Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart

By Kenneth Mayfield

In this book, I talk about Adam and Eve pushing off the blame. I also talk about Satan and about getting along in the churches. I also talk about repentance and about love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 23, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984527158

Kenneth Mayfield

My name is Kenneth Mayfield, and older gentleman, a Christian, was and have been a Christian all my life. But several years ago. My life changed, was declared dead and a sheet was pulled over my face. Later got up and walked around. No one believed it. Have had CPR done on me seven times. Have had cancer, neck surgery, back surger, four surgeries dealing with cancer. My father in Heaven had plans for me. I hope and pray this book will help anyone to become a Christian or just become a better Christian.

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Chapter 1

Trust in the Lord

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

Certain trails come to us from the very nature of things. They are common to all, the saved and the lost. We all are human beings living in a sin-blighted, disease-ridden, tear-streaked world, all these things are a part of every man’s life. Frustration, heavy handicaps, problems, worries, and failures come to all men.

Some trails are the direct results of Satan’s handiwork. The trials of Jesus were engineered by the devil. They did not come by accident.

It is certain of course, that Satan tempts us by urging us to sinful conduct. He tailors the temptation to fit the individual case and moment. One man’s weakness may be sex, another may be material gain, another may be position and prestige, another’s may be drink. Whatever it is, Satan knows and will use it to his advantage.

Many of the same battles we fought yesterday will have to be fought again tomorrow. We can never relax. Some trails and temptations are from God. God tempted Abraham. Temptation, however, does not necessarily mean seduction to sin. It can mean to test or try without any mortal significance attached. Only Satan will seek to seduce a Christian to sin.

We cannot avoid being tempted. We cannot avoid the old and new sins from knocking on our door. Christians can keep away from the old haunts of vice.

Do not neglect your communion with God. Our submission to God and our resistance to Satan go hand in hand. When Jesus did battle with Satan, he wielded the sword of the spirit against his archfoe. Satan was not able to stand against the Word of God.

Trail and temptation can develope steadfastness in us, an untested and unproved Christian is poor material to send into a battle to death with Satan. We are drawn closer to God in our hours of temptation. We should give thanks that these experiences in life have drawn us closer to God.

The words of James are in keeping with Jesus: words when James says that those who perservere in testing and trails are blessed. Jesus said the same thing in the sermon on the mount. Only the man who dares to face the devil will be confronted by him. Only the man who dares to face the devil will be drawn into that special inner circle of fellowship with God. He alone will taste the new wine of victories won and be possessed with visions of higher mountains to be scalded. These will belong to that select group whose joy it will be to hear their Lord say: ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant ... enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!’ Matt. 25:21.

Satan never comes to us in his fool and fiendish fallen state. In temptation he is Lucifer, angel of light. He poses as the bestower of fair things. In his subtley, he lays out his baits, and we, tools that we be, are led on by our own desires. We seek after sin until we are hooked.

In the garden of Eden, the serpent called Eve’s attention to the attractiveness of the forbidden fruit. He suggested it was desirable in order to make to make her wise, she would be elevated to being like God. It appealed to her appetite and pride. She took of its fruit and ate. She gave to her husband, and he did eat. Not long the family found that it was a trap, baited with entitements to pride and position. When this door shut, death was slammed upon them. With an appeal to human pride, Satan had succeeded in snoring the first family and the entire race with them.

The moral graveyards of our day are many. Within them lie homes, lives, and families that Satan has made shipwreck on. Sin was not in the world until man sinned by choice. In the case of Adam and Eve, they saw the coverted prize. They desired it. They took it. Satan, most, and do, have our consent in order to do their malicious work.

We might well ask. How can men so willingly take into themselves so deadly a seed as sin? How can men who are formed for fellowship with God delight so in the lowest of pleasures? How can they be so satisfied with the dimestore trinkets of the world while they turn away from the glories of heaven? Yet it is true that men, of their free choice, parlay with Satan. They turn their backs upon the Heavenly Father and the Savior who died for them. What is the answer to these things? Perhaps God knows the full answer. Yet we know much of it. We know that Satan, tempts, seduces, and snares us. We have not learned the secret of how to resist temptation.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6

The Bible is no ordinary book. It contains no ordinary pieces of information. It is the written revelation of God. The breath of the spirit of the Lord is its author. It is the sword of the Spirit. From it we learn the ways of salvation. ‘The Bible is the unfailing guide which points the way for men to the perfect life.’

The word has Power. The word is alive. Isaiah sow the Word as being able to accomplish missions and purpose to which it was sent.

Voltaire boasted that in one hundred years. Christianity would be a dead religion and the Bible would be a relie on a library shelf. In a hundred years, Voltaire was dead, ninety two volumes of his library were sold for two dollars. But the world goes marching on.

We are begotten by God’s word, we are ‘born again, not of corruptible seed, but of the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.’ 1 Peter 1:23.

The word of God is our source of sanctity grace and strength. No man is cleansed from sin until he is convicted. This conviction from from the word. No man grows in grace and matures as a Christian except through the Spirit-directed use of the word.

America, beware! We are forsaking the word through infidelity and neglect. As mighty as the word is, it has no power at all in our lives until it is applied. That ‘good old book we all love so well’ means nothing to us until it becomes our spiritual directory.

Many have declared it to be impossible to live the Christian ethic. It is not impossible, but it is very difficult. The world is so for from being Christian that it appears impossible. But mostly that we are not willing to try. We consider it too radical and out out of step with our times. We should spend a little more time doing our Lord’s commands, and a little less time on a professional sinner roundup that we call soul-winning. If we want to win souls, lets be Christians. It’s a little hard these days to tell a sinner.

The word of God is our true foundation. None of us can escape the floods of sorrow and the winds of temptation.

The word of God is eternal. Its precepts are true. It will be fulfilled to the letter, however men may treat it. But for the word to be truly redemptive we must read it. We must hear it. We must act upon it, or, we and our world shall be led astray to hell by default.

Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord is the rock eternal. Isaiah 26:4.

A good word needs to be said for religion. For as surely as some men have a religion without salvation, others profess a salvation and have no religion.

The biblical idea of religion is not that it is the enemy of Christianity. The word means the outward practice of religious service. But when vital godliness decays, form replaces faith and ritual replaces reality.

What is the religion that God acknowledges? What is the religion that makes heaven tingle with excitement? What is the religion that God takes note of? It is this; a hand that reaches out in the name of Christ with a cup of cold water; a tender touch or kind smile; a plate of warm food for an empty stomach, or is it cool hand on a feverish brow; a visit to the bedside of the sick on to the despondent inmate of jails. I think this is the religion that lifts heaven’s head.

Did not our Lord say that a cup of cold water given in his name would be remembered in heaven? Didn’t he say that the standard of judgement on that last great day.

Jesus spent his earthly life showing men what God was like. True Christianity takes it cue from Jesus.

The devil has hatched it saying, and hell has poured it off upon modern Christians. Its this: ‘Since I can’t go, I’ll give my money so someone else can go.’ Sounds good, but look closer. You will see the error in it. Since when does God allow us to pay others to do our ministering?

Religion that pleases God is a religion that leads to godliness. Keeping ourselves unspotted from the world is no small task.

The religion that Jesus gave us is a religion that lives out in the world, where people sweat, worry, laugh, and cry. We can not live in godliness unless we keep close to Christ. Christ is our source of godliness, whatever you rub against in this world, some of it is going to rub off on you. For this reason, we must come continually to Christ for cleaning. When Jesus was preparing to wash Peter’s feet, Peter said ‘Thou shalt never wash my feet.’ The Lord replied, ‘If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me’. John 13:8-9, If Christ does not daily cleanse us, we have no fellowship with Him. We must keep coming back for cleansing and restoration.

The word become flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only, who come from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Has Satan not stretched a net in the air? Has