1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: Life Audio. 2 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswalk devotional. We're glad to have you 3 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 2: listening with us. Today's topic is on how to restore 4 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 2: trust in God when it may feel like you've lost it. 5 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 2: We'll return with the devotional after a brief message from 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 2: our sponsors. 7 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: How to Restore Trust when you Lost It Written and 8 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: read by Kelly Blari. As for what was sown on 9 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 1: thin rocky soil, This is he who hears the word 10 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 1: and at once welcomes and accepts it with joy. Yet 11 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: it has no real root in him, But it is 12 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: temporary in constant lasts but a little while, and or 13 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 1: trouble or persecution comes on account of the word. At 14 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: once he is caused to stumble, He is repelled, and 15 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: begins to distrust and desert him whom we ought to 16 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: trust and obey, And he falls away Matthew thirteen twenty 17 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: to twenty one. Have you ever tried to dig a 18 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:23,919 Speaker 1: shovel into rocky soil? It's torture, Bam, bam. It's nearly 19 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 1: impossible to hit. Rock is to be blocked. One can't 20 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 1: easily plant beautiful flowers when rocky soil blocks the ability 21 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 1: to plant new life. The same goes for us when 22 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: we are rocky soil. Jesus said, as for what was 23 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: sown on thin, rocky soil, this is he who hears 24 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 1: the word and at once welcomes and accepts it with joy. 25 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: Yet it has no real root in him. But it 26 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: is temporary in constant, lasts but a little while. And 27 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: when affliction or trouble or persecution comes on account of 28 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: the Word, at once he is caused to stumble. He 29 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: is repelled, and begins to distrust and desert him whom 30 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: he ought to trust and obey, and he falls away 31 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: Matthew thirteen twenty to twenty one. We become rocky soil 32 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: when what is hard and tough in life turns us 33 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: hard and tough in heart. To be hardened to God 34 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: because of trials and troubles means the soil of our 35 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: heart is rocky. Beautiful things can't be as easily planted 36 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: within us. This is a problem for me, I considered 37 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: as I read this verse. You see, after reading these 38 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: words of Jesus, I now could see trials and tribulations 39 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: in my life for causing me to stumble, because I 40 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: was beginning to distrust and desert Him whom I ought 41 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:49,839 Speaker 1: to trust and obey. Wow, God surely knows I don't 42 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: want to fall away. But after all that I had 43 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: gone through, all I endured, all I had to endure 44 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: in relationships quietly, distrust was eating and see my trust, 45 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: and I knew it. Maybe I'm not alone in this. 46 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: Maybe you two. I've had shackers in life, shock in 47 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: awe when you've got a medical diagnosis you didn't expect. 48 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: Shock when a friend turned to a foe, shock when 49 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: a dream suddenly ended, shock when a child turned away 50 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: from you. It is easy to lose trust when, after 51 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,679 Speaker 1: experience the shock of a carpet pulled out from under us, 52 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: we are surprised. However, we are rise to remember. God 53 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: is not the orchestrator of evil. He is the one 54 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: who is for us. God is the one working all 55 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: things together for good. Both Jesus and the Holy Spirit 56 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: intercede for us. I once heard a pastor say, Devil bad, 57 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: God good. He is right. God is good. God is just. 58 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: God works all things together for good as we love 59 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:54,119 Speaker 1: Him and are called according to his purpose. God is redeemer, 60 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: God is Hope. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and 61 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: the Life. God use is even what is hard and 62 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: bad for good. I can't give up on God, and 63 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: neither can you. I can't afford to spend even a 64 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: day away from him. Trust returns when we remember that 65 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: God is good, When we believe there's hope, when we 66 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: repent of unbelief and decide to break up with it, 67 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: when we remember He can do the miraculous, when we 68 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: ponder how God used Jesus and where Jesus sits now 69 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: after hardship. God is not what happened to us. God 70 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 1: is good intercepting faith in life? What in life has 71 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: happened to you that has made you lose trust? How 72 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: have you subtly moved away from God? Can you let 73 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: your pain go into his hands? Your need to know? 74 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: Can you let that go? Your desire to have everything 75 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 1: perfect today? Can you release that to God? God is 76 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: the author and perfector Your story is not done yet. 77 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: This devotional is an invitation for you to come back 78 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: to Him. Thanks for listening to today's devotional. If you 79 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: liked what you heard today, we want to make sure 80 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: you know about our sister podcast, your Daily Prayer. When 81 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,119 Speaker 1: you follow your daily prayer in your favorite podcast app, 82 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: you'll get a brand new prayer and devotional each day, 83 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: so your days begin in conversation with God. 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