Only God All the Time — Jim Cymbala

This is from Psalm 60 through. I Depend on God alone. I put my hope in him. He alone Protects and saves me. He is my defender and I shall never be defeated. My salvation and honor depend on God. He is my strong protector.

Trusting God Alone as Our Refuge

He is my shelter. Trust in God at all times my people tell him all your troubles. For he is our refuge. Oh, those are some good verses. Aren't they as the psalmist is talking about his faith in God he and his prayer life really?

He mentions two things there. I don't know if you picked them up. He says at the beginning that God alone is my help. God Alone is my protector. God alone is this. God alone. Is that my help comes from God?

Alone. One of the problems we have which let's get rid of it tonight and for some of you that are facing things and you haven't Had the breakthrough that you need yet. In prayer possibly. This is the problem.

Looking to God Instead of Human Solutions

I know it's been with me. You can't ever look at the human instrument or what? Logically seems to be the answer you only can look at God alone. Do you get what I'm talking about? You can't say God. You know what?

I know that boss is gonna just give me that raise or I know. This friend promised that and my uncle said that he would do this or whatever it is. It is so easy to look at the arm of flesh. Even good flesh in the sense of people who love you and you take your eyes off of God.

Your future security has nothing to do with your pension plan. God is your pension plan? Can we say amen to that? It has nothing to do. How much you have in the bank. That degree that you just earned and now you say now I got the degree your degree is not what you need.

God is what you need. Trust in God alone. God is my only help. How many times in life? I've been in situations. Well, sometimes it's desperate, you know, it's God or nothing. But sometimes you're in a situation where the answer is just over here.

And if it could move just six feet this way. You know that you could get out of the scrape you're in and the next thing. You know is you're looking at that thing and trying to get it to come to you rather than looking up and saying God.

Only God Brings the Blessing

That's not the answer. You are the answer. You are the answer. Preachers have this with sermon notes or they preach a sermon and maybe God blesses it and they said wow God gave me a good sermon and then they go out to preach again and they say oh, I know this sermon works.

Nothing works. You could preach the same sermon and put everyone to sleep. Only God brings the blessing. Can we just put our hands together and say amen to that? God brings the blessing. God brings the blessing.

Keeping Our Eyes on the Giver

I've shared it with you before but it's happened in different ways at different times. Sometimes it's like a possible deal or a blessing could be coming and you take your eyes off of the giver and you look at.

The possible gift that's heading at your way, but one time years ago, but it was in this building. We were so backed up against the wall. All the work had not been finished here and I didn't know where the money was gonna come from.

Oh, Lord I think of those days. And I had had some desperate moments where there was no hint. No, no hope there was nothing but God and I. That's the best place to be where there's nothing but God. Well right at that time somebody called me and said brother.

You can't believe. I love your church. I'm interested in your church. I'm bringing all the way from Chicago a friend of mine. He's worth over 800 million dollars. He's worth over 800 and you know what?

He's a giver and I'm going thank you Jesus. Yes. So he came to the church and he sat right over there and about the sixth or seventh row and I knew that. Just what did we need then? Whatever 400 ,000 whatever the need was and I was sitting right over there and I was thinking about him and my mind was on him.

How great thou art and oh the Lord Gave me the spanking of my life. It's happened to me one other time since then in a different situation. Are you looking to him or are you looking to me? I Can get you what you need through him or without him.

But get your eyes off of him. Listen, this is for someone here tonight. Get your eyes off that woman or man or relative or job or education? Thank God for it, but get your eyes Totally on God come on.

My hope comes from God alone. God alone only God all the time God. Have we ever made that mistake. Have you ever do you relate to me. Lift your hand if you've ever liked taking your eyes off The Lord and you're looking you know.

Trusting God With Relationships and the Future

Sister listen to me. Don't go out of your way to try to draw that guide to you because you're lonely and you need a husband. God will supply the husband that he has for you. Because you you could end up blowing up your life and you don't know it.

Trust in God alone. Don't try to maneuver it yourself. Here's what the psalmist says also there trust in the Lord at all times. Trust in the Lord all times now. Why would he say that? Because we're all made this way.

Trusting God in Every Season of Life

Sometimes we trust the Lord and then other times we don't trust the Lord. Sometimes we have a situation and we bring it to the Lord. Oh boy. God. I know you're the God. I trust you. I know that you're there and then for some reason I don't know the way we're made or moods we go through in life or the swing of a spiritual pendulum.

Other times things come to us. We worry we fret we get anxiety about it. We do crazy things we complain we get depressed. Trust in God at all times. Don't trust in God on Monday and Tuesday. Trust in God on Wednesday and Thursday.

Don't trust in God when you're in your 20s. Trust in God all throughout your whole life. The psalmist anointed by the Holy Spirit. It says trust in God all the time. Not sometime all the time haven't we all gone through that you trust God for some things and then other things you find yourself Carrying them worrying fretting about it and and you know, it's like what the God who helped you in the past.

He won't do it again. He's gonna do it again. Trust in the Lord at all times. It is amazing that we can take our eyes off of God and look for the blessing. And then what we can do is look to God at sometimes but then for some other situations.

We can take our eyes off of God. Oh my goodness. Have I done that? Why do I do that? I've seen God do so many things in my life. Why is it sometimes I find it harder to trust him and have you ever found this out?

Maybe someone's going through something like this when there's a big mountain in front of you and you know, you don't have a chance. It's helped me Jesus, but when it's just a little hill. You don't go to God in desperation.

You say I can handle this myself. You can't handle anything by yourself. You got to trust in God at all times. The little things the big things the in-between things. Trust in God at all times my help comes from God alone.

Keeping Our Eyes on God Through Every Problem

But if you're here tonight and your your eyes are not on God. But you think something else can get you out of it or through it. God is the one you have to look to. What if Joseph had say but God we don't know what to do.

But our eyes are upon you not are there enough horses. You got enough guys here. Listen use the horses use the soldiers, but our eyes are upon you. You have an education you have some money you have a job praise God for that.

But my eyes are upon you and not just sometime if you got a problem here today that you're carrying yourself. Trust in God at all times. Don't stop trusting now. Trust in God because when you don't trust them you end up carrying things that you never meant to carry.

An Invitation to Surrender Every Burden to God

Let's close our eyes together. If you're here tonight, and you say pastor that little five minute word of encouragement it was for me. I I've taken my eyes off the Lord and I'm trying to figure out how I can do it or how that she can help me or he can help me or See it's just it's the government or if the economy which Listen God alone is my help.

You get up out of your seat and say pastor. I want to come and pray and I want to give God and Only God my problem. You just come right now, or maybe you're here today, and you say pastor. That's so funny.

You say that I've trusted God in the past and here. I'm all uptight about something. I'm facing now. I've trusted God for all kinds of things. He's seen me through and now it seems like I have no faith in God for this.

No, I am gonna trust him for this. I'm not gonna trust him for some. I'm gonna trust God at all times. I'm gonna trust God at all times. I want you to unload it to God tonight and say God I can't carry this stuff anymore.

It's killing me and plus I can I'm not the solution you are the solution. God is my only help. And I'm gonna keep my eyes on him and I'm gonna trust him all the time. Not some of the time father. We take our eyes off of the left and the right money jobs education friends family.

Thank you for all of those. But our eyes are only on you tonight Lord. You alone are my help you alone are our help. We Thank you for different things that you use but our eyes are gonna be on you tonight Lord.

Prayer for Complete Dependence on God

You move the mountain. You open the sea for us Lord. We ask you to teach us to trust you at all times. Not just some problems not just big problems. Not just little problems. But we hear your word to say today trust the Lord at all times.

Because you never tire of bearing our burdens and hearing our cry. And may your face shine upon us. Yeah, let's put our hands together and give God come on praise out loud while you clap. Hallelujah, hallelujah to God hallelujah.

Gloria to nombre senor and now let your face shine upon your people we pray in Jesus name.