There are some things in your life that God
provided, and now they're not there anymore, and you've been walking around worried because
you think now you're going to starve, but God said, "No, no, no. It's just a new season." Guess what. New season means new supply. My God. You have to know some things about God's provision. I'm going to hasten to a close, but I have
to give you a quick outline. God's provision is seasonal. Everybody say, "Seasonal." Write these down real quick so the next time
you're leaving Egypt, and you feel those hunger pangs, and you wish you were back over here,
and you feel like, "I don't know what God is doing, and I'm trying to do his will, but
I'm gravitating back over here." You can say, "No, Devil. The provision of God is to give me what I
need in this season." The day they left, the menu changed. For 40 years in the wilderness, God promised
his provision to the Israelites. He did it in a supernatural way. He rained down manna from the heavens, and
they saw it, and they said, "What is it?" Manna. That's what the word manna means. "What is it?" That's what some of y'all said about your
husband when God brought him into your life. It took you a minute to realize, "Oh, this
is my husband." I think Holly kind of felt that about me the
first time. No, I think she did. I was kind of a punk rock guy, and the way
I dressed and everything. I had this whole style she wasn't really into. I think the first time she met me, she said,
"What is it?" It took me a while to show her what it is. Hey. Watch this. Forty years. They got so used to it at one point that they
started yelling at Moses. They were like, "Man, all we ever get is this
manna." Do you know you can become so accustomed to
blessing in a prolonged season that you begin to complain about the very thing you prayed
for? They wanted something different than manna,
manna falling down. Oh, it was sweet too. The Bible says it was sweet. This was not a gluten free food item from
heaven's culinary cuisine. They ate it for 40 years. Watch this. They crossed the Jordan. Joshua circumcises the people who haven't
been circumcised yet. It's kind of bad timing for anything to change. They're still recovering from the circumcision,
getting ready to fight the battle of Jericho, and the Bible says that when the manna would
come, it would just fall, and all they had to do to get it was gather it. Millions of pounds of manna every day, and
all they had to do to get it was to gather it. All they had to do was walk out of their tents,
their buckets, bring in their manna, and then Mama cooks up the manna. Maybe she boils it. Maybe she broils it. Maybe she bakes it. Maybe she fries it. Maybe she roasts it. Maybe she gets creative. Maybe they eat some manna sushi. Maybe you can eat it raw. They had eaten manna for 40 years. One day, Jimmy comes out of his tent to gather
his manna because that's his job. You know, men have jobs around the houses
sometimes. Jimmy gets up to gather the manna, and he's
walking kind of slow because of what just happened that I told you about. He's walking out the tent. I was trying to make the Bible come alive
for you. He's walking out the tent, still rubbing his
eyes, and he looks for his manna, and it's not there. Have you ever shown up to a place where there
has been provision for so long that you took it for granted, and it's not there? Sometimes it takes somebody even dying in
our lives before we appreciate what they brought. Sometimes it takes losing a job to appreciate
employment. They come out of the tent, and Jimmy is looking
for his manna. Now he went from, "What is it?" to, "Where
is it?" Come on. Jimmy goes over to Johnny's tent, and he comes
over to Johnny and says, "Hey, Johnny, man, the angel got mixed up. I think he dropped off my manna and yours
too at your door today. Would it be all right if I…" Johnny said, "No, Jimmy. I was just about to come over to your place
and ask you if I can have some of your manna. I didn't get any either." Now, can you imagine the fear if this is the
only way God has fed you for 40 years? God has been dropping stuff out of the sky
for 40 years, and all you had to do was gather it. In many ways, God will allow seasons of your
life where your faith is the weakest to be the most miraculous. I remember Ron chasing my car down when I
was going back to college one semester. Ron loved the Lord, and he loved me. He chased after my car. I remember him chasing after my car. He said, "Steve! Steve! Steve!" He called me Steve. Nobody calls me Steve who knows me, but he
knew me. He called me, "Steve! Steve! Steve!" He just dropped the N off of my name like
it was Wheel of Fortune or something, like he didn't want to buy an N. "Steve! Steve!" He goes, "Hey, man. God loves you." He threw a $100 bill at me. He got me to roll down my window, threw a
$100 bill, and ran the other way. Do you know how long it has been since somebody
threw a $100 bill at me? See, now I'm the thrower. I'm not a college student anymore. I don't need that anymore. I don't need that anymore. There was a season. Everybody say, "Season." Holly and I were starting the church, and
it was growing, and every restaurant we went in, somebody paid for our meal in Charlotte. Every restaurant. How many restaurants in a row? I think one time we counted seven. It got so predictable that we almost stopped
bringing our wallet and our purse into the restaurant. It was awesome. Do you know it has been a couple of years? See, I don't take that like a sign that God
doesn't love me. I take it as a sign that now it's time for
me to look around the restaurant and see whose meal I can buy. Come on, somebody. Are you a needer or a need-meeter? Touch somebody and say, "I'm a need-meeter. I'm blessed to be a blessing. I'm made in the image of God. I give encouragement. I give blessing. I'm looking for somebody to help." I'm in a new season. Some of you have been stuck in a survival
season where you've always had your hand out, needing somebody to encourage your or serve
you, and God says, "In this season, the manna is off the menu. This is your season to learn how to sow and
your season to learn how to water. You will starve in your new season if you
don't learn how to access your new supply." If you keep longing for Egypt and keep looking
for manna and don't learn how to farm in Canaan, you're going to starve to death. If you keep waiting for those old friends
to call you… See, God has to cut you off from some things. God has to cut you off from some things. The manna stopped, and the assumption could
be, "Well, I guess God has left us." Joshua said, "No, that means we're on the
border of Canaan, and this is a fertile land. We need to learn how to work this new ground." Can I stand right here for a minute? Can I stay right here? How many of you will give me seven minutes
to finish this? I'm going to stay right here. It's a new season. It's a new strategy. It's a new season. It's a new supply. It's a new season. It's the same source. But God knows how to feed you what you need
for every season you're in. I'm going to say that again. God knows how to feed you what you need for
every season you're in. If you went outside of your tent, and the
manna wasn't there, it doesn't mean God left you. It just means the way he's going to feed you
has changed forms. You're in a new season. Come on. Shout about it, somebody. Come on. Black people, teach my white people how to
have church. Teach them how to shout. Teach them how to praise God. Teach them how to respond, to say, "God, I'm
not starving. I'm in a new season. Whatever I don't have, I don't need it in
this season." It's a new season. It's seasonal. It's not that you're not blessed anymore. It's just that it's not going to fall down
out of the sky anymore. That year, they ate the produce of Canaan. Paul said, "I used to get my supply from circumstances,
but I have learned the secret in any season is that when I cross over, and the supply
I'm used to isn't there, God's leading me to what is next. It's a new season." God's provision is seasonal, and it's unusual. Everybody shout, "What is it?" God hides his provision for your secret needs
in unexpected places. Ask Naaman who had leprosy. Are y'all bored? You may be praying for wisdom and walking
right past the source of the wisdom. There may be a little boy who has your five
loaves and two fish, and you don't even recognize him because he doesn't seem important to you. Naaman had leprosy, and it was a little servant
girl from Israel who told him to go to Elisha. If he had ignored that girl, his hidden needs
would have remained unmet because he didn't know how to look for God's supply in unusual
places. "Elijah, go to the brook at the Cherith ravine. There, I have ordered the ravens to feed you. You're not going to get it in this season
from the places you expect." God said, "I'm going to bless you in this
season in unusual ways, in unexpected ways, through people you used to discount. I'm going to give you wisdom. I'm going to give you supply, but stop walking
by your supply because it looks like a seed." God stores his provision in unusual places. I can't understand why men don't listen to
their wives. If anybody is going to help you avoid disaster,
wouldn't it be the one who has invested their life in your success? I thought a women's conference shout might
break out right there. Some of you women are missing your husband
because you're looking for a body type. God might give you a good man who doesn't
have a six-pack. Hello. His supply is going to be seasonal. It's going to be unusual, and it's going to
be proportional. God is going to give you what you need for
this season. Whatever manna they gathered that they didn't
eat that day, it went to waste. It spoiled. They couldn't eat it. Why? "Give us this day our daily bread. Give me this day my daily bread." Do you know why some of you have ulcers? Because you're trying to fight tomorrow's
battles with today's strength. God said, "I'm going to give you what you
need. I'm going to supply all of your needs according
to my riches, but I'm going to measure it out according to your need, and I know what
you really need." I have learned in my life not to ask God too
much for an opportunity because I might get more persistent than I am ready. If I get more persistent than I am ready,
I'll have weight on me that I was not built to carry in this season. I learned how to worship God for what he gave
me and for what he withheld from me. He will bless me in a way that is proportional
to my purpose. Am I teaching well? Is this getting down deep in you? Come on. I want to feed you today. God is going to feed you. He's going to feed you in a way that is proportional
and in a way that is personal. Write it down. It's personal. God's provision is personal. That means you don't have to envy me. I don't have to envy you. God is going to supply all of my needs, my
needs. "God, give me what I need to do what you called
me to do. I don't have to envy anybody else's gift. I don't have to envy anybody else's family. I don't have to envy anybody else's background. I don't have to envy anybody else's skillset." God is a personal God. He has numbered the hairs on my head. He fastened me in my mother's womb. He created me for a purpose. He set the exact time I was supposed to be
born for the exact purpose. How many are glad he's a personal God? He's up close and personal. He numbered the hairs on my head. He knows what I need. Elisha asked the woman in 2 Kings 4, "What
do you need?" She said, "They're coming to take my sons
away, and I don't have anything to pay. I don't have anything to give them." Elisha asked, "What is in your house?" That means God's provision is local. That means God's provision for your life is
within your grasp. He didn't cut off the manna until they were
close to Canaan. God's provision awaits your next step of faith. Please receive this word. I'm not preaching this just to be entertaining. I'm not preaching this just to be your hype
man. I'm trying to get you to see that often, we
overlook what is right in front of us in praying about what is ahead of us. God, help me see the supply you've put in
my life through new eyes. Maybe it's not that I need God to give me
something I don't have. Maybe it's that I need to learn how to use
what he has already given. You have it. You have it in your house. You have it in your heart. You have it in your grasp. It's provision.
