The other day, the Lord spoke to me and said, “I provide for wherever I am. The Lord provides for wherever he lives and is. The Lord is never short on what he gives, and it’s always more than enough. “The thief comes to steal, kill, and rob, but I have come that you may have life and life more abundantly.” (John 10:10). Many of our houses and hearts lack because we haven’t invited the Lord to come into our lives and sup with us. The word sup in the Greek means to share a meal. At the dinner table is where some of the greatest times are shared. Food, family and God fellowship is fun. The symbolic meaning of the word sup means to have a deeper, intimate relationship with the Lord. It’s an invitation for us to abide in the Lord, and he in us through prayer, worship and trust. It is a time of fellowship with the author and the perfecter of our faith. It is an opportunity for us to taste his goodness, not seeking his hands for worldly pleasures but seeking his face for promises of power, provision, and protection with perfection.
I sat and pondered the Word that I heard from the Lord, and I thought about all the times the Lord showed love and compassion by providing for the people who invited him in. He showed compassion wherever there was a need. Jesus goes into Peter’s house, sees his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever, touches her hand, and the fever leaves her. (Matthew 8 14 15). Or when he told Peter to go and get the taxes out of the fish’s mouth. (Matthew 17 24-27). Or the wedding at Cana when they ran out of wine while having a great time. (John 2: 1-11). The time when he fed five thousand men with two fish and five loaves of bread. (Matthew 14: 17-21). The woman that asked for her daughter to be delivered. The centurion that asked for his daughter to be healed. He invited the Lord to his house but he believed that the Lord didn’t need to be presence and could send the Word and it will be so. The woman with the issue of blood. The woman at the well. The man that lie paralyzed at the pool of Bethsaida. The Lord provided in every situation that he was invited into. The Lord doesn’t want a single invite; he wants to belong and long with us in life. He will sup with us as long as he’s welcomed in.
Inviting the Lord in your life requires a humbling position of the heart. It is the place where you realize that you need the Lord’s help and with a call out or cry out, he answers. We have been invited into a relationship with the Savior and the good Shepherd. We can feast from the table of heaven when we accept the Lord’s invitation to sup with him. “Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.” (Revelation 3:20). The Lord is seeking our attention to be intentional about the invitation that he graciously extends to us. Those who trust the Lord will lack no good thing. The Lord provides, and not hide from those needing and wanting his help.
The word the Lord spoke to me the other day was powerful. He provides where he is and lives. The Lord will never fail where he dwells, or fall short because he is enough. You position yourself to win when you let the Lord in.
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