WEBVTT 00:04.630 --> 00:10.532 [SPEAKER_00]: Today we'll explore how leaning on the Lord for truth and understanding relates to trust. 00:11.753 --> 00:13.654 [SPEAKER_00]: Where do you look for wisdom? 00:14.834 --> 00:23.418 [SPEAKER_00]: God promises us that when we look to Him, He will deliver all the wisdom and understanding we need for any circumstance. 00:24.678 --> 00:32.842 [SPEAKER_00]: May you find the understanding you need for your situation today as you learn to trust the Father and lean into Him. 00:33.939 --> 00:36.160 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the first fifteen podcast. 01:04.728 --> 01:09.469 [SPEAKER_00]: Our Scripture for today comes from Proverbs chapter three verse five. 01:10.590 --> 01:18.752 [SPEAKER_00]: Scripture says, trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. 01:22.813 --> 01:30.235 [SPEAKER_00]: True understanding about ourselves, others, and this life only comes through trust in God. 01:31.942 --> 01:34.623 [SPEAKER_00]: God alone has perspective and truth. 01:35.904 --> 01:41.926 [SPEAKER_00]: God alone has understanding about what matters, who we are, and what will happen. 01:43.367 --> 01:51.050 [SPEAKER_00]: And the good news for you and me today is that our Heavenly Father is absolutely longing to share His understanding. 01:52.551 --> 01:58.293 [SPEAKER_00]: God yearns for us to think and see through the lens of the Holy Spirit in His Word. 02:00.075 --> 02:09.602 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs three verses five through eight says, trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 02:10.702 --> 02:18.748 [SPEAKER_00]: In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He will make strength your path, be not wise in your own eyes. 02:19.769 --> 02:22.951 [SPEAKER_00]: Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. 02:24.072 --> 02:28.355 [SPEAKER_00]: It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. 02:32.053 --> 02:39.420 [SPEAKER_00]: Why is it that when Scripture promises us God's understanding, we still do life apart from His wisdom? 02:41.121 --> 02:49.529 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do we look to our own minds and go our own ways when God makes His understanding and will so available? 02:51.557 --> 02:57.419 [SPEAKER_00]: UNI are only capable of looking for understanding in that which we fully trust. 02:59.299 --> 03:07.762 [SPEAKER_00]: If we don't trust that God's wisdom and will are truly the best path laid before us, we will go our own ways. 03:09.662 --> 03:18.585 [SPEAKER_00]: If we don't trust that God's commands will actually produce the most abundant life, we will choose the ways of the world. 03:20.670 --> 03:27.387 [SPEAKER_00]: to live with godly understanding and wisdom, is to look to God alone as our truth. 03:29.088 --> 03:36.072 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs three, verses thirteen to eighteen, stirs my heart to lean on God from my understanding. 03:37.233 --> 03:43.677 [SPEAKER_00]: Scripture says, blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding. 03:44.818 --> 03:50.881 [SPEAKER_00]: For the gain from her is better than gain from silver in her profit better than gold. 03:52.142 --> 03:57.726 [SPEAKER_00]: She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. 03:59.233 --> 04:01.274 [SPEAKER_00]: Long life is in her right hand. 04:02.135 --> 04:04.876 [SPEAKER_00]: In her left hand, our riches and honor. 04:06.417 --> 04:11.380 [SPEAKER_00]: Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. 04:12.881 --> 04:16.623 [SPEAKER_00]: She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. 04:18.044 --> 04:21.046 [SPEAKER_00]: Those who hold her fast are called blessed. 04:24.508 --> 04:28.610 [SPEAKER_00]: While all the world is declaring to you its understanding of truth, 04:29.760 --> 04:33.362 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray that you will look to its one true source today. 04:34.843 --> 04:42.488 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray that you will lean on your loving Heavenly Father for understanding about yourself, your life, and others. 04:44.309 --> 04:48.692 [SPEAKER_00]: May today be marked by a continual overflow of revelation. 04:50.293 --> 04:55.757 [SPEAKER_00]: May you know how God feels about you and base your image off His understanding. 04:57.769 --> 05:14.259 [SPEAKER_00]: May you experience to greater depths the perfect mind of Jesus and may God's word transform your life as it plants seeds of wisdom that grow into beautiful, plentiful trees of peace and life. 05:16.120 --> 05:19.122 [SPEAKER_00]: Take time to seek the Lord now and guide it prayer. 05:49.606 --> 05:54.888 [SPEAKER_00]: As we begin, meditate on the availability of God's understanding. 05:56.500 --> 06:02.845 [SPEAKER_00]: allow scripture to stir up a desire to lean on your heavenly Father for truth and wisdom. 06:04.787 --> 06:21.120 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs chapter two verses one through five says, my son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding 06:22.232 --> 06:40.488 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. 07:20.538 --> 07:21.018 [SPEAKER_00]: and next. 07:22.259 --> 07:28.761 [SPEAKER_00]: In what ways do you lean on yourself or something of the world for understanding and truth? 07:30.482 --> 07:34.503 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you look to for your perspectives and source of value? 07:36.523 --> 07:39.946 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs chapter three verses five through Aces. 07:41.288 --> 07:54.121 [SPEAKER_00]: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths. 07:55.608 --> 07:57.448 [SPEAKER_00]: Be not wise in your own eyes. 07:58.329 --> 08:01.349 [SPEAKER_00]: Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. 08:02.430 --> 08:06.771 [SPEAKER_00]: It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. 08:46.568 --> 08:51.451 [SPEAKER_00]: And last, take time to lean on God for His understanding. 08:52.772 --> 09:01.017 [SPEAKER_00]: Search out scripture and the spirit for wisdom and understanding concerning yourself, your life and others. 09:02.922 --> 09:08.371 [SPEAKER_00]: Ask him to help you be the one who seeks understanding from him in every area. 09:10.153 --> 09:16.203 [SPEAKER_00]: Take time to rest in his presence and discover the wealth of his affections for you. 09:18.180 --> 09:34.052 [SPEAKER_00]: Jeremiah nine verses twenty three and twenty four says let not the wise man boast in his wisdom let not the mighty man boast in his might let not the rich man boast in his riches 09:35.093 --> 09:48.519 [SPEAKER_00]: But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. 09:49.739 --> 09:53.101 [SPEAKER_00]: For in these things, I delight the Clare of the Lord. 10:32.664 --> 10:38.570 [SPEAKER_00]: Paul's prayer in Colossians chapter one, verses nine and ten, is my prayer for you. 10:39.711 --> 10:43.495 [SPEAKER_00]: May your life bear the fruit of heavenly understanding today. 10:44.976 --> 10:51.863 [SPEAKER_00]: Scripture says, and so from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you. 10:53.020 --> 11:00.165 [SPEAKER_00]: asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 11:01.246 --> 11:13.355 [SPEAKER_00]: So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. 11:44.842 --> 11:48.544 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to today's podcast on understanding. 11:49.125 --> 11:51.886 [SPEAKER_00]: The third in our week-long focus on trust. 11:52.787 --> 11:54.588 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Josh Miller with First Team. 11:55.668 --> 12:02.332 [SPEAKER_00]: Wherever you are in your ability to trust God fully, know that God is okay with the process of it all. 12:03.333 --> 12:09.737 [SPEAKER_00]: Trust can be scary, especially if you feel he or others have broken your trust before. 12:11.017 --> 12:18.320 [SPEAKER_00]: Know that he's with you, he loves you, and he will guide you into a lifestyle of trust in his love. 12:19.681 --> 12:24.783 [SPEAKER_00]: Make sure to come back tomorrow where we'll look at what it means to trust God in our plans. 12:26.103 --> 12:30.485 [SPEAKER_00]: Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you see Kim.