Trusting God is something we as believers should be doing as an integral part of our relationship with God. The strange thing is; most of us really don't know how to trust. After all, when you think about it, nobody has actually taught you how to trust. In fact, most of us are taught to "distrust" first – and everything after that is up for grabs.

I want to expand on my series of "Trusting God" and teach you when is it necessary and when is it important to trust God.

Let's start with a verse that most of us that most of us use when it comes to "salvation" and continues into "finances" and "prosperity".
Here I want to share with you how God's word is designed to be a map and foundational plan for our lives.

In John 10:9-10, the KVJ reads, " I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."

We know that verse 9 is a call to salvation. We can back it by referring to other scriptures. John 3:16 reads "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

To believe is more than intellectual agreement that Jesus is God. It means to put our trust and confidence in Him that He alone can save us. It is to put him in charge of our present plans and eternal destiny. Believing is both trusting His word as reliable and relying on Him for the power to change.

Well, some how we need to figure out how we as believers came to an ability to "believe" or "trust" in God to save us.

That's actually pretty simple. And the answer is found in the Bible, in Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

Ephesians 1:4-5 – " For he chose us in him before the creation of the world (foundations of the earth) to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love

He predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will."

Now, by definition, the word "trust" means "assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something"

And for God to know us before we were born, and having created us with a purpose, means that He created our character, our ability, our strength. This is His foundation of His trust in us. He has the full knowledge of who we are.

Can you see the Godly principle of sowing and reaping here?

God trusted first and thus expects trust in return. God sowed trust, and expects to reap trust from the very ground -- from the very earth -- from the very earthen vessel -- in which he sowed into.

So, having created us, you can now see that God has instilled in our spirits the very ability, the very strength, the character that allows us to trust and believe in Him. That is where our initial passion or drive comes from to seek Him, to find truth, to seek life.

Do you realize that every principle that we have to help manage and live our lives – God had to and has to live by also. God had to sow and reap, God has to trust, God has to have faith, God has to believe in eternity for His people to obtain the same. Obviously it's not that difficult for Him considering that He is Truth, He is Faith, and He is Eternal. And thus He wants us, and needs us to realize that it's not that difficult for us either.

Without implying we are God, you can see where God has created us in his image according to His likeness. (Genesis 1:26) You will see that God had to instill in us, create us, design us with an initial driving ability to seek Him – otherwise we'd never seek Him. After all being the Almighty One, The Alpha and Omega, the End and the Beginning, He would have had to understand what "creation" would have had to be created because He knew that He himself would have to become the same human being and He would need to have something from the beginning of time to get back to. The same is created in us. That creation in us is the basis of our trust. It is the cornerstone of our knowledge, and thus is the foundation of our trust.

With that knowledge, we can now look into when we have to trust God. Having designed us from before the foundations of the earth, He, God, has "created" us; he has an expectation of us. Well, it wouldn't make sense to be able to "trust" God "before" we were born, because we aren't born. We don't physically exist. So it can't be possible to "trust" him then. And soon after we are born, we don't have an ability to come to an "understanding" of His word. So there isn't the possibility to "trust" God as a infant. So when do we need to trust God. We need to trust God when we come to an ability to be accountable. Now there is no actual age or number defined in the bible as to what that age would be. However, thirteen is the most common number given for the age of accountability based on the Jewish custom that a child becomes an adult at the age of 13. However, the Bible gives no direct support to the age of 13 always being the age of accountability. It likely varies from child to child. A child has passed the age of accountability once they are capable of making a faith decision for or against Christ. As parents, we can use our experiences with our children to be able to truly look at how our child learns and becomes responsible for what he or she has learned. I believe when that occurs, we step into an age of accountability. When we can take something we know and act accordingly based on that knowledge.

So when we have come to a foundational knowledge of God, is when we should start to trust in Him, after all, our very salvation depends on our trust, our belief of His saving Grace.

So, as we come into foundational knowledge of God is when we need to start trusting God. As we continue to expand that foundation of our knowledge of God by reading His word and seeking Him, we should continue to build and expand our trust in Him. (You are now returning the very fruit and harvest that He has sown into you).

Now, only God knows how long you are to live (and when you think about the farming principle) you will see that He will return you to the earth when you are no longer to produce the very fruit, the very harvest from the seed that He has sown.

God needs you to trust in Him from the beginning of your foundation to the end of your earthly life. You will see that in our first scripture, that God's intent for us is to have life and to have that life be as full and abundant as possible. That is only possible when we trust in God to do everything. EVERYTHING! Not just trust God when we need help in our finances, not only when we need a breakthrough, not just when we need His grace and mercy, but in everything. The good and the bad, the rich times, the poor times, the sick times and the healthy times. Isn't it intriguing that our marriage covenants sound so much like our relationship with God? And rightly so! After all – God ordained marriage, why wouldn't it sound like a very relationship with Him. He even calls the Church His bride. He has chosen us, He has found us, He has placed all that He is and all that He has in us, and all that He wants in return is for us to trust Him. I recall a movie, where a young man had found a woman and chose to marry her. His propose when something like this. Everything I have, everything you need I will provide for you. You have been hurt, you have been lied to. I want to be the one to be there for you. I want to love the hurt away. I want to bring the smile back to you. You can have all of it, all you have to do is marry me. All you have to do is wake up every morning and I'll take it from there.

God wants us to wake up every morning and allow Him to take it from there. Why else would His grace be renewed every morning, why else would He give up His son for us. He wants us. All we have to do wake up every morning and trust him, release all of our plans, all of his plans, all of our cares, all of our worries, all of our stresses, all of our decisions, all of our hopes, all of our hurts, all of our pain, all of our decisions, all of our visions, all of our dreams, all of our finances, all of our challenges to Him. When that happens, God will take it from there.

Pastor Mike Hayes recently shared this insight into the scriptures; When Moses and the children of Israel left Egypt they didn't know much about following and trusting God.

They found themselves with Pharaoh's army behind them and the Red sea in front of them.

And Moses, who was their leader, who wanted to show leadership and felt that he could speak for God and attempted to take charge and told the people… "Stand still and see the glory of God."

After that he turned around and went in to his tent and God spoke to him. And God said, "That's not what I told you to tell them. If you stand still and do nothing you will be destroyed."

And Moses replied, "But I don't know what do to." And God said, "I'll tell you what to do."

Moses said "There's an army of Pharaoh coming and we don't have even have an army. There's a Red Sea in front of us and we don't even have a boat."

God said, "Listen Moses, I'm going ask something monumental of you, it's going to be big, it's going to take everything you've got. But if you do this, the Red Sea will divide and you will walk through on dry ground.

And Moses had to be thinking thought; "What is that, that I could do that could be great enough to divide an ocean."

And God said, "You go back out there and you take this walking stick that you use to assist you walk and you lift up that stick over that ocean and the ocean will divide."

And Moses was thinking, "God you said you were going ask something of me monumental."

And God said, "Oh but I did, because what I asked of you is do to a simple, small thing and trust me to do the great thing."

And for us as human beings, that's the big thing. Trust God.