Jehovah Jireh

MONIKER – JEHOVAH JIREH- THE LORD YOUR PROVIDER

“Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called.

“Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.”

Genesis 22:1

GOD IS MY PROVIDER (A CASE STUDY FROM ABRAHAM)

² “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

 The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about. ⁴ On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. ⁵ “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.”

⁶ So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together, ⁷ Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?”

“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.

“We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”

⁸ “God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.

⁹ When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. ¹⁰ And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice. ¹¹ At that moment the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”

“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”

¹² “Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”

¹³ Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son. ¹⁴ Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

JEHOVAH JIREH – God will provide – “THE LORD WILL SEE TO IT.”

BECAUSE GOD IS MY PROVIDER…

1. I can focus on God’s PROMISES even when I don’t know the PARTICULARS.

“Faith is often doing what God says even when we don’t have all the details.”

“For we live by faith, not by sight.”

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)

² “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

Genesis 22:2

“God’s word lays out PRINCIPLES, PROMISES and PARAMETERS to live by.”

‘When we choose to focus on God’s promises, live by His parameters and obey His word… it’s often then and only then does He show us the PLACE He has for us.”

⁴ On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.”

Genesis 22:4

“You don’t need the whole plan because you know the PROVIDER.”

2. I can have a GROWN-UP faith not an “I feel like it” faith.

“If you love me, keep my commands..”

John 14:15

We can live by PROMISES not EXPLANATIONS because we know the provider.

“The PROVISION of God comes to those who do the WILL OF GOD.”

3. Problems are OPPORTUNITIES for God to PROVE His faithfulness..

“Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.”

Hebrews 11:19

If you know God as provider you will have PEACE in believing that life’s problems are PORTALS for God to prove His faithfulness.”

Knowing God as provider:

• Changes what I spend my EMOTIONAL CAPACITY on.
• Changes what I spend my MENTAL CAPACITY on.
• Changes how I VIEW problems.

⁸ “God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.

Genesis 22:8

“So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together, ⁷ Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?”

“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.

“We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”

Genesis 22:6-7

4. No matter what happens in my life, my LIFE is SECURE.

“Abraham named the place Jehovah Jireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

Genesis 22:14

“God always provides at our worst POINT OF NEED.”

OUR RESPONSE

BELIEVE the PROVIDER.

“He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?”

Romans 8:32