The Partner You’ve Been Missing
September 27, 2026
The Partner You’ve Been Missing
Lately, we’ve been talking about the “stop signs” in our lives. Sometimes a stop sign calls us to change direction. That pivot can move us into position to receive what God has promised.
Last week, I asked you to choose: Will you keep carrying the weight of medicine alone, or will you intentionally partner with God instead of simply working for Him?
Think about the last patient who left you wondering, What am I missing? What is causing these symptoms? You reviewed the history. You drew on your training. You cared deeply. But you still wished you had more insight into what was happening.
I know that feeling so well. I would get lost in my thoughts for hours, days, or even months, trying so hard to find an answer. I was not okay with not knowing why. That was part of what led me to ask God a new question.
God hijacked my life in 2024 and began giving me dreams, visions, and insights about a new approach to medicine. It would bring our extraordinary medical knowledge together with His omniscient, all-knowing wisdom. As God led me into Scripture, I began to see that He wanted us to work with Him as co-laborers, inviting Him into our decision making.
As I was trying to understand what that could look like in real cases, I decided to experiment with inviting God into my thinking. I even reached out to a physician friend and asked her to share challenging cases with me so we could experiment together. She wouldn’t give me the full history, but instead just enough information for me to take the case to God in prayer.
One case she told me about was a heartbreaking situation involving a teenage boy whose cognitive abilities had declined substantially over the past year. His family had taken him to multiple specialists without finding an answer. He had even been removed from school because he could no longer manage being in the classroom. They were losing hope.
With this new approach to medicine in mind, I sat in my prayer chair and asked God to partner with me. And I asked Him, “God, is there any wisdom you could share with me about this boy that I could pass along to his physician?”
Within seconds, a picture came into my mind. I’ve learned that when God shows me a picture during prayer, it can be worth a thousand words, so to speak. I see the picture, but I also receive a fuller understanding of what He may be communicating.
This time, I had a strong sense that the boy had experienced a head injury playing basketball. I also sensed family tension involving his father. I shared both impressions with my physician friend, even though I didn’t know whether I had understood what God was showing me accurately.
At the boy’s next appointment, the physician asked his mother about both. His mother confirmed that he’d had a basketball concussion well over a year earlier. Because they’d been told he was fine afterward, she hadn’t thought to mention it when giving his history to any of the doctors. She also confirmed that there was substantial stress in the family.
The physician referred him to an amazing concussion center. The boy entered a brain rehabilitation program and began showing significant improvement within just a few weeks.
I think about that mother often. She wasn’t hiding anything. She simply didn’t know the old injury might matter. And without that history, the physician hadn’t had the information she needed to consider it.
God met us where the information we had ran out. He brought something to my attention that neither of us knew to ask about. Then the physician asked, listened, used her medical judgment, and helped this boy take a new step toward healing.
Did you know Scripture has been showing us this kind of partnership all along? We just hadn’t understood what it could look like in medicine.
In Haggai 2:4, God tells His people to work and assures them, “I am with you.” He calls them to act, with Him present in their work.
In 1 Corinthians 3:9, Paul calls us co-workers with God. That word co-workers definitely landed differently for me after I spent time in my prayer chair asking about cases.
And Mark 16:20 says the disciples went out and “the Lord worked with them.” They went, and He worked with them.
I didn’t need to experiment to prove Scripture was true. I needed to begin inviting God into the work before I could understand what those verses meant for my own life. That day, I asked for wisdom. I shared what came to mind. The physician listened, investigated, and used her training to care for her patient.
Let me ask you this: Have you ever had an intern shadow you? A good preceptor doesn’t leave the intern watching from a distance all day. At some point, they invite the intern closer: “Come with me. Let’s work through this together.”
Now, God is no intern. But, like the intern, He’s already in the room and waiting for us to say, “Come with me, please. Let’s work through this together.” Unlike the intern, He knows far more than we do. We don’t need to teach Him; He leads us. But we do need to invite Him into the work. So many of us go from patient to patient without ever intentionally asking Him to join us in our decision making or thinking.
We may be doing medicine for God while missing the joy of doing medicine with Him.
I want to invite you into this new approach to medicine, one where you work with the all-knowing God!
There is no other partner who is All-Knowing. Who wouldn’t want the wisest partner of all time working with them? I know I do!
Today, stop doing medicine alone and begin inviting the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus promised as our Helper, into your next patient encounter.
Let God hijack your life, like He did mine. You don’t need months of downloads from God before you start. You don’t need to hear an extraordinary answer. You just simply need to know He is already in the room with you, and you just take one breath and say:
“Lord, I invite you to co-labor with me right now. Come with me, and let’s work this patient case together.”
Then listen, assess, ask questions, and take the next responsible step. Invite Him in again with the next patient. And the next.
You are equipped for your work, but you were never designed to carry its full weight alone.
“They went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.”
— Mark 16:20 NKJV