Are you in a hard place and asking God to send help and resources so things can be sorted out? Are you at that point where you are going further to even ask that He gives a door of supply so you don’t have to keep coming to Him to ask? But that’s the whole point. God wants you to keep coming and acknowledging Him as your source.
When He gives you everything and you can figure it out yourself, you won’t have need for Him again.
He says He doesn’t want you to drift away from His presence hence why He sends the fallow seasons as a reminder that He is the ultimate satisfaction that we should seek. He wants us to seek Him the creator and stop chasing after His creation.
Seeking God from a place of insufficiency makes us see the true nature of the all sufficient God. In our weakness His strength is made perfect.
“lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;”
Deuteronomy 8:12, 14 NKJV
In the midst of abundance, there is a tendency to forget the provider of the provision. You can easily forget God when life is going very well for you. In that season of abundance where you feel self-sufficient and self-reliant, there is the risk of forgetting that your existence is tied to the Creator. You end up being consumed by the carnal nature of this world.
There is a tragedy with humanity and that is the inability to remember when things are well. You can easily forget your struggles and how you depended on God daily for sustenance. When you are able to provide for your needs and wants you can forget God.
In Deuteronomy 8:17-18 the Bible says ”You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” 18 But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.”
Dependence on God not only brings your daily bread but it comes with peace of mind and gratitude. It makes you count your blessings and name them one by one. When you consciously and deliberately remember God as your source and sustainer your approach to Him is with gratitude.
In Psalm 34:9-10 the Bible says “Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him. The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.”
The day by day provision of God is so timely and profound in the life of God’s children. His mercies are new every morning and He gives us our daily bread.
These are needs which are necessary for living a quiet and peaceable life. Our daily needs for provision will always bring us back to Him. I believe He has made it this way so He can maintain relationship with us. This is not the case of God keeping us on a leash, not at all. For we know that every good and perfect gift comes from the Lord, this includes our daily bread and His awesome mercies.
”The name of the LORD is a strong tower: The righteous runneth into it, and is safe. The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, And as an high wall in his own conceit. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, And before honour is humility.“
Proverbs 18:10-12 KJV
The Lord desires to sap with you consistently. He wants you to dwell in His presence always not just because you will receive sustenance but to ground you and form your heart to fulfill His divine will and mandate for your life.
”Those that be planted in the house of the LORD Shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; They shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the LORD is upright: He is my rock, And there is no unrighteousness in him.“
Psalm 92:13-15 KJV
When a seed is sowed it relies on nourishment from the ground to sprout. When that seed becomes a fruit bearing tree it still depends on the soil for nourishment. Their relationship becomes even deeper with the trees root deeply planted in the soil for more nourishment.
Beloved, reliance on God will keep us alive and cause us to be fruitful. Stay connected in your fallow season and season of abundance.
“For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: “For yet a little while, And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.”
Hebrews 10:36-37 NKJV
A fallow season is a season of testing and proving. Many times we are impatient to go through the season to be built up. The purpose of God for us is that we are all built up in such a way that we rely on him totally completely. We have need of Patience that we’ve done God will then we receive the promise as the pattern God has prescribed.
Blessings,
Rev. Ron and Esinam.
Virtuous Living 