TRUST WEEK 1 – FOUNDATION OF TRUST

“In your personal life, everything rises and falls on trust.” – Dr Henri Cloud

Cambridge Dictionary (verb): to believe that someone is good and honest and will not harm you, or that something is safe and reliable.

“Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.” – Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

Proverbs 3:5–6 ESV
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
 and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
 and He will make straight your paths.

1. Fully trust God with inside you.

2. Stop depending on your understanding.

“We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.” -Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

3. God into every area of your life.

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” – Corrie ten Boom

“Relying on God has to begin all over again everyday as if nothing had yet been done.” – C.S. Lewis

“We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don’t understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur.” – Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

4. God promises to lead you with and

“God’s guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life’s plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God’s shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.” – Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

“If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.” – Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When LifeHurts

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