PRAYING IN TRUST TO GOD OUR PROVIDER

 GOD OUR PROVIDER

Governments around the world are dealing with huge debts that have accumulated over time – particularly in the past couple of years during the covid pandemic. Inflation here in Canada is at a level we haven’t seen in 30 years.  We all wonder how far our dollars will stretch – what we will be able to afford and not.

I am encouraged once again today by some things Jesus tells us. He was reminding the people around him of a time when they felt like they had no food no water and didn’t know what the future was going to look like. 

The history of their ancestors in the wilderness after leaving Egypt was well known to all  of them.  The people spoke about how Moses gave them bread in the desert and Jesus clarified the situation this way when he said,

“Very truly I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven but it is my father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world .... I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.“. John 6:32-33, 35

What are we relying on today as we look to the future? Our governments?  They’ll be able to do some help and we hope not more harm in the process  We do pray for our governments today but I believe God encourages us to even more lift our hearts and eyes up  see his generous heart for us and his desire to provide for us.

Loving God, we thank you today that you are with us and know everything that’s going on around us. We do want to bring our governments to you in prayer. They have had many complicated and challenging decisions to make, and there are still many more discussions about conflicting needs and then decisions to follow.

We pray that you will keep their hearts fixed on what’s best for the greater good rather than for political expediency. We pray that you will keep them strong in choosing to do the best available in the middle of many loud and strident calls for needs in every sector of society. Give them your grace. Give them your wisdom.

We also pray that we will all keep a clear perspective and lift our hearts and minds to you our provider, our loving father, the one who gives us the bread of life that satisfies us and the water of life that quenches our thirst. Give us faith to trust Your goodness and humility to seek Your provision.  We pray Lord Jesus that we will listen to your words and really learn what it means today to open our lives so that we can enjoy the true bread from heaven that God is giving us.