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One time when I was facing a circumstance, it seemed as if it was a torment to my soul. It was really disturbing my life. I couldn’t understand why I hadn’t seen God moving and making changes. Why isn’t the Lord doing something? Why doesn’t He respond?
How many times have you asked those questions? That’s where I was. I will never forget lying in bed one night, crying out to Him because I felt I couldn’t stand the way conditions were anymore. I wanted to ask why, what, where, when. I wondered how I could trust God in such a hard time.
I knew how to trust when I couldn’t see what was happening and I knew how to trust when I was waiting. I knew about all those times. But this was harder because it was very hurtful.
That’s when God said in a very plain way to me, “Trust when it hurts.” Oh, that was hard to hear! But He began to show me that if I would do this, I would come into a deeper place in Him. It would take me into a level where I could see greater miracles.
Then I remembered the scripture that I had been confessing. It’s the one in Mark 11 where Jesus says to us as disciples to trust God constantly. (Ref. Mark 11:22.) I actually say those words every night. Have faith in God constantly. Trust Him constantly.
So that means that we must do that even when it hurts to trust. Then I started thinking about the physical word trust. What letter of the alphabet is in the center of that word? “U.” T-R-U-S-T. You trust! You as a person are in the center of that word.
So to make that word “trust” work, you have to jump right in the center of what it means to trust. The center, not the fringes, not walking around it, barely touching it. You have to be in the very center of that word to make it work for your life.
So you may have to come to the point as I did. I said, “I trust You, God. That’s all I know that I can do at this moment. Doesn’t seem I can do anything else but trust You.”
But it’s great to be at that place! Right? You can’t do anything else for yourself, but the power of trusting is what will change everything. There is so much POWER in trusting when it hurts.
You see, in that same scripture after Jesus told us to trust God no matter what, He also described what happens when we DO trust in spite of what’s happening.
He said, Trust in God. If you do, honestly, you can say to this mountain, “Mountain, uproot yourself and throw yourself into the sea.” If you don’t doubt, but trust that what you say will take place, then it will happen. (Ref. Mark 11:22, 23 VOICE.)
Another version puts it this way. If we trust God, Nothing will be too much for you. This mountain, for instance: Just say, “Go jump in the lake”—no shuffling or hemming and hawing—and it’s as good as done. (Ref. Mark 11:22, 23 MSG.)
Nothing will be too much. That’s what His Word said. You come to the place of nothing being too much. Even the mountain isn’t too much for you. When you trust and you tell that mountain to jump in the lake, it’s as good as done.
So when you bring everything to God, everything you don’t understand, everything that’s hurting you, when you bring Him all that’s in your heart, and you pray in faith, what you say will take place. It will happen. You come into a new level of miracle-working trust.
Spiritual Powerline to say out loud:
“I’M COMING INTO GREATER MIRACLES!”
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