TRUST IN GOD

August 16th, 2026

Speaker: Rev. Bobby Hsiao

Proverbs 3:5-6 TLV
5 Trust in Adonai with all your heart,
lean not on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
and He will make your paths straight.

Jeremiah 7:3-11  TLV
Thus says AdonaiTzva’ot, the God of Israel; mend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you live in this place. Do not trust in deceptive words and say ‘The Temple of Adonai, the Temple of Adonai, the Temple of Adonai!’  “No, if you truly mend your ways and your deeds—if you are doing justice between a man and his neighbor, not oppressing the sojourner, orphan and widow nor shedding innocent blood in this place, nor going after other gods to your own ruin— then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

Jeremiah 17:5-8  TLV
Thus says Adonai: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, and depends on flesh as his arm, and whose heart turns from AdonaiFor he will be like a bush in the desert.  He cannot see goodness when it comes, but will dwell in parched places in the wilderness—a salt land where no one lives.  Blessed is the one who trusts in Adonai, whose confidence is in AdonaiFor he will be like a tree planted by the waters, spreading out its roots by a stream.  It has no fear when heat comes, but its leaves will be green.  It does not worry in a year of drought, nor depart from yielding fruit.

Psalm 62:6-9  TLV
My soul, wait in stillness, only for God—for from Him comes my expectation.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my strong tower—I will not be moved.

On God, my salvation and my glory is the rock of my strength.  My refuge is in God.

Trust in Him at all times, you people.  Pour out your heart in His presence.  God is our refuge.

Proverbs  11:28 TLV
28 Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

Jeremiah 48:7 TLV
For because of your trust in your works and your treasures, you will be captured, too. Chemosh will go into exile, together with his priests and princes.

Isaiah 42:16-17 TLV
16 I will bring the blind by a way they do not know. in paths they have not known, I will guide them. I will turn darkness before them to light and the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.
17 They will be turned back, utterly put to shame—those trusting in idols, who say to molten images, ‘You are our gods.’

Proverbs 28:25-26 TLV
25 A greedy soul stirs up strife, but one who trusts in Adonai prospers.
26 Whoever trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will escape.

Hebrews 11:8-10 TLV
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he was to receive as an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he migrated to the land of promise as if it were foreign, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob—fellow heirs of the same promise. 10 For he was waiting for the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

1 King 17:1-9 TLV
17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab: “As Adonai God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew or rain these years, except at my word.” Then the word of Adonai came to him saying: “Leave this place, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Wadi Cherith, east of the Jordan. It will come about that you will drink from the wadi. I have also commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

1 King 17:1-9 TLV
So he went and did according to the word of Adonai—he went and lived by the Wadi Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. The ravens kept bringing him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the wadi. Then it came to pass after a while that the wadi dried up, because there was no rain in the land. Then the word of Adonai came to him saying: “Arise, go to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have just commanded a widow there to provide for you.”