Trust and Commitment to the Lord-Our Provider

Matthew 6:31-34

“³¹ Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?

³² For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.

³³ But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.

³⁴ So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.” AMP

When we ask Jesus to become our Lord and Savior, many don’t think what this will mean for the rest of our lives. In a previous post I have mentioned that we are on this earth to serve as stewards of the things such as finances and resources that God gives us to administer on earth. These things help us have life in abundance and also live in godliness and everything necessary to advance His Kingdom as the citizens of heaven that we are (2 Peter 1:3-4).

This takes learning the ways of the kingdom when it comes to handling God’s riches. Worrying about the things we need or want do not move God’s hand for us, but learning to trust and commit our way as we acknowledge Him in all we do so He can show us the path to the answer of our petitions will. That’s why twice in the passage above He says to not worry and be anxious.

Psalm 37:4-5 says, “⁴ Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.

⁵ Commit your way to the Lord [roll and repose each care of your load on Him]; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass.” AMP

In addition, Proverbs 3:5-6 adds, “⁵ Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.

⁶ In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.” AMP

It is very important to learn to walk with God in this as well as all other areas of our lives, but this area of finances and our sustenance is the one area that has kept most believers from living as overcomers in His power and authority. This is because even though they love the Lord and claim to have given Him access to every door in their hearts for Him to walk in and rearrange the furniture or even replace some things that may take Him as far as redoing the foundation of the house (the heart), this is a door they have slammed shut to Him.

God has shown His people His great power to move mountains on their behalf, but like the Israelites did after they were brought out of Egypt with signs and wonders, only to build a calf shortly after and call it their “god who brought them out of Egypt,” many people have done and continue to do today provoking God’s anger because He is a Jealous God for a true relationship with His people (Exodus 32:7-10; 34:14) and will judge the idols we have raised because He does not share His glory with graven images made by man (Isaiah 42:8).

The Lord had shown them to be a great provider and deliverer before and even during their flight from Egypt, but they chose to worship the spirit of mammon instead. This has been a great battle God has had for the heart of His people in the area of trusting Him for their sustenance for many generations. In fact, this started with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden when they ate the forbidden apple from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:1-6).

The type of relationship that God intends to have with each of His children is a progressive one in which we grow from being a child in our knowledge of Him, to being a friend and servant, all the way to becoming His bride. Also as mentioned in other posts becoming His bride means maturity that gets us to a position of being sent to fulfill our destinies in Him after we have fulfilled the process of being called and then chosen.

Many have breached their covenant with God because of who they choose to worship in the area of finances. The reason they have done that is that they would not receive His grace to grow in their trust and commitment to Him to take them through the circumstances that will teach them the ways of His Kingdom in this area and away from the worship of mammon. This is a process that takes us to many levels of trust and commitment of Him and of His ways and a very necessary one for us to be entrusted with more of His riches because we cannot love both God and mammon.

Matthew 6:24 explains why, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in).” AMP


1 Timothy 6:10 expounds to us the meaning of this Scripture, “The love of money causes all kinds of trouble. Some people want money so much that they have given up their faith and caused themselves a lot of pain.” CEV

We become slaves of whatever we trust in or rely on the most (Romans 6:16). Therefore, giving to God this area just like we should give to Him our relationships or our bodies helps us walk in more power and authority at every level of our process because our God is the Lord that owns the earth, the world, and everything in it (Psalm 24:1) and the enemy, through fear that leads us to engage in control and manipulation, tries to steal from us and strip us from that power and authority. Let’s get back to the ways of the Kingdom so the things we are believing and praying about can be added to us in a way that will last because we can be mature enough to be entrusted with them. To Him alone be all the glory.▪