Trust Me More

I want to speak to some things today, and bring some encouragement from the word. Because I heard the Lord saying that he wanted to inject some faith into his people. We are so inundated and saturated with nothing but bad news, and confusion, and it creates feelings of hopelessness, and stress, and anxiety.

So as I was praying and meditating on what he wanted to say to us today, he shared some things with me that I believe will be a great encouragement to us.

As I was thinking about all the insanity that is happening in our country, and in our state, I felt the same feelings of frustration and anger, and despair that so many people have felt and are feeling.

But I felt the Holy Spirit imparting something to me. It was like an injection of hope. I call it a dose of hope.

I want to help you today to take your medicine. I want to help you get your dose of hope.

So now let’s look at our text for today….

Jeremiah 17:5-8 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Dear friends, we have to remember that as Christians we are not like everybody else. Yes we’re in the same world, but we are not of the world.

We’re supposed to know how to function in this world, without being mastered by the world.

So as I am being slapped in the face with all the crazy stuff our government is doing, I hear something in my spirit today and here it is…three words. “It doesn’t matter.”

Tell your neighbor… It doesn’t matter.

That is so powerful; I feel that the Holy Spirit wants to vaccinate us today with a good dose of… It doesn’t matter.

The devil wants to get us under the circumstances and get us all weighted and burdened down with all the negative circumstances of life. But the Holy Spirit wants us to learn how to live independent of, or I should even say on top of the circumstances.

It doesn’t mean the circumstances are not negative, and it doesn’t mean that we are in denial of the circumstances. It just means that we are empowered to rise above the circumstances.

Paul said it this way: Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Philippians 4:11-13

Basically Paul was saying… I live in the land of it doesn’t matter. I have learned how to live independent of, and above the circumstances, through Christ who strengthens me.

*It doesn’t mean there aren’t hard times, it just means, it doesn’t matter.

*It doesn’t mean I don’t feel pain sometimes, it just means, it doesn’t matter.

*It doesn’t mean that I don’t get disappointed sometimes; it just means it doesn’t matter.

*It doesn’t mean that the devil never attacks me; it just means it doesn’t matter.

*It doesn’t mean that I always have everything I want; it just means it doesn’t matter.

*It doesn’t mean things always turn out the way I want them to; it just means it doesn’t matter.

Paul says… I can be up or down, it doesn’t matter.

I can have abundance or lack, it doesn’t matter.

The economy can be booming, or the bottom falling out of everything, it doesn’t matter.

Somebody else said the same thing but he used different words… It was Habakkuk the prophet. He said it like this…

Habakkuk 3:17-18 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.