God Will Meet Your Needs

Are you having difficulty making ends meet? Are you worried that you may not be able to make your next payment? Do you have mouths to feed and bodies to clothe, but you are unsure if you can do it? You are not alone. Everyday, especially in today’s economy with the rising cost of health care, housing, food and other necessities, there are people just like you who are unsure of what tomorrow may bring. They do not know if they will have a job, a house, utilities, food, clothing, money, or even some form of transportation to help them get to a job. In fact, worrying about everything appears to be the only thing that makes any sense right now!

The dictionary describes worry as “mental distress or agitation resulting from concern: torment.” Just think about it. Worrying is nothing but distress and agony on the soul. It causes nothing but mental anguish and physical illness. We all know that experiencing worry is a natural part of life and everyone encounters it one way or another. However, what people fail to understand is that although there are many reasons for people to worry, they honestly do not have to put up with it. People can actually choose to confront and handle any problem without having to resort to worry!

I believe there are two things that anyone wishing to overcome worrying must do:

1. Know that God will meet your needs. In the Bible God reminds us that He will always meet our needs (see Matthew 6:25-34). Worry often leads us to ask ourselves all sorts of questions that can’t be answered, such as: What if I cannot make my payment tomorrow? What if I am always struggling like this? How am I going to get to my destination tomorrow? What if I become sick? How am I going to provide for my family? How am I going to make ends meet? How…how…how? These questions can linger for days and chances are you will not have the answers to any of them. But as long as you know that the Lord is with you, you can be assured that He has all the answers you need.

2. Increase your faith in Him. The Bible tells us that we should have faith in God (see Mark 11:22). If we have even a little faith in God the size of a mustard seed (see Matthew 17:20) He will give us peace through our storms (see Numbers 6:26). Having this kind of faith means that no matter how bad or extreme a problem is in our lives, we can withstand it because God is with us. This may be easier said than done, but when you honestly look back over your life and see just how far God has brought you, it really isn’t at all difficult learning how to develop faith in Him.

Healing From Abuse

Background

God can deliver us from emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and financial abuse. Anything that is a hindrance to us has the ability of being removed from our lives.

Scriptures

And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up. But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.” - Luke 13:11-12 (NKJV)

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” – Luke 4:18 (NKJV)

“…being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ… - Philippians 1:6 (NKJV)

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. — Philippians 3:13-14 (NKJV)

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. - Romans 6:4 (NKJV)

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. - John 10:10 (NKJV)

Confession

1. I thank Jesus that I’ve been loosed from the infirmity of abuse.

2. My broken heart is healed today because of the anointing which is upon my Lord, Jesus Christ.

3. I am confident that God will faithfully finish the good work that He started in me.

4. I forget those things that are behind me and I am reaching forth unto that which is before me.

5. My old life was buried with Christ.

6. I shall walk in the newness of life just as Jesus was raised from the dead by the glory of God.

7. The enemy has used abuse to steal from me, but Jesus has come to give me life abundantly.