✨ God Is Your Provider, Not Your Job | Matthew 6 Devotional (7-Step QT)
7-Step QT Notes
1. 🙏 Quiet Time
Pause.
Slow your breathing.
Ask God to free your heart from anxiety and teach you what it means to trust Him as your true Provider.
2. 📅 January 26, 2026
Today’s passage invites us to see reality clearly:
You are not meant to carry the weight of your own life. God is your Provider—today, tomorrow, and always.
3. ✝️ Matthew 6:25–34
Jesus teaches that we should not worry about food, drink, or clothing, because our heavenly Father values us far more than the birds and flowers He already provides for. He explains that anxiety cannot add anything to our lives and that God knows every need we have before we ask. Therefore, we must seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, trusting that He will supply all we need, and we should not worry about tomorrow because each day has enough trouble of its own.
4. 📖 Key Verse
“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you” (v. 33).
5. 📝 Reflection (English)
Here is a testimony from a devout brother who now runs a successful business. He once worked for a well-known company that many people envied. He enjoyed his job, worked diligently, received promotions and raises—everything seemed to go well.
Then one day he heard that the company was in trouble. It was part of a broader economic crisis, but his company was hit especially hard, and rumors of major layoffs spread quickly. During work hours and even on breaks, coworkers sighed with worry. If they were laid off, finding a new job would be difficult in a struggling economy; mortgage payments and monthly bills would remain, but income might suddenly stop. This brother’s anxiety grew until he could no longer sleep.
While meditating on today’s passage, he had a breakthrough. He realized he had assumed that his job was the source of his provision. So if the company closed or he was laid off, he felt he had no options and stood at the edge of a cliff. Though he had professed faith in Jesus since childhood, in practice he had not entrusted his life to Him. He also saw that today’s text doesn’t merely say, “Do not worry,” but offers a fundamental remedy: “Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you” (v. 33).
From that point on, unlike his coworkers, he received courage. Even when he was included in the layoff list, he sought God’s help without fear, and he now testifies that he operates his current business successfully by God’s wisdom and guidance.
Dear brothers and sisters, what is the source of your life? Family, job, business? Stocks, real estate, or retirement funds? None of these can replace God, our true Provider. God knows all our needs and supplies what we need each day. Therefore, let us look to Him in faith rather than worry today. Only God is our Master and our Provider.
6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?
- Where am I relying on something other than God for security?
- What worries are quietly controlling my decisions or emotions?
- What would change in my life if I believed—really believed—that God will provide?
7. 🙏 Share below, and let’s encourage one another in prayer!
Lord, open my eyes to anything that is competing for my trust.
Teach me to rely on You more than my income, future plans, or personal abilities.
Make my heart steady and undivided, and help me trust You with today and tomorrow.
You alone are my Provider.
Amen.
Scriptures
📖 25 “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? 26 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? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes 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? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble (Matthew 6:25-34, ESV).
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