Who's Your Provider?

Well the days are here when you are going to have to use your faith. Your faith will be challenged up ahead and that's OK.

1Pe 1:7 AMP So that [the genuineness] of your faith may be tested, [your faith] which is infinitely more precious than the perishable gold which is tested and purified by fire. [This proving of your faith is intended] to redound to [your] praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) is revealed.

Your faith will be on trial and that's good. Good for two reasons ... 1) It will show you what you've got, showing you the depth and reality of the faith you have and ... 2) God gets praised and glorified when you use your faith. With your faith, you can honor the Master.

Heb 11:6 KJV But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Psa 106:12 KJV Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

When you truly believe God [when you have bible faith in God], which is trusting in God over emotions, over fear, over what you see with your eyes. Here's a good one, when you trust God over what the numbers say, you know, the checking account. When you crunch the numbers and it doesn't LOOK good.

When you have faith in God over the circumstances a song of praise goes up before God. The highest level of faith is when you are tested and you choose to believe and sing the song of praise to the Lord because He is your savior in "every" case. When you can sing praise to God because you believe Him and His words over the situation. When it gets hot, when the difficulty meter rises and you choose to believe the promises of God, God gets glorified, God gets touched, God may even get a little bit misty because His heart is touched. His heart is touched because there's power in the Word of God [Heb 4:12;Rom 1:16,17] and He knows His Word is the way out, His Word / Promises ... are His provisions to help us out of any and all problems. The Word is explosively powerful. When you trust His Word, you trust His provision, When you trust His Word, you trust your Father. When you trust Him as a Father, He feels like a Father. He is your Father and He is your provider and He has provided His Word and His Spirit to lead you out.

So when you're in the middle of the fire, when you're in the middle of difficulty do you look for the stuff first? You know, do you look for the money, the materials, the method so you can work it out in the flesh? Or do you look to your provider first, do you look to the promises of God and start thanking Him that He already knows we have need before we even ask?

Mat 6:31-33 KJV Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (32) (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. (33) But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

GOD IS YOUR PROVIDER

I believe you and I need to start practicing right now how we are going to act when the fires of trial come. So that when difficulties come and they do come to all of us it is not some strange thing to us but rather we do not miss a beat and just start praising God because He is our provider, He sees all, but faith in God in the middle of the heat causes great praise to ascend to God and God is moved as we are moved.

Who's Your Provider?

What or whom do you praise first? What do you exalt first?