There is trust and then there is trust

The Lord has been dealing with me lately concerning trust. It's easy when everything around you is going well - you have money, your health is good and your children are well. But it is a totally different situation when the opposite is true, when you have received a bad report from the doctor and your body is full of pain and you have lost all hope.

There are so many different levels of trust that the Lord brings us through, one level after another. But this is one thing that I am sure of: If you have a problem trusting God to heal your headache - much less your cancer - you are in deep trouble.

This is a good place to begin. When you get a headache, lay hands upon yourself. Pray a prayer of faith and believe that God will heal that headache. It is necessary for us to start where we are to get where we are going.

The Word of God is true. I Peter 2:24 tells us that the Lord has already borne our infirmities and our afflictions and by the stripes of Jesus we are healed. We won't be healed in the future but we are healed now, as soon as we believe. This is the reason Jesus went to the cross. He suffered 39 stripes across his back a symbol. They are a symbol of every disease and sickness known and unknown to man. Jesus has already paid the price. Now all we need to do is receive what he has already done.

I have talked to so many Christians who tell me they trust God, but I sense fear in them. When a crisis comes, they fail in the area of trust. In the days to come, we're going to need to trust God like never before.

Trust is a matter of the heart. If you have evil in your heart - such as unforgiveness, bitterness, hatred, jealousy, envy, pride, rebellion and fear - it will be difficult if not impossible for you to have trust in the Lord. Saying you have trust in the Lord and having trust are two different things. The Lord has a pattern in his word for trusting in him. The pattern is found in Psalm 37:3-8.

One of the primary problems in the body of Christ is misdirected trust, which is dependence. When we trust in people to the point of dependence, we have crossed the line and now we have created a false god, trusting in man or woman and not in our God. Even if you are married, it goes against the word of God to depend upon your husband. Do you trust your husband? Of course you do. Do you depend upon your husband? Of course you do not. God should always be your source and supplier of all you need. When we depend upon people, we set ourselves up for disappointment and failure and allow the spirit of idolatry in our lives, which God hates. Remember the first commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." (Exodus 20:3-5).

Let's go through the keys to success in trust.

1. Trust in the Lord. Trust means to attach oneself, to feel safe, to be secure, to be confident in God, to depend upon God alone, to be stable and to be unmovable. Trust means to be able to do something without fear or misgiving, to be confident, to depend, to rely upon.

2. Delight thyself. Delight thyself means to be pliable or luxurious and to have delight, to have great pleasure in.

3. Commit thy way. Commit thy way means to roll, to roll down together, to run down, to seek occasion.

4. Rest in the Lord. Rest in the Lord means to cease from your own efforts, to get rest by lying down, a state of motionless, to depend, to sit or lie fixed.

5. Cease from anger. Cease from anger means to be slack, be remiss, to desist.

Put it all together and it spells trust in God. God is just waiting for opportunities to show himself great and mighty in our lives. He is waiting to do great and mighty miracles in our lives, but we will we need to put full trust in our Lord. The next time your back is up against the wall, call out to the Lord. He is all you need. He is the God of more than enough.

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