April 24, 2023 … God Will Provide

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 114 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics  from the group Freedom Hill Worship singing … The Lord Our God Will Provide … powerfully, singing of how we Christians can trust and rely on our God to provide our needs.    

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Highlight Passage: … Exodus 16:4 [NLT] … 

4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I’m going to rain down food from heaven for you. Each day the people can go out and pick up as much food as they need for that day. I will test them in this to see whether or not they will follow my instructions. . 

… John teaches fellow Christians on how we Christians must share the love of Christ with others by thinking and living like Him.            

Highlight Passage (Context): … Exodus 16:1-30 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… When the food was scarce for God’s people escaping from Egypt, God showed His faithful and obedient people that He would provide their needs with food from Heaven.  .                       

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Reference Passage: …Psalm 37:25-26 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings of God always providing for His Godly and faithful remnant.  

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon calls on believers to trust God and always follow His leading grace.   

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:33 [NLT] … 

33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need. 

… Jesus commands His disciples to seek His righteousness above all with God’s promise to provide all we, born-again believers, need.    

Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:19 [NLT] … 

19 And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.

… Paul assures fellow Christians that our God will take care of His faithful by providing all our needs from His Heavenly provision.

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 13:5 [NLT] … 

5 Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, … “I will never fail you.   I will never abandon you.”   

… The Author of Hebrews quotes from Deuteronomy 31:6, 8 that our God will never abandon those who need His provision.   

                                                                                                                         

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Tim Gustafson … AT THIS LINK … relates a story of relatives of the famous actress Ann Margret’s finding, after her death, evidence of the Actress’s legendary frugality by finding a bag with many, multicolored, pieces of string with the label, ”String too short to use.”  

The Story illustrates the tendency of our human nature to hoard or go into hyper-control  mode when we feel insecure .  But  when were obedient to God's promises that He will provide ... HE WILL!  All we need to do, as His disciples, is to trust Him as He promises in God's word (see above).   But will we?  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for providing me with my needs ... ALWAYS!     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to trust that You will ALWAYS provide, Lrod, what we need. .  …  Amen               . 

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