THE RIGHT MEANING OF GODS PROVISION

All human beings have needs. We have needs and concerns in our family life, our work life, our social life, in our private life, in our finances and in every other aspect of our lives. We all encounter situations in our lives. Sometimes those situations are so grave that we feel overwhelmed. Often we resort to prayerful begging. We have been taught throughout our lives that whatever our need, all we have to do is get on our knees and pray that God will provide what you need. Some ministers go to the extreme and use our needs as a way to solicit
donations. If you give something, God will pay you back.

This has always disturbed me. I know that there are hundreds of passages in the Bible that can be used to convince us that we must first give and then receive. I believe as well that this is true but the unfortunate part is that all of our attention is focused on giving to get. This is a childish concept. Provision according to the Miriam Webster Dictionary is: 1 a: the act or process of providing b: the fact or state of being prepared beforehand c: a measure taken beforehand to deal with a need or contingency.

Did your mother and father wait for you to ask for breakfast or lunch or dinner? In order for you to get these meals, did your parents require you to give them something? Do you think that they knew your need for food but would wait until you asked them to feed you? When you had a need for clothing or shoes or a warm place to live, did they wait until you brought them a gift? I want to share a different idea with you. I want you to understand the concept of living in Christ.

Luke 11:11-13 (King James Version)
11If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
12Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Each of us, as living and thinking individuals, knows the needs of those who depend on us. We know, for the most part, all that they want as well. As loving parents our desire is to provide everything that our children need and more.

We must be conscious of the fact that God loves us with a deep fatherly love. He has already made provision for everything that we will ever need. He knew what we would need for every situation that we would ever encounter. If we would be still and listen, we would know where that provision is. If your child is in Charlotte North Carolina and asks for your help with something financial, would you send the money to Him or would you send it to New York for Him to search out and find? Would you send it to a Western Union near Him and not tell him when and where?

Your provision for every situation and need is in Christ. You might say that your need is for something other than material things. Those needs as well are there inside the Loving Jesus Christ. You may say that you love God, you pray, you read the Bible but you still have a problem in a relationship. You may still have a problem with anger or greed or addiction and you ask for deliverance but you still have the problem. Has God made a provision for these needs in your life? Has He made a provision to deliver you from the anguish that consumes you, for the thoughts that plague you and for the unnatural impulses that drive you to do things that you do not want to do? You profess your love for Jesus as loudly as any other saint in Church. Why do you still suffer from these things? You pray and cry and beg the Lord to take this away but to no avail. In your mind you begin to wonder if you are truly saved. You begin to doubt that God loves you because you are not enjoying the fruit of the spirit. Why can you not find the provision for the situations that you face?
We have to realize that we have situations that we encounter and there is a provision made. That is when you begin to pray differently just as described in this post

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