This document discusses the story of Habakkuk from the Bible and how he questioned God during a difficult time in Judah when the nation was about to be destroyed. It emphasizes that the most difficult times in life can produce the greatest spiritual jewels, like Habakkuk's declaration that he would rejoice in God even when everything else was lost. The key message is that the level of trust in God indicates the depth of one's relationship with Him, and that we should choose to trust God unconditionally, even when facing adversity.

1. I CHOOSETOTRUST
Habakkuk 3:17-19
(Point of Grace January 4, 2015)

2. THE LEVEL OFTRUST IN GOD:
A POWERFUL INDICATOR OF
THE DEPTH OF ONE’S
RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM

3. “TRUST IS NOT A PASSIVE STATE OF
MIND. IT IS AVIGOROUS ACT OF
THE SOUL BY WHICH WE CHOOSE
TO LAY HOLD ONTHE PROMISES
OF GOD AND CLINGTOTHEM
DESPITETHE ADVERSITYTHAT AT
TIMES SEEKSTO OVERWHELMS US.”
(JERRY BRIDGES,TRUSTING GOD: EVEN WHEN LIFE HURTS)

5. 2014TRUSTTEST
(1) - NEVER (2) - SELDOM (3) SOMETIMES (4) OFTEN (5)
ALLTHETIME
1. I felt that God was particularly real in my life and situation.
2. There was a real desire to know God more intimately.
3. If in need or in trouble, my first recourse was to go to God for help.
4. God has impressed in my heart areas in my life that needs to be
changed, corrected, and abandoned, and I have started working on
it.
5. If God tells me to abandon everything and simply follow Him
without ifs and buts, I will gladly do it.

6. SCORE CARD
1. (20-25) -You are in a good place of having an intimate relationship with
God and He has become your greatest treasure.You have proven God
to be faithful and your have learned to totally depend on Him.
2. (15-19) -You are growing in your relationship with God and have
started to really trust Him. Begin to trust God not just with the ordinary
but with the impossible and the extraordinary.
3. (10- 14) -You are in are in an unstable place and the cares of this world
is still strong in your life.There is a need to abandon something that is
holding you back.
4. (5-9) -You have yet to trust God and have to yet to experience how
God can be real in your life.You are are in a bad place and you have to
begin to really surrender your life to God.

7. HABAKKUK 3:17-18
17Though the fig tree does not bud and
there are no grapes on the vines, though the
olive crop fails and the fields produce no
food, though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,18 yet I will rejoice
in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Saviour.

8. WRITTEN DURING AVERY
BADTIME INTHE HISTORY OF
THE NATION OF JUDAH

9. HABAKKUK
• An empire’s control is about to be over and a new
raging empire is about the take over
• Being ruled by king Jehoakim that led them to evil
• Jerusalem is about to be totally destroyed
• Contains extended dialogue between Habakkuk and
God
• Openly questions God’s inaction and silence

10. HABAKKUK 1:2-4
How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do
not listen? Or cry out to you,“Violence!” but
you do not save? Why do you make me look at
injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Destruction and violence are before me; there
is strife, and conflict abounds.Therefore the law
is paralyzed, and justice never prevails.The
wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is
perverted.

11. NATIONAL
MUSEUM

12. SPOLIARIUM
JUAN LUNA 1884

13. THE BEST WORKS OF ART
WERE PRODUCED INTHE
WORST OF SITUATIONS

14. THE MOST DIFFICULTTIME IN
OUR LIVES CAN PRODUCED
THE GREATEST SPIRITUAL
JEWEL IN OUR LIVES

15. TRUST

16. HABAKKUK 3:17-18
17Though the fig tree does not bud and
there are no grapes on the vines, though the
olive crop fails and the fields produce no
food, though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,18 yet I will rejoice
in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.

17. WHEN EVERYTHING IS LOST
(EVERYTHING IMPORTANT AND EVERYTHING ONE IS
DEPENDING ON)
THAT ISTHE GREATEST
OPPORTUNITY
(CRISIS OR OPPORTUNITY)
TO REJOICE AND DECLARE ONES
UNWAVERINGTRUST IN GOD
(MORETHANTHE ANSWER, IT IS OURTRUST)

18. CHOOSETOTRUST
GOD

19. Hab. 3:34 “His splendor was like the sunrise; rays
flashed from his hand, where his power was
hidden.”
Job 1:21 “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken
away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Lam. 3:22-23 “The steadfast love of the Lord never
ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are
new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

20. UNQUESTIONABLY
TRUST GOD NOW