God Will Always Provide What You Truly Need
God always provides exactly what we need and equips us to serve others with abundance, as Karin Hadadan shares. Mirroring this heart of devotion, Rebecca Simon’s Finding God Every Day encourages readers to trust God’s provision and live with gratitude and faith each day.
And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8
God ensures we have all that we need at all times. His provision is abundant, not just barely enough for us to get by, but rather continuously overflowing us with precisely what He deems our spirits need at each present moment.
Oftentimes, we confuse our wants with our needs. We assume that because we don’t yet have what we want—be it a soulmate love, the dream job, financial prosperity or radiant health—that God has forsaken us. However, when we take a step back, we realize that He always provides what we need in each present moment: an opportunity, a sign, a person, an experience, a download. Just because we don’t have the thing we seek doesn’t mean God hasn’t given us what we need in order to seize this moment to serve others and to eventually receive it in the near future.
Yet, the deeper purpose of this provision is so that the blessings we receive become a blessing to others. When we become a living, breathing example of this truth—that we are always complete, we are always sufficient, we are always enough and always will have enough—we inspire others to also operate from this deep knowing and state of peace. The wants no longer overpower the present moment, nor does our future rob us from this one. This is where we shift our own minds from a scarcity mindset to one of abundance, and also transform those of others, where we teach the people around us to also trust God deeply.
Receiving God’s provisions—regardless of what they hold—positions us to overflow in good works. If we already have everything God needs us to have in order to fulfill His will for this point in our lives, only good can come of it and we can begin now to expel it. If God declares that we are ready as we currently are, and has given us what we need in order to succeed, our ability to serve generously becomes second nature. This is when God exceeds our circumstances and limitations—where what we need and have actually becomes the things we want.
