Train Your Heart To Trust | Pastor Steven Furtick | Elevation Church

Main message: When fear comes, you must intentionally train your heart to trust God by taking your worries to Him, praising His truth over your trouble, and practicing trust daily. Trust is not automatic or permanent—it's formed in the oven of trials and must be exercised repeatedly.

Key points:

• The sermon centers on Psalm 56 (especially “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you”) and the context of David being trapped in Gath to show even the anointed can be afraid.
• Trust isn’t automatic; it must be trained like a habit (illustrated by training hair, a glove, etc.) and is shaped by trouble, not defeated by it.
• Worry is “halfway to prayer” — instead of taking anxious thoughts to heart, present them to God in prayer and thanksgiving (Philippians 4:6).
• Use practical, daily acts of trust (praising God, showing up, breathing through the fear) so faith moves from feeling into practice.
• God trains and sustains you through trials and is faithful to complete the work He began; you never graduate from needing to trust Him.

Scriptures mentioned: Psalm 56, 1 Samuel 21, 1 Samuel 30, Philippians 4:6, Philippians 1:6, Romans 8, Romans 7:24