Strengthening Faith in Everyday Life: Trusting God in Health, Livelihood, and Relationships

When I first started exploring faith, I strengthened my inner awareness that there is an all-powerful Creator who made this wonderful world, full of countless details, each with so many parts. This realization pushed me to want to serve Him with all my strength and to learn the Torah that He gave our ancestors at Mount Sinai.

As I went deeper into the subject of faith, I realized how far I still was from complete belief.

Faith in Daily Life

Today I understand that true faith means knowing that every movement we make, every coin that enters or leaves my pocket, every blow I receive, is all by the decree of the Creator. As the Talmud (Chullin 7b) teaches: “A person does not even stub his finger below unless it was decreed above.” Even the smallest accident was already declared in the higher worlds, along with the reason for it.

Financial Worries Before Children

Even when I knew that there was a Creator, I still felt insecure about money. Before my older daughters were born, I worried: If my wife and I can barely make ends meet now, how will we survive when we have children?

That thought forced me to work harder on my faith and to internalize that all the money in the world belongs to God, and He decides who receives what. The more I reflected on this, the clearer it became that worrying about income was useless. Better to invest my energy in spiritual matters, such as how to pray better, study more deeply, and be of service to others, while leaving livelihood in His hands.

Headaches, Medicine, and Real Healing

Once I truly believed that money is from God, He blessed me with greater financial stability. Then I realized my faith was still weak in other areas, such as health.

When I had headaches, I would automatically reach for a pill. Could prayer alone really remove pain? Could someone diagnosed as “terminal” by doctors actually recover fully and live like anyone else?

I understood that while we must make efforts, a true believer knows that God can heal instantly, without medicine. Just as He commands billions of hearts to beat each day, He can cure cancer or restore kidneys that stopped functioning. The real doctor is God Himself.

A Story of Healing That Strengthened My Faith

A month ago, while teaching a class, one of the participants asked me to pray for his brother, who had suffered a heart attack followed by a stroke. He was in intensive care, with his kidneys and liver failing.

I stopped and asked the group: Do we truly believe that prayer can heal him? Everyone said, Yes, of course! So I asked: Are you ready to bet your money on it? Silence.

Then I explained: Millions of babies are born each day. God activates millions of hearts, livers, lungs, and kidneys daily. Would restoring one pair of kidneys be difficult for Him?

I told the family to give charity for the patient’s recovery, because charity has the power to save from death, and then I blessed him, and the crowd answered, Amen.

The next day, the man’s brother called: “He’s stable.” The day after, he said with tears in his voice: “You won’t believe this, the kidneys started working again! He woke up and is talking.” Within days, the patient left intensive care, and today, thank God, he is in rehabilitation.

When People Hurt Us

Another test of faith presents in human relationships including family conflicts, workplace tensions, or betrayal by friends. Often, when someone hurts us, we want to strike back. True faith means knowing that no one can harm us without God’s permission.

Even if the whole world conspires against a single person, nothing can happen unless God allows it. That means our only real fear should be of God Himself. As Rabbi Bahya ibn Pakuda wrote in Duties of the Heart, when someone hurts us, our response should not be anger or revenge but prayer; asking God to forgive our sins that brought this test upon us, and trusting Him to turn enemies into friends.

Gaining Wisdom

A man who returned to faith once asked me: I’ve been studying Talmud for over a year and still can’t understand it. Should I give up and learn something easier?

I told him: “For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding” (Proverbs 2:6). Every insight ever discovered, from the beginning of the world until today, flows directly from God. At every moment, He sends wisdom into human minds.

Sometimes, when we face a difficult question, an answer suddenly appears in our thoughts. That flash of clarity doesn’t come from the brain itself, but from God.

I therefore encouraged him to keep studying, and to ask God for the understanding. When we believe that our memory, intelligence, and creativity all come directly from Him, we see breakthroughs we never imagined possible.

Complete faith is not just believing that the world has a Creator, but realizing that every event including money earned, illnesses healed, wisdom gained, and even conflicts with people, comes directly from Him. When we live with that awareness, we will experience peace, strength, and blessing in our lives.