The Lord will provide!

[DizBelle]

If this is true, then why does anyone bother to do anything?

Discuss...

 

[dontblameme]

If this is true, then why does anyone bother to do anything?

Discuss...

The Lord will help those, who help themselves!

 

[okeydokey]

The Lord will help those, who help themselves!

I was just going to say that!

 

[Rora]

Try your best, and God will do the rest.

That's why.

 

[MiniGirl]

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, He shall not eat.

Please notice that it does not say if a man can not work or is unable to work, but will not work.

 

[TriMom]

This story sums it up best for me:


A women house was in a huge flood. The water kept rising and rising. She prays for God to save her. So first the Fire Dept came by and said she needed to evacuate with them now. She refused - saying "God will save me." The water gets higher - the streets are now completely flooded. A rescue boat comes by. Again she refuses to get in, saying "God will save me" Finally the water is so high, the woman is sitting on her roof. A helicopter comes by and tries to rescue her. Again, no, "God will save me." The woman drowns. When she gets to heaven, she asked God, "I was very faithful! Why didn't you save me?" God replies "I sent the Fire Dept., a boat, and a helicopter, what more did you want?"

God provides for us, but it is more often in opportunities and situations. What non-believers would call luck and coincidence. I call God providing for me.

 

[Momvic5]

God provides for us, but it is more often in opportunities and situations. What non-believers would call luck and coincidence. I call God providing for me.

I totally agree!

I have story too. Seven months ago, my mom was in the hospital. She was dying of breast cancer. In all her pain and suffering, she never stopped counting on the Lord to provide for her. My mom delighted in her Bible. She knew it up and down and could quote almost anything you asked. One of her most comforting sciptures was one that stated how the Lord will sing over you. It a moment of weakness and agony, she called upon God and asked Him to sing over her and ease her pain. Within moments, a woman entered my mom's room. I did not recognize her, but my mom did. She was a dear friend from many years back. They had not seen in each other in over 20 years. She entered with a huge smile and told my mom she had come to sing her a hymn. She took my mom's frail white hand into her dark elderly hand and sang my mom a beautiful song she had never heard before. It instantly brought peace to my mom, and my mom knew immediately it was God providing her with a song.

To some, it may be coincidence, but I will always believe it was God providing for her. We do things because God calls us to. I am so glad my mom's dear friend heard God's calling and sang my mom a song. It was a blessing to everyone in the room.

 

[ntsammy5]

It's one of those religious things that no one can prove - you either believe it or you don't.

 

[pepperw23]

I totally agree!

I have story too. Seven months ago, my mom was in the hospital. She was dying of breast cancer. In all her pain and suffering, she never stopped counting on the Lord to provide for her. My mom delighted in her Bible. She knew it up and down and could quote almost anything you asked. One of her most comforting sciptures was one that stated how the Lord will sing over you. It a moment of weakness and agony, she called upon God and asked Him to sing over her and ease her pain. Within moments, a woman entered my mom's room. I did not recognize her, but my mom did. She was a dear friend from many years back. They had not seen in each other in over 20 years. She entered with a huge smile and told my mom she had come to sing her a hymn. She took my mom's frail white hand into her dark elderly hand and sang my mom a beautiful song she had never heard before. It instantly brought peace to my mom, and my mom knew immediately it was God providing her with a song.

To some, it may be coincidence, but I will always believe it was God providing for her. We do things because God calls us to. I am so glad my mom's dear friend heard God's calling and sang my mom a song. It was a blessing to everyone in the room.

I think you may have been called today. I am having a "bad" day. Having just lost my Dad to cancer, you may never know the comfort your story just gave me. Do you mind if I pass it on to my Mom?

God bless you.

 

[bumbershoot]

LOL about the OP's question.

It mystifies me.

My stepdad sent me all my mom's stuff shortly before he was remarrying. I demanded it; didn't trust her, and since my mom had left her money to HIM, to then be split between us and his kids when HE died, I didn't trust that in case he died and left that money to his new wife etc etc.

Anyway, he sent it and had it all insured.

And when it all arrived, I watched the mover drop the box containing either the turntable or the laser disc player...both of them were damaged. The LD doesn't work at all, and the turntable's lid was smashed to smithereens.

The turntable I could deal with, but the player was important b/c of all the movies I'd inherited. So we spent money we barely had to get an estimate; it was unrepairable.

So I asked stepdad to file an insurance claim. And waited. And waited. And waited. 6 months went by, or something maybe not that long but still counted in months.

We happened upon a used CD store one day, wandered in, and there was a Pioneer LD player for $50. We bought it.

And told stepdad. Who replied that he'd never filed the claim, but isn't god great b/c we'd wandered into that store.

Um. We needed a thousand dollar player replaced, and we got a $50 player. Now...that player is probably what we would have ended up with anyway, and it turns out it's a better player than my mom's Marantz was (they just didn't make LD players that well), but still, I lost a 1K player and replaced it with something MUCH older than it. There should have been some compensation from the insurance company, so he should have filed the claim.

Otherwise, why ever buy insurance?

And he never reimbursed me the money for the estimate OR the player we bought, even though he'd bought insurance that would have covered it (even if he kept all the other money from the claim) and he should have done so.

Very frustrating.

 

[luvmy3]

If this is true, then why does anyone bother to do anything?

Discuss...

If the Lord doesn't then the Gov't will

 

[phorsenuf]

LOL about the OP's question.

It mystifies me.

My stepdad sent me all my mom's stuff shortly before he was remarrying. I demanded it; didn't trust her, and since my mom had left her money to HIM, to then be split between us and his kids when HE died, I didn't trust that in case he died and left that money to his new wife etc etc.

Anyway, he sent it and had it all insured.

And when it all arrived, I watched the mover drop the box containing either the turntable or the laser disc player...both of them were damaged. The LD doesn't work at all, and the turntable's lid was smashed to smithereens.

The turntable I could deal with, but the player was important b/c of all the movies I'd inherited. So we spent money we barely had to get an estimate; it was unrepairable.

So I asked stepdad to file an insurance claim. And waited. And waited. And waited. 6 months went by, or something maybe not that long but still counted in months.

We happened upon a used CD store one day, wandered in, and there was a Pioneer LD player for $50. We bought it.

And told stepdad. Who replied that he'd never filed the claim, but isn't god great b/c we'd wandered into that store.

Um. We needed a thousand dollar player replaced, and we got a $50 player. Now...that player is probably what we would have ended up with anyway, and it turns out it's a better player than my mom's Marantz was (they just didn't make LD players that well), but still, I lost a 1K player and replaced it with something MUCH older than it. There should have been some compensation from the insurance company, so he should have filed the claim.

Otherwise, why ever buy insurance?

And he never reimbursed me the money for the estimate OR the player we bought, even though he'd bought insurance that would have covered it (even if he kept all the other money from the claim) and he should have done so.

Very frustrating.

I'm sorry but I don't get how your story relates to the OPs question at all.

 

[piney]

This story sums it up best for me:


A women house was in a huge flood. The water kept rising and rising. She prays for God to save her. So first the Fire Dept came by and said she needed to evacuate with them now. She refused - saying "God will save me." The water gets higher - the streets are now completely flooded. A rescue boat comes by. Again she refuses to get in, saying "God will save me" Finally the water is so high, the woman is sitting on her roof. A helicopter comes by and tries to rescue her. Again, no, "God will save me." The woman drowns. When she gets to heaven, she asked God, "I was very faithful! Why didn't you save me?" God replies "I sent the Fire Dept., a boat, and a helicopter, what more did you want?"

God provides for us, but it is more often in opportunities and situations. What non-believers would call luck and coincidence. I call God providing for me.

 

[Momvic5]

I think you may have been called today. I am having a "bad" day. Having just lost my Dad to cancer, you may never know the comfort your story just gave me. Do you mind if I pass it on to my Mom?

God bless you.

I am sorry you lost your dad to cancer. I know the sorrow that cancer can bring. But I also know the peace and comfort that God can bring. You can share my story. It gives me joy to know that my mom and her faith are still bringing comfort to others.

 

[DawnM]

The Lord will provide our needs I believe, but so many today want him to provide their wants too.

Dawn

 

[Liann]

I bother because I know I'm not the only person he is helping.

 

[freckles and boo]

It is a platitude. If it brings people comfort, that is great. I don't think it is a particularly useful phrase.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

I only expect the Lord to provide one thing for me, and that is salvation.

 

[JoBird]

Matthew 6:25-34
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."




If we worry-- then it shows us that we are trusting in ourselves and we have little faith in God's sovereignty and power.

Jo

 

[Scurvy]

The Lord will provide our needs I believe, but so many today want him to provide their wants too.

Dawn

Also, I agree with the previous posters that more often we are provided with a way to fill our needs. So if we are hungry, food won't necessarily fall from the sky for us (though of course I suppose it could) but we will be provided with an opportunity to obtain the food. That of course doesn't mean that anyone has to take advantage of those opportunities, because we do have free will. If we were stranded on an island, we could ignore the things that we could build a fishing pole out of and sit waiting for a fish to jump onto our plate, but that probably wouldn't work as well as if we took advantage of the ability to build a pole and tried fishing for our lunch instead.

I used to date a guy that literally thought God would provide everything for him. As in, he believed that the hand of God would pluck him from the floodwaters and whisk him away to safety if necessary. If I ever felt like having an argument, all I had to do was bring up the flood story mentioned earlier in the thread and I'd have hours of amusement arguing about it.

As Trimom said, I think many things that nonbelievers see as coincidence or luck believers see as the work of God.