When you're disappointed with your life, how do you surrender your hopes and dreams to God?

Can he truly be trusted to fulfill them?

These are honest questions that deserve credible answers.

And today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall

points to several Bible verses that describe a counterintuitive response.

God's ways are not our ways. We want control and he wants us to surrender. In biblical terms, it's called Resting in Christ.

This is message number seven in our biographical series on Jesus.

Chuck titled today's message,

it is best to rest.

Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place. Our Father, we acknowledge that and we bow

before you in recognition of your presence, your right to rule your authority over our lives. We pause from a week that has been for many of us virtually non-stop and perhaps

for some hectic a lot of loose ends, a number of irons in the fire facing us tomorrow

in the week ahead.

But in this day, this day sandwiched between what was and what will be, we come before you for strength, for direction, for

forgiveness, for reassurance, hope, peace, joy, and dozens of other things that only you can give.

We haven't them in ourselves.

And so we ask for you, our father, to take precedence over all the affairs of our lives,

all of the circumstances

and find within us a hearing ear and an open heart and a ready will that all of our service might be for the glory of Christ.

It is in his name we pray.

Amen.

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