I Can Trust God

Called to a new Land

Christian Standard Bible (Chapter 3)

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart,

and do not rely on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways know him,

and he will make your paths straight.

This week, we get to do some really fun stuff with you guys, who’s had fun already?!

So when we’re out there we will get to be nuts, run around, and be wild, but here, i want you guys to still have fun, but try not to distract people around you. the best way we can all do that is by listening and participating!

There’s a bible verse i want us to learn together, i’m gonna say it and try to tech it to you guuys, it goes like this…

Christian Standard Bible (Proverbs 3)

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart,

and do not rely on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways know him,

and he will make your paths straight.

I Don't know how many of you have been to church before, but we want you to know, that YOU can trust God! Trust God? How, when, why? we will get to that! but just remember this, and say it to yourself “I can trust God…”

there's a man and we know as Abraham. How many of you have heard of him before? We are going to look at the times where Abraham did and did not trust in God and why we know because of his story that we should trust God. we want you to know you can trust God with being in a new place, like how Abraham was called to a new land!

remember, my hope For when you leave this week is for each of you to know for yourself to be able to say “I can trust God.” If you remember anything, it's this that “I can trust God!”

Abraham,

What was he Called?

Father of Many Nations!

Why was he called that?

Because God gave him so many descendants!

God made a promise

Like stars in the sky

Like sand in the sea

Abraham's life was full of twists and turns, and we know God called him to a new place at least 10 times! Back then, they did this either on horse, camel, donkey, or foot! No cars, no bikes, no planes just a whooooole lot of pain!

everytime God told him to go, he would go, but not always the way God told him to do it.

God called him and his wife sarah to egypt, but when he went abraham was so scared of pharoah that he lied to him and said that sarah was only his sister, so that pharoah wouldnt try to kill him and steal sarah to be his own wife. but when Abraham lied, he was NOT trusting God to take care of him, instead he put both Sarahs life, and his own, in danger, when he should have trusted God.

As the story goes on we see that Wars happen, family fueds happen, and even tragedy happens, but all the while, God stayed faithful to Abraham.

God told Abraham one day

Christian Standard Bible (Gen 13)

14 … the LORD said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

15 for I will give you and your offspring forever all the land that you see.

16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

17 Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width, for I will give it to you.”

18 So Abram moved… (Hebron)

Through the years, Abraham and his wife thought about this promise, the promise of Children. They wanted children, and they knew God would give them one, but they didnt know how because sarah wasnt able to have children. But this is what the bible says, what God said…

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 15

2 But Abram said, “Lord GOD, what can you give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

3 Abram continued, “Look, you have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house will be my heir.”

4 Now the word of the LORD came to him: “This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

5 He took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “Your offspring will be that numerous.”

6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

7 He also said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

8 But he said, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”

then God demonstrated a covenant promise to Abraham and promised not just descendants, but land for them to dwell in!

A few years later, God appeared to them again…

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 17

4 “As for me, here is my covenant with you: You will become the father of many nations.

5 Your name will no longer be Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I will make you the father of many nations.

6 I will make you extremely fruitful and will make nations and kings come from you.

7 I will confirm my covenant that is between me and you and your future offspring throughout their generations. It is a permanent covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.

He wants him to really know, to promise, this will happen!

God was faithful to what he said,

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 21

21:1 The LORD came to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.

2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.

3 Abraham named his son who was born to him—the one Sarah bore to him—Isaac.

4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6 Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

7 She also said, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him in his old age.”

God can be trusted…

maybe the promise isnt happening when you thought it would, but a promise is a promise, and God is FAITHFUL. We can Trust his PROMISE.

PROMISE PROVISION FAITHFULNESS

Application:

When we don’t know where we’re going, we can trust that God will get us there! In His time!

do what you know God is telling you to do

go do something new or difficult

Trust God

Group Questions:

We learned that we can trust God when we’re in a new place, what’s something new you are about to do (or that you’re doing now)?

When you think about those things, how does it make you feel? To do this new thing?* for teachers… (Does it make them feel afraid, excited, happy, sad, meh? Ok, remind them they can trust God and don’t need to be afraid or sad. God will provide for them, protect them, and keep his promises! We can trust his PROMISE, PROVISION, and FAITHFULNESS)