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Miss T; " Let it Rock" --- On Wed, 5/20/09, paida motsi <[email protected]> wrote: From: paida motsi <[email protected]> Subject: God's Financial Provision: Ask Him for Help - Daily Devotional To: "tribewithavibe" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 7:03 AM Having trouble viewing this email? View the online version. May 19, 2009 God's Financial Provision: Ask Him for Help by Rick Warren "You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need, His generosity exceeding even yours in the glory that pours from Jesus" (Philippians 4:19 MSG). There is an amazing, incredible, and all-encompassing promise in Philippians 4:19 (NIV) regarding provision: "...God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus." Note the first two words: "God will..." It doesn't say, "He might meet your needs," it says, "He will meet your needs." It's written as a fact; God is staking His character and His reputation on it. Then the Bible says, "God will meet all..." It doesn't say, "I'll meet some of your needs." It says "all." Now, understand that it doesn't say, "I'll meet all your greeds." There's a big difference between needs and wants. As a parent, do you give your kids everything they want? I hope you don't. You don't do that because you love them. And your heavenly Father loves you. He's not going to give you everything you want because if He did, you'd be spoiled to death. He won't give us everything we want, but he will give us everything we need. Then why do you have financial needs? Did God fail? Did he lie? Did he exaggerate? No! With every promise, there is a premise—there are conditions and requirements. When God makes a promise, he says, "I'll do my part and you do your part." God's financial wisdom is clearly laid out for us in His Word. Although the Bible discusses many aspects of financial health—including principles of saving, spending, giving, investing, and stewardship—over the next few days we're going to look at five specific conditions for financial stability. First, ask for His help. Jesus says, "Ask, using My name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy" (John 16:24 NLT). Here's a good rule: Before you pay for it, pray for it. Give God a chance to provide before you go out and charge it. You probably depend more on your charge card than you do on Jesus Christ. Why does God want me to ask? So He can give. Why does He want to give? So I can receive. Why does He want me to receive? So I'll be full of joy. Why does He want me to be full of joy? It's a great advertisement for Jesus Christ. Joyful Christians are a positive testimony. Tomorrow we'll look at contentment, another condition for answered prayer. Today on PurposeDriven.com: A husband-and-wife team has made a documentary to teach Malawi's youth about their country's corrupt past—before they repeat it. Read more at PurposeDriven.com. Missed out on one of the Daily Devotionals? View the online archives. Did someone forward this Daily Devotional to you? Get your own free subscription to The Purpose Driven Connection Daily Devotional, your daily inspiration via email. You are subscribed as . You can unsubscribe at any time by changing your e-mail preferences. Please do not reply to this email. If you have technical problems, email us. The Purpose Driven Connection Daily Devotional newsletter is produced by PurposeDriven.com. You can reach us by mail at Purpose Driven Connection, PO Box 8108, Red Oak, IA 51591-1108. © 2009. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. Read our Privacy Policy. -- 'Unless you change what you do, you will always have what you've got.' - Jim Rohn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tribewithavibe" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tribewithavibe?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
