Seedsower Music:: Trust In God

Trust In God
© 2008 Seedsower Music.

Purpose: | The God of heaven is not intimidated by earthly kings and rulers. That's because He has the power to affect history any way He wishes. God is in control, and the believer can rest in a sovereign God who has a plan which no human can alter.

Commentary: | Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases Him. Psalm 115:3

Peter and John were being harassed by the religious rulers. They were released from a overnight stay in jail and told to shut up. Straightway they joined with other believer's in prayer......

"Sovereign Lord," they said, "you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: " 'Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together

against the Lord and against his Anointed One.'

Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.

Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus."

After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. Acts 4:24-31

Did they rant and rage about how awful Herod and Pontius Pilate were? Were they intimidated? Did they run? No way! They prayed to a sovereign God who has the power to overrule all authority. And that trust carried them through each crisis. God was in control, and knowing that made all the difference.