Provider — Jehovah Jireh

Jehovah Jireh — 'The Lord will provide' (Genesis 22:14), Abraham's name for the place where the ram appeared in the thicket at the last moment. Paul states it as promise: 'My God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus' (Philippians 4:19). Jesus gives the daily-bread theology: 'Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?' (Matthew 6:26). Then the Kingdom directive: 'Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well' (Matthew 6:33). The Lord's Prayer makes the daily nature of it explicit: 'Give us this day our daily bread.' Not this year's budget — today's bread. The evangelical trust in provision is not prosperity theology (abundance guaranteed) but trust theology: need met as it arises. The well doesn't run dry.