worry and anxiety will grip my life
when i begin to rely on anything other than GOD.
philippians 4.19 (gnt), and with all HIS abundant wealth through CHRIST JESUS, my GOD will supply all your needs.
and GOD not only cares and not only is HE willing but he has the abundant wealth. HE has the funds, the money to meet my every need.
paul says GOD will supply all that you ever need. GOD has promised to provide everything that i need, not everything that i desire. in fact, no loving parent ever gives his child everything he desires. you as a parent know better than they do what they need.
and the same is true of GOD. sometimes as a loving parent HE will say no. sometimes as a loving parent HE won’t give us everything we ask. but HE will give us what we need.
listen to these words from a prayer at the end of proverbs in chapter 30.8-9 (lb). give me neither poverty nor riches. give me just enough to satisfy my needs. the verse goes on to say, for if i grow rich i may become content without GOD and if i’m poor i may steal and thus insult GOD’s holy name.
the writer of this prayer was saying, “i understand myself. LORD, i know if i have too much my temptation is to not trust YOU. i want it to be enough in my life just to be content that you meet my need.”
can you be content with that? it’s hard in the culture in which we live and the county in which we live to be content with that. i love what matt atkins says, “the problem with contentment is that i always want more of it.” that’s a great statement. we are a want more generation.
just a thought from the front porch…
philippians 4.19 (gnt), and with all HIS abundant wealth through CHRIST JESUS, my GOD will supply all your needs.
and GOD not only cares and not only is HE willing but he has the abundant wealth. HE has the funds, the money to meet my every need.
paul says GOD will supply all that you ever need. GOD has promised to provide everything that i need, not everything that i desire. in fact, no loving parent ever gives his child everything he desires. you as a parent know better than they do what they need.
and the same is true of GOD. sometimes as a loving parent HE will say no. sometimes as a loving parent HE won’t give us everything we ask. but HE will give us what we need.
listen to these words from a prayer at the end of proverbs in chapter 30.8-9 (lb). give me neither poverty nor riches. give me just enough to satisfy my needs. the verse goes on to say, for if i grow rich i may become content without GOD and if i’m poor i may steal and thus insult GOD’s holy name.
the writer of this prayer was saying, “i understand myself. LORD, i know if i have too much my temptation is to not trust YOU. i want it to be enough in my life just to be content that you meet my need.”
can you be content with that? it’s hard in the culture in which we live and the county in which we live to be content with that. i love what matt atkins says, “the problem with contentment is that i always want more of it.” that’s a great statement. we are a want more generation.
just a thought from the front porch…
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