Trusting God When You Don’t Understand

In that moment she reaffirmed with everything inside her that no matter what happens. She is going to trust the Lord with every part of her heart and will not rely on her own

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ing of what she believes should happen and what she would do if she were God. , will not rely but on all his ways, will surrender to him and recognize him. He cried out to him and he would do what a faithful God would do, what did she do? She cried out to God and she was no longer sad. That's trust. Hannah's circumstances did not change, but her heart changed, she put her faith in God and this next.

The verse is ridiculously emotional to me, the scriptures say this, the whole family got up early the next morning and what did they do, let's say it all together and went to Worship the Lord once again, let me ask those of you online again, just write this. the comments section this is this is deep this is a reflection of faith nothing outwardly had changed and what they did they went to worship the Lord once again nothing had changed the situation was visibly exactly as it was before God had done nothing notable and they went to Worship the Lord once again.

If we can be really honest and not play like we're super spiritual Christians, it's very hard to trust God, we don't

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you know he can do something and he doesn't. you have tried to be faithful and you sought him and you prayed and you fasted and you prayed some more and you begged and you pleaded and you hoped and you did good things for people and you hope that you know that I give an offering maybe you will realize that God and you continue to pray and you keep praying and God doesn't come and they went to Worship the Lord one more time the reason why this hits me so deeply I think I think there's probably been two times in the last 10 years I've broken down and just sobbed, you know, an ugly, uncontrollable cry, it was about two weeks after my father died.

I didn't cry, I didn't cry and then boom, one day he just hit. I, um, the other time was several weeks ago and there is a situation that I have talked about before and I'm not going to talk about it again, but the weight of it hit me very hard and it was right before church the end of the week

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he was supposed to preach. I'm there with Amy and I'm in my little office 10 minutes before church and I was sobbing and sobbing and sobbing and sobbing and sobbing 8 minutes before church 6 minutes before church 5 minutes before church starts and the music it plays and I can't stop, my eyes are red, I have snot, I'm sorry, I'm kind of serious, I just had snot everywhere and I said how am I going to preach and I wiped my tears. as much as I could and Amy and I walked and sat in our normal seat in the front row and we worshiped the Lord once again nothing had changed but by faith we praised God as if he heard our prayer and answered it, we worshiped the Lord once further.

I don't know who this is for, but you've been holding on and you're about to give up and one of the greatest acts of faith is to praise God when you don't see Him yet, and worship Him when you don't see Him. I don't feel like it and just tell you that I'm not worshiping you for what I'm worshiping for who you are and you've always been good and you've always been faithful and you wipe away your tears and you raise your hands to the sky and you worship him one more time because you don't. you are worshiping him only for what you see, you are worshiping him for what he says, you are worshiping him for his faithfulness because our confidence does not grow in good times. we learn to trust him in trials and the scriptures say in 1 Samuel chapter 1, this is what happened, they returned home to Rama and when Elkanah slept with Hannah, what does that mean?

He actually forgave him for what she said before, so they made up. Whatever you are going through in your marriage, there is hope and there is healing in the name of Jesus, sometimes you have to forgive and she forgave him for all that having more than 10 children and I slept, he slept with Hannah and the Lord He remembered her. she supplicated and at her due time she gave birth to a son at her due time at her due time and she called him Samuel because she said I prayed to the Lord for him, she called him Samuel, what does Samuel mean?

Samuel means heard by God, it means God heard, that's what it means and so every time she said her son's name Samuel hears Samuel hears every time she said his name she was saying God heard she is remembering her trial and remembering the faithfulness of God that God heard his prayer and God answered it every time God You remembered and heard now praise God, hallelujah, we can worship the baby, but that begs the question why is God taking so long, right?, why Didn't he do it years before? Do you want me to tell you why the answer is no I have no idea I didn't study that in seminary I that's above my pay grade I like it I don't know I mean, God's ways are higher than ours and it is possible that God has not done it because other times he did not do it.

I don't know why God didn't do what He could have done and did it sooner, but this is what I do know: throughout the process she reached a point where she truly dedicated her son, her unborn son, to the Lord. If God had done it. I gave him a baby before, maybe I wouldn't have done it, in other words what I found in my own life is that sometimes God needs to do something in me long before He does something for me, sometimes He has to teach me something that He has to do. something in me to change my heart if I'm going to trust the Lord God with all my heart because my heart is evil on its own and sometimes it needs healing maybe there's someone here God wants to do something in you before he does something for you and then , if you are waiting or if you are sobbing and you come back and worship the Lord once again, how do you wait well?

How do you wait well? One of the most useful things for me. I have this diary. It's a five year diary, one of the reasons I have it is because you only have to write a little bit, that's one day, those of you write like 40 pages a day, like I could never do it, so I got an easy journal. one, this is like a beginner one and what I like about this one is when I go back and look at this is, uh, this is August 10, this is August 11, so this is August 10, like 2017, this 2018, 19, 20, 21, um and Every time I go back and look at previous years on the same day I see all my prayer requests and what happens is that on August 10, 2017 I was worried about something and I didn't trust In God, a year later I can see that God was actually faithful and year after year I see God's faithfulness.

I never know the day of, but a year or two or three years later I look back and say oh God. Maybe I still don't understand, but I see your goodness. your faithfulness because God has been faithful in the past we can trust him with the future his word is true and he is always faithful I don't know who this is for but I believe God gave me a word for someone who is waiting right now God gave me a word for someone who is suffering right now God gave me a word for someone who is disappointed in God and I want to tell you and promise you that God has not left you that he is still here that he is still good that he is always always faithful that his promises are true you can trust into him you can let him in you can run to him you can cry out to him you can fall on him you can cry to him in deep anguish and then you can worship the Lord once again because he is always good, he is always with you, he will never leave you, he will never abandon you and Hannah did this, she decided beforehand that I will trust him no matter what and then she dedicated her unborn son and then she has a son and she kept her word and gave Samuel to the Lord and what did God do through Samuel so many things um Eli and Samuel had an experience God spoke to Samuel and he faithfully interceded on behalf of God's people and became a judge over Israel and ruled, established a school of prophets, anointed David as king of Israel and, through the lineage of David, actually led to the birth of Christ, that whole process led to a point of deeper trust where she was able to give her son and dedicate him faithfully. to work in the ministry of God and through that faithfulness God did so much to her son when she learned to trust the Lord with all her heart and lean not on her own understanding but in every way to recognize it to submit. to him to give herself to him and he will direct her path.

I want to ask someone here today what do you think God could do through you if you choose to trust him in your trial, what do you think God could do in you and God could do through you and God could do for you if you choose to trust in it in your test. God help us to trust you with every part of our hearts because you are good, your promises are true and you are always faithful in all our churches and Those of you online, would you please go with me in prayer before God? Heavenly Father, build our faith.

God for those who are waiting, suffering and questioning. Do healing work just as you did on Hannah, although nothing has changed yet. It is no longer sad that we worship you again as you pray and reflect today. I want you to do it, let's do this, let's open our eyes if you don't mind, we are the body of Christ and I want to be. able to pray for each other those of you right now let's call it what it is don't act super spiritual there's something weighing you down it's heavy it's a burden it's a worry it's a worry I have one like in my hands the The first one out, those of you They say that's you.

Could you raise your hands right now? Go and pick them up. Leave them online. Just write. I have a load in the comments. Leave them up if you want. What I wouldn't do if I wanted to. It doesn't matter, can you just approach appropriately and maybe put your hand on someone's shoulder in front of you or stand next to them and let's pray together as the family of God that just reached out to someone? close close and God with the laying on of hands we come before you as suffering people needing you and God we simply recognize it sometimes it is really very difficult to trust you we cannot see you we do not know what you are doing We do not understand all your purposes, but God , we decided previously, we choose to put our faith in you and God in this moment, as we are feeling the touch of another human being.

Help us feel the touch of your hand. Supernatural love for us, your Providence, your God, we thank you that you are working in all things to do good to those who love you and are called according to your purpose. God, we just recognize that your ways are higher than ours. take a bigger picture God help us trust you God right now with our children with our health with our finances with our relationships with our careers with our spiritual life with our fears with our mental health issues god with whatever you're in weighing on us it helps that we trust you with every part of our hearts we cry out to you in deep anguish we cry out to you and to God we thank you that you hear the cries of our hearts God, I pray that you will lift up our heads or join our hearts but I pray for those who walked sad that they are no longer sad and we worship you once again because you are always good and always faithful as you continue praying today you can remove your hand if you don't want to be uncomfortable for the rest of the time it's okay keep praying no one look at your around today um let me ask you this question um on a scale of 1 to 10 how sure are you that if your life ended that you would be right with God God? scale of 1 to 10 scale of 1 to 10 how sure are you if today you are not a 10 I want to talk to you you are seven five eight whatever um if today you are not a 10 I want to talk to you we are never reconciled to God by our own good works each one of us you all have sinned you have sinned I have sinned and our sin separates us from the Holiness of God but the love of God is so amazing and is so personal that he did not tell us that he loved us from heaven but he showed His love on earth sent his son Jesus who is perfect in every way and Jesus came not to judge the world but to save the world.

He who was sinless gave his life on a cross and died and three days later God resurrected Jesus. from the dead so that anyone and this includes you no matter what you have done anyone who calls on the name of the Lord so that you may be saved The Scriptures say this: if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead and You confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, you will be saved if you surrender to the lordship of Christ, your sins are forgiven, they are not taken into account. That means you are destined for heaven You belong to God You are a child of God That means if I ask you on a scale of 1 to 10 how sure are you? you say 10 if you say anything less than 10, let's do it at a step of 10 from your sin step towards the grace of Jesus Christ call on him and when you do God hears your prayers and you become new, everything else is gone and you become new today in all our churches or wherever you are looking from your lesson to 10. make it end today you need his grace you say I know I have sinned I want his forgiveness today we are just going to turn away from your sin we are going to repent and we are going to surrender our Live everything in Jesus we are going to trust in him and only in him for our Salvation those who say I need that I want that I want to be a 10 I want to be safe I want to belong to him I need Jesus I I need his forgiveness.

I am ready to give my life to Him. That is your prayer today. Could you raise your hands high right now foreverywhere? Raise your hands high today and say Yes, I need Jesus. Others today that is his prayer online. You can write in the comments section. I am giving my life to Jesus Jesus and since we have many people here and around the world, let us all pray together. pray out loud pray heavenly father I am ready to trust you to trust you to forgive my sins to trust Jesus TR Jesus to be the Lord of my life to be my savior to trust your Holy Spirit to fill me so I can know you and I live for you live for you my life is no longer my life I give you everything to surrender use my life use my life to glorify you glorify thank you for the New Life for forgiveness for salvation I give you all mine in the name of Jesus I pray, could someone speak out loud and praise God, praise someone.

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