40 Days in the Word - Power of the Word Sample

Theme | I Am Faithful

From | Tim Biasetto

Verses | Numbers 23:19, Psalm 9:10, Isaiah 25:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:24

Another week done and so far you have learnt 12 promises from the Word of God! Over this next week, we are going to read through the promises of God to restore us.

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You can trust God.

Often in life our ability to trust has been impacted by bad experiences with people. Those we have chosen to trust, or those we should have been able to trust, sometimes break our trust and out of self-protection, we are hesitant to trust again. If broken trust has been experienced repeatedly, the idea of trust can seem overwhelmingly risky.

Today we read the scripture in Numbers 23:19, “God is not human, that He should lie, not a human being, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and then not act? Does He promise and not fulfil?”

Regardless of your experience with people, God is trustworthy.

If I were to ask you, “is God trustworthy?” your answer would likely be yes, He is trustworthy. But I have discovered it is far easier to say you trust God than to believe it in your heart. The challenge is that we act on our beliefs, not just our words. Of course we all want to trust Jesus, the difficulty we face is that that trust is terrifying!

To trust is to relinquish control. When you trust, you become dependent on someone else and completely subject to their decisions. Your well-being, your life, and your future is in someone else's hands - that is trust. It is easy to trust someone with the small things, the train driver to drive the train we are on, the chair to hold my weight, etc. But to trust someone with the big things like your heart, your future, your relationships, and your finances is much harder.

The greater the risk, the harder the trust.

And God asks us to trust Him with IT ALL. Our whole life, every last part of who we are, He calls us to place in His hands and to trust Him. Ultimately our ability to trust God comes from our revelation of His faithfulness. And I have discovered that God, in His kindness, proves His faithfulness to us again and again as we courageously take the risk to place our trust in Him.

Faithfulness is part of God’s nature, which is why those who “know Your name trust in You”. If you find it hard to trust God, or your propensity to trust has been affected by your life experiences, your first step towards trusting God is a deeper knowledge of who God is. Read your Bible and see His faithfulness, speak with friends who have walked with God over a long time and hear their testimonies, pray to God and ask Him to reveal Himself to you. What you will discover is that God will gently provide opportunities for you to place your trust in Him and you will see His faithfulness again and again. As you come to “know” His Name, you will become one who trusts in Him and sees His faithfulness in your life.

Prayer | Jesus, You are faithful. Help me to trust You with all my heart. Reveal Your faithfulness to me as I place my trust in You today. Amen.