PROVIDING ALL OUR NEEDS

Chapter Three – “PROVIDING ALL OUR NEEDS”

(Using the Lord’s Prayer, phrase by phrase, as a model for expanding your prayer life)

“Give us this day our daily bread.”

Father, I pray that You will give us this day our daily bread. As You are Jehovah-Jireh, The Lord-Our-Provider, I acknowledge You as the ultimate authority whom we depend upon to provide the essential elements of life. We trust in You completely to provide all our needs.

Live For Him

Father, I seek to be in Your will this day. I want to seek first Your kingdom today, to be in Your will for my life today. As we live for You, I know that I need take no thought regarding what we shall eat, drink, or be clothed with, for You, heavenly Father, know that we have need of these things. So, I take no thought for tomorrow because I am confident that You will supply all our needs (Matt. 6:31-34).

Father, I ask You to give us this day our daily bread as we serve You. We commit to be in Your will and to do those things today that will please You. Father, You have confirmed that “it shall come to pass” (Deut. 28:3-13), if we hearken diligently unto the voice of You, Lord, our God, to observe and to do all Your commandments which You have commanded us that You will set us high above all nations
of the earth: and all these blessings (vs. 3-13) shall come on us, and overtake us, if we hearken unto the voice of You, Lord, our God (Deut. 28:1-2). We shall be blessed when we come in and when we go out, in the city or in the country. You will bless the work of our hands.

I believe, according to the promise and the truth of Your Word, that it is Your will to provide all our needs. We can be secure in knowing that You will provide for us and do all that You have promised to do for us. You have particularly confirmed this to us in Deuteronomy 28:1-14 and Deuteronomy 30:5,9-10, as we seek to obey Your Word above all else and serve You.

Lord, You have confirmed that in the area of finances we will be the head and not the tail, the lender and not the borrower, and that we shall be above only and not beneath (Deut. 28:12-13), if we will heed all Your commandments.

You have confirmed that You will bring us into the land which You desire for us to possess, and that You will do us good, and multiply us. And, You will make us plenteous in every work of our hands, in the fruit of our body . . . and in the fruit of our land for good, but only if we shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God, to keep Your commandments and Your statutes, which are written in Your book of the Law, and if we turn to You and live for You with all our heart, and all our soul (Deut. 30:5,9-10).

Give To Him

Father, as I daily read from Your Word, as I pray, as I fellowship within Your Church, and as I follow Your lead and promptings in diligent, balanced work habits, I strive and I am obedient in giving as You prompt me to give. Lord Jesus, You said that it is more blessed to give than to receive (Acts 20:35), and, Lord, we want to give to You and Your work as You want us to.

Father, You have said in Your Word that “he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully” (2 Cor. 9:6). Lord, our family tithes faithfully, even giving above and beyond a tithe of our gross income. We give in our hearts as You purpose us to give, and we do so not grudgingly or of necessity, but out of love for You. It is a joy to give back on the first day of the week the first 10% of our income to You, Lord (2 Cor. 9:7).

Lord, we honor Your Word which we believe points us to give our tithe to our local church. We give our tithe to our local church, offerings as You prompt us to give, and offerings to other Christian causes and groups as You prompt us to do so. As we are faithful to bring all our tithes into the storehouse, that Your work may be done, we do accept Your offer for us to try You now in this, “says the LORD of hosts, If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it” (Mal. 3:10).

We stand on Your promise from our Lord Jesus: “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you” (Luke 6:38).
Believe In Him

Father, I believe in You, that it is Your good pleasure to prosper us and not only meet but exceed all our financial needs, obligations, commitments, and responsibilities. I believe and know that You want to meet and exceed the budget of our church. Lord, I believe the words of our Lord Jesus Who said, “And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive” (Matt. 21:22). Father, I know that we may not receive because Your Word says, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures” (James 4:3). As I pray for financial resources, it is that we may more effectively serve You. Lord, I ask in faith “with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind” (James 1:6), that all our financial needs will be met so that we can stay out of debt, pay our tithe and taxes, and live within our means. And this is the confidence that we have in You, that if we ask anything according to Your will, You hear us, and if we know that You hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of You” (1 John 5:14-15).

Father, as I ask in faith, according to Your will, I do so accepting Your time frame. I pray that if it is Your will for us to wait some more concerning a financial request , please give us grace to do so and renew and revive our faith through the process so that it will become even stronger (Isa. 40:31).

Receive From Him

Father, as we seek to live for You, to give as You prompt us to give to Your work, and believe that what we ask of You in the way of financial provision is according to Your will, we are confident that we will receive from You all our need according to Your riches in glory (Phil. 4:19).

I ask today for Your supernatural (impossible to man, but possible to You, Lord) blessings on our family, our home, and our possessions in the area of finances. I pray that You will work providentially and divinely through the ordinary, supernaturally through the natural (through normal means and resources of providing income for us), and I pray that You will even work miraculously in and over our finances to provide the income to get us out of debt (if applicable), keep us out of debt, to live within our means, to enlarge our tent (size of home, furnishings, and increase in possessions and assets), as needed, to pay our taxes, to give our tithe, plus other offerings as prompted, and to be able to save an adequate amount of our net income for emergency situations and future needs that arise, seldom having to use this money in savings and never having to deplete it.

We will obey You as You have sometimes asked us to give the unusual and unexpected. We commit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ over our finances, our material possessions, our home, and our “coming in and going out” (Deut. 28:6). I ask You today for the allotted portions from you for us financially, physically, and materially which is necessary to fulfill Your perfect will and plan for our lives, thanking and acknowledging that You, my God, are able to make all grace abound toward us and our finances because You always have all sufficiency in all things, having and giving an abundance to us for every good work and that which we need to fulfill Your perfect will for our lives this day (2 Cor. 9:8).

I pray that the financial needs of our church will be met this day and this week in order to further Your kingdom and to glorify Christ. I pray that You, O Lord, our PROVIDER, will bring a harvest of new members into our church who will be faithful tithers. I pray that You will bless those in our church membership who are presently tithers with more income so that their tithes will increase. I pray that our members who are not presently tithers will be compelled to start tithing and that You will prove Malachi 3:10 to them.

I pray that our church will meet its budget every week and exceed the funds needed for the budget. We pray that we will be patient for those things we desire for our church until we have the money in hand to pay for them. Lord, I firmly believe that if we really have need of something at our church for which we do not presently have the money that You will send in the necessary finances if this is within Your will for our church.

Lord, I trust You to provide all the resources and means to fulfill our financial needs, obligations, commitments, and responsibilities.

I praise You, Father, because You are the Lord, our PROVIDER, Who knows and sees beforehand our financial needs (Matt. 6:8) and makes provision for them, even before we ask. I know that we shall receive today what we need financially to fulfill Your will for our lives.