Amidst the financial downturn, the loss of jobs, the deductions in salaries, the mounting bills, the recurrent and frequent illnesses, do you believe God will provide? Whatever you are going through, whatever your needs, my friends, be assured that God will provide.
It is not that God might provide, or God probably will provide. It is without a shadow of a doubt that God will provide. Whenever you are tempted to doubt God’s provision, just think back for a moment on the many past experiences in your life when God provided for you.

The times when you had no money or the last dollar and God came through for you. The times when you had no money to buy food, to pay the bills, to pay the house rent, to license the vehicle, to put gas in the vehicle, no money to go to the doctor or to purchase the medication, no money to buy the children’s necessities for school and God turned up just in time to meet those needs.
In many of life’s circumstances, no matter how hard we try, sometimes it becomes very clear that we just don’t have the resources we need. The situation is beyond us. The days seem grim, but this is exactly the conclusion that the Lord wants us to come to. He wants us to recognize the inability of human resources so that we are led to rely on the Lord’s ability to supply everything we need.
God promises to provide all our needs and He will keep His promises. We just need to trust Him. The people of old had a tendency just like us to worry and complain when things seemed dismal. It is so easy for us to see what God has not done for us. The many things we prayed for and have not yet received, but fail to see the many things He has already done for us. Let us not be ungrateful to God my friends.
Let us not be like the Children of Israel. When they were in bondage God heard their cry and sent Moses. You know the story of how He provided for them yet they complained bitterly. Let it not happen to us my friends; let us be grateful and thankful daily for God’s provision. Better days are coming! God will provide!
What are your needs today? What are you praying for? For Abraham, the provision was a ram to take the place of Isaac on the altar. Jesus did not receive an answer to his only question; yet Abraham’s answer to Isaac echoed through the generations as an answer to us as we look at him hanging there: God will provide. Jesus was the provision. As he had done before, God provided for himself the sacrifice—this time, to take our place on the altar.
We ask God to meet our needs and the needs of others. We seek for God’s provision in our lives. And sometimes we ask ourselves why isn’t God responding to us the way we want him to. Often times we ask ourselves: Is God really personally involved in my life? Did God merely create the universe, set it spinning off into space, and then just become involved in something else?
Is He available to each one of us right now? Does God just know our needs or will He meet our needs too?
All of us perhaps have struggled with these kinds of questions in our lives. But I want you to know that GOD WILL PROVIDE! The Bible reveals God as our provider. On the pages of scripture, He is portrayed as the one who sees and cares for all of our needs. The pages of scripture are abundant with stories of how God came through for his people time and time again. The three Hebrew boys delivered from a fiery furnace. Daniel delivered from the lion’s den.
David delivered from Goliath. If God did it for them, He will do it for us too. GOD WILL PROVIDE!
Genesis chapter 22 tells us the story of Abraham and God requesting him to sacrifice his only son whom he loved. The Bible says that God was testing him. You see all through Abraham’s life God had been revealing himself as the God who will provide. When God first spoke to Abraham He told him to leave his family and his home and go to a land that he would show him. Did Abraham obey? He did, partially. Through all of this God was trying to teach Abraham to trust in him to provide. God then promised Abraham an heir, but then waited for years without fulfilling the promise. Would Abraham trust God? He did, partially. God had said that he would bless Abraham and Sarah with a son. What was God doing? He was trying to get Abraham to trust Him completely to provide. God blessed them with Isaac. Now God was asking Abraham to trust him again. Give up the son that was an answer to his prayers. God was once again testing Abraham.

Abraham trusted God to raise his son up from the dead again. He knew that God would provide somehow. As Abraham and Isaac proceeded up the mountain, Isaac inquires as to where the sacrifice is. Abraham speaks in faith and says, “The Lord will provide himself a sacrifice”. You know the outcome of the story. God did provide.

God is still Jehovah-Jireh today. He is the same yesterday and will be forever. He can still provide for you in the time of need. He is still the Lord our provider. My friends, in times of need, we just have to trust God. Not the Government, not our bank accounts, not the Banks, not the economy, not tourism industries. Those are not the answers my friends. Our answer is in God. We have to put our trust and faith in Him and Him alone.
Here are some characteristics of God’s provision:
1. THE RIGHT THING
God always provides the right thing. In Abraham’s case it was a ram. It was precisely what Abraham needed. Abraham had been obedient and now God had provided that which he needed, nothing else would have been adequate.
Just like God provided what Abraham needed - God will provide what you need as well. He will provide the right thing.

2. The Right Place
God not only provides the right thing for us but he provides it at just the right place. He provided a ram for Abraham, which was the right thing. But he also provided it at the right place - on the Mount of God. It was the appointed place of God’s provision.
Sometimes we miss the provision of God and the blessings of God because we are in the wrong place at the wrong time. And God sometimes has to let us go through somethings to get us to the right place, so He can bless us. He has to bring us out in order to bring us in. He has to deal with us to bring us to the place where we are willing to receive His provision for our lives.

3. The Right Time
God always provides just the right thing at just the right place at just the right time. If God would have waited a second longer Abraham would have plunged that knife into Isaac. It would have been too late. But God is never too late. We may wait too late sometimes but not so with God. But there is no "too late" with God. He is never too busy to hear your call. He is never in a hurry that He cannot meet your need. But He is always right on time.

We may say God has not answered our prayer yet. Sometimes we fail to understand that God has not committed himself to our timetable. We need to understand that God knows just what He is doing. God’s ways are above our ways and His thoughts above our thoughts.

Remember God may not come when you want him, but He is always right on time! GOD WILL PROVIDE.

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