Jesus said: “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?” (Matt 6:25; KJV). The Apostle Peter told us to cast every care on Jesus as Jesus loves us (1 Peter 5:7); that includes every care!

In Matthew chapter 6, Jesus illustrated God’s ability to care for us and to meet our need. Jesus said why would you worry? Look how God feeds the birds. They don’t even farm; God feeds them. Look at the flowers in summer time. Not even Solomon with all his wealth and resources could get clothes to match the beauty of a flower garden.

In Philippians Chapter 4 and verse 19 Paul said: “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus”. Notice that God supplies all of your need according to his resources. It gets even better, Paul told us that God can do more that we can think or ask (Eph 3:20). Again, in our main passage from Mathews Gospel above, Jesus said that if we seek God and walk in obedience to him, then: “all these things shall be added unto you” (Matt 6:33). Now that’s good news, not something to worry about.

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 Money can do funny things to people. The word has much to say about money and prosperity and its place in our lives. God wants to prosper us, to provide all of our need: “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil 4:19; KJV). Notice that the apostle Paul wrote: “according to his riches”, or by his standard; I like that.

However, God wants us to seek him not the blessings; as we seek him, God blesses us (Matt 6:33). So often we can: “ask amiss” (James 4:3), asking out of purely selfish desires; God can’t answer those kinds of prayers. Paul tells us not to trust in riches but to trust God (1 Tim 6:17).  Again, he says: “For the love of money is the root of all evil” (1 Tim 6:10).

That focus on money can keep people from entering the kingdom of God (Mark 10:23-25); can so distract them that it blinds them to the word of God (Matt 13:22). We are not to pursue riches (1 Tim 6:9) but to pursue God. Be content with what you have (1 Tim 6:8) but look to God; he will bless you beyond all you can ask or imagine (Eph 3:20).

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