My child, never forget the things I have taught you. Store my commands in your heart. If you do this, you will live many years, and your life will be satisfying. Proverbs 3:1-2 (NLT)
Satisfying = Shalom which means peace. Shalom is to be full of peace. It means to be complete and content. It is an INWARD peace and not necessary an OUTWARD peace
7 Principles for a Life of Peace Be a Person who is Transformed Be a Person who Trusts God with All Your Heart Be a Person who Surrenders to God s Plan for Your Life Be a Person who Fears God & Avoids Evil Be a Person who Honors God by Giving Be a Person who is Teachable Be a Person who Seeks After & Finds Wisdom
Be a Person who Trusts God with All Your Heart
#2: Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 (NLT)
#2: Trust in and rely confidently on the LORD with all your heart; And do not rely depend on your own insight or understanding. Proverbs 3:5 (AMP)
Trust = batach which means to hide in for refuge. To feel secure and safe. To place your confidence in, security in and hope in.
Doubt = which means weakness of faith or unbelief.
Genesis 3:1-5, Now the serpent (Isaiah 14) was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, Did God actually say, You shall not eat of any tree in the garden? And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said,
You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. But the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. (ESV)
The Principles of Trust
Exodus 13:17-22, Now when Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, even though it was near; for God said, The people might change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt. Hence God led the people around by the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea; and the sons of Israel went up in martial array from the land of Egypt
(v.21) The LORD was going before them in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them on the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people. (NASB)
The Principles of Trust 1) Trust is EARNED
Psalm 22:4-5, Our ancestors trusted in You, and You rescued them. They cried out to You and were saved. They trusted in You and were never disgraced. (NLT)
Psalm 22:4-5, Our ancestors trusted in You, and You rescued them. They cried out to You and were saved. They trusted in You and were never disgraced. (NLT) Psalm 19:7, The instructions of the LORD are perfect, reviving the soul. The decrees of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple. (NLT)
2 Samuel 7:28, For you are God, O Sovereign LORD. Your words are truth, You have promised these good things to Your servant. (NLT)
Jeremiah 17:5, This is what the LORD says: Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the LORD. (NLT)
The Principles of Trust 1) Trust is EARNED 2) Trust is LEARNED
Psalm 9:10, And those who know Your name, who have experienced Your precious mercy, will put their confident trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not abandoned those who seek You. (AMP)
Deuteronomy 31:12-13, Call them all together so they may hear this Book of Instruction and learn to fear the LORD your God...Do this so that your children who have not known these instructions will hear them and will learn to fear the LORD your God. (NLT)
The Principles of Trust 1) Trust is EARNED 2) Trust is LEARNED 3) Trust is YEARNED
Psalm 84:2, My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. (NLT)