He Provides for Me!

GENESIS 22:2-14 NLT
“Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about. On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. ‘Stay here with the donkey,’ Abraham told the servants. ‘The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.’
So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together, Isaac turned to Abraham and said, ‘Father?’
‘Yes, my son?’ Abraham replied.
‘We have the fire and the wood,’ the boy said, ‘but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?’
‘God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,’ Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.
When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice. At that moment the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, ‘Abraham! Abraham!’
‘Yes,’ Abraham replied. ‘Here I am!’
‘Don’t lay a hand on the boy!’ the angel said. ‘Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.’
Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son. Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: ‘On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.’”

YAHWEH-YIREH:  JEHOVAH JIREH: “THE LORD WILL PROVIDE

“WHEN YOU’RE FOLLOWING GOD’S PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE, GOD WILL ALWAYS PROVIDE FOR THAT PURPOSE.”

3 STAGES YOU GO THROUGH TO LIVE IN GOD’S PROVISION
1. BELIEVE THAT GOD IS YOUR PROVIDER

4 WAYS PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT THEIR PROVISION
1. “I am MY PROVIDER.” - “If it’s going to be, it’s up to me.”
2. “My JOB is my PROVIDER.”
3. “The GOVERNMENT is my PROVIDER.”
4. “GOD is my PROVIDER.”

3 STAGES YOU GO THROUGH TO LIVE IN GOD’S PROVISION
1. BELIEVE THAT GOD IS YOUR PROVIDER
2. BELIEVE GOD WANTS YOU TO PROSPER

PSALM 112:1-3 NIV
“Praise the Lord.  Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in His commands. Their children will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.  WEALTH AND RICHES are in their houses, and their righteousness endures forever.”

PROVERBS 8:17-21 NKJV
“I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me. RICHES AND HONOR are with me, enduring riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yes than fine gold, and my revenue than choice silver. I traverse the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice, that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, that I may fill their treasuries.”

MATTHEW 6:25-33 NKJV
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

3 STAGES YOU GO THROUGH TO LIVE IN GOD’S PROVISION
1. BELIEVE THAT GOD IS YOUR PROVIDER
2. BELIEVE GOD WANTS YOU TO PROSPER
3. PUT YOURSELF IN A POSITION TO RECEIVE GOD’S PROVISION

4 LEVELS WE LIVE IN WITH MONEY
1. LIVING FOR THE PAST:  PAYING DEBTS
2. LIVING FOR THE NOW:  SPENDING
3. LIVING FOR THE FUTURE:  INVESTING
4. LIVING FOR ETERNITY:  GIVING

LUKE 16:10-13 NIV
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.  So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?  And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own? No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

WHEN IT COMES TO GOD PROVIDING FOR YOU: CAN GOD TRUST YOU?

2 CORINTHIANS 9:6-8 AMPLIFIED
“Now [remember] this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to others] will also reap generously [and be blessed]. Let each one give [thoughtfully and with purpose] just as he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver [and delights in the one whose heart is in his gift]. And God is able to make all grace [every favor and earthly blessing] come in abundance to you, so that you may always [under all circumstances, regardless of the need] have complete sufficiency in everything [being completely self-sufficient in Him], and have an abundance for every good work and act of charity.”

DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT GOD IS YOUR PROVIDER?

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