04- 11-11 MY DAILY DEVOTION (Psalm 37:3- 4; 25- 26)
GRACE IN SUPPLICATION
3- “Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 4- Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 25- I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. 26- He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.”
We have the witnessed of the Lord’s provision from the time of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden after the fall up to this present time. The Lord’s provision was on the kings, prophets, pastors and servants of God from the Old Testament times up to the New Testament era. The Holy Bible is a Book of miracles and blessings and it is also a Book of God’s provision and grace. We can see in the Bible how the Lord provided the needs of His people by His grace and power. It is something that the people and believers back then and the Christians right now have witnessed and experienced, even as we see His hands of provision through His grace in us. God has supplied our needs for our salvation and He also supplied our daily needs. God in His grace has provided us of our general needs such as sun, rain, air and many other things that we overlooked as human being. Some Christians calls it “general blessings”; in which the whole world is the recipient of such blessings.
Abraham experienced God’s grace in supplication when he offered Isaac to the Lord and God honored His obedience and faithfulness when God provided the offering by giving Abraham the ram. (Genesis 22:13, 15- 16) 13- “And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. 15- And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, 16- And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:” The Lord made Moses the testimony of God’s grace in supplication when He provided all the needs of Moses and the children of Israel when they were in the wilderness. In (Exodus 16:35) “And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.”
You may have heard these verses over and over at church or from your Christian friends, but notice what Paul was telling the Christians during his times and Paul has the same message for us all. The Lord gave him this message so we can be partaker of it. It’s in (Philippians 4:18- 19) 18- “But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. 19- But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
