Faith and Trust
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🗓️ 22 February 2021
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Are you standing on sinking sand? Or do you feel the ground firm beneath your feet? Assess your heart in this moment. Are you living in fear? Are you shaken as things appear to be falling apart? Allow your answers to be indicators of whether or not you’re placing your faith and trust in God alone. The Lord is a firm foundation, and the only solid place to place your trust. In diving deeper today, we’re going to secure our foundation in the only steady hope—Jesus.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 9:10, and today's worship is Be Still by Hillsong Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you standing on sinking sand, or do you feel the ground firm beneath your feet? |
| 0:09.0 | Assess your heart in this moment. Are you living in fear? Are you shaken as things appear to be falling apart? |
| 0:16.0 | Allow your answers to be indicators of whether or not you're placing your faith and trust in God alone. |
| 0:23.9 | The Lord is a firm foundation and the only solid place to place your trust. |
| 0:29.5 | In diving deeper today, we're going to secure our foundation in the only steady hope, Jesus. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome to the first of teen podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | The verse for today comes from Psalm 9, verse 10. |
| 0:58.5 | Scripture says, |
| 0:59.7 | And those who know your name put their trust in you. |
| 1:03.8 | For you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. |
| 1:10.4 | Where we place our faith and trust is like the currency of our hearts. |
| 1:15.6 | We have a limited amount of faith and trust to invest in real returns to gain or lose, |
| 1:21.6 | depending on where we choose to invest them. |
| 1:24.6 | Scripture is clear that we cannot place our faith and trust in both God and the world. |
| 1:31.1 | We cannot choose money and God as our anchors of hope. And we cannot choose both the opinion of man |
| 1:38.4 | and God's opinion. We cannot choose our own will and His. We must, moment by moment, choose where we will invest our limited, valuable currency of faith and trust. |
| 1:53.0 | If we, as children of God, truly believe that His Word is truth, a vast reservoir of peace and joy is available to us today. The Bible |
| 2:04.6 | is clear about what we get in return for placing our faith and trust in God alone. Jesus said |
| 2:11.6 | in Matthew 630, but if God so closed the grass of the field, which today is alive, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you, of little faith? |
| 2:26.0 | And then later in verse 34, Jesus said, Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. |
| 2:35.3 | Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. |
| 2:40.2 | What would it look like for us to truly have faith in God to the level that we really |
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