First - Trust

FIRST – First Step - Trust

What is your plan to seek the king first this year?

What is you plan for leading your family?

What is your plan for the first day of the week?

What is your plan to experience God thru your giving this year?

To wrap up the series I want to talk to you about the first step that we must take if we are going to have any kind of experience with God; the step of trust.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.

The what of this verse is trust.

The who is the Lord.

The how is with all our heart.

The depth is don’t lean on your understanding.

The path is acknowledge him in your ways.

The reward is that your path will be God inhabited.

Trust is the connection to the involvement of God inhabiting and intervening in the path of your life. 

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.

But the key to God’s supernatural involvement in communicating to you – and intervening for you – and interceding for you – and inter-acting is this key commodity called trust.

What is trust exactly?

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.

This verse defines the kind of trust that God is looking for in three different ways. 

First, it is an “all your heart” thing.

2 illustrations of “all your heart” trust…

Second definition is – trust… And don’t lean on your own understanding.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.

Leaning and depending on our own understanding is one of the greatest competitors when it comes to trusting in the Lord with all our heart.

Trust is acknowledging God in all my ways. Not some of my ways.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.

There is only one part of this verse that is not connected yet. It is the object of our trust; the LORD.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.

Revelation 19:11 Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. 12 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. 13 He is clothed in a robe dipped inblood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. 14 And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. 15 From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rulethem with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.

 

You can trust him.