THE FATHER’S PROVISION

              THE FATHER’S PROVISION

One of the responsibilities of a father to his children is to provide for them. The children would not be obliged to call Him daddy if he doesn’t provide for them. Children tend to love their father more when he meets their needs. We all as God’s children have different kind of needs. We are all searching for answers and solutions only God can provide. Fortunately for us our heavenly father knows what we need even before we ask him for supplies. Our earthly fathers may not all know what we need until we draw their attention to it but our heavenly father knows what we need before we even know we need it.

^7-8 “Don’t recite the same prayer over and over as the heathen do, who think prayers are answered only by repeating them again and again. Remember, your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him! {Romans 6:7-8 TLB}

Every good father works hard to provide for his family. It is in the nature of fathers to supply the needs of their children and this is because all men are made in the image and likeness of God. If our earthly fathers know how to provide and give good gifts to their children, we can be rest assured that God does even much more.

¹¹ And if you hard-hearted, sinful men know how to give good gifts to your children, won’t your Father in heaven even more certainly give good gifts to those who ask him for them?{Matthew 7:11 TLB}

You may be going through a period of severe lack, thinking that God has forgotten you and that he doesn’t want to provide for you. I can assure you that God desires to meet every need of his children. No good thing will he withhold from his children. If he feeds and clothe the birds of the field, will he not much more feed and clothe his children? If he watches over the sparrow, will his eyes not be much more upon his begotten children? Will he not see their need and make provisions?

²⁵ “So my counsel is: Don’t worry about things—food, drink, and clothes. For you already have life and a body—and they are far more important than what to eat and wear. ²⁶ Look at the birds! They don’t worry about what to eat—they don’t need to sow or reap or store up food—for your heavenly Father feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than they are. ²⁷ Will all your worries add a single moment to your life?

²⁸ “And why worry about your clothes? Look at the field lilies! They don’t worry about theirs. ²⁹ Yet King Solomon in all his glory was not clothed as beautifully as they. ³⁰ And if God cares so wonderfully for flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow, won’t he more surely care for you, O men of little faith?

^31-32 “So don’t worry at all about having enough food and clothing. Why be like the heathen? For they take pride in all these things and are deeply concerned about them. But your heavenly Father already knows perfectly well that you need them, 

{Matthew 6:25-32 TLB}

All that the father desires his children to do is to believe that Daddy can and will provide. God our father doesn’t want us to worry and complain about what we lack but to believe that he is the ultimate provider and that he will provide. He wants his children to know that he is not a wicked father.

 Not wanting us to worry, God the father has asked us to just ask him in faith whenever we need anything. If only we can ask him with full assurance that he can provide then the supply shall be ours. The birds that do not ask get fed by God. Will he not be more obliged to provide for his children if they ask?

⁷ “Ask, and you will be given what you ask for. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened. ⁸ For everyone who asks, receives. Anyone who seeks, finds. If only you will knock, the door will open. ⁹ If a child asks his father for a loaf of bread, will he be given a stone instead? ¹⁰ If he asks for fish, will he be given a poisonous snake? Of course not! {Matthew 7:7-10 TLB}

Earthly fathers do not give snake to their children when they ask for fish neither do they give stone instead of bread. God doesn’t withhold any good thing from His children. He provides exceedingly and abundantly for his children every good thing they desire. He gives good and perfect gifts to his children.

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. {James 1:17 KJV}

¹¹ For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. {Psalm 84:11 KJV}

I know without a doubt that Abba father will provide our needs according to his riches in glory. He is Jehovah Jireh, he see the need and provides for it. He said in his word that any man who cannot provide for his family is worse than an infidel and of course we know he is God and cannot be worse than an infidel. Hence he will provide much more for us.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. {1Timothy 5:8 KJV}

We are God’s household and members of His body. Even if God decides not to provide for outsiders, will he not provide for the members of his household? If he causes the rain to fall on the good and the bad, will he not much more rain blessings on his own children?

He who spared not his only begotten son Jesus and offered him up for us, will he not give us all things to enjoy. When he brought us into his family, it is so that he can lavish his gift giving on us.

As for the rich in this present world, instruct them not to be conceited and arrogant, nor to set their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. {1 Timothy 6:17 AMP}

³² He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?{Romans 8:32 KJV}

Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son. {Ephesians 1:4-6 MSG}

God through the hand of our elder brother has provided everything that we need for life and Godliness. It is with him that we receive all the blessings our father has for us. God has made him heir of all things, both things in this world and in the world to come. But not only that, God made us joint heirs with him. In other words, all that belongs to the father belongs to us also. We share in the divine inheritance. No wonder apostle Paul said “All things are yours”. Yes everything belongs to us. Because the earth is the Lord’s and its fullness thereof. Everything belongs to our father and we are the ones who have the right to inherit all that the father has.

¹⁶ The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

¹⁷ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

{Romans 8:16-17 KJV}

I know someone may be thinking God has forsaken them and do not care about their needs. Even if a mother will forsake her suckling child, God cannot forsake his children. I can boldly declare to you that God cares more about your need than you even care about them. God desires to supply your needs more than you even want him to. He has said to cast your cares on him because he cares for you. My biological father prepares my school fees and feeding money ready even before I need the money. He knows without a reminder that he has to send the money into my account before the session resumes. He knows the exact time to make the supplies available. You can imagine that God does much more than that for us.

 ⁷ casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully]. {1Peter 5:7 AMP}

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.{Isaiah 49:15 KJV}

I want whoever it is that feels like giving up to hold on just a little while because Abba shall supply. I know he will provide. He is about to send the blessings in abundance. It may have delayed but he is sending provisions in triple folds. He is sending both the former and the latter rain at the same time. He is sending you corn, wine and oil. You shall eat in plenty and you shall be satisfied. He is giving beauty in place of ashes. The oil of joy is about to burst forth to replace your mourning and the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness. Hold on, Daddy is working it out for your good. He is saving the best for the last. Get your baskets ready. Bring your vessels not a few. I hear the sound of abundance of rain. Be glad children of God. He is taking away the shame.

¹⁹ Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:{ Joel 2;19}

²³ Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

²⁴ And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

²⁵ And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

²⁶ And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of theLord your God,that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

²⁷ And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am theLord your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.{ Joel 2:23-27 KJV}