5 Areas to Depend on God

April 26, 2023

If you want God’s blessing on your relationships, career, studies,

finances, and health, you have to humbly depend on God, instead of

yourself.

So how do you do that? And, how do you know if you’re really trusting God well in your life?

Here are five areas to depend on God.

Depend on God’s wisdom, not yours. 

Isaiah 55: 8-9 says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens

are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my

thoughts than your thoughts.”

Are you talking to God constantly throughout the day and seeking truth from his Word? If you’re not, you are depending on your wisdom and not God’s.

Depend on God’s strength, not yours. 

Are you walking in the strength of the Lord? Do other people see God’s strength in you.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 says, “But

he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made

perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my

weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake

of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships,

persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

Depend on God’s timing, not yours. 

Isaiah 40:31 tells use, “They

who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up

with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk

and not faint.”

How well do you wait upon the Lord? Are you taking matters into your own hands, or are you waiting patiently on God’s timing?

Depend on God’s defense, not yours. 

Romans 12:19 says, “Dear friends, don't try to get even. Let God take revenge. In the Scriptures the Lord says, ‘I am the one to take revenge and pay them back.’”

When somebody says something mean to you, do you immediately retaliate? Or, do you let God handle it?

Depend on God’s security, not yours.

Where are you looking for your source of security?

The Bible tells us in Matthew 6:31-32, “Therefore

do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we

drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these

things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.”

Are you nervous or full of worry because you think you don’t have

enough to get by, or are you depending on God to meet your needs?