Here I am, sitting on the other side of a testing time right on the heels of learning that my belief system may not have been wrong. My belief system may have been incomplete. See, even though I know God as Jehovah Jireh, I learned something new about how He truly provides for me.
By building a relational foundation with Him, He’s shown me that He not only listens to but provides those things I’ve asked for in prayer: and they all are not about money. See during this test, the thoughts to use profane language came. However, I refused to speak them. I told myself that I’d rather use them when they were actually needed: like never.
Then I got to realizing that the people who had been trying to bring out the worst in me only had themselves to call on should things actually go left. That’s all they got: themselves. But not me. I have this community, some friends and even some spiritual online friends that I could turn to for support. All because God has already provided for me everything that I need to succeed in life.
So now, I’m not limiting Him to only being able to provide for me financially. I’m expecting provision for every need I bring to Him in prayer. I’m seeing friends turn to the Lord in a real and sustainable way. I’m rejoicing in the fact that He brought someone I know safely through open heart surgery. And I’m reading about all the people on board a burning plane surviving. And that’s just been this week.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5
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