The Power of Trust (Part 3)!

INSPIRE Devotionals With Emmanuel Afiawari Monday, August 11, 2025 Topic: THE POWER OF TRUST (Part 3)! Memory Verse: "Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God" - Psalms 20:7 NKJV Bible Text: Job 13:15 NKJV 15. Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him. INSPIRATION: Trust is not a decision of convenience but one made out of a deeply rooted conviction. Job sets the bar so high when he declared, "I will continue to trust God even if he kills me..." (Job 13:15 ERV). He was so emphatic that his trust was not tied to anything he might be benefitting from God. He was willing to die trusting God. What a sweepy testament and a big challenge to our faith profession today. He affirmed God would still be God regardless of his present realities. He was explicitly avowing that nothing could separate him from the love and trust of God (Rom. 8:35-36). Sarah, Abraham's wife, had judged God faithful to keep to His promise of a child even though she had passed the age of childbearing and had not yet received a token of evidence for the promise (Hebrews 11: 11). What an absolute expression of trust! Should we talk of Abraham who held the belief that God would raise Isaac up from the dead and so was willing to sacrifice his only son? Believers must come to that crucial point in our trust level with God where nothing else matters. We must affirm our absolute trust in God's power to save us to the uttermost (Hebrews 7:25) like the three Hebrew boys declared (Daniel 3:17-18). Trust is daring and resolute; it stretches one to his limits. It is an affirmative action that is built around the unwavering nature and characteristics of the person or object it is bestowed. What's the characteristic nature of God that is deeply formed in your heart that could make you say like Job, "I will continue to trust God even if he kills me..." (Job 13:15)? TODAY'S TAKE HOME: Absolute trust in God is possible when you develop a passionate resolve that's based on knowledge of His unchanging nature. PRAYER: O Lord, help me not to only trust You but to affirm same publicly that my trust for you is not affected by anything; I receive grace to live by this conviction always, in Jesus name.