Notes of Faith November 14, 2025
God Will Provide
And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
Genesis 22:14
In the biblical world it was common for personal names to reflect the character or attributes of the person. The same was true of God’s name Jehovah as He revealed Himself to His people. Compound names were ascribed to Him based on His character and attributes—like Jehovah My Shepherd, Jehovah My Healer, Jehovah My Victory, Jehovah My Righteousness, and more. Jehovah My Provision was a name given to God by Abraham as a result of God’s dramatic provision at a critical moment in Abraham’s life (Genesis 22:1-19).
Because of the intense relationship God entered into with Abraham, He tested him by commanding him to sacrifice his son Isaac. When Abraham and Isaac approached the site of the sacrifice, Isaac asked his father where the lamb for the sacrifice was. Abraham told Isaac that God would provide—which He did at the last moment by providing a ram caught in a thicket. So Abraham named the place The-Lord-Will-Provide.
Philippians 4:19 says that God will provide all our needs through Christ. If you have a need today, trust that God will provide.
If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.
Alexander MacLaren
Phil 4:14-20
14 Nevertheless, you have done well to share with me in my affliction.
15 You yourselves also know, Philippians, that at the first preaching of the gospel, after I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you alone; 16 for even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs. 17 Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases to your account. 18 But I have received everything in full and have an abundance; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you have sent, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God. 19 And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
The Lord has and does provide in miraculous ways but more often He provides through what He has given to His followers to share with those in need. May we be more than willing to share the bounty God gives us with those He places within our influence to meet their need!
Pastor Dale