Put It in God’s Hands and Trust Him

Sep 27, 2026

Devotional

Day 1: Rolling Burdens to the God Who Catches

When life feels like carrying a backpack full of bricks, Psalm 37:5 offers more than advice—it demands action. The Hebrew word for “commit” means to roll away heavy weights, like heaving stones off your shoulders. This isn’t casual prayer but violent surrender, trusting God to catch what we release. Arthur Blunston’s prison mattress became an altar when he finally stopped fighting. Our clenched fists can’t receive grace. God waits to transform burdens into testimonies when we stop strategizing and start releasing. [43:44]

“Cast all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
(1 Peter 5:7, NKJV)

Reflection: What specific burden have you been mentally rehearsing this week? How might physically opening your hands in prayer shift your posture toward trust?

Day 2: Trusting the Gardener of Due Seasons

Growth happens underground before harvest. The preacher’s “five seasons” analogy—winter, spring, summer, fall, and due season—rebukes microwave faith. Farmers don’t dig up seeds to check progress. God’s timeline often involves silent incubation periods, like Abraham’s 25-year wait for Isaac or the Israelites’ Red Sea standstill. Impatience shouts; trust listens. What looks like divine delay is often divine cultivation. [53:33]

“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”
(Galatians 6:9, NKJV)

Reflection: Where have you been checking the calendar more than the cross? How might embracing “due season” change your daily rhythms?

Day 3: Letting Enemies Watch Your Blessing Party

Vindication isn’t revenge—it’s God hosting a feast in your honor while critics watch. David’s enemies (Saul, Ahithophel, Absalom) became audience members for God’s faithfulness. Psalm 23:5’s “table in the presence of enemies” isn’t about gloating but proving evil powerless to stop divine favor. Arthur’s old gang saw his transformed life. Your quiet obedience today sets the table for tomorrow’s public testimony. [01:03:35]

“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.”
(Psalm 23:5, NKJV)

Reflection: Who needs to see God’s work in your life most right now? How can you steward private victories to fuel public praise?

Day 4: The Algebra of Divine Exchange

A tennis ball gains value in Serena Williams’ hand. Nails in Christ’s hands purchased our freedom. The sermon’s object lesson—ordinary items becoming extraordinary through whose hands hold them—exposes our limited perspective. God doesn’t just manage our problems; He transfigures them. Arthur’s prison time became ministry training. What we call “surrendering” God calls “strategic positioning.” [45:03]

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
(Philippians 4:13, NKJV)

Reflection: What situation feels devalued in your hands that needs divine repositioning? How might Christ’s scars redefine your struggle’s purpose?

Day 5: Unclenching Fists to Receive New Mercies

David’s call to “commit your way” targets our addiction to control. The preacher warned, “You still know how to fight…curse…be slick.” Morning mercies can’t fill hands gripping yesterday’s battles. Like Arthur leaving prison without weapons, unclenching requires believing God fights better than we do. New grace waits where our strategies end. [48:39]

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
(Proverbs 3:5-6, NKJV)

Reflection: What “old way” of handling stress still feels safer than trust? How might releasing control today make room for tomorrow’s mercy?

Sermon Summary

David says in Psalm 37 that the child of God has got to learn how to take hands off of it and put it in God’s hands. Psalm 37:5 does not call for a casual mention in prayer, followed by picking the burden back up on Monday morning. The word “commit” means to roll it away, to cast that heavy thing onto the God who can carry heavy stuff.

The flesh wants control. The flesh wants to manage the outcome, defend a reputation, answer every lie, and settle every score. David knew outhouse trouble, in house trouble, and around the way trouble. Saul threw javelins, Ahithophel cut deep, and Absalom turned against his own father. David’s life shows that trouble does not make anybody exempt from trusting God.

The command to commit “your way” reaches deeper than a circumstance. David calls for the surrender of the way a person thinks, plans, reacts, and tries to get even. The way of the flesh still knows how to fight, curse, scheme, and prove points. God calls His people to lay their own little way down and pick up His way, because God cannot fight while His child insists on fighting.

The promise “He shall bring it to pass” places the whole matter in God’s providential hands. God’s timing does not run by human deadlines. The world has winter, spring, summer, and fall, but the believer also lives by due season. God may be working beneath the soil when nothing has sprouted to the surface. God knows where His children live, knows what they need, and knows how to get it to them.

The God who brought Isaac after twenty-five years, opened the Red Sea, brought down Jericho’s walls, and raised Christ from the grave is still a bring-it-to-pass God. Hard valleys do not mean God’s hand has left the process. God can get His child to the destination on a mountaintop or through a valley.

David also promises public vindication. God not only brings it to pass privately, but brings it forth publicly. God can make righteousness shine like the light and justice like the noonday. Humility does not hide what God has done. Humility remembers who done it. Some wrongs may not be made right until Christ returns, but God’s people keep praying, keep doing right, keep caring about injustice, and keep lifting up Jesus with tears in their eyes if necessary.

Key Takeaways

1. Roll the burden onto God The command to commit does not mean carrying a burden with religious language attached to it. The burden has to be rolled away from human strength and placed into God’s strength. God is a good receiver, able to catch what His children cast and handle it better than they ever could. [45:49]
2. Surrender more than the circumstance David says to commit “your way,” because the deeper problem is often the flesh’s plan for handling pain. The desire to retaliate, control, and prove a point can make a hard situation even messier. God calls for surrendered thoughts, motives, timelines, and personal blueprints. [47:36]
3. Trust God’s due season Providence does not move according to the deadlines people give God. God may be doing His deepest work beneath the soil, in places no human eye can see. Due season teaches faithfulness without visible proof and patience without immediate relief. [53:09]
4. God brings it to pass God’s record stretches from Isaac’s birth to Israel’s deliverance, from Jericho’s walls to Christ’s resurrection. God does not abandon what He has purposed, even when the process includes waiting, tears, or valleys. The promise rests on God’s character, not on favorable circumstances. [55:19]
5. God will vindicate His people God can bring private deliverance into public view, making righteousness shine as bright as noonday. Public testimony is not pride when it gives God the credit for what He has done. Some justice waits for Christ’s return, but faithful trust refuses to become silent, bitter, or insensitive to suffering.

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[00:00] - Welcome
[24:00] - Scripture Reading: Psalm 37
[36:36] - Put It in His Hands
[37:09] - Arthur Blunston’s Transformation
[39:47] - David’s Call to Trust God
[42:28] - Commit Your Way to the Lord
[43:44] - Roll the Burden to God
[49:17] - Surrender Your Timeline and Outcome
[50:45] - God Shall Bring It to Pass
[52:36] - Trusting God’s Timing
[54:08] - God Works Beneath the Soil
[55:19] - A Bring-It-to-Pass God
[60:37] - God’s Public Vindication
[67:42] - Let God Fight Your Battles
[71:20] - Righteousness Shining Like Noonday
[75:40] - Trusting God With Tears

Bible Study Guide

Bible Reading

Psalm 37:5-6
“Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your justice as the noonday.” [34:47]

1 Peter 5:7
“casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” [47:09]

Galatians 6:9
“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” [53:21]

Observation questions

In Psalm 37:5-6, what actions are God’s people called to take, and what does God promise to do?
What does it mean to “commit” a burden rather than simply mentioning it in prayer and then carrying it again? [44:06]
What kinds of trouble did David face from Saul, Ahithophel, and Absalom, and what do those examples show about the kinds of pain believers may encounter? [41:51]
According to Galatians 6:9, what is the connection between continuing to do good, not giving up, and God’s “due season”? [53:21]

Interpretation questions

Psalm 37 calls a believer to commit not only a difficult circumstance but also “his way.” Why does surrendering one’s way include thoughts, plans, reactions, preferred outcomes, and the desire to get even? [47:36]
Psalm 37:5 says that God “shall bring it to pass.” How does that promise shape a believer’s understanding of waiting when there is no visible change yet? [54:17]
How can a believer trust God to fight a battle without becoming passive about real wrongdoing, injustice, or the needs of hurting people? [01:14:09]
Psalm 37:6 speaks of God bringing righteousness and justice into the light. What is the difference between seeking personal revenge and trusting God for vindication? [01:11:43]

Application questions

What burden has been taking up too much space in your mind lately—an unresolved conflict, a family concern, finances, health, grief, or fear about the future? What would it look like to truly roll that burden onto God instead of picking it back up? [45:49]
When you feel misunderstood, lied about, overlooked, or mistreated, what is your usual “own little way” of responding? Do you tend to argue, withdraw, retaliate, rehearse the situation, or try to prove your point? [01:10:23]
Is there a timeline, outcome, or personal blueprint that you have been demanding from God? How might trusting God’s timing change the way you pray and live this week? [49:21]
Where might God be working beneath the soil in your life even though you cannot yet see any results? What faithful step can you keep taking while you wait? [54:17]
Think about a hard valley you have walked through. How did that valley affect your trust in God, and where have you seen God’s hand carry you even when the path was not what you would have chosen? [49:48]
Has God answered a prayer, sustained you through a trial, changed your life, or made a way for you? How can you share that testimony with humility by giving God—not yourself—the credit? [01:05:09]
What injustice or suffering outside your own doorstep needs your attention and compassion? What is one practical way you or the group can keep praying, caring, serving, or speaking up without taking vengeance into your own hands? [01:15:03]

Sermon Clips

46s

#TrustGodThroughTears

“Because there's injustice on every corner. But David says that's coming a day where justice gonna be as bright as the noon day. He's saying, no matter how bad things get, don't take matters into your own hands. Trust the Lord. Sometimes trusting the Lord ain't gonna be no smiley face. Sometimes you're have to trust the Lord with tears in your eyes. Sometimes you're gonna have to trust the Lord and you don't know what tomorrow holds. But you know the one who holds tomorrow.”

49s

#TransformedByGrace

“He didn't pick up a weapon. He didn't seek revenge on old enemies that he used to run with. He founded the Arthur Ministries on the South Side Of Chicago. man was a became a living testimony that if God could save me and if God could change me, there's hope for anyone else. He opened up that ministry and began to witness about Jesus to people he used to run with. Ex gang members, ex felons, and broken men to Christ. He learned that sometime in life, you have to take your hands off of it and put it in God's hand.”

42s

#GodFightsMyBattles

“Saul is throwing javelins. I could throw one back. My close friend didn't cut me. I could cut back. My own son who I fed off my table It's trying to divide what God has given us. Say, but I've learned that you gotta let God fight your battle. You gotta put it in God's hands.”

38s

#LetGoAndLetGod

“We hate giving up control. want to manage the outcome. We we want to defend our reputation. We don't know how to be silent. When people lie on us, we think we gotta start throwing stones. When people cheat us, we think it's our job to go find them. And when they misrepresent us, our flesh wants to step in the ring and settle the score.”

32s

#CastItToGod

“I I know you gave your hand to the preacher and your heart to God, but have you had any days that got the best of you? Have have you had anything in your life that you couldn't stop thinking about? It was wearing you out and David sent me to tell you, you ain't gotta do that. You gotta roll it to God. That God is willing and God is waiting saying, you ain't gotta be struggling like that. I need you to cast it to me.”

45s

#NeverLeaveNorForsake

“And it ain't just in church. He'll put his hand on you in a bank line. He'll put his hand on you in a funeral home. He'll put his hand on you in a hospital. And he'll remind you that I ain't brought you this far to leave you. I have promised to never leave you nor forsake you. And somebody here this morning can testify that we serve up bringing it to pass, God. How do I know? Because there's some people in here, you were sick, but your family prayed for you. God brought it to pass. You were unemployed. You filled out an application, but you got the job. God brought it to pass.”

48s

#TrustGodsPlan

“I don't care who you are, and people, God is saying, you need to make the decision I've called you to make and you need to trust me with that. And not only do you need to trust me with it, there's somebody here you need to trust God for it. You need to trust God with good health. You need to trust God that God will not give you a battle and not give you the strength to fight that battle.”

71s

#ChangedByFaith

“Arthur lived by the violent unforgiving code of the pavement. He believed with every fiber of his soul that if you disrespected I'm gonna disrespect you. That if you cross me the wrong way, I'm gonna cross you the wrong way. And if there's a battle in front of me, I can win it with my own words or my own two fists. Living by that code of taking matters into his own hands, landed Arthur Blunston in the Illinois State Penitentiary. Serving years behind cold, iron bars, four armed robbery. For years in that sail, he did the same thing in the penitentiary that he did in the streets. He fought every guard. He fought every inmate. He fought every system thinking that human aggression was the only way to take care of himself.”

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