Welcome to the Feminine Podcast with Nancy Wilson.

Welcome to the Feminine Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson.

Thanks for joining me today.

Thought today I might tackle the subject of what it means when we say trust the Lord.

Trust the Lord.

We might casually say that when somebody has a trouble, we might say it to ourselves when we have a trouble.

Or we might say casually to others like, well, I'm just trusting the Lord about that.

But what do we really mean when we say that and what is it to trust the Lord?

So let's start with the word trust itself. What is that?

Well, the dictionary says it's a confident expectation.

And I would add, when we trust the Lord, it's a confident expectation of His help and His guidance and His care over the entire situation.

So it's a confident expectation to hope, our reliance and assurance, like He has this under control.

And obviously, the Bible doesn't just tell us to generate a little trust.

The Bible tells us to trust the Lord. We're not to put our trust in people. Nope.

We're not to put our trust in man or in ourselves or in our feelings or in our own thoughts or our own hearts or our own resources.

We need to trust someone far more reliable than ourselves and we're commanded to trust the Lord.

Especially, I think, in our moment in history, there's so much silliness about trust your heart, trust your feeling, trust your whatever it is filling the blank.

And that is such a bad idea. We are commanded as Christian people to trust the Lord.

So here are obviously the scriptures are full, full, full to brimming over with verses about trust of Lord.

So I just selected a couple here and there are a few samples.

Proverbs 3, 5 and 6, 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.

All right. So we are to trust the Lord with all our heart. We are not to trust our heart with all our heart.

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