Good morning, everyone, it is day seven in our journey, and this one is labeled trust.
Restful one, I call your spirit to attention in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Listen with God's word for your spirit.
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast because he trusts in you.
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord is the rock eternal, Isaiah 26, 3-4.
The word trust is very significant in the Old Testament.
It's not an act of your will where you choose to risk something, but it is a profound emotional
confidence in which you are completely expecting things to be right.
It is like the trust that you felt in the womb as you listened to your mother's heartbeat.
You heard the thumping on a regular basis, your body vibrating with a rushing sound of
the blood as her heart pumped.
You trusted in your mother's heart for it continued to beat minute after minute, day
after day, and you had complete emotional confidence in it.
That is what your father wants you to experience with him.
He wants you to experience so much of his faithfulness that you are emotionally at peace in him.
There is a time and a place for risking on God as an act of faith, even when your emotions
don't agree.
But it is far greater, a more wonderful, special gift for you to trust and be truly
at peace with what your father is going to do and what he has called you to do.
So rest for one, since this is God's will, and since this is your birthright, I bless
you with having perfect peace that comes from trusting in the Lord.
I bless you with experiencing your father's faithfulness, his faithful love towards you,
even when others do not love you or do not consider you lovely.
I bless you with experiencing his love for your emotions to be aware, to know, to savor,
to feel, to relish the love that your father expresses to you, towards you.
I bless you with experiencing that so often that you can never doubt your father's love.
I bless you with experiencing your father's faithfulness in providing for you.
Your needs change and your provision will come from many different sources.
I bless you with seeing your father provide again and again so that you can have complete
emotional confidence that he will provide your daily bread.
I bless you with having perfect peace at your father's communication with you.
He will speak at times through his word very clearly and personally to you.
At times he will be silent, and even his word will seem closed and dry.
But I bless you with perfect confidence and perfect peace during the silence of God as
you stand on the things he has said to you in the past.
I bless you with no anxiety in the present because God has spoken so richly in the past.
I bless you with the surety of knowing that he will speak again at the right time and
the right place, that you will hear clearly what you need to hear at the right time to
make the right decisions.
I bless you, restful one, with feeling perfect peace over the timing of God in all things.
I bless you with experiencing your father's supernatural timing over and over for you
to savor deep in your spirit his faithfulness in being, providing, arriving, communicating,
and changing things at exactly the right time.
I bless you with having your mind steadfast on the memories of God's past faithfulness
so that when you come up against what appears to be a crisis situation where he has not
moved yet, you will have perfect peace that he will move at exactly the right time because
you have experienced his timely faithfulness in the past.
I bless you, restful one, with seeing where your father has protected you.
I bless you with perfect peace because you trust in your father's protection of you.
I bless you with experiencing his protection in the danger that comes near but does not
touch you.
I bless you with first-hand knowledge of your father's infinite creativity and restlessness.
rescuing you from harm.
I bless you with having your eyes open
to see circumstances and situations
where the enemy set a trap that you didn't see.
Your father and his infinite wisdom and power
removed the trap before you were aware of it.
I bless you with growing experiences as his protection,
as he's protecting your spirit, your soul, your body,
and the call upon your life.
I bless you with seeing so much of his protection
that you will trust him as implicitly
as you trust your mother's heartbeat.
I bless you, restful one, with having a mind
that is set on Christ, who offers the peace.
I bless you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Honestly, Lord, I don't have much to add to that,
but I pray, Lord, that if any of this is stirred
for anyone on this call
to worry that part of their training
is the including and removing of your word
and your presence from their life,
to train them to be able to rely on you in a way,
even when they can't see it, that you would be put to rest.
I firmly believe, Lord, that your desire
is to be there so often that we come to rely on you
in such a concrete way
that we then don't worry when we don't.
We don't worry that our mother's not gonna come back home
when she leaves the room, you know, when we're born.
That we cry that she's not going to answer,
if that makes sense.
I'm thinking of a story that Graham Cook,
I heard him say once, Lord, where it was
that he had been betrayed so many times in life by people,
stolen, you know, betrayed, swindled, et cetera,
but he had come to such a trust in you
that trust in people became almost immaterial.
So he was very trusting, but his trust that he,
where he placed his trust was in you.
I was also struck, Lord, as I began reading this of,
I remember the kind of the season where I was set on fire.
I've thought about this a lot recently.
And there was this sense that I would pray the house down.
Now, some would say this is the immature part
of our journey and our faith with the Lord,
but there's a place where I knew,
I believe that every prayer that I prayed was significant.
I had no doubt, I had zero doubt.
I was almost bulletproof to the fact
that you were going to do something,
not because you worked for me,
but because I was doing my best to pray in faith
what I believe that you were asking.
And then over time, for most of us, that seems to wane.
We put, you know, some grains of salt,
and then we miss that place of complete belief
where we're to be like a child.
What I pray for the child likeness
to come upon each and every person here
so that they can pray at you,
knowing you, that child likeness, that childlike faith
to know, to leap off the edge of the bed,
trusting that their father's going to catch them.
It doesn't even occur to them that they may not,
that we would have that place again in our life
where we would be so surrendered and so trusted of you
that we can leap without worry and calculations
where the history of our life
and the things that have happened to us
don't become our teachers, that, Lord, you are our rabbi.
Our history is not our teacher.
You are.
So I pray, Lord, in alignment with this
for a complete and utter trust in you,
who you are, your character, your nature.
And when we're faced with decisions,
when we're faced with things,
that our decisions would really come
based upon who you are and your character and your nature
and not humanity or our past experiences
or what we would do if we were you.
And thank the Lord that you are.
aren't us, that your ways aren't our ways, that they're so much higher,
because I would have probably erased me from the map a long time ago if I had been someone else.
So Lord, I pray today that there be an expansion of the capacity
to completely, emotionally, physically, spiritually, in our soul,
to be surrendered into a place of complete trust in you and who you are. And for some,
it's a new door. It's going to be challenging, because there's been so little
consistent trust and security offered. And for those, I'm so sorry.
I pray, Lord, you would heal all the broken fences, the broken words, the broken trusts.
And for some, it's getting back to that place.
And the reality for all of us, since he knew us before the foundations of the earth,
it's all of us getting back to an understanding of who he is, that we can trust him.
Lord, I pray today that you would give us the capacity to do it,
wherever we are, that you would meet us. We bless you and we love you, in Jesus' name.
Amen.