(TEXT : Proverbs 3:5)
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
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In the next two days we will be considering you “PUTTING GOD FIRST IN ALL YOU DO.” In our open scripture for today, there are three points that I will like to bring out. First, “Trust” second, “thine heart”, and third, “thine own.” “TRUST IN THE LORD.” Trusting in God for something or trusting God for all things in our lives, gives us an assurance that “all will be well with us and that we will finish well.” However, quite a few number of believers can’t wait for God’s time, because they can’t equally trust in His “ability or agility” of doing what they might considered “impossible” to them. So, instead of wasting their time waiting and trusting God to do their impossible for them, they rather go against God’s will to get it possible for themselves in an evil ways.
Psalms 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Psalms 56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
Psalms 62:8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
In addition, “WITH ALL THINE HEART.” Many believers out there has many holes of doubts, wounds, scares, heartbroken, hatred, unforgivness, bitterness etc. in their hearts; due to their past relationships with other believers they found themselves around. So for their hearts to trust in God even in the midst of so “called Saints”; it will be a bigger problem, because their hearts it’s always troubled. However, Jesus told us as believers: “let not our hearts be troubled;” because even though from our “hearts comes the issues of life”, yet let our hearts stayed focused on God and not human beings.
Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Finally, thirdly, “LEAN NOT UNTO THINE OWN UNDERSTANDING.” In the kingdom of God, there is nothing like “my own ways”; even from the beginning the Trinity works together. The Father worked with the Son, the Son worked with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit worked with God. And this is to show to us that we also need God in the journey of life, if we must succeed at all. There is absolutely nothing you can do on your own too been a human being; and this is one of the reasons God initiated marriage, so that the journey can be smooth with your partner around you. Your human wisdom can’t take you far in the journey of life, your human knowledge can’t walk you through tough and rough journey of life and still give you safety, your level of understanding it’s not enough to promote you even a bit into the next phase of opportunity.
Genesis 1:1-3, 26 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 2:18, 23 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Psalms 75:6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Proverbs 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
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Thank you Holy Spirit
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T.O AKINSANYA
PRINCE ORATORTEE