SUPERNATURAL PROVISIONS

SUPERNATURAL PROVISION

This is going to sound blunt but you just have to speak in truth no matter the sting.

There is a vast difference between the brethren helping in our needs than begging.

Even when the brethren helps with those needs are you yourself willing to grow in faith and trust in the Lord for His provisions verses the provisions from the brethren. When someone falls we help them up to their feet but we can’t walk for them, they must walk themselves. When Peter said arise and walk it still took faith for that person even though healed to arise and walk. Jesus continually said, your faith has made you well.

So it is with faith, rendering greater faith, glory going to glory, trust growing into deeper trust and revelations of God’s continual and growing love in us.

When you ask over and over and over again that is begging and unbelief in God’s sovereignty and the truth of His Word. Even though you are tested, perplexed on all sides doesn’t mean God is not true to His Word. Miracles happen through us from Christ within us, just as much as God performing miracles out of His love directly to us.

These matters always bring back to my mind “many are called but few are chosen”. If you are chosen for a specific calling then the Lord will provide and hardship and persecution is the normal way of life. Yes I know what the word says about if you see someone in need we are to provide but when you constantly lean on the brethren you have made the brethren your lord and not Jesus Christ.

Go back to the Old Testament and read the cries of the prophets, the Psalms of David and how they petitioned the Lord not the brethren. If you want revelations of God’s supernatural provision it must come from Him by you seeking Him! He is the author and finisher of your faith not the brethren.

Look at the original sin and how Satan temped Eve. He presented it as “lack” God holding back! You are in a spiritual war but you rely on physical provision, but you need spiritual provision which renders the natural.

I lost jobs, health, friends, family and even professing Christians in my journey with the Lord! Stand up in spirit and truth like I had to do! Speak to the Devil in Spirit and Truth like I had to. “Devil you come to steal, kill and destroy but I tell you the Lord God can out bless anything that you steal and the Lord Jesus is my provider so while you may continue to steal and use others to keep me from my provisions my Lord is able to out bless anything you can take!”

I have also been in such poor physical health because of the enemies attacks. I couldn’t breath well at all. Walking 10 feet was about all I could do and I would have to rest for 30 minutes. This was terrible as I was alone with no family, friends or church family. One day I had enough! I said Devil you can’t take my breath away from me! I have the breath of life dwelling in me! Go now in the name of Jesus! I don’t even know where the strength came from as I was so weak but I shouted it out as loud as I could. My breath was restored and healing began in my body.

Stop living from defeat, stop being carnal in thought and put on the armor of God. You feel like you are alone and abandoned that is where the Lord brings all of us eventually so we can become totally dependent upon the Lord.

How do you think Job must have felt when even his wife told him to curse God! You are on a battlefield not a playground. If you don’t engage in the battle defeat will be your portion.

Job 2:9–10 (NKJV)

⁹ Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!”

¹⁰ But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

I will tell you this I believe every true saint will experience the fullness of what is written which includes suffering, hardships, abandonment, false accusations and the like. The bible bears witness all the way from Genesis through Revelations what a life in Christ resembles. We are no different than the saints that were before us.

Could this be how people go astray? They make the brethren their lord even without knowing it. How will you overcome when you can no longer buy or sell food when the Antichrist comes if you are a beggar in the Kingdom of Heaven?

I still believe in a fire by night, cloud by day and fresh manna from heaven. I believe in fish and bread being multiplied and I believe when we are thankful for what we have and are good stewards of what we have the Lord provides the increase.

Unbelief is not righteousness, it is doubt, lack of faith and it relies on our own ability which we do not have. It is only by God’s ability, His love, mercy and grace.

Psalm 37:25 (NKJV)

25 I have been young, and now am old;

Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,

Nor his descendants begging bread.

Tuck in your shirt, tighten your belt, straighten your cap, put on your boots, hold your head up and stand up firm in the Lord not shaken tossed to and fro.

We are not living in the Garden of Eden we are walking through the valley of the shadow of death!

Ephesians 6:10–20 (NKJV)

The Whole Armor of God

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. ¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³ Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; ¹⁸ praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—¹⁹ and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV)

⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

The great commission included “take nothing with you” meaning total dependency upon the Lord. Your current “lack” is an opportunity to grow in Christ but you must believe in His Word and that Jesus is true to His Word.

Please read 1 Thessalonians 3

May you be strengthened in Spirit and Truth and may you continue to grow in Christ Jesus our hope and glory.