Let God Lead You and Everything Will Fall Into Place

many people wonder why they are not growing in their relationship with the Lord the reason may be that they are not putting in the work required to grow in a greater understanding of the Lord God made us in such a way that we need to seek Him daily by seeking God daily we grow in a relationship with him the Lord reminds us often in scripture of our daily need for him while Jesus was praying The Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 verse 11 he said give us this day our daily bread many of us live in a time and Country where we do not need to worry about getting our daily food we can go to the store and buy enough food for weeks we can then go home and store that food in a refrigerator however the crowd that Jesus was talking to did not have that privilege they did not have access to stores or ways to store Mass amounts of food for long periods of time they often had to wait for God to provide food for them the day they ate they needed to seek God daily for provisions the children of Israel were in the exact spot when traveling through the wilderness they needed food however God did not open up a grocery store for them in the middle of the desert God did not miraculously tie their stomachs so that they wouldn't need any food instead he gave them just enough bread for them to survive each day Manna fell from heaven daily they had to look to God daily Exodus 16 verse 4 says then the Lord said to Moses I will rain down bread from heaven for you the people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day in this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions if they ended up taking more than what they needed for the day the bread would become uneatable he gave them just enough bread each day so that the people of Israel would take time to seek the Lord each day seeking God every day should be the way of life for a Christian God commands us to seek Him daily and not even to worry about tomorrow as Jesus preaches the Sermon on the Mount he says in Matthew 6 34. therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow we'll worry about itself each day has enough trouble of its own since tomorrow is not promised God wants us to focus on trusting him today in the moment we do this by running to God daily we may worry about a Health crisis or a financial situation but God wants us to trust him in those steady moments instead of worrying about what could or will happen the Lamentations 3 verse 22 to 23 says the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases his mercies never come to an end they are new every morning great isn't your faithfulness God has given us enough Mercy in the day to make it to the end why worry about life when God gives us new Mercy each morning when we seek him [Music] you and I are called to trust God now my own perspective on trusting the Lord is that I don't need to have all the answers because I know the one who knows all the answers I don't need to know what the plan is because I know the planner I don't need to know the why if I know the one I don't need to know the how because I trust him someone who has set their heart to trust and believe in the Lord can never be broken and what I mean by that is a Believer who has encountered Jesus a Believer who has been truly transformed by the power of God you cannot uproot that type of person nor can you shake them and I believe this is to be the case because the Bible says in Jeremiah chapter 17 verse 7 to 8. the Amplified translation reads blessed with spiritual security is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the Lord and whose hope and confident expectation is the Lord for he will be nourished like a tree planted By the Waters that spreads out its roots by the river and will not fear the heat when it comes but its leaves will be green and moist and it will not be anxious and concerned in a year of drought nor stop bearing fruit a Believer who has set their heart to trust in Jesus is spiritually secure that means you aren't vulnerable to attack it doesn't make you immune because we all fall under attack from the enemy at some point but you're not vulnerable You're not exposed let me put it this way think of a house a house where all of the windows have been left open the front dorms wide open the back door is wide open there are no curtains no blinds but there is plenty of valuable material inside that's the picture of a person who is not spiritually secure they are open for attack from the kingdom of darkness because their trust is in everything but God but you see to be a believer who really trusts in Jesus Christ a Believer who really believes the word of God and declares that greater is he who is in me than he who is in the world that person is secure the Bible says in Psalm 37 verses 3-6 trust in the Lord and do good then you will live safely in the land and prosper take Delight in the Lord and He will give you your heart's desires commit everything you do to the Lord trust him and he will help you he will make your innocence radiate like the dawn and the justice of your cause will shine like the Noonday Sun I believe that God is pleased when we trust him to such an extent that we can say whatever awaits me in the future I'm facing it with Jesus whatever comes against me I'll be protected by Jesus and here's the thing about faith and trust in the Lord a lot of times you'll have to walk with god without knowing in fact faith can be summed up in the following way Faith is doing your part which is trusting God to do his part your part is to believe that's all you need to do and then you leave God to do his part your part is to stand on God's word his word says that nothing is impossible with God let me ask you are you doing your part are you believing and standing on God's word faith is not necessarily something tangible it's not something you can put your hands on and control faith is the substance of Hope and the evidence of the Unseen this means to me that if you can see it it isn't faith if you can explain it or control it it isn't faith many of us try to orchestrate and control everything in our lives until one day we're faced with things that are outside of our control and the truth is the most important things in life are out of our control you can exercise and diet all you want but disease can still come knocking on your door we can build magnificent buildings and structures but we must still bow to the power of a tornado a hurricane or an earthquake these things remind us that we are not in control but I want you to understand that it's during Times Like These when we feel out of control that we are reminded of the purpose of faith Faith enables us to be comfortably out of control even though we cannot control things like disease nature or death we have faith that God has a plan and that God will have the last word and so as we approach the throne of grace let us ask God to help us to move into a space where we are comfortable without knowing ask him to move us to a 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