Wow! Our God is great, wouldn’t you agree!
I’m reminded of the passage in Psalms 34:8-10 where it says, “Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.”
This is the concept I’m constantly driving home to my children and to others as well. Especially in times of financial hardships like most of us are going through with The Recession, the reality is the Lord can always provide, and WILL always provide for those who love Him.
One of my favorite passages is the story in Mark 8:1-9 where Jesus feeds 4,000 people with only 7 loaves and a few fish. He apparently has nothing, yet He actually has an abundance. The people are hungry, looking for food, and Jesus takes just a little and provides the abundance they need.
We see this throughout scripture as well. The Israelites wandering in the dessert for 40 years — God provides for them. The famine during King Ahab’s reign — God provides for the widow and Elijah. The widow whose husband died and the creditor was going to take her sons as slaves — God turns water into oil and provides all she needs and more.
As you go through life, there is NEVER a time the Lord can’t provide for you. And, as you earnestly seek Him, thirsting to know Him more and taking time each day to meet with Him, He WILL always provide for you. He will take the little that you have and provide the abundance you need.
I could share story after story of this in my life. I’ll share only one. This was a few years back. My company was struggling, we had been losing money for 6 or 8 months in a row, and I was scared. Everyone was on reduced pay out of fear of going under.
Then, one January, I was having my monthly “day of prayer” where I take time out to spend the day with the Lord, and I asked God, “When are You going to let up? When are You going to provide for us?” And in that still, small, quiet voice that He speaks to us in, I heard Him say, “do you really believe my promises that I will take care of you?” I said, “Yes, Lord, you know I believe.” Then He said, “If you really believed, how would you act?” I said, “If I really believed you would take care of us, I would put everyone back at full pay.” He said, “then why don’t you do it and trust Me?”
So I did. This was the end of January, and I put everyone back at full pay, beginning with that month of January. The result? That month we took a big hit and lost a lot of money. But the next month we made a HUGE swing and made a strong profit! And we made good profit the following month, the next month, the next month, the next month … for a long time.
But the amazing thing is, even to THIS day, I can’t tell you how it happened. We didn’t bring on any new accounts. We didn’t have any existing customers that just “sprouted” with lots of new business for us. It just happened.
Much like it did when Jesus took the few loaves and fish and fed thousands of people.
And it CAN happen for you. Stop looking in the “natural” and fearing what you see. Instead, start looking in the “spiritual” — at God’s Word and His promises to you — and rejoice in His abundance.
You can learn more about trusting God for his abundance and how to have “miracles” happen in your life (where the Lord defies what you see in the natural and causes His promises to come true) in my CD set “Radical Faith” found on this site.
… Beatty Carmichael