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Earning trust…….
We are only as healthy as we are able to trust. If we are unable to trust, we are sentenced to walled-up lives protected from the deceit of others. Such isolated living makes full, human recovery impossible.
The task, however, is not to blindly trust. We have done that-to our undoing. The task is to discern who is trustworthy and who is not. Trusting has never led us into trouble, but the people we have chosen to trust have. And then all too often we have demanded unshakable loyalty from ourselves toward that untrustworthy person.
Trust must be earned. Our discipline is not to blindly trust others but to patiently wait to see if they have earned that treasured gift from us. Our goal must be to wisely discern who is trustworthy and who is not……Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen Hegarty.
Read Nehemiah 7:2
Prayer……Lord, I pray for the wisdom to give my trust only to trustworthy people and for the strength to trustworthy myself, in Jesus Holy Name, Amen.
– Posted by Michael Joseph Belmont.
Psalms 23, verse 1-6:
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Ephesians Chapter 6, verse 12: .
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Some Verses
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James Chapter 4, verse 7-8: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands…Â
2 Corinthians Chapter 2, verse 11: Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
1 Peter Chapter 5, verse 8-9: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
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