TOPIC : THE POWER OF TRUST
TEXT : JOB 13 : 14 - 16
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him
16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
This was Job's testimony.
This was inspite of what he went through in the hand of the forces of darkness.
He was set up after God had boasted about his faithfulness.
Job was a man of incredible faith and trust in God.
The church for long has taught us to control God with our faith but the Holy scriptures teaches us to allow God to determine our outcome with our trust.
If you don't see favorable material results, change your church.
Doctrines that feed fat the passions of the flesh but results in lean and malnourished human spirits.
Doctrines of devils, making the saved ashamed of their salvation and wishing they were never saved.
Doctrines that diminish the power of the cross and the majesty of our Christ.
The song writer put it this way, "trust and obey, for their is no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey".
God's children are not insulated from the challenging pangs of a fallen earth.
They are not insulated from the persecutions of the righteous.
These indignities and injustices for our God will one day be the anthem of our new kingdom.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen, but trust hopes for nothing and has no evidence.
If God does not do it, let it never be done.
If God does not give it to me, may I never own it.
If God does not take me there, may I remain where I am.
Another song writer puts it this way," my hope is built on nothing less but on Jesus and His righteousness.
I dare not trust my sweetest frame.
God bless you.
With the God I serve, nothing shall be impossible.
Your case is not bigger than God.
May you have a God filled day in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Your Victory is already guaranteed
It is well, do not give up, with God all things are possible
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For further reading,
1 Corinthians 10, Isaiah 41.
Pastor Obi Ejikeme
Senior Pastor
House of faith, Nigeria
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