This word is submitted by Joseph Todd (joseph@toddministries.org)

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                       Do My People Trust Me?

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own
understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your
paths. Proverbs 3: 5, 6

"Do My people trust Me? Do they trust Me to deliver them from the snare of
the enemy? If they do, My people will not walk in fear. Do they trust Me to
deliver their cities and nation from the enemies that intend to destroy
them? If they do, they will fall asleep in peace the moment they lie down
because I alone am the God that gives them security and peace of mind.

"Do My people trust Me? If they do My people will not think and act as the
world thinks and acts. Does not My Spirit lead them, teach them, instruct
them and encourage them to walk in all My ways and not the ways of the
stranger? Have I not promised to fill their every need?

"Do My people trust Me? Then My people will be delivered from sickness and
disease as I sent My Word to heal all of their diseases. Have I not given My
Best that they might walk in strength and wholeness and as a testimony to My
divine power in them, on them and through them?

"Do My people trust Me? Then My people will submit to Me. They will resist
the enemy by drawing close to Me that I may draw close to them in their
moment of sin's decision. It is good for them to draw near to Me that they
would put their trust only in Me and do good and not evil.

"Do My people trust Me? Then My people will not rely on their own
understanding. They will trust in Me with all of their heart so that My
Spirit may lead them; they no longer trust in themselves first or the ways
of the world. They will be known as my friend and no longer a friend of the
world.

"Do My people trust Me? Then My people will acknowledge Me in all of their
ways. For My ways are higher than their ways and My thoughts higher than
their thoughts. They have been given the mind of Christ that My ways and My
thoughts would be meditated upon day and night.

"Those that trust Me bear much fruit in their lives and I will anoint them
for every good work that I set before them. They are my trusted ones!"