Resting in His Presence
THE GOD WHO SEES ME - TESTIMONY / BIBLE STUDY ON HAGAR
Come along with me on this journey, as I share how God met me, saw me, and reminded me who I am… and
I want to share something from my life that changed everything for me.
I was around seven years old when my dad told me I was adopted. I wasn’t, but in that moment, I didn’t know that. Something in me just broke. I remember standing there, completely shocked. I couldn’t move. I felt numb, like everything inside of me just froze. The only thought that kept running through my mind was, who am I? And then right after that… my real parents didn’t want me. It hit me in a way I had never felt before.
I wanted to run to my mom, but even that felt confusing. In my mind, she wasn’t my “real” mom anymore. I felt completely alone, like I didn’t belong anywhere. So I did the only thing I knew to do. I ran to my closet. That small space had always been where I went to be with Jesus, and without even thinking, I went straight there again. I closed the door, sat down, and everything I had been holding in just came out.
And that’s where He met me. Right there in that moment, He came close and began to speak to my heart. He spoke over my identity in a way that reached deeper than the hurt I had just felt. He reminded me who I was, that I was His, that I was loved, and that I was not forgotten. He didn’t just comfort me, He healed something in me.
It wasn’t easy to walk out of that closet. Everything around me hadn’t suddenly changed. But I walked out knowing something I didn’t know before. I wasn’t alone. He was with me. And He saw me.
This study comes from a place many of us know, even if we don’t always say it out loud. There are moments in life where you feel overlooked, pushed aside, or like your story doesn’t matter as much as someone else’s. You can be doing your best, trying to hold things together, and still feel alone in it.
Hagar’s story meets us right there. She wasn’t the one chosen. She wasn’t the one with the promise. She was placed into a situation she didn’t ask for, and when things became too much, she found herself alone in the wilderness, carrying pain, confusion, and questions. And that’s where God met her. He met her right there, in the middle of it, while everything was still raw and unresolved. He saw her.
That’s what makes her story so personal. In that moment, she gave God a name, the God who sees me. It came from what she had just lived through, something she now knew deep in her own heart.
This study walks through her story slowly, taking time to sit in each part of it. It touches on feeling unseen, the moments we run, and what it means to be found by God right in the middle of it. We talk about what it means to be seen by Him, even when others overlook you, what it looks like to trust Him when your situation doesn’t feel fair, and how He meets you in places you never expected Him to show up.
You can come to Him just as you are, even when things feel heavy and unclear. In the hardest places, when things feel overwhelming, you are not forgotten. He sees you and meets you right where you are.
My prayer for this study is that you would begin to see what Hagar saw, that God sees you right where you are, and He hasn’t missed a single part of your story.
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