Proverbs 3:5-6 5Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

II John 1:6 6And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.

Walking With God To Trust and Obey

Because, truthfully, the only one that we can always trust is: Who Do You Trust? Family? Friends? Coworkers? Because, truthfully, the only one that we can always trust is: GOD

Why Should We Trust God? God is wiser than we are. God rewards anyone that trusts in Him. God is always with us, no matter what.

God’s Wisdom

God’s Wisdom Proverbs 2:6-8 6 For the Lord gives wisdom;     from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. 7 He holds success in store for the upright,     he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, 8 for he guards the course of the just     and protects the way of his faithful ones.

God’s Rewards Numbers 14:23-24 23 not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it. 24 But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.

God’s Rewards God’s Blessings For Us Forgiveness Relationships Wisdom Possessions

God’s Presence Psalm 139:7-8 7 Where can I go from your Spirit?     Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;     if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

How Are Trust and Obedience Related? “I am not quite sure – but I am going to trust, and I am going to obey.”

How Are Trust and Obedience Related? In order to let someone know that you trust them, you have to obey them. However, you would never obey someone that you don’t trust.

The Only Way “Trust and obey, for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.”

Psalm 51:17 17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;     a broken and contrite heart     you, God, will not despise.

To Worship and Sacrifice Walking With God To Worship and Sacrifice

What’s Next? Trust Obey Worship … but what is that?

Worship is… Worship is a bursting at the seams, can’t hold still, can’t hold back declaration of God’s sovereignty.

The Triumphal Entry “Hosanna!” “Hosanna in the highest!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!”

Worship is… Worship is a bursting at the seams, can’t hold still, can’t hold back declaration of God’s sovereignty. Worship is, by nature, undivided. You cannot serve two masters; you cannot worship anything other than God.

Exodus 34:14 “14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” Revelation 22:8-9 “8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me.  9 But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!”

Worship is… Worship is a bursting at the seams, can’t hold still, can’t hold back declaration of God’s sovereignty. Worship is, by nature, undivided. You cannot serve two masters; you cannot worship anything other than God. Worship is a constant reminder and a blinding signal.

Isaiah 62:1 “For Zion’s sake I am not silent, And for Jerusalem’s sake I do not rest, Till her righteousness go out as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that burns.”

What’s Next? Trust Obey Worship Sacrifice

Judges 11:29-34 29 Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah  of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites. 30 And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord: “If you give the Ammonites into my hands, 31 whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”

Judges 11:29-34 32 Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into his hands. 33 He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon. 34 When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. 35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, “Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the Lord that I cannot break.”

Jephthah would probably have wished to sacrifice anything in the world rather than his only daughter. His devotion to God forced him to make sacrifices. Both Jephthah and his daughter gave everything to God.

What’s Next? Trust Obey Worship Sacrifice WALK!