Your Father wants to take care of you!

"And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19

Yes, God WILL provide all our needs, but NOT our greeds. In fact, with the advancement of His Kingdom in mind, both you AND He will, as you grow in your faith, have the same desires in your heart.

Have you ever gone through a time of complete dependence on God for your material needs? Perhaps you lost a job and couldn't find another one. Perhaps you got sick, as was the case in my own life when an "incurable" spinal disease got the better of me, and I was unable to sleep, much less work. Unforeseen circumstances can launch us into the darkest hours of our souls. 

When God brought Moses and the children of Israel out of Egypt, while in the desert, they had no ability to provide for themselves. Sure, they had LOTS of Egyptian gold with them, but there was nothing they could buy. Instead, Father supernaturally met their needs every day by providing manna from Heaven, shoes that wouldn't wear out, clouds by day, fire by night and water from rocks. Every day, they were instructed to take just to one day's portion to eat. This was so they would learn dependence upon God as Provider. 

Interestingly, once they'd entered the Promised Land, God's miraculous meals were no longer required. 

Or were they?

"The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate of the produce of Canaan," Joshua 5:12. 

Whether supernatural or by ordinary means, it was - and still is - God who was the Provider and Sustainer.

Most of us acquire what we need as a result of our jobs... jobs the Father made possible, by the way.  Like every creature in nature, we are commanded to go and gather what God has already provided; it is a process of participation in what God has already made possible. 

Sometimes it appears it's all up to us; sometimes it appears it is all up to God. In either case we must bear in mind the Father is our Provider; our jobs are merely another instrument of His provision. He requires our involvement in either case.

"You may say to yourself, 'My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.' 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" (Deuteronomy 8:17-18).

When I was disabled - before the healing purchased for me at the cross manifested in my spine - God provided for me in one miraculous manner after another without me having to ever rely upon the Government redistributing the wealth of other hard-working Americans. Acknowledge the Lord as the Provider of every need you have today. He is faithful and can provide for you in the most AMAZING ways. 

Every blessing,

Michael Tummillo

Founder, The Church @ Work