Quotes about Provision

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.

PRAYER O God, our merciful Father in heaven, fill our hearts with patience under the cross, strengthen our faith, and so govern us that we give offense to none, neither in word nor deed. Grant us also this day all that we need for body and soul. Amen.

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.'

This is where we pull a chair up to our Father's table. We acknowledge that he has the means to feed us—whatever our hunger is. We go to him with our most basics needs anticipating he will feed us from his bounty. We ask because it demonstrates not only our need, but our trust in his provision for us.

Archie's been living off the fat of the land. I'm here to give him his pension plan.

God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.

But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth" (Deut. 8:18a).

9'So this is how you should pray: Our father in heaven, May your name be honoured 10May your kingdom come May your will be done As in heaven, so on earth. 11Give us today the bread we need now; 12And forgive us the things we owe, As we too have forgiven what was owed to us. 13Don't bring us into the great Trial, But rescue us from evil.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that He is your supply.

Do not worry about your life." Don't take the pressure of your provision upon yourself. It is not only wrong to worry, it is unbelief; worrying means we do not believe that God can look after the practical details of our lives, and it is never anything but those details that worry us.