Ep. 3_Trusting God, the inevitable of life Part 1 (Podcast) By Pastor Rich Kanyali
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Everything in life rises and falls on Trust. People are hired because of some trust, relationships, partnerships, collaborations are all built on the foundation of trust. This highlights the need of learning and growing in Trusting God. We need to work on growing in Trusting God if we are going to win, triumph, survive, and thrive. Trusting God is a non-negotiable. Pastor Rich breaks it down with as much simplicity as possible. Enjoy!
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The speaker emphasizes that going to heaven or hell is not determined by a person's goodness or badness, but by their faith in Jesus. They also highlight that prayer is not just a time to petition God, but also a form of worship. The speaker, Rich Konyali, introduces himself as a pastor and teacher who has worked in ministry and Bible colleges in Uganda and the US. He announces his radio program, God's Questions, God's Answers, and invites listeners to tune in. He also announces a gathering and teaching event starting on June 1st at Nakasero Primary School. The speaker discusses the importance of trusting God in every aspect of life and challenges misconceptions about trusting God. They emphasize that trusting God is constant and should not be limited to difficult times. The speaker shares a personal experience of relying on trust in God during difficult times and encourages listeners to find joy in trusting God. They compare trusting God to making deposits in a spiritual account and m Did you know that good people don't go to heaven? I'm telling you, you're going to go to heaven. People like me, I'm going to go to heaven and I'm going to look for good people and I will not find them there. What causes a person to go either to heaven or to hell is not their goodness or their badness. Yes. It is their faith in Jesus. The question is this. Did you believe on Jesus? Prayer, it's not. I repeat, number one, it's not a time to petition God. Yes. It's not where you go in and you focus on fellowship with God. Prayer is worship. It's worshiping God. Hi. My name is Rich Konyali. Many of you have heard me teach God's Word here on the radio. You've also known me in the past as a director of an international ministry here in Uganda. I have also directed their Bible college. I have pastored for several years in the U.S. and I've taught in Bible colleges both in the U.S. and here in Uganda. My program, God's Questions, God's Answers, is going to be airing every Wednesday here on the radio, 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Again, that's 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. I would encourage you to please tune in and you will be surely blessed. I love you and God bless you. If you believe that Jesus is a good person, if you are a good person, you go to heaven. If you believe that Jesus is a good person, you go to heaven. If you did not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you rejected Him, you might be the good person and you will sleep hell wide open. Hello. My name is Pastor Rich Konyali. Many of you have been listening to the radio. You've been hearing my program. It's been airing here on Family Radio every Wednesday, 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. I have an update that I would like to share with you. We're going to be gathering every Saturday starting June 1st. It's going to be at Nakasero Primary School. That's going to be at 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. I would encourage you to please come and check it out. It's going to be powerful. We're going to be teaching God's Word like we've been doing on the radio. You don't want to miss this. Many of you have been reaching out asking when are we getting started. The time has come. You don't want to miss this. Powerful Word. Powerful Worship. Be there or be nowhere. I look forward to seeing you. God bless you. Hello. My name is Rich Konyali. Many call me Pastor Rich. I'm back again to share another Word that I believe is going to be very timely for you. Something God has been speaking to me over the last one year or so. It's a privilege that I'm going to be sharing this with you because I really think it's going to be a blessing to you. The title of this subject is called Trusting God, the Inevitable of Life. Again, Trusting God, the Inevitable of Life. I want to begin by establishing this fact that everything in life rises and falls on trust. On trusting God. This is not something we can avoid. It's not something we can not do. We were created to trust God. We were created to depend on God. That's how God wired us. Let me say this also. Trusting God is a misunderstood word. Actually, I call it the buzzword. A lot of people don't even understand. When we talk about trusting God, they don't know what that really means. As you're listening, I'm going to spend some time to dissect that for you, break that down for you, so you're able to understand what it really means to trust God. Because I tell you, a lot of people don't understand this. If you don't understand this, then how are you going to trust God? Faith is based on knowledge. You cannot have faith in what you don't understand or what you do not know. Again, trusting God is not just something that you do as a reaction when you're going through difficult times in your life. Rather, it is a decision that you have to make. You have to make this decision before trouble comes. We're going to talk much about all this as we go deeper into this subject. But again, a shock to a lot of people. Many people think trusting God is mostly required, if anything, only required when they're going through trouble or they're going through difficult times when things are not working. But I'm going to establish this to you and show you that, man, trusting God is something that we need to do all times. It's something we need to do not only in the small things but also in the big things. And so a lot of people don't understand this, but I hope and I pray that as we go through this, you'll be able to understand and receive this well, and I believe your trust levels will go through the roof. But let me also establish this. Trusting God is a constant. It's not something, like I said, you do when you want to or when you think you have to or when things are very difficult. This is something that has to be constant in our lives in every season, no matter what it is. You have to be working your trust muscles, and this is what I'm going to establish. You know, one of the things I've been thinking about besides all this is that, man, in Africa primarily, people wonder why there's a lot of miracles that usually happen in Africa or what they call third world countries. One of the reasons I believe that happens is we have a lot of miracles is because we have no plan B. We don't have plan C and all these things. We can only believe God. And so because of that, we get to see a lot of miracles happen and break out in Africa because we are trusting God. And I really believe that trusting God is the catalyst to miracles and breakthroughs. If we are not trusting God, we're not going to see the miracles that we need to see. We're not going to see the breakthroughs that we need to see because that's how God designed everything to flow, designed how everything to be. And so I pray that, you know, you begin to receive on greater levels because you are truly trusting and trusting, trusting God. So let me just probably start by breaking down some of the misconceptions or wrong perceptions people have about trusting God. Some people think trusting God, you know, in trusting God you can take a break, you can take leave, you can take time off, or there's a holiday or a vacation from trusting God. And people may not use the very same words, but that's what they think. They think, okay, God, I'm believing you for this thing. Once I get my house, once I get my car, once I get my child, I'm good. You know, what that really implies in many ways, it could imply that, man, I don't need you anymore, so I don't have to trust you anymore. But the truth is, like I started by saying, trusting God is a constant. No matter what it is, even when it seems like you've seen the result of what you've been believing for, you have to continue to trust God. You have to continue to believe God. There is no vacation. There is no time off from trusting and seeking God. This is how God wired us. That's how things are. I mean, you can change it. I can change it. And so you never arrive to a place where you say, you know what, I've arrived, and I don't have to believe God anymore. I don't have to depend on God anymore. I don't have to seek God anymore. If you think you've arrived at that place, you've stopped growing. You've truly missed God, because that is not true. I remember one time I was going through a situation, difficult, difficult times in my life, and the Lord spoke something to me that really helped me when I was going through all of that. But one thing that He showed me, He said, Rich, over the years you have been planting and you've been making deposits into your account. Sure, many of us have accounts. Many of us understand accounts. But did you know that just as you have a physical bank account, you have a spiritual account? I really believe that. And over the years I've been seeking God and depositing and making deposits into my spiritual account. And time came when times were hard and things were difficult, and I had to make withdrawals from my spiritual account. But everyone has to do that. Everyone has to be making those deposits. And when difficult times come your way, you know, and you can be able to go and deposit. So make a withdrawal from your account and leave off of that for the difficult times that you're going through. I'm saying this to say that while I was going through all that time, God spoke that to me, but also spoke something else to me that was critically relevant to what I'm sharing today, which is trusting God, the inevitable of life. He told me when I was believing Him and trusting Him, I was like, God, I'm tired of this. It looks like, man, I'm believing you day in, day out. I'm believing for this. And after that's fulfilled, I'm believing for this. I am tired. That was my thought, my mindset. The Lord told me this. He said, man, do not dread trusting me, but rather find joy in doing it. Make it fun. He said, trusting the Lord in everything is the way of life. He said, it's here to stay. It's not going to change. It's not going to go away. Rather than dreading it or hating it or not liking it or fearing to do so, change your perspective and you'll win when you are trusting God. Truly, victory comes when we are trusting God. If you're not winning, if you're losing, if things are not happening in your life, you need to check your trust meter. Maybe it's not working well. Maybe it's broken. I'm telling you very seriously, you need to do that. Because, again, if you don't know how to trust God, you're not going to receive. Because the way God designed us to receive from Him is through trust. And so you cannot not do that. I also like to say this. Trusting God is not a sprint. It's like a marathon. You can't be thinking, I'm done. I trusted you yesterday. I don't have to trust you today. No, it's something that you do, and you have to pace yourself, and you have to do it on a daily basis. Another example is like breathing. You don't breathe and say, God, oh, okay, I breathed yesterday. I don't have to breathe today. Well, then you die. So trusting is very similar to that. You have to be breathing day in. You have to be breathing day out. And when you stop breathing, or if you hold your breath for very long, you begin to die. This is the way we're wired. This is the way trust looks like. You know, God created us to breathe every day. God created us to trust Him every single day. And your breathing of yesterday does not make you go through today. You have to breathe today to stay alive today. And your trusting God of yesterday necessarily may not carry you through today because it's a continual thing. You have to keep growing. You have to keep working to trust God on a daily basis. And if you understand what I'm saying, this will really change your life. It will change your perspective about trusting God. And I'm going to break this down, but I'm trying to establish it right at the beginning. I'm trying to lay groundwork and show you how critical trusting God is. I'd like to use a good example from the book of Matthew, chapter 11. The Bible says, give us this day our daily bread. Now pay attention to that. It says, give us this day, this day, not yesterday, not tomorrow. Give us this day our daily bread. Bread, daily bread, daily, daily. A lot of people, they want God to give them their monthly bread. They want God to give them their yearly bread. And they don't understand that with God, it's a daily thing. You go to God on a daily basis, and you receive from God on a daily basis. That's how trust is. You trust God on a daily basis. You don't say, I trusted you yesterday, or I've trusted you enough. I don't have to trust you for the next month or one year. No, the way God designed us is that we go to Him for our daily bread. Not our weekly bread. Not our yearly bread. Not our monthly bread. Our decade bread. If God gave us our yearly bread, many of us would see Him next month. Sorry, next year. Around about the same time. Why? Because we're like God. You know, He took on me, see you next year. See you in one month. See you in ten years. No, God designed us to come to Him on a daily basis. To receive from Him. To fellowship with Him. To depend on Him. To trust Him. And so, none of us really does cross the line or the finish line of trusting God. You know, you don't cross that finish line. You have to do it on a daily basis. Other people have this mindset, misconception they have about trusting God. They think individuals who trust God are weak. They perceive them to be weak. They see them to be weak people. They see them to be people that are being defeated. Why don't you fight for yourself? Why don't you do something? Look what they're doing to you. And when you tell them, man, I'm not going to push back. I'm going to just trust God. They're like, man, you're weak. You're a sissy. You're a chicken. You know, a lot of people think like this. But truly, a person that is trusting God is a person never to be messed with. He's a very powerful person. He's a very strong person. And you see, a lot of people don't understand this. And a lot of people struggle with this. But I'm telling you, trusting God is a testament to one's strength. Contrary to what a lot of people believe. Contrary to what a lot of people think. This is the reality of trusting God. And I want to encourage you. Just embrace trusting God. Embrace the lifestyle of trusting God and depending upon God. This is how we win. We see breakthroughs. We see miracles. We see answered prayers. We overcome. We thrive and survive by relying and trusting God. And I want to encourage you to not trust God, if you know what I mean. So let's look at this passage that I want to focus on as the basis or the main passage of what I'm going to be sharing about. And this might take a few weeks or a few episodes for me to go through all of this. But nonetheless, I'm going to break this down for you. And this is a passage that many of us know. Many of us have quoted from our childhood, I believe. And we can even quote it right now. But the Bible, in the book of Proverbs, chapter 3, verses 5 through 6, and many of us quote it again. But, man, I'm going to break this down and show you what you've not seen, most likely or probably you've not seen. But Proverbs 3, 5 through 6, the Bible says, Say, trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not on thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your path, your paths, plural. You know, it says, trust in the Lord. Now, what does trust really mean? Now, many ways you can define the word trust. If you're just using regular English, you can define trust as being dependent and relying and counting on and looking on and resting upon a person, you know, or whatever it is that you're trusting in. But I don't want to define trust from the dictionary, so to speak, or the regular English. I want to define the word trust using the Scriptures. The Scriptures comment on itself. The Scriptures define words by themselves. And so I want to use that law of Bible interpretation that you interpret Scripture with Scripture. So, if you really want to follow that law, if we follow that law, which I will do here, trusting God is translated confidence. In the book of Psalm 118, verses 8 through 9, it says it's better to put trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. The word trust there is the word confidence. The word trust also is translated hope. Hope. So, in other words, whatever you have your confidence in is whatever you're trusting. Whatever you have your hope in is whatever you're trusting. Man, don't let me down. I have hope in you. No, that is wrong. You should not have hope in people. People won't let you down. That's what people do best. People let people down. I am learning and I'm growing in this area where no one can disappoint me. The Lord spoke this to me as well, and I'll share this with you. The Lord spoke to me and said, man, you have to get to a place where nobody can disappoint you. You're like, what? Yes. And what that really means is that you grow to a place where you're not looking to man when they fail. You don't get even mad or angry because, man, in the first place, you're not even looking to them. You're looking to God. And this has to be the attitude that we have to take because, man, I tell you, people will promise you stuff and will never come through. People will say stuff and people will never come through. That's what people do. They disappoint. They come short. That's what they do. And so you should never, I repeat, you should not never put your hope, your trust, your confidence in man. I don't care if your father is the richest man on earth. I don't care if your husband is the best husband on earth. I don't care if your daddy, you name it, whichever person in the government. No, no. Our hope, our confidence, our security ought to be in the Lord, not in any man. Because if the person is a man, man or woman, they will fail you. They will let you down. Just give it time. It's a matter of time. They have insufficiencies. And so trust, our trust ought to be not in man, ought to be in God, in the Lord. Now, that's what it says. Trust in the Lord, not in man, not in government, not in your employer. I trust you. I trust. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You have to put your trust in God. And if you do that, man, when bad things happen, when things don't work the way you expect them to work, you will not be falling apart. You stay strong because you know very well, hey, in the first place, you were not trusting in them anyway. You were trusting in God. Man, if you understand what I'm saying, this is huge. This is powerful. It will change your life. So our trust, the Bible says, ought to be in the Lord, not in man, not in things, not in assets. You know, some 20 verse 7, the Bible says, some trust in chariots, some trust in horses. I will remember the name of the Lord. I will look at this deeper when we go to this passage. But man, that says that we should not be trusting in horses and chariots and guns and all these things. And I'll explain a little bit more as we go through this. But man, this is not saying you shouldn't have one. This is saying your trust should not be in any of those things. You know, and so if you understand what I'm saying here, it's really changed your life. But look at this also. Trusting in the Lord. How do you practically trust in the Lord? Because man, this sounds like, OK, you said it. But man, how do I do it? Let me share this with you. The Bible says in the book of John 1, 1 says, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. You cannot separate God from the Word. God and His Word, they are one. So trusting in the Lord is equivalent to trusting in the Word, in God's Word, in simple language, in the Bible, in the promises of God's Word, in what God says in His Word. If you are having your faith, if you are trusting in the Word, you are trusting in the Lord. Whatever God says, God's Word is God's nature, reveals His nature, reveals His character, reveals His person, reveals who He is. And so if you're trusting in the Word, if you hold the Word of God daily, and you esteem the Word of God, and you leave the Word and you speak the Word, you are truly trusting in the Lord. And if you understand what I'm saying, again, this is you. This makes it very simple, because a lot of people are wondering, How do you trust in the Lord? Do you get a picture of the Lord and then you speak, I trust you? Or do you say, I trust you, Lord, I'm trusting you, Jesus? No, no, no. You have to get in the Word of God and get the Word from the Word of God. And as you stand on that Word, you are standing in the Lord. You are trusting the Lord. Now, that's very practical and very simple to do, actually. But this means you have to read the Bible. I mean, if you're not reading the Word, then you can say all you want. But, man, you have to get in the Word and just know what the promises are. Just know what God says about you, what He says about Him, what He says about your situation, what He says about your victory, what He says about your life. And when you do that, you are positioning yourself and you are truly, actually trusting in the Lord. So, knowing the Word is going to lead you to trusting the Lord. There's no way around it. You cannot claim to trust in the Lord if you do not know or even trust His Word. And we live in a culture today, at times, where everybody says, Oh, the Bible ain't the Word of God. The Bible is not the Word of God. Yada, yada, yada. You say all this funny, strange stuff. I'm here to submit to you that those are lies from the pit of hell. You need to reject them. The Bible is the inherent, perfect, accurate Word of God. I mean, that's how we get to know God. God is revealed to us through His Word. And I'm telling you, if you want to know God better, if you want to trust God better, you have to value and esteem the Word of God. And don't care what your professor said, you know, or your university, or whatever person you hear, you speak and value and esteem very highly. If anybody tries to discredit the Word of God, you need to begin to depart from such kind of person. Anyone that's teaching you not to follow the Word of Truth, you need to begin to separate yourself from them, because, man, you're going to get destroyed. Who will destroy you? So, again, number one way we can trust in God is by trusting in the Word of God. That's what the Bible teaches, and we see that. But the second part of this passage, Proverbs chapter 3, verses 5 through 6, is, we trust in the Lord with all thine heart. All our heart. You know, a lot of people don't understand this, but trust is not a head thing. It's not a logical thing. It's not a head issue. You know, it's not something that flows out of your head. Trust flows out of your heart. It's a heart thing. Faith, trust, believing, all these are spiritual things, and they flow out of your heart, not out of your head. A lot of people struggle with this. How can I give? I'm losing. When I give, I'm taking away, I'm subtracting. Little do they know that spiritually giving causes multiplication. That's how it happens. When you give, it's added unto you. More than enough. Good measure. Pressed down, shaken together. Running over. Man, give unto your bosom. For with the same measure you measure, it's measured back unto thee. So, if you understand that principle, you step out and be a giver, because you're not using your head literally. You're using your heart. Out of your heart flows the issues of life. Life flows out of your heart, not out of your head. In the same way, when we are trusting in the Lord, we have to get the head out of the way, and we have to believe and use our heart, and the faith thing, and step out in faith, and use our heart to believe God. There's so many unknowns. There's so many uncertainties in life, and the way you're able to navigate those is through faith. But faith, like I said again, comes from the heart. The same passage goes on and says, Lean not on thine own understanding. Now, I want to submit this to you, the various types of understanding. There's one that is our own. There's one that is of the world, what I call traditions of man, or the traditions of your grandparents, or cultures that are contradicting the Word of God. Those are all different understandings. One day we'll talk about that, and we'll shoot that down, because man, the people have traditions of man that are making the Word of God of non-effect, according to the book of Mark, chapter 7. Many traditions, many things we believe that are not in the Word of God, that are not consistent with the Word of God, are stopping and hindering us from having a vibrant relationship with the Lord, and even receiving from the Lord. But anyway, the other third type of understanding is God's own understanding. This is a supernatural type of understanding, a supernatural wisdom understanding that comes from the Word of God, that comes directly from the Lord. The Bible tells us not to lean on our own understanding, so this literally means we would be leaning on God's understanding. And so, if we do not believe in the Lord, or trust the Lord with all our heart, we're going to end up leaning on our own understanding. We're going to end up using our head. Logical things and everything is logic upon logic, logic upon logic. Our intellect can be a barrier if we're not careful. Now, that doesn't mean it's forbidden, don't use your head. No, I'm not saying that. Actually, believers need to use their head more than they've done before in the past. Especially in these days and times, you need to use your head. But man, this is not saying using your head when you're believing. Believing is of the heart. As the Bible says in the book of Romans, chapter 10, verse 9 through 10, it tells us that believing is of the heart. You believe in your heart. You believe in your heart, not in your head, in your heart. That Christ raised Jesus from the dead, the Bible says, and then you shall be saved. So, believing is of the heart. So, you can play mind games and tricks to your mind, to everybody around you, but deep inside, if you have not believed with your heart, ladies and gentlemen, you're lying, and you know it, and it's not effective. You're losing out. So, speaking about leaning not on our own understanding, the Bible makes it very clear. This is not leaning on our own facts, not leaning on our own experience, so to speak. This is a saying, man, when you're trusting in the Lord with all thine heart, you should not lean on your own understanding. It's a barrier. It's going to hinder you from stepping out in big faith and trusting God like never before. So, the same verse goes on to say, acknowledge Him. Acknowledge Him. How do you acknowledge God? What does acknowledge even mean? What does that mean? In all thy ways, acknowledge Him. Acknowledging God, again, simply means to give ear to the Lord. And I did that from the basic English Bible version, reveals that, but this is really giving ear to the Lord. And if you use other passages, scriptures to define this, you will see that acknowledging the Lord is translated to know the Lord, to perceive the Lord, to discern, to be acquainted, and to consider. So, in all thy ways, consider the Lord. How do you consider the Lord? You're considering His promises. Is this in line with the Word of God, right? That's how you consider the Lord, perceive the Lord. Don't do it without Him. Don't do it without giving ear to the Word of God, giving attention to what the Bible says about your situation. You know, this is what this is saying here. And so, the Bible says also this in the book of Jeremiah, actually 10.23. It says, O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man that walks to direct his steps. So, this is talking about acknowledging the Lord or revealing that we need to acknowledge the Lord as we walk. You know, it's not really up to us to do all this stuff. We need to bring God in. We need to acknowledge that the way of man is not in himself. When we do that, man, we begin to see victory happening in our lives. Now, watch this. In the passage of Isaiah 31 verse 1, the Bible says, Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help. Woe unto them that go down to Egypt for help and stay on their horses and trust in chariots because there are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord. Now, this passage here reveals multiple things, but one of the things it brings up, it uses the word trust and the word look interchangeably. In other words, whoever you're looking to is whoever you're trusting. Now, when I said look, I'm not saying pick up a picture and put it on the wall and look unto the Lord, right? Looking unto the Lord, that's not what it means. It's not your eyes that look, actually. It's your heart. It's your mind, imagination that looks. And so when this is trusting in the Lord, it's used interchangeably with looking unto the Lord. This is saying the way you trust God is the way you look unto the Lord. You have your attention placed unto the Lord. Your vision is unto the Lord. Your mind is stayed upon the Lord. Your heart is reflecting and is seeing the Lord, right? This is what this is talking about. And so if you understand what I'm saying here, this is very, very powerful because it makes it, again, more practical for you to look unto the Lord. Another way you look unto the Lord is looking at his promises, looking at his character, looking at his nature. God is a good God. God is a beautiful God. God is a loving God. He's not the one behind all the problems and all the things that are happening in the world and happening in your life. Now, I'll get another day and I'll share deeply into all of that, and right now just skim the surface. But I'm just trying to establish that the way you trust God, according to this passage, is the way you look unto the Lord. But notice it says, Woe unto them that go down to Egypt for help. Egypt is the world, and it is down, not up. So if you're going and you're looking unto other people, whoever you're going to for help is the person you're trusting. Whoever you're going to for help is the person you're looking to. But the Bible says, Ask, and it shall be given you. Matthew 7, 7, Knock, and it shall be opened. Well, it didn't say, ask man. It said, ask God. Because the passage before that, the very ending of Matthew 6, 33, tells us to seek, you know, seek the Lord with all our hearts, thinking about seeking first the kingdom of God. So why would it tell you to seek first the kingdom of God? And then the verses following, it tells you to ask man or seek man. No, our seeking ought to be to the Lord, in the Lord. And so Egypt is the world. It's down. It's not up. The Bible says, Woe unto them, troubles unto them, who go down to Egypt for help. So anything besides God that we go to for help, it could be your daddy, it could be your government, it could be your husband, it could be, you name it, anybody that is a blessing in your life and God has used, if you're looking to them, they have become Egypt. You should not look to man. And if you're not looking to man, guess what? If man disappoints you, when man disappoints you, I should say, you will not be angry. You will not be mad. You know why? Because you are not looking to man anyway. And so if you're mad, if you're angry, one of the reasons is is because you've been looking to man. I hope this is really helping you. You need to change the way you look at things. This is not saying you don't need chariots. It's not saying you don't need a gun or if you're protecting yourself in the context of the Western world, like in the U.S. or you don't need insurance or you don't need to lock your door because you trust in God. I've heard people say, Oh, preachers don't need to have bodyguards if they're trusting God. Yes and no. It depends. You're like, what? Well, listen to me very carefully because bodyguards are not a problem. You should have all the bodyguards you want if you want to have them, if you can afford them and you can pay. The problem is, are you trusting in the bodyguards? If you're trusting the bodyguards, then we have a problem. I agree with the people that are critical about that. But if you have bodyguards but your trust is not in bodyguards, then it's okay to have bodyguards. You're like, well, then if you're trusting God, then get rid of the bodyguards. Well, let me ask you a question. You have a door at your house. If you're trusting God, why do you lock it? If you have a car, you have brakes on your car. If you're trusting God, why do you have brakes? So it's not the thing thereof. It is where your trust is. Is it in the Lord or is it in the world? Is it in Egypt? Is it in people? So that's really the point. The point of the issue is not the thing necessarily. It is where your trust is. So you may have a thing, but you're not trusting it. You may have money, but you're not putting your trust in money. Money may not be able to do all things in your life. We all know that. But the truth is, at the end of the day, your trust ought not to be in money because those things can evaporate. You can wake up one day, it's gone for whatever reasons. And so, your trust ought not to be in those things. And that's, I believe, what the point this is bringing up and this is the point that it's making. So this is telling us that to trust the Lord is to look upon the Lord. So your looking has to be unto the Lord, not unto things. If you're looking unto things, you're going to fail. If you're looking unto people, you're going to be disappointed. You need to have your trust in the Lord. If you understand what I just said there, it's really simple and basic to begin to change your life. Man, I hope this has been a blessing to you. This is just the very first part of this. Trust in God, the inevitable of life. We'll be back and we'll be sharing more to be a blessing to you. I hope that you continue to listen in and tune in as we continue to be a blessing to you and your family. And we love you and God bless. Did you know that good people don't go to heaven? I'm telling you, you're going to go to heaven. People like me, I'm going to go to heaven and I'm going to look for good people and I'll not find them. What causes a person to go either to heaven or to hell is not their goodness or their badness. Yes. It is their faith in Jesus. The question is this, did you believe on Jesus? Prayer, it's not. I repeat, number one, it's not a time to petition God. It's a time where you go in and you focus on fellowship with God. Prayer is worship. It's worshiping God. Hi, my name is Rich Corneli. Many of you have heard me teach God's Word here on radio. You've also known me in the past as a director of an international ministry here in Uganda. I have also directed their Bible college. I have pastored for several years in the U.S. and I've taught in Bible colleges both in the U.S. and here in Uganda. My program, God Questions, God Answers, is going to be airing every Wednesday here on the radio, 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Again, that's 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. I would encourage you to please tune in and you will be surely blessed. I love you and God bless you. If you believe on Jesus, it means you're a good person. If you're a good person, you're going to heaven. If you believe on Jesus and you're a bad person, you're going to heaven. If you did not believe on the Lord Jesus but you rejected Him, you might be a good person and you will sleep hell wide open. Hello, my name is Pastor Rich Corneli. Many of you have been listening to the radio. You've been hearing my program. It's airing here on Family Radio every Wednesday, 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. I have an update I would like to share with you. We're going to be gathering every Saturday starting June 1st. It's going to be at Nakasero Primary School. That's going to be at 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. I would encourage you to please come and check it out. It's going to be powerful. We're going to be teaching God's Word like we've been doing on the radio. You don't want to miss this. Many of you have been reaching out asking when are we getting started. The time has come. You don't want to miss this. Powerful Word, Powerful Worship. Be there or be nowhere. I look forward to seeing you. God bless you.
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