Episode 104
Trusting God for Provision
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Trusting God for Provision
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Ever feel like the only one who’s going to provide for you is…you? Episode 104 of Faithful on the Clock reminds you of the importance of trusting in God’s provision rather than your own.
Timestamps:
[00:04] - Intro
[00:39] - People get the message they have to provide for themselves from many sources within broken systems, and the message gets delivered extremely early in life.
[02:33] - Believing you have to provide for yourself cuts God’s provision out of the picture. It leaves you with a choice between trusting yourself and trusting God.
[04:11] - The choice of trusting God over yourself can be especially difficult because the world is good at generating fear around what will happen if you let go of your own control. Fear makes it difficult to use logic and what you know about God to trust Him and make good decisions in faith.
[06:12] - If negative emotions can push you away from trusting God, positive emotions might push you toward trusting Him. The way you have a good experience and feel good about what God has done and will do is to look backward at His follow-through. He consistently has done exactly all He has promised, and His plans are clear if you connect the dots of Scriptural stories backward.
[09:16] - You are part of God’s ongoing story! Look to see where God is connecting the dots in your own life. You might not recognize those connections in the moment, but they are there.
[10:16] - People tend to make some presumptions about how God is or will treat them based on their experiences with people. Trusting in God thus means uncoupling Him from our Earthly experiences so we can understand His perfect love and grace. We might feel anxiety through that process because our brains are trying to protect us against more pain, but with God, the alarms we feel firing are false.
[12:41] - Prayer
[13:15] - Outro/What’s coming up next
Key takeaways:
- Most people work to provide for themselves and those they love. People usually learn this concept very early in life and learn over time that no one else has their back.
- Believing you have to provide contradicts what Scripture says God will do. You have to choose whether you will trust yourself or trust Him.
- The choice about whether to trust yourself or God is difficult because there is so much emotion (mainly fear) around it. The emotion shuts off our ability to be logical about whether God is trustworthy.
- One of the best ways to learn to trust God for provision is to look backward. Connect the dots about how God’s plans worked out and see how He always follows through. You are part of God’s continuing story and can look for how He is faithful to you, just as you look for how He has been faithful in the Bible.
- Trusting in God’s provision often requires uncoupling our experiences with people from God. We can run into trouble if we presume that He will disappoint us like people have disappointed us.
- Life Church Ruth Series, Pastor Craig Groeschel
- My God Shall Supply, Arr. Larry Nickel
- Is Fear a Good Motivator? | Regent University
CTAs:
- Identify at least one area where you haven’t been fully trusting God for provision. Set up one new habit that can help you break away from trusting only in yourself.
What’s coming up next:
Ever get scared to share Jesus at work or elsewhere because of what you’ve done in your past? Episode 105 of Faithful on the Clock uses the story of the Samaritan woman at the well to remind you you’re worthy of sharing the Good News.
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