Not Seeing God's Power in Your Life? Here's Why

Why It Matters

The message reframes spiritual growth as requiring risk and dependence rather than control, pressing believers to create circumstances where divine intervention is clearly attributable to God. For religious leaders and faith-based organizations, the call to encourage bolder, faith-driven action could reshape pastoral guidance, donor behavior, and community engagement.

Summary

The speaker recounts a friend's recent experience of dramatic answered prayer and contrasts it with how many believers avoid situations that require outright faith. Using Elijah's contest with the prophets of Baal as a model, he urges listeners to stop over-managing problems and instead take bold steps—giving God the “wet wood”—to allow God alone to produce unmistakable results. He challenges Christians to act on convictions that feel risky, confess, give sacrificially, and surrender control so God's power, not human maneuvering, gets the credit. The talk closes with an encouragement to trust God to

Original Description

What if the reason you haven’t seen God move in powerful ways is because you keep making sure you never actually need Him to?

In this Dad Tired devotional, Jerrad Lopes reflects on the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 18, when Elijah poured water over the altar before asking God to send fire from heaven. It was an impossible situation on purpose. Elijah wasn’t trying to make obedience easier. He was trusting God to show up in a way only God could.

For Christian husbands, dads, and men trying to follow Jesus, this episode is a challenge to stop managing every outcome, stop quietly “shuffling the deck,” and start stepping out in real faith.

Maybe God is calling you to have the hard conversation.

Maybe He is calling you to confess sin.

Maybe He is calling you to give generously.

Maybe He is calling you to obey Him in a way that feels risky, uncomfortable, or even embarrassing.

The question is: are you willing to give God the wet wood and let Him be the consuming fire?

If you’re a Christian dad who wants to lead your family well, grow in faith, and learn how to surrender control to God, this devotional is for you.

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