for more, share it with someone who needs hope today, and leave a review so more listeners can find the show. What’s one thing you’re trusting God with even without answers?

A journey through spiritual refinement, identity, healing, and growth, learning how pressure produces purpose and reveals the diamond within.

An invitation to come and be a part of what God is building here at God's Diamond Network.  We don't have to go at it alone; this is where we will grow together.

A Christ-centered journey of reset, refinement, and realignment, helping you confront darkness, heal deeply, and walk boldly in your God-given identity and purpose.

A gentle reminder to financially support us with a $3.99 monthly seed that helps us continue to share Kingdom conversations that transform lives. 

Thank you for listening, and we hope you will return every week.

Transcript

Welcome And Opening Prayer

SPEAKER_00 0:43

Hello, hello, and welcome back. God's Diamonds in the Rub. We are so glad to be before you. I hope all is well. I hope you're having a great day. I hope that it has been what you wanted it to be. And even if it hasn't, that's okay too, right? So hallelujah. God has been so good to us to bring us back together one more week. Amen. So again, I say I hope all is well. I hope you're having a great day. I'm just gonna jump right into it. Uh, we have been focusing on letting go uh and how God is opening up your eyes of discernment. That is really, really is really what is happening. This is our reality. He's opening it up our eyes so that we can see something that it takes him to show us. Hallelujah. And not only that, but it's aligning us with his plan. His plan to fulfill our purpose on this earth. So, all of that being said, y'all know what we gotta do first and foremost. Let's do it. Let's pray. Father, we thank you again for another day. Thank you, God, for allowing us to be able to come together one more time to get into your word. I pray, God, now in the name of Jesus, you will use me to your glory. For I just want you to be pleased with my service, and I pray that everyone who is able to partake of this lesson, this word, this show, God, however they see it, Lord, uh, I pray, God, that it be in your will, God, that what you are doing in this season of their life, of my life, God, let it be done in the name of Jesus. Father, I turn this over to you that you have your way in it. I pray that everyone that here is able to see the diamond that you see. Father, we love you, we thank you. In Jesus Christ's name we do pray. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. So, this week's topic is all about how we deal with letting go. Letting go from the perspective of accepting it when we don't understand. Journey with me as we discover what happens when God speaks without explanation. Hallelujah. So, I don't know if I'm the only one, and I know I'm not the only one, who's trying to figure out what in the world is going on? How come this happened? And I'm left still with questions, you know. I'm left with this feeling of, you know, what is supposed to happen next. Like, at the end of the day, is this God? Like, why is this happening to me? Like, I uh God has given me a couple of questions that kind of speak to what is what is going on, giving us subscriptions and things of that nature. So, you know, I'm not gonna waste a whole lot of time, you know, just jabbing on. But I want to ask you, how many of you, including myself, have questions? The questions that, you know, they are rooted in how we are emotionally connected to what has been moved away from us. Like, has any am I the only one? I I know. I know I'm not the only one. But how, like, what are I got, as I said already, I feel like I'm rambling. I have three questions that are typically a questions that we feel. And here's the thing: these questions that I have that we typically feel, the thing is that they are rooted in how we are projecting our part that we played in it. You hear me? I'm pausing it intentionally. Now, I don't know where you are right now, but if you are in your car, please make sure that you get that journal. Journal when you get home and and begin to really journal this because it's important because it is attached to what is happening in your heart. Hallelujah. Now, one of the questions that we typically will ask, especially when something happens and it comes unexpectedly, and it comes in a way that it leaves us feeling like guilty and confused, right? It feels like, and this is the question, what did I do wrong? Or what what or did I do something wrong? What did I do wrong? What did I what did what did I do? Did I do something wrong? Yeah, excuse me, get this tongue twisted. I'm gonna say it again. What did I do wrong? You know, we ask that question. What did I do wrong? I must have done something wrong, or we'll say, Did I do something wrong? So it's kind of a twofold question that is it's a normal question when you feel guilty, when you feel confused, like at the end of the day, here's what we gotta come to. It's not punishment, it's pruning. Hallelujah. It is pruning, and this is what I want us to do is hold to that. Like at the end of the day, it ain't necessarily that I've done anything wrong. But in order to get to the next level, we have got to be pruned. Those he loves, he prunes. Hallelujah. You gotta get to the point, just accept that you know, when the will of God is going forth, whether we understand it or not, because we trust him, we know that it is for our good. Now, when you go to John 15, John 15, chapter 2, I'm sorry, chapter 15, verse 2 says, Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. And every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth, that it may bring forth more fruit. So when we go back to this particular verse and we look at these words, he said, Every branch in me. So if you are a part part of him, a part of Jesus, he said, and you're not bearing fruit, he said, I will remove you. Hallelujah. So you cannot be confessing Jesus and not be producing something. Like you ought to be what you know, you ought to be bringing something to the table, something of value that somebody else is able to be nourished from. Hallelujah. Why do I say it like that? I say it like that because whenever we produce something, somebody else is able to be blessed by it. And if you're not doing anything with what he has given you, and you have professed him, you are a part of them, of him. And it is taken away not necessarily because that's what he wants, but it'll fall off. What do I mean? I mean that fruit on a vine that is not, that has been separated from the vine, because it's not getting the nourishment that it needs, is not, it's not and it's not growing, is not, it's not coming into quote unquote season. It's going to fall off. And it's gonna fall off to the ground, and and and once it hits the ground, it's gonna dry up eventually. And what's gonna happen? The wind is gonna blow it away because it has no life. You don't want to be that soul who say who says with that mouth, I know Jesus, I'm connected to him, but it they but your heart is far from him. Because if your heart is connected to him, then he's gonna continue to strengthen you along the way. Look, some folks, you know, try to put it off on God, but really, no, it's not on God. The end of the day, you gotta be willing to feed your mind and your spirit and your heart. You gotta feed it. And like, if he just did it just because, then that's kind of robotic. You heard what I'm saying? I'm giving it to you because I'm supposed to. When that's not the case because we got free will. Accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior is just the beginning. You gotta take steps after that. You've opened your heart to him. Now you gotta trust him with your heart. Hallelujah. So he says, so the answer to what he's saying in the scripture is that if you are a part of him, and he said, You should be bearing fruit. People should be able to come up and eat off of your tree. This was what Jesus was saying about that fig tree. Because he was hungry, he went to the fig tree. The tree should have had figs on it to satisfy his hunger, but it did not, and because it did not, Jesus looked at that tree and he said, Let it never brew, never, let it never produce fruit, that it will shrivel up and die because it was not doing what it should have been doing when it was necessary. Hallelujah. That is such a powerful, powerful revelation. He said, Every fruit that beareth fruit, he purges. Okay? He said he purges, he presses it down so that it is able to produce even more. Hallelujah. When the plant is pruned, the dead plants are gotten dead leaves, and the things that was dead around it, they are gotten rid of. Hallelujah. They're gotten rid of so that it doesn't choke the life out of what is living. Hallelujah. So you might have some people removed out of your life. It ain't your fault. You might have a have something else that you didn't expect to happen. It ain't necessarily your fault. Could be just him pruning you so that you can produce more. Hallelujah. You know, it's been said and we say it over and over again, it's like, but it's hard to, it's hard to hold on to that. You know, we can't carry everything and everybody on our back when we're going to our next level. Come on, somebody. Hallelujah. We can't. As much as we want to, we cannot. And the sooner that we come to this place of acceptance that, you know, the will of the Father is more and more prevalent than our own fleshly needs. Hallelujah. Jesus is more concerned about our spirit than our flesh. Because here's the reality: we're supposed to die to our flesh daily and grow in our spirit on a daily basis. More and more we live for the spirit and die to the flesh more and more every day. Hallelujah. So that was number one. Number two, here's another question that we ask. If this is God, why does it hurt so much? Come on, somebody. Hallelujah. Now I know that's one of them. For I know it for my own self. You heard? Mine is definitely number one and definitely number two. If this is God, why does it hurt so much? I don't know why we have this fantasy that because we give our heart to God, that we never go through anything. It's a fantasy. That's a fantasy to think that we'll never go through anything. But this is a fantasy that the world and the prince of this world has created. And the crazy part about it is, is that the those, the children of God, are accepting that for their spiritual life too. And it don't work that way. It just don't work that way. You're gonna feel like you, like when when this happens, when it hurts like that, you feel like a sense of of loss. You know what I mean? You feel a sense of and and what that really is, the one term, it's grief. You know, we've all grieved something or someone, and we feel like, man, there's no way God, being God, could have taken my son. I could have said that. But what I know, that I know that I know, is that God's will is perfect. Hallelujah. And that what he wants to accomplish and what he wanted to do in the life of my son and before and after, that it'll be done. That his plan is better than mine. I can't sit here and tell you that I still don't experience grief in the loss of my son. But I know that he is in a better place. I don't have to worry about anybody or anything causing any harm to him. I don't have to worry about any of that. Hallelujah. Why? Because I know he's in the arms of Jesus. Some people receive like an emotional shock, like a shock to their lives. Like, I can't believe that that happened. You know, and and and a whole lot of times, especially with trauma, people have a hard time getting beyond it. Why? Because it's an emotional thing. It's like somebody ripping, not just making an incision and cutting away and stitching it up and he and and you know, preparing it for the healing. No, it's like something that's just ripped away suddenly. And so you got all of those lesions just kind of hanging off and slowly, slowly, slowly, painfully healing itself while there's still infection underneath. You know what I mean? That's kind of what it looks like when you got emotional shock going on. And that again, you come to that place where you say, Why does this hurt so much? I understand that, you know, things have an expiration. I understand, like my not knowledge, knowledge-wise and logic wise, I understand that, you know, XYZ won't be forever. You know, I understand that, but when it happens, it's like, oh my gosh. You know, let's not, we, let's not, and no, no, no, this is God, he don't dismiss our pain. He doesn't dismiss our suffering, but it is necessary for our next level. It is necessary for him to accomplish what he desires to accomplish through you. Hallelujah. A whole lot of times we stunt our throat, stunt our growth because we don't understand. Because something is happening and we don't understand. And rather than just trusting God, people get stuck right there, waiting on an answer, and they won't move forward. Because I need an answer. Well, look, at the end of the day, God is God and God is God all by Himself, and He don't have to give us an answer. Hallelujah. Do you want to be stuck? Do you want to stay where you are? Well, look, if you continue to look, listen, if you continue to stay where you are, in that place where you know you are hurt and you just continue to bleed, like you die out. And I'm telling you, as a child, as a child of God, that's not what is meant. That thing that happened, it wasn't meant to destroy you. It was meant to build you, not to destroy you. Hallelujah. Delay is not denial. Do you hear what I'm saying? Like, yeah, I will use my sister, for example. She, you know, she lost her job after being on that job for 20 years. And you uh, you know, a year later, a year later, and she still feels some type of way about them getting rid of her the way that they did. I gave them 20 years of my life. What you mean? What you mean? You're gonna get rid of me for a dumb, stupid reason. You heard what I'm saying? Like at the end of the day, people are struggling with that each and every day, and they even find themselves in spiritual conflict within because they are wrestling from within, trying to jump over a hurdle that they weren't meant to jump by themselves. Hallelujah. They're trying to, uh they're going back and forth. It's like warfare from within, trying to figure out what happened because they're stuck right there. Hallelujah, and they cannot accept. Look, he don't have to give you an explanation. Hallelujah. Maybe, just maybe, you gotta get, you gotta, you gotta get beyond the maybe, just maybe the only way to get past the hurt is if you move in faith and obedience. Hallelujah. Because when you move in that faith and you move in that obedience, it is not until you come out on the other side and you say, oh, oh, well, that's why. Hallelujah. Amen. Look, I I I know plenty of people experience this. Hallelujah. But here's the thing. We think that if God, that we think that if if it is God, it won't hurt. Well, that's a lie from the pits of hell. Because he never said it wouldn't hurt, but you will remember the thing's presence. You're gonna remember that it was a part of you, hallelujah, because it was attached to your heart. And so, because it was attached to your heart, you will feel it. You're gonna feel when something that was a part of you is gone. Hallelujah. You know, whether it's tragically, suddenly, slowly, you already knew it was coming, it was a part of you. Hallelujah. And so it hurts. Can I say it? It hurts like hell. Hallelujah. But it doesn't mean that it's not God. I just said it yesterday, I think it was yesterday. By the time you hear it, it'll be, it'll be about a week later. But I just said, you know, we give the devil way too much credit. Hallelujah. Sometimes God is allowing these things because it's something else that has to be accomplished. And the only way it can be accomplished is if that thing is taken from you, that thing is expired. That thing has to go home. That person has to go home to be with the Lord. Hallelujah. Because without these things and these people leaving us, how do we have the testimony? Does that make sense? Hallelujah. I hope you agree with me in the spirit, hallelujah. Now I want to read the scripture, it goes along with this to make it make sense. It's Ecclesiastes 3 and 1 says, To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven. So that just means that there's a season to everything, and that there's a purpose, and because there's a purpose that needs to be fulfilled, there's gonna be a time for it. Hallelujah. Look, at the end of the day, we gotta get out of get to the point where it's not about us. Hallelujah. It's not about us, and Jesus said the same thing, he knew who he was, but it wasn't about him, it was his father's will be done. Hallelujah. Now let's move on. Number three. I'm almost done, y'all. We're almost to the end. That's bad. Hallelujah. Number three, what am I supposed to do now? Now I know every last person at some point in their life, if you ain't never experienced this love, at the end of the day, you keep on living. What am I supposed to do now? This is when you feel lost. And this is even more prevalent with that whole job scenario with my sister. What am I supposed to do now? They took my job from me. I got kids to take care of, I got this to take care of, I got that. They took my car from me. How I'm supposed to get to work, how I'm supposed to do they took this, that, and the other from me. You feel lost. You feel, you feel, you feel the fear of what is next. You want understanding right now. Hallelujah. You're trying to figure it out and he don't give you no understanding right now. Hallelujah. At the end of the day, God is requiring, he's requiring obedience before the understanding. Hallelujah. Obedience before the understanding. So what is that? Just go forth. What does that really mean? It means it's faith without apology. Like we have to move in faith if we want to get where it is that we're supposed to go. Hallelujah. It's easy to do something when you got the job. It's easy to get to where you're going when you got the car. But it's even hard, it's hard when you ain't got the job. It's hard when you ain't got the vehicle because then you're left with, oh, nothing but faith. I just believe this is where I'm supposed to go. Now I got, I gotta thumb it. I gotta hope that somebody's gonna stop and help me. I gotta hope that somebody's gonna help me to get where I need to go. I gotta interview, but I ain't got no, I don't have no car to get where I need to go. I gotta hope and pray that somebody's available to take me. That's faith. Hallelujah. That's faith without apology. Because you're going forth without the thing that you think that you need, the thing that you lost, hallelujah, the fear that you have. You're going forth anyhow. Anyhow. Hallelujah. Anyhow. Why are you going to move in faith without apology? Because God, God wants us to totally trust him. Period. At the end of the day. He wants us to totally trust in him. When you don't have no answer, when you don't see no way, at this point, like you ain't got no choice but to trust in him. Hallelujah. And it's even better when you just know that you know that you know the Lord is gonna make a way out of no way. Think about it like this. If God is is a God that will make a way out of no way, that means it can't be another way. Hallelujah. Folk get mad because God don't show up to the last minute. Hallelujah. But all of the other ways had to get out of the way so that he could show up. Come on now. Hallelujah. Look at Proverbs 3, verse 5 through 6. He says, Trust in the Lord with all thine heart. He said, and lean not onto thine own understanding. So the first part of this verse, he said, trust in me. He said, not with 80% of your heart. He said, but with 100% of your heart. Put your trust in me. And then he says, after that, he says, Don't try to figure it out. He said, because when you lean, when you lean up against something, you put what? All of your weight on that thing. Because you're trusting that it's gonna hold you up. Whether it's a wall or a chair, you put all of your weight trusting that it's going to hold you up. So he says, don't lean on what you think it is. Hallelujah. Don't try to lean on what you think it is because you don't know what it is that God is trying to accomplish in the places and the areas of your life that you can't see. The things in the areas of your life that's gonna come to pass in the future. Hallelujah. You just don't know. So he said, don't try to figure it out. He says, but somebody said, but God. Hallelujah. But he says, but in all of thine ways, in all of your ways, he says, acknowledge him. Acknowledge that he is the God of all things. He's God all by himself. He's omnipotent. He's the provider. He's Jehovah Jarah. Uh, come on. He said, Acknowledge me. Acknowledge what I'm able, able and capable of doing. He said, and he said, he said, he shall. So this verse, in the way that it's written, it gives us an indication that he says, first thing you need to do is acknowledge me. He said, when you acknowledge me, then I'm gonna show you which way to go. The path is about direction. He said, I'm gonna show you which way to go. He said, but you gotta trust me 100. You gotta trust me completely. And he says, I promise I'm gonna show you which way to go. Hallelujah. That is faith on fire. Hallelujah. So when God doesn't explain or justify, will you still trust him? Hallelujah. Will you still trust him? So now I want you to ask yourself, can I trust God? Hallelujah. I want you to write that down in your book. Like I hope that you wrote all of this other stuff down. But as as we get down to the final thought, I want you to write down, can I trust God? Hallelujah. Write down whatever comes to mind. Hallelujah. Whatever comes to mind after you write that. Now nothing might come to mind right at this point. But at some point, that's a question that we gotta ask ourselves. Can I trust God? I'm gonna tell you how you come up with the answer. You look back. Hallelujah. Look back when you were at this pivotal moment in another season. Hallelujah. Write down what he did before and expect him to do it again. Hallelujah. Expect him to do it again. To God be the glory. Hallelujah. As we come to one more final scripture, I do want to read Isaiah 48 and 10. That's our anchor scripture. Just as a reminder, behold, I have refined thee. Hallelujah. This is our anchor scripture. He said, I've already given you, prepared you for as much as you need right now in this season. He says, but not with silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. So he said, in the midst of the fire, I picked you to be able to survive the affliction. Hallelujah. That when you came out, you didn't even smell like smoke. Hallelujah. Shatterak, a Meshach, and Abednego. Hallelujah. They are witnesses that even in the fire, he was right there with them. He had chosen them. So don't go in to this next season and to this new level with a mind that says, I'm a victim. No, you are victorious. Hallelujah. And what he wants you to do is trust him 100% wholeheartedly. Hallelujah. And I am going to leave you with this final verse. Final verse before I pray. Hallelujah. He said, For my thoughts are not yours, thoughts. He said, Neither are my ways your ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways. And my thoughts than your thoughts. Father, I thank you again for another day. Thank you, God, for another episode, another show you allow me to complete. I just pray in the name of Jesus for every heart that is here. I pray that they will see the diamond that you see. I pray in the name of Jesus, Lord, as you are moving about in our lives and separating and getting rid of and purifying and refining and doing all the things, uh, leading us to a place where we are confident in that the things that you are telling us and to let go of and the things that you are removing out of our lives, that at the end of the day we put total trust in you. That we will move in obedience, God, as you continue to just pave the way, that we get where we're supposed to go. Hallelujah. I thank you, God. You've called me into this place to be able to inspire, to be able to encourage, to be able to be a light for the kingdom, to be able to help my brothers and my sisters as we go about in this journey that we are on until we make it home to be with you. I pray, God, that you will continue to show us how to be impactful, show us how to be effective in our world. God, I pray God that at the end of the day we always come back to the place where we give you the glory. No matter how many hand claps we get and pats on the back we get, we always come back to you, giving you all the glory and all the honor. God, we love you. We thank you. We pray this prayer with all of our heart. In the name of Jesus Christ, we do pray. Amen. Amen and amen. Hallelujah. To God be the glory. I can be real honest with y'all right now. Like I can feel the presence all around me. Hallelujah. I can feel the angels around me. Keep looking over my shoulder, hallelujah, because I can feel the angels surrounding me right now. Because of this anointing. Hallelujah. And you look, if you are in tune with me, you probably feel something too. That's the angels covering us because what we have been given every time God brings us into this place, God, on this show, we are in the midst of transformation. Hallelujah. From the student to the teacher in the same setting, in the midst of transformation. And I'm grateful for it. I'm grateful for each and every one of you. And I and I would pray, and I just pray that you tell somebody else about this show so they can be blessed just like you are. Hallelujah. Let me know how this is affecting you. Because it certainly affected me. As Michael always says, don't forget you are a diamond, a diamond in the rough. Join me next week. Hallelujah. Blessings and love from me to you. Y'all have a great day.