Yahweh-jireh = the Lord-Will-Provide
How many times have we laid awake at night, trying to find a solution to our current and less than favorable situation. We try to push things this way and pull things that way. We try to get things to line up. Often this goes on and on until we give in and ask God to help us. We surrender all our schemes and plans to the Father and He provides the details and materials needed to live in our current situation.
Think of your greatest challenge, and then take a step of obedience and faith to see the gracious blessings of God.
- What is it that you feel led to do?
- Would you like to have a more organized living space?
- Start a women’s ministry at church?
- Lead a Bible study?
- Write a book?
- Go on a mission trip?
Pray to your Father and ask Him to show you your first or next step. When that step is revealed to you, go ahead and do it.
Then pray and repeat!
God will reward your obedience and willingness to follow HIm.
There is nothing in this life that we need so much as to do the will of our Father in heaven. All worldly desires are poor compared with walking on the path that God has created for us. They will not satisfy us. The one thing worth living for is compliance in our heart with the commandment of our Father; and that compliance worked out in our daily life.
Often we think of God’s provision as if he is a waiter: we signal him to our life, place our orders in “faith,” and receive what we have requested. Let’s not be so trite, however. God is not our personal Santa Claus.
We think of God providing for us – jobs, family, friends, care, church, abilities, answered prayers. These things are significant and meaningful; they are absolutely a portion of God’s provision to us. But why stop there? In doing so we stop short of the deep reality of what “the Lord shall provide” truly means. Let’s really step out in faith and trust God to do amazing things in our lives, things that only He could imagine and do. You know that thing that seems utterly impossible? Start and do it with God’s provision and direction.
I have a couple of these impossible mountains to climb in my life. I want to be debt free in years. God has already provided extra funds to put on the debt and He provided extra money when our family came to visit and we needed it to host them. I want to lose 100+ pounds, I need to turn this over to God and let Him work through me. I feel led to minister to women who are struggling with spending time with God. God whispered to write and publish a book detailing how I started my journey with Him.
God does provide! We need to submit to Him and follow His lead. Even if we can’t see the end – and we seldom do – we need to take that first step and then the next. We can trust God to guide us and correct our path as we move forward.
The same God who sees the wildflower fades and when the sparrow falls sent His Son as the sacrifice for our sins, “whom God set forth as a [a] propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,” (Romans 3:25). Jesus was the last and final sacrifice able to redeem all sinners and pay for all sins once and for all. Jesus is the ultimate, total provision. He is the answer to every person’s deepest needs.
Adventures in Abundance 
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