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Jehovah Jireh
Even going back to my childhood in the early 80s when my parents were with YWAM at the Kona base, I remember seeing at a young age God’s miraculous provision in so many ways. We had times on our outreach where there was less than $20 to feed 13 people for an entire week! It would be so easy to grumble and complain and accuse God, but instead I remember prayers being lifted for specific needs: for broccoli and vegetables, meat, milk for the children, honey for the diabetic on the team, etc.
After a few days a man came to visit who a previous team had lead to the Lord. Apparently he owned a deli and had food left at the end of the week that was still perfectly good but that he couldn’t sell in his display as it wasn’t as fresh. Suddenly our freezers were overflowing with broccoli and vegetables and more meat than we could eat!
There were more similar stories of God providing time and time again, and my faith is still renewed when I begin to doubt or focus on worrying where funds will come from tomorrow. God knows, and He has continued to be faithful even when I am faithless! He knows the needs that we have even before we know to ask or speak of them.
The bridge of this song reminds us of that and pulls from two other examples of when God has known the need and provided. The first being the story of Abraham being asked to trust God and offer his son Isaac on the altar, and the second when Jesus showed the Samaritan woman at the well her need for more than just earthly water to drink (see: John 4:1-42).
Just like Abraham needed a lamb
The woman at the well more than water to drink
So you always know every single need
Before I even speak
I love how the verse from Matthew 6:8 at the end of the bridge reminds us that even when we might confuse wants and desires with needs, or things that might not be the best for us, still God knows what we truly need even before we know to ask!
…for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. —Matthew 6:8
We should also look to the story of Abraham and Isaac as an example of how to always put God first in our lives, and He will be faithful to take care of the rest. Even as Abraham was tested and asked to let go of the thing he prized, his only son—I’ve found in my own life that God sometimes requires us to let things go, to realign our priorities and make sure that He is first in our lives. However, as Abraham found, He is always faithful to provide even more abundantly above and beyond anything that we could imagine.
God, by his word, calls us to part with all for Christ,—all our sins, though they have been as a right hand, or a right eye, or an Isaac—all those things that are competitors and rivals with Christ for the sovereignty of the heart (Luke 14:26); and we must cheerfully let them all go. God, by his providence, which is truly the voice of God, calls us to part with an Isaac sometimes, and we must do it with a cheerful resignation and submission to his holy will. —John Calvin, Commentary on Genesis 22
Abraham had faith in God’s promises and knew that He would provide a way even though it looked frightening and impossible from his perspective.
Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together. —Genesis 22:7-8
I love this passage as it is such a beautiful picture of how God would provide Jesus, the pure white lamb, to be the sacrifice in our place. Even though it should have been us taking the punishment for our sins. I think this is the ultimate picture of God as our Provider, our Jehovah Jireh; providing His only Son as the sacrifice for the sins of the world.
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.” —Genesis 22:13-14
I hope these words and this song are an encouragement to you; whether you find yourself currently in a season of plenty, or if you are going through difficult times. May you be blessed by our Provider and find all of your needs met in Him!
And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. —Philippians 4:19
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We also released a lyric video for the single that you can watch here: Watch Jehovah Jireh Video
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