"give us this day, our daily bread"...4

                                                              The Spirit-Life Coach

Premised on the principles of faith and Divine provisions as seen in the Sabbath Days we intend to launch into the deep as it relates to our rest in the God who is more than enough for our needs. We look into His heart full of love for us and into His hands full of works done to meet our needs. For He said “touch my hands and see the holes in there”. The holes came because He would provide for us…because of this we can look to Him and say…’give us this day, our daily bread’…and then go rest…knowing that those hands have gone to work…on ourbehalf

                                               'GIVE US THIS DAY,OUR DAILY BREAD..'!..4

Daily Manna

While it is true that we may grow beyond having to depend on God for the daily bread literally, it is nonetheless also true that we will always need the Lord to meet our needs. I believe this is why the Lord is has lead us to define ‘day’ with graduated meanings. This is because our needs will rise in the quantity of cash or financial resources that it will take to meet them as we grow in the Kingdom. For example the weight of my needs have grown some since I was twenty years Old. But the word remains the same; always there to tell me that God is able and ever ready to meet me at the point of those needs.

In other words whether we are trusting God to provide for the literal daily bread or for money to pay up on our mortgages or for money to get land and build our own homes or yet for private jets to meet the needs of our business or the ministry, it is still the Lord that we have to look up to for our supplies.

We never outgrow our need for Him especially if we are walking with Him.

In the wilderness they had a problem with the literal provision of food on the table! Many believers in Nigeria fall into that category today. Even people who actually have gone past that phase sometimes find themselves and their families confronted with hunger. Have you ever found yourself in the place where you seem to say…’except the Lord really provides today we are not sure to have food to fill our stomachs in this house’? I have.

And it is good for us to know how to trust God for those situations. In the beginning of my walk with God I would really fret about that. But then I began to learn when I saw how God proved Himself to me as the one who is always there.

Like I said in the beginning I faltered and fell, but then when I began to learn firstly; what God wanted to achieve by allowing me to pass through those situations and secondly how He works to meet those needs I began to overcome in those areas. Then I also began to transfer those basic principles to other areas of needs. This is the point I still am and that I am still growing in.

Let’s take some time to look into the word and see how we may overcome.

Exo 16:2  And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

Exo 16:3  And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Exo 16:4  Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

Exo 16:5  And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.

Exo 16:6  And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:

Israel murmured against the Lord. God promised to provide food for them. I hope you have overcome on murmuring and blaming the Lord for your trials and adverse situations? You just have got because that’s the first hurdle. But then the sin of murmuring is not what we are focusing upon here. It’s still good for you to know anyway that you won’t overcome much in this area until you have learnt to stop murmuring and blaming the Lord or others for your challenges.

Strange provisions!

How did the Lord promise to provide for them? By raining bread down from heaven! Strange isn’t it?! It’s strange because we are not used to it. Whatever we have had all our lives have either come from the ground or come from our sides. The ground represents the fruit of our labours while our sides represent that which comes to us from man. We are not used to heaven’s bread my brother! Among other things this is also because we are going to be at the mercy of God! We are going to be waiting on Him. We didn’t grow up this way…I mean we were not brought up in this way!

I’m sure someone is thinking ‘well, I earn a good salary, why in the world am I going to ever depend on manna from heaven’. You know what? If we are really walking with the Lord we are not only going to need manna from heaven, we are going to be sustained by it at one point or the other in relation to the provision of our daily needs. Even those of us who come from privileged backgrounds will have to learn the basics of daily provisions. The Holy Spirit knows how to do the teaching. He will teach and take us by the hand to train us.

The Lord’s yoke makes us need the manna!

 Just like the Lord took them into the wilderness so did the Father also lead the Christ into the wilderness and just like Christ was led so are we also going to be led into the wilderness. Even when we are in our promised Land sometimes you may find that you have given out so much to those who are needy around you that you will have to look up for your own redemption from the Lord.

There may be times when God’s work in your hand and around you will demand so much from your purse that you may have to depend on God for your own sustenance. Relatives and other believers may be so much in need that you are compelled to share your own resources with them.

These things happen.

It is the yoke of the Lord! And He says His yoke is easy and His burden is light. That means He will be on hand to catch us when we get to that point. Those who do not know the Lord will never yield to this yoke.

We shall see the principles of the manna in the next edition.

THE SPIRIT-LIFE COACH IS A " NOW WORD" from the Spirit of God sent to believers to facilitate our coming into the present glory.

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Pastor Dele Matthews is Senior Minister, Restoration Ministries and Dean of Studies, Christ College- a Word School set up for the Spiritual Growth of ALL Christians, focussing on bringing the believer into the fullness of Christ.