Jehovah-Jireh” means “The LORD Will Provide

Genesis 22:14 And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of The Lord it shall be provided.”

Over the last 36 hours, the Lord has provided for my family. I cannot express the details, but the first was an answer to prayer for me, the second was an answer to prayer for my wife. Both were unexpected monetary gifts that answered a prayer of need. Both fulfilled God’s promise to us in so many ways. Are you placing your faith in God? Do you leave room to see God work or do you fill in all the gaps by yourself? You are glorified in that and never will see God’s provision in it; only your own.

God provided food for Israel that fell out of the sky for 40 years while wondering in the desert. Numbers 11:9 And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. They had never seen this food, much less how it appeared and disappeared. The logistics of the size of the Exodus of Israel into the desert are staggering, let alone feeding them for 40 years. God humbled them in the desert and showed them many things, yet they still were a prideful, stubborn people rebelling against their Provider. Deuteronomy 8:3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.

God knows what you are facing today. He has either designed or allowed it, and He wants you to seek His guidance in it. He is in control of it all. How can you ever see God at work in your life if you don’t give up your life to Him? If you keep praying and spending time with Him in His Word, He will provide. How he provides may not be how you think he should, but He is a Sovereign God, and the Creator of all, and He knows best. Isaiah 55:9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

The true meaning of Genesis 22:14 is an example of Christ in the Old Testament. Of how God will provide a means to escape the punishment of sin through the blood of Christ on the Cross at Calvary. This example in Genesis speaks of great faith, and great sacrifice, and of God’s provision for eternal paradise with Him.