Treasured Truth

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.

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 participating factor. 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, then will you be able to go from promise to provision.

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.

Does it seem like you’ve been through too many trials lately? If so, God is using those trials in your life to mature you. He knows that we learn more in the valleys of life, than we do on the mountain tops.

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.”

When God instructed Abraham to sacrifice Isaac He was testing him. But after Abraham demonstrated total faith, God ultimately revealed Himself as Jehovah-Jireh and provided the sacrifice to take Isaac’s place. Today we’ll learn more about the reasons why God tests His children and see how He becomes our Jehovah-Jireh in the midst of those tests.

We should learn to connect the good times and not separate them from the bad times because God loves us in the good and He loves us in the bad. We’ll see that even negative things in our lives have divine purpose and can be part of God’s ultimate provision for us.

Today as we start to look at Genesis 22 and see how God is our ultimate provider, Pastor Ford asks us to consider how many of us have blown our blessing because we have not been prepared for what God has prepared for us? We’ll learn that there’s probably a lot of people to whom God hasn’t given their blessings, because He’s said to them, “You aren’t ready yet.”

Today, as we study John 12 and continue to learn about how Mary broke her alabaster box of fragrant perfume to anoint Jesus, we’ll see the extent of the sacrificial love she was showing to Him by doing that. And perhaps her story will compel us to consider what it is that we will sacrifice for Jesus.