“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives… Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? …How much more will your Father who is in… Continue reading

“You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.” James 4:2–3 James speaks to a truth we often sense but rarely articulate: sometimes our relationship with God is marked by a strange combination of… Continue reading

“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths. …Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.’” Hosea 2:6–7 “For she does not know that it… Continue reading

“Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Consider your ways! You have sown much, but harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied… he who earns wages earns wages to put into a bag with holes.’ …’Why? Because of My house which lies desolate, while each of you runs to… Continue reading

“But Elijah said to her, ‘Do not fear… For thus says the LORD God of Israel, “The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain on the face of the earth.”‘ …And the bowl of flour was not exhausted nor… Continue reading

“Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, ‘Arise, go to Zarephath… behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.’ So he arose and went to Zarephath… He called to her and said, ‘Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.’ But she said, ‘As… Continue reading

“It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, ‘Arise, go to Zarephath… I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.’” 1 Kings 17:7–9 Elijah watched the water level get lower day after day.… Continue reading

“The word of the LORD came to him, saying, ‘Go away from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith… It shall be that you will drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there. So he went and did according to the word of the… Continue reading

“Give us this day our daily bread.” Matthew 6:11 When Jesus taught His disciples how to pray, He could have instructed them to ask for a month’s supply, a year’s supply, or a lifetime of abundance. Instead, He directed them to pray for daily bread — not because God is unwilling to provide more, but… Continue reading

“Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.” James 1:17 When James says that every good gift comes from above, he is giving us a window into the heart of God. At the center of all… Continue reading