Treasured Truth

As we look forward to Father’s Day this weekend, Pastor Ford will challenge men today to be “men on the wall,” He will describe how John the Baptist didn’t believe gray areas.  For John, it was black or white and he didn’t care who you were, he’d get up in your face and say, ‘Thus sayeth the Lord!’  And that’s what we need today!  If you’re going to be a man on the wall, then you can’t be mealy-mouthed, you can’t be namby-pamby, and wishy-washy.  You have to stand on the truth in God’s Word!

Abraham learned Who God is by what He went through.  He learned that God is the answer. But just like Abraham, we have to be given a problem so that we can discover all that God is.  So to Abraham, God became Jehovah-Jireh.  And if we go through the problem that we are given, what we’ll find is that God reveals His name to us according to what we need.”

Today we’ll see how, as part of being Jehovah-Jireh to us, God puts stuff where we can get it, when we need it, even when we don’t know that we need it.  He then reveals His provision to us at just the right time—when we’re ready to receive it.

Faithfulness now produces fruitfulness later.  We’ll see today how God will test us in the little to reveal to us whether we will be faithful in the much.

We have the revelation on this side—God’s promise.  Then we have the manifestation on the other side—God’s provision.  And well look further today at how the bridge that allows us to cross over from promise to provision is our obedience.

In preparation for Father’s Day later this month, we’re beginning to look at the story of Jairus, who came to Jesus with the one intention of getting his daughter healed.  And Pastor Ford wants dads to see that the first step in the process of a father seeing his children healed, seeing them raised, is for the father to come to Jesus intentionally.

Without God we can’t and without us God won’t.  And so we have to be participants in His plan.  And our obedience is the factor that allows us to participate.  It’s the bridge that takes us to our provision.

Pastor Ford asks today, “Will you do the unthinkable?  Is your faith greater than your fears?  Is the promise greater than your problem?”  Because, only when all of those things are true, will you then be able to go from God’s promises to His provisions for your life.

As we look further at how God is our ultimate provider, Pastor Ford will explain that our provision is tied to our obedience. We aren’t going to get what God has for us until we do what God has told us to do.

As we continue to learn about God as our ultimate provider, we’ll see that the provision God has for us is often right in front of us—everybody can see it.  But in order for us to see it as His provision, He has to reveal it and manifest it to us as Jehovah-Jireh—the God Who puts what we need, where we need it, until we need it, even when we don’t know that we need it.”