We Need to See God

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• In both the When we clearly see how much we need
  the Lord every day, we will be
  blessed.

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• In both the When we clearly see how much we need
  the Lord every day, we will be
  blessed.
• Abraham knew this was true even when he faced
  what seemed to be a no-win situation.

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• In both the When we clearly see how much we need
  the Lord every day, we will be
  blessed.
• Abraham knew this was true even when he faced
  what seemed to be a no-win situation.
• Abraham even knew of some possible things God
  might do. (Heb 1117-19)

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• (Hebrews 1117-19 NKJV) By faith Abraham, when
  he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had
  received the promises offered up his only
  begotten son, 18 of whom it was said, In Isaac
  your seed shall be called, 19 concluding that
  God was able to raise him up, even from the dead,
  from which he also received him in a figurative
  sense.

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• What gave him such confidence? He knew the
  promises of God and the character of God!

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• What gave him such confidence? He knew the
  promises of God and the character of God!
• Abraham wanted all to know of this truth about
  God and gave this name to the place
  where he was to offer Isaac. (Gen 2214)

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• (Genesis 2214 NKJV) And Abraham called the name
  of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide as it is
  said to this day, In the Mount of The LORD it
  shall be provided.

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• Our problem is in seeing how much we need God.

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• Our problem is in seeing how much we need God.
• The fall of Israel came first in forgetting Gods
  provisions. (Deut 811-20)

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• (Deuteronomy 811-20 NKJV) Beware that you do
  not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His
  commandments, His judgments, and His statutes
  which I command you today, 12 lest when you
  have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful
  houses and dwell in them

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• 13 and when your herds and your flocks
  multiply, and your silver and your gold are
  multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied
  14 when your heart is lifted up, and you
  forget the LORD your God who brought you out of
  the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• 15 who led you through that great and terrible
  wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and
  scorpions and thirsty land where there was no
  water who brought water for you out of the
  flinty rock 16 who fed you in the wilderness
  with manna, which your fathers did not know, that
  He might humble you and that He might test you,
  to do you good in the end

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• 17 then you say in your heart, My power and
  the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.
  18 And you shall remember the LORD your God,
  for it is He who gives you power to get wealth,
  that He may establish His covenant which He swore
  to your fathers, as it is this day.

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• 19 Then it shall be, if you by any means
  forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods,
  and serve them and worship them, I testify
  against you this day that you shall surely
  perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD
  destroys before you, so you shall perish, because
  you would not be obedient to the voice of the
  LORD your God.

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• The gentiles did the same thing. (Rom 121-22)

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• (Romans 121-22 NKJV) because, although they
  knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor
  were thankful, but became futile in their
  thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
  22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• What about you? Do you see your daily need of
  God? (Mt 611)

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We Need to See Gods Blessings

• (Matthew 611 NKJV) Give us this day our daily
  bread.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• There is an unconditional provision that God
  makes for all men. (Acts 1723-27)

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• (Acts 1723-27 NKJV) for as I was passing
  through and considering the objects of your
  worship, I even found an altar with this
  inscription TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the
  One whom you worship without knowing, Him I
  proclaim to you 24 God, who made the world
  and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven
  and earth, does

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• 25 Nor is He worshiped with mens hands, as
  though He needed anything, since He gives to all
  life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has
  made from one blood every nation of men to dwell
  on all the face of the earth, and has determined
  their preappointed times and the boundaries of
  their dwellings,

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the
  hope that they might grope for Him and find Him,
  though He is not far from each one of us

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• This knowledge ought to have caused these men to
  rethink their lives. Have you ever played a game
  only to find out that another completely
  controlled it?

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• This goodness of God ought to make men change.
  (Mt 545)

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• (Matthew 545 NKJV) that you may be sons of
  your Father in heaven for He makes His sun rise
  on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on
  the just and on the unjust.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• Remember, this provision may be abruptly taken
  away.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• The full provision of God comes to those who love
  Him. (Rom 828)

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• (Romans 828 NKJV) And we know that all things
  work together for good to those who love God, to
  those who are the called according to His purpose.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• This has a calming affect in difficult times. (1
  Pt 312-13)

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• (1 Peter 312-13 NKJV) For the eyes of the LORD
  are on the righteous, And His ears are open to
  their prayers But the face of the LORD is
  against those who do evil. 13 And who is he
  who will harm you if you become followers of what
  is good?

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• Please do not take these conditions lightly.
  There is a dedication and devotion that comes
  from such a commitment.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• The Lord will provide according to His promises.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• The Lord will provide according to His promises.
• Abraham knew this. Once he knew Gods promise
  then he regarded the matter as a certainty. (Rom
  418-22)

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• (Romans 418-22 NKJV) who, contrary to hope, in
  hope believed, so that he became the father of
  many nations, according to what was spoken, So
  shall your descendants be. 19 And not being
  weak in faith, he did not consider his own body,
  already dead (since he was about a hundred years
  old), and the deadness of Sarahs womb.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• 20 He did not waver at the promise of God
  through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith,
  giving glory to God, 21 and being fully
  convinced that what He had promised He was also
  able to perform. 22 And therefore it was
  accounted to him for righteousness.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• God expects us to have this confidence. Notice
  how the promise was made in the present tense!
  (Rom 417)

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• (Romans 417 NKJV) (as it is written, I have
  made you a father of many nations) in the
  presence of Him whom he believed God, who gives
  life to the dead and calls those things which do
  not exist as though they did

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• The Lord will provide in His own time.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• The Lord will provide in His own time.
• We must learn to wait on the Lord. (Psa 2714
  377-9)

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• (Psalms 2714 NKJV) Wait on the LORD Be of good
  courage, And He shall strengthen your heart
  Wait, I say, on the LORD!

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• (Psalms 377-9 NKJV) Rest in the LORD, and wait
  patiently for Him Do not fret because of him who
  prospers in his way, Because of the man who
  brings wicked schemes to pass. 8 Cease from
  anger, and forsake wrath Do not fret it only
  causes harm. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off
  But those who wait on the LORD, They shall
  inherit the earth.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• This can be a most difficult challenge to our
  faith.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• This can be a most difficult challenge to our
  faith.
• We can neglect Gods conditions and then faces
  the consequences without Gods help!
  (Acts 2721-22, 31-32)

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• (Acts 2721-22 NKJV) But after long abstinence
  from food, then Paul stood in the midst of them
  and said, Men, you should have listened to me,
  and not have sailed from Crete and incurred this
  disaster and loss. 22 And now I urge you to
  take heart, for there will be no loss of life
  among you, but only of the ship.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• (Acts 2731-32 NKJV) Paul said to the centurion
  and the soldiers, Unless these men stay in the
  ship, you cannot be saved. 32 Then the
  soldiers cut away the ropes of the skiff and let
  it fall off.

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• We must not be stubborn here!

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• We must not be stubborn here!
• God asks us to walk by faith and He will provide.
  What if we act in unbelief? (Heb
  318-19)

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Conditions upon which the Lord will provide

• (Hebrews 318-19 NKJV) And to whom did He swear
  that they would not enter His rest, but to those
  who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could
  not enter in because of unbelief.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• While we know the Lord will provide, we do not
  always how He will do it.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• While we know the Lord will provide, we do not
  always how He will do it.
• Abraham learned this and so did Mordecai. (Esther
  414)

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• (Esther 414 NKJV) For if you remain completely
  silent at this time, relief and deliverance will
  arise for the Jews from another place, but you
  and your fathers house will perish. Yet who
  knows whether you have come to the kingdom for
  such a time as this?

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• Paul would also grant the possibility of Gods
  actions in meeting Onesimus. (Philemon 115)

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• (Philemon 115 NKJV) For perhaps he departed for
  a while for this purpose, that you might receive
  him forever,

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• Please be careful in attributing things to God.
  We could be wrong.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• Please be careful in attributing things to God.
  We could be wrong.
• God may open a door of opportunity.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• Please be careful in attributing things to God.
  We could be wrong.
• God may open a door of opportunity.
• The only opportunities God will give us are those
  that are for His purposes. He does not provide
  things only for our lusts. (Jas 42-3)

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• (James 42-3 NKJV) You lust and do not have. You
  murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and
  war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
  3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask
  amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• What the child of God would see as an opportunity
  the worldly man would see as a hindrance. (1
  Cor 169 2 Cor 212)

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• (1 Corinthians 169 NKJV) For a great and
  effective door has opened to me, and there are
  many adversaries.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• (2 Corinthians 212 NKJV) Furthermore, when I
  came to Troas to preach Christs gospel, and a
  door was opened to me by the Lord,

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• God may allow you to hear His word.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• God may allow you to hear His word.
• Cornelius knew that God gave him an opportunity
  that he had sought. (Acts 1021-22)

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• (Acts 1021-22 NKJV) Then Peter went down to the
  men who had been sent to him from Cornelius, and
  said, Yes, I am he whom you seek. For what
  reason have you come? 22 And they said,
  Cornelius the centurion, a just man, one who
  fears God and has a good reputation among all the
  nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a
  holy angel to summon you to his house, and to
  hear words from you.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• How many times have you been at a service and
  heard from Gods word they very thing you needed
  in a particular matter? (This is not for the
  glory of the speaker!)

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• How many times have you been at a service and
  heard from Gods word they very thing you needed
  in a particular matter? (This is not for the
  glory of the speaker!)
• Are you here with the prayer that God might show
  you things that you need to change or do in
  your life? (Ex. Bored looks in an audience)

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• God may put you in a position of responsibility.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• God may put you in a position of responsibility.
• In that position you may find a blessing for
  others as well as yourself.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• God may put you in a position of responsibility.
• In that position you may find a blessing for
  others as well as yourself.
• Do we view the positions we hold in this way?
  (Esther 414)

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• (Esther 414 NKJV) For if you remain completely
  silent at this time, relief and deliverance will
  arise for the Jews from another place, but you
  and your fathers house will perish. Yet who
  knows whether you have come to the kingdom for
  such a time as this?

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• God may allow trouble to come for a while.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• There were many years of trouble for Joseph that
  resulted in great good. God planned this!
  (Gen 5019-20 Psa 10517)

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• (Genesis 5019-20 NKJV) Joseph said to them, Do
  not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? 20
  But as for you, you meant evil against me but
  God meant it for good, in order to bring it about
  as it is this day, to save many people alive.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• (Psalms 10517 NKJV) He sent a man before them
  Joseph who was sold as a slave.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• Paul needed to have a thorn in the flesh for his
  salvation. (2 Cor 127-9)

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• (2 Corinthians 127-9 NKJV) And lest I should be
  exalted above measure by the abundance of the
  revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to
  me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be
  exalted above measure. 8 Concerning this thing
  I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might
  depart from me.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• 9 And He said to me, My grace is sufficient
  for you, for My strength is made perfect in
  weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather
  boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ
  may rest upon me.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• What the caterpillar calls the end, God calls a
  butterfly.

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Ways which the Lord may provide

• What the caterpillar calls the end, God calls a
  butterfly.
• How do you view your troubles as an opportunity
  or as a cause of worry?

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• We need the Lord to provide for our forgiveness.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• We need the Lord to provide for our forgiveness.
• He has done so through His Son and offered it to
  us through the gospel. (1 Cor 151-2)

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (1 Corinthians 151-2 NKJV) Moreover, brethren,
  I declare to you the gospel which I preached to
  you, which also you received and in which you
  stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you
  hold fast that word which I preached to you
  unless you believed in vain.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• We must accept Gods provisions in responding to
  His promises for forgiveness. (Acts 221,38
  2216)

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (Acts 221 NKJV) And it shall come to pass That
  whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be
  saved.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (Acts 238 NKJV) Then Peter said to them,
  Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in
  the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of
  sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy
  Spirit.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (Acts 2216 NKJV) And now why are you waiting?
  Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins,
  calling on the name of the Lord.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• We need to be comforted in the faithfulness of
  God to forgive. (1 Jn 17-9)

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (1 John 17-9 NKJV) But if we walk in the light
  as He is in the light, we have fellowship with
  one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His
  Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that
  we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
  truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins,
  He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
  and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• We need the Lord to provide for our faithfulness.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• We need the Lord to provide for our faithfulness.
• We need His aid in our battle against temptation.
  (1 Cor 1013 Heb 218)

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (1 Corinthians 1013 NKJV) No temptation has
  overtaken you except such as is common to man
  but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be
  tempted beyond what you are able, but with the
  temptation will also make the way of escape, that
  you may be able to bear it.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (Hebrews 218 NKJV) For in that He Himself has
  suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those
  who are tempted.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• We need His aid in keeping ourselves in the
  faith. (2 Tim 112)

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (2 Timothy 112 NKJV) For this reason I also
  suffer these things nevertheless I am not
  ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am
  persuaded that He is able to keep what I have
  committed to Him until that Day.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• We need the Lord to provide help in finding a
  mate.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• We need the Lord to provide help in finding a
  mate.
• Abraham sought Gods help in finding a wife for
  Isaac.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• We need to trust God and be willing to wait. (1
  Pet 37)

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (1 Peter 37 NKJV) Husbands, likewise, dwell
  with them with understanding, giving honor to the
  wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs
  together of the grace of life, that your prayers
  may not be hindered.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• We need the Lord to provide for the care and
  guidance of our families. (Eph 64
  Judges 138)

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (Judges 138 NKJV) Then Manoah prayed to the
  LORD, and said, O my Lord, please let the Man of
  God whom You sent come to us again and teach us
  what we shall do for the child who will be born.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (Ephesians 64 NKJV) And you, fathers, do not
  provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up
  in the training and admonition of the Lord.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• If we could only see how much we need God, how
  our priorities would change!

102
Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• If we could only see how much we need God, how
  our priorities would change!
• Are you praying fervently for God help in your
  home?

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• If we could only see how much we need God, how
  our priorities would change!
• Are you praying fervently for God help in your
  home?
• We need the Lord to provide for our health and
  life. (2 Cor 18-10)

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (2 Corinthians 18-10 NKJV) For we do not want
  you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble
  which came to us in Asia that we were burdened
  beyond measure, above strength, so that we
  despaired even of life. 9 Yes, we had the
  sentence of death in ourselves, that we should
  not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the
  dead,

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• 10 who delivered us from so great a death, and
  does deliver us in whom we trust that He will
  still deliver us,

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• What do we need to be able to see our need of
  Gods provisions?

107
Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• What do we need to be able to see our need of
  Gods provisions?
• We need to be humbled. Only then can God help us.
  (Jas 46-10)

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (James 46-10 NKJV) But He gives more grace.
  Therefore He says God resists the proud, But
  gives grace to the humble. 7 Therefore submit
  to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from
  you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near
  to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners and
  purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• 9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter
  be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10
  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and
  He will lift you up.

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• "God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to
  lean on him."

111
Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• "God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to
  lean on him."
• Let us be thankful every day for such a great
  God! (1 Cor 1557)

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Situations in which we need the Lord to provide

• (1 Corinthians 1557 NKJV) But thanks be to God,
  who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus
  Christ.