Lord, do I have pockets full of holes (Haggai 1:6, TLB)? Am I praying more but enjoying it less? Am I forever sowing but never reaping? You have said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, … and all these things shall be added” (Matthew 6:33, KJV, italics added). Lord, that is my trouble. I have been thinking too much about material things, such as savings, insurance, and retirement. You have made it clear, Lord, that it is in not thinking about those things that they are guaranteed to me.
Lord, I need heaven’s economics. There is no supply and demand law in heaven, because there is no limit to the supply. My need is supplied “according to His riches in glory” (Philippians 4:19), not according to a finite amount.
Lord, teach me the mystery of the feeding of the five thousand. I have always thought it meant that Jesus is the Son of God. Now I see it means more than that. The multiplying is one of heaven’s mysterious laws in which the spiritual is tapped for the sake of the material. How shrewd and sharp Satan was when he said to Jesus, “Command that these stones become bread!” (Matthew 4:3, ASV). He was right when he said (or implied) Jesus could make bread out of anything; but he was wrong when he, not the Father, issued the command.
Lord, I am surrounded by infinite, mighty resources, invisible perhaps to me, but always at Your fingertips, ready for instant conversion into the material for my benefit—if I should ever need them. So, Lord, keep me from worrying about things in which the natural man puts his trust. Poor man, his visible means of support is pitifully frail! God, let me never think myself poor like that! May I always be grounded in Philippians 4:19.
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed” (2 Corinthians 9:8).
Daily with the King 