1. Be Careful in What / Who You Trust

Don’t put your trust in:

A. Riches

Not permanent (Pro. 23:5)

B. Man

Their help is temporal and unreliable (Psa. 146:3-4)

“Trust in yourself, and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in your friends, and they will die and leave you; trust in reputation, and some slanderous tongue may blast it; but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or in eternity.” ~ D. L. Moody

2. Be Wise to Trust In God Alone

Trust means we believe in God and rely on His promises no matter what the circumstances are - good or bad.

Trust is:

assured reliance on the character, ability, strength or truth of someone or something.
One in which confidence is placed in

(Merriam Webster Dictionary)

The Blessings of Trust

”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.” (Pro. 3:5-6)

Understand all things through God (v.5)

Look at things with His wisdom and perception

Commit all things to God (v.6)

Receives the quiet confidence that He will work out things for our good.

Receive good from God (v.6)

Acceptance of His choice, His will and His leading will bring blessed fruitfulness into our lives

The Requirements of Trust

1. Trust demands Submission and Patience

His ways, not our ways
His wisdom far above ours
Heb 10:36

2. Trust requires Obedience

Obedience brings blessings
However, many believers’ downfall due to unwillingness to obey
Results in hardening of heart against God’s ways
Reaps painful consequences

Asa, the third King of Judah (2 Chr 14-16)

Began his reign with implicit trust in God (2 Chr 14:11)
Received a prophecy of warning (2 Chr 15:1-2)
Ended his reign with rebellion against God (2 Chr 16:7-9)
never repented
developed a serious foot disease three years after the prophecy
did not seek the Lord’s help but turned only to his physicians
died in the forty-first year - with a disease physically and also spiritually