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 our behalf.
'GIVE US THIS DAY,OUR DAILY BREAD..'!..7
Exo 16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Exo 16:16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
Exo 16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
Exo 16:18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Some more, some less! But no lack!
Looking at the records in Exodus 16:15-18; the children of Israel, out of the fear of scarcity, gathered more than they needed for their families in disobedience to the word of the Lord through Moses. I imagine a man coming out of his tent to gather manna. They each bring out big empty sacks to take huge measures of manna in. That was just in case Jehovah forgot to rain down some manna the next day. In that case they would have some to more to eat and what more, they could even sell to others when the manna famine came!
That was not the purpose of God. The purpose of God was for them to gather daily. We have already said that in this study over and over again. But then I think it won’t hurt for us to say it over and over. This is because as it relates to the meeting of our needs this is one of the strongholds that has taken charge on the grounds of our mind and has denied us the peace that we have needed so much.
Now when they brought the manna home they measured it and they discovered that they had no additions over their neighbors’ daily collection. Those who had some regrets because they felt they didn’t take enough also on measuring found out that they had no shortage. That was obviously a miracle!
It was a miracle teaching us a lesson that eventually whatever we may gather whether by our labors, genius and expertise at the end of the day may not necessarily give us more than is basic to man. for example we may not need more than a nice piece of suit for an outing; we may also not need more than our bed space to sleep on, neither would we drive two cars at a time. The useless extra that we keep apart is the reason why the leveler shows up. The leveler is the Divine or Satanic instrument that comes to show man that man is still man.
It comes to show us that we cannot go too far outside of the laws of God.
The leveler shows up in different ways and in different places. You remember the rich farmer? The man just had a bumper harvest. He gathered it into his barns and prepared himself for life-long enjoyment. But then the leveler came around, that night! And with a loud boom, “thou fool”, his life was cut short.
This was not a lesson in austerity. It was rather a teaching on gathering for oneself without being rich towards God.
The left-overs that stank
After they had measured and had discovered that the result of all measurement was the same, some of them still left some manna for the next day. But do you know what happened? The ones they left over bred worms the next day. And it stank.
Exo 16:19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
Exo 16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
The lesson must be learned: “fret not about tomorrow”. If you have the capacity to get ‘daily bread’ in advance of a hundred years that’s all well and good; if there seems to be obvious lack that threatens tomorrow’s provisions, do not fret! Your heavenly Father is more than enough. He is not out of business now and He is not planning to be.
THE SPIRIT-LIFE COACH IS A " NOW WORD" from the Spirit of God sent to believers to facilitate our coming into the present glory.
For more information about past messages in the series, counsel or prayer requests, you may e-mail: Pastor Dele Matthews, christcollege07@yahoo.co.uk or call 2348028783451, or 2347066668066
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.
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