Hi Everyone
Here's last Friday night's Bible study notes and the audio in mp3 format for your download.
This is Part 1 of how God provides for all our needs. Please do have a listen and meditate on the scriptures we have discussed. God's Word will never return void when we sow it into our lives!
Isaiah 55:11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. (NKJV)
Blessings!
Chris
Needs Are Provided
All Our Needs ARE Met!
Since Old Testament time, it was God’s covenant that enables us to have provision.
Deuteronomy 8:18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. (NKJV)
We today are under a BETTER covenant, bought by the blood of Jesus.
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. (NKJV)
He is able to make ALL grace abound, that we have abundance for every good work!
2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (NKJV)
We have all that pertain to LIFE and GODLINESS. But is comes through the knowledge of Him, that’s why Jesus said:
Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (NKJV)
These ARE your entitlements as Sons of God, that your needs would be met, that you should have no worry about these things. You need to read the context of the scriptures that I have provided to
- Convince yourself that this is contextually accurate
- Let them renew your mind so that you grow from glory to glory
All About Knowing God
The whole thing is a relationship. We need to start with a love walk with the Father first. Get to know Him, enjoy Him and know His love.
The deeper truth in knowing the Lord is realizing that when we have Him, we have ALL things. The Psalmist says:
Psalm 37:3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. (NKJV)
Delight in what the Word says.
When we delight ourselves in the Lord, when we trust Him, our desires become His and we enjoy His faithfulness.
Holy Spirit = Good Things
Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! (NKJV)
Persistence is required, not because God is deaf, but because we aren't (and will never be) fully tuned this side of Heaven.
Luke 11:9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (NKJV)
All good things come through the Holy Spirit. When we start to understand more about His glory in us, when we start to look at the Word and see ourselves in the Spirit, when we start to walk according to who He has made us to be, we start to enjoy all good things. We need to step out of the boat.
Worry and Wealth
Matthew 6:31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (NKJV)
The key is not to worry. We said last week that worry is the opposite of meditating on God’s Word. When we are focused on what our 5 senses tell us, it breeds worry. Meditating on God’s Word is the opposite of worry. When we focus on God’s love revealed in the Word, we walk by faith, not by sight.
Stay focused on the things of the Lord, the things we have because of His love. Set you mind on eternal things, things above.
Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. (NKJV)
What are eternal things? Everything we see in sonship is eternal. Everything we see here is not.
The more it dawns on us who we are, the more we take advantage of this [prince Charles anecdote]
The more we see that our needs have been provided, the more we will have faith and the more they will be, for this IS in God’s Word.
(Rom 10:17, Heb 11:1)
It’s When You Don’t Care for It for You
The Bible is all about love. Love is always about someone else, not about you.
Much of worry is often about us – that we won’t have enough.
James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. (NKJV)
When we learn to cast our care on Him, He takes care of our needs. When we put others first, we are taken care of. Those last shall be first.
Mark 9:35 And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.” (NKJV)
He Loves Us
We can live without cares, not be care-ful, because we have been loved.
1 John 4:19 We love Him because He first loved us.
20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? (NKJV)
We need to trust this love that God has for us.
Romans 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? (NKJV)
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