Trust God’s Plan for Your Life
God’s Plan for Your Life: Learning to Trust God Through the Unknown
What if God’s plan for your life looks completely different than what you expected and it’s actually a good thing? Titus Schmidt’s story is a powerful reminder that trust in the Lord isn’t built in the easy seasons, but in the tension, waiting, and when obedience comes before understanding. His journey from a teacher to a full-time pastor, and his family’s walk through the challenges of starting a family, is a testimony that God has a plan for your life, and He is faithful to carry it through.
A Life Formed by Faith and Family
Titus grew up in Minnesota, surrounded by a faith-filled family who modeled Christ-like servanthood and leadership. He remembers wanting to be a youth pastor at a young age because of his father who served in ministry. As a pre-teen, Titus was impacted by the Gospel in every area of his life. He was surrounded by older men and women who poured into him and helped shape him into the disciple he is today.
When God’s Call Meets Real Life
While grateful for the gift of being in a ministry-oriented family, Titus also saw the heaviness his parents experienced that can come from ministry. After talking to his dad about his path, he decided to pursue a more “secular” degree at Oral Roberts University, earning both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in education and public school administration. He went on to teach in Tulsa’s public school system for three years before God shifted his pathway forward.
God’s plan for your life can sometimes look like a detour, but this wasn’t, it was preparation for the calling on Titus’ life.
Trust God’s Plan Even When It Interrupts Yours
Everything changed in Titus’ life with a single phone call from his pastor. His pastor called and asked Titus to step in as an interim youth pastor for a few months. This call created a spiritual restlessness in him that his wife Rachel also recognized and affirmed. In a matter of two weeks, God shifted Titus’ plans and led him towards service in ministry.
He now serves full-time as a youth and young adults pastor at his church, learning to trust God daily in what it means to be a living sacrifice. The shift wasn’t about having everything figured out. It was about submission to God, saying yes before the outcome was guaranteed.
The Holy Spirit’s Role in Your Calling
This pivital moment illustrates how the Holy Spirit in your life stirs in you God’s call on your life. Through the affirmation of trusted people and sometimes a little restlessness, you’re pointed toward purpose.
He didn’t seek out this ministry role
His wife’s confirmation was a key part of trusting God’s plan
The shift happened in two weeks
Trusting God in the Unknown: Marriage Family, and Waiting
While Titus was stepping into ministry, another area of his life required just as much faith as many people encounter: trusting God with your marriage and the desire to start a family.
From the beginning of their relationship, Titus and his wife talked about their desire to have children and expand their family. This journey has not been straightforward. For the Schmitt family, this journey included discouragement, waiting, and the emotional toll that can come with medical intervention. Through it all, the truth remained, God has a plan for your life and for your family, even when the timeline feels painfully unclear.
When God Sees Your Struggle
Rather than pulling away from God during the testing of their faith in this area, Titus and Rachel became even more confident in the faithfulness and goodness of God and leaned in. Titus encourages listeners that God sees our desires, knows our struggles, and is with us through it all.
At one point, Rachel’s father shared a prophetic word, that they would be pregnant by the end of 2025. This word became a consistent reminder to stay anchored in hope through the long and difficult season. And hallelujah, that word came to pass! God’s plan for your life includes the desires of your heart, and He is not unaware of what you are carrying.
When Trust Is All You Have - And Why That’s Enough
We asked Titus what to do when trusting God feels like the only thing left.
“Realize that’s all you need,” Titus says.
Trust in the Lord is not a last resort, it’s a posture. It is built through consistent submission to His Word and His character. Learning to trust God and lean into faith is choosing to believe who He is, even when your circumstances don’t make sense and life looks differently than what you originally planned.
Why Dependence on God is a Position of Power
Titus reminds us that this place of total dependence on God is one of the most powerful positions a person can be in spiritually. It’s where so many figures in the Bible have found themselves like Moses at the Red Sea, David in the cave, and Paul writing from a prison cell. It’s in these places of desperation that God’s faithfulness does its deepest work.
What Titus Would Tell His Younger Self
If Titus could go back and speak to his younger self, his message would be simple:
Don’t worry.
Be patient.
Trust that God will lead you, guide you, and care for you.
God’s will for your life is not a mystery to be solved. It’s a relationship to be walked out in full trust, one step, one season, and one “yes” at a time.
Key Takeaways: Learning to Trust God’s Plan
Whether you’re navigating a carer shift, difficult season in your marriage, or the weight of waiting seasons, Titus’s story offers a few truths:
Obedience comes before understanding - you won’t always know the full plan before you take the first step
God sees your struggles - He is not absent from your pain ofr confusion
Trusting God in the unknown is not weakness - it is the most active form of faith
God’s call on your life often looks like an interruption not a perfectly planned announcement
Submission to God is the posture that unlocks His direction
Trust God’s plan, even when yours has collapsed
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Jeremiah 29:11 is one of the most quoted verses in the Bible: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” God’s plan for your life is intentional and anchored in hope.
He also promises “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.” - Psalm 32:8
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Proverbs 3:5-6 gives this instruction: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Learning to trust God begins with releasing the need to understand everything first.
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Trusting God in the unknown means choosing to trust His character over your circumstances. Hebrews 11:1 defines faith as “confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” Titus’s story is a real example of this - stepping into ministry without a roadmap and trusting God’s plan when believing to start a family.
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Romans 12:2 says, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” God’s will for your life becomes clearer as your mind is renewed by His Word.
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Cry out to Him honestly, Psalm 62:8 says,
