Do you
trust God when the doctor comes back in the room says I found something
do you trust God when a job you thought was secure lays you off do you trust God
when you have no clue as to where the next dime or dollar is going to come from do you trust God
when you find out that friends are fake and enemies are real
hey do do you trust God I kind of believe that no matter what your issue is in life
and I don't mean to oversimplify the complexities and the causalities
of whatever your issues are but I've come to the realization that for me
no matter what you're going through in life life always boils down to one question
do you trust God I mean I don't mean to trivialize your trauma and I'm not trying to simplify the
storm you're in I'm not trying to to make easy the struggle you're facing in life but I want
to tell you that no matter what it is it starts and stops with the same question do you trust God
I know it hurts I know it's been chronic I know it's disappointed you I know you didn't think life
would turn out like this but at the end of the day you have to be able to answer one question do you
trust God that my brothers and sister is the core question that all of us must answer along this
life's journey and it is the question that drives the saga and the story that is Job Job is arguably
the most well-known person in scripture because even if you've never read Job's book
you're going to walk in Job's shoes everybody in here will play Job at some moment in your life
at some moment you're going to go through a struggle that makes no sense
and some moment you're going to lose something or someone that you think
God should let live at some moment a sickness will hit you that you worked hard not to have
and all of us will be in a place where we bow before God and ask God why
you know the story of Job he is the holiest man in the city in which he lives and the bible says
to what amounts more to nothing than a wager between satan and God God allows Job to lose
everything disaster takes his fortune disease torments his flesh and death troubles his family
and this man who's had disaster hit him disease find him and death touch him
you would think that after everything he goes through that he's ready to give up on God as
a matter of fact that's at the core of what the devil presented to God the devil says to
God listen if you let me have my way with Job for just a few hours Job will curse you to your
face Job will give up on God Job will throw up his hands Job will quit Job will want to have nothing
to do with you if you just allow me to have my way the bible says that after the devil has done
everything that he can after he's allowed disaster to take his fortune after disease has tormented
his flesh after death has troubled his family the devil finds out that he can't touch job's faith
because after everything Job has gone through Job declares in verse 15 if the Lord slays me yet
will I trust God I want you to hear the depth of this declaration that no matter what goes
down in my life I've made a decision to trust God when I don't understand it I trust him
when it doesn't make sense to me I trust him when it's not the answer to the prayer I prayed
I trust him when the unexpected finds me I trust him when I'm left all by myself I trust him I've
made a decision come hell or high water no matter what I go through I will trust in God
when it gets to be too much well watch what happens when you read
the story of Job you see a man who goes through a progression of losses
money gone
children killed servants slaughtered health taken reputation destroyed even
his marriage is put in jeopardy because his wife tells him you ought to curse God and die
Job finds out what many of us have learned in life if it ain't one thing it's another
if it's not your money it's your marriage if it's not your marriage it's your job
if it's not your job it's your health it's not your health you got one child acting crazy
and minute you get them right the second one want to act of fool if it's not one thing
it's another because it seems like life can add more and more and more and more on you till you
reach a point where you can't bear it any longer and it's in that moment that you become like Job
and say God you know what all I can do is trust you I don't understand this but I trust you
this is more than I asked for but I trust you I don't know what you're up to but I trust you
this is not the way my life ought to look but God I trust you have you ever had a place where all
you could do is give it to God and say God all I can do is trust you
in in that moment I need you to trust that God can handle it I trust God
and beloved those three words will pull you through some mighty bad storms in life
they'll allow you to look at diagnosis and forecast
and trouble and know that God is still worthy to be trusted I trust God
Lord right now with this thing I'm going through I make a decision and declaration to say I trust you
I trust you with my health I trust you with my money I trust you with my marriage I trust you
with my children I trust you with my job God matter fact I just trust you with everything
Lord allow that to give me strength to face tomorrow strength to live through this next
season no matter what the procedures may be and declare every morning I wake up I trust God
trust trust in the Lord trust in the Lord with all your heart
and do not lean on your own understanding in all your ways all your ways acknowledge him and
he will make your path straight when you think you've got this insist on telling God I don't
got nothing without you lead me lead me teach me humble me direct me we need God in all of our ways
you say what about this in my life can I take that to God what about this small petty thing in
my life what about this thing in my life that I'm so ashamed of that I've never told anyone about it
can I take that to God the answer is yes yes yes yes yes everything all your ways take it to God
in the lightest easiest things take them to God in the heaviest darkest things take them to God
so how do I trust God know God the more I know of his character the more I can trust him in every
circumstance the more I know of his character the more I can trust him in every circumstance how do
I trust God I have to know him the more I find the more I know of his character the more I can
trust him in every circumstance it says trust in the Lord in the Lord so it all comes back
to who is the Lord and how trustworthy is he the more I know of his character the better off I am
know God I want you to know God like a local not like a tourist
talk to God about everything all the time talk to God about everything all the time
pray without ceasing pray throughout the day talk to God about everything all the time
some of you your life is so busy you don't talk to God enough some of you your life is so lonely
and boring that you don't talk to God enough you talk to God about everything all the time
just pray to God about it and some of you
there's things in your life you just never talk to God about and those things become
become tumorous actually they'll destroy you talk to God about everything all the time
this is what it means to cast all our anxieties to him and know that he cares for us
give everything to God all your heart all your life give everything to God
all your heart all your life give your whole heart to God verse 5 says trust in the Lord with all
your heart trust in the Lord with all your heart do not lean on your own
understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make straight your paths
There are many things in life you won't have clarity about
and the more important those things are the less clarity sometimes
it seems you will have the fact is there are no guarantees in life no
assurances no certainties that's the bad news but here is the good news for life's uncertainties God
is worthy of your trust in every situation this is the message of Psalm 27 when should you trust God
two times you should trust God says Psalm 27 you should trust God in the good days
and you should trust God in the bad days trust lives in confidence
in God why should you live with confidence in God it's because God can do what nobody else can do