The Promises of God: All Your Need Supplied
20 May 2025 · 1 min read · Verse Collections
My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Paul wrote the great provision promise from prison, to a church that had just given sacrificially — generosity, he promises, does not out-run God's supply.
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Need, not greed
The promise is precise: all your need — not every want. God's provision tracks his own wise assessment of what his children require, and its measure is staggering: according to his riches in glory, not out of them, as a millionaire gives pennies, but according to them, in proportion to infinite wealth.
The record backs the promise: manna every morning, the widow's unfailing cruse, five thousand fed from a boy's lunch, David's old-age testimony — I have not seen the righteous forsaken.
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Your Father knoweth
Jesus grounds provision in fatherhood: take no anxious thought, for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. Provision anxiety is, at root, an orphan mindset — and the promise is the family's dinner bell.
Seek first the kingdom, work honestly, give generously, and watch the supply lines hold. They have held for every generation of the family so far.
