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Real Trust Get Real Series Needing Real Trust? Have you noticed that some people seem to be waking up? 2

Real Trust Get Real Series Needing Real Trust? They seem dissatisfied and want change. 3

Real Trust Get Real Series Needing Real Trust? Odds are you wouldn’t be sitting here if shifts within you weren’t already underway. You feel a need for change. This change has to be for the better. 4

Real Trust Get Real Series Home Work Spiritual Life Relationships 5

Real Trust Get Real Series SECONDARY SATISFACTIONS Alcohol Sex Work Holism Food Shopping 6

Real Trust Get Real Series TRUST AND DISTRUST He says that the MOST IMPORTANT and MOST BASIC challenge is our need to decide is about TRUST and DISTRUST 7

Real Trust Get Real Series TRUST AND DISTRUST ü ü ü Trust is a basic human need. It heals. It is the core of all relationships. We learn to trust early in life. Those who are sensitive to needs. Those that are as good as their word and totally dependable. 8

Real Trust Get Real Series TRUST AND DISTRUST ü If you have been hurt many times then trusting becomes a challenge. 9

Real Trust Get Real Series TRUST AND DISTRUST 10

Real Trust Get Real Series TRUST AND DISTRUST That person may be God 11

Real Trust Get Real Series TRUST AND DISTRUST Have you felt the pain of loving and finding you can’t trust the person you love? 12

Real Trust Get Real Series TRUST AND DISTRUST There are times when we find out that we are personally not always trustworthy. 13

Real Trust Get Real Series TRUST AND DISTRUST We also give others pain. We disappoint those nearest and dearest. 14

Real Trust Get Real Series SELF TRUST “the whole heart is deceitful…. . ” Jeremiah 17: 9 15

Real Trust Get Real Series SELF TRUST Locusts = Sins in our lives Joel 1 16

Real Trust Get Real Series SELF TRUST “Turn to Me with all your heart…. Return to the Lord your God for He is gracious and merciful. ” Joel 2: 12, 13 17

Real Trust Get Real Series SELF TRUST “And I will RESTORE to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten”. Joel 2: 25 18

Real Trust Get Real Series HANG IN THERE ü He will help me fix my mistakes ü Fix my untrustworthiness ü He teaches me to learn from my mistakes and to not keep repeating ü He helps me turn my mess into a blessing. 19

Real Trust Get Real Series HANG IN THERE ü I will learn from God how to leave my brokenness behind and become a happy and whole personality 20

Real Trust Get Real Series LOOK AT JESUS “Behold the Lamb of God…” John 1: 36 21

Real Trust Get Real Series LOOK AT JESUS 2 Cor 3: 18 “But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit. ” 22

Real Trust Get Real Series LOOK AT JESUS ü A mirror helps us to remind us who we are and what we look like. ü Do you understand the thoughts here? 23

Real Trust Get Real Series LOOK AT JESUS ü THE MORE WE LOOK AT CHRIST, THE MORE WE BECOME LIKE HIM. ü We turn to Him because He is the only one who is totally trustworthy 24

Real Trust Get Real Series LOOK AT JESUS ü We see our own brokenness in the mirror but other people will see the beauty of Jesus character ü The opposite is also true. 25

Real Trust Get Real Series LOOK AT JESUS If you are, watching, reading or thinking about violence, wrong sexual practices and lies then that becomes the mirror that you show to the world. 26

Real Trust Get Real Series LOOK AT JESUS • You will live out what you are watching. • You will no longer feel sympathy for others. • Morality and principles will hold no attraction for you. • You will not be trustworthy. 27

Real Trust Get Real Series LOOK AT JESUS • God has put the choice of who we want to be entirely in our own hands. • Look to Jesus. • Learn from Him and step by step you will become like Him. 28

Real Trust Get Real Series HOW DO WE LOOK TOJESUS? • Go and talk to Him as you do to a good friend (we call it prayer). • Think about Him. • Read His personal love letter, the Bible. 29

Real Trust Get Real Series HOW DO WE LOOK TOJESUS? • There we will find many promises of counsel, forgiveness, peace, strength and finances. • Take these promises to Him and claim them. 30

Real Trust Get Real Series HOW DO WE LOOK TOJESUS? • Confess your sins to Him, and allow Him to change and rearrange your life. • Jesus came to this world to speak to our hearts. 31

Real Trust Get Real Series HOW DO WE LOOK TOJESUS? “…happy is he who keeps the law…” Proverbs 29: 18 32

Real Trust Get Real Series HOW DO WE LOOK TOJESUS? • He wants the principles of heaven planted in our hearts • He wants the best for us and this has made Him worthy of our trust. 33

Real Trust Get Real Series HOW DO WE LOOK TOJESUS? “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”. Philippians 4: 13 34

Real Trust Get Real Series HOW DO WE LOOK TOJESUS? “Happy are the people whose God is the Lord!” Psalm 144: 15 35

Real Trust Get Real Series HOW DO WE LOOK TOJESUS? • The Lord loves each one of us, and it is His desire that we love Him too. • He has told us that we should “. . . taste and see that the Lord is good: blest is the man that trusts in Him. ” Ps. 34: 8 36

Real Trust Get Real Series HOW DO WE LOOK TOJESUS? Why not take the Lord at His word right now? Try Him. Trust Him. Become whole. 37

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