God's Promise for His Provision

God's word says: "But my God shall supply all your need according
to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." – Philippians 4.19

1. The Promise of Provision is Conditional:
   
   
   It is not a blanket statement but is written to those who believe in Jesus. It is also written to those who practice giving. The verse begins with the word "But." This refers us back to the previous verses that say, "But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again... you shared in my distress ... Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you." This was a giving church, and God will give to a giving people. Jesus said, “Give and it shall be given unto you.” (Luke 6.38)
   
   
2. The Promise of Provision is Personal: 
   
   
   The servant of God writes,      "my God shall supply." He had a personal relationship with him. Once we experience the awesome provision of God, he becomes very real and personal to us.
   
   
3. The Promise of God is Supernatural
   
   
   It is God who provides. We must thank God who gives to us every good gift and every perfect gift which “is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.” (James 1.17)
   
   
4. The Promise of Provision is Instrumental:
   
   
   The interesting thing about God's supply is that he often uses others. When we receive a check in the mail, we don't give the praise to the mailman, but to the one who sent it. When God provides, he will usually send it by someone else.
   
   
5. The Promise of Provision is Eventual:
   
   
   Notice the words "shall supply." It won't all arrive at once, but it will all arrive. We must take each day at a time. God will provide – sometimes bit by bit.
   
   
6. The Promise of Provision is Total:
   
   
   He said he would provide "all" our needs. Not one thing will be left out. They are "according to his riches in glory." God has an endless supply of which he will never run out. His blessings are not just material things, but Spiritual blessings as well. In the book of Ephesians we read that God has "blessed us with all Spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ." (Ephesians 1.3)
   
   
7. The Promise of Provision is for the Essential:
   
   
   He didn't say he'd give us everything we want, but everything we need. There may be some things we think we need, but only God really knows and understands our true needs.
   
   
8. The Promise of Provision is Instrumental:
   
   
   It comes from the Father to us "by Christ Jesus." Jesus is the channel of everything that God provides for those who believe in him.