God's Provision

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By Kirby Harris

God provides everything we need. Although, God provides the building blocks of provision, God also tasked man with, and put it into man, the need to cultivate what God has provided, turn it into something. 

Also, God tasked woman with, and put it into woman, the need to come alongside man as a help-mate to help man cultivate what God provided, and made her to rely on her husband, and God. Both are to trust and rely on God.

Take Adam, God gave him the whole Garden, all provision, but gave him a stake in it. Required him to cultivate it. God did the same with every believer in the Bible, as well as every godly nation. God provided and expected them to cultivate and maintain it.

God then made Adam a help-mate to help him cultivate God’s provision, and made her to desire to help and rely on her husband Adam, and God. Both were to rely on God.

He does the same with us today.

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