Trusting God with everything

1. Letting God Work
in Our Lives (2)
Trusting God

2. • God does work – influence
- through His grace, word, brethren,
our actions and prayer
• At times we struggle with our faith.
• We know we ought to trust Him, but we
face trials, setbacks, disappointments,
failures, anxiety, rejection, etc.
• Sometimes when others are hurting we
say, “trust Him” – it can be hard to do
• Do we trust Him as we ought to?

3. Faith and Trusting God
• Understanding faith is important
• Crucial for obeying the gospel –
Mark 16:16, John 8:24,
Romans 10:9-10, 1 Peter
3:20-21
• As Christians, we need faith –
Romans 1:5, Luke 6:46
• 2 Peter 1:5, 1 John 5:4

4. Faith and Trusting God
• What is faith?
• Believing God with complete
confidence and reliance
“Firm persuasion” (Vine’s)
• Hebrews 11:1
• Faith is the “sub-stance” of things
hoped for (assurance)
• The evidence (conviction) of things not
seen (cf. 1 John 4:12)
• Faith is believing and trusting God

5. Faith and Trusting God
• What is trust?
• To firmly believe in something or
someone. Complete confidence
and reliance.
• When you get on an airplane
there is trust…
• “Who will get in the wheelbarrow?”

6. Faith and Trusting God
• Trusting God – means we have
complete confidence in Him and
will rely upon Him always – in
both the good times and the
difficult times
• Hebrews 11:6
• I have 100% confidence in Him,
“I am all in”

7. Faith and Trusting God
• Worry is the antithesis of trusting
God. A lack of faith/trust in Him
• While there are times for genuine
concern, worry is anxiety and
distress over a circumstance,
usually out of your hands
• Matthew 6:25-34

8. Faith and Trusting God
• Most of us struggle with trusting
God from time to time
• We do not doubt His existence
or ability to help, but our
confidence is weak as we face
uncertainties and the unknown.
We are hesitant to put it in His
hands. We doubt ourselves!
• Mark 9:24, “Help my unbelief”

9. Faith and Trusting God
• Israel often failed to trust God
• Isaiah 30:1-2, they took
counsel, but not in the Lord,
turning to Egypt for strength
Hosea 10:13, they trusted in
their own way
• Romans 11:19-20
• Hebrews 3:19

10. Trusting God is crucial
Is there anything we can do
to build up our trust in Him?

11. God is there with us
• Sometimes in our struggles we
ask, “Where is God when I need
Him?”
• We seek answers for our prayers
- our way
We face heavy burdens that we
think we cannot handle
We ask, “Why?”

12. God is there with us
• Biblical examples of struggle
• David – he often felt frustrated
• Psalm 22:1, “My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping
me?” (cf. Matt. 27:46)
• Yet consider, 22:19-21, “you
have answered Me”

13. God is there with us
• Biblical examples of struggle
• Psalm 13:1-2, “How long O
Lord? Will Your forget me
forever? How long will You hide
your face from me?...
• Yet consider, 13:5-6, “But I
have trusted in Your mercy; My
heart shall rejoice in Your
salvation…”

14. God is there with us
• Biblical examples of struggle
• Psalm 10:1, “Why do You
stand afar off, O LORD? Why do
You hide in times of trouble?...”
• Yet consider, 10:14, “But You
have seen, for You observe
trouble and grief, to repay it by
Your hand…Your are the helper”

15. God is there with us
• Biblical examples of struggle
• Job – faced great troubles, losing his
possessions and much of his family in one
day as Satan afflicted him. Then he lost
his health
• Job 23:1-9, “Even today my complaint is
bitter;…Oh, that I knew where I might find
Him, that I might come to His seat…”
• Yet consider, Job 23:10, “But He knows
the way I take…”
• Job 19:25, “For I know that my
Redeemer lives…”

16. God is there with us
• Biblical examples of struggle
• Paul – faced many trials and at
times felt alone
• 2 Tim. 4:16, “At my first
defense no one stood with me,
but all forsook me…”
• Yet consider, 2 Tim. 4:17, “But
the Lord stood with me and
strengthened me…”

17. God is there with us
• Biblical examples of struggle
• Even Jesus – apprehensive in
the Garden, while on the cross…
• Mat. 27:46, “My God, my God,
what have you forsaken Me?”
• Yet consider, Luke 23:46, “Into
Your hands I commit My spirit”

18. God is there with us
• In ALL of these examples, we find
times of FEELING despair and
wondering about where God was.
• BUT, in each of them, they KNEW
He is there!
• They trusted Him! They kept going
• Hebrews 11:1, Do we apply this
“evidence” to our trust in God?

19. “I am with you”
• Matthew 28:20, “I am with you always”
(cf. John 14:18)
• Acts 18:10, “I am with you…I have many
people in this city.” Paul in Corinth
• Genesis 26:24, the Lord to Isaac
• Genesis 28:15, to Jacob at Bethel
• Isaiah 43:5, “Fear not, for I am with
you…”
• Jeremiah 1:8, “Do not be afraid of their
faces, for I am with you to deliver you…”
• 14 times in the Bible attributed to God!

20. “I am with you”
•Matthew 11:28-30, “Come
to Me all you who labor and
are heavy laden…”
•Matthew 6:30, 32-33,
“Don’t worry”, God can take
care of you.

21. “I am with you”
• Hebrews 13:5-6, “Let your
conduct be without
covetousness; be content with
such things as you have. For He
Himself has said, “I will never
leave you nor forsake you.” So
we may boldly say: “The LORD
is my helper; I will not fear. What
can man do to me?””

22. “I am with you”
• 1 Peter 5:7, “casting all your care
upon Him, for He cares for you.”
• Psalm 34:17-18, “The righteous
cry out, and the LORD hears, And
delivers them out of all their
troubles. The LORD is near to
those who have a broken heart,
And saves such as have a contrite
spirit.”

23. God’s presence is a blessing
Christians enjoy
When we struggle in this life, He
IS there!
May we use these thoughts as
we press on

24. Do you trust Him?