Mission Venture Ministries

“My God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

God is concerned with every part of our being: spirit, soul, and body. Just as the facets of His character are infinite, we can trust His goodness, guidance, and shepherding care to do more for us than we can ask or imagine (Ephesians 3:20). 

If we are willing, God provides a way for us to develop an intimate, obedient relationship with Him so that we can lead ourselves and others into a quality of life as seen in Psalm 23; because, those whose Shepherd is the Lord can say, “I lack nothing” (Psalm 23:1). 

In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus teaches His disciples to ask for provision, and our dependence on God is affirmed each time we pray, “Give us this day our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11). In Matthew 6:24-25, Jesus tells His disciples not to worry about food or clothing. The Father knows our needs. He desires a covenant relationship with us, that involves trusting Him to meet our daily requirements, which seeks first His kingdom and His righteousness (Matthew 6:33). 

Psalm 84:11 states, “No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly;” meaning those who live an obedient life obeying His commandments. 

Many passages about God’s provision relate to our need for food and clothing and the daily, physical needs of life. Others refer to the needs of our soul and spirit, our inner man. He provides us with peace (John 14:27), comfort (2 Corinthians 1:4), and “power, love and self-discipline” (2 Timothy 1:7). In fact, He “has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3). Therefore, we should realize that in whatever physical state we find ourselves, we can be content when we walk with the Lord (Philippians 4:12). 

Passages such as Galatians 1:15 and Jeremiah 1:5 give us an assurance that God’s love and direction began even before conception. What a blessing it is to know that God has been involved in our lives from the very start! His love for us is encompassed in His desire for our greatest well being. He is truly our Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord Who Provides. 

However, we need to understand there’s not a day when we are not faced with challenges. The challenges come in different ways, but they come every day. How we deal with these challenges determines how we grow in our relationship with God. 

As we read the story of Abraham, we see that he was about to move into a new level of achievement greater than he could imagine. God put a test before him simply to bring him to a place where God could use him effectively. God had to test the faith, courage and obedience of Abraham as we read in Genesis 22:1-14. And He will test us also maybe not to the same degree as He did Abraham but He will test our loyalty and faithfulness to Him. 

In this day and age Satan is doing everything within his power to control the direction of every life on this planet. He is trying his best to place fear into people’s hearts because for many as soon as they open their eyes upon waking, they are vividly reminded that we live in dangerous times. He is doing this by weaving his ways into this world through the media as he portrays his evil, perverted plan by using his minions over the air-ways through Television, radio, the Internet and the false news controlled by satanic agents. 

Sadly, Satan has also found his way into the churches throughout our world, since many churches are filled with people and preachers who are total hypocrites putting on a show of religion and pretending to be real “Christians.”

We must be willing to be strong and be reminded that as Christians we belong to God and have greater power than our enemy as John tell us – you are from God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).

Remember, that with every challenge God will provide a solution or an escape (1 Corinthians 10:13). God will never ask us to do something that He will not enable us to do or provide the necessary way out. 

As with Abraham, when he and Isaac walked toward the mountain top Isaac asked his father where the sacrifice was; and his father responded, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son” (Genesis 22:8). And God indeed provided a sacrificial ram that had his horns caught in the brush. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided” (Genesis 22:13-14). 

We can never see the hand of God move on our behalf until we step out beyond our own abilities and obey God’s Word and His commands. 

We can experience God’s gracious guidance and provision only when we are living a life of holiness and obedience and exercising great faith. 

There are so many examples of God’s provisions in the Bible here are only a few: 

• When God led the children of Israel out of Egypt He gave them favor with the Egyptians to the point they loaded them down with precious things of great worth. (Exodus 12:35-36) 

• While the children of Israel wander in the wilderness God provided for them daily bread, water from the rock and shelter from the cloud that followed them. (Exodus 16:4-5, Exodus 17:6) 

• When the disciples had fished all night and caught nothing was not Jesus standing there on the seashore with the command to drop the net on the other side of the boat and they caught so many fish they could not pull them into the boat and needed help? (John 21) 

Another example of great provision was when in Nehemiah’s time the Israelites were giving up on re-building the wall in Jerusalem and he told them “Don’t be afraid of them,” he encouraged, “Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes” (Nehemiah 4:14). 

In Nehemiah’s day, each person / family / tribe took a portion of the wall to rebuild. Some took a small portion, others took large portions. Each did what they were able. The result was the walls were rebuilt in just 52 days. 

We need to understand that if we begin to rebuild what is on God’s heart, which is obedience to His directives He will step in and do His part. We will see revival in the church which we desperately need and also for justice to prevail in our land. 

So how do we do it? We take action and follow God’s word as Nehemiah did: 

1. Fast and pray (Nehemiah 1:4).
2. Repent (Nehemiah 1:6-7).
3. Remind God of His Word to other faithful men (Nehemiah 1:8-9).
4. Rally people to rebuild (Nehemiah 2:17).
5. Do not be afraid of them – those who want to do us harm (Nehemiah 4:14).
6. Trust in the Lord. Stand up and take action (Nehemiah 4:14). 

In times of fear and uncertainty, the best thing we can do is strengthen our faith with the reminder that God is with us. 

This is especially crucial for the times in which we’re living. There is so much turmoil, anxiety, and pain. But the circumstances in our nation and world do not control our lives or determine our futures, it is God who controls everything, and the Lord is the One who fights for us. 

Therefore, we are calling on all prayers worriers throughout the world to be obedient to God’s word, to pray and trust that: “If we let God, He will guide us and He will provide!”

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