How To Trust God When Life Falls Apart : Alfred's Bible Club Podcast

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hello everybody i'm Alfred and you're listening to Alfred's Bible Club podcast the title of today's podcast is How to Trust God when Life Falls apart now a lot of people when they in a situation where they feel like everything is falling apart my whole world is falling apart all around me how do I trust God in this situation they put themselves in a in a place where they listen to someone who tells them that they should just stand firm and trust God so they end up at best when they take things for those who choose to go along with it to keep on on the spiritual lane they miss it completely and they go in the direction of keeping quiet and doing nothing or I just trust God or they in the midst of trouble but they are just oh I trust God to bring me out so it's kind of like you are in quick sand everything is sinking around you but you think it's a matter of the faith is just trusting God i just trust God and everything is just falling apart around you you are sinking when you recall the story of Jesus walking on water when Jesus told Peter to come what happened peter started coming and when he observed the winds and the waves were too boisterous what happened next peter started sinking did Jesus say "All you have to do now is just trust me don't worry just trust me." No jesus reached out immediately and grabbed Peter's hand action was taken practical action was taken immediately otherwise Peter would have sunk in the presence of Jesus so a lot of times we miss things and we apply the wrong principles in certain areas there are times where what you have to do is be still and know that I am God but that only applies after you have actually acted and taken action now you are now in the plane of worrying when you have done your part relax be still and know that I am God god is going to do his part but don't just don't do anything and then expect that it is all about trusting and believing God to bring you out oh I'm just trusting God a lot of people in Christianity don't do anything they don't take action for example if you go to a lot of churches in Nigeria as an example there are a lot of women praying for your husband but they never put themselves out there in a position where they meet prospective men who are eligible bachelors they never go out they never meet new people they never mingle so how will they get a husband there are some people who are praying for a job but you have never gone job hunting you've never signed up anywhere you've never even intended you've never even said okay let me work here and there for free because a lot of people who have jobs in one place or the other started as let me work for free or let me work for an assistant even though you have all the PhDs nobody's going to give you the managerial position just at a go that rarely ever happens people want people who have been tested and proven so you're working in in one small office as someone's assistant or for little pay can open doors and somebody else sees you and says ah I need somebody in this managerial position this person did a good job or has good testimonials and you know word of mouth reference from friend of a friend of from directly they have been watching you then those doors open but there is a practicality there's the action step that needs to be taken a lot of times when you are in that situation you are where you are like how do I trust God when my life is falling apart you know you are struggling with trusting God you're looking at things the wrong way you're approaching the whole matter the wrong way a lot of times because you haven't learned the word of God now you are in a situation where the word or the revelation that could have helped you out of that situation you don't know so you are stuck there think about this reality a lot of times when we pay people money we are paying them for what we do not know if you are paying a doctor you are paying a doctor because of the doctor's knowledge what the doctor knows that you do not know if you knew what the doctor knew you wouldn't need a doctor you need to consult with the doctor the same thing with a plumber for example if you're having problems with the plumping in your home you are paying the plumber because of what the plumber knows that you don't know if you knew how to solve the problem yourself you probably would have and it will be a lot cheaper if you ask for a car mechanic to fix your car you are paying for what the car mechanic knows that you don't know because I'm sure there are times that your cars have had problem yourself that you had the knowledge of how to fix and you fixed it perhaps your your car didn't start in the morning but you knew you had to do this do that do that and then you tried it and it worked so you didn't need to call the mechanic you only call the mechanic when it has reached a point where the car is having problems that beyond your knowhow to fix so we are paying for people's knowledge in the same way we pay for the word of God we do not know for the revelation we do not know when we face a problem in life that the answer is in the word of God because we do not know we end up paying we end up suffering when we didn't need to so if you in a situation where you are saying how do I trust God when my life is falling apart separate the how do I trust God from where my life is falling apart and then ask yourself why is my life falling apart don't focus on the how do I trust God no you should trust God either way in all things give thanks nothing should be able to separate you from the love of God so no matter what is happening whether people want to cut off your neck for believing in Jesus Christ or People want to celebrate you no matter what is happening you should trust God so trusting God should not be dependent on whether your life is falling apart or it is not falling apart so that's how do I trust God part you shouldn't even be in that state of mind you should understand what what you are into if you were to join a court for example they have their beliefs that is unquestioned you have to stick to that even something like a country club they have their rules that if you break the rules they will kick you out they may say "Oh we wear only white on so so and so day so you have to wear white or we do this or do that that country club has his rules you know you have to follow by their rules you know otherwise they kick you out." Christianity just because you have a loving God doesn't mean that we should not have discipline there are rules there is loyalty is expected of you to trust God no matter what so that issue of trusting God you shouldn't even be in a position where you're asking how do I trust God because things are not working out or because I'm sinking paul's head was cut off and he was trusting God peter was crucified upside down and he was trusting God he did not question as a matter of fact it was because he was trusting God that that here that that process went through because he could have denied Jesus and they would not have killed him but no nothing could separate him from the love of God that is who you are that is how we are in Christianity that is how we are meant to be so that aspect of how do I trust God you shouldn't even be thinking like that there's a problem wrong with you work on your love for Christ and understand Christianity and what you have come into we trust God regardless then you look at the the path when how do I trust God when my life is falling apart ask yourself why is my life falling apart is there something in the word of God that you do not know number two read about people that have been in that situation that you are in or in a similar situation whether people that have been in that situation or a similar situation in the word of God or from outside the word of God there are a lot of problems that we have that other people have had that same problem or even and they wrote books about it and published in the books in their autobiographies or perhaps even um whatever in um self-hel book or whatever they publish their story perhaps is even in a newspaper a magazine or whatever or perhaps even is even online they in that same they they went through the same problem that you are going through there are sometimes that you could even see 10 different stories with 10 different ways of how people got out of that problem learn and apply those things yourself sometimes that is just where the answer is you're not the first person to enter that problem you're not the first person to be in that situation so learn and study and you would see how things will change for you so that answers the whole question of how to trust God when life falls apart thank you god bless you remember to check out alfred.vip for more you can download more podcasts like this there and there are a lot of music there that I put out comics games and so on and so forth just the whole juggernaut of the entertainment spectrum you can download it for free from alfred.vip