Jehovah Jireh

It is Monday morning, 27th December, the year 2021, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

“And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

Genesis 22:14

That's right, Jehovah Jireh is our provider - nothing else. One of my favourite scriptures is Philippians 4:19:

“And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

We must be givers and not takers because the Lord is a giver. You know, we say all the silver and gold belongs to our God and all the cattle on a thousand hills belong to our God. So why are we stressing, why do we stress... Is God a liar?

“God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Numbers 23:19

He doesn’t tell lies. Therefore, we need to trust Him going forward into this New Year, in a week’s time. Our confidence is not in our strength, our confidence is in the promises of God.

“Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ”

Philippians 1:6

You know, one of my heroes is George Muller. He started the children’s homes in Bristol, England. He was a German. He started as an absolute rogue but he got gloriously saved and then he lived a life of faith, extraordinary faith. In fact, the verse for our ministry here at Shalom is Psalm 37:4 - That was George Müller’s verse:

“Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.”

He took care of no less than 10,000 children. He got no money from the government, only by faith. He said trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes even defeats are the very food of faith... Think about that!

“My God is not limited,” he said. They came to him when he was an old man (by the way, he died at the age of 92 years old) and they said, “We want to take out a pension scheme for you.” Oh, I can imagine, there must have been tears in his eyes. He said, “Thank you, very kindly, but give it to someone else. How can I now depend on a pension scheme when He has taken care of me, all of these years.”

Put your trust in Jesus and He will take care of the rest.

Have a wonderful day.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.