Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir singing … More Than Enough … powerfully and poignantly singing of how God provides all we need in this life.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Exodus 17:3 [NLT] … 3 But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
… When God’s people became thirsty in the wilderness, even tho God had provided for their needs in the past, they grumbled to Moses of their thirst.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Exodus 17:1-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… We all need to learn and trust that God provides the needs of those who believe on Him to be our Provider.
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Reference Passage [NLT] : … Psalm 63:1 [NLT] … You, God, are my God; and earnestly I seek You; … I thirst for You in a dry and parched land where there is no water. … Joshua declares Whom he will serve!
… So, Whom will we serve today.
Reference Passage [NLT] : … John 4:7-13 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus shows the Samaritan woman (and us) that He will supply all the living waters we need in this life and most certainly in the next.
Reference Passage [NLT] : … Philippians 4:19 [NLT] … 19 And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
… Our God is our Provider! But do we trust Him as Jehovah Jireh?
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Dennis Fisher, used a word picture of how we must trust our God for Him to be our Provider. The ODB author wrote: In the 1960s, the Kingston Trio released a song called “Desert Pete.” The ballad tells of a thirsty cowboy who is crossing the desert and finds a hand pump. Next to it, Desert Pete has left a note urging the reader not to drink the water in the jar left there but to use its contents to prime the pump.
The cowboy resists the temptation to drink and uses the water as the note instructs. In reward for his obedience, he receives an abundance of cold, satisfying water. Had he not acted in faith, he would have had only a jar of unsatisfying, warm water to drink.
This word picture of the need to trust before we can drink to satisfy our thirst is a good one to illustrate how God’s people failed to trust God (and their leader, Moses) when they got thirsty in the wilderness [see highlight passage]. Yet, over and over again, God showed them that He was their Provider God (Jehovah Jireh). The question posed by the ODB entry today is quite obvious ...
... Do we trust God to provide our needs … OR NOT?
And our Jehovah Jireh has certainly provided The Pump Primer in our Lord, Jesus, to give us all we need in this life; but we have to be willing to trust Him to do so. So, after you’ve joined me to hear the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, let us declare to our Lord that we trust Him today (and all days) to give us His living waters in this dry and thirsty land in which we live.
My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … You provide me with ALL my needs … ALWAYS! … Amen
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