Have you ever needed something and God stepped in right on time and provided it? Maybe it was unexpected money. Or maybe it was something intangible, like peace in the midst of a frustrating or confusing situation.
God is our provider. Provision. Seeing
what we need before we need it. Supplying what we need. God can be our provider because he has
everything that we need.
But as our father, God doesn’t give
his children everything we want. In this age of prosperity gospel, some would
have you believe that if you just name it and claim it and have enough faith,
God will give it to you. Some say that God wants you to be rich. But everyone
will not be rich, even those who are rich in faith. Some things that we want might
kill us or not be the best for us. We don’t have the Father’s wisdom or
knowledge. But we have to know and believe that He cares.
Our greatest need is to know Him and He has
already provided for that through his son Jesus Christ. Everything else that we
can see is passing away. What lasts and is eternal is what we can’t see.
He provides us with the tools and
resources that we need to do His will and work. God will make sure you have
what you need to do what He desires you to do. He has it. The cattle on a
thousand hills belong to him.
Jesus said if we know how to give good
gifts, how much more so does God. He knows what we need. If he clothes the
lilies of the field that are here today and gone tomorrow., how much more will
he take care of you? The key is to pursue his kingdom and his righteousness and
then all of these other things, what you need to fulfill your purpose and even
some of your wants, will be added unto you.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Psalm 37:25
Therefore take no thought, saying,
What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be
clothed? (For after all these things do
the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all
these things. Matthew 6:31-32
If ye then, being evil, know how
to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is
in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Matthew 7:11
But even the very hairs of your
head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many
sparrows. Luke 12:7
And God is able to make all grace
abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may
abound to every good work: 2 Corinthians 9:8
How has God provided for you?
I praise God for being a provider who
….
I thank Him for…
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