{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Christ Covenant Church","title":"Trusting God - Part 2","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4277,"description":"Trust in God (the confidence you place in God to take care for you as the One Who is perfect in wisdom and understanding, love and power, righteousness and faithfulness to deliver on His promises ):\nIs a commitment based on the facts of who God is and what He has said or done not how we feel.\n(Hab 3:16-19; Luk 22:41-44 w/1Pe 2:23; 1Pe 4:19 w/5:6-10 commitment to the facts requires actively recalling those facts (as it re: to who God is and what He has said or done) (e.g. Psa 143:1-12; Psa 9:1-16; Psa 11:1-7).\nOnly benefits us to the degree that we trust.\n(Mat 13:53-58)\nIs why He decrees the tough times to come.\n(2Co 1:8-9)\nWill be easy or hard based on the depth of our relationship w/God.\nThe less I know someone, the harder it is for me to trust them (e.g. “I don’t really know them that well”). And the only way to know someone better (i.e. to possess a deeper – more trusting relationship w/them) is by spending time learning about each other. This is what I call “reciprocating self-disclosure” and is the basis of all relationships – including our relationship w/God (RS-D = revealing our hearts/persons to one another)[1]. The way to accomplish “reciprocating self-disclosure” w/God and GROW/GO DEEPER in our relationship w/Him so that we find trusting Him easier is by spending time getting to know Him personally (His thoughts/feelings/desires/the facts of Who He is and what He has done) and thru His listening to His Words and (then) communicating back to Him (who we are – our thoughts/feelings/desires/etc) thru prayer. And the most important time to be doing this is when the GOING is good (i.e. you prepare for war in the times of peace) —otherwise when the tough times (and their subsequent distractions) COME, you wb have a hard time trusting God. Unfortunately this is where a lot of Christians seem to be when the going gets tough (they have a hard time trusting God thru the trials – b/c they SLACKED in their relationship when things were good). THEY DON’T KNOW HIM...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UXGjftzm8Yw--IISwUKe6A6-CX1YtARptisfLmFJFoI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjc4/MmNmNTMxZjNmOTgw/YjA1NWRhYmMxMTNl/YmE1Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}