Tuesday, June 23, 2009

When Life Doesn't Make Sense

Text: Proverbs 3:5-6

Thesis: when life brings us to a point of confusion, our total trust in our heavenly Father will make the difference between failure and fruitfulness

I. Measure of Our Trust

-verse 5...trust in the Lord with all your heart
-Solomon describes for us how much we are to trust in the Lord
-we are not to trust God haphazardly, not lazily nor as if it is inconsequential...but in our moments of confusion we are to trust the Lord with all of our heart

II. Motivation of Our Trust

-verse 5...trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding
-two verbs provide the proper picture of our motivation...lean and understanding
-lean means to depend on...understanding means intellect or logic
-Solomon says that we are to never depend on our own logic but rather on the logic of the Lord

III. Mark of Our Trust

-verse 6...in all your ways acknowledge him
-we are to express a high regard for the presence of the Lord in our lives
-need to acknowledge that God is the giver of everything in our lives...and if he brought us out of that before, surely he can bring us out again

IV. Management of Our Trust

-verse 6...in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make straight your paths
-God manages the trust we place in him by giving us a reward for our trust
-that when we trust God, depend on his understanding, acknowledge his control over our situation, God will provide a way of escape

3 comments:

Ronald said...

Pastor Mann, this sermon will travel. I'm requesting that you take this one on the road. Pastor this is a good look, may God be glorified.

Keep writing,

Your Cali connection
Ronald

Clinton Smith said...

I trust Him, Doc! What a reminder!

Tamara L. Jones said...

Pastor Mann,

What a confirmation!! God is so good in how he manifests in our lives and uses other's to edify us. I haven't been on the blogsite in a while, and before I read your blog today,just actually posted one my self, dealing with Trust!! God is sooo good..

Please continue to share the words and wisdom that God has imparted to you..