*God Will Supply All Your Needs*
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19)
In Philippians 4:6, Paul says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” And then in Philippians 4:19 (just 13 verses later), he gives the liberating promise of future grace: “My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”
*If we live by faith in this promise of future grace, it will be very hard for anxiety to survive. God’s “riches in glory” are inexhaustible. He really means for us not to worry about our future.*
We should follow this pattern that Paul lays out for us. We should battle the unbelief of anxiety with the promises of future grace.
Whenever we are anxious about some risky new venture or meeting, we should regularly battle unbelief with one of the most often-used promises, Isaiah 41:10.
The day the Preacher, John Piper was leaving America for three years in Germany, his father called him long distance and gave him this promise on the telephone. For three years he must have quoted it to himself five hundred times to get him through periods of tremendous stress. *“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”*
He fought anxiety with this promise so many times that when the motor of his mind is in neutral, the hum of the gears is the sound of Isaiah 41:10.