Tuesday, August 20, 2013
The 900 pound man; The Lord's provision verses ours
I just watched a show about a 900 pound man. This morning when I wake up I feel The Lord saying to me when I am tempted to overeat that it is the same spirit that killed that man of gluttony. So I felt I was supposed to say out loud, "What fellowship does light have with darkness. In The name of Jesus I rebuke the spirit of gluttony in this house forever." (2 Corinthians 6:14)
Lust and gluttony are often connected. My wife had a dream in the same night. She was in this castle and whenever someone thought about a certain food, a waiter came a delivered it to them. My wife loves to serve, and so she tried going in the kitchen, but the servants did not allow her to lift one finger, she insisted, but they would not change.
God gives us what we need, He desires to give us good gifts, all we have to do is receive them. It is not our job to go and manufacture The Lord's provision, that's up to Him, because He alone knows what we need. He's not into over supplying, but in meeting our needs. Though I've known The Lord to give abundantly, it is not so we can spend it on our own pleasure. In fact, if we do, we may get in the way of the Lord providing. (James 4)
Just like in the dream, The Lord knows what we need even before we ask. (Matthew 6:8) I just pray that we'd allow God to provide the way He wants, and that we'd not get in His way. We will never be able to out serve Him, for we will never be God.
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