What Do You Need to Trust God With?

What Do You Need to Trust God With? 

 1. Let Go of Your Stuff

“The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.” – Psalm 24:1

• There are a ton of benefits to trusting God, but it comes at a cost.  You’ve got to give up controlling your own life and let Him take care of you instead.
• Who does this verse say owns everything on earth?
• Everything we have is God’s stuff, not ours.  We need to let go and allow Him to use it however He wants.
• We need to trust God with our money.  In Malachi 3:8, God says that not tithing to the church is the same as robbing Him.
• If we do use our money for God, He promises to bless us in return, because we’ve trusted Him to provide (Malachi 3:10-12 and Luke 6:38).
• Besides our money, we also should be trusting God with all of our stuff.  If He tells us to get rid of something, we can trust Him to provide.  If we don’t have something we need, we can trust Him to take care of it for us.  Check out Matthew 6:25-34.
• Proverbs 3:9 says “Honor the LORD with your possessions.”  We need to treat all that we have as if it were God’s and not our own.

2. Trust God in Your Leaders

“Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established.” – Romans 13:1

• Besides giving up our stuff, we’ve got to trust God in our leaders and stop trying to run their lives.
• What are some “governing authorities” in our lives that we need to submit to and trust God about?
• As you submit to leaders, even when you don’t understand, you’re declaring that you trust that God has placed them in authority in your life and that He’ll use them for good, not evil.
• We need to trust God to work through the government (1 Timothy 2:1-3), our bosses (Colossians 3:22), our parents (Ephesians 6:1), and our pastors (Hebrews 13:17a).  If they’re wrong, we need to submit anyway and trust that God will reveal it to them.

3. Give Up Your Future

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” – Matthew 6:34a

• One of the hardest things to give up in our lives, is our future, but we need to trust God that He knows what’s best for us better than we ourselves.
• What does it mean to trust God with your future?
• God may tell you to change your job like he did for Peter and Andrew (Matthew 4:18-20), change what you’re doing like he did for James and John (Matthew 4:21-22), change what you’re studying like he did for Paul (Acts 22:1-21), change how wealthy you are like he did for Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10), or change where you’re living like he did for Abraham (Genesis 12:1).
• You’ve got to give up your right to determining your own future and let God make the rules.

“And Mary said: ‘My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me—holy is his name.’” – Luke 1:46-49 

• Trusting God leads you to worship Him
• It causes you to rejoice
• And it brings glory to His Name

Have a great day.

JOHN

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