Trustworthy
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Trust is something we are not created to give away lightly. We value trust like we value our own lives, constantly scrutinizing others to see if they’re worthy of our trust. But still we are made to do life with help. We are made to place our trust in that which will provide us with more life, joy, and peace. I pray that this week you and I will discover how trustworthy our heavenly Father is. I pray that we will willingly hand over control of our lives to a capable, loving, and near God. And I pray we will experience the abundant life that can only come through placing our trust in a God who gives up everything for relationship with us.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 22:4-5, and today's worship is Keep on Coming Through by Jonathan Traylor.
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We just launched Vol. 7 of our First15 Devotional Series, Trust. And I couldn’t be more excited!
Trust is one of the devotional books I’ve been most anticipating, because of how critical trust is to our ability to thrive in and out of life’s difficult seasons.
This year has been arguably the hardest year we’ve faced globally in a generation. The pandemic has quickly taken its toll in every corner of our society, and every corner of the human heart. And the effects of systematic racism, and our lack of true racial reconciliation across the U.S. and beyond has brought us face to face with the mountain of division we’ve yet to overcome.
Personally, when life is good I find it easy to trust God, to be grateful for the ways he’s providing for me. But when my circumstances get hard, I find myself taking my life back in my control, and suffering as a result.
In Scripture, so many of God’s promises of peace, of provision, of safety are linked to our trust. Trust is like the “yes” that empowers God to move in deeper and more profound ways in and through us.
So I want to sincerely encourage you to get Trust today, to immerse yourself in this 5-week guide that will help you genuinely and wholeheartedly trust God. Because when you give God your trust, you’ll find an abundant peace and life that can carry you with unshakable joy through even life’s hardest challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | Trust is something we are not created to give away lightly. We value trust like we value |
| 0:10.6 | our own lives, constantly scrutinizing others to see if they're worthy of our trust. But |
| 0:17.6 | still we are made to do life with help. We are made to place our trust in that which |
| 0:23.8 | will provide us with more life, joy and peace. I pray that this week you and I will discover |
| 0:30.7 | how trustworthy our Heavenly Father is. I pray that we will willingly hand over control |
| 0:36.5 | of our lives to a capable, loving and near God. And I pray we will experience the abundant |
| 0:43.2 | life that can only come through placing our trust in a God who gives up everything for |
| 0:48.7 | relationship with us. Welcome to the first 15 podcasts. Trust is foundational to experiencing |
| 0:58.6 | the incredible life God offers us in relationship with Him. Trust is a commodity of the heart that |
| 1:05.5 | is only truly given when someone or something proves itself trustworthy. I can only trust |
| 1:11.8 | you to the measure that I believe you are trustworthy. I can only trust my vehicle to the extent |
| 1:18.4 | that I believe it will get me somewhere safely. Scripture makes powerful declarations about |
| 1:25.2 | those who choose to place their trust in God over the world for themselves. Psalm 22, 4 through |
| 1:32.7 | 5 says, in you are Father's trusted. They trusted and you delivered them. To you they cried |
| 1:40.2 | and were rescued. In you they trusted and were not put to shame. As they have 4031 says, |
| 1:48.0 | but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings |
| 1:53.2 | like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. In Jeremiah 17, |
| 2:00.1 | 7 says, simply, blessed is the man who trust in the Lord. Who is trust is the Lord. We serve |
| 2:07.6 | a God who is perfectly trustworthy. We serve a God who so loved the world that He gave |
| 2:14.5 | His only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. God has |
| 2:21.5 | already given us everything. He has done enough to earn our trust. But no matter how trustworthy |
| 2:28.0 | God is, we still must make the decision to trust Him. And no more important decision could |
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