34 Bible Verses About God Providing For Our Needs
One of the names that God reveals Himself as is Jehovah Jireh (yhwh yirʾeh).
In Hebrew, this translates to: The Lord Will Provide. In the early Greek translations, it means: The Lord hath seen. And an early Latin version says: The Lord sees.
You can put these together and say: The Lord sees, and in seeing He provides. This lines up with the teachings of Jesus. He taught that God sees our needs and will provide us with everything we need (Matt. 6:8;32-33).
That can lead us to a lot of questions.
We can look around and see people all over the world who don’t have what they need. People don’t have food or clean water. People don’t have a place to live. People don’t have access to life-saving medicine.
Why isn’t God providing what they need?
There are a lot of reasons for that– I’m not going to pretend that I have all the answers. I do know that there’s an enemy, the devil, whose only mission is to steal, kill, and destroy our life (John 10:10). We need to actively resist the devil with the Word of God.
Another reason is that we don’t ask God. Even though He knows what we need, Jesus still taught us to pray and ask God for things. And James says that we don’t have because we don’t ask, or ask with the wrong intentions.
The last thing I’ll mention on this topic is that many people blame God when there’s a lack of provision, but don’t acknowledge God when they have more than enough.
Each year, 119 billion pounds of food is wasted in the United States (source). Could it be that God is providing, but we are failing as stewards of His provision?
One of the best things we can do is remind ourselves continually of God’s biblical truth. Reading these Bible verses about God’s provision will increase your faith and trust in Him as your Provider.
“Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.”
Genesis 9:3 NIV
“And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, ‘In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.’”
Genesis 22:14 NKJV
“And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:19 NIV
“The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time. You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing.”
Psalm 145:15-16 NIV
“For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Matthew 6:32-33 NKJV
“Then He said to them, ‘Watch out and guard yourselves against every form of greed; for not even when one has an overflowing abundance does his life consist of nor is it derived from his possessions.’”
Luke 12:15 AMP
“He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?”
Romans 8:32 NIV
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
Philippians 4:6 NKJV
“Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.”
Ephesians 3:20 NLT
“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.”
Deuteronomy 8:3-4 NIV
“Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?”
Luke 12:24 NKJV
“The Lord knows the days of the upright, And their inheritance shall be forever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.”
Psalm 37:18-19 NKJV
“The Lord is my shepherd, I will not be in need.”
Psalm 23:1 NASB
“All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.”
Ephesians 1:3 NLT
“Fear the Lord, you his godly people, for those who fear him will have all they need. Even strong young lions sometimes go hungry, but those who trust in the Lord will lack no good thing.”
Psalm 34:9-10 NLT
“But he led his own people like a flock of sheep, guiding them safely through the wilderness. He kept them safe so they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies. He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this land of hills he had won for them. He drove out the nations before them; he gave them their inheritance by lot. He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.”
Psalm 78:52-55 NLT
“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Luke 6:38 NIV
“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
Luke 11:9-10 NKJV
“The Lord will not allow the righteous to hunger [God will meet all his needs], But He will reject and cast away the craving of the wicked.”
Proverbs 10:3 AMP
“For it was I, the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things.”
Psalm 81:10 NLT
“If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.”
John 14:14 NKJV
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”
James 1:17 NIV
“He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. You may say to yourself, ‘My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.’ But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.”
Deuteronomy 8:16-18 NIV
“Indeed, he who watches over Israel never slumbers or sleeps. The Lord himself watches over you! The Lord stands beside you as your protective shade.”
Psalm 121:4-5 NLT
“Then Jesus said to them, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.’”
John 6:32-33 NKJV
“Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?”
Job 38:41 NIV
“If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!”
Matthew 7:11 NIV
“And God is able to make all grace [every favor and earthly blessing] come in abundance to you, so that you may always [under all circumstances, regardless of the need] have complete sufficiency in everything [being completely self-sufficient in Him], and have an abundance for every good work and act of charity.”
2 Corinthians 9:8 AMP
“I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.”
Psalm 37:25 NIV
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”
1 John 5:14 NIV
“Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.”
Matthew 18:19 NKJV
“The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.”
Proverbs 10:22 NKJV
“After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.’”
Genesis 15:1 NKJV
“For He has satisfied the thirsty soul, And He has filled the hungry soul with what is good.”
Psalm 107:9 NASB
