Knowing the Father in Times of Crises

Greetings, Partners,

Once again, thank you for your prayers and love. For those just tuning in: over the past few months we’ve walked through four surgeries across three close family members, two homegoing services for loved ones, and a few major logistical surprises in the business. It felt like everything happened at once.

Yet the Provance clan has been kept through it all. God has been very sweet to us—walking with us, steadying us. We are blessed to know our heavenly Father, and to know He is faithful in times of crises.

My encouragement to you today is just that: Knowing the Father in Times of Crises

Crisis can shrink God in our minds. Sometimes pain can confuse us into seeing the Father as a silent observer instead of an active participant.

But Jesus came to show us the Father’s face—not a foreman, a Father: near, attentive, and endlessly kind. He never confuses our weakness with worthlessness. His love isn’t a reward for steady hands; it’s the steadying of our hands.

When the bottom falls out (and it sometimes does), the Father does not stand on the rim of the pit and shout instructions. He climbs down. He is with you as surely as breath in your lungs. The cross settled His posture toward you forever; the resurrection secured your future and remitted the past; His Spirit resides in you now, counseling and comforting the present.

God is too good, Christ’s work too complete, and heaven’s hope too certain to make our crisis the headline. God is close to the brokenhearted (Ps. 34:18), but He does not leave us as the brokenhearted (Ps. 147:3). There is no pain this world can offer that deserves to poison your praise.

If you lose a loved one in Christ, death is not a theft; it’s a transfer—“absent from the body, present with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:8). Christ has already “swallowed up death in victory” (1 Cor. 15:54–57). He holds them close, secures their eternity, and holds you while you walk through the valley (Jude 24; Heb. 7:25).

Still, many believers quietly buy into a spiritual warranty plan: If I tithe, serve, and avoid the headline sins, God will bubble-wrap my path. But Scripture never promises a problem-free existence; it promises divine equipment for every problem that does arise. David still faced Goliath. Daniel still met the lions. Paul still wore shackles—and each leveraged adversity into a platform for faith. James doesn’t say, “Consider it pure joy when life is easy,” but “when you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance” (James 1:2–3).

I know Him. I know whom I serve. Though I may fail, He doesn’t. When my grip slips, His doesn’t. He is fiercely loyal to His Word and to His people: That’s Me. That’s You. The greatest honor we can bring Him in return is our love, trust and loyalty. So onward my family—eyes up, hearts steady, steps faithful.