February 6, 2022 - The Problem with Trust

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There we go. We're going to talk about trust today and the problem of trust and I just wanted to do a quick exercise. I just wanted to figure this out. How many of you have ever done that trust exercise where people are standing behind you and you fall back. How many of you done that? They how many of you have done that and no one was there to catch you? Am I the only one who's Fallen back and your friends and family members who were supposed to catch? You weren't there? Am I the only one who's ever been disappointed in life with trust? This is what I'm asking. Have you ever trusted someone and have them let you down. Have you ever had somebody? I promise you something and that promise, be broken. Have you ever? We all have right? Yeah. Yeah, I'd like your but yeah, we all get this. There is a problem with trust. Whether it's a parent who forgot to pick you up when you were done practice or a friend, who told you that I told someone else the secret that you entrusted to them, or a spouse. Who, who cheated on you. It's tough to make the decision to trust again.

We have all had people disappoint us.

And we've all had opportunity to feel that God has let us down.

The problem with trust is that we've all been hurt. We've all risked and we've all been let down.

We've all been lied to. We've all been to betray. We've all learned. It's not good to trust people. And we've learned wrong that we really can't trust God, to be good.

But when we trust stop trusting. Especially trusting God we miss out of the peace in the joy and the hope and the happiness in the prosperity, in the safety, and the faithful love in the deliverance, and the help and The Refuge and salvation and the new fear that we can have. When we trust God.

You and I need to learn how to trust the trust Apple.

How do we know who's dress? Double? You know, how do you grow in trust for God. And with crustable people? We're going to start looking at that in the message today. Let's pray.

Lord, I Thank you that you are the trust of one and I pray God, that that will be reinforced again and again, and again to us today. Free Lord, God that we would learn to trust. Those were across the Ville and Lord learned that we can be trusted for ones, too. And Lord I Thank you that it's your words that speak to your people and bring life and I pray for that today. In your name we pray. Amen.

So most of you know, that Karen and I have moved into a new place. and,

What really that means to me is I've had to put together a whole lot, more Ikea furniture.

and, As I put together this Ikea furniture. God has just been speaking to me about trust.

And this topic of trust is one that I've been pondering for years, like I it is amazing. To just look at people who are across the bowl and try to figure out why I trust them. And see people who have trusted God through difficult times and what that is meant to them in their Journey.

I want to know. More about trust. I want to know how I can teach others about trusted. And so really what this message is, is kind of an overview of a whole course that I know God is giving me the teach the people. I got a tundra, right. It, we've got nine parts for this sermon. We're only going to do the overview of those parts today, so don't worry about that.

But as I was putting together Ikea furniture there. There are five things, I decided that I trust about Ikea. Okay, I trust Ikea that don't stand behind their products. I trust that I'll have more parts than I need. I trust that some things won't make sense. I trust the most times. It's best to follow instructions most times. And I trust it'll work when I Work It. Let me just give you some Parables from my journey in the last couple of weeks here. Okay, so I trust that they'll stand behind their products. I have this Ikea desk that it's large and I got all these attachments and I've only had I never had space to put it all out. That the one, the first place we had it. I had to cut off, the ends will fit in there, so I can have it all out there. But since that time, I've taken off the components and put them in different configurations and use them. But now, in this house, I've got to study calling it. The Stuffy, the office makes me gives me hives, but this study I can work with. And I wanted part of the desk for a video studio and I don't want the others that part for a stand-up desk. I want the other part to be able to sit in the right and so I put it all together, but guess what? I remembered seeing a bag of parts. App for my Kia and thinking, why do I need these parts? And I threw them out when we are moving.

but, I know, like he's going to stand behind their products. So, I went to Ikea with, I think four things for parts that I needed. Like, I needed nine of these screws. I didn't know how I was going to get the screws because there is specific, Ikea ish kind of screws. There was a couple things that I could have got a v four and there's one strap that I could probably make do something else, but instead of going straight to Home Depot, I went to Ikea and let's just see. I go to their help desk and this lady find all the apartments numbers and she says, you can go online and try to get them but she said oh, but I can probably get you the screws right now. Oh my God, great God give me this Cruise. So she comes and 10 minutes later. She gives me all the screws and it's like I'm going to go paint know, she just get them to me. It's like, oh, that's awesome. Then I went and I found the bolts and I found the strap and if I was able to put this hold us together. Why? Because Ikea stands behind their products.

I trust that I would have more parts that I need. Okay? Now sometimes admittedly, I forget the place cruising. But I know Ikea furniture, like we got this set of drawers and these drawers can either attached to a desk and so they got parts to attach to the desk or they can have wheels on them. So they got parts for the wheels. And so I knew setting up with these drawers, that I died have Parts left over. Now years ago, when I started working with the kids. That would have freaked me out that Parts left over, but I've learned to trust, I will have Parts left over until it doesn't really matter.

Third, I trust that something's won't make sense. We got this Ikea. Dining room table that expands. which is great, but it expands I did. They got extra parts. I don't know. And so, I was very, very careful. Like the two bars that go underneath. They've got the exact same holes drilled on either ends, except one end, is just offset a little bit. And I knew, oh my goodness. If I flipped one of those around is not going to line up with the other one, if I had this over there and the instructions basically were put this together flipping around, put it this together, flip it upside down, but this together, and I got to the point where I had to be in bed these plastic runners. And, and it was like, oh my God, I was tired, and I knew that if I pounded the suckers in at have to probably rip them out and pound them in the other end is like I'm not you do is walk away from it. Next-day Karen. Is there a nice if Karen can you read these instructions and which end, I think it's this one, but I might of flipped it around one more time. But the next day, I was more confident, it will depend on me and then we got, we got it out there. But the thing that threw me with the instructions were

didn't have a hole where there is a hole. And they had one hole but not the hole beneath it. And it was like, okay that I put these in Ron that I put them, put them the other way cuz of the others and they're just offset than on your way. If you been there, you know what I'm saying? For, I trust most times. It's best to follow the instructions. I got this work bench for the garage. That's all metal. And I opened up the instructions and it said, two people. And I looked at these metal shelves, at, we're about this big and it's like, you know what, I'm going to wait for Karen. Because when I was young, I would stack of boxes and make sure it's all there. And then do these two people jobs myself, but I've learned sometimes just follow the instructions and that'll help. Finally number five. I trust it will work when it work it.

our, very first Ikea furniture was probably It was, at least 26 years ago. It was when we were first married. Our first apartment. We got this table and chairs. and I put,

Table together, no problem. Put the chairs together and two of them were no problem. But to just one fat. And I was like, okay.

50%, that's an odd number. I got two chairs at work and two chairs that are junk. Like that's that's the thing that they can release products that is 50% effective and it hit me, 50% means I put something together wrong. So we have to take them apart and put them together, right?

I know that Ikea will work because they've got

this wonderful place to walk through and see everything and how it works. And if it's somebody Got it together there. I should be able to get it together here.

That's great, power and testimony.

So, what does this have to do with trusting a trusting God and trusting Trust of all people? That's a great question. I'm glad you asked.

You and I need to trust our crustable God. They have peace and joy and hope and all those other than other thing is mentioned. Just for an example. Look at Romans. 15:13 says may the god of Hope fill you with all peace and joy as you trust in him so that you overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Peace and joy and overflowing with hope comes when we trust God. How many of you will say that? I need peace and joy, and hope those are non-negotiable. I need those. I need to trust God. You can trust your trust about God.

When it comes to trusting people, the Bible is quite clear. We should trust everybody.

Sezan in Psalm 41 1 week, if you trust people, it can lead to trouble. So I'm 41 nine. Even my best friend. The one, I trusted completely the one who shared my food has turned against me. We see, Jesus was weary of people, John to 23 and 25 because of the miraculous signs Jesus did in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration. Many people began to trust him, but Jesus didn't trust them because he knew about people, he knew no one needed to tell him about human nature for he knew what was in a person's heart. And we're warned not to trust people instead of trusting. God, Jeremiah. 17:5 says, this is what the Lord says cursed are those who put their trust in the mirror, human who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord.

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In Proverbs 31 a virtuous woman. Her husband can trust her. It says her husband can trust her. She will be great. She will greatly enrich his life. She brings him. Good not harm, all the days of her life. And we're told in Proverbs that they're in. There's wisdom in many counselors Proverbs, 15:22 plans, go wrong, for lack of advice and many advisers bring success. Impulse hell says we can trust. What he does. 1st Corinthians, 1:11. He says you should imitate me as I imitate Christ. So it's not that, we don't trust anyone. It's not that we trust God and then do everything else on her own. It's that we need to trust the trust double ones. We need to trust the trust of a one. We need to trust the trust double ones.

Trust is not something that we freely give.

I've got a friend that.

We get together too infrequently, because every time we get together, he tells me about somebody else. He's trusted that has let him down or set him up or condom of something or got any always starts out with, but they were a brother in the Lord.

Just because someone calls themselves, a Christian does not automatically mean I trust you. I trust God to be God. I trust people to be people. I give great guy, get Grace, from God. I give Grace to people.

Did you get that? I trust God to be God, I trust people to be people.

I get Grace from God and I give grease to people.

We entrust ourselves to people who have wisdom from above, what is wisdom from above for a 3:17 wisdom, that's from above. First of all is pure, it's peace-loving is gentle at all times. It's willing to yield to others. It's full of Mercy in the fruit of Good Deeds. That shows no favoritism, and is always sincere. You can trust people of wisdom that have wisdom from above.

People of wisdom, art tend to be trusted by people.

With that in mind. What it takes to grow in trust with our trust in God, with trust people people.

I've come up with a tool for us. Dressed eggs time. Trust takes remembering. Trust takes understanding. Trust takes surrender, and Trust takes Thanksgiving.

Trust takes time. What do I mean by that? While you're remember Ikea. I trust, it will stand behind their products. Why? Because for years, I've gone there and saying you missed a part or I found that part under this modem. Cardboard, I forgot to look in but you don't still give it to you.

That's how I get extra parts do sometimes. But anyway, I trust that they're going to take care like, it's going to work. They'll show me how it's going to work or the Give me the, give me what I need. And so, I'm I trust them because over time, I've learned, I can trust them. How do you think I've learned to trust God?

I have been through the fires and I'm not been burned. I've been through the waters and not been overwhelmed. I have been through the flames and not been consumed and you can say that to God has taken you through those difficult times. He is walk with you. Through impossible situations. He has been with you when you have pushed him aside. He is faithful. He is true. He is trustablee and he has been to you. He will continue to be because he's been that way all along. You can trust the tractable one.

The growing trust with God. We we need to hear from God. We need to make time to hear from God on a daily basis. It's not 25 years ago. God, perform something. Miraculous in my life. That's what is he told me today? What is he reminded me of today? What is he promised today? What is he showing me today? What is he?

I know I'm not trusting God, if I don't make time every day to be with him and to hear from him.

Life kittens. It's too easy to get busy. It's too easy to set it aside. Too easy, just to do the Rope prayers. We got to make time. To hear from God. And as we amazing thing is, The more at that, when you start hearing from God, the more you need to hear from God. When you start in this word, the more you need to be in this world. The more hungry you get in this for this word.

It's an amazing thing, but it works in Reverse if I leave this on the shelf and don't get to it. It's easier. Not to pick it up.

If I don't spend time with God, today, it's easier to spend time with him tomorrow.

the best thing is, you can start now. You can restart again. You can regrow recommit and and he is faithful. He will forgive you, your pulling away and he will remind you. He's never left you. He's never forsaking you. He has been with you.

Never once did you ever walk alone?

Have you taken time to wait for the Lord? Or will you take time to wait for him?

We can never trust God enough because we're always going to have more things to trust him for.

So make the time to make make the space, to make time to hear him so you can trust him more.

Look at the promise he has for us and Isaiah. Don't know. Salty, Isaiah 43.

I already said this but this is a good sperse. When you go through deep Waters. I will be with you when you go through the rivers of difficult that you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of Oppression. I will you will not be burned. The Flames will not consume you for. I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your savior.

Takes time to grow your trust in your trust. Will God and it takes time to grow your trust of crustable people. It should take time.

We trust people who are consistent over time.

Consistent overtime. Boo-boo Biblical word is faithful. It takes time before you can we can trust each other so much. You know.

But we need to give space. To trust each other more.

I trust somebody I've known for years because I know who they're going to be. I know how they handle failure. I know how they handle success. I know how they have persevered under trial and I trust people more the longer. I've known that.

You see what they do when they're when they do. What's right, even when it hurts, how we see how they respond when they've been wrong.

And we try to be the same people were looking for.

We want to have that can consistency over time. We want to be, no one is faithful.

And it's not that we have it all together and we wear masks. Is it is it that people can see the real ice and see? See what happens how we trust God in the middle of the mess.

Takes time to grow in your trust of the trust. Double one that takes time to grow in your trust of trust double ones. Trust takes time. It also takes remembering. What do I mean by that?

Remember, IKEA address. I'm going to have more parts and I need because I every time I have more parts than I need. Maybe not every time will sometime. Really have lost Parts underneath. Paper and then had to go to the store and get more parts and then find the parts that were under there.

All the times, I put things together and have Parts left over.

I've trusted them. It just so you know. Like I create with words, that's how I create. I don't create with preformed prefab, pre-drill, products. It's not a part of my creation project, you know, like I can screw things in and I've learned not to screw too tight or screw that, you know what? I'll look. I don't know what it is. I'm not the one.

How do I say this? As soon as her son was old enough, he put together the IKEA furniture. And I would hire him out if you needed someone to put together Ikea furniture. I don't have to do it.

But trust goes at, trust grows through remembering.

so, What? We remember how we grow in, Trust of the trust of a one is we remember what he's done in the past.

A testimony. We remember the good things he has done for us. If we can't remember, that's the book is so great because we have testimonies of people for 4,000 years. How God has been faithful to them. And what's in the book, we can apply to ourselves.

The Saints overcome by the word of the by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony. Testimony is what helps us overcome the current problem because we remember the goodness of our good God. So, remember the past. Also remember the promise? That's prophecy.

When will you have prophecy over our lives? It's, we can't scorn prophecy. We can't hold it in contempt. You know, for when I was younger prophecy. We judge. Because if it happens, it's God, if it doesn't happen, it's not got no, that's Old Testament. In the New Testament, we are the test, everything and hold of the good. So, if you have a prophetic word over your life, you need to Steward that you need to pray about it. You can just think about it. You need to ask God about you need to ask others about it. You need to see how you could work that in to do your life today. Some of those prophetic words are for another time. And yeah, you just leave them there and God's going to have to work those out. But still what I need for that time. It's I need the character to Steward what I'm going to have in the future, so I need to work on the character now and let God work on the character.

We Steward the promises for the future. And we remember the testimony of the past.

You get encouragement from God from the past of what and what he's promised in the future for the future.

In that time when you make space for him to be with him, ask him about that. What does he want you to remember? What does he want you to steward?

Promise for the crossbow. 1 psalm 34:17.

Where I'm at, cuz I went 3417 the Lord hears, his people when they call to him for help. He rescues them from all their troubles. The Lord is close to the Brokenhearted. He rescues those who are crushed in spirit. How many can say that? That's true for you? Amen. Amen. You can trust the trust of 01. You can trust him to be good.

People of wisdom or trust or once?

You know who the trust about ones are because you trusted them in the past and they inconsistent and leave. They, they you have seen them at work.

Trusting trust. Apple people need. You need to risk with them overtime.

Yeah, you need to get them and let them be in a place where they can disappoint you.

Do you do that with others? Or do you hold them at a distance?

Trust God to be God, trust people to be people. Pupils even dress, the whole people will let us down.

We get Grace from God, we give Grace to others.

Thanks for remembering to grow in your trust with the trust of all wanted. It takes remembering to grow into your trust with crustable ones.

Takes remembering to become a trust about 1.

Pristiq time trustees. Remembering trust takes understanding.

Remember what I said about Ikea. Over time, I've learned to give myself space when I get to a part that I have to come. It's and if I don't know for sure, I need to commit. I just give my spouse face and I talked to Karen and let her decide if I'm doing it right. And and it just is better that way.

Trust takes understanding. Does grow in trust with God? You need to understand that your role in this relationship with him is to obey.

You grow in. Trust the more you obey him?

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He can start as easy as you feel his leading to for you to call that person. Then when you call that person you realize it's God's timing. Or maybe and you you follow his leading to talk to that person in front of you in the store. And then when you do that you you begin to understand. You can have more Trust of God because boy that door does opens up wide.

It can be that you're reading the Bible on a regular basis and you come apart something. And it's like, oh my life doesn't light up with that.

And then you agreed to let your life line up with that. That's going to Fashion. You agree that God is right and you're not. So you can fast your send to him. And then you repent, you stop doing what you see is wrong in here.

That could be all kinds of things. It's not up for us to make a list of right and wrong for each other. It's up for us to encourage each other to get in the book and let Holy Spirit. Show you what is right? And what is wrong. And here's a hint didn't hurt you and I seen her to others. That's my God is so passionate about not having sin in our lives. Because it's hurting us. When God says it's we don't do it. The reason is because he loves us not because he's trying to kill take the joy out of our life for it. Stop us from doing something that we think is. All right, in the world tells us, it's all right.

It's in because it hurts his creation. It hurts is created once.

We grow in understanding.

Will confess our sins?

Simplest understanding of his book is, do you love God and love others so they can love God and love others.

What is that? Look like in the last week for you?

God, what do you want that to look like for the next week for me?

If you keep those account short like okay, God, I really messed up with that conversation or that interaction and then you go to that person and apologize. I really should have said that. I shouldn't really should have done that. That's why I was wrong in. That boy. It does something in here. It's called humility and it really does its work.

I don't know where I'm at the notes cuz that's wasn't part of the notes. But anyway.

God is the trust of all one. Look at this. Promise in Isaiah.

Sierra 3021 your own ears will hear him right behind you. A voice will say this is the way you should go whether to the right or to the left.

That's the relationship you wants with you. That's why holy spirit is come life in the spirit, needs he. If he's there he is, directing your steps. Use Empower you to accomplish every good work prompted by your fate. Is he? He's working on you in his time and his way. And I know it's time to work on something cuz this week you didn't work on it last week, but he will work on it this week because he's God and he's good and he'll do it in his timing.

You can trust the trust AppleOne.

People of wisdom, entrustable one that is not.

We need to hear. What festival people are saying, then? It's not so much what they say, but we watch their actions. We watch what they do.

And in and we expect people are watching us and our actions and what we do. Because you and I should. We trust the whole ones, too.

Wisdom tooth from above is first of all pure. It's peace-loving. It's gentle little time. It's willing to yield to others. It's full of Mercy in the fruit of Good Deeds. It shows no favoritism. It is. Always in c r.

I will people say about you.

It needs to be because that's what it's like to be the life of the life in the spirit. That's Holy Spirit, living in you and working through you. He's making you more and more and more like Jesus, who did nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility, consider others better than himself.

God is working in you. You can trust him to finish. That good work. I guess what that good work. He's working in. You is is he's going to finish the good work. He's working in the next person that is really taking you off right now and annoying you and if they only knew better.

If he's going to finish the good work, he started in you. He will finish the good work. He started in them. Will you trust him for that? Will you trust him? And he's going to finish that work?

Peace, enjoy. That's how you get it cuz you trust him. I don't have to argue. I don't have to get loud. I don't have to show it down. You have the right to be wrong.

God will work it out.

My job still up.

And speak truth in love.

The more you see true wisdom in people, the more, you know, you can trust them in the more they seek wisdom in you, the more, they know they can trust you.

People see wisdom in you.

They will as you grow in understanding. It takes understanding to grow on your trust of the trust of Oelwein and it takes understanding to grow in your trust of trust of one. And it takes understanding to grow and become a trust, a bowl 1.

Trust takes time, just takes remembering, trust takes understanding, trust takes surrender.

Member Ikea.

Most times it's best to follow instructions.

I've been buying a Kia Furniture. Like I said, for 26 years, in that time. I've learned it's best to follow instructions. Usually sometimes you can figure it out, just do it.

I've had way too many times when I've had to pull things apart and put them back together. So, I've learned it's best to follow instructions.

We grow in Trust of the trust of Awana when he takes us through the hard stuff.

When we go through the fire, when we go through the water, when we go through the things that don't make sense.

What he's taught you in the past, he uses to grow in you in the future. He prepares you for the next battle. You're going to face the next struggle. You're going to go through and he'll be with you in that battle in that struggle. Whatever that is. He is with you. He's already prepared you for it. He's already walking with you. He goes before you he's behind you. He's within you, you can make it. You can make it.

Surrender is. Not my will God, but your will be done.

Surrender is it? God is King and that's a good thing. Surrender is, I am not my own. I've been bought with a price. I belong to God.

Surrender is I will worship him as God and give him. Thanks.

In my heart. I'll set apart Christ as king.

Are you surrender to God?

I've learned if I think I am. Oh, yeah. I might not yet be

Because something will come up where I realize. I'm not. And then we're back to confession and repentance again. Because he is in, that's a very good thing.

It is promised and Isaiah 50.

Psalm 50, that makes more sense. Sound 55, it says 22. Give your burdens to the Lord and He will take care of you. It will not permit. The Godly to slip and fall.

Caustic surrender.

I don't want to say that it takes. Trust takes surrender to trust, crustable people. I don't think that that's feel logically, correct.

I think it's trust takes Grace to trust, trust a little people.

It's I don't need Grace to trust God.

I need surrender. I don't need surrender to trust people. I need Grace.

Greece is not. giving them a license to Hurt you again, and again and again.

It is not giving them license to.

Contradict what the word of God says? What would Grace is?

Is the super guy his Supernatural empowering to do what he wants you to do?

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when someone,

Yeah, that's what I was going to say that when someone who you frosted is like you down.

It it, it doesn't mean that you give them that ability to let you down again.

Remember, trust is earned. It's not something that's freely given.

Now that being said is I put together Ikea furniture. God has been bringing people to my mind who who at one time had a lot of trust in my life and they spoke into my life.

In a few of them or two in particular.

Field morally after the fact.

And God's been bringing them to my mind. And reminding me that when I trusted them, they spoke truth into my life.

And maybe I've thrown the baby out with the bathwater cuz I've just because they felt morally here. I have just shut the door to that truth of this will get in my life.

What God has been telling me and I what I think he's telling you is.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. If you trusted someone and they have hurt you.

I don't I don't know how to say this because yeah, there is some people that have hurt you and you just you just you don't trust them anymore, right? We get that.

But there's others that that you trusted and and didn't mean to hurt you. They it was unintentional or they were dealing with their own junk and they really really fell because of the their own junk.

And and ask for Greece comes, and I need to have more grace for them that I've had.

And I've had people. When it's just disagreements between us. We've got it. We've had coffee. We worked it out. You know, we had those tough conversations. and, They're not in a place where they can hurt me as much as they hurt me back then.

But then there's these other people that I wasn't really in a relationship with them anymore when they fell and morally. And so I wasn't in a place to go and have that conversation with them.

But I'm coming to realize it know, they still still spoke good into my life back here.

And I can appreciate them for that. And I can thank God for them because of that.

And maybe that's surrender on my part. I'm surrendering to God because now I want to blast them again somehow. Whatever weight. And when God has me thinking about someone, if I can't track them down on social media. I will run into them in some say, some store in a few minutes like it just it, I know that it we're going to, I'm going to have those opportunity.

Takes surrendered to grow in your trust with the trust will got it. Takes Grace to grow in your trust of trust double people.

Trust takes time, trustees, remembering trust takes understanding. Trust takes surrender and finally trust takes Thanksgiving. What do I mean by that? Well, You remember, Ikea.

With all my problems with putting together Ikea furniture. I still like Ikea. You know, I like they're there. I used to Yogurt. I like their hot dogs. I like their meatballs. I like they're $2 breakfasts when our kids were young. We call it the happiest place on Earth, and our daughter before covid went there with a group of her. Friends to go play hide and seek. She hasn't done that since she was a little kid, and we used to take the kids there and play hide, and seek in the whole of their whole thing. I like, I can't.

I do. I am thankful that we have one in our city. I know to grow in trust with my trust. A guy that I need to give. Thanks. Right. Look at this promise, you know, you've heard me say this almost every time I preached. Don't worry about ever anything instead. Pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all that. He's done. This is Philippians 4. 4 + 6/6 + 7. Then you will experience God's. Peace that exceeds anything. We can understand his peace, will guard your hearts and Minds as you live in Christ, Jesus.

As we give thanks to our trust about God. We grow.

In Trust of him. Because it helps us to remember what he's done in the past. It helps history. Remember of his promises for the future. It helps us. Remember what he's done for people in the bucket. Helps us remember what he's done for the people around us, their stories and what he's done in your lives, and in my life. Gratitude unlocks that trust that we predict Rose.

One thing I've learned.

I want to be a trust double one. I want people to trust me. And I want that for you as well.

And one thing I've learned. Is, is I want to speak in the people. So that they become trust for once. I want to give you the encouragement to know that you can trust God, but I want to speak into you and let you know of a good things God sees in you the good things. He's interested in. You the good things that he's got in store for you. and I'm, I've noticed that Gratitude helps open up my eyes for that as well.

When I go to God, I asked like, what. What do you love about this person? And then when he shows me, I thank God because of them or that. And that it does something to me because I can complain. I can do Blaine about that person. Instead and say they're not doing this or not saying that they're not believing this or not saying that they are.

All twisted up and messed up.

Or I can speak life into them. And thank my God, because of that.

And I can thank God for the goal that he's placed in them.

It takes Thanksgiving to grow on your trust with your trustful guy. That takes Thanksgiving the girl in your trust of crustable people. It takes Thanksgiving to become a trustablee one. Trust takes time and takes remembering, it takes understanding. It takes surrender, and it takes Thanksgiving.

You can trust the trust of 01.

You can risk with crustable ones. And you can become a trusted whole one.

Can we pray?

Lord. We thank you for your great FIFA list us and we pray Lord God that we can be known as faithful to you.

We thank you for the ones in her life that have spoken, the life and truth and hope and Lord in Seasons when we've needed it. And they really black.

I pray for everyone here, that they would have crustable people that would build them up and encourage them. That no one would think that any there's there's not somebody that I can in confiding in trust because there's no one around but instead we would look to Foster those relationships and look to become crustable people for others.

Lord, I Thank you that you have the grace for us when we've stumbled and we can fall in the in Lord. I know that you'll have it for us in the future cuz none of us are going to get it right.

But as we stumble heavenward Lord, I Thank you that you are there to take everything and turn it around for good.

So Lord, I speak into the dark places of our hearts and I say baby alive. I speak life and I speak hope and I speak truth. I pray. Lord God, that all of us would know that we can trust the one who is worthy of trust. Lord, I pray that we would all want to be trusted will like he he is. Lord help us in that in your holy and precious name. You mad.