Part 3 | It’s About Trust | Southcoast

From Proverbs 3:1-10

What should we put our trust in?

1. in God’s .

📖 Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, 2 for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

📖 Proverbs 2:6 ESV For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

📖 John 5:39-40 ESV You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

What should we put our trust in?

2. in God’s .

📖 Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

📖 Ezekiel 36:25-27 ESV I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

📖 Romans 2:4 ESV God’s kindness is what leads us to repentance.

What should we put our trust in?

3. in God’s .

📖 Proverbs 3:5-8 ESV Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. 7 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. 8 It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

📖 Matthew 11:28-30 NLT Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”

📖 Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

📖 John 7:38 ESV Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

📖 Proverbs 4:23 ESV Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

What should we put our trust in?

4. in God’s Plan for .

📖 Proverbs 3:9-10 ESV Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the first-fruits of all your produce; 10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.

📖 2 Samuel 24:24 ESV But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

📖 Psalm 24:1 NLT The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him.

📖 Exodus 20:1-3 ESV And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 You shall have no other gods before me.”

📖 1 Samuel 2:30 ESV Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.’

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The Lord with finances changes contributions to , to keeping His commands, His Ways, and Him with gratitude for of my .

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