SuperNatural Resources

God in His grace has given us natural resources throughout the world to use for our benefit. Things like oil, rocks and minerals, wood, dirt, water, all sorts of things are tapped into all the time to better our lives, whether it be in to have a home to go to, a car to drive, a way to keep our food cold and to heat it when necessary--the list is endless.

Could you imagine if we were to go through life with those resources on hand but never to tap into them? Imagine this: you were the only person in the world, put in the middle of nowhere, there's no signs of any other human beings--could you imagine what your life would be like if you never utilized the resources here? It's easy enough to imagine that you wouldn't last long at all-but how quickly we take these resources for granted.

Believers have been given supernatural resources for getting through life, and at many times in our lives, we can be so foolish to take those resources for granted. Not only this, we fail to utilize them and thus have lives that are nothing less than a fight to the death to spiritually get by every day. God has given us His word and prayer as two of the most powerful resources for living righteously. To neglect these resources is to step into a spiritual void, hoping to survive on nothing but will power and our own strength. Our own strength would never replace our use of natural resources--how could we be so foolish to think that we can make it without these things? Take the opportunities that God gives you to utilize your spiritual resources for living a godly life. You'd be worried if your gas tank was low in the middle of nowhere, right? How can it be any less important to enter this week running on the fumes of past prayer and time in God's Word?! Use your resources.

12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (Heb 4:12 NASB)

17 pray without ceasing; (1Th 5:17 NASB)

18 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, (Eph 6:18 NASB)

9 "And I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
10 "For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it shall be opened.
(Luk 11:9-10 NASB)