Confident Trust: I Know You Will Do It For Me!

I was in the kitchen cutting up some fruit for hubby’s breakfast when my teenage daughter walked in and asked, “Mummy can you cut some for me?“ I didn’t hear that” I responded. She simply walked out of the kitchen saying with a smile as she left, “I know you will do it for me”. I smiled.

My daughter’s confidence was borne out of our relationship. Children do expect and trust their parents to meet their needs and reasonable requests! (Parent talking here!😀) There was no doubt in her mind that she would come back to find her fruits waiting. (Perhaps, she was thinking; “Mummy ob3 y3 too known kakraa, but ob3 y3!”😃)

As I thought about the certainty with which she had spoken, I felt challenged right there in my kitchen about my walk with God. I said to myself, “wow!” “Am I that trusting with God?” Do I place my request at His feet and walk away with confident trust that He will take care of it for me?”

Even when I don’t see a significant sign of the answer coming through, will I still be confident in His ability to do it for me? Will I persevere like Elijah prayed, face tucked into knees and sent his servant seven times to confirm whether there was any sign of rain? The Bible tells us that on that seventh count the servant reported that there was a cloud as small as a man’s fist. That didn’t sound like an answer to prayer but for Elijah that was enough for him to say to Ahab that there was about to be a storm!

“The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’ ” Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain started falling and Ahab rode off to Jezreel.”
‭‭1 Kings‬ ‭18:44-45‬

God invites us to enter into a trusting relationship with Him. The kind of relationship where we are so confident in who He is and who we are to Him that we can lay our requests at His feet and walk on in confidence, trusting and knowing that He will do what’s best for us!

Paul exhorts us as follows;

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7)

God desires that we experience the peace He gives when we lay our requests before Him with prayer, thanksgiving and supplication.

On the contrary, we often say we are trusting God and yet we don’t go the whole nine yards! We bring our requests to Him and yet we don’t surrender them entirely, or even if we do, we are watching to see what He will do and if the burden doesn’t shrink in size immediately, we go pick it up, examine it, carry it around like a prized possession and then reluctantly lay it back hoping for a change. Sometimes we even take matters into our own hands, thinking we can “help God”. That was the situation when Sarah gave her maidservant Hagar to Abraham. Perhaps she figured that “he might as well have that heir even if I can’t give it to him”. That led to several complications! But God is sovereign and He visited Abraham and Sarah in due season and the promised child was birthed! Let’s not be in a hurry to help God!

God doesn’t need us to cover for Him or make Him look good! He is God all by Himself and is able to accomplish what concerns us. He wants total surrender of our lives and our burdens to Him!

“Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”

Matthew 7:9-11

Jesus reminds us that we if we as fallen, broken creatures can do good to our children, then how much more will our Heavenly Father bestow good gifts onto us as we ask Him! Think about that for a minute: Jesus says your “Heavenly Father”. That speaks of our relationship. A father loves his child and wants the best for his child. Even if he withholds something from the child, it’s for a good purpose. So if I acknowledge God as my Heavenly Father who desires the best for me, then when I come to Him in prayer, I come with an attitude of confident trust and pray from a place of knowing my Father loves me, wants to hear me and actually invites me to ““Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:”

(Matthew 7:7)

I wouldn’t give my daughter rocks to chew on if she asked for fruits! Neither would I give her a snake if she asked for fish! If with all my human flaws I still seek the best interests of my child, how much more (a zillion times over) does God not seek our welfare?

As I stood in the kitchen, I squirmed inwardly as I remembered how I was still fussing over an issue I had given to God in prayer. Time to let go! I paused in that moment, lifting up my heart in prayer to the Lord;

“Lord help me grow in childlike faith. The kind that embraces who you are; Loving, Almighty, Omnipotent, Faithful, Unchanging and Ever-Present. Help me hold onto your Word no matter what I see, hear or even think! Help me trust you and walk in the confidence that you are a Good Father who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all I can ever ask or imagine”. AMEN!