The Time Is Now to Make a Decision
September 20, 2026
The Time Is Now to Make a Decision
This week, message after message has poured into my inbox, each one an honest cry for help from a healthcare professional who is exhausted, overwhelmed, hurting, and longing for something to change.
If that is you too, please know you are not the only one. You are not alone in this fight and you do not have to hide what you are carrying.
A new practitioner wrote to me while sitting in her car crying after her shift.
A Physician Assistant who has loved medicine for decades now dreads her workdays, and her joy is being robbed.
Someone else answered my question, “How are you actually doing?” with only three words:
“Anxious and scared.”
I have heard from medical professionals carrying workplace conflict, impossible patient volumes, uncertainty about their future, concern for their own health, and the crushing weight of trying to care for everyone while quietly falling apart themselves.
Yet woven through many of these messages is also a common, and beautiful, desire:
“I want to be where I can be the biggest blessing.”
“I know God placed me here for a purpose.”
“My top priority is to keep the Lord first.”
Do you see it?
The pain is real, but so is the hunger for something different and the desperate longing for change.
Years ago, I knew what it was like to keep working, keep producing, and keep carrying more and more…until I couldn’t. I thought the answer was: I need to try harder, I need to become more efficient, and I need to figure out what my purpose is, all while I need to make sure I make the next right move.
But God had another way.
When I finally learned to be still with Him and listen for His still, small voice, He began giving me ideas, solutions, and direction I could never have created on my own. He completely redirected my life. White Coat Revival was not born from my ambition or a brilliant, well-thought-out business plan. It was born through surrender.
God began showing me that He cared about the everyday work of medicine, and that we were never meant to practice without Him.
Friends, I believe there is an urgency in this hour.
We cannot continue allowing the culture of medicine to determine who we become.
And we surely cannot wait for the culture of medicine to change first…
We are called to live by the Spirit, not be shaped by the patterns of this world. We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works that He prepared for us in advance (Ephesians 2:10). And as we surrender ourselves to Him, we become instruments for special purposes, made holy and prepared for every good work (2 Timothy 2:21).
That means you are not merely filling a shift, completing documentation, managing an inbox, or surviving another impossible day.
You are carrying the presence of God into places that desperately need His hope.
But carrying His light does not mean pretending you are fine when you are breaking inside. It does not mean tolerating everything silently, working yourself into the ground, or trying to save medicine in your own strength.
Standing firm begins with surrender.
It is laying down the pressure to have every answer and saying:
“Lord, I choose to be Your vessel. Show me what I need to see. I want to be led by Your wisdom. Lead my decisions. Love this patient through me, even when it is difficult. Show me the next courageous step to freedom and joy that you promise me.”
Surrender is not passive. Sometimes obedience requires a bold leap of faith. Faith is stepping into what you don’t see yet, but you choose to trust that God is leading you.
It may mean initiating a difficult conversation, questioning a broken process, pursuing a new opportunity, setting a necessary boundary, or following an idea God places in your heart before you understand where it will lead.
The healthcare system may be overwhelmed, but God is not.
Your workplace may feel chaotic, but God can still bring divine order into the chaos.
You may feel exhausted, uncertain, or afraid, but God has not forgotten you…and He is not finished with your story!
You do not have to change the entire medical world today. You have to start by changing what lens you look at life through. You can look down and see complete chaos, or you can look up and see the abundance of beauty within it!
Begin by standing firm where God has placed you. Refuse to let frustration steal your joy, fear silence your voice, or exhaustion convince you that nothing can change.
Be still.
Listen.
Surrender.
Then take the next step He gives you, even if it requires courage.
Medicine does not need more exhausted people trying harder in their own strength. It needs men and women who are fully surrendered to God, filled with His Spirit, and willing to become instruments of His hope, wisdom, compassion, and healing.
That is how revival begins.
One surrendered heart.
One courageous yes.
One medical professional choosing to become a light in the darkness.
And I believe that person could be you.
The time is now to make a decision: Will the pressures and expectations of this world determine how you practice medicine, or will you choose to be led by God and work in partnership with Him?
If your answer is God, let that decision begin with surrender. Read this prayer aloud and declare your decision now:
Lord, thank You that You are willing to meet me right where I am. Thank You for bringing hope into the places that feel impossible. I surrender the exhaustion, fear, and disappointment that have been dominating my workdays, and I ask You to restore what has been taken from me. Teach me to hear Your voice, trust Your wisdom, and courageously follow wherever You lead. Today, I choose to work in partnership with You. I surrender my work, my decisions, and my future to You. Equip me to be a vessel of Your love and an instrument for Your special purposes. Let Your light shine through me. Lord, I say yes to You. Use my life to help bring revival into medicine. In Jesus’ name, amen.
My friend and colleague, you are not alone. God is still moving, and there is so much hope around us.
“Those who cleanse themselves from the latter [dishonorable influences (from v.20)] will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.”
— 2 Timothy 2:21 NIV