Trusting God Through Trouble

Trust, what does it mean?

A firm belief or confidence in the honest, integrity, reliability, and justice of another person or thing, faith, reliance...Confidence in a purchaser's intention or future ability to pay for goods...Trustworthiness, loyalty...To commit (to a person's care), entrust (to a person)...To expect confidently, hope.

* To allow someone to do something without fearing the outcome. Delegate, allow help from others.
In God I have put my trust, I will not be afraid, what can man do to me? (Psalm 56:11)

Don't keep trying to find a way out of your troubles. Trust Jesus! Let Him do what He wants to do, in His way and His time. Trust Him, don't fear Him.

* To run into a shelter or hiding place, to seek refuge.
Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You, and in the shadow of Your wing I will make my refuge, until these calamities have passed by (Psalm 57:1).

We feel sheltered in our soul in the presence of God.

* To lean the weigth of your soul on the reliability, integrity, and friendship of another person.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5).

What are you leaning on? Lean on the everlasting arms of Jesus.

* To take someone at their word. Take God at His Word.
Your Word is truth (John 17:17)

You trust God, But...do you trust Him with your finances? Your crumbling marriage? Your wayward child?

Trust, it will change the way you view things. God makes everything beautiful in His time (Ecclesiastes 3:11). We don't see the whole picture, but God does.

A new perspective.

We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed (2 Corinthains 4:8-9).

Which side of the comma are you living?

For we walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7).

How do you really trust God?

1) Feed on His Word. It's fertilizer to help you grow. It's the water, bread, milk, and meat of our lives.
2) Pray for the reign of the Holy Spirit in your life.
3) Pull the weeds of worry, un-forgiveness, bitterness, envy, etc.
4)Guard against the bugs of poor choices, bad habits, unhealthy relationships, negative behaviors, etc.
5) Prepare for a harvest. Don't give up on the process God is taking you through.

Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, the things which are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:16-18).

Lean the ladder of your soul upon God, trust Him. Get in His Word.