Provision Increased Faith Part 2

 

Provision

Increased Faith Part 2

Our resources are not limited to prayer and a miracle

Our resources are not locked up in heaven and you need a key

Think of this

There is no limit of concrete and trees to build our great cities and roads

It is under our feet every day, we just have to harvest it

Your house, your car, your food, your health all are part of an amazing plan of God

When He created the earth

The question is, will you care for His garden or will you ask for more?

Don’t forget when God made man He made the earth to sustain us

When man’s ways became corrupt

God made provision for godliness through Jesus Christ

We have to learn the balance of our provisions

Both the things we need of life and the things we need for godliness

Come from the LORD 

He has already served us everything we need

We need to serve Him to find those provisions         

Provision

Over 30 years ago I got an infection called cellulitis.

I almost died refusing medical attention

waiting for my miracle of healing.

Now over thirty years later,

 I got cellulitis again.

This time I prayed and I

sought medical attention.

I went to an Urgent Care and as I

was waiting to see the doctor I thought…

What is my answer to why I am seeking

medical attention when thirty some years

ago I would stand in faith for my healing?

Has my faith become weak over the years?

No, my faith is still strong in

Jesus Christ and the Scriptures.

So has something been taking away from the

three things I believe in for healing?

Proper care of my body by physical

activity every day, healthy nutrition

 and pray for healing.

No, I still believe these three things.

So what has been added?

As I thought about this question in the

Urgent Care, this is the answer I came up with…

In the morning you and I

got up and had breakfast.

What we ate was something that probably

came from a grocery store…

 From a processing house or factory

 That came from a farmer

 That came from the earth God

created and filled with everything

we have need of to sustain life.

 God’s provision for my healing thirty years

ago did not come directly from prayer,

 but from God’s provision 7000

years ago when He created the earth.

God told Adam and Eve to rule over the earth.

The earth has not run out of

resources to meet our needs.

Much of what God has given us comes

from our obedience of ruling over the earth.

Your food, your house, your car, so

much of what you have is because of

ruling over the earth and being fruitful.

 

I realized as I was pondering

my question of faith..

 That our view of God is very important.

God is not our servant.

He came and served us.

 He has done so much for us,

 because He loves us so amazingly.

But we do not rule over God.

 We are not His lord.

We are God’s servants.

 We were created to take care of His garden.

 And in return, we would be taken care of.

Although thirty years ago, or ever in my life,

did I think of being God’s lord…

 I did not realize all of my role as being His

servant and Jesus Christ being fully my Lord.

I still believe in the three things of…

Proper care of my body by physical activity

every day, and healthy nutrition.

When affliction comes doing  

the third thing, pray for healing.

But now I have added a fourth thing…

Looking to God to ‘where” my help comes from.

  

If we look at the battles of Israel,

 God did not become Israel’s servant.

He did not jump to their every command.

 But He did teach them to turn to Him as LORD

to find where their help would come from.

In every battle there was a different solution.

Someone once said they were praying long

and hard and God finally showed up and said…

“Stop waiting for Me, I am waiting for you.”

I still pray for instantaneous healing and

that is what I want God to do every time.

But I realize God has given me everything

 I need for life and godliness

from the foundation of the earth.

And I need to be about my Father’s

business to find those resources.

Our resources are not limited

to prayer and a miracle.

Our resources are not locked

up in heaven and you need a key.

Think of this…

 There is no limit of concrete and trees

to build our great cities and roads.

It is under our feet every day,

 we just have to harvest it.

Your house, your car, your food, your health

all are part of an amazing plan of

God when He created the earth.

The question is…

 Will you care for His garden

or will you ask for more?

Who is Lord?…

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,

whose hope is in the LORD his God,

the Maker of heaven and earth,

the sea, and everything in them —

the LORD, who remains faithful forever.

Don’t forget when God made man

He made the earth to sustain us.

When man’s ways became corrupt…

 God made provision for godliness

through Jesus Christ.

We have to learn the balance of our provisions.

Both the things we need of life and the things

we need for godliness come from the LORD.

 

He has already served us everything we need.

We need to serve Him to find those provisions.

          

       

Scripture Reading

2 Peter 1:3-4 NIV

3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Psalms 146:5-10 NIV

7 He upholds the cause of the oppressed

and gives food to the hungry.

The LORD sets prisoners free,

8 the LORD gives sight to the blind,

the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down,

the LORD loves the righteous.

9 The LORD watches over the alien

and sustains the fatherless and the widow,

but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

10 The LORD reigns forever,

your God, O Zion, for all generations.

Praise the LORD.