How many of us are anxious or troubled today about things? We worry and stress over things we have no
control over many times but if we are true believers we can trust in the Lord. Years ago I was truly was committed to the
Lord and so was my wife and we still are.
At the time we were raising five children on about fifteen
thousand dollars a year with some assistance and we never lacked for anything
we needed because the Lord always provided. When I was laid off of work the Lord provided
for us then also. I remember a lady from
the church we were going to at the time came to our apartment to talk to us and
before she left she handed us some money. Not long after she left, a man knocked on our
door that neither one of us really knew, I had met him one time but my wife
didn’t know him at all. He said that the
Lord told Him that we needed help and he gave us over one hundred dollars and I
took him home. I knew his wife because
she came to our church but he didn’t and these people were far from rich people.
My wife has always taken care of our finances and was always
thrifty with money and she never spent money on trivial things that were just
wants but only on what we really needed. It was amazing how the Lord would move on
people’s hearts and they would respond, sending us money in the mail or even
handing me money at times and also providing food when we needed it. The Lord was always faithful and His Word says
that He doesn’t change, He is the same yesterday, today and forever; it also
says that He is not a man that He should lie so His Word is as true today as it
was then.
I remember one time a man noticed that we didn’t have any
fans in the house we were living in at the time and it would get very warm at
times, as you all know, so he bought us some fans to cool the house down; what
a blessing that was! Like I said, the
Lord always provided for us, using faithful people. I can remember doing lawns and once or twice not
getting paid, but praise the Lord He always came through. I can remember a guy taking advantage of me in
a garage sale on a computer part and not long after that a man called me that
knew nothing about what happened and told me that the Lord told Him to give me
a computer, which he did along with some stereo equipment, praise the Lord.
I am saying these things trying to encourage whoever reads
this blog not to worry but to trust in the Lord and He will met your needs. He may not provide for your needs the same way
as He did mine but we can be confident that He will provide when we put our
trust totally in Him.
Please read Matthew 6:25-32, “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall
eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is
not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the
air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your
heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by
taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for
raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not,
neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass
of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he
not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought,
saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be
clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly
Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.”
The Word of the Lord also tells us to be anxious for nothing,
please read Philippians 4:4-8, “Rejoice
in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to
all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to
God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your
hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever things are
true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are
pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there
is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
The Lord knows what we need before we even ask Him and I
believe that He wants to provide for whatever need we have and He rewards those
that diligently seek Him by faith. Please
read Hebrews 11:6, “But without faith it
is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
Enough said, may you have a blessed day and may the Lord’s
blessings be on you and yours!! And
don’t forget to thank and praise the Lord for He is worthy!!
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