Provision

“Because if I focus first on the provisions, then as soon as the perceived provisions stop, it impacts my level of thanksgiving. But who he is, that'll never change. Who he has declared me to be, that'll never change.”

“So joy is experienced through God's provision, but not God's provision in the things that he gives, but God's provision in the fact that he gives us himself. The fourth thing I want us to see in the text is that joy is found in obedience to the counsel of God's word. Joy is found in the obedience or in obedience to the counsel of God's word.”

“Your money, your savings account doesn't provide for you. The provisions of your life and my life are provisions of God. And every day we must recognize his divine care and provision for us in and through all things. But the problem is we tend to separate and compartmentalize the biggies of life and the little things of life.”

“Now, when this happened, the good news is that God did not just push us to the side. He didn't just throw us away. But what he did is he created a plan. And so now we see God's provision. We have sinned. We've fallen short of the glory of God. But then we see God's provision. And his provision is this, that the father sent his son, Jesus. To live a perfect life, a life that none of us could live, and to ultimately be nailed to the cross and experience the most humiliating death that you could ever experience.”

“Number two, provision. Paul writes to Timothy an instruction for the members of his church saying this in 1 Timothy 5.8, but if anyone does not provide for his relatives and especially for the members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Worse than an unbeliever. Not a disappointment, not a work in progress. Worse than an unbeliever. Man, take that seriously. This begins with financial provision.”

“That's not what provision is. Provision is working hard to provide for the needs of your family. But never at the expense of your family. Guys, we've got to step up as leaders of our family to lead them in the word and not just let our wives do it in our absence. We must not lose our family at the altar of your work.”

“But here's the thing, joy and faith and courage, they are built when we look back and when we behold the goodness and the faithfulness of God and when we recognize and remember his movement and his provision on our behalf.”

“Lord, to baptize eight people in a week, Father, we're just, just the sense that we are swept up into something so much bigger than us. God, that you're doing this work in Grovetown that we've just been invited to come along and to watch and to be a party to it and we're grateful for it, Lord. Thank you for your provision to our church.”