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Trust in the Lord with all your heart; in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:4-5<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When God first began speaking to me about studying what the Bible had to say about trust it came with a scene from a movie that I hadn\u2019t watched or thought about in a long time. The scene was from Disney\u2019s Aladdin where Aladdin, dressed in his royal garb stretches out his hand to the princess Jasmine and says, \u201cDo you trust me?\u201d Aladdin standing on the magical flying carpet, Jasmine, safe and sound on the solid palace balcony. \u201cDo you trust me?\u201d God has asked me this several times over the last few months, stretching out his hand and inviting me into more than I could ever have hoped for or imagined possible.<\/div>\n
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During a time of worship, my arms lifted up, God spoke into my heart, \u201cThis is your position of power.\u201d\u00a0Arms raised in surrender to God, hands open and yielded to His purposes and strength \u2013 that is our position of power!<\/div>\n
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When I raise my hands that way in a worship service I often feel like a small child with her arms raised to be held by a loving parent. It is only a trusting heart that can so surrender: arms open, heart exposed, hands not grasping anything or hiding something behind the back. \u201cHere I am God! I know you love me and trust you with this life!\u201d\u00a0Proverbs 3:4-5 says:\u00a0Trust in the Lord with all your heart; in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Let\u2019s break down these verses to see what we can learn about trust.<\/div>\n
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TRUST:\u00a0The Hebrew word that we translate as\u00a0trust\u00a0carries the meanings of taking refuge, trust, being confident or sure, bold, secure, careless.\u00a0With these meanings in mind we are told that we can and must trust, take refuge, be confident, bold, secure, sure and careless in the Lord\u2026I was a bit surprised to find\u00a0careless\u00a0in this definition, but as I thought about what trust is it made sense. I try to swim laps at our local pool a couple times each week. Once in a while there are some families enjoying an afternoon swim. I love watching the children jumping off the diving board to their parents below \u2013 carefree and unafraid. I did not learn to swim until my last year of college at 22 years old. The water was until then, and sometimes is still, a terrifying place for me to be. So I watch in awe as these children fearlessly, carelessly jump from so high into water so deep without any thought of fear because mom and dad are right there watching over them. We can live our day to day life with that sort of trust in God. Dive in to the things He is leading you into \u2013 he will not forget you, abandon you, or leave you on your own to try to figure it out!<\/div>\n
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Psalm 9:10 promises that \u201cthose who know\u00a0your name\u00a0will trust in you, for you, LORD have never forsaken those who seek you.\u201d (italics mine) \u00a0If you are having a hard time trusting God in any area of your life it may be that you have not yet learned\u00a0His Name. Let me give you a quick list of some of the names of God we find throughout the Bible:<\/p>\n