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Trust is generally defined as an assured reliance on someone, or as a belief that another person will act consistently with expectations.
Miriam Webster Definition
Trust (noun) meaning: assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something, one in which confidence is placed.
Bible meaning of Trust can be defined as this: an assured reliance on God, His word, His ability, His strength and His truth. God is a God who cannot lie, He watches over his word to perform it and He Keeps his promises.
Psalms 40:4 Blessed is he that maketh the Lord his trust. (KJV)
Blessed (fortunate, prosperous, and favored of God) is the man who makes the Lord his trust. (Amplified Version)
Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoever putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. (KJV)
The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in and puts his confidence in the Lord will be exalted and safe. (Amplified Version)
Psalms 18:2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation,
and my high tower. (KJV)
Psalms 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in Him.
We are to first and foremost put our trust in the Lord, then we must also trust in our spouse. Marriage is based on the foundation of Jesus Christ and His
word.
Love is the pillars on that foundation. Trust is the wood that connects the pillars and foundation that establishes a strong, whole structure.
In the marriage when trust is broken the structure is not whole. It still stands, but it is not whole. It breaks a connection in the marriage and until the that
connection is repaired, healed and made whole the structure remains weak.
An Example: When a spouse commits adultery there is a break in the structure. The spouse that was cheated on cannot trust the spouse that
cheated. If the spouse chooses to stay with the husband/wife that cheated they must have the opportunity to work through things in the Lord.
Something very important to understand, “forgiveness” is different from trust they are not the same.
God shares in His word that we are to forgive. Therefore, we can choose either to forgive or not forgive.
Matthew 18:21-22 21 Then came Peter to Him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times?
22) Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, until seven times: but, until seventy times seven.
When trust is violated there is a break in the connection of the relationship that must be restored. This does not come easy. The enemy will pitch
thoughts your way to try to create an even a bigger break.
Thoughts like: He/She can’t be trusted. Look He/She is flirting with so in so.
Don’t continue to question the spouse that cheated. This will leave an open door for the devil to use that to push them back in to doing it again. Because thoughts will come to them as well. Not only that the devil will continue to put shame and guilt on the one that cheated.
Both need to realize that when those thoughts come counter attack them by casting them down. That is the enemy trying to make the break even bigger.
Forgive and believe the best. This does not mean you deny what your spouse
did, but you choose to forgive and believe the best. It’s not easy, but you can do
this by standing on Philippians 4:7-8.
Philippians 4: 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall
keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of a good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Forgiveness is given. When trust is violated the spouse that violated that trust must realize that trust must be rebuilt. They must understand that this does
not happen over night, but can be done. The spouse that violated that trust must repent before God, and their spouse and must make a solid choice never to go down that road again. They must also give their spouse room to work it out through in the Lord.
This is just one example of trust being violated.
Another example how trust is violated is when the husband/wife gives their word to do something, but yet they don’t do it. If it happens more than once, then it is the start of a break in the relationship that must be restored. The Husband/Wife that said they were going to do something, but yet doesn’t follow through, and there is a consistent pattern of this, then there is a break in
the structure.
We must recognize and understand that we are all growing and are at different levels in our walk with the Lord. There are things that happen and sometimes situations arise that can’t be avoided, therefore, a husband/wife is not able to follow through. I am not talking about that.
If it is continuous, on a consistent basis, then the husband/wife must recognize that this is a problem and ask the Lord for wisdom on how to end the vicious cycle. They must understand that their spouse can not put their confidence in their word, and at times will question it. The questioning starts because, the trust has been violated.
Now the husband/wife that has been violated must forgive and not continue to bring up past broken words. Cast down those thoughts again.
Example thoughts the enemy may pitch to you:
See they did it again. They said they would do this thing but they didn’t.
You know you can’t believe a word they say.
Cast those thoughts down. The devil will use this little wrecking tool every time to widdle away at the structure to enlarge the break. Don’t allow him to do it.
Those were just a couple of examples, but I am trusting the Lord you will see the importance not to violate trust in your marriage.
Now I may step on some spiritual toes with what I am about to state here.
There are two phrases that have been abused by the body of Christ. This includes even christian spouses.
Here they are:
You have to love me because the word says so.
Don’t take offense
These phrases have been abused to give license to bad behavior in treating people wrong. That is why it is important to do a spiritual check up on our hearts to make sure we are keeping our hearts right. How you do a spiritual check up, is you go to Doctor Jesus and the Physicians Assistant Holy Spirit. You ask the Lord is there anything in my heart that needs to be changed that does not glorify you or does not edify someone else. Holy Spirit will show you for the Lord is faithful.
The Lord does say we are to love one another.
I John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
John 13:34-35 34) A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35) By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.Here is the Key: When you truly walk in the love of God, you will not be
offended neither will you offend someone intentionally.
Be quick to forgive. Allow room for your spouse to work things through in the Lord. So trust can be rebuilt, if trust was violated.
Remember Jesus and His word are the foundation of marriage.( I Corinthians 13) Love is the pillars and trust is the wood that connects the
pillars and foundation that establishes a strong Godly well structured
marriage that will last.
Mitch and Mary Mims
Marriage Matters Leaders
Some of the things which most adversely affect the flow of the glory of God in our midst are these:
• Our desire to please people
• Our fear of appearing too simple, too unlearned
• Our inability to count all our knowledge as dung, as Paul did
• Our desire to impress people with our education, skills and abilities and with who we are
• Our inability to unlearn what we have already
learned when God is attempting to lead us into
new things
• Our inability or unwillingness to lay aside tradition
• Our unwillingness to forgive others
Some note excerpts from Pastor’s message on 8-25-24…you can listen to the message hereLetting The Glory Flow
JESUS – The Bread of Life
Last month Mitch ministered on the 4th Sunday of the month at another church, Jesus the Bread of Life. On our way to the church, he was going to minister at, he asked me a profound question. “What does Jesus, the Bread of Life mean to you?”
I pondered on that question even through the church service. Then close to the end of the service I shared with Mitch this. I would like to share with you all as well.
This is what Jesus the Bread of Life means to me.
Blessed
Redeemed
Eternal
Anointed
Divine Destined
LIFE – John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Through Jesus, the Bread of Life we have:
A Blessed Life
Man was blessed from the very beginning.
Genesis 2:28a And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: …..
Even after Adam and Eve fell and sinned God was still in the business of Blessing his man. Just look at Abraham. Genesis 12:2 and 3 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families be blessed.
That’s powerful folks. God is still in the business of blessing. When we partake of Jesus the Bread of Life, we are blessed.
A Redeemed Life
God is the author of true redemption. He sent his son Jesus to redeem all of mankind.
Psalms 111:9 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant forever: holy and reverend is his name.
Psalms 130:7 – 8 Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption, and he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree:
We are redeemed because of what Jesus did on the cross for us.
An Eternal Life
In the beginning we were created eternal beings. We were created in Gods image.
Genesis 1:26a And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
Vs 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
There is no in between folks. Just male and female. Gods Devine Design.
John 10:28a And I give unto them eternal life.
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.
We have eternal life because of what Jesus did for us on the cross.
An Anointed Life
God anointed us and gave us the Holy Spirit.
II Corinthians 1:20-22 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Now he which stablished us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;
Who hath sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
We have an anointed life in Christ because of what He did on the cross.
Divine Destiny
We have a divine destined life in Him, in whom, IN JESUS.
We have been destined to be with him in eternity. That alone excites me.
John 14:2 In my Fathers house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
We are destined to have an abundant life.
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, kill and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and they might have it more abundantly.
We are destined to have a divine health filled life.
I Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.
The Goodness of our God gave us Jesus the Bread of Life. I could continue for there is so much more I could share, but I will leave you to partake of more of the bread of life. I just wanted to share from my heart what Jesus, my best friend, loving savior, big brother, Thee Bread of Life, means to me.
I will leave you with these words of JESUS:
John 6:32 and 33
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth LIFE unto the World.
Mitch and Mary Mims
Ephesians 2:4 “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us.”
“But God” is a powerful statement….when it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen, you can declare, “But God”.
The word rich in this verse in Greek is Plusios, meaning filty rich. Pluto was the god of wealth in Greek mythology, we get the English word “plutocrat”.
Someone who is so rich that he has influence over other people.
We can probably think of a few people in our day that are that rich, and then there is the love of money. People will do just about anything when money is involved.
But it says God is so rich in mercy, that He uses this to influence us and win us over. God is really, really, really rich in mercy. Mercy is grace in action. When grace is displayed toward man, it’s called mercy. Mercy brings God’s grace to lost mankind.
God has given to each of His children the measure of faith. Faith is the means of receiving God’s grace, but it does no good until it is put into action. When faith is put into action, it is called believing.
Mercy is God reaching out to man, and believing is man reaching out to God.
The book of Ephesians by Bob Yandian is a great book to study.
I’m glad God is a Plutocrat using His great love to win us over!
Sandy Vought
This is a great article by Mitch and Mary Mims, our leaders of Marriage Matters
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Grab Your Surf Board And Ride The Waves!
A great article by Alane Haynes on the subject of Offense.
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IT’S TIME TO DISMANTLE THE FENCE OF OFFENSE
Challenge yourself with scriptures.
Use a 3×5 card, write on side the scripture reference,
See if you remember what it says, just by looking at the reference and vice versa.
then on the other side, write out the verse.
List some scriptures that deal with something you are in need of.
Take one verse a week and challenge yourself!
Don’t be just hearette, but be a doer of the Word!
Listen to the audio message by Pastor James on 2-28-24 on “Completing Our Faith” https://fhcsd.net/sermon/completing-our-faith/