“What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.” —A.W. Tozer, Author & Theologian
He is the God I can trust because:
• He is
Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens…When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
Psalm 8:1,3,4
Who else has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers? Who else knows the weight of the earth or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale?
Isaiah 40:12
• He is
Key Verse:
I lift up my eyes to the mountains – where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1-2
If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automation—of creatures that worked like machines—would hardly be worth creating.” —C.S. Lewis, Author & Theologian
• He
Just believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the work you have seen me do.
John 14:11
But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
Luke 15:20b
The older brother became angry and refused to go in… . “My son,” the father said, “you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.”
Luke 15:28a,31
Key Idea:
I believe God is involved in and cares about my daily life.
• Whatever the
For I am confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:6