WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.320 Good morning, everyone, it is day seven in our journey, and this one is labeled trust. 2 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:14.840 Restful one, I call your spirit to attention in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 3 00:00:14.840 --> 00:00:19.280 Listen with God's word for your spirit. 4 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:25.840 You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast because he trusts in you. 5 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:33.480 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord is the rock eternal, Isaiah 26, 3-4. 6 00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:38.220 The word trust is very significant in the Old Testament. 7 00:00:38.220 --> 00:00:43.800 It's not an act of your will where you choose to risk something, but it is a profound emotional 8 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:50.480 confidence in which you are completely expecting things to be right. 9 00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:56.800 It is like the trust that you felt in the womb as you listened to your mother's heartbeat. 10 00:00:56.800 --> 00:01:02.280 You heard the thumping on a regular basis, your body vibrating with a rushing sound of 11 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:05.600 the blood as her heart pumped. 12 00:01:05.600 --> 00:01:10.560 You trusted in your mother's heart for it continued to beat minute after minute, day 13 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:16.520 after day, and you had complete emotional confidence in it. 14 00:01:16.520 --> 00:01:25.480 That is what your father wants you to experience with him. 15 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:32.760 He wants you to experience so much of his faithfulness that you are emotionally at peace in him. 16 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:38.880 There is a time and a place for risking on God as an act of faith, even when your emotions 17 00:01:38.880 --> 00:01:41.200 don't agree. 18 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:47.120 But it is far greater, a more wonderful, special gift for you to trust and be truly 19 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:53.880 at peace with what your father is going to do and what he has called you to do. 20 00:01:53.880 --> 00:02:02.020 So rest for one, since this is God's will, and since this is your birthright, I bless 21 00:02:02.020 --> 00:02:07.800 you with having perfect peace that comes from trusting in the Lord. 22 00:02:07.800 --> 00:02:13.280 I bless you with experiencing your father's faithfulness, his faithful love towards you, 23 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:19.640 even when others do not love you or do not consider you lovely. 24 00:02:19.640 --> 00:02:26.200 I bless you with experiencing his love for your emotions to be aware, to know, to savor, 25 00:02:26.200 --> 00:02:33.000 to feel, to relish the love that your father expresses to you, towards you. 26 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:41.200 I bless you with experiencing that so often that you can never doubt your father's love. 27 00:02:41.200 --> 00:02:45.800 I bless you with experiencing your father's faithfulness in providing for you. 28 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:50.600 Your needs change and your provision will come from many different sources. 29 00:02:50.600 --> 00:02:56.480 I bless you with seeing your father provide again and again so that you can have complete 30 00:02:56.480 --> 00:03:00.920 emotional confidence that he will provide your daily bread. 31 00:03:00.920 --> 00:03:05.840 I bless you with having perfect peace at your father's communication with you. 32 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:11.120 He will speak at times through his word very clearly and personally to you. 33 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:17.760 At times he will be silent, and even his word will seem closed and dry. 34 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:22.600 But I bless you with perfect confidence and perfect peace during the silence of God as 35 00:03:22.600 --> 00:03:28.560 you stand on the things he has said to you in the past. 36 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:35.320 I bless you with no anxiety in the present because God has spoken so richly in the past. 37 00:03:35.320 --> 00:03:41.480 I bless you with the surety of knowing that he will speak again at the right time and 38 00:03:41.480 --> 00:03:47.520 the right place, that you will hear clearly what you need to hear at the right time to 39 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:49.600 make the right decisions. 40 00:03:49.600 --> 00:03:56.600 I bless you, restful one, with feeling perfect peace over the timing of God in all things. 41 00:03:56.600 --> 00:04:02.000 I bless you with experiencing your father's supernatural timing over and over for you 42 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:10.240 to savor deep in your spirit his faithfulness in being, providing, arriving, communicating, 43 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:15.000 and changing things at exactly the right time. 44 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:21.600 I bless you with having your mind steadfast on the memories of God's past faithfulness 45 00:04:21.760 --> 00:04:27.200 so that when you come up against what appears to be a crisis situation where he has not 46 00:04:27.200 --> 00:04:32.440 moved yet, you will have perfect peace that he will move at exactly the right time because 47 00:04:32.440 --> 00:04:37.680 you have experienced his timely faithfulness in the past. 48 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:43.560 I bless you, restful one, with seeing where your father has protected you. 49 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:48.640 I bless you with perfect peace because you trust in your father's protection of you. 50 00:04:48.640 --> 00:04:54.120 I bless you with experiencing his protection in the danger that comes near but does not 51 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:55.440 touch you. 52 00:04:55.440 --> 00:05:00.040 I bless you with first-hand knowledge of your father's infinite creativity and restlessness. 53 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.480 rescuing you from harm. 54 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:04.960 I bless you with having your eyes open 55 00:05:04.960 --> 00:05:07.360 to see circumstances and situations 56 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:11.480 where the enemy set a trap that you didn't see. 57 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:13.800 Your father and his infinite wisdom and power 58 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:18.800 removed the trap before you were aware of it. 59 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:24.200 I bless you with growing experiences as his protection, 60 00:05:24.200 --> 00:05:27.640 as he's protecting your spirit, your soul, your body, 61 00:05:27.640 --> 00:05:29.800 and the call upon your life. 62 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:32.720 I bless you with seeing so much of his protection 63 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:35.940 that you will trust him as implicitly 64 00:05:35.940 --> 00:05:37.520 as you trust your mother's heartbeat. 65 00:05:37.520 --> 00:05:40.500 I bless you, restful one, with having a mind 66 00:05:40.500 --> 00:05:43.640 that is set on Christ, who offers the peace. 67 00:05:43.640 --> 00:05:46.500 I bless you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 68 00:05:54.340 --> 00:05:56.640 Honestly, Lord, I don't have much to add to that, 69 00:05:56.640 --> 00:06:01.640 but I pray, Lord, that if any of this is stirred 70 00:06:02.640 --> 00:06:05.120 for anyone on this call 71 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:12.560 to worry that part of their training 72 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:15.960 is the including and removing of your word 73 00:06:15.960 --> 00:06:18.640 and your presence from their life, 74 00:06:18.640 --> 00:06:21.200 to train them to be able to rely on you in a way, 75 00:06:21.200 --> 00:06:24.760 even when they can't see it, that you would be put to rest. 76 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:27.520 I firmly believe, Lord, that your desire 77 00:06:27.520 --> 00:06:32.520 is to be there so often that we come to rely on you 78 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:41.080 in such a concrete way 79 00:06:41.080 --> 00:06:44.440 that we then don't worry when we don't. 80 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:48.620 We don't worry that our mother's not gonna come back home 81 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:53.800 when she leaves the room, you know, when we're born. 82 00:06:55.280 --> 00:06:58.640 That we cry that she's not going to answer, 83 00:06:59.960 --> 00:07:01.180 if that makes sense. 84 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:04.840 I'm thinking of a story that Graham Cook, 85 00:07:04.840 --> 00:07:09.160 I heard him say once, Lord, where it was 86 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:12.360 that he had been betrayed so many times in life by people, 87 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:19.920 stolen, you know, betrayed, swindled, et cetera, 88 00:07:20.520 --> 00:07:23.500 but he had come to such a trust in you 89 00:07:23.500 --> 00:07:26.500 that trust in people became almost immaterial. 90 00:07:27.700 --> 00:07:31.260 So he was very trusting, but his trust that he, 91 00:07:31.260 --> 00:07:33.320 where he placed his trust was in you. 92 00:07:37.740 --> 00:07:41.300 I was also struck, Lord, as I began reading this of, 93 00:07:41.300 --> 00:07:45.980 I remember the kind of the season where I was set on fire. 94 00:07:45.980 --> 00:07:47.940 I've thought about this a lot recently. 95 00:07:49.780 --> 00:07:53.040 And there was this sense that I would pray the house down. 96 00:07:54.500 --> 00:07:58.260 Now, some would say this is the immature part 97 00:07:58.260 --> 00:08:00.140 of our journey and our faith with the Lord, 98 00:08:00.140 --> 00:08:02.540 but there's a place where I knew, 99 00:08:02.540 --> 00:08:06.520 I believe that every prayer that I prayed was significant. 100 00:08:07.980 --> 00:08:10.100 I had no doubt, I had zero doubt. 101 00:08:10.100 --> 00:08:12.220 I was almost bulletproof to the fact 102 00:08:12.220 --> 00:08:16.540 that you were going to do something, 103 00:08:16.540 --> 00:08:18.140 not because you worked for me, 104 00:08:18.140 --> 00:08:22.340 but because I was doing my best to pray in faith 105 00:08:22.340 --> 00:08:24.140 what I believe that you were asking. 106 00:08:26.100 --> 00:08:30.420 And then over time, for most of us, that seems to wane. 107 00:08:30.420 --> 00:08:32.900 We put, you know, some grains of salt, 108 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:39.740 and then we miss that place of complete belief 109 00:08:39.740 --> 00:08:41.340 where we're to be like a child. 110 00:08:42.539 --> 00:08:44.660 What I pray for the child likeness 111 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:47.680 to come upon each and every person here 112 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:51.360 so that they can pray at you, 113 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:56.040 knowing you, that child likeness, that childlike faith 114 00:08:56.040 --> 00:08:59.060 to know, to leap off the edge of the bed, 115 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:02.600 trusting that their father's going to catch them. 116 00:09:03.880 --> 00:09:06.320 It doesn't even occur to them that they may not, 117 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.440 that we would have that place again in our life 118 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:14.580 where we would be so surrendered and so trusted of you 119 00:09:14.580 --> 00:09:19.580 that we can leap without worry and calculations 120 00:09:20.620 --> 00:09:22.980 where the history of our life 121 00:09:22.980 --> 00:09:25.140 and the things that have happened to us 122 00:09:25.140 --> 00:09:28.340 don't become our teachers, that, Lord, you are our rabbi. 123 00:09:28.340 --> 00:09:31.100 Our history is not our teacher. 124 00:09:31.100 --> 00:09:31.940 You are. 125 00:09:34.380 --> 00:09:36.300 So I pray, Lord, in alignment with this 126 00:09:36.300 --> 00:09:39.660 for a complete and utter trust in you, 127 00:09:39.660 --> 00:09:42.220 who you are, your character, your nature. 128 00:09:42.220 --> 00:09:43.740 And when we're faced with decisions, 129 00:09:43.780 --> 00:09:45.300 when we're faced with things, 130 00:09:45.300 --> 00:09:49.060 that our decisions would really come 131 00:09:49.060 --> 00:09:52.140 based upon who you are and your character and your nature 132 00:09:52.140 --> 00:09:55.620 and not humanity or our past experiences 133 00:09:55.620 --> 00:09:58.260 or what we would do if we were you. 134 00:09:58.260 --> 00:10:00.220 And thank the Lord that you are. 135 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.840 aren't us, that your ways aren't our ways, that they're so much higher, 136 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:09.760 because I would have probably erased me from the map a long time ago if I had been someone else. 137 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:16.800 So Lord, I pray today that there be an expansion of the capacity 138 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:22.160 to completely, emotionally, physically, spiritually, in our soul, 139 00:10:22.160 --> 00:10:30.720 to be surrendered into a place of complete trust in you and who you are. And for some, 140 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:37.600 it's a new door. It's going to be challenging, because there's been so little 141 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:42.880 consistent trust and security offered. And for those, I'm so sorry. 142 00:10:44.160 --> 00:10:48.480 I pray, Lord, you would heal all the broken fences, the broken words, the broken trusts. 143 00:10:49.040 --> 00:10:53.040 And for some, it's getting back to that place. 144 00:10:55.280 --> 00:10:59.360 And the reality for all of us, since he knew us before the foundations of the earth, 145 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:06.400 it's all of us getting back to an understanding of who he is, that we can trust him. 146 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:11.200 Lord, I pray today that you would give us the capacity to do it, 147 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:16.320 wherever we are, that you would meet us. We bless you and we love you, in Jesus' name. 148 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:19.440 Amen.