Day 35
Philippians 4:19 NIV
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
And my God will meet all of Freda’s needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus. Not according to earth’s supply, but according to God’s supply. Every need will be met.
Father, I thank you that you are my provision. This is not just my financial supplier, but you meet every need in my life. Your abundance knows no limitations because you are the Limitless One. When I feel lack in my life, I need only to trust in the one who knows no lack, but who is able to supply for my every need. Thank you for the reminder that it is not Freda who provides for all of my own needs, but you. You give me what I need from your storehouse. May my heart truly begin to comprehend this truth and live out of the abundance that you make available through your glorious riches. May my hope be kept in Christ Jesus and not in my own ability to supply.
Each time I read this verse I am reminded to focus on “God will.” It is so easy to think that I have to do, do, do for myself, but according to this verse, I need to remember who my provision is. This does not mean I have no personal responsibility to do what I can do, but it means that even in my best efforts I can’t do it for myself. God supplies me with strength to work, with finances to meet life’s demands, friendships to meet the need for connection, and the list goes on. What I have no provision for, He supplies. He has enough, He has more than enough. This phrase keeps coming up for me, but I really believe God is wanting Freda to always remember that He lacks nothing. He provides everything. Freda cannot even breathe on her own. He supplies the air to my lungs. How can I not trust that He will care for the intimate details of my life. Our God is an amazing God and today I am learning to lean in a new and liberating way. For me, applying this word is resting more in Him, and striving less to “do” all that Freda thinks she has to do to be a self supplier. Today, she is going to let God be God and rest in confident hope of His unfailing love and provision.
Comments(5)
Sue says:
February 8, 2014 at 10:56 amMy God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19
I, God, will meet all your needs, Sue, according to My glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Application:
The first thing I need to do is distinguish between my needs and my wants. The scripture doesn’t say that my every desire will be filled. My Father promises to fulfill my every need. I would probably be surprised if I looked back over the last day/week/month to find that there were needs filled that I didn’t even realize were needs. And there have been perceived ‘needs’ that were actually wants or whims. Supplying one’s needs is a method of nurturing, and equipping. Supplying one’s every ‘want’ can be dangerous.
My life assignment is to acknowledge God’s ever present role in my life. He is there, working in the background, arranging the elements that surround my life, bringing them in order to supply my need to do His will. Having always struggled with a streak for independence, His fulfilling my need will no doubt look different for me than for others. Maybe it is my constant struggle through the years with physical limitations that has molded the way He sees my needs.
My Father knows that to be more than a conqueror in this life I need to learn to lean. I need to learn the value of the body … His body. As parts of my physical body cease to function as they should, I can come up with quite the list of ‘needs’ that I see as necessities in my life … in reality, compared to God’s will, they are wants. I want to be able to wander around my yard. I want to be on my knees digging in the dirt of my flower gardens. I want to go for a stroll on the beach on a crisp morning, I want to take my morning coffee and enjoy the freshness of the flowers and birds from my front deck. All good and harmless things … unless I haven’t learned to lean on Him.
One thing He spoke to me at prayer last evening is that in order for me to rise up from where I am, I need to go lower … before I rise to my feet I need to learn to truly fall on my face before Him. I need to learn to trust unwaveringly. He has provided for every step of that need through His glorious riches in Christ Jesus. He has provided for it through His body … both at Bethel and those He brings into my life from elsewhere.
Starting today, I will make a deliberate act of exchanging my habit of being quick to judge and assume to that of seeing His body as a shining example of “His glorious riches in Christ Jesus”. Starting today, I will stop relying on self and start trusting Him more … no matter the perceived cost.
My true need is not more things, more money, or more physical ability. My true need is more of Him … my Savior, my Deliverer, my Rock, my Source. My true need is to take those timid steps of obedience forward and trust that He is there even when I can’t see the end of the path. My true need is deliberate obedience even if it means risking falling flat on my face.
Thank you Father for Your riches provided in Your Son. Thank You for promising to be my source for every need. Help me to learn to lean and to not fear that process. Help me to realize the grace, mercy and love that has been supplied when You have put what You know are my needs over my wants. Thank You for Jesus.
Jim Holmes says:
February 8, 2014 at 12:46 pmPhil 4:19 “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
When we consider that Jesus said what He heard His Father saying and did what He saw His Father doing…that He glorified His Father…that He humbled Himself and suffered death on the cross for us…that this humble servant has been given a name above every name… that Jesus intercedes for us…that Jesus is our Head…that no one can come to the Father, except through Him….Jesus, the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
When Jesus came, He was the very expression of His Father…seeing Jesus, is seeing the Father. We too, are to be the very expression of Jesus in this world. The world we live in is not our home. We have been born again…born from above. We call ourselves Christians because we follow Jesus. He is our Shepherd and we hear His voice. We are Ambassadors, representing Jesus…Christ in us, the hope of glory. We are His Body. We LIVE, because He LIVES. All our needs are met in Him. Outside of Him there is no life, but separation from God.
When Jesus came, He was concerned both for physical and spiritual needs…He touched and healed many, He forgave sin, He fed the hungry, He taught them many things regarding the Kingdom of God… and yet He did not hesitate to led His followers know that they, like Him, would be persecuted, afflicted, and suffer…
Yet, Phil. 4:19 says that God shall supply all our need. Becoming more like Jesus, doesn’t keep us “safe”, and yet “being in the arms of God” is the safest place anyone could be. It is in the valley that we become more like Jesus…it is on the mountain top that we become more like Jesus….it is “in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content” (4:11) that we are more like Jesus. We are to “know how to be abased, and how to be abound: every where and in all things we are instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.” (4:12) What need then is it that is supplied according to “his riches in glory”?
Simply said…It is the “need” to be more like Jesus. It is the “need I have” for Christ Jesus to be glorified in this mortal body. ..”in whatever state I am”.
God may be glorified in healing me. God may be glorified as regards to my growing spiritually as I patiently endure suffering for Christ Jesus. I belong to Him, and to know that…to have that assurance…is a supplied need in Christ. To know the love of God, to know the fellowship Christians supplies my need.
To conclude, in John 16…, Jesus said…
“if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.”
Just think about it. Jesus asked His Father to send to us the Person of the Holy Spirit, who is our Comforter, who is working in and through us, guiding us, showing us, glorifying Jesus.
Jim Holmes says:
February 8, 2014 at 12:49 pmPhil 4:19 “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
When we consider that Jesus said what He heard His Father saying and did what He saw His Father doing…that He glorified His Father…that He humbled Himself and suffered death on the cross for us…that this humble servant has been given a name above every name… that Jesus intercedes for us…that Jesus is our Head…that no one can come to the Father, except through Him….Jesus, the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
When Jesus came, He was the very expression of His Father…seeing Jesus, is seeing the Father. We too, are to be the very expression of Jesus in this world. The world we live in is not our home. We have been born again…born from above. We call ourselves Christians because we follow Jesus. He is our Shepherd and we hear His voice. We are Ambassadors, representing Jesus…Christ in us, the hope of glory. We are His Body. We LIVE, because He LIVES. All our needs are met in Him. Outside of Him there is no life, but separation from God.
When Jesus came, He was concerned both for physical and spiritual needs…He touched and healed many, He forgave sin, He fed the hungry, He taught them many things regarding the Kingdom of God… and yet He did not hesitate to led His followers know that they, like Him, would be persecuted, afflicted, and suffer…
Yet, Phil. 4:19 says that God shall supply all our need. Becoming more like Jesus, doesn’t keep us “safe”, and yet “being in the arms of God” is the safest place anyone could be. It is in the valley that we become more like Jesus…it is on the mountain top that we become more like Jesus….it is “in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content” (4:11) that we are more like Jesus. We are to “know how to be abased, and how to be abound: every where and in all things we are instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.” (4:12) What need then is it that is supplied according to “his riches in glory”?
Simply said…It is the “need” to be more like Jesus. It is the “need I have” for Christ Jesus to be glorified in this mortal body. ..”in whatever state I am”.
God may be glorified in healing me. God may be glorified as regards to my growing spiritually as I patiently endure suffering for Christ Jesus. I belong to Him, and to know that…to have that assurance…is a supplied need in Christ. To know the love of God, to know the fellowship Christians supplies my need.
To conclude, in John 16…, Jesus said…
“if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.”
Just think about it. Jesus asked His Father to send to us the Person of the Holy Spirit, who is our Comforter, who is working in and through us, guiding us, showing us, glorifying Jesus.
Susan Craig says:
February 8, 2014 at 4:51 pmMy God is all Powerful-able to do all
My God is Perfect love in Jesus
My God is Provider of all needs
My God is Personal to the individual
My God is Perceptive-knows thoughts and motives
My God is Peace in the storms of life
My God is Present and available at all times and all places
My God is always accessible thru Prayer
My God is Pure and holy-will never coexist with or approve of sin
My God has a Plan-a perfect Plan for His people
My God is Purposeful in action
My God Paid the Price for sin
Because of the above,I have confidence that I can know without a shadow of a doubt that my God is ready,willing and able to provide for all my needs-He does this because of His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. He is my all in all, He has everything I need and He does not withhold His blessings from me. He has an inexhaustible supply of riches in glory-He gave His only Son for lost sinners like me-Jesus gave His all for me-anything else we need is insignificant/minor in importance after what He has already provided for me on the cross. Why do I worry about anything when I know these things???
Lord forgive me for not always trusting in what I already know to be true. I am still seeking wisdom which is not just having knowlege but understanding and application of that knowledge in my life. I look to you Lord to supply that wisdom.
Pat McRae says:
February 8, 2014 at 9:33 pmPat, Paul says his God, Who is your God shall supply all, not just some but all you need, with His riches. Christ Jesus’ riches in glory are there for your need.
Father forgive me for the times I have thought You had withheld something from me that I thought I needed. You have been so faithful to complete Your Word to me. I have never been without food, clothing, or a roof over my head. You have supplied the ability to make money, the health to see each day with enough energy to do Your Will and You have always supplied away out of any situation I have found myself in. So often I have come with my wants thinking they were needs and You in Your grace and mercy have so generously given to me.
I thank You Father that the things You have withheld were the things that would of destroyed me; things that would of lead me away from You.
Yes You truly have provided for my every need and I want for no good thing.
I love You!