Devotionals on Provision

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• Focussed Attention Are your affections too easily taken up with the froth of this world system? Are you preoccupied with the goods that chain hearts to this realm? Are you choked with the junk and wares that demand your affection? It is true that all good gifts around us are indeed sent from the heavenly Giver, and we thank Him for the day by day protection and provision that He affords us.

• The peace of God and the provision of God comes to the one with a single mind – a thought life that trusts in the Lord… no matter what life tries to throw at it..

• Lack of faith in His power or trust in His provision will cause us to walk away.

• Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.Romans 13:14

• It exhibits unquestioning trust in God’s love and provision - His wisdom and word.

• Doubting Salvation They do not have God’s assurance in their heart. They do not enjoy the security of His promised provision.

• and this “new man” is Christ, but it carries with it a whole revelation of practical provision.”

• Humility also knows that God has made provision for human conviction, and that He calls us to persuade others.

• If God has revealed His mind, His thought in Christ; if all that God intended has been brought to us in a personal revelation: God has followed that up by the fullest provision in Christ for its realization and its attainment.
• In Christ there is not only a standard set, but every kind of provision for attaining to God standard.
• God could never judge us at the end by His standard of revelation if He had not made all provision for our realizing of that standard....

• the one that can watch the dried brook and trust in God’s unfailing faithfulness; the one that holds an empty cruise of oil and yet believes in God’s provision; the one that stands by the Red Sea’s raging waters and expects his deliverance; the one whose barren womb can spring forth with life, by faith – the one who amidst the flooding tsunamis of life, can simply rest in His love. How blessed the one that is not living at crossed purposes with the purpose of God.

• Hear His Word And so we may quietly and confidently commit ourselves into His hands. We may lie down in the green pastures of His gracious provision.
• His table of provision sustains.
• Enjoy His Provision He is the Holy One Who sustains all things.

• He had uttered some of the most astonishing words from the cross; His Precious Pardon, Forgive to His malicious persecutors; His Promise of Paradise – Today, to His penitent co-convict; His Amazing Love – Provision, to the woman who bore Him; His Anguished Outcry – MY GOD, as He was made sin for humanity; His Final Offer of Grace - I Thirst..

• Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him’ (Romans 6:6-8)” (God’s Provision for Holy Living, p.46).

• First, we are to rest in the fact that our Father has made full provision for all our needs; positionally, we are complete in the Lord Jesus Christ.
• But while we see our Father's requirement, and recognize His provision, let us not overlook our responsibility.
• It is not because the provision has been insufficient, or unavailable, or afar off - but because the channel has been obstructed, the avenues of the soul have been closed, so that the need has remained unsupplied.

• Oh yes, from Genesis to Revelation there are examples of God’s gracious provision.
• Supply of Grace His primary provision is His grace in providing against the coming judgment, for the wages of sin is death – but God provided us with the gift of life – life to all who believe in Him.

• It is a tremendous power.... The Lord says, in quite simple language, If only you will trust Me, and trust My provision, and stop worrying, stop fretting, stop being anxious; if you will but believe Me, I have the ground upon which I could meet all your need; I am no longer without ground.

• Promised Provision God is indeed the Benefactor of each of His own dear ones, and by means of His indwelling Spirit we too are enabled to carry out His plans and purposes. Oh yes, He has promised to provide all our earthly needs according to His riches in glory – indeed, as David so poetically pointed out – I have been young, and now am old, and yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
• Gracious Benefaction But God’s benefaction and His gracious provision to us covers more – so much more, for we are called by Him to be His children and to grow in grace, in Him.

• All the blessings in life, flow in abundant measure, from His eternal supply.  But most people give neither thought nor thanks for His moment-by-moment provision.

• Overflowing blessings and provision in abundance have been foreordained for us.

• He would not have known that coveting was wrong if the Law had not said, “You must not covet.” King Saul was also a prideful man who tried to address the problem of life in his own fleshly strength, rather than depending on God’s provision and trusting His word. The Galatians were a group of believers who demonstrated pride, rebellion, and independence from God, by insisting that the righteous requirements of the Law should be achieved by human merit – having failed to learn God’s vital lesson.

• Provision of Grace God’s provision of grace is given in love and breaks the power of cancelled sin. Grace sets us free to live and move and have our being – living and working in Him.

• Provision of God God spreads His table with great abundance – even in the presence of our enemies, and Mary sang, He fills the hungry with good things – pressed down and spilling over. For whoever hath, (hunger for the Lord) to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, (spiritual hunger) from him shall be taken away even what he hath.

• Withdrawing acute needs by filling our laps with bountiful provision may fill a temporary need, but it will not perfect in us that gracious faith – that is so necessary to please God.

• Grace is founded on the sovereignty of God and shows forth His unconditional love. Grace is God’s over-abounding provision, not only in the physical but in the spiritual. Grace not only restores what was lost in Eden but adds to it an unknown expanse.
• Strombeck’s Definition  Grace was once defined by Strombeck as:  “the unmerited abounding provision of the unrestrained operation of God’s infinite love through Christ Jesus on behalf of man – especially he who depends on Him.”
• Matthew 5:45 God’s gracious provision even provides the breath of those that curse Him.
• Special Grace But there is a special grace for those that have accessed salvation by grace, through faith: Strombeck writes the following: Grace is God’s provision to bring into being, sustain and perfect His new creation in Christ.

• All provision is according to our Father's riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:19).

• Our Lord is generous in His provision, but He is neither casual nor wasteful.

• Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts (Rom. 13:14).

• The rivers of blessing that flow from the Lord are eternal in their provision.

• It is a great comfort, during our growing up in the Lord Jesus, to know that He is our perfect provision, and that He provides the perfect processing.
• Similarly, when the Father placed  us in Christ,' He also made provision in Him for our whole life.

• Finished Work If you have even one doubt about the provision of God, you are in this category. If you have a question-mark over the promises of God, this applies to you, too. If you doubt God’s love or question your security in Christ, you deny His cross..  for these are wrong perceptions of Christ’s finished work on the Cross – this is an incorrect understanding of all God’s attributes – His justice and love.

• Grateful Thanks While preparing food or eating a meal, I thank Him for His gracious provision, I pray I may be fed with the hidden manna and drink the sincere milk of the Word.  I pray that I eat the meat of the word and that I come to a deeper knowledge of God – I pray that many hear the Word and find their rest in my Saviour.

• Predestination is a non-meritous response, to God’s gracious provision in Christ.

• There are three vital factors that will keep us on the path, and in the power, of spiritual growth: (1) study to know that God's purpose in saving us is to conform us to the image of His Son (Rom. 8:28, 29); (2) learn to reckon upon the finished work of the Cross as His provision for that purpose (Rom. 6:11); (3) yield to the Holy Spirit as He carries out the daily process of that purpose (2 Cor. 4:11).

• Continuous Provision Sometimes we are so intent on breathing out, that we neglect to in-breathe Him. We pour out our request and demands and questions and pain and supplications.. and we think our communication is all one-sided, for He seems to keep silent – and we rise from our prayer-closet disillusioned again, for heavens seems shut. And sometimes life’s pain is so immense that we fail to see His gracious provision..

• The engrossment with the work and its multifarious concerns; the rush and hurry of life; the restless spirit of the age; these, with an exhaustive provision of external religious facilities, all tend to render the inner place of Divine speaking inoperative or impossible of functioning.

• What a great guarantee He gives Us with His remarkable – All THINGS !  Nothing is overlooked and nothing is excluded in the Father provision for His children.
• Pledge of Provision God’s pledge to provide all..
• Word of Promise His proof and guarantee that His Word and promises and provision is sure..
• is the gift of His Beloved Son in Whom He is well pleased – so that we can be made adoptive sons, whom He also loves and loves so dearly! If so great a gift is forthcoming from the Father, He will not withhold the smaller gifts that are needed for our daily survival. Ours is not to worry, but to trust in His loving provision. His is to carry out His never-failing promises and His vow to you.
• God of Surprises Our God is a God of surprises Who never mirrors His miracle or provision.

• Trust His Word Worry can also mean: I do not believe that God can keep His promises to care for me. It’s casting doubt on the truth of God’s word – it’s unbelief in His promised provision. When worry is taken to its final conclusion – worry is effectively calling God “a liar!!”  But He is our strength and stay.
• Let us not display unbelief – but by faith, let us rest in His promised provision.
• Precious Provision Worry and trust cannot coexist.
• and let us by faith, rest in His very precious provision.

• There is provision made for mistakes, even when you get to the heavenlies in Christ.

• Yet, in fellowship with His Father, He continually broke through these limitations, and overcame them in drawing all His provision, all the fullness from His Father alone.

• And it is His will that there should be the full provision of Life unto the full end, because the purpose is such an abundant purpose.

• The-LORD-Will-Provide – JEHOVAH JIRAH, In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.” Gen.22:14.  Yes, God both provides, and He is the provision – what a God!

• While the animal & vegetable kingdoms depend on God to uphold and sustain them… man was given freewill to trust in His gracious provision or act independently of Him.

• He will meet us with His gracious provision when we transgress and trespass and fail, and do wrong He will meet us there in grace.

• But in their ordinary life when things are going on and there is health and provision, death is no reality to them.

• Make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Gal.3:27

• Daily Provision He provides you ample manna for your needs today..

• In Isaiah 26, we see the prophet rehearsing a song of trust in the provision of God.

• He also tells us that, in His grace, the Lord has made provision for their sin to be forgiven, the nation to be restored, and their land to be cleansed.

• His grace is enough for every eventuality in life, and His provision comes through faith in His beloved Son.
• It is when the man or woman of God is prepared to admit their weakness and incapacitates, that they are enabled by Him to draw from the bottomless well of His everlasting supply, and drink deeply from the living waters of God's super-abundant provision.

• God in His grace, made provision for man's redemption through the Lord Jesus Christ.

• He had to learn to stand on the promises of God and to place his trust in God's provision rather than relying on his own intellect, understanding, and cunning.
• His faith was strengthened, he grew in a knowledge and understanding of God, and became an overcomer who was spiritually prepared to relinquish to his own reasoning and to trust the promises and provision of God.

• And we are to do the same.They were to be responsible for the well-being of their Christian friends, supporting one another in their lack, rejoicing in their increase, and making sure that those endowed with the gift of pastor-teacher, were similarly provided for, through individual, voluntary, but cheerful offerings.As believers, we have all been blessed with every spiritual blessing from above and are instructed by the Word of God and through Church elders and Christian ministers, to share our blessings, both material and spiritual, with others so that they in turn are enabled to rejoice in the Lord for His provision and go further afield themselves, to bless others who cross their path.Sowing and reaping blessings in this way, is a biblical principle that benefits both the giver and the one that receives, as well as honouring the Lord our God from Whom all blessings flow.

• Whether he pretended not to hear God's instruction, deluded himself that the ship he boarded was God's provision to use him elsewhere, or whether he displayed open rebellion against the Word of the Lord, Jonah disobeyed his God and, in so doing, he sinned.

• God also knows that a poor man living in needy circumstances, a destitute widow without hope in the world, or a penniless orphan, is much more likely to grasp hold of God's great gift of salvation which is given freely to all, rather than a self-sufficient, affluent man, whose super-abundance of material possessions and worldly wealth renders him independent of God's provision and can even cause him to become disdainful of God's free gift of salvation.

• The crowd that followed Jesus were only concerned for their earthly provision and temporal needs, but Jesus would often use their limited outlook of the hypocritical Jews, to teach His disciples deeper truths that had a heavenly perspective and eternal consequences.
• The beautiful figure of the Good Shepherd gently attending to the needs of his flock, feeding them, defending them, guiding them, protecting them, and correcting them is pictured here, for they were to be inheritors of the kingdom, but how few enjoy the true benefits offered to this tiny flock, for most are only interested in earthly provision and temporal needs.

• Our dependence upon His person and His provision is what He is seeking from all His children, if we are to grow in grace and produce good fruit to His praise and glory.

• He had already promised one dying thief that he would be with Him in paradise when he acknowledged Jesus as Lord, and He had also made gracious provision for His grieving mother who would be adopted into the family of His servant, John, before His Father turned away from the Son of His love, as the sin of the world was laid on His shoulders.

• The fruit of the land was God's provision to all His people, but He provided for the priests in a unique and different way.
• The blessings that flowed to the priests through the people was God's provision, according to His riches in mercy.
• All things came to Israel from God and they were giving back to the Lord from HIS gracious provision.
• When they honoured the Lord with their tithes and offerings God promised they would be blessed, but when they did evil in the sight of the Lord, or refused to give their tithe, provision was cut off for priests and people alike. 

• The Lord offers all those who are weary, heavy-laden, hungry and in need of refreshment to come to Him and drink of His gracious provision, at no cost and without money.

• Like Paul we also are to discover that no matter what difficult circumstances or financial hardships we have to face in life we are to be content in all things - knowing that it is God to Whom we look for our provision for He has promised to provide all we need according to His riches in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Difficult trials and disappointing happenings are used by God to test our trust in Him and to draw us into a deeper dependency upon His faithful provision and His unconditional love.

• What godly lives we would live if it were not for the foibles of others!But this life is fraught with disappointments and disturbances and we are warned that murmuring is the consequence of unbelief, while disputing is the product of a discontented heart which brings in its wake grievances, disease, envy, and sin, as exemplified in Israel’s forty-year long wilderness wanderings when the people murmured against God's wisdom and complained about His gracious provision.God, in His wisdom, knows that patient-endurance, humility of heart, and a soul that trusts in the Lord, does not spring forth from a stress-free life but is the out-working of a man or woman who has received God’s sufficient grace to face any temptation or trial which may happen along the way.Paul knew that a Christ-like character is not birthed from a bed of ease and that blameless integrity and spiritual maturity takes many long years, if not a lifetime, to fully develop as one is tried like silver or honed in a millstone of suffering. God uses the storms, sadness, disappointments, and dangers of everyday life, as well as the difficult people that cross our path, to conform us into the likeness of Christ.Let us, therefore, resist the temptation to enter into murmurings and disputes with one another and let us trust the Lord in all things so that our lives will be a living sacrifice that becomes, to Him, a sweet fragrance and we will become blameless and pure children of God, without fault in this warped and crooked generation.

• Their voices united together as they trudged towards the city of David, and the theme of many of their song touched on various areas of need as they collectively appealed to the Lord for the destruction of their enemies, victory over wicked men, beseeching God's protection, provision, prosperity, and restoration.

• And on that day their Messiah, our Lord Jesus Christ, will make provision for their cleansing and the remnant of Israel will be re-gathered before a promised time of peace and prosperity floods the whole world, when the earth will be filled with the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

• Instead of walking with his Creator in the cool of the evening and enjoying fellowship with the Lord, Adam hid himself from the face of God because he was afraid and ashamed - and his God-focused heart was replaced with a self-centered soul which relied on his own fleshly abilities, instead of depending on the Lord's almighty provision.
• Do we put our confidence in our bank balance, our negotiating skills, or our government's provision?
• OR, do we trust in the Lord our God with all our heart and place our hope in His unfailing love and promised provision?

• God knows our daily needs before we even ask, but too often this verse is interpreted as a free-for-all to squander our money and other God-given resources on selfish desires instead of acting as wise stewards of God's provision.
• But as much as we rejoice that all good things come from God and delight to quote this verse as an encouragement to one another and as a testimony to God's gracious provision, it is important to read this verse in its correct context and discover why Paul gave this great promise of abundant supply to his readers.
• All good and perfect gifts come from our Father in heaven Who is our great Provider. Indeed, not one of us could draw another breath without His provision and grace, but God is no man's debtor and Paul wanted these dear believers at Philippi to KNOW that their generosity to Paul would be honoured by the Lord Who would supply all their needs according to His riches in glory - in Christ Jesus.

• It is when we stray from the path of trusting God by putting our hope in an alternative provision like our own flawed, human wisdom or our own accumulated wealth, that we find ourselves on a slippery slope into the proud, pagan mindset that excludes God from our thinking and places our feet on the quicksand of this fallen world system.
• Whether we are rich or poor, young or old, male or female, slave or free, our trust should rest securely in God's provision.
• He knew that a mindset that fixed its hope on the uncertainty of this world's riches would cease to be that of a man that maintains his trust in God's provision.
• We should place neither trust in our own sufficiency nor fix our hope on that which is fading away, but maintain faith in the Word of the Lord which reminds us that our hope in today’s provision is from His gracious hand, and that our secure hope for the future comes from Jesus Christ alone.

• Rather, we are to be transformed into the likeness of Christ by the renewing of our mind,and to make no provision for the ungodly works of the flesh with regard to their lustful leanings and ungodly propensities.
• We are to: Put on Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, in regard to its lusts.
• It is only as we dress ourselves in Christ and cover ourselves spiritually in the Lord, day by day and moment by moment, that we will we be enabled to make no provision for the evil cravings of our physical nature, for only as we are clothed in Christ can the power of sin and death be defeated in the life of a Christian.

• In the middle of God righteous sentence on sin, was nestled a gracious provision for mankind, which would secure salvation for Adam's fallen race through a sin-substitute.

• Most wicked acts are carried out secretively and under cover of darkness, for even though evil men know that God exists, they do not honour Him as Lord, nor do they give thanks to Him for His daily provision.

• The love about which Paul spoke was a superhuman love that is only possible in the lives of those who are one with Christ, abiding in Him, resting in His grace, and trusting His provision.

• Loving provision had been extended to the woman who bore Him, and He carried the weight of the world on His heart as He became sin for mankind so that lost sinners could become the righteousness of God in Him.Every facet of the law had been fulfilled, every prophecy accomplished.

• We are also encouraged to think about the provision God has made for animals, and all wildlife - for birds of the air and the trees and flowers on the hillside.
• When we consider God's abundant provision for a simple little flower..
• The special interest and intricate care that God places on the beautiful adornment of a wild wayside flower, which blossoms today, but tomorrow quickly fades and is cast into the oven and burnt in the noonday sun, should create in us a confident trust in God's faithful provision for each of His children.

• Indeed, without faith it is impossible to please Him, for we have to believe that He exists and that He is the rewarder of all who come to Him and diligently seek Him, by trusting in His promised provision as we petition Him, day by day, to give us this day our daily bread.

• It was a beautiful expression of God's grace and an evangelistic invitation to whosoever is thirsty for the truth of the gospel of God to come, and drink deeply of His excellent provision, which is given freely and without cost to all who are spiritually impoverished.

• They had run into the arms of God's enemies and sought sustenance from them, instead of standing on the Rock of their salvation, trusting in His bottomless provision, drinking from the still pools that freely flowed from His never-failing promises, or hiding in the secure shelter of His love - which is under the shadow of His protective wings.

• They were the one nation with whom God made a covenant, and He gave them many precious promises of protection, provision, preservation, and prominence among the Gentile nations.

• This passage reminds us of the tremendous provision and faithfulness of God.

• It was a time of rejoicing and thanksgiving for God's gracious provision to His people.

• It highlights Pentecost as the beginning of a new dispensation in God's administrative work, and it shows Him moving from His pre-Cross, redemptive work through Israel, to His post-Cross provision through the Church.

• It seems so unfair, it seems so unjust that those who seek after the wealth of this world appear to have a purse filled with coins, with little to concern their godless lives, whereas we have such a meagre portion and can scarce breathe for worry about provision for tomorrow, which enlarges into fear of the future.

• His provision of knowledge and store of understanding is close at hand for He gives wisdom generously to all who ask, and out of His mouth pours an abundance of godly knowledge and a plentiful supply of spiritual understanding.

• Naaman finally admitted his need of God's provision.

• When we are faced with a 'worry' let us simply claim His promises of provision, His support, and sufficiency, for all His promises are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Godly comfort was an important provision for the early Christians, but they had to learn to listen to His voice and carry out His instructions.

• He wanted them to trust HIM and seek His protection and provision.

• The beautiful result of the man or women who has received God's perfect forgiveness is redemption, healing, comfort, provision, satisfaction and goodness.

• Suffering is the segment of life that should cause us to engage in much prayer and earnest entreaties, while Christ's gracious provision should elicit much rejoicing and cheerfulness of heart.

• How the Psalmist loves to praise the holy and awesome name of Lord, and this is a psalm that bathes in the splendour and majesty of the great works of God's hand, the glories of His eternal righteousness, the faithfulness of His gracious provision, the power of His mighty hand, and the everlasting covenant which He has graciously made with His people, Israel.

• As Jesus hung, dying on the Cross in excruciating pain, the tender-hearted provision He made for His mother is very meaningful.

• He had just reminded the assembled company of the history of the nation, from the time God took Abraham from the region beyond the Euphrates River, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, to their conquest in the Promised Land, when the Lord gave Israel a land for which they did not labour, cities which they did not build, and provision from vineyards and olive groves they did not plant.

• Moses wanted the people to remember that NO ONE but the God of Israel guided them through the wilderness and no foreign god had any input into the provision and protection that God provided, during their 40-year long wilderness wanderings.

• Their instruction not to carry money and make provision for their ministry, does not suggest irresponsibility but demands a determined trust in God's provision, Who has promised to supply all our needs according to His riches in glory.

• God gives His people both provision and protection, and though to the casual eye this may not always seem to reflect the bitter circumstances of life through which many Christians have to pass today, God's provision and protection is established in the eternal realms.
• However, it is also true to say that although this heavenly provision and protection is eternally secure for all God's people, many stand witness to His miraculous hand at work in the everyday challenges and difficulties of life, through which we all have to pass.

• As with all the apostles, the dear desire of James is to see all believers in Christ maturing in their faith, growing in grace, trusting God unwaveringly, and developing an ever-increasing faith in His gracious provision and sufficient grace.
• James knows that a wealthy man or woman who is relying on themselves instead of depending totally upon God's provision will be brought low.

• Indeed, as children of the Most High God, we are also blessed with the same priceless provision and protection that was given to Abram.

• The man whose God is the Lord is promised a never-failing supply of nourishment and limitless refreshment for the soul. His roots are deeply embedded in the truth of God's Word and his sustenance flows from multiple streams of God's eternal provision.

• It casts the shadow of doubt on His precious promises of provision, which discredits His holy character.
• No wonder He gently rebukes us for our lack of trust in His provision.
• Christ not only warns of the danger of following after the fluff and glitter of this world's dainties, but points out that an over-anxious pursuit of the simple necessities of life, runs counter to an attitude of utter reliance on God for our daily provision.

• Because God provided adequate provision for the salvation of every single man, woman, and child by faith, Paul can legitimately call the Lord Jesus Christ: The Saviour of all men.

• Anxious thoughts and futile strivings, in their various guises and disguises, is a sin that reflects unbelief in God's gracious promises of provision.

• The people were to give a tenth of their income for the upkeep of the Temple, which was to support the priests and Levites, and acknowledge the Lord's gracious provision.

• The hungry child needs the father's provision of food to sustain him, while the wandering child needs to be sought after, brought home, and shown great understanding.

• Moses also describes the Lord in this passage as an eagle who hovers over her young and carries them on its pinions, supplying them with the finest of food and the best of provision.

• When prophecy is complete, languages cease, signs are silenced... and miracles of health, healing, provision, and protection are no longer needed.

• How often we need to remember His loving provision and tender-mercies towards us ALL.What could seem less significant than a broken reed, a tiny sparrow, a widow’s mite, or a little wayside flower, but God takes and uses such insignificant, everyday, mundane things and then He contrasts them with the opulence of the wisest, wealthiest man that ever lived in order to demonstrate His unconditional love and superabundant grace towards us – reminding us that He knows us personally, loves us unconditionally, and cares for each of us individually.When the Lord Jesus takes such care to get His point across to us, perhaps we need to take note of what He is saying.

• How tempting it can be, to start to rely on our own abilities and resources, in preference to trusting the Lord and depending upon His provision.
• However, we are exhorted not to lean on our own, human understanding and trust in our own provision, nor are we to depend on others to the exclusion of our Heavenly Father.

• The first part acknowledges God's wonderful acts of deliverance in times past, and this final segment requests God's ongoing protection and provision for the future.

• How vital to look to the One Who is enthroned in heaven and Who created the universe for provision and protection.

• While the word 'El' signifies the strength and power of the great Creator 'Elohim', the word 'Shaddai' additionally speaks of tender nourishment, gentle reassurance, and the provision of strength that a tiny babe derives from the comforting breast of his mother.

• But within days of promising to keep God's Word on Mount Sinai, the people of Israel started to murmur against the Lord and His provision.

• Not only does it provide a peep into Israel's past history and the interesting way provision was made for widows, orphans, and other impoverished people, but it provides a beautiful picture of God's plan of redemption, where Naomi is identified as a type of Israel, Ruth is typified as the Gentile Bride of Christ, while Boaz the man she weds, is portrayed as a type of Christ - her Kinsman-Redeemer and beloved Bridegroom.
• They ignored God's Law, lived in a pagan land and relied on themselves instead of trusting God's provision.

• Prayer is the combining of man's helplessness with his faith in God's gracious provision, and prayer translates into a heart that trust in His never-ending love.

• May all of God's children make every effort to respond to His promises and to supplement our faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and to the development of moral excellence may we add knowledge, and may our knowledge enlarge into self-control, and our self-control blossom into patient endurance.

• It was not an easy task for the Twelve, for they were forbidden to take any sort of provision for their journey.
• During this assignment, they were to rely entirely on God's provision and His sufficient strength - just like the lilies of the field and the birds of the air.

• The latter consist of those that are stubborn of heart, religiously arrogant, and boastful of their independence from God's gracious provision.

• Paul was jealous for the Corinthian Christians with a godly jealousy, having a deep desire for their spiritual well-being and growth, their spiritual protection and provision, and their spiritual maturity and purity.

• God wanted to use this natural disaster to call His people back from their moral decline and spiritual adultery, to a trusting faith in His promised provision.

• He was not pre-warned how long the drought would last nor was he informed of God's planned provision by the brook Cherith, but Elijah believed the Word of the Lord and Elijah acted upon the Word of the Lord.
• The result was an unfolding story of God's grace and provision, of God's power and sovereignty, and it resulted in God being glorified down through the ages because His servant Elijah was obedient.

• Although God is our great Provider Who supplies all our bodily needs and the daily necessities of life according to His great goodness, His greater provision is the gracious offer of the salvation of our soul, the redemption of our body, the forgiveness of our sin, and life everlasting.

• The manifold riches of God's grace towards His children sparkle like a myriad of shining stars throughout the book of Ephesians, reaching into the heavenlies as, verse by verse, we are shown more of the gracious provision that God has poured out, without measure, over the heads of all who trust in the Lord Jesus as Saviour.

• Their provision and protection came only from the Lord.
• Praise God that our strength and help, provision and protection comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth, and He will never leave us nor forsake us but will be our ever-present help.

• God's grace and provision touches all the children of men: Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.... He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

• May we learn to trust Him in all things, to depend on His provision entirely, and not feel the need to look to others for financial help or the other necessities of life.

• Christ is the provision for our need, the remedy for our fear, the cure for our problems, and the antidote to sin.

• But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

• Paul reckoned that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us, and so while incarcerated in a prison cell, he was able to write: For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers, and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

• The children of Israel were given one day's supply of manna in the wilderness in order that they might learn to trust in the sufficient provision of the Lord Who never failed to provide for their daily needs, and we also need to learn this important lesson too.

• We read of God's protection and provision in the wilderness, the establishment of the Mosaic covenant, and the construction of the tabernacle together with its measurements, furnishings, structure, and courtyard.

• Every little blade of grass or any simple wild flower or fauna, provides a beautiful example of God's abundant provision for his children and the constant care He shows to those that are His.

• He has ordered the provision of rain in the spring season, and delicious fruit in the autumn fall.