Friday, December 11, 2009

In Him I Abide So God Will Provide!

God said that He will provide and so He will. Much of the need we deal with is emotional. Some "times" are more challenging financially but how you it’s how you feel about it that determines how much you struggle. If you have food clothing and shelter it’s really not that bad. It’s the stress and fear of losing your stuff that makes you unhappy. And how will you “look” to the others around you? This is not material need but emotional. Most people haven’t missed many meals lately but much of the world seems to be worried. Just stop worrying about your stuff God said that He’d take care of it and so that’s that. And if you don’t get to keep something don’t worry there’s a million more where that came from. You have the ability to set yourself free simply by choosing not to worry about it. We do what we can to “make ends meet” and God will help us but sometimes He’ll do it by changing our “ends.” So don’t get all attached to your “ends” but enjoy the process of living. For life itself is not an “end” but a means to an “end.” Being happy should not be determined by what you have but who you’re with. And you’re with God and He has everything so surely everything is going to be all right! Focus on Him and you’ll be able to rejoice and have peace and confidence no matter what happens to every thing around you because your needs are met and you’re secure in Him. And you always have peace because the God of Peace Himself lives in you and having much or little will never change that. There’s no need to worry! Your Father’s with you and He said that He would take care of you. So in His presence abide knowing He will provide.

Luke 12:32
32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
KJV

Heb 12:28-29
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
NKJV

Matt 6:25-34
25 "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

28 "So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
NKJV

Matt 6:32-33
32 People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. 33 Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.
MES
PIE90 Scriptures:

Luke 12:32
32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
KJV

Rom 14:17
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
NKJV