In today’s episode, Dr. Siohvaughn Funches continues the series she began last week, “Provision in Peculiar Places.” Dr. Funches encourages you to listen to last week’s message if you haven’t had the opportunity or if you want to refresh your memory because it ties into and lays the foundation for this week’s message. The Word is eternal and everlasting because God is His Word. Dr. Funches recaps the message from last week. Most of us, as Christians, believe that God is our Provider, according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. God is our provider in every way. Jesus is the Bread of Life, even Eternal Life. Without Him, we can do nothing. Our way of receiving from God is believing. The provision is not always the same. God may provide in different ways in different seasons. It keeps us humbly and wholly dependent on Him. We lift up our eyes to the Provider. If we keep our eyes on the Provider, they’re not on the provision. That’s important because sometimes, the provision will change or not come the way we wanted it to come. Provision always precedes the problem, as God goes before us and is our rearguard. He is the Alpha and Omega and the Author and Finisher of our faith.
Dr. Funches delves into this week’s message discussing a provision in a peculiar place from Matthew 17:24–27. We must not be deceived into thinking we provide our own blessings. However hard we work, Jesus is our provider. We need to keep our lives in the Hands of God and remember the opportunities He has given us and those He withholds for our good. God will resist the proud but He gives grace to the humble. Dr. Funches closes with a message from Exodus 17, reminding us that the enemy tries to get us to believe that God isn’t providing. The children of Israel had their eyes on the provision and not on the Provider.
Listen in to hear how God will provide in His peculiar way, for the New Covenant believers who believe Jesus. Dr. Funches will pick up this message, next week where she left off, today.
KEY BIBLE VERSES
[6:06] Philippians 4:19, NKJV 19 And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
[10:32] Psalm 121:1–2, NKJV 1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills—From whence comes my help? 2 My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.
[17:26] Matthew 17:24–27, NKJV 24 When they had come to Capernaum, those who received the temple tax came to Peter and said, “Does your Teacher not pay the temple tax?” 25 He said, “Yes.” And when he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes, from their sons or from strangers?” 26 Peter said to Him, “From strangers.” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free. 27 Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you.”
[30:42] Exodus 17:1–7, NKJV 1 Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Therefore the people contended with Moses, and said, “Give us water, that we may drink.” So Moses said to them, “Why do you contend with me? Why do you tempt the Lord?” 3 And the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and said, “Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” 4 So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me!” 5 And the Lord said to Moses, “Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 So he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
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