WAYMAKER...PROVIDER
Miracle worker...Light in the darkness...
Last week I shared something with my sister.
She texted back with this –
“Not sure what the future holds but feel confident that He is your Waymaker and Provider.”
I had a great opportunity to attend many sessions at last weeks 2025 Moody Founders Week Conference.
It was at the Moody Bible Institute. Their annual marquee event held right here in Chicago, just right up the street from me.
Except for the name Chip Ingram, I was not familiar with any of the other conference speakers – although I knew the name of the Moody President, Dr. Mark Jobe who spoke the last night at the closing session. Nothing more than his name.
WOW!
Starting with Chip Ingram on the first night, it got better and better, session by session.
And along with Dr. Jobe the last night, Katy Nichole lead worship. Very special….
It was right before the first morning session when I took a minute to read what my sister texted me.
Right on cue, the first song during worship time in that first session…“Waymaker.”
On the last day of the conference I was asked, what’s been your biggest take away so far?
I wasn’t quite sure, nor did I have much of an answer but after the conference I reflected and it was so overwhelming. (Actually this was what had been on my mind but never really had time to stop and reflect.)
God desires and just wants me to be me and come to him with nothing more or nothing less than just me.
It’s something I’ve been so mindful of and trying to grow in during the past year.
Forget the bells and whistles…the fireworks…all that extra fluff that you want me to be, I am God – that’s all you need to know. I will be your provider. I love you and will show you the most excellent way.
Lord, why do I tend to make things so complicated, and why is it hard sometimes to come to you just as I am (without always wanting something from you), nothing more, and nothing less?
Why do I feel like I have to be a certain way, or have all my ducks lined up in a row that qualifies me to get your best?
Lord, you really don’t require much of anything but submission, yielding, nothing but just and only me to experience ALL of you, in all your holiness and splendor.
Lord, forgive me. I want to know you and experience you – all of you.
Help me Lord to know your love for me is all I need…is good enough…more than enough.
Lord, more of you and less of me.
The next day after the conference I revisited Psalm 103 – one of the passages used during the conference. I came to verse 7,
“He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel.”
Well, maybe you might need to stretch a bit to see what I am about to say….
“He MADE…his WAYS…”
Made…Make?
Ways…Way?
Way…Make?
WayMaker!
God is Making a Way for me, but in so doing God wants me to come just as I am, to rest in his peace, delight in him. To trust him. Obey him.
He has a plan and purpose for me…don’t worry, I’ve got you, and I will always have you.
No coincidences…God does speak, and he wants us know and will make himself and his word known to us if we wait and listen, and do so expectingly.
Elevation Worship will be coming out with a new song sometime soon. They used it last week during their Sunday worship service.
There was a line in the chorus –
“Your name is God, no one else beside
El Shaddai, if you don’t worry, why should I?”
El Shaddai - PROVIDER GOD.
God will provide. Is providing. Will never stop providing.
If he is my…if he is our, your, provider God, and if he’s not worried, then why would I?
Why should I worry if God has everything taken care?
If he is the Provider God and who is Making a Way for me, then I can say with confidence that God is My Waymaker and My Provider!!!!