In this time of upheaval in our country’s financial markets and insurance markets - all the news media seem to focus on is how bad it is.  Do you agree?  Only recently on Bill Moyers’ PBS program did I hear anyone say that something very good will come from this.  And no one seems to give people tools to help them move from fear to faith.  I suggest you will find a great one here.

The first Unity minister I met told me about one of her seminary classmates who had a time when she just didn’t have the money to pay quarterly tuition and it was running very close to deadline.  Wherever and whenever she walked to classes in her last remaining days before the money was due, she could be heard vigorously claiming, “Jehovah-jireh!“  And, the money arrived from somewhere - just in time. 

So I looked up the word combination in the Bible and found it in Darby’s New Translation of the Bible.  It’s in Genesis chapter 22.  To paraphrase what happened - Abraham was told by God to take his only son Isaac to the top of a mountain and sacrifice him.  Abraham followed God’s direction and even reached the point of bindng up his son and laying him on the altar.  At this point an angel of the Lord told Abraham God was very pleased with his absolute commitment and devotion to God signified by being willing to sacrifice his son.  Then the angel told Abraham to look at the nearby bushes and when he did he saw a ram trapped in the bush by his horns.  The angel told Abraham to release his son and make the ram his sacrifice.  The angel then told Abraham that God would bless him and all his descendents from the time on.

And it was then that Abraham named that mountain place Jehovah-jireh which translated means God will provide! 

I encourage each person who reads this to begin repeating this combination word often - whenever you move into fear, concern about yourself and/or your family or others.  Repeat it firmly. 

For friends, we can only hold one thought in our mind at a time - so every time a fear thought arises simply bless it, release it and claim Jehovah-jireh!
For God will provide!  Always!  and in all ways!

Blessings of peace, love and joy to you!  Joyce