March 19, 2020

March 19

Running with Jesus

Luke 11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.

       He is teaching His disciples to pray for their daily needs. God is our provider and sustainer for life. Some do not recognize it all comes from Him. Our biggest problem is discerning a need from a want. Our culture is constantly throwing commercials at us to tempt us to spend all our time, energy, and money on wants. Most of the time we are like the commercial, "it's my money and I want it now!" We demand God to give us everything right now. In this verse He taught them "give us this day our daily bread!"  It is a daily thing! God’s provision is daily not all at once. Some things can't be stored up! We may say, “How can they handle that situation”, well we get the right measure of grace when we need it!

      Yesterday was a very tiring day I felt like the man with about 10 spinning plates and I was running to keep one from falling. If it fell it would break. I felt tired and weak so at first I just kept running in high gear all of a sudden I just sat down, got still, began to cry out to God for my need right then. I had several issues that needed resolving I prayed Father I need you to smooth these rough places I am dealing with. I felt so out of control! After my "little talk with Jesus" I saw Him go into action. My Martha Spirit went away and my Mary spirit was back sitting at Jesus feet listening and watching Him! He gave me what I needed for that day!

      Most of our problems are we are so busy getting and doing our wants that we leave out the source and move away from our provider! What do you really need today? Peace, comfort, hope, guidance, strength then go to the source He will give you the measure you need!

Father, thank You for being my daily provision yesterday and this helps us know You will provide today too! We are so blessed to be able to sit down and lay everything on the table before You and know that no matter what is on our plate You can give us what we need. That includes if we need the power to wait and be still! We love You and we hallow our Provider today!

Tomorrow: Let’s talk about forgiveness.

Judy Hollaway

Originally penned 2015