Jehovah-Jireh: The God Who Provides

Mary Nelson has a way with words that brings stories to life and draws you into the Bible character or real life person's experiene and pain.  Through each chapter the reader is shown the insurmountable issues and how each person chose faith to trust Jehovah Jireh and how Jehovah Jireh richly supplied each need.  In today's world of unrest and uncertainty, Mary encourages us to relentlessly pursue intimacy with God, to know His goodness and that He IS concerned and will provide.   I especially love Mary's prayers at the end of each chapter; they are right on.  I highly recommend this book.  It will meet the deep needs of the reader's heart and issues.

Most of us at some point have asked of Christianity: Is it real? Does it work? "Jehovah-Jireh" meets both of these questions head-on and lets you arrive at the answers for yourself. Mary Nelson's interweaving of Scriptural Truths with real-life stories will energize your faith and expectation that God will provide all that you need, even if it's not exactly in the way you want. You will feel your level of trust in God rising as you turn aside old patterns of thinking and turn more and more over to Him -- even all of it -- through faith, obedience, and abiding prayer. I recall thinking that at page 75 (of 250), I had already received enough wisdom to consider it money well spent. But the Truths about God kept accelerating until the last page of this superbly authored work. For me, three of the stories and accompanying prayers hit me right between the eyes and are profoundly changing the way I deal with a deep longing for God's intervention and provision. I believe there are individual stories and Truths here for you, too, to increase your level of outright expectancy that Jehovah-Jireh will provide.

Jehovah-Jireh: The God Who Provides

60 Story-Based Meditations and Prayers



by Mary J. Nelson

Barbour Publishing, Inc.

Shiloh Run Press



Christian

Pub Date 01 Mar 2017

I am voluntarily reviewing a copy of Jehovah Jireh The God Who Provides through the publisher and Netgalley:

In this book we find encouraging stories of God providing, not only financial blessings, but healing, faith and family as well.  It compares stories of modern day provision as well as provision in Biblical times, reminding us Jehovah Jireh is a God Provides.

The fifty stories in this collection not only remind us of God's provision, but his love as well.

I give Jehovah Jireh The God Who Provides five out of five stars.

Happy Reading.

Having previously read, Jehovah-Rapha:  The God who heals, by the same author, I was sure that this  would also be filled with Bible-based wisdom. Mary Nelson  definitely delivered another great book with  this solid, faith-building edition. Containing 60 meditations, stories and prayers. Some of the readings reinforced beliefs I already had while others gave me much needed insight into places I was stuck. I started reading this in May, and really spent some time with it. This could be set up as a two month devotional, read straight through or take your time, as I did, and  stay as long as you like/need to with each passage. I also highlighted many areas that I’d like to read again; however, there are so many, I will probably read the entire book again. 

One of the things I always like the best in books like this is the personal stories from real people. I often  come away from them with a greater sense of how God works in the lives of His children, and I feel so grateful that they have shared these experiences. Combining them with stories from the Bible makes them all the better.

I highly recommend this book to everyone. While I am reviewing the Kindle version, this is the kind of book I prefer to have in softcover. The pages would be dog-eared from all the areas that really stood out for me, and I’d use a highlighter throughout.