Proverbs 3:5 & 6 (AMP) - Trust in and rely confidently on the LORD with all your heart and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know and acknowledge and recognize Him, and He will make your paths straight (removing obstacles that block your way).
Proverbs 3:5 & 6 (ESV) - Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. I all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 3:5 & 6 (NIV) - Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
The command to acknowlege Him means to observe Him and get to know Him in the process of living.
Trusting Him is actually depending on Him.
Take an honest look at your life, find a couple of areas in which you'd like to think you are really trusting God...Now, do this: Say, "I am trusting the Lord with..." (fill in whatever it is you are trusting Him for). Can you take out "trusting" and insert "depending on" with total ease? Can you say, "I am depending on the Lord regarding..." as easily as you could say you are trusting Him?
Trusting God means leaning solely on Him without a plan B.
To acknowledge Him means to observe Him - to get to know Him right in the midst of this daily life we're all living.
How good are you at observing God?
Do you watch how He does what He does? Or do you primarily want to see the positive end result of what He does?
If a key part of having our paths made straight and our way smoothed out ahead of us is a result of observing the Lord, getting to know Him better & better, as in knowing Him so well that we can see His ways occurring around me even when we cannot seem to find Him in a situation, then we need to be about observing Him!
God puts a high premium on us knowing Him well. That is truly amazing!
He promises that He will make your paths straight and smooth - God will literally and figuratively move obstacles out of the way in the physical realm and the spiritual realm. Will really does mean will...when He says He will do something, don't doubt Him!
Your role is to trust and rely on Him - to observe Him - really get to know Him - and stop relying on your own insight and understanding.
Episode 83 - Jeremiah 17:7-8 (The one who trusts in the Lord IS blessed - right this very moment)
Episode 82 - A Special Thanksgiving Podcast (Romans 4:21 ~ Psalm 95:2 ~ Luke 17:5) Increase Our Faith!
Episode 81 - Hebrews 10:19-20 (Opened... Jesus opened the way for you, my friend!)
Episode 80 - 1 Thessalonians 5:24 - God Cannot Bless What We Will Not Do
Episode 79 - Matthew 25:14-30 & How to Get Your Head on Straight...
Episode 78 - Haggai chapter 2 & Ephesians chapter3 - SUPERABUNDANTLY & OVERMUCHNESS (God has both of those in store for you...)
Episode 77 - Philippians 1:9-11 (We Gotta Walk the Talk!)
Episode 76 - God‘s Promises & Your Prayers (& Happy Happy Happy International Podcast Day!)
Episode 75 - 2 Thessalonians 3:3 - God Is Faithful & He Will Strengthen You & Protect You
Episdoe 74 - Psalm 91 & A Call To Prayer This Fall via An Online Prayer Group
Episode 73 - God Keeps Every One of His Promises (5 Bible Verses with Promises For You)
Episode 72 ~ Standing in Prayer & Romans 16:20
Episode 71 - Biblical Generosity Is Not Metered Or Measured Generosity... Luke 6:38 & 2 Corinthains 9:10-11 & Proverbs 22:9
Episode 70 -Genesis 5 - Enoch Walked All the Way Home with God
Episode 69 - Let's Believe All of Psalm 32!
Episode 68 - Hagar & the God Who Sees Us(Genesis 16 & Genesis 21)
Episode 67 - Joshua 8:18 - What's In Your Hand? (Be Utterly...)
Episode 66 - Dueteronomy 31:6 - Never Failing Nor Abandoning
Episode 65 - Psalm 93 (Christian Standard Bible)
Episode 64 - Jeremiah 29:13 & Psalm 86:5 & Acts 2:18 PLUS a little bit about Luke 12:1
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