DO YOU TRUST THE LORD !

[ELDER JONES GREEN]

Our neighborhoods are no longer as safe as they used to be. Bizarre, random and senseless type crimes seem to be on the increase with all of the shootings that have occurred at our high schools, and now in our
churches and in the courthouses themselves with the latest round of
senseless tragedies that have just occurred.

All of us, to one degree or another, have been wronged in some way throughout the course of our lives. And for some, these wrongs have been vicious, nasty and sometimes extremely traumatic – especially those who
have been victims of crimes such as rapes, assaults, robberies, and
actual murders of close friends or loved ones.

the Bible has already predicted that the love of many will grow cold as we enter into end times. The Bible says that many will become lovers of
self, unholy, proud, unloving, without self-control, brutal and lovers
of pleasure rather than lovers of God and His ways. Paul talks about
these traits in 2 Timothy 3:1, and says that all of this will occur in
the last days.

Being brutal and without self-control may help explain some of the really bizarre crimes that we are starting to see more of with the random type shootings that are occurring in our schools and other public
places. we have to keep a lookout
just within our own natural surroundings as you never know when the next
land-mine may go off. All of this kind of heightened activity can
really start to erode a person’s ability to be able to trust anyone.

For many others, they have a hard time in being able to trust anyone as a result of some degree of physical and/or verbal abuse that they have suffered from either their parents or their spouses. Spousal abuse
in this country is still out of control with the number of women who are
being severely beaten by either their husbands or boyfriends.

Many people have been so badly beaten and abused during the course of their lives, that they think they no longer have any ability to trust anyone – including God Himself! A dog can only take so much of a
beating. After a
certain amount of time, the dog will no longer trust anyone, including
his own master.

As a result of the curse that is still in full operation on this earth, there is always going to be a certain amount of wrongs that we will all have to put up with – no
exceptions! Nobody comes out of this life unscathed with all the people
who have chosen with their own free wills to live this life on the dark
side. However, for Christians, no matter how badly you have been beaten
up in your past, the one thing that you cannot have affected is your
ability to trust in your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and our heavenly
Father. As a result of the beatings that some of God’s people have taken
over the years, some of these people have literally lost their ability
to even trust in God Himself.

It is one thing to have faith in God, to know that God exists, and that He is all-powerful and that there is nothing that He cannot do or accomplish – but it is quite another thing to be able to completely
trust God with your life and to completely trust Him to properly handle
it for you, especially if everyone in your past has let you down in one
form or another.

For those of you who are have having problems in being able to fully trust the Lord with your entire life, I will give you 15 very powerful and profound verses from the Bible showing you that not only does God
want you to fully trust Him with your life – but that it is a vital necessity that you learn to how to do so.

I believe that faith and trust go hand in hand. They are like a one-two punch. First you must have faith that God exists, that He is who the Bible says He is, and that you are truly saved under the shed Blood
of His Son Jesus Christ. However, there is now one more big step you
must take after you have this kind of faith in God.

Once you are saved, then you must be willing to fully surrender your entire life over to God the Father so that He can then enter you into His perfect plan and destiny for your life. you must become both saved
and surrendered, not just saved.

God has a specific purpose and plan for each person’s life. Your life is no longer your own. You have been bought at a price and God now wants to do something very specific with you.
Many Christians already know this, but they are still having a very
hard time in actually trusting God to handle their lives for them. Even
though they know God is totally perfect and that He can perfectly
handle, control and direct their lives much better than they can – they
are still having a hard time in making that leap, in clearing that final
hurdle to completely turn the reigns of their live over to God the
Father for Him to fully handle.

To any Christian who is having a hard time in clearing this final hurdle with God, you must make a final decision sooner or later as to who is going to run your life – you or God. And
the longer you wait, and the longer you keep from making this final
decision, the more years you are going to lose in this life in being
able to produce any real lasting fruit in the Lord.

For those of you whose final hurdle is this trust factor – you simply have to do what Peter did when he stepped out of the boat to start walking on water. You must take a big leap of faith and dive off
of that cliff, and decide that you will now fully trust in God and that
you will now follow His Holy Spirit in the direction that He will want
to take your life in.

No matter how bad you have been hurt in your past, and no matter how many people have hurt you in your past – you must now learn to completely trust God with both yourself and with your entire life.
Bottom line – not only can you not trust anyone else with your life, but
you can’t even trust yourself with your life because of your own
imperfections and character flaws. Only God is “perfect” and thus only God can “perfectly handle” your life for you.

You have to completely “let go and let God” if you want any peace, happiness, joy, in this life. To really be able to enter into this full surrender with the Lord will require you to be able to completely trust the Lord with
both yourself and your entire life. If you don’t learn to completely
trust the Lord with both you and your entire life, then what you will
find start to happen is that you will start to hold and pull back on
certain areas of your life with Him. And once you start to hold or pull
back in these certain areas of your life, you will then handcuff God in
being able to work any further in those specific areas of your life.
This is why you have to be willing to completely trust the Lord with
every single area of your life with no exceptions!

Learning to really trust God in the way that He wants you to fully trust Him is an all-or-nothing principle. You are either going to fully trust Him with every area of your life or you are not.
The minute you start waffling and trying to straddle the fence post with
Him on this issue, you will then become what the Bible says is a
wavering and double-minded man who will become unstable in all of his
ways.

Now before I give you the verses from Scripture showing you the incredible power there really is if you can get to the point of fully trusting the Lord with your entire life – remember one thing.

The Bible says that all men and all women have sinned and have fallen way short of the glory of God. All men and all women are thus flawed and imperfect to one degree or another. As a result, you are always
going to be running into people who will hurt you and who will continue
to hurt you in this life.

Now here are some very profound and powerful verses from the Bible showing us the extreme importance that each and everyone of us learn how to fully trust the Lord with every single area of our life. I simply cannot stress enough the importance and the power that is on these verses. Again, these are all major foundational verses that your walk with the Lord has to be grounded on.

1. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5)
   
2. “Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass … Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him …” (Psalm 37:4-7)
   
3. “Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord and rely upon His God.” (Isaiah 50:10)
   
4. “Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people from this time forth and forever.” (Psalm 125:1)
   
5. “He trusted in the Lord God of Israel … For he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments … The Lord was with him; he prospered wherever he went.” (2 Kings 18:5-7)
   
6. “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength.” (Isaiah 26:3)
   
7. “A good man … will not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord. His heart is established; he will not be afraid, until he sees his desire upon his enemies.” (Psalm 112:5-8)
   
8. “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him … But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.” (Psalm 34:8-10)
   
9. “He who heeds the word wisely will find good, and whoever trusts in the Lord, happy is he.” (Proverbs 16:20)
   
10. “The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.” (Proverbs 29:25)
    
11. “But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, and shall inherit My holy mountain.” (Isaiah 57:13)
    
12. Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes,
    but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land
    which is not inhabited.
    

    Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but her leaf
    will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will
    cease from yielding fruit.” (Jeremiah 17:5)

13. “Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help … Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God … Who keeps truth forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry.” (Psalm 146:3-7)
    
14. “He who trusts in his riches will fall …” (Proverbs 11:28)
    
15. “Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for
    themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay
    hold on eternal life.” (1 Timothy 6:17-19)

[ELDER JONES GREEN]

AMEN .