"provide our every need"

Thursday, March 27, 2014 (7:52 a.m.)

Most Holy God,

I'm here with not much to say. So let me begin with, “Thank You.” You provide.

Yes! You provide our every need. And just like that I am sitting here in awe of You again. Searching the phrase “provide our every need” yielded me two sections of Scripture. Both have my heart jumping with hope.

With that said, I don't even now which most to pursue. I am excited. Hope-filled. Agog. Eager to tell. You provide our every need. Maybe not our wants. But absolutely our needs! Thank You Father. Thank You God.

Ephesians 1:7-10. Yes. That's the one. “Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, His blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we're a free people – free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans He took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in Him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.”

And as if this passage from The Message were not enough, I read along even further in The Living Bible. “Moreover, because of what Christ has done, we have become gifts to God that He delights in, for as part of God's sovereign plan we were chosen from the beginning to be His, and all things happen just as He decided long ago” (v.11).

I'm a gift to You? That You delight in? Whoa! How have I never paid attention to that before? I'm a part of Your sovereign plan and all things happen as You decided long ago. Should I chose to believe this, why in this world would I ever want to worry and fret and stew about all the variables that we come across every day.

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Oh, but now I'm reading again in The Message.

“It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, He had His eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone” (Ephesians 1:11-12).

What comfort and joy we get to take away from reading Your Word! How I thank You for every single need You meet!

This morning I needed to want to be here with You. You provided for me. I hadn't even properly asked and You gave me what I needed. Thank You Dearest God.

Paul shared this very truth in his letter of thankful joy to the Philippians (4:19). Quoted here from The Voice, “Know this: my God will also fill every need you have according to His glorious riches in Jesus the anointed, our Liberating King.”

Loving Father, how I thank You. Keep me in Your presence as I proceed with the remainder of this day. I love You and long to be the woman You created me to be. Make it so Dearest Dad, make it so.

Thank You. I love You. Amen.

(546 words ~ 2:17 p.m.)