TRUST GOD FIRST – One of The Most Inspiring Videos Ever (very powerful!)
you’ve heard the words since you were in
Sunday school you have heard these
professors remind you of them both in
words of warning as well as words of
encouragement and maybe even a few
testimonies a counselor a friend a
minister of music whatever capacity
you’ll serve in on a mission field or
here at home you’ll use these two words
and they are trust God – single syllable
words that you have heard forever but
you will discover as time passes how
difficult they are to obey trust God of
course I have no way of knowing what the
future holds for you you may lose your
home and everything in a fire you may
lose your spouse to an early disease
detected but not cured
you may lose your dreams your hopes you
may lose a relationship that you have
cultivated over the years all losses are
painful and you will be brought back
over and over again to the words of
proverbs chapter 3 verses 5 & 6
I know I know you memorized them in
Vacation Bible School or when you were
growing up at the knee of a godly mother
and our Father and your lips will move
as I quote them trust in the Lord with
all your heart and lean not to your own
understanding in all your ways
acknowledge him and he will make your
paths straight all your heart all your
ways trust trust now we have a problem
with this because of several things
first of all we are to blame
self-sufficient we have learned how to
get ourselves out of jams rather than
acknowledging the jam
has very well been either directed are
permitted by our sovereign God to teach
us and by not trusting him
we short-circuit the test and go our own
way getting ourselves out of our own
mess we’re too self-sufficient
another reason we fail this test is
because we’re too quick to call on
others we have a lot of very capable
friends as life unfolds and you leave
this school and you’re involved in your
church your work of ministry your realm
of responsibilities you’d meet other
people many of them much smarter than
you are
most of them richer than you are better
connected that you are and some of them
will become good friends and they will
become your crutch they have connections
and when you’re up against it they will
they’ll get you through it
another reason we don’t trust is because
we feel distant from the God of heaven
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don’t feel too guilty about that so did
Jobe as godly as he was and yet Jobe
said in the midst of all of the loss
though he slay me I will trust in him
though he take me off this earth in the
process I leave trusting him I will
trust him the fourth reason I would name
is that we have cultivated the bad habit
of worry many of you are much better at
worrying than you are at trusting if you
were to put together a worry list it
would outrun your prayer list and you’re
worried right now about something most
likely it’s related to something about
your schoolwork some course some class
some tests or maybe your finances you
don’t have enough money I’ll give you a
word of encouragement you’ll never have
enough money so you’re worried now
you’re getting good at it so you can
carry that with you when you graduate
because you won’t have enough money then
so you’re worried about that and you do
not trust God
see how practical it is and if you think
you’re going to outgrow the problem take
it from this old guy today you won’t
ever outgrow it it’s like lust you never
outgrow lust you just learn to fake it I
remember attending a navigator
conference when Laurence Annie was
president we were at Glen Eyrie and they
had a returned missionary
I think 87 88 year old gentleman who
Lauren brought up to the platform and he
was a longtime Navigator and Lauren said
tell me duck so and so when did you
conquer lust you’ll never conquer worry
it’s part of the flesh you want to but
the only way you will get through it so
that you will learn from the test is to
trust to trust
to put the worry on hold to set it aside
deliberately shoving it away and saying
God at this moment I rest in you and you
alone if you’re married god help my
spouse and me to trust you to lean on
you to wait on you to listen to you to
endure the test with you I put together
a quick list of things that reveal how
little we trust when you choose to worry
you do not trust
when you try to fix what is impossible
you do not trust when you hurry ahead
and don’t wait for the Lord to move and
to change you you do not trust when you
lie awake twisting and turning at night
you do not trust when you doubt biblical
principles and promises that are right
here in the book you love and study you
do not trust when you turn to others
first for help you do not trust when you
listen to human counsel and give a
higher priority to that and the
principles you have just learned you do
not trust when you manipulate and
maneuver situations you do not trust
when you step in and take charge without
praying and being led by the Spirit of
God you do not trust
when you cling to others in order to
feel secure and needed and loved you do
not trust the list goes on and on
see how easy it is to live in the flesh
how easy it is to disobey trust in the
Lord with all your heart wouldn’t it be
a great project over the Christmas
season this year to think through ways
that you couldn’t begin to trust God
regardless hopefully it’ll be a project
that you and a good friend or you and
your mate can enter together what is it
we do that keep us from trusting God and
how can we break that habit and watch
God break through
in ways that we would never have
expected since then I have a longtime
friend who was raised with four brothers
in southwest Texas they were raised on a
very poor ranch they eked out a living
one of the brothers wound up getting
into Baylor going on to UCLA law school
and earning his degree in law and has
since become a very fine attorney the
Southern California area we’ve been
friends since the mid 1970s one of his
four brothers stayed at the ranch and
developed it cultivated it the other
brothers moved away as did our friend
and the one who stayed along with his
wife really turned the ranch into
something much more successful grew
crops that worked got cattle bred them
sold them little by little to kind of
got on their feet and finally became
pretty much financially stable then the
fires of 2011 across Texas swept through
their area and they came to that ranch
by now they knew they would lose all all
the cattle they simply opened the gate
and amazingly those animals know where
to go usually know where to go to find
shelter and safety and they fled
hundreds of them
and they barely left unable to get
anything much of anything in their
pickup and they drove away came back a
number of days later when allowed to
enter this territory and everything was
melted everything even the metal roof on
the shed on the barn had melted down and
sort of peeled its way over and and what
it landed on it kind of was that metal
profile is everything is lost all
possessions all pictures thankfully no
lives strangely the cattle got back and
were clustered around in a herd around
an enormous oak tree and they were able
to get them back of course the fence had
burned so that has to be rebuilt and
they said to one another we realize at
that moment
our faith would either kick into action
or we would move far away from the god
we had loved and served they chose the
former they determined they would
rebuild their in the process right now
living with her brother
putting house and home back together
having lost it all the Lord taught me
through my shameful response you’ll win
this battle trust him
trust me trust God
just to rest upon his promises
there’s two no trust
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