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

We are often taught to be self-made, pull ourselves up by our bootstraps,

and that it's the survival of the fittest.

God's kingdom turns these principles on their head.

We are encouraged to wait, trust, and receive from God who supplies for our every need.

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 is our provider.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

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 more valuable than they? And which of you by being anxious can add

a single hour to his span of life? 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 close 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 drink, or what shall we wear?

For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your

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