In God I Trust – Part II

Trusting in the Lord is not always an easy thing. We so often want to lean on our own understanding and solve our problems in the way that seems best to us. We need to learn who He is and come to a place where we can trust God over our own thoughts, feelings and emotions.

Key Points

• If God were to take everything away from us, would we still trust Him?
  • He does not want us to be so caught up in ourselves and our things that we can’t accept correction.
• The Israelites forgot about the Lord during their stay in Egypt.
  • They were there 400 years – they had become accustomed to the Egyptian way of life, worshiping the Egyptian gods.
  • The Egyptians made their lives completely miserable, ensuring that they always beat down and in captivity.
    • The gods they worshipped didn’t do anything for them.
    • When things got tough, they wanted to go back to Egypt.
    • They saw God’s goodness, but by trusting in their own understanding, they never learned to trust Him.
    • Due to a lack of trust, they thought they knew better than God.
• Are you willing to go where He asks you to go?
  • The places He sends us may not always be places that we want to go.
    • He desires to fulfill your needs so that others can see it and that He can be glorified.
    • God is not moved by selfishness, and wants.
• How many of us were called to build the church, but are too busy doing other things?
  • Are we building one another up, ministering to each other?
  • Your purpose in life should not stop with yourself and your interests.
• How many of us were called to fight spiritual battles on our knees for the needs of others, but were so caught up in our own lives that we never fought them?
• How many of us were called to lay down our lives (our will & desires) so that others may live, but spend our lives pursuing our own desires at the cost of others?
  • When the Shunamite woman, with whom Elisha the prophet often stayed, lost her son she was focused on getting to the man of God.
  • When anyone asked her how she was, she only responded with “it is well” – she would not let her circumstances get in her way.

Key Verses: Prov. 3:5