JEHOVAH JIREH

“. . . I shall not want”  
Psalm 23:1

The portrait we see of God in the name Jehovah Jireh is supply.  This is God’s name used in Genesis by Abraham when God provided the ram to be sacrificed in place of his son Issac.  “Jireh” translates to “provide” which means “to see before” revealing that God has provision ready for us even before we know that we have a need and stresses His provision for His people.

Some of the promises associated with the name Jehovah Jireh include:

“Do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith! Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.”

                                                                                    Matthew 6:25-32

“Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart.”

                                                                                    Psalm 37:4

                                                                                          Joyce