Today we will discuss Jehovah-jireh - The Lord will provide!
The first time this name is used is when Abraham took Isaac to Moriah to offer his son as a burnt offering in Genesis 22:1-19, where God provided the ram as the burnt offering instead of Isaac.
All along in this story Abraham kept his faith that God would provide. He told the men with them, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go yonder, and we will worship and return to you."
He told Isaac, "God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son."
And even as he built the altar, arranged the wood, bound Isaac, laid him on the wood, stretched out his hand, and took out the knife to slay Isaac, he showed his faith in God, that He would make everything all right. And the Lord did!
But not only in this instance, the Lord Jesus has shown Himself to provide in every book of the Bible.
In Genesis - the Ram at Abraham's Altar
Exodus - the Passover Lamb
Leviticus - the High Priest
Numbers - Cloud by Day and the Pillar of Fire by Night
Deuteronomy - City of our Refuge
Joshua - Scarlet Thread out Rahab's window
Judges - He is our Judge
Ruth - our Kinsman Redeemer
First and Second Samuel - Trusted Prophet
First and Second Kings, First and Second Chronicles - our Reigning King
Ezra - our Faithful Scribe
Nehemiah - Re-builder of everything that is broken
Esther - Mordecai sitting faithful at the gate
Job - our Redeemer that ever liveth
Psalms - He is my Shepherd and I shall not want
Proverbs and Ecclesiastes - our Wisdom
Song of Solomon - the Beautiful Bridegroom
Isaiah - Suffering Servant
Jeremiah and Lamentations - Jesus is the Weeping Prophet
Ezekiel - Wonderful Four-faced Man
Daniel - Fourth Man in the midst of a fiery furnace
Hosea - My Love that is ever faithful
Joel - He baptizes us with the Holy Spirit
Amos - our Burden Berrer
Obadiah - our Savior
Jonah - Great Foreign Missionary that takes the word of God into all the world
Micah - Messenger with beautiful feet
Nahum - the Avenger
Habakkuk - the Watchman that is ever praying for revival
Zephaniah - The Lord Mighty to Save
Haggai - the Restorer of our lost heritage
Zechariah - our Fountain
Malachi - the Son of Righteousness with healing in His wings
Matthew - Thou are the Christ the Son of the Living God
Mark - the Miracle Worker
Luke - The Son of Man
John - The Door by which everyone of us must enter
Acts - The Shining Light that appears to Saul on the road to Damascus
Romans - our Justifier
1 Corinthians - Our Resurrection
2 Corinthians - Our Sin Berrer
Galatians - He redeems us from the law
Ephesians - our Unsearchable Riches
Philippians - He supplies our every need
Colossians - the fullness of the Godhead
First and Second Thessalonians - our Soon and Coming King
First and Second Timothy - the mediator between God and man
Titus - our Blessed Hope
Philemon - a Friend that sticks closer than a brother
Hebrews - the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant
James - He is the Lord that heals the sick
First and Second Peter - the Chief Shepherd
First, Second, and Third John - Jesus who has the tenderness of love
Jude - He is the Lord coming with ten thousand saints
Revelation - Lift up your eyes church for your Redemption draweth nigh
THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORD!
If we call upon Him He will provide for us.
Philippians 4:19
"And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus."
