How to Trust God When You Don't Understand. Proverbs 3:5
How can you possibly trust God in the times you are drowning in hardship, suffering and heartache?
Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers, remained a slave in Egypt for 11 years, then his life went from bad to worse. He was falsely convicted of rape and put in prison. How could anyone trust God after all that? Joseph’s life reveals 4 keys to trusting God despite the circumstances of your life.
00:00 Joseph’s Story
4:08 Key #1 to Trusting God. God causes all thing to work for your good.
6:03 Key #2 To Trusting God. God is Greater than anything you face!
7:02 Key #3 to Trusting God. God’s plan is greater than your understanding.
8:29 Key #4 to Trusting God. God’s Love for You is Real, It’s tangible.
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Joseph’s Story (see the video)
*Key #1 to Trusting God. God causes all thing to work for your good.
How God turned everything that happened to Joseph into something amazing – he became #2 in all Egypt. Chuck Colson’s story of redemption.
Romans 8:28 “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”
Ephesians 2:10
*Key #2 To Trusting God. God is Greater than anything you face!
Genesis 29:20-21 tells us “the Lord was with him”, was kind to him and gave him favor.
Even more so, the Holy Spirit is always with us to help us and be with us forever:
John 14:16-17: Jesus said, “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. … he lives with you and will be in you.
1 John 4:4
You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
God, the Holy Spirit who is always with you, is infinitely more powerful that Satan, the fallen angel and all his minions combined.
*Key #3 to Trusting God. God’s plan is greater than your understanding.
First, God has a plan. A great and wonderful plan to redeem mankind. God’s primary goal is to save us and transform us to be like Jesus.
There will be things we don’t know or can’t understand about God’s greater plan and what is happening to us. What is happening in our lives may not make sense. For 13 years, Joseph’s life didn’t make sense. Then, suddenly, it did! Joseph’s life was lived to save the lives of everyone in his family, the Israelites.
Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
In the prison, at the lowest point of his life, God was working in Joseph. It may have felt like God had forgotten him, but God had great plans for Joseph.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
God’s plans for you are good! God is the redeemer – who turns bad into good in our lives.
*Key #4 to Trusting God. God’s Love for You is Real, It’s tangible.
What God did for Joseph, he will do for you. He will use your greatest struggles to grow your character, then lift you out of those struggles when you are ready to do the things God has planned for your life.
Isaiah 59:14 is a precious promise.
“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
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