In Sermon Illustrations: "Trust In God" showing 81-100 of 17,348

Do Not Trust Your Eyes

Contributed by Tim Smith on May 12, 2013

DO NOT TRUST YOUR EYES The enemy's strategy is to be invisible, so we have to always be on guard. Mike Slaughter tells the story of his mission trip back to Darfur and traveling from their compound in Ed Daein to Adilla Town, which is a six-hour round trip over rough desert terrain. On this ...read more

Tags: Satan

Denomination: Methodist

When A Believer Considers How Much God Has ...  PRO

Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 30, 2004

When a believer considers how much God has forgiven him, he is able to extend pardon to others no matter what they have done. A Christian husband found this to be true when his wife, who had become an alcoholic, told him of an affair she had had with his best friend 10 years earlier. She said she ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10:23-33, 1 Corinthians 10:23-33

Tags: Forgiveness For Others, Trust

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Trust The Narrow, Unbeaten Path

Contributed by Sean Harder on Aug 5, 2011

TRUST THE NARROW, UNBEATEN PATH When I was younger I went hiking up Golden Ears Mountain. Several years earlier I went with my school and there was a nice rope bridge that crossed the waterfalls to keep you on the trail up the top of the mountain. The path that led to the bridge was wide, covered ...read more

Tags: Trust

Don't Trust Feelings  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008

DON'T TRUST FEELINGS I read of a helicopter pilot who flew from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific told this story. He said, "I was flying the helicopter back to the ship when a blinding fog rolled in. Flying at a low altitude, I knew that a single mistake would plunge my crew and me into the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 14:22-36, Matthew 9:14-18

Tags: Faith, Guidance, Feelings, Hardship Of Life, Facts  (view more)  (view less)

Never Trust The Advice Of A Man In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2006

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Aesop (6th century B.C.), Greek ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

To Be Trusted Is A Greater Compliment Than To Be ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

To be trusted is a greater compliment ...read more

Tags: Faith

Trust Is A Treasured Item And Relationship. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Trust is a treasured item and relationship. Once it is tarnished, it is hard to ...read more

Tags: Faith

It Is An Equal Failing To Trust Everybody, And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and ...read more

Tags: Faith

It Is Not Hard, You Find, To Trust The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"It is not hard, you find, to trust the management of the universe, and of all outward creation to the Lord. Can your case then be so much more complex and difficult than these, that ...read more

Tags: Guilt

Trust Today's Friends As If They Might Be ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Trust today's friends as if they might be ...read more

Tags: Compassion

In A Climate Of Mutual Trust, The Market Is The ...

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 19, 2009

In a climate of mutual trust, the market is the economic institution that permits encounter between persons, inasmuch as they are economic subjects who make use of contracts to regulate their relations as they exchange goods and services of equivalent value between them, in order to satisfy their ...read more

Tags: Trust

Denomination: Catholic

We Are Biologically Wired To Trust

Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Apr 20, 2023

Henry Cloud in his book, Trust, talks about how we are hard-wired to trust. If you have ever been around a newborn, you may have noticed that newborns do not do much due diligence when they're hungry. They scream with all their might and basically say, "Bring it to me now!" The human ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 13:12

Tags: Neuroscience, Mothers, Trust, Infants

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

God Knows How To Get Us There...

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 20, 2016

SOMETIMES LIFE KNOWS WE NEED A PIT STOP --- LIFE MAY GIVE US WHAT WE NEED --- NOT WHAT WE WANT... Did you hear about the KING that loved his people so much? This KING loved his family. The King had the most beautiful palace, and to protect his family he had a huge MOTE dug around the palace. He ...read more

Scripture: John 15:11

Tags: Trust God, God Can

Denomination: Assembly Of God

All I Have Seen Teaches Me To Trust The Creator ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 2:8-9

Tags: Descriptions Of God, Creation, Divinity Of Christ

Never Be Afraid To Trust An Unknown Future To A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known ...read more

Tags: Faith General

The Point: To Receive From God We Must First ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2007

[The Point: to receive from God we must first trust Him.] I discovered the chipmunks while stopping at a scenic over-look in Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado). They were amazing; bravely coming right up to people to take food out of their hands. These little creatures had willingly changed ...read more

Tags: Faith, Trust, Hands, Chipmunks

Give God A Blank Check!

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 4, 2021

I read once about a family that put their elderly grandmother on a plane for her first flight. She wasn’t too sure about this mode of transportation, but she grudgingly went along with it. When she returned, some of the family members couldn’t help playfully asking, “Grannie, did the plane hold you ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-6

Tags: Faith, Commitment, Trust, Will Of God, Believing God  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Take It First To The Lord In Prayer  PRO

Contributed by Palitha Jayasooriya on Apr 3, 2017

Take it to the Lord in prayer My mobile phone crashed a few months ago and I had to switch to my wife's old one as a temporary measure. On the first day of using the phone, there was one particularly important feature that neither I nor my wife could grasp, though we tried to figure it out for a ...read more

Scripture: John 16:24

Tags: Prayer, Trusting God, Trusting Christ

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit' Means: ‘blessed ...  PRO

Contributed by Curtis Kittrell on Apr 23, 2002

“‘Blessed are the poor in spirit’ means: ‘Blessed is the man who has realized his own utter helplessness, and who has put his whole trust in God.’ If a man has realized his own utter helplessness, and has put his whole trust in God, there will enter into his life two things which are opposite sides ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:3

Tags: Sermon On The Mount, God's Provision

Denomination: Pentecostal

A Beautiful ...

Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Aug 26, 2010

A Beautiful Prayer “I asked God to take away my pain. God said, ‘No. It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.’ I asked God to make my handicapped child whole. God said, ‘No. His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary.’ I asked God to grant me patience. God said, ‘No. Patience ...read more

Tags: Trust

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed