How we grow in trust. Working through trusting God. This slide presentation was used for a talk given at Blazing Fire Church on October 26, 2013. The podcast by Russ Fochler is on www.blazingfire.org and includes the audio of the segments from Brene Brown's video course.

1. Trust & Favor
Part 2
How We Grow in Trust
Working Through Trusting God
Russ Fochler October 26, 2013

2. Trust and Vulnerability
Insights from Brene Brown’s “Power of
Vulnerability Course” Session 3 part 5
In this segment, she talks about:
The Myths of Vulnerability
The gift of being Imperfect before each
other.
Trust and Vulnerability

3. Brene Brown: Myths of Vulnerability
http://www.soundstrue.com/shop/The-Power-of-Vulnerability-with-Brené-Brown/4223.pd?
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Session 3 Part 5
Being Imperfect
Vulnerability and Trust

4. Taking Your “Armor” Off...
How do you feel about being:
“Goofy and Free”or
Honest about your feelings of
vulnerability or hurt
With God?
Around people - even those closest to
you?

5. Brene Brown: Myths of Vulnerability
More of Session 3 Part 5
Being Imperfect
Vulnerability and Trust

6. Susan’s “Sliding Door” story as a
child

7. Get in a 2 person Group
Each of you share:
One recent story about something that
someone did that “put a marble in your
trust jar” (take turns)
A “sliding door” moment in your life where things really changed because of
how you or someone else responded/
acted in life-giving way.

8. From my last talk - about how we
can grow trust with others
Or.... Some things that can put
another “marble” in the “trust jar”

9. Trust Grows
Trust from others grows when we
handle feedback well.
Trust grows when we demonstrate that
we value the well-being of the “family”
or community more than personal gain
or promotion.
Trust grows when people see they are
valued and protected.

10. Trust Grows
When we work through conflicts (!)
When we communicate with kindness
AND honesty.
When we are authentic and vulnerable
with each other.
When people really know that their
heart has been heard.

11. Trust Grows
When we clean up our “messes”.
When love motivates us instead of fear.

12. We’re Created to Learn to Trust
Early in Our Life
But You are He who took Me out of the womb;
You made Me trust while on My mother’s
breasts.
Ps 22:9

13. But Stuff Happens in Our Life that
Wounds and Deeply Challenges
Our Capacity and Willingness
to Trust

14. Learning to Trust Again:
Danny Lee Silk (Facebook post July 29, 2013):
“Learning to trust again was an ability that
Christ gave us through His work on the
Cross. Jesus went to the Cross to avenge
the stolen innocence and broken trust we
ALL inherited after the Fall. When He
declared that we all had to be “born again,’
He was saying:

15. In Daddy’s Arms
“We are going to start this trust thing over
again. I am placing you in the Father’s
arms, where you are going to experience
unconditional love acceptance and care.
He is going to meet your needs when you
cry out to Him, especially your need to be
loved; here your heart will be satisfied”
Having trouble trusting again? Do you know
Whose arms you are in? KYLO!!!

16. Scriptures: Trusting God
For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One
of Israel: In returning [to Me] and resting
[in Me] you shall be saved; in quietness and
in [trusting] confidence shall be your
strength... Isaiah 30:15a AMP
Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.
Even so, I will defend my own ways before
Him. Job 15:13 NKJV
The Hebrew word
translated “trust”
means to wait

17. Scriptures: Trusting God
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the
man who trusts in Him! Psalm 34:8 NKJV
Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You. Psalm 56:3
Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning,
For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in
which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You. Psalm
143.8
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of
truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having
believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of
promise, Eph 1:13 NKJV

18. Trusting God
Probably the biggest challenge each
of us faces from time to time.
The Enemy’s chief aim is to cause us
to question our God’s goodness!
What helps you to trust God in the
midst of the challenges to that trust?
Ask the audience and
repeat back what
people say - if it
bears repeating!

19. Tried and True Helps
Remembering the ways that God has
come through for you in the past.
Regularly reminding ourselves and
“building memorials” to His past
goodness and faithfulness to us.
God directed the
Israelites to do
many things monuments,
festivals, etc. - to
help them
remember His
Goodness to them.
Cultivating gratitude and thankfulness for both “little” and “big” gifts and
“kisses” everyday.
What we focus on - we
make more room for in
our mind and heart
Patricia King’s story
of gaining “Operative
Authority” over
poverty and lack

20. Letting Him “In”
Tasting and Seeing that He is Good!
This is not simply based upon intellect or
will!
And where we have a deep emotional
mistrust of God, there is usually a part of
of our heart that is holding past trauma
and feels alone.

21. Jesus!
Often, there are parts of our heart
that need help to experience
Jesus being with us - and Jesus
being kind, being safe and strong,
bringing truth that sets us free....

22. Our Internal “Protector”
We all have a part of the core of who we
are - that is dedicated to keeping us
alive; rising up to protect us from
perceived threats - both emotional and
physical.
This “Protector” is suspicious by nature.
But they desperately need to
experientially know and trust Jesus.

23. Jesus is Better
Jesus is much better at assessing and
responding to challenges with lifegiving responses than our “self
protective” nature is by itself.
And He is confident that even
physical or emotional devastation
cannot separate us from Him.

24. Unless....
Unless Jesus is welcomed deeply into to
our emotional, self-protective “heart”, then
We’ll keep responding as though our selfprotection is the only thing that matters.
But, when Jesus is welcomed in - then
things begin to shift! Our emotional
responses begin to be based upon our
security in Jesus.

25. What Does It Look Like?
When we are more focussed upon
Jesus than upon self protection?
For whoever desires to save his life will
lose it, but whoever loses his life for My
sake will find it. Matthew 16:25

26. Exercise
Inviting our internal “Protector” to
meet Jesus - and see how strong and
wise Jesus is at helping us navigate
both internal and external
vulnerabilities and threatening
situations.