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JERRIANN: Hey there and welcome to the show. I'm
Jerriann Savelle. I'm so glad that you could join me today.
Hey, I want to ask you a question. Are you going
through a hard time right now in your life? Are you
struggling with something that's going on? Has your
life been shattered by maybe divorce or loss of a
job or maybe even death of a loved one? If you're going
through that right now, then I encourage you to stay tuned
over the next several weeks and we're going to talk about
trusting God in challenging times. Life is not always
easy and it doesn't always go as planned. It's in those
times you have to find out, "Do I really trust God? Do
I really I believe him? Can I still raise my hands and praise
him despite what's going on in my life?" Life is not easy
sometimes, but we have to get to a place in our life that we can
still say, "I trust you, God. I may not understand why and
what's going on right now, but I trust you." You know, I was
watching a documentary the other day and there was this lady and
she had gone through some very challenging things. Her oldest
son was accused of a major crime and he was sentenced to life in
prison without the possibility of parole. She thought that the
sentence was really harsh. This lady was a Christian and her
faith was really strong. I mean, she was a strong believer, but
she was really tested at this point. Her oldest boy was sent
off to prison. She said it was a really, really dark time in her
life and she questioned a lot of things and why this had
happened. You guys, a few years later, her other son was killed
in a motorcycle wreck. Her faith was so tested. She said there
were days that she just couldn't even leave her house. It was so
dark. She was just so challenged in her faith. She said there
came a point that there was joy in the mourning. She found that
place in her life that she could say, "Yes, weeping endures for
the night, but joy can come in the morning." She also said that
there were times when she would question, "Why? Why had this
happened to me?" She would have to say to herself, "Don't go
there. Don't question the whys." You know, we can get so caught
up in the whys. Why did this happen to me? Why did this not
go the way I had planned? But we can't go there. We can't go
there in our thinking. We just have to know Romans 8:28, that
all things are working out for our good. You have to get to a
place in your life that you can say, "My confidence rests in
God. I trust you, God, despite the storms of life, despite the
trials of life, that you can settle once and for all that I
trust you no matter what's going on in my life." I thought, well,
this woman has tapped into a place of trust. I mean, going
through the biggest challenges in her life that she could still
say, "Joy comes in the morning." We have to get to a place where
we know that our faith is strong, that we have settled in
our heart that God can not lie, that his promises are true for
us, and that we believe that no matter what we go through, that
he still has a plan and purpose for us and will walk us through
those dark times in our life. Don't try to figure out the
whys. Don't try to figure it out anymore. In fact, I read this
quote. It said, "Being preoccupied with the why
syndrome may even create a downward cycle of despair that
is tough to recover from." You don't want to go there in your
thinking. You don't want to be caught up in the whys. That's
why the enemy wants you to question and get so sidetracked
and focused on the whys of why it didn't turn out the way you
wanted it, but stay on the path. Stay in faith. Stay trusting God
so that he can walk you through this time in your life. Jesus
told us in John 16:33, he said, "In the world, you're going to
have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the
world." He's saying, "I'll give you peace to walk through it.
I'll give you the wisdom to know what to do. I'll give you the
joy to smile again." He's saying, "I have overcome ...
everything you're walking through right now. I have
overcome it for you." The Amplified Version of that
scripture says, "In the world, you have tribulation and trials
and distress and frustration. He knew you were going to have
them, but he says, 'Be of good cheer. Take courage. Be
confident. Be certain. Be undaunted for I have overcome
the world. I have deprived its power to harm you and have
conquered it for you.'" Wow, yes. He's saying yes, you're
going to go through trials. You're going to go through
frustrations. You're going to go through hard times, but be of
good cheer. Be of confidence. Be undaunted in your faith that
Jesus will walk you through everything. Bad things do happen
to good people and it's unfortunate, but Jesus is saying
to us, "Be of good cheer. I will walk you through this. I've
overcome its power." Undaunted means not intimidated or
discouraged by difficulty, danger, or disappointment.
That's where you and I have to get is undaunted in our faith.
We are not discouraged in our faith. We are not disappointed,
but that we can keep moving forward, in fact, even find
cheer, even find joy in the process and in the journey.
Jesus can be your peace in the most difficult time in your
life. He can be there for you. He can walk you through it. He
says, "Be of good cheer." Isaiah 26:3 in the New Living says,
"You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, whose
thoughts are fixed on you. Trust in the Lord always for the Lord
God is the eternal rock." When our thoughts are fixed on him,
you can't be looking at the circumstances, you can't be
looking at your past, you can't be looking at why someone did
you wrong or why this happened to you, but you keep your
thoughts fixed on him and he will provide the peace that you
need to get through every situation in your life. Hey,
stay tuned and watch this message and we'll be
right back in just a few moments.
ANNOUNCER: Now is the time to start trusting
God and walking in his promise. In the powerful three
CD teaching God is Everything You Need Him to Be, Jerry
Savelle uncovers truth that will help you develop faith
and trust God to be your refuge, your provider, and your
comforter. God promises that he will meet our every need,
spiritual, physical, and material. In the inspiring book
How God Supplies Your Every Need, you will learn to operate
in principles that will revolutionize your thinking and
cause you to experience God's best for your life. Also
included in this package is the revolutionary CD teaching from
Jerriann Savelle, Trusting God in Challenging Times. Don't
wait. It's time to take your faith and trust in God to the
next level. Call or go online to JerrySavelle.org and request the
Trust in God Package featuring God is Everything You Need Him
to Be, How God Supplies Your Every Need, and Trusting God in
Challenging Times. Open your heart and ready yourself to walk
in the freedom that comes from trusting God today.
JERRIANN: I want to encourage you to go to
JerrySavelle.org and order this product offer that we're
offering you. I believe that faith comes by hearing and
hearing, so I encourage you go get it. Don't delay. It's going
to bless your life. We were talking about Isaiah 26:3
where it says that, "He will keep in perfect peace
all who trust in you, whose thoughts are fixed on you."
When our thoughts are fixed on him. You know, you're
going to have opportunities, thousands of opportunities
throughout the day to think about things, but the choice is
yours. What are you going to think about? Are you going to
fix your thoughts on the circumstances? Are you going to
fix your thoughts on the bad report? Are you going to fix
your thought on what so-and-so said about you? Are you going to
keep your thoughts fixed on him? When you do, he brings you the
perfect peace to get you through anything and everything that
you're going through. Faith is not denying there's a problem.
Faith looks at the problem and trusts God anyways. Faith knows
that God has the answer. Faith has a solution. When we trust
him and we keep our thoughts fixed on him. Again, not on the
bad report, not on the circumstances, but fixed on
him and he will walk us through peace. It says to be of good
cheer. I have overcome the world. That means he's overcome
anything and everything that you're walking through right now
in your life. He doesn't want you stressed out and worrying
about life. He wants you resting in what he's done for you. He's
saying, "Take my hand and let's walk through this together. I
don't want you to try to figure out this life by yourself. I
don't want you to go through this pain by yourself. I don't
want you to try to make something help you, like drugs
or alcohol or whatever addictions try to get on you, to
bandage the pain." He's saying, "Come to me. I'll give you the
peace you need. In fact, I'll give you joy." Like that lady I
was talking about earlier, she said that she found joy, that
although both her sons were away, she knew that there was
still joy in the mourning and that her God would walk her
through this difficult time in her life. We have to say we
trust God. We have to say, "I trust you no matter what." But
what is your belief system? What is it that you truly believe?
It's easy to say, "I trust you God," when everything is going
right in life, but when all hell's broke loose in your life,
nothing's going right, can you still say, "I trust you"? Trust
means a firm belief in the reliability, the truth, the
ability or strength of someone or something. Can you say that
today, that "I really trust you God"? Our belief system has to
be so secure and so confident in trust, in his reliability, his
truth, his ability and his strength to get us through
anything. When we try to make things happen on our own without
him, without trusting him, then we're really saying, "I don't
trust you God." Ouch, I know that hurts, and I've been there.
I've said, "Yeah, I trust you God, but let me help you over
here. I trust you God, but maybe if I do something, this will
hurry up and fix the situation." No. He's saying, "Let me do it.
Just trust me," and he gives you the perfect peace to walk
through it each and every time. I say this all the time when I'm
ministering, that God doesn't need your help. He just needs
your faith. That's what he needs is your faith, to just trust
him. When you try to help God out, you're really saying,
"You're not my Lord. I've become Lord. I'm trusting in myself.
I'm going to make things happen on my own," but he's saying,
"Just bring it to me. Bring it to me and I can make it work for
you. I can give you the peace you need and the answers that
you need." First Peter 5:7 in the Amplified, it says, "Casting
the whole of your care, all your anxieties, all your worries, all
your concerns once and for all on him, for he cares for you."
All means all. When he says, "Cast it all," that means all.
Don't hang on to a little bit of it and try to fix it on your
own. He's saying, "Give it to me. Cast all of it, all your
worries, all of your anxieties." God can handle it. He can handle
your frustration. He can handle your why's. He can handle your
anger even. He can handle it. If you take it to him once and for
all, give every bit of it to him, then he can walk through it
with you. He's saying, "All your concerns, all your worries, all
your anxieties." That's trusting God and walking with him to help
you get through it. A scripture I learned when I was a little
girl, it's something that has been with me all my life, I
can't say to you that I practiced it all my life but
it's down in here, and it says, Proverbs 3:5 and
6, it says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not into your own understanding, but
in all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your
paths." It's easy to memorize scripture, but not apply it in
your life. I'm challenging you today to get this scripture
and begin to meditate it, break it down, and that's
what we're going to do is break it down piece by piece
today, and then begin applying it in your life. To the point
now in my life when things come up, I'll hear this come out of
me, "Trust in the Lord with all my heart. I'm not going to lean
to my own understanding. In all my ways, I will acknowledge him
and he will direct my path." When it becomes more than just
something you recite, but it's so down on the inside of you
that you begin to live it, that every single day when those
thoughts come, but "Nope, I'm trusting in him. I'm relying on
him. He's going to direct my way." Proverbs 3. Let's read it
together. I want to read it in the Amplified. It says, "Lean
on, trust in and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and
mind, and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In
all your ways," not some but, "In all your ways, know,
recognize and acknowledge him, and he will direct and make
straight and plain your paths." When we make it a practice and a
discipline that when we wake up in the morning that the first
thing we do is say, "Lord, I trust you today, that you're
going to direct my paths. I'm not going to lean on my own
understanding or my own insight, but in all my ways I acknowledge
you, and you're going to direct my path for today," when we
begin to do that every single morning, you become disciplined.
You become a disciplined one, a disciple of Christ, when you put
him first. When you give him that first portion of your day
and say, "Lord, I'm giving you my day. I'm trusting in you,"
then you're a disciplined one. When we don't rely on our own
insight and our own understanding and our own
reasoning, and we acknowledge him and we put him first, then
we've come to a place that we're in complete trust of him, that
we're putting him first place in our life. When we're not leaning
on and trusting God to direct our day and direct our lives,
then we're the Lord of our lives. We want to put him first
in everything that we do. I want to read that scripture from the
Passion Translation, that's Proverbs 3. I'm like my dad so
much. I love to read different translations of scripture, and I
love word study. I have all kinds of translations out on my
bed because I just love to read different translations but this
is Proverbs 3 from the Passion. It says, "Trust in the Lord
completely, and do not rely on your own opinions. With all your
heart, rely on him to guide you, and he will lead you in every
decision you make. Become intimate with him in whatever
you do, and he will lead you wherever you go." Isn't that
awesome? I just love that scripture. The first thing he's
saying is number one, "Trust the Lord completely. Trust the Lord
completely," not just when it's easy, not just when it's in the
good times, but it's trusting the Lord completely, in the good
times, in the hard times, in the difficult times. To completely
trust him means totally, with all you have, completely
trusting the Lord. You don't have to question him. You're not
at a place of question. You're just completely trusting him in
all that you do. My dad is someone that I completely trust.
When he tells me he's going to do something, I never question
his word. I never try to figure out how to help him come up with
what he told me he's going to do. I never wonder, "Well, is he
going to do it because I don't know. I mean, he said he would
but I'm not sure." No, I completely trust my dad's word.
When he tells me he's going to do something, I believe him. I
don't think about it again. I don't worry about it. I don't
stress about it because I completely trust him. That's
what the heavenly Father is saying to you today, "Completely
trust me. Put all that you have into me and trust me. I'm going
to work it out for you today." The second thing is, do not rely
on your own opinions. It says, "Do not rely on your own
opinions." Your opinions may not be right. Our opinions are
fickle. Our opinions can go with whatever our mood is that day.
They can be up and down. They can be flesh-led, not
faith-driven. They can just go with whatever we think is the
right idea. Proverbs 14:12 tells us, there's a way that seems
right so you may have an opinion when you think something's
right, but that's not what God's wanting for you.
It's saying, "Do not rely on your own opinions."
Go to him first. Trust God completely and don't
rely on your opinions. The enemy's ultimate goal is
that you trust in yourself. You go with a flesh-led
idea. It doesn't work out. Then you get off your faith
and you get mad at God and you quit trusting him.
That's what he hopes is that you'll go with your own
opinion, you're own idea and get off your faith. If we're
trusting God completely in every area of our lives, then he's
going to have the right answer at the right time for you. Amen.
The third thing is with all your heart rely on him. With all your
heart rely on him. Your heart holds your belief system. What's
down on the inside of your heart is what you truly believe.
Proverbs 4:23 says to guard your heart above all else for it
determines the course of your life. What you really believe is
down in your heart. That's your belief system. Do you really,
really, really trust God or do you just say that when it's easy
to say it? Do you trust him when all hell has broke loose in your
life? Do you really say, "I trust him. I trust him.
Regardless of what's going on in my life, I trust him right
now." Your life will go in the direction of where your heart
is. What you believed in on the inside of your heart. Matthew
12:34 says that out of the abundance of your heart your
mouth's going to speak. Your life goes in the direction of
what's down on the inside of your heart. What you truly
believe is going to come out of your mouth and you're going to
walk in that direction. We have to trust him, rely on him with
all our heart. Get your belief system right today. Get it right
once and for all that you're going to trust God completely.
That no matter what you trust God even in the dark times of
life. With all your heart rely on him to guide you and he will
lead you in every decision that you make. The creator of the
universe is saying, "I want to help you. I want to lead you. I
want to direct you in the course that you need to go for your
life." Why would we try to figure it out on our own? Why
would we try to make things happen on our own when he's
saying, "Let me help you. Let me lead you. Let me guide you." The
fourth thing is become intimate with him in whatever you do.
Become intimate with him in whatever you do. You cannot be
intimate with someone if you don't spend time with them. You
have to spend time with them. You have to have fellowship with
him. You have to get in his Word and know what his Word says.
There are promises for you, but if you don't know what those
promises are, then you can't grab them. You can't hold on to
them and look to them for your destiny and believe God that
Ephesians 3:20 belongs to you. That you can have exceedingly,
abundantly above all you could ever ask or think. He's saying
that you today friend. He's saying to you, "Trust in me with
all your heart. Lean not to your own understanding. In all your
ways acknowledge me and I'll direct your path." That's all
he's asking is come to me, I'll direct your path. I'll help you.
I'll walk you through the most difficult and challenging time
in your life. I pray that you get a hold of this today. I
encourage you that you get this scripture and you apply
it today. You meditate over it. You go over it today and begin
to apply it in your life so that you can be all that God's called
you to be. That you can walk through this life that we're in
and that you can have peace and joy in the process because
he wants to be there with you. He cares so much for
you. He loves you so much. He has a plan and a purpose
for you, so trust him today. I hope you'll join me again
next week and I'll see you again. Have a great day.
(Music)
ANNOUNCER: Now is the time to start trusting God and
walking in his promise. In the powerful three CD teaching,
God Is Everything You Need Him to Be, Jerry Savelle
uncovers truth that will help you develop faith and
trust God to be your refuge, your provider and your
comforter. God promises that he will meet our every need:
spiritual, physical and material. In the inspiring book,
How God Supplies Your Every Need, you will learn to operate
in principles that will revolutionize your thinking and
cause you to experience God's best for your life. Also
included in this package is the revolutionary CD teaching from
Jerriann Savelle, Trusting God in Challenging Times. Don't
wait. It's time to take your faith and trust in God to the
next level. Call or go online to jerrysavelle.org and request the
Trust in God package featuring God is Everything You Need Him
to Be, How God Supplies Your Every Need, and Trusting God in
Challenging Times. Open your heart and ready yourself to walk
in the freedom that comes from trusting God today.
JERRIANN: I was talking to you earlier about relationship
with God. How important it is that to become intimate
with him, to spend time with him, to fellowship with him
is to get to know him. One of the ways is hearing the
Word, over and over, so I really want to encourage you
to go to our website and order these products. I put
a CD in my car while I'm driving around. I'm in my
car a lot and I put in the Word so that I'm being built up
throughout the day. I encourage you go do that. I want to leave
you with this scripture today. It's Isaiah 26:4 in the
Amplified. It says, "So trust in the Lord. Commit yourself to
him. Lean on him. Hope confidently in him forever, for
the Lord God is an everlasting rock." That's what we've been
talking about today is that you lean on him, that you trust in
him, that you're confident in him so that your faith is strong
so when the trials of life hit you, that you can be confident
in your God that he's going to get you through anything and
everything. The Message Translation says depend on God
and keep at it, because in the Lord God, you have a sure thing.
You have a sure thing when you depend on him. I hope that
you'll get Proverbs 3 today. That you'll look at it yourself
and you'll begin to meditate on that. Trust in the Lord with all
your heart. Leaning not on your own understanding but in all
your ways acknowledge him, and when you being to apply that in
your life, I promise you that he will get you through anything
and everything that you go through. I hope you'll join me
again next week and we'll continue talking about trusting
God in challenging times. Have a great day.
ANNOUNCER: Next week ... JERRIANN: You know there's
times in my life I've questioned God, "Why did this happen to
me? What did I do for this to happen to me?" But I'm
telling you today, you've got to forget the why's. You
can't keep going over the why's. The why's will keep
you stagnant in life. They will cause you to despair. They'll
even cause depression on your life if you stay stuck
in the why's. I'm encouraging you today, if you're stuck
there to get up and just lift your hands and say, "I
don't understand God. I don't understand what happened,
but I know that I'm going to put my trust in you. My complete
trust in you. All that I am I trust in you to help me
get through this time in my life."
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