In a world where most of us get beat up to one degree or another, many people come out of these beatings with a problem in being able to trust anyone else – ever again!
All you have to do is watch the daily news and it is one tragic story after another.
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 assaults, robberies, and actual murders of close friends or family.
Per the 15 articles I just did on all of the end time events that will lead up to “The 2nd Coming of Jesus,” 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.
Even our own government has to keep reminding us of the dangers of possible further terrorist activity anywhere and at anytime, and that we have to keep a sharp 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 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 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 of Adam and Eve 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 fully trust God with your life, and to fully trust Him to properly handle it for you, especially if everyone in your past has let you down in one way 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. Per the article I just did titled, “The Full Surrender,” 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 your life.
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 and direct their lives much better than they can do – they are still having a hard time in making that leap, in clearing that final hurdle to completely turn the reigns of their entire 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 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 fully 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 entire life for you.
You have to completely “let go and let God” if you want any peace, happiness, joy, and fulfillment 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 do not learn how to fully trust the Lord with 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 women have sinned and have fallen way short of the glory of God. All men and 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. T
here is simply no getting away from this cold hard fact in this life. But just because imperfect people have hurt you and will continue to hurt you in this life does not mean that you have to hold this against God Himself.
Remember – the Bible tells us that God the Father and Jesus Christ are totally perfect in Their actual natures and personalities. The Bible says that there is no darkness in Their personalities. This means they have no evil in Them like all humans have.
They are thus incapable of hurting you in any way, shape, or form.
This means that you can completely trust the both of Them to perfectly handle you and everything else in your life. They are both totally perfectly dependable because They are both totally perfect in Their actual personalities.
This is why Jesus says that He has to be the Rock that you are to build your life on. If you try and build your life on what you want or what you think other people want from you, you will be building nothing but sandcastles that will perish the minute any serious storm clouds come against it.
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 specific verses. Again, these are all major foundational verses that your walk with the Lord has to be grounded on.
The Bible Verses On Trusting The Lord
As you read through these Scripture verses, notice some of the incredible blessings and promises God is making to you if you can get to the point of being able to fully trust Him with your life.
I will bold these key words for you, and then summarize them at the end of these verses so you can see the incredible benefits and blessings you can have if you are willing to fully trust this awesome God of ours.
- “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)
- “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)
- “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)
- “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)
- “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)
- “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)
- “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)
- “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)
- “He who heeds the word wisely will find good, and whoever trusts in the Lord, happy is he.” (Proverbs 16:20)
- “The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.” (Proverbs 29:25)
- “But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, and shall inherit My holy mountain.” (Isaiah 57:13)
- 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)
- “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)
- “He who trusts in his riches will fall …” (Proverbs 11:28)
- “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)
- If you really chew and meditate on all of the above verses, you will really be able to feel the power on the revelation that God is trying to impart to you on the importance of completely trusting Him with every area of your life. Notice some of the incredible blessings that are attached to being able to fully trust in God:
- You will be happy
- You will not walk in darkness – but in the light of God
- God will direct your paths in the life
- You will be like Mount Zion – you will not be able to moved
- You will prosper wherever you go
- You will always be yielding fruit for the Lord
- Your mind will be at perfect peace – you will not be afraid of evil tidings
- Your heart will remain steadfast in the Lord
- You will have no want – you shall not lack any good thing
- You shall be safe in your surroundings
- You shall possess the land and inherit the holy mountain of God
Put all of these blessings together one right after the other – and you can then start to grasp how powerful of a thing it really is to learn how to fully trust in the Lord with all of your heart and with all of your mind in this life.
In this crazy day and age, more and more people are finding out that material wealth and riches are not buying them true happiness.
What they are really looking for are some of the above blessings. But these types of blessings can only be found by true, born-again believers who are operating in a full surrender with the Lord where they are fully trusting Him to handle both themselves and their entire lives.
Notice the very intense language God is using in the last three verses. He is telling us that we are not to put our trust in:
- Princes
- In man in general
- In our own natural strength
- In uncertain riches and wealth
Notice that God is calling riches “uncertain.” All the material wealth and riches of this world are all uncertain because they are all perishable items and none of it will be going with you when you die and cross over.
Notice that God says we should be concentrating more on being rich in good works, and that good works are something that is actually stored up for us in the next life to come, which will be heaven!
We will thus be rewarded in heaven for the good works that we do for the Lord down here, not for the amount of money that we can make.
Works cannot get us saved as the Bible tells us that we can only be saved by grace through our faith in Jesus Christ. However, doing good works for the Lord will get you the bigger and better rewards once you enter into heaven. I’ve already talked about all of this in my article titled, “Rewards in Heaven.”
God specifically says that those who trust in men or in the riches of this world will have no help when they are going to need it in a real time of trouble.
Only God is our real help in this life. He says that our faith and hope should be in Him, not in the wealth and riches of this world!
In the above verse from Jeremiah, God literally says that “cursed” is the man who trusts in other men, or in himself and his own natural strength!
He says this kind of man will be like a “shrub in the desert” where there is no real life. Many rich people have what many consider to be the “all” of this life, yet they are just like shrubs in the desert since they have no real life, joy, and happiness operating in their lives.
Conclusion
For those of you who have really been battling with the Lord on being able to fully trust Him with your entire life, really chew and meditate on the above verses. This article will go hand in hand with the other article I have just done titled, “The Full Surrender.”
For each and every Christian – there is only one way to live this life – and that is operating under a full and complete surrender with the Lord where He is now the One who will be leading and directing your life in the specific direction that He will want it to go in.
And the one thing that will kick this full surrender into full gear is your decision to fully trust God with every single area of your life, holding absolutely nothing back from Him!
If you can learn how to stay in this full surrender with the Lord on a regular and non-wavering basis throughout the course of your life, and have complete and total trust in Him to perfectly handle your life for you – then you will enter into what the Bible calls a true peace that will pass all human understanding.
You will enter into a “God-bubble” where true peace, love, soundness-of-mind, happiness, joy, and a zest for living will be yours on a regular basis.
Granted, we will all go through various trials and tribulations as we plow through this earthly life. But if you will continue to hold fast to the Lord in your daily walk with Him and refuse to pull out of this full surrender with Him no matter how bad things may get from time to time – you can still have this incredible peace of mind even through the worst of times.
This is something that the Holy Spirit will supernaturally give to you if you will continue to walk close with the Lord and continue to place all of your trust in Him.
The Bible is truly the inspired and infallible Word of our Holy God, and you can completely rely on what all of the above verses are trying to tell you.
These verses are giving you a major, and I mean a major spiritual secret that can dramatically change and alter the course of your life if you are willing to implement these truths into your walk with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Let us know if this article has helped you trust in the Lord more?
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m printing this article out to meditate on the scripture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Through reading this article I have realised that my day to day walk with the Lord has been one of not fully trusting in Him in ALL THINGS. The Holy Spirit has guided me into this truth and will lead me towards the fruit that will last because of the understanding gained today. I have also printed the scriptues off for a deeper chewing!! Bless you and thank you bible-knowledge.com for your good works.
Tess stated the very words that filled my mind as I read this wonderful script, which could only have been inspired by God! And I also printed the scriptures even before reading the comments below.
Amazing how the Holy Spirit works with us! I woke up early dawn today with the lyrics of the song, Trust and Obey, resounding in my heart. The night before I was downhearted because of a daunting challenge that threatened to take my peace away…
Then I woke up with this song (the last I would ever have thought of on any day)filling my entire being. So I got up from bed, got on to the internet and searched for the lyrics and the video on Youtube. As I sang along I felt a heavy burden lift off me!
Then I felt an urge to read more about “Trust in the Lord” online, so I googled the words, and among the many entries this script just stood out!
Now I know who led me to this discovery!
I will forever trust in Him…what a dependable God!
May all who find this script be blessed always….the author too!
Great love,
Kofi
Accra, Ghana
I sure will have a testimony from this word today! funny, I was completely doing an entirely different thing, far from reading the Bible at all… I was actually studying for an exam and the Holyspirit (am sure He is the one!) silently spoke to me… Trust in the Lord! I decided to google what it really meant to trust in the Lord…and thank God for Bible Knowledge.com…this is the first time I’m stumbling on this website…but it has truly blessed me! am ready to Trust God fully… He’s taking the wheels from me! I would share what I have gained from this article…It’s life changing…. this is the start for me, but I will have a testimony in Jesus Name!
Just last night on TBN a preacher harped on the imperatives of total surrender and the inherent danger regarding partial surrender, that is trusting God in some areas of ones life instead of ALL. That led me to search for more insight. This no doubt is the Lords doing. Thank you for this wonderful work of encouragement. May He continually prosper this ministry for His glory.
Levi
Thanks for the verses. Some of these have already been my favorites. Trust has been an issue for me my whole life due to early child abuse and neglect. Lately I’ve been struggling with what Trust in the Lord really looks like on a day-to-day basis as I consider divorcing my spouse who is, get this, abusive. I usually feel like I can’t go on another day in my situation and how can I wait for God when I feel like I can’t breathe from the stress! This is hard to explain, but I think the Lord told me in a dream last night that he honors those who trust in him because he knows what a challenge it is for us (me) and that he wants to gain our (my) trust. Don’t know if that explains the “impression” I got or not but I felt much more able to really trust Him today and I decided to Google what trust in God looks like, thus finding this site. I will read your other articles on the topic as well. Thank you for posting such a well written and inspiring/encouraging article. I am going to try my best to trust but I have to admit I am very scared it will take a long time for God to relieve me and bring me to that happy and prosperous place when I have already suffered so long.
I echo your very last statement. I’ve been married nearly forty-one years. Abuse has been the running theme in my marriage. Two separations and a third: 5-1/2 year stand for marriage restoration that nearly took my life several times. It was ‘Thee’ most grueling experience (and in this marriage, it’s all been grueling) of my life, as God called me to Trust Him with my marriage and to Love my husband, Unconditionally. God did the miraculous and the incredible! And He also returned my husband still unsaved. I am still being tried by fire with the verbal, mental, and now, an incident of physical abuse. My God-sent mentors, an outstanding, precious, marriage ministry, taught me that once we were reconciled and restored, to Never Give Up my stand; to keep pressing into God and to Keep My Focus on God. Being weary of so much though, there were times after reconciliation, when troubles would arise, that I’d resort to my flesh. That is so dangerous! Satan is given a foothold upon doing so! This is why the ministry exhorted standers to never stop praying and pressing into God. Thankfully, God would forgive me after I asked for it, but the abuse continues. I feel like I’m in a horrible life
sentence! and I don’t see the justice of God upon my husband – he continues to “get away” with his mistreatment of me. I do know that it is up to me to always remember to use the tools of spiritual warfare that the Lord so deeply and profoundly taught me of and equipped me with. As I write this, the Holy Spirit is reminding me of the scripture that admonishes us to ” be STRONG in the Lord.” Thank you Holy Spirit. Lord, help us to learn to trust you fully and to Remember that we must acknowledge and wait on Your perfect timing, that you will accomplish your promises to and in us; You will perfect that thing which concerns us. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
I’ve been struggling to build trust in what God was leading me to. I’ve faced many traumas in my life from birth which have left me really messed up internally. I turned to God 2 years ago and have struggled since, as I’ve watched even more traumas hit me and my life has been shaken very badly for about the last year and a half. And I did my best to hang onto what God was leading me to and was actually beginning to have hope and trust. And what He led me turned out the opposite. It has shattered my trust in anything, including God, so badly. I haven’t slept in a week, have cried so much. I don’t even know where to turn at this point. I sit numb in church and ask prayers from everyone just praying God will tell me why and help me to understand. I feel deceived.
I wish I could say the right words that would magically give you healing in all areas of your life.
I am sorry that you are having such a bad time and I do pray that God shows up for you in a mighty way
It seems the devil is working hard at getting you to doubt God.. maybe because he knows God’s got a miracle or more coming your way
The devil gives and puts on his finest performance when he knows God’s blessings are coming to you
Please keep praying,believing
God says to keep seeking,asking, knocking
Saturate your mind with His word and then speak it out
Words are containers of power.
What we speak out,we bring in
Life and death are in the power of our tongues
Our mind is the battlefield.. fill your mind with the truth and the devil’s lies won’t have room to seep in
Keep talking to God.. never stop
We all fall but God…
We all struggle and we all hurt
But God…
In His way
In His timing He will show up
Read and know the Word…that’s our power,our knowledge in defeating Satan
God says we are to stand still and see His deliverance
That the battle belongs to Him
He says He will fight for us
I hope you find some timely help in my words but more than that I hope and pray God has met you in all your pain and struggles and has given you the relief and love you are seeking.
God bless
ooh!! i’m so happy for this day, Big Thanx to Almighty God for making my day a fruitful&joyous one today…u know, i have come to realize that “knowing,believeing and trusting God is the best thing that can ever happen to anyone in life” would say i’m really fulfilled, Tanx alot to You all who has contributed to this wonderful “Articles” keep it up and God bless You All.
I just read a great article about trusting God. He is holding me in his arms daily. He is the answer!
We all rely on today's toys. Tv's cell phones, computers, cars or clothes. All useless as we can not take them with us. In heaven G0D has many mansions. The beggar who sat at the rich man's gate is now in heaven and the rich man tried to return to WARN his brothers but was to late. GOD does not want your toys but you soul. A generation comes and a generation goes donate some time to helping others even in a small way.
I thank you as well for this article! I’ve read this passage for a long time, but as I learn to trust God more, the more I learn to lean on Him in all my ways acknowledging him for everything!
I posted over a year ago when I’d taken a huge hit of hurt and pain, another trauma added to all the verbal abuse, molestation, birth defects, etc. that I’d grown up enduring. I was saved late in life and all of those hurts and abuses had me so bound up, intimidated, insecure, bitter, selfish, negative, etc.
In coming back and rereading, I need to further comment.
“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.”
Becoming a Christian doesn’t mean everything you are, everything you have inside you becomes null and void overnight. It means God is going to go to work on you. I have had severe issues with trust, with believing God would do anything for me. Being told that because I was negative, God COULDN’T help me.
Well, a little over 3 years of being saved, God has enabled me to get the car I was never able to get, He’s provided me with raises and bonuses unexpected, and I felt undeserved. He’s completely turned around my company’s situation and prospered us and given us a great atmosphere in the office by removing the one atheist and giving us an all (3 person) Christian office now. He’s provided the love I didn’t get growing up through my coworkers. He’s uplifted me continually, told me He loves me, kept telling me to trust. I refused to quit and that was the difference. Even if my trust waivered, even if I felt betrayed at times, even if I took one hit of hurt after another, He has spoken encouragement and peace over me continually.
God does NOT beat us up and realizes our issues with trust. He WILL turn our negatives to positives and our mistrust to trust as long as we do NOT give up trying.
So if anyone has read this and felt beat up because they have had a hard time trusting God, please know that HE knows this, and HE is willing to increase that trust and faith in Him as long as you don’t give up and keep trying.
And to those who told me that because I was negative, God couldn’t do anything for me….God can do anything He pleases. And He knew I was negative and He knew I didn’t want to be. He’s turned it around and then some. He’s been instilling boldness in me to teach, something I never thought I wanted or was capable of but the desire and ability has risen and I am starting a class next month through my church. God spoke this into me over 2 years ago that I would teach and yet I felt incapable and inadequate.
I just want anyone who struggles to realize if you have trust issues, God knows this and God WILL deliver you from it if you don’t quit and keep asking His help and keep in the Word. Faith comes by hearing. It’s not an overnight automatic things that snaps into place the day you accept Christ. Especially for those who have been severely beaten by life.
I am blessed by your words of encouragement. This has allowed me to way out what’s real in my life. I praise God for always providing for me the things I need to make it another second. Bless you servant of our Lord Jehovah God. This was much needed for me will pass along
Thank you so much for this article and Gods verses of Hope that I needed to realize. My heart cries out for my children’s salvation and the teenagers and all of the challenges they face in this difficult world. I realize I need to fix my eyes on Jesus for my faith and hope to be in Him alone!!
God bless you!
This was an amazing article! Thank you! Thank you Father for your Spirit and life that comes through these words! I bless you with an increase of the wisdom of God so that you can share more amazing revelations!
The message and verses were very comforting to me. I am struggling to live totally committed to the Lord in all things. I want to fully trust and obey but the world keeps tempting me. I am praying for the self control and determination to give everything to the Lord.
Yes,yes,yes, been praying to feel the peace if God in my life again after major physical injuries, There for also mental changes. This article was an Answer to my prayer.
I trust in the Lord but I have a problem with that question. I love the lord for what he has done for us sinners but when I pray to him he does not answer me . Oh yeah when I play trivia questions about the Bible and here the Lord will tell me which one but when I try to talk to him he does not respond why I do not know. I have read the Bible and try to talk to him when everybody is asleep which is 4 am and the funny thing is I still can not hear him. I tell him that I would love to be healed so I can serve him plus help my family around the house but for some reason I can’t hear him talk to me. I have been disable for almost 9 years and unable to walk like I used to, because of my broken back and have foot drop syndrome in both feet and this is from a car wreck. You always see on the news that some disable person took their life because they could not handle life anymore, and yes I have felt like that. To me I take it as God does not care . I know he loves his children but you would think before the person gets to that stage he would respond to them and talk to them just to let them know that he cares about them. So please if the Lord is reading this please respond. Thank You,Ron
Ron,
GOD answers in ways we can’t understand, even when we try so hard too.
Have you read the story of Moses? If so, then you know GOD made sure that Moses material world was in order before the spiritual part of him can take notice of GOD’s present.
Miracles come in many forms and only through the glory of GOD will this ever happen. When we ask for things we can’t control within ourselves, it’s up to GOD to pull the reigns and allows us to not so much test our faith than it is testing our belief.
The spiritual you is perfect in every way. It’s the material world that we think so much of that clouds of mind at times.
I hope you find peace in your mind and soul and that help comes in many forms.
When I realized that God was truly in charge of my life I Let Go and decided that weather I heard him verbally or just threw my daily walk I knew he was there to guide me and I stopped worrying about stuff and just let things happen ….and thank God everyday for showing me the way to approach situations.. the hard part is letting my ideas and ways of doing things go because I’ve always been taught to take charge and to be a leader. I have to submit daily to God my life and my ideas and have him walk me through each day almost as if I were handicapped. When I first started to really submit my life over to God I had this feeling come over me as if somebody had just died and it was a kind of sadness. I later figured out it was me dying to myself. I started to notice that I wasn’t worrying and taking on responsibility of what was happening to my family I let God do his thing, and stood back and watched instead of worrying and trying to handle everything on my own.
God trasformed my mind the way i think about you. Heal my unbelief and trust in you. I believe your always eager to talk to your children .You are God our abba father who always give good thing to your children. I will continue and never give up talking to you until i hear your voice audibly to me. I’ll be patience. Thank you Abba for woking so hard on me even i cannot see it. Help me to be more appreciative and thankful to you. I love you. I trust you. I believe in you. Heal me my God so i can hear you..
I have recently gotten to the point that when I realize my thoughts are not right, I pray mentally, at any time : God, Abba, father, pappy, el jefe, master of the universe I thank you for a sound mind. I thank him over & over & whatever is attacking me is vanquished. Sometimes I have to do it again again within just a few minutes. I know you’re disabled but, it’s still not about you, it’s about Him.
Hi Ron, I suffered for close to 14 years with debilitating illness. At first I thought God was punishing me. I couldn’t hear from Him. I felt rejected and unloved. I wanted to die, but then in a moment of absolute desperation I cried out to Him. He did not answer me directly but days later he sent a health coach into my life who has been helping me to restore my health little by little. Over 70 doctors could not diagnose the cause of all these diseases and illnesses. But a five-minute conversation with this health coach lead to me getting tested for heavy metals. It turned out that I had rat poisoning. It has been a slow process of recovery but in this time, I have learned God‘s word. I have learned to speak it out loud. I have learned what it means to actually be son of God, I’ve appropriated my God-given authority, and the keys to the kingdom of heaven that Jesus spoke about. I’ve witnessed miraculous instantaneous feelings, even though I have had to slowly walk out my own healing and deliverance. I’ve learned to trust God and to not put my own confidence in whether I am strong or weak. Before all this I was an athlete and a very capable person. After all of this, I am learning not to trust in my own strength and capabilities but to trust in the Lord. During these 14+ years, he has also delivered me of rejection, emotional and physical trauma, and brought so much healing to my mind. He has become my best friend, not because I am worthy but because of his faithfulness. Ron, where ever you are today I pray that God touches your heart, heals all of your disappointments and unmet expectations and that he sets you free from the pain of all your suffering. I pray his love feels you from head to toe, that he mends every shattered fragmented piece of your heart and that you are completely healed, restored, refreshed and filled with hope for the future because the future is in his hands. He is the author and the finisher of our faith, and he has very good plans for your life. It is my prayer that the outer reflection of your life begins to reflect the good plans he has for you. I decree a shift and an alignment with God’s kingdom, his power, his glory in every aspect of your life in the mighty name of Jesus. Be blessed! You are truly loved!
A great article.
I was led to this as I reflected on how the world is more & more trusting in self, man, science, the medical profession, wealth, assets, etc., etc.
Two verses that I have added to it (just after the first lot of bold print in the “Conclusion” you added….
Rom 8:13 For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.
Rom 8:14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
… from the Amplified Bible.
Father sent His Spirit to help, teach, strengthen, etc., etc.us in this life on earth … it is NOT our battle …. but Satan is very active & the flesh can’t fight him.
Also, Father’s plan for ALL who rely on Him & what Christ Jesus achieved (Read Luke 4:18-19) … remember His final words on the cross … “IT IS FINISHED” (I have achieved what I WAS SENT TO EARTH TO DO!) ……
So ……1 John 4:17 In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion {and} attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD.
I will say that we are living in a world that is encouraging people to “take charge” of their own lives and their destinies, that each individual holds the ‘key’ to their own life and destiny. I see this been spoken about in most TV shows, by ordinary people, celebrities. And this kind of mentality and man-made ideology is dangerous and crippling our minds, most are not aware of this. Surrendering to the will of God is not mentioned, and I believe this is part of the anti-Christ system that is unfortunately taking over and influencing people who do not believe in God, and also lukewarm Christians. So people are relying on themselves and taking control of their lives without God in the equation, and it is really sad. However, God does warn us that in the last days people will be lovers of themselves, “I hold the key to my happiness and success”. The “I” mentality. As a young person, I worry about financial security, that is my biggest worry in this materialistic world and I am learning to trust God and to see beyond this world. To anyone reading this and you are in a bad space, facing unemployment, financial burdens and bills mounting, God won’t let you go through that for nothing, their is a bigger plan that only He knows, hence why we need to trust in HIm. HE KNOWS. This article is really great thank you. Much appreciated.
Thank you for writing this.
I am up and I will keep pushing, believing and trusting God.
Thank you again for reminding me how much I mean to God. God bless you.
I have been saved most of my life. I have had many victories in GOD. I seem to get to a point though that i fear failure even since i was a child because my confidence was crushed by my many bad decisions. But, after reading this i can see that there is truly only one decision that i must make. That is that i must continuously surrender to GOD as Lord of my life. Thank you very much my friend.
Honestly, I read articles like this all the time but I STILL don’t know what surrender looks like. I feel that I don’t know the difference between what is practical or impractical. Rent is due but I don’t have a job so take a job wherever but it doesn’t pay nothing so should I just pray wish and hope God will take care of that or do I work really hard for a better paying job while bills stack up and take whatever I can get? God never explains this stuff and that’s why I can’t be sure im surrenderee until I know what it is and what it is not. It’s hard to talk about surrender when real life stuff God let’s fall by the wayside and and I suppose to say I trust him? Am not trying to sound any type of way but I really never get a response from God. It’s like he says all this stuff not realizing to some humans it’s not common sense or spiritual sense. What exactly does he want me to do and what does surrender look like because being out on the street saying I’m trusting God is not it for me. I’ve been struggling too many times over my life to end up looking stupid thinking what I’m doing is surrender and it turns out I was just being stupid. Please explain what surrender looks like in real everyday life. I pray and ask God for help but he never responds.
Great article! Helped me understand a little bit more and increased my faith and what it means to, and in what ways we walk out “trusting in God”.