Do you trust God? Have you learned to be content no matter what your circumstances? We have to learn to trust God. When you trust God then He will begin to reveal his plans for you. When you put your trust in God and spend your time walking and talking with Him and most of all trusting Him, he will begin to show you the plan and purpose that He has for your life. We have got to learn to put our Trust in God no matter what we are going through no matter what out circumstances. We have to remember that no matter how things look at the time God does have a plan for us. Serving God is not easy, it never has been easy. All you have to do is read your Bible to see that it's not easy! But, God does always make a way for His children. God told us in advance that we would suffer loss, we would face things we never thought we would ever face. He warned us that in this life we would be persecuted. Romans 8:35 says Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 2 Corinthians 12:10 says That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

So I ask you again do you Trust GOD? When some day's things are so bad that you wonder if you will ever come out of the situation you are in, do you trust Him? He wants you to trust Him! God wants to be your Friend, your Best Friend. Satan doesn't want you to trust God. He doesn't want you to make it! He wants to see you fail in your relationship with God. Consider satan the temptress who is trying to destroy a marriage. The one that whispers I can love you more, I can give you more, you'll have more fun and excitement with me. Leave your spouse and come to me. We are the bride of Christ and satan is the tempter trying to lure us away from God. How many of us are like Job when God allows Satan to test us? How many of us can say "though He slay me yet will I trust Him!" Yes, that's right I said when God allows satan to test us. If we could all remember that satan couldn't do anything to us without God's permission maybe our eyes would be open to just how much God has confidence in us.

There are days I say to God, "Okay I know you love me and you have confidence in me but really, I can't take anymore." But, you know what I've realized? Especially over the last three years? God has A LOT of confidence in me and He knew all along that I was a lot stronger than I ever dreamed I could be. Recently I told Steve," You know I'm God's favorite, right?" Guess what you're His favorite too. We are all His beloved children that He is testing and trying and bringing forth as gold. In Zechariah 13: 8-9 it says, In the whole land, declares the LORD, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive. And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The LORD is my God."

God wants to bless you and he wants you to trust Him...Why don't you just surrender it all to him; just lay everything at the foot at the cross. Remember that God loves you, you are His favorite. The tempter satan wants to steal you away, he doesn't care if he destroys you, your family, your finances, etc. He just wants to steal you away from the one who created you. The one who has a plan for you. But the truth is, you can win this battle, just as long as you TRUST GOD!

Stop trying to live a life you are not suppose to live, Stop trying to be someone you're not, and Stop trying to open up doors that God closed for a reason. Trust God He has a PLAN for your life! God will open the doors for you that need to be open. But, he will also close the doors that you are not supposed to go through. Trust God to be the keeper of the doors.

Remember the game show called Let's Make A Deal. You had three doors to choose from. Sometimes you got something really good, but other times it was a prank prize. Well God already knows what is behind the door He has chosen for you. And if you let Him open the door, the one that is suppose to be open you will always receive the really good prize.

So beginning now as you read this TRUST GOD! Praise GOD and Keep on Moving. Keep on striving, keep on walking, because you know what? You can only get to where you are supposed to be if you are going in a forward motion. If you stop and sit down and feel sorry for yourself you are going to miss out on the prize that God has for you. God knows the route that you should take, and yes He will take you through some hard times.

Remember what Paul said in Philippians 3:12-14, Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

God is waiting on you to trust Him. When you are ready then He will show you his master plan for your life. He will begin to show you how all the little pieces of your life fit together. Then and only then will you be able to understand why you had to travel down the road you've been on for so long. You have to TRUST HIM! Let God be in control. You have to believe that God will take you through this season of your life. You have to TRUST GOD that winter is passing and spring is on the way. You have to accept the fact that EVERYTHING He takes you through isn't always going to feel good, and then you have to remember that God knows where he is trying to take you and He and only He knows where your journey is going to end.

God will stay with you even when everything is going down hill. And when you get down to the very rock bottom, He will be there to pull you up. When it seems like that no one else wants to be bothered with you, just Praise GOD because HE has stuck beside you through the good times and bad. The ups and the downs. And when God heals you, whether physically, emotionally, financially, spiritually, and you are back on your feet again, RAISE your hands up and give a shout unto God for because of Him, you are still standing today. God will never leave you or forsake you. He loves you. He wants the best for you. No matter what you are facing right now Do you trust God?

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

Trust in the LORD forever, For in GOD the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock.

Do you trust me
When things aren't going right
When life deals some painful blows
When finances are awfully tight?

Do you trust me
When tragedy comes your way
When you don't get all the answers
When you bend your knee to pray?

Do you trust me
When friends don't understand
When there's no one you can talk to
No one to hold your hand?

Do you trust me
When there's warring in your soul
When there's darkness all around you
And you're left out in the cold?

Do you trust me
When evil is against you
When there's nowhere left to run
And you can't find the truth?

Do you trust me?
I need to ask you this
'Cause you don't always know
I'm there in the midst

Of all your tribulations
Everything that you go through
I am always there, my child
And I will never leave you

So I must ask of you
To see if you believe
No matter what you face in life
You must always trust in me.

© By M.S.Lowndes.

Love and Prayers,
Kathy