Quotes about Trust

Surrender is admitting that God's plan is better.

Faith is directly tied to an action done in response to a revealed truth.

We are happy to have God in our vicinity even though he is not in our midst. We like to have God in general, but we think we don't need God in specific.

You can sleep peacefully at night because you are God's beloved—you have aligned yourself underneath His lordship and comprehensive rule—and He is working while you are snoring.

God will often allow us to be in a situation with no possible solution. This is so we can discover that He is our solution. He lets us hit rock bottom in order for us to learn that He is the Rock at the bottom.

You were saved when you believed in Jesus, but you were transformed when you realized He believed in you.

when someone believes in you before you deserve it, it transforms you.

Did you notice that trials do not test our character, they test our faith? Faith is fundamentally a relational term—it is not first a matter of what you believe, but of whom you trust. The battle for our trust is as old as Adam and Eve. In the midst of battle, it can seem so complex, but when the dust settles and the smoke clears, the real war is always over the same question—whom will we believe? Whom will we listen to, God or the devil?

Have you ever been betrayed? Have you ever been cut to the bone, stabbed in the back? Have you ever given someone your whole heart only to find out they used your heart to beat you with it? Have you ever laid down your life for someone? Have you ever served with reckless abandonment and in return got back a list of things that you failed to do?

Yet, personally, I would rather take the risk of living out God's power instead of reducing my experience in the Spirit down to something I can control.

Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment.

We can't grow our faith on the deck of a ship. We can watch other water walkers, hear their stories and read their books, but ultimately, the only way we are going to grow our water-walking faith is to get out of the dang boat!