Trust is a hard thing. It’s difficult for some people to trust those closest to them, even without any fault to their name. I can see how it would feel even more difficult to trust a big God with control over everything. But it doesn’t have to be difficult if we have a relationship with God & know He is trustworthy.

Don’t get me wrong, even people that KNOW God, know His character, and know He only wants to help us can struggle to trust Him in some areas of their lives.

We get caught up in fear & worry that He doesn’t know what we want, what we need & what WE think is best. But He does. He knows all these things & more that we don’t know & can’t know right now.

I’m going to give you some tips on how to trust God with everything in your life, but before that, I want you to know WHY it’s important to trust Him with everything.

1. God Knows Everything & Has Perfect Wisdom
   1. Isaiah 40:28, “Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding.”
2. God is the Most Faithful
   1. 2 Timothy 2:13, “If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny who he is.”
3. God Loves You the Most
   1. 1 Peter 5:7, “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.”

Here are my 4 tips on How to Trust God With Everything in Our Lives:

1. Know Who God Is
   1. Know His character. Cultivate a relationship with Him. Understand how faithful He is, and how much He loves us.
   2. Psalm 9:10, “Those who know your names trust in you, for you, O Lord, do not abandon those who search for you.”
2. Reflect On His Faithfulness
   1. Remind yourself when He was there to protect you, to help you & to give you guidance & understanding. Even if you didn’t attribute it to God back then but KNOW it WAS Him.
   2. 2 Thessalonians 3:3, “But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.”
3. Become More Patient In His Timing
   1. God plans things better than we ever could. He knows better than us.
   2. Ecclesiastes 3:11, “Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.”
4. Do What God & the Bible Tells You to Do
   1. Spend time in the Word to know all the things God wanted us to know & hold close to our hearts, then OBEY the principles & way of life it tells you to do.
   2. When God tells you to do something, despite how out of place it may sound to YOU, do it.
   3. Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”

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It sounds good to be in control, right? You are making sure everything is going well around you, doing your best to help others be their best and making sure you are controlling yourself, too.

Plus, people talk about how important it is to have self-control, so control MUST be a good thing. Right?

It’s really not and believing you can control everything around you is a fallacy.

Yes, it’s important to control ourselves, like our attitudes, actions & behaviors, but that’s it. We LITERALLY cannot control anything else but ourselves. And even the plans we make for ourselves, we can’t control if those things work out because it’s something outside of ourselves.

But we THINK we CAN control everything around us and that gets us in trouble.

We can be troubled emotionally and sometimes financially and with others.

You push and push and push for things to happen that you want or believe should happen but don’t realize it’s much easier to rely on God to manage things. But you’re worried God doesn’t know what you want (He does) and that it won’t happen when you want it if you leave it to Him (it might not but only because He knows the best timing), and if you DO leave it to Him, you won’t get the credit.

Here are 5 reasons why we need to let go of all ideas of control and surrender our lives to God:

1. We Don’t Know Everything
   1. The understanding we have about the world is VERY limited. We don’t know as much as we think we know.
   2. Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”
2. Feeling Anxious & Worried Isn’t Fun
   1. Wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have to worry anymore? That’s what can happen (for the most part) if we allow God to handle everything in our lives.
   2. 1 Peter 5:7, “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.”
3. We Should Be Trusting God With Everything
   1. He is our Heavenly Father and we should trust Him like He is.
   2. Romans 8:28, “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.”
4. It’s Never Us Anyway
   1. Everything that happens in life is because of God. We think it’s in our own abilities, but it’s not. And the sooner we recognize this, the easier it will be to surrender everything to God and no longer feel the need to try to control everything.
   2. Proverbs 16:9, “We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.”
5. God Knows Everything & Controls Everything
   1. Despite what you might think, He’s got all the control. We think we have control because God allows us free will to either make the choice to surrender to Him in faith & trust, or to get in our own ways and struggle a bit more.
   2. Jeremiah 29:11, “’For I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord. ‘They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.’”

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I know I’m not the only one that has ever felt less than or not as great in what I do or that I don’t matter. And that’s why I am doing this episode today.

Yet another perfect moment of God telling me what I should talk about while driving home today. And it all came about on a verse I had read earlier in the day that really hit me.

1 Corinthians 12:14-22, “Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part. If the foot says, “I am not a part of the body because I am not a hand,” that does not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear says, “I am not part of the body because I am not an eye,” would that make it any less a part of the body? If the whole body were an eye, how would you hear? Or if your whole body were an ear, how would you smell anything? But our bodies have many parts, and God has put each part just where he wants it. How strange a body would be if it had only one part! Yes, there are many parts, but only one body. The eye can never say to the hand, “I don’t need you.” The head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you.” In fact, some parts of the body that seem weakest and least important are actually the most necessary.”

I read it and started thinking about how so many of us need to hear this and understand why it’s bad to exclude others and how important each one of us is to God and to the community & activities He put us in.

We REALLY matter. We just need to believe this truth & trust that no matter how low we feel when measured up to others, who we are and what we do matters to the One that matters most.

Let me tell you how this is true.

Here are 5 big ways that God shows us how really important we are to Him:

1. He Created Us
   1. Genesis 1:27, “So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
2. He Blessed Us With Talents & Giftings to Share With Others
   1. 1 Corinthians 12: 7, “A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.”
3. He Sent His Son to Save Us
   1. God made the ultimate sacrifice to bind us to Him forever.
   2. 1 John 4:9-10, “God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love-not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.”
   3. 2 Corinthians 5:21, “For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.”
4. He’s Always There When We Need Him
   1. Prayer is the key here. He is only a prayer away.
   2. Psalm 46:1, “God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble.”
5. He Tells Us He Loves Us All the Time
   1. Jeremiah 31:3, “Long ago the Lord said to Israel: ‘I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.’”
   2. Isaiah 41:10, “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.”

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