Sometimes I find it difficult to put all my trust in God do any of you ever feel that way I I
want to trust in God but sometimes I find it a little bit more difficult to trust in him
you might be able to relate you might feel like I love God and I believe in God but I still feel
so uneasy about the future when you look around there's a lot to feel uneasy about isn't there
there's the tension all over our country I don't know about you but I want to trust God
but sometimes I just want to say God it's difficult to trust in a God I can't see
there's a lot that I can see right I can see whenever my bank account goes down
I can see all the tension every time I read or watch anything in the news
God I want to trust in you but it's hard when I don't really see you or some of you might say
how can I trust in God when I did trust in God but he didn't do what I asked him to do
I prayed I had faith I believed and I trusted him and he could have but he didn't I really want
to trust in God but sometimes it's just not easy to do we all go through things in life that don't
make sense a friend walked out of a relationship the company's downsizing they don't need us
anymore business went down dreams are put on hold sometimes it feels like we're going backwards
it's easy to live frustrated and think God why is this happening but we're not going to
understand everything that happens God's ways are not our ways he can see things that we can't see
Just because it's not fair doesn't mean that God is not in control your steps are
being ordered by the Lord if he allowed it to happen he's going to bring good out of it
he promises all things work together for your good on its own it may not be good it wasn't fair
you're uncomfortable but when it all comes together you're going to see how it works to your
advantage the difficulty the delay the betrayal was all instrumental in you reaching your destiny
You can choose to trust God right now or you can choose to trust in the systems of the world
and you got to be very careful here because if you make a choice to trust the systems of the world
those systems may fail but when you choose to trust God he never fails Lord
help me to obey even when I don't understand this doesn't make any sense to me but because
you're asking me to do it and because of who you are God I'm choosing to put my trust in you
and this action leads us to the conclusion that you don't have to understand completely
to obey immediately you don't have to know the end of the story to turn the first page of a
story and be obedient to the one who asked you the question that never goes away why
and you can ask it all you want to but it's the question that rarely gets an answer
even Jesus said my God my God why have you forsaken me the bible doesn't say that God said
anything back to him so the next thing Jesus said was into your hands I commit my spirit
I love that Proverbs 3 5 and 6 says trust in the Lord with all your heart lean not on your own
understanding but in all your ways acknowledge him the word acknowledge comes from the Hebrew word
which means to know in all your ways know him and he'll make your past straight in all your
ways you know him you know him on the mountaintops and you know him in the valleys when you know him
in the good times you learn to trust him in the bad times how do you know God how do you know him
how do you know him intimately how do you know him trust him walk in him the only way that you
can know him is to be close to him and the way to be close to him is to cling to him not just to get
be close in proximity but to hold on to and to not let go here's the key in order to hold on to God
you have to let go of whatever else you were previously clinging to in order to trust in him
you lean not on your own understanding can I say for a moment that's just hard
to tell me not to lean I'm wired to lean on my own understanding some would say it's the strength
that I can figure this out but when you get to the place where you let go of your own understanding
your own plans your own desire your own will your own strategy your own place of comfort and when
you cling to one who is a rock who will never fail you you cling to the faithfulness and the goodness
of the only one who really is good than anything else that brought you the illusion of security
before fades away in the presence and the strength of the goodness and the grace and the presence
of God don't let go cling to the promises of God God I thank you that I can cast my cares upon you
because you faithfully care for me God I'm clean as your truth that you will provide all of my
needs according to your glorious riches in Christ Jesus God I thank you and praise you that you're
working in all things to bring about good God to those who love you who are called according
to your purpose God I cling to your truth that you will never leave me God you will never forsake me
God that when I draw near to you god you always draw near to me God thank you you are close to
the brokenhearted God you save those who are crushed in spirit God you are my refuge you are
my strength you are my help in time of trouble in order to cling to the goodness of God you
have to release that which you were clinging to before Lord help me to trust you to cling to you
even when I don't understand God help me to trust you and obey even the smallest
of promptings even if they don't make sense to me I don't know the outcome
got no clue of the outcome and the good news is outcome is God's responsibility
obedience is yours Lord help me to trust you even when I don't
understand what I promise you is God will prompt you in some way he'll invite you to
trust him and what you'll discover is that big miracles often follow simple acts of obedience
Trust is think about these words when I say this it's reliance on the integrity
the strength the ability the surety of God it's confidence and here's what I really like to rely
upon or to place confidence in to rely upon when you rely upon something you lean on it
who are who or what are you leaning on in the midst of hard times in the midst of lack in the
midst of hurt in the midst of uh of uh sickness and disease who who do you lean on the most
and so we rely on him when you say you trust him I trust god that means I rely on him
I trust god that means I I have confidence in in his certainty I trust God I have confidence in his
integrity I have confidence in his strength I have confidence in his promise
There will be times in life that you don't understand what God is doing things don't make
sense trouble delays closed doors people that betrayed you prayers that haven't been answered
it doesn't make sense now but don't worry one day you're going to understand God is going to connect
all the dots he doesn't allow things that he doesn't have a purpose for that trouble is not
a surprise to God the sickness didn't catch him off guard the child getting off course
is not going to stop his destiny God is still on the throne he's still ordering your steps
you can't see it right now but behind the scenes God is lining up things in your favor
when it's the right time when it all comes together it's going to work for your good
you're going to see the hand of God you'll look back and say if that hadn't have happened
I wouldn't have this position if that door hadn't have closed I wouldn't have met this person if
I hadn't have gone through that difficulty I wouldn't have stepped in to this new level now
you may not feel like God is changing you or doing anything in your life because it happens just
little tiny bits and sometimes when you've got a mountain of problems
you may go five years and feel like you haven't changed that much at all but really you have
it's just the devil wants you to focus on what's what's still wrong with you
amen instead of looking at how far you've come don't look at how far you have to go look at
how far you've come and don't look at what you don't have look around you at what you do have
You see Christians have a tendency sometimes to lean on their understanding instead of completely
leaning on God and so you've got to decide that when it comes to trusting God am I going to trust
him all the way or am I going to trust him 30% of the time and then trust something else 70%
of the time what are you giving your attention to the most what are you giving your attention to the
most it may be because you trust it the most and I'm sure it's so tempting to trust other things
other people other systems satan is doing everything he can to try to get you to
uh trust him then more than that he wants you to not trust God and to not need God the root to all
evil is when you no longer trust God and and when you no longer rely on God and when you no longer
think you need God and now you think that money and things and people you think that those things
will serve you better than God when you trust God you will decide to keep your attention on that
which you trust I trust God so I'm gonna keep my attention I'm gonna attend to the word I trust God
I'm gonna I'm gonna give my attention to God I'm I'm gonna fellowship with God I'm I'm gonna I'm
gonna practice the presence of God I trust God I I don't I as I trust God I'm gonna I'm gonna keep
my mind whose mind has stayed on thee because you trust him when you trust God enough to give
your attention to him he says that'll keep you in perfect peace it'll keep you in perfect peace
You may not understand what you're going through you could live worried discouraged
try a new approach God I don't understand it but I trust you I know you're in control
you're working all things for my good so I'm not going to live upset I'm going to stay in
peace knowing that you will get me to where I'm supposed to be have you committed your cares to
him that's why he said cast all your care on him because he cares for you have you committed your
trouble to him have you committed the persecution to him have you committed the lack to him have you
committed the relational you know discord to him have you committed you know the hurt and
the brokenness and the pain to him you because you trust him you will commit your ways unto the Lord
It's very freeing when you can say God I don't understand it but I trust you doesn't seem fair
but I'm not going to live bitter had some bad breaks disappointments but I'm not going to go
around sour I know you're still in control and you will work out your plan for my life