Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in images, song and lyrics from a worship ensemble singing Jehovah Jireh, My Provider … powerfully singing of how our God is our provider; and as the promised of God show below, He can - AND WILL - provide His children with all our needs.
Chirpy, the seagull, flies to his provider, John
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Highlight Verse[s]: 1Kings 17:6 [ESV] ... 6 And the ravens brought him [Elijah] bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
… In the face of dro
ught and famine, God was Elijah’s provider.
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Highlight Passage [context]: 1Kings 17:1-6 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Elijah prophesies a sever drought and famine; but provides for Elijah’s needs.
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Reference Passage : … Deuteronomy 2:7 [ESV] … 7 For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”
… God provided for all the needs of His chosen ones as they wondered in the wilderness for 40 years.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 6:25-26 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus shows that His Father will provide the needs of His children.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 4:19 [ESV] … 19 And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
… God, thru the Apostle Paul, promises to provide all our needs from His vast storehouse of riches in Glory.
Reference Passage : … 2Peter 1:3 [ESV] … 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, …
… God, thru Peter, shows us that God, our Provider, has provided us with all we need from our knowledge and relationship with Christ …
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Kirsten Holmberg, uses a curious story of the relationship between a seagull and the bird’s healer to show how God can bond and provide in wondrous ways. … The ODB author wrote: For twelve years, Chirpy, a seagull, has made daily visits to a man who’d helped him heal from a broken leg. John wooed Chirpy to himself with dog biscuits and was then able to nurse him back to health. Though Chirpy only resides in Instow Beach in Devon, England, between September and March, he and John Sumner find each other easily—Chirpy flies straight to him when he arrives at the beach each day, though he doesn’t approach any other human. It’s an uncommon relationship, to be sure. [See photo]
And then the ODB author goes on to show a biblical story in reverse [see photo and highlight passage] where God brought food to Elijah during a drought and famine by ravens carrying food to the Prophet. And all of this, including the truth of the Scriptures above, is to show us, as God’s children, that He will always be our “Jehovah Jireh,” The Provider of all our needs according to His riches in glory.
The challenge is, … do we believe it?
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for providing us with all we need … ALWAYS.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me to praise and thank our Lord for providing us with our needs yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Amen
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