February 22, 2017 - Do you really trust Him?

 

February 22nd, 2017 - Thoughts for your Week

Scripture: Psalm 147: 10-11, 13-14

His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of the warrior; the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love. He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses your people within you. He grants peace to your borders and satisfies you with the finest of wheat.

Do you really trust Him?

As you relying on your own strength in something? Are you worrying? Are you struggling with releasing something into the hands of God? Are you grieving over the loss of someone or something? You can lay it all down at the feet of Jesus. Every single bit of it. Don’t hold onto any of it. Put it down at His feet and leave it there. Trust that He understands and knows all of it, and that He will take hold of it and carry it for you, that He will heal you, that He will comfort you through it. Nothing is too great for your Father to bear. It’s not about how much we do or how fast we run – it’s not based on our strength and determination. It’s that we come to Him for everything and that we completely entrust ourselves to His power, strength, and determination.

What are you holding on to? Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal it to you now. Ask Him to show you how you can lay it down and leave it with Him. And ask for the faith to move forward in trust and peace.

“Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.” 
- Shannon L Alder

I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through Him who gives me strength.

Philippians 4:12-13

If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.

1 Peter 4:11-13

“We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.” 

- Charles R Swindoll

“How can we not ask at every turn, 'What is going to happen? How will this turn out?' The main thing is not to consent consciously to anxiety or a troubled mind. The moment you realize you are worrying, make very quickly an act of confidence: 'No, Jesus, You are there: nothing--nothing--happens, not a hair falls from our heads, without Your permission. I have no right to worry." Perhaps He is sleeping in the boat, but He is there. He is always there. He is all-powerful; nothing escapes His vigilance. He watches over each one of us 'as over the apple of His eye.' He is all love, all tenderness.” 

- Jean C.J. d'Elbée,

“Your Father knows your gifts, your hindrances, and the condition you're in at every moment. And He also knows something you can't possibly know--every single person who's in desperate need of receiving His touch through you.” 
- Bruce H. Wilkinson