Trusting God With All Your Heart

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Welcome back to Beyond Sunday, and thanks for joining me for day 15 of anchored in God's promises. This month we've been looking at daily promises from God's word, truths that can keep us steady in the middle of life's uncertainty. Today's promise is one of the most well-known verses in the Bible, but I want you to hear it with fresh years. It's Proverbs three verses five and six. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways. Submit to him and he will make your path. Straight. Trust is an all-in word, right? To trust in the Lord with all your heart means placing the weight of your life in his hands without holding back a backup plan. Just in case partial trust is like leaning on a chair with one leg missing. It might hold for a second, but it's gonna collapse when you really need it. God calls us to put the full weight of our confidence in him. To be honest, that's hard sometimes. Especially when trusting him means surrendering control over something precious. Our relationships, finances, health, or even our future. But this verse reminds us that the safest place for our full trust is in the hands of the one who sees the whole picture. Now, we're told not to lean on our own understanding, not because thinking is bad, but because our perspective is limited. It's like standing at a street level In a city you can only see so far down the block. God sees the city from above. He knows the side streets, the traffic jams, the construction zones, and the quickest route to where you need to be. When we lean only on what we can see and figure out, we risk missing. Missing God's better plan. Trusting him means believing that even when his path doesn't make sense to us, it makes perfect sense to him. Then the word submit here means to acknowledge, to yield, to bring under his authority. And it's in all your ways, not just in the big spiritual decisions. Submitting to God in all our ways looks like asking him for wisdom. Before you answer the difficult email, it looks like pausing to pray before making a financial choice. It looks like inviting him into the way you speak to your kids and the way you speak to your spouse. It means seeking his direction before you step into a new season. It is living with an ongoing awareness that he's not just your Sunday guide, he's your everyday leader. And here's the promise. If you trust him fully, lean on his understanding and submit your ways to him. He will make your path straight. That doesn't mean easy or without obstacles. Hebrew the phrase means he will remove the unnecessary detours and lead you toward your purpose. Ultimately, his purpose, it's about alignment. Your steps lining up with his will. I've found that when I've trusted God in a decision, even if it's been a hard road, there's a deep peace knowing I'm where he wants me to be. That's the straight path. Being in step with his plan. I once knew a young couple who felt God calling them to leave their comfortable life and serve overseas. They didn't know where the funding would come from or even exactly what their role would be. Everything in their own understanding. This didn't add up, but they trusted. They leaned on God's wisdom. They submitted their plans to him, and within weeks doors opened unexpected financial provision, a clear ministry opportunity, and a support network that stood behind them. They told me later if we had waited until we had all the answers, we would've missed God's best for us. So here's your challenge today. Identify one area where you've been leaning on your own. Understanding more than trusting God, write it down. And then pray this prayer. God, I'm trusting you with all my heart in this area. Lead me even if I can't see how it'll work out. And then when you're tempted to take control again, repeat that prayer. Let's pray. Lord, we confess that it's easy to lean on our own understanding, but today we choose to trust you with all our hearts. Teach us to submit every part of our lives to you and straighten our path so we can walk in step with your will. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you for spending these few moments with me on your mornings. If today's message spoke to you, would you submit it and to a friend, not just the message, but that verse, let it be an anchor for their soul as well. I'll see you back here tomorrow.