Like
most Americans 911 was the biggest earth shaking event in my life. Where I grew up In Rockland County NY we lost
75 people that day, 7 from my home town. With my emotions running high I got
very caught up in all the different conspiracy theories. As my ministry was starting I was frustrated
because Satan would get me going on these conspiracies and because of these
emotional impulses I would lose the effectiveness of my witness and preaching
of the Gospel.
God
showed me that I was wrong to worry about these things and that I should focus
on the job at hand…Preaching the Gospel…The same day God touched my heart in
prayer about this subject my wife told me that she received a word from God telling her, to tell me, to stop my obsession over the 911 conspiracies, because it takes away from the power of my testimony . During my bible study this morning God showed me in His Word these convincing verses:
Isaiah 8:11-12
11 The LORD spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to
follow the way of this people. He said:
12 "Do not call conspiracy
everything that these people call
conspiracy
do not fear what they fear,
and do not dread it.
There you have it….A strong hand was upon me....
Christian Soldiers of God should not get caught up in all the
conspiracy theories that are floating around about the 911 attacks and
others. Christian Soldiers of God have
nothing to worry about because God is totally in charge and all things are
worked out by Him, to bring as many of His children into His Kingdom.
God doesn't do any evil acts to accomplish His purposes. He gave us free moral agency to make our own
decisions. If anything evil is going on it
is because of our sins. God will allow it to continue, to prove to us that we
are incapable of doing anything without His blessings. As far as what ours or any government has
done behind the cloak of secrecy; it will be
revealed at some point.
Christian
Soldiers of God need to be praying for our government and its leadership. Let God handle everything according to His
will. Just believe that all things work
out for those who love Him
Luke 12:2
For there is nothing covered, that
shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
Here is a Great Article about Trusting in
the Lord
by
Michael Bradley from BibleKnowledge.com
Bible Teaching, Knowledge,
Commentary and Over 150 Free Articles.
Trusting in the Lord
In a world where most of us get
beat up to one degree or another, many people come out of these beatings with a
problem in being able to trust anyone else - ever again! All you have to do is
watch the daily news and it is one tragic story after another.
Our neighborhoods are no longer
as safe as they used to be. Bizarre, random and senseless type crimes seem to
be on the increase with all of the shootings that have occurred at our high
schools, and now in our churches and in the courthouses themselves with the
latest round of senseless tragedies that have just occurred.
All of us, to one degree or
another, have been wronged in some way throughout the course of our lives. And
for some, these wrongs have been vicious, nasty and sometimes extremely
traumatic - especially those who have been victims of crimes such as rapes,
assaults, robberies, and actual murders of close friends or loved ones.
Per the 15 articles I just did
on all of the end time events that will lead us up to "The 2nd Coming of
Jesus," the Bible has already predicted that the love of many will grow
cold as we enter into end times. The Bible says that many will become lovers of
self, unholy, proud, unloving, without self-control, brutal and lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God and His ways. Paul talks about these traits
in 2 Timothy 3:1, and says that all of this will occur in the last days.
Being brutal and without
self-control may help explain some of the really bizarre crimes that we are
starting to see more of with the random type shootings that are occurring in
our schools and other public places.
Even our own government has to
keep reminding us of the dangers of possible further terrorist activity
anywhere and at anytime, and that we have to keep a lookout just within our own
natural surroundings as you never know when the next land-mine may go off. All
of this kind of heightened activity can really start to erode a person's
ability to be able to trust anyone.
For many others, they have a
hard time in being able to trust anyone as a result of some degree of physical
and/or verbal abuse that they have suffered from either their parents or their
spouses. Spousal abuse in this country is still out of control with the number
of women who are being severely beaten by either their husbands or their
boyfriends.
Many people have been so badly
beaten and abused during the course of their lives, that they no longer have
any ability to trust anyone - including God Himself! A dog can only take so
much of a beating. After a certain amount of time, the dog will no longer trust
anyone, including his own master.
As a result of the curse of
Adam and Eve that is still in full operation on this earth, there is always
going to be a certain amount of wrongs that we will all have to put up with -
no exceptions! Nobody comes out of this life unscathed with all the people who
have chosen with their own free wills to live this life on the dark side.
However, for Christians, no
matter how badly you have been beaten up in your past - the one thing that you
cannot have affected is your ability to trust in your Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ and our heavenly Father. As a result of the beatings that some of God's
people have taken over the years, some of these people have literally lost
their ability to even trust in God Himself.
It is one thing to have faith
in God, to know that God exists, and that He is all-powerful and that there is
nothing that He cannot do or accomplish - but it is quite another thing to be
able to completely trust God with your life and to completely trust Him to
properly handle it for you, especially if everyone in your past has let you
down in one form or another.
For those of you who are have
having problems in being able to fully trust the Lord with your entire life, I
will give you 15 very powerful and profound verses from the Bible showing you
that not only does God want you to fully trust Him with your life - but that it
is a vital necessity that you learn to how to do so.
I believe that faith and trust
go hand in hand. They are like a one-two punch. First you must have faith that
God exists, that He is who the Bible says He is, and that you are truly saved
under the shed Blood of His Son Jesus Christ. However, there is now one more
big step you must take after you have this kind of faith in God.
Once you are saved, then you
must be willing to fully surrender your entire life over to God the Father so
that He can then enter you into His perfect plan and destiny for your life. Per
the article I just did titled "The Full Surrender," you must become
both saved and surrendered, not just saved.
God has a purpose and a plan
for each person's life. Your life is no longer your own. You have been bought
at a price and God now wants to do something very specific with your life. Many
Christians already know this, but they are still having a very hard time in
actually trusting God to handle their lives for them.
Even though they know God is
totally perfect and that He can perfectly handle, control and direct their
lives much better than they can - they are still having a hard time in making
that leap - in clearing that final hurdle to completely turn the reigns of
their live over to God the Father for Him to fully handle.
To any Christian who is having
a hard time in clearing this final hurdle with God, you must make a final
decision sooner or later as to who is going to run your life - you or God. And
the longer you wait, and the longer you keep from making this final decision,
the more years you are going to lose in this life in being able to produce any
real lasting fruit in the Lord.
For those of you whose final hurdle is this
trust factor - you simply have to do what Peter did when he stepped out of the
boat to start walking on water. You must take a big leap of faith and dive off
of that cliff - and decide that you will now fully trust in God and that you
will now fully follow His Holy Spirit in the direction that He will want to take
your life in.
No matter how bad you have been
hurt in your past, and no matter how many people have hurt you in your past -
you must now learn to completely trust God with both yourself and with your
entire life. Bottom line - not only can you not trust anyone else with your
life - but you can't even trust yourself with your life because of your own
imperfections and character flaws. Only God is "perfect" and thus
only God can "perfectly handle" your life for you.
You have to completely
"let go and let God" if you want any peace, happiness, joy, and
fulfillment in this life. To really be able to enter into this full surrender
with the Lord will require you to be able to completely trust the Lord with
both yourself and your entire life. If you don't learn to completely trust the
Lord with both you and your entire life - then what you will find start to
happen is that you will start to hold and pull back on certain areas of your
life with Him.
And once you start to hold or
pull back in these certain areas of your life, you will then handcuff God in
being able to work any further in those specific areas of your life. This is
why you have to be willing to completely trust the Lord with every single area
of your life - with no exceptions!
Learning to really trust God in the way
that He wants you to fully trust Him is an all-or-nothing principle. You're
either going to fully trust Him with every area of your life or you are not.
The minute you start waffling and trying to straddle the fence post with Him on
this issue - you will become what the Bible says is a wavering and
double-minded man who will become unstable in all of his ways.
Now before I give you the
verses from Scripture showing you the incredible power there really is if you
can get to the point of fully trusting the Lord with your entire life -
remember one thing.
The Bible says that all men and
all women have sinned and have fallen way short of the glory of God. All men
and all women are thus flawed and imperfect to one degree or another. As a
result, you are always going to be running into people who will hurt you and
who will continue to hurt you in this life. There is simply no getting away
from it in this life.
But just because imperfect
people have hurt you and will continue to hurt you in this life doesn't mean
that you have to hold this against God the Father and Jesus Christ. Remember -
the Bible tells us that God the Father and Jesus Christ are totally perfect in
Their actual natures and personalities. The Bible says that there is no
darkness in Their personalities. This means they have no evil in Them like all
humans have. They are thus incapable of hurting you in any way, shape or form.
This means that you can
completely trust the both of Them to perfectly handle you and everything else
in your life. They are both totally perfectly dependable because They are both
totally perfect in Their actual personalities.
This is why Jesus says that He
has to be the Rock that you are to build your life on. If you try and build
your life on what you want or what you think other people want from you - you
will be building nothing but sandcastles that will perish the minute any
serious storm clouds come against it.
Now here are some very profound
and powerful verses from Scripture showing us the extreme importance that each
and everyone of us learn how to fully trust the Lord with every single area of
our life. I simply cannot stress enough the importance and the power that is on
these verses. Again, these are all major foundational verses that your walk
with the Lord has to be grounded on.
The Scripture Verses
As you read through these
Scripture verses, notice some of the incredible blessings and promises God is
making to you if you can get to the point of being able to fully trust Him with
your life.
I will bold these key words for
you, and then summarize them at the end of these verses so you can see the
incredible benefits and blessings you can have if you are willing to fully
trust this awesome God of ours.
1. "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." (Proverbs 3:5)
2. "Delight yourself also in the Lord,
and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord,
trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass ... Rest in the Lord, and wait
patiently for Him ..." (Psalm 37:4-7)
3. "Who walks in darkness and has no
light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord and rely upon His God."
(Isaiah 50:10)
4. "Those who trust in the Lord are
like
5. "He trusted in the Lord God of
Israel ... For he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following Him,
but kept His commandments ... The Lord was with him; he prospered wherever he
went." (2 Kings 18:5-7)
6. "You will keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord
forever, for in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength." (Isaiah 26:3)
7. "A good man ... will not be afraid
of evil tidings; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord. His heart is
established; he will not be afraid, until he sees his desire upon his
enemies." (Psalm 112:5-8)
8. "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is
good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints!
There is no want to those who fear Him ... But those who seek the Lord shall
not lack any good thing." (Psalm 34:8-10)
9. "He who heeds the word wisely will
find good, and whoever trusts in the Lord, happy is he." (Proverbs 16:20)
10. "The fear of man brings a snare, but
whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe." (Proverbs 29:25)
11. "But he who puts his trust in Me
shall possess the land, and shall inherit My holy mountain." (Isaiah
57:13)
12. Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is the
man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from
the Lord. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when
good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt
land which is not inhabited.
Blessed is the man who trusts in the
Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the
waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat
comes; but her leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of
drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit." (Jeremiah 17:5)
13. "Do not put your trust in princes,
nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help ... Happy is he who has the God
of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God ... Who keeps truth
forever, who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the
hungry." (Psalm 146:3-7)
14. "He who trusts in his riches will
fall ..." (Proverbs 11:28)
15. "Command those who are rich in this
present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the
living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. Let them do good, that
they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for
themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on
eternal life." (1 Timothy 6:17-19)
If you really chew and meditate
on all of the above verses - you'll really be able to feel the power on the
revelation that God is trying to impart to you on the importance of completely
trusting Him with every area of your life. Notice some of the incredible
blessings that are attached to being able to fully trust in God:
* You will be happy
* You will not walk in darkness - but in
the light of God
* God will direct your paths in the life
* You will be like
* You will prosper wherever you go
* You will always be yielding fruit for the
Lord
* Your mind will be at perfect peace - you
will not be afraid of evil tidings
* Your heart will remain steadfast in the
Lord
* You will have no want - you shall not
lack any good thing
* You shall be safe in your surroundings
* You shall possess the land and inherit
the holy
Put all of these blessings
together one right after the other - and you can then really start to grasp how
powerful of a thing it really is to learn how to fully trust in the Lord with
all of your heart and with all of your mind in this life.
In this crazy day and age, more
and more people are finding out that material wealth and riches are not buying
them true happiness. What they are really looking for are some of the above
blessings. But these types of blessings can only be found by true born-again believers
who are operating in a full surrender with the Lord where they are fully
trusting Him to handle both themselves and their entire lives.
Notice the very heavy language
God is using in the last three verses. He is telling us that we are not to put
our trust in:
* Princes
* In man in general
* In our own natural strength
* In uncertain riches and wealth
Notice that God is calling
riches "uncertain." All the material wealth and riches of this world
are all uncertain because they are all perishable items and none of it will go
with you when you die and cross over. Notice that God says we should be
concentrating more on being rich in good works, and that good works are
something that is actually stored up for us in the next life to come, which
will be heaven!
We will thus be rewarded in
heaven for the good works that we do for the Lord down here - not for the
amount of money that we can make. Works cannot get us saved as the Bible tells
us that we can only be saved by grace through our faith in Jesus Christ.
However, doing good works for the Lord will get you the bigger and better
rewards once you enter into heaven. I've already talked about all of this in my
article titled "Rewards in Heaven."
God specifically says that
those who trust in men or in the riches of this world will have no help when
they are really going to need it in a real time of trouble. Only God is our
real help in this life. He says that our faith and hope should be in Him - not
in the wealth and riches of this world!
In the above verse from
Jeremiah, God literally says that "cursed" is the man who trusts in
other men, or in himself and his own natural strength! He says this kind of man
will be like a "shrub in the desert" where there is no real life.
Many rich people have what many consider to be the "all" of this life
- yet they are just like shrubs in the desert since they have no real life, no
real joy and no real happiness operating in their lives.
Conclusion
For those of you who have
really been battling with the Lord on being able to fully trust Him with your
life - really chew and meditate on the above verses. This article will go hand
in hand with the other article I have just done titled " The Full
Surrender."
For each and every Christian - there is
only one way to live this life - and that is operating under a full and
complete surrender with the Lord - where He is now the One who will be leading
and directing your life in the specific direction that He will want it to go
in. And the one thing that will kick this full surrender into full gear is your
conscious choice to fully trust God with every single area of your life -
holding absolutely nothing back from Him!
If you can learn how to stay in
this full surrender with the Lord on a regular and non-wavering basis
throughout the course of your life - and have complete and total trust in Him
to perfectly handle your life for you - then you will enter into what the Bible
calls a true peace that will pass all human understanding. You will enter into
a "God-bubble" where true peace, love, soundness-of-mind, happiness
and a joy and zest for living will be yours on a regular basis.
Granted, we will all go through
various trials and tribulations as we plow through this earthly life. But if
you will continue to hold fast to the Lord in your daily walk with Him and
refuse to pull out of this full surrender with Him no matter how bad things may
get from time to time - you can still have this incredible peace of mind
through the worst of times. This is something that the Holy Spirit will
supernaturally give to you if you will continue to walk close with the Lord and
continue to place all of your trust in Him.
The Bible is truly the inspired and infallible Word of our Holy God and you can completely rely on what all of the above verses are trying to tell you. These verses are giving you a major, and I mean a major spiritual secret that can dramatically change and alter the course of your life if you are willing to implement these truths into your walk with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.