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Can I Really Trust God?
You can’t tell the trustworthiness of anything until you have your full weight on it.
If you want to find the fruit you have to get out on a limb.
The nature of the Christian life if it is to be fully experienced is to take risks.
Peter who was terrified in the boat wanted to get out and walk on the water when he saw his Lord doing it.
Is there any place in life where there are no risks?
Putting your weight down on what God has promised.
This is the true exercise of faith.
Letting go of what lies behind.
What are the promises that God has made to us that are most everyday kindsof affirmations?
My God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory
I will never leave you nor forsake you
 
PR 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;(When we come to the limits of our understanding then do we resort to our own ability to “figure it out” or are we able to leave our lack of understanding with God?) 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil.
8 This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.
You’ve got one foot in the boat and one foot on the dock
Half of your faith in Jesus and half in the Wall Street stock
 
People who experience the richest relationship with God – those who plumb the depths of spiritual living are those who commit totally to it.
Solomon writes:  “Trust in the Lord with ALL your heart. . .
 
Our ability to understand is a poor backup plan.
This happens often, when we become confused or disoriented, there is a tendency to run things through the filter of our own ability to understand.
There is no way that we find answers there.
I have met people who try to provide them and they seem trite or contrived.
The need to have an answer can be a great handicap in life as a general principle.
There are things that have no answers.
*3045 - Hebrew* Acknowledge -
 
3045  yada`  yaw-dah'
 
a primitive root; to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow):--acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X  could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X  prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Backing away from the edge.
Can I trust him with my treasure  -
 
MK 10:17 As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him.
"Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 18 "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered.
"No one is good--except God alone.
19 You know the commandments: `Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.' " 20 "Teacher," he declared, "all these I have kept since I was a boy."
21 Jesus looked at him and loved him.
"One thing you lack," he said.
"Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Then come, follow me."
22 At this the man's face fell.
He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
Can I trust him for the Truth – It’s the compass thing – when the compass says one thing and everything within me says another then can I override my desire to trust myself?
If you can’t accept the Bible as it is, the whole thing as a trustworthy guide then . .
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Can I trust Him with Tomorrow?
JAS 4:13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."
[14] Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.
What is your life?
You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
[15] Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."
[16] As it is, you boast and brag.
All such boasting is evil.
[17] Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
Can I trust him in my troubles?
JAS 1:2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, [3] because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
[4] Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
[5] If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
[6] But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
[7] That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; [8] he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.
After hearing the gospel explained, people often say, "You mean there's nothing I can do to deserve it?
That's too easy."
It seems natural for people to object to the idea that God's unmerited favor can be given so freely to unworthy sinners.
Many find it difficult to trust a God who offers salvation as a free gift.
Bible teacher G. Campbell Morgan told of a coal miner who came to him and said, "I would give anything to believe that God would forgive my sins, but I cannot believe that He will forgive them if I just ask Him.
It is too cheap."
Morgan said, "My dear friend, have you been working today?"
"Yes, I was down in the mine."
"How did you get out of the pit?  Did you pay?" "Of course not.
I just got into to cage and was pulled to the top."
"Were you not afraid to entrust yourself to that cage?
Was it not too cheap?"
Morgan asked.
"Oh no," said the miner, "it was cheap for me, but it cost the company a lot of money to sink the shaft."
Suddenly the truth struck him.
What had not cost him anything -- salvation -- had not come cheap to God.
This miner had never thought of the great price God paid to send His Son so He could rescue fallen humanity.
Now he realized that all anyone had to do was to "get into the cage" by faith.
According to John MacArthur, some years ago, the Mayo Clinic stated that statistically 80 percent to 85 percent of their total case load were ill either in reality or artificially due directly to mental stress.
Also according to MacArthur, not too long ago, there appeared an article in a leading medical journal entitled, "Is Stress the Cause of All Disease?"
The author of the article says that at the beginning of the century, bacteria were considered to be the center of attention.
Today, mental stress has replaced bacteria.
See:  Isa 26:3; Rom 8:6
 
Jesus calls us not only to repentance, to the "letting go" of the false gods we come to him with; but he goes one more difficult step farther: he also calls us to believe in him alone as the decisive, absolutely unique, once and for all, full revelation of God to man.
This is extremely difficult for us, because Jesus was careful to give men no external guarantee that he was, in fact, God in the flesh.
Otherwise, he realized, we would not be worshipping him, but would only be worshipping or trusting in the guarantee, whatever it might be.
... Robert L. Short, The Parables of Peanuts [1968]
 
 
  A basketball in my hands is worth about $19
  A basketball in Michael Jordan's hands is worth about $33 million
  It depends whose hands it's in
 
  A baseball in my hands is worth about $6
  A baseball in Mark McGuire's hands is worth $19 million
  It depends whose hands it's in
 
  A tennis racket is useless in my hands
  A tennis racket in Pete Sampras' hands is a Wimbledon Championship
  It depends whose hands it's in
 
  A rod in my hands will keep away a wild animal
  A rod in Moses' hands will part the mighty sea
  It depends whose hands it's in
 
  A sling shot in my hands is a kid's toy
  A sling shot in David's hand is a mighty weapon.
It depends whose hands it's in
 
  Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in my hands is a couple of fish sandwiches.
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