Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Don Moen singing … Jehovah Jireh … singing of how God is THE Provider of all of our needs … for His glory.
God provides for Elijah's needs thru a needy widow and her family ...
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Highlight Passage : … 1 Kings 17:15 [ESV] ... 15 And she [the widow] went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days.
… Learning in trusting in God, thru Elijah, the needs of Elijah and the entire family were met by God’s provision.
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Highlight Passage [Context] : … 1 Kings 17:8-16 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… God provides for Elijah’s needs, also providing for the needs of a widow and family.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 23:1-6 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… David sings of God’s protection and provision.
Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [ESV] … 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge hHm, and He will make straight your paths.
… God will show us the way to go … when we trust in His providing grace.
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 Paul, promises to provide us with what we need in/thru His Son, Jesus.
Reference Passage : … James 1:17 [ESV] … 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
… God, thru James, shows that everything we have or need comes from the hand of God.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Arthur Jackson, AT THIS LINK uses the true story of a Christian missionary in a 19th century orphanage, who trusted in God, Who provided the needs of the orphans in wondrous ways.
All too often, especially in our western Christian culture, I believe we forget, as Don Moen sings in the linked song, that God is our provider. That’s the lesson that even a Prophet of God, Elijah, forgot, as we read about the Lord teaching Elijah of His providing grace thru a needy widow (see 1Kings 17 highlight passage). And there are many other stories or passages in God’s word (see Reference passages above) which echo and reinforce that God will provide what we need in HIS timing and HIS good will when we trust Him to do so.
Will my readers join me today to thankfully pray for what we NEED … and avoid seeking what we WANT?
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for providing me with what I need.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to pray, trusting that our God provides for our needs today … and all days. … Amen
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