Confidence in God
Confidence in God
(Do You Really Trust God)
David Wilkerson
The Holy Spirit questioned to me and He said,
“First of all, do you really believe that I’m able to do everything that I promised you to do and I’m able to do it?
Do you believe that as God I am faithful to do what I promised you to do?
Finally if you believe that I am able and I’m faithful to keep my word, do you believe that I’m willing to do what I am able and faithful to do?”
Of course we say,
“Yes! Yes! Yes!
We believe all of that.”
But the question was put to me by the Holy Spirit
“If you really trust me,
if you really believe that I’m God
with all ability and faithfulness and willingness,
why sometimes you go around so cast down?
Why do you look like your God is dead?”
Do you go on the job and you say,
“I know I trust God.”
But what about the way you walk around your family? Because you see if you really had trust in God you would believe that there’s no problem in your life that He can’t work out.
No matter what the weight it is,
no matter what your family problem is,
before you went to bed you committed to the Lord.
When you got up in the morning, you didn’t pick it up because He says,
“You cast all your care upon Him and leave it there.”
Thy billows and thy waves you’ve allowed to come over me
Psalms 42:7
Now the wave of hitting him of trouble and discouragement.
In the process deep is calling to deep
Psalms 42:7
God is reaching down into the inner most, saying
“You have not yet learned to trust me.
You said you did.
You thought you did.
But you’ve not yet learned that in all things.
I’m going to let waves come.
These waves won’t sink you.
These waves won’t drown you.
You’re not gonna get hurt by this fire.”
“But you’re gonna learn in this to trust me with everything in you.
You’re gonna come to place where you give up totally trying to figure things out.
You give up totally trying to understand in the flesh how to overcome.
You’re gonna lean on me.
You’re gonna just surrender to my will.”
God is not interested in that you just get next victory.
He is interested in that you become surrendered to His will.
He wants you surrendered.
He’ll just keep them come until we reach surrender.
Once you surrender, resign to His perfect will.
That’s when the calm begins.
That’s when the waters are still by His voice.
David said to his heart,
“Now settle down, soul.”
Psalms 42:11
“You’re impatient.
You’re upset.
You’re fretting. You’re angry.
You’re accusing the Lord have not been concerned.
Because you have impatience in you, things have not turned out the way you prayed.
And it got to you.”
Sometimes it gets to you. That’s where some of you are right now.
David’s saying,
“But, soul you’re going to hope in God.
You’re gonna remember all of God’s faithfulness in your past.”
(Psalms 42:11)
You’ll remember that God has always brought you through every trouble, every trial He’d delivered you in the past. He will deliver you now.
He said,
“I will never leave you.
I will never forsake you.
I will go with you to the end.”
“No matter what we go through,” he said,
“I am with you.”
As long as He is with us that should bring us the confidence we need.
Trusting in God is not an option.
I used to think
“Well, if I don’t trust God I’m the only one who suffers.
I may lose the blessing.”
But, that’s not so.
The Bible says it’s a curse. And it deeply offends God. It offends the Lord.
We think that drugs and alcohol, homosexuality all these things offend the Lord. I’m telling you those were not the things kept Israel out of the promised land.
It was unbelief!
This is the sin that grieves God more than any other sin.
Of course all these other sins’ re result of unbelief. They stem from unbelief. It causes pride and flesh.
You have needed a patience after you have done the will of Father that you might receive the promise. You have needed patience. (Hebrews 10:36)
If you got impatient spirit, take it to the Lord and ask Him to forgive you and give you a waiting heart on Him.
Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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.
Jeremiah 17:5-6
This is the curse of all who have not trustfully in God and lean on the arm of flesh.
That means your own flesh or the flesh of somebody else rather than taking it to God and resigning it to His perfect will and believing that He’ll gonna answer your prayer.
It’s running off trying to make it work trying to manipulate,
make telephone calls, I mean, just go at it trying to make it work
You know what the curse is?
Perpetual dryness. You will be like a heath in the desert. That’s a sprig. That’s got thorns on it. There’s no leaf. There’s no fruit. There’s nothing of beauty.
It’s just there in a dry wilderness. It’s dryness. It’s emptiness. There’s no fruit.
I don’t want to live my Christian life dry and empty without fruit. That’s what unbelief brings.
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord,
and whose hope the Lord is
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters,
and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, …
Jeremiah 17:7-8
The Lord says,
“I’m gonna plant you.
You’re not even gonna depend on the rain.
You’re gonna have living water.
You’re gonna go down deep where the waters always there.
You don’t have to wait for the rain.”
Those who’re planted by the Holy Ghost, those who believe God explicitly are taking root down into the eternal river of the Holy Spirit’s life and power and rivers.
He said,
“You will always be green.
You will always be fruitful.”
… 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.
Jeremiah 17:8
I want to bear fruit to the day I die.
I want to be a green tree with life.