Hi how are you all today? I am well and have had a good week. It was a work life balance week where I was busy at work but took time to do life and rest. How was your week?
This week I want to remind us all of how God provides. To do that, we are going to go back in time a long way to the land of Egypt. Our families have been living in this land for a long time. Our families came into the land looking after our own herds and that of Pharaohs. For a long time now, we have been slaves to the Egyptians. Has God heard our cries for deliverance, we wonder.
But suddenly one day, a man came back who had been missing for years and told us he had heard from God and God was going to deliver us. This was such a happy day.
But that soon turned to sorrow and anger as the Egyptians made us work harder than ever. Strange things started happening though, there were plagues, huge storms and dark days ( only for the Egyptians and not us).
Then one day this man named Moses told us to kill a lamb at twilight and smear the blood all around our doorways. He also told us to ask the Egyptians for their valuables. We had to eat that lamb fully clothed and be ready to leave.
Oh my, how are we going to pack enough provisions for a long journey. We don’t have much so I guess we will pack everything. Will God really provide for us on our journey?
I don’t know about you but as a mum, this type of preparation time would be a bit scary. I would be thinking- can we carry enough food, how long will the journey take, will our clothes last that long, will be able to sleep safely and be warm and how are our little ones going to behave on such a journey.
These are all things that are legitimate and in our lives today, we can still tend to ask the same questions. But as God provided for them in the wilderness, He will provide for us.
The Bible states:
- God provided water from a rock that followed them.
- God provided manna and quail to eat.
- God provided a cloud in the daytime to shade them and a cloud at night to warm them.
- The Bible states their clothes and shoes did not wear out for forty years. The clothes and shoes must have enlarged as the children grew.
- God provided times of rest.
- God provided everything they needed in the wilderness.
- God healed them all before they left Egypt.
God wants to do the same for us. He is Jehovah Jireh our provider. If God is our provider that means He already has provided or will provide everything we need.
How do we receive it? By faith and trusting in His word. Let’s look at a few verses on provision in the NIV Bible:
1. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
2. But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.
3. Now he [God] who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
4. The Lord, the everlasting God,] gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
5. I lift up my eyes to the hills — where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
This week remind yourself of how good God is, meditate on the above verses and then trust Him to meet your needs. A note: make sure you are following Gods laws of tithing and giving as they will open the doors to provision from God.
Bless you heaps and keep living the life God intended for you.
Karen
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