“If God gives such attention to the
appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don’t you think
he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to
do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied
with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who
don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both
God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative,
God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday
human concerns will be met.” Matthew 6:30-33
Over the past two weeks I have come to
realise what it means to be in your lowest low and highest high, what it means
to call on Jesus for answers and direction, what it means to lose the things
closet to you and not understand the reason for it. But through all this I now know that Jesus is my provider.
He Always Provides A Way:
Moses, set apart and called by God to free
His people from slavery, oh the things I have learnt about Moses. Moses didn’t
know God when he was called “What is his name, what should I tell them?”, Moses
doubted himself “Who am I?”, he doubted his ability “I am not eloquent or a man
of words”, He doubted his calling "Lord, please! Send anyone else."
I love that every time Moses states why he
can’t do something God always provides an answer.
I was in a really tough season recently
trying to figure out whether I wanted to volunteer full time at my church or go
back to working permanently, it was a decision that scared me as I knew the
calling that God placed on my life and where I wanted to be but at the same
time I needed money to survive. Until a couple days ago God asked me “Do you
want to pursue your calling or your career?” God sent Moses with a staff and Aaron,
God will not send you empty handed or without support, God says “I know the
plans I have for you” this includes provision because a plan covers ALL areas.
He becomes all that is necessary to
complete our need. Knowing this I made my decision and told my boss I wanted to
volunteer full time, but my boss asked me to stay on for two days a week which
was exactly what I wanted, provision and volunteering at Church.
With this I realised that God is NOT an
either/or God He is an exceedingly, abundantly, above, all I can think, ask or
imagine God.
He Always Provides Freedom:
Rejection can be a stronghold in many
people’s lives, whether it be rejection in relationships or even in friendships.
I was struggling to understand why God kept placing people in my life only to
take them away and make me feel unappreciated, insecure and unloved and then I
read this:
“And I will make Pharaoh's heart
stubborn and hard, and multiply My signs, My wonders, and miracles in
the land of Egypt.” Exodus 7:3
God sent Moses to Pharaoh to ask him to
free the Israelites knowing that He would harden Pharaoh’s heart. God is in
control of people’s emotions, God is in control of everything, and He will keep
hardening the hearts of those who don’t belong in your life to make you grow
and surrender to Him just like Moses kept going back to God and calling upon
God for direction. When God finally softened Pharaoh’s heart, Moses walked into
his Destiny. When God softens the heart of the right person at the right time,
you will experience true freedom, with God at the centre of your relationship,
knowing that He was with you and fought on your behalf even if you did not get
what you wanted first time round.
He Always Provides Healing:
God provided several plagues, from frogs
and locusts to boils and hail, before Pharaoh finally softened his heart and let
the Israelites go. Sometimes God will let the same thing happen to you over and
over again, the same issues disguised as different situations, so that you will
realise that God is more worried about your heart condition than your
situations. He wants you to keep coming back to Him just like Moses did, until
your heart conditions become your heart convictions. If God gives you what you
want immediately you would harden your heart and God would not be able to work
on it. Let God do His work in you to prevent the same pattern from occurring over
and over again.
He Always Provides Strength:
Moses Said “For since I came to Pharaoh to
speak in Your name, he has done evil to this people, neither have You delivered
Your people at all.” Exodus 5:23
Sometimes we don’t understand why we go
through difficult situations, why we lose opportunities or people yet we are
still expected to keep on moving forward.
The path only gets tougher when you start
walking on it, like climbing a mountain. It’s only when you deal with it, push
through and the end is in sight that you have the will power to move forward.
God is motivating us to never give up, so that when we go through the same
things it will be easier to keep going. A God plan: Process + Pain = Progress
The only thing God wants for us is to trust
Him and make Him the centre of everything in our life and the only way we can
do that is to want God more than what we want in life. He wants to be our Joy,
our hope and our first love, He wants this because He loves us, made us and
chose us to fulfil our God given plan and purpose…
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