Financial Peace

Isaiah 55:11 ~ So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

If we trust in our job or our paycheck as our only source of income, then we will only have one source of revenue and we will never have more than our labor can make.  If we trust in God, and lean not to our own understanding (Prov 3:5-6), then our resources are limitless.  We enter into God's rest and He takes care of the rest.

Jesus said in Matthew 6:25-34:

Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on (what you shall wear); Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than clothing?  Behold, (look at) the fowls of the air: for they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much better than they?  Which of you by taking (worried, over anxious, very careful) thought can add one cubit (length between your elbow and middle finger) unto his stature (helikia: meaning maturity)?  And why do you take thought for clothing?  Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  Wherefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, o ye of little faith?   Therefore, take no thought, saying, what shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or how shall we be clothed?  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Take therefore no thought for tomorrow: for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Financial pressure got you down today?  Maybe you don't see where the finances you need will come from.  Good news for us right now: when it looks like our supply line is running out, God's supply is running over.  He promised to supply our every need, and His promises never leave us empty-handed.

David the Psalmist writes of God's provision in Psalms 37:25: 

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor His seed begging bread. 

How much more will He feed and clothe us?