In the kingdom of God, we find a culture so different from that of our world.

We're often taught to be self-made, to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps, and that is the survival of the fittest.

But God's kingdom turns these principles on their head.

In His kingdom, we're encouraged to wait, trust, and receive from our God who supplies for

our every need.

So does your life mimic one of trust and waiting, one of open hands and thankfulness?

Today, as we move forward in our week of God being our Father, we'll look at His provisional nature.

As we learn of God's intentions to meet our every need, open your heart today to trust in this God who's our provider.

Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Our verse of today is found in Philippians 419, where scripture says,

And my God will supply every need of yours, according to His riches and glory, in Christ Jesus.

In Matthew 6 25 through 33, Jesus says,

Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life.

What you will eat or what you will drink,

nor about your body what you will put on.

Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Look at the birds of the air.

They neither sow nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not of more

value than they? And which of you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to his lifespan?

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you,

even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so closed the grass of

the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you,

O you of little faith? Therefore, do not be anxious saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we

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