God Will Provide the Resources to Expand His Kingdom
- Jack Selcher
- 7 days ago
- 3 min read
I had no idea how to pay for all the Bibles. In the spring of 2022, a pastor in Malawi used material I sent him to teach forty people the basics of the Christian faith. Some of them did not have a Bible. I supplied them.
The teaching ministry mushroomed. By the beginning of January 2023, five pastors were teaching. Almost nine hundred people in Malawi and Mozambique were in their classes.
The number of people taking classes and the Bibles they requested escalated. By September 2025, 15,150 people had attended these classes, and 6,090 were saved.
By mid-January 2023, God had supplied more than $5,000.00 to buy Bibles for those without one. He did it through people I know who were excited about participating in this ministry. Some of them gave unexpectedly generous amounts.
Much to my surprise, God provided someone who paid for all the Bibles needed in 2023, 2024, and 2025. In 2025, additional donors enabled us to send even more Bibles, with 11,000 Bibles having been sent as of September 10, 2025.
I could not have predicted any of this in June 2022. God faithfully supplies our needs (Deuteronomy 7:9), but we cannot accurately predict how.
God used the widow of Zarephath to provide food for Elijah (1 Kings 17:8-24). She did not even believe in Him. He transformed enough food for one meal for two into enough to last three people as long as necessary.
God does not limit Himself to what we consider reasonable. He created something from almost nothing to show He alone is God (Isaiah 45:5-6), who created everything out of nothing (Genesis 1:1).
Jesus did the same thing. He fed more than 5,000 people using a boy’s lunch with more leftovers than the five small barley loaves and two small fish the boy brought for himself to eat (John 6:1–14).
Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding. No one would have predicted that is how He would solve the wine shortage that concerned his mother (John 2:1-11).
Jesus’ disciples wanted Him to help bail out the boat that was filling with water during a storm, but He quieted the wind and waves with three words (Mark 4:39).
He paid a tax by telling Peter to get the money from a fish’s mouth (Matthew 17:24-27). He comforted Mary and Martha by raising their brother Lazarus from the dead (John 11:43), commanding Lazarus to rise.
He healed a person with leprosy by touching him (Mark 1:40-45), shattering all social protocol of the day. He healed the centurion’s son at a distance (Luke 7:1-10).
He cast demons out of a man and sent them into a herd of pigs (Luke 8:26-39). He healed a woman who had been ill for twelve years when she merely touched his garment (Luke 8:44).
He raised Jairus’ daughter from the dead (Luke 8:54) by telling her to get up. Those words do not even work for us to rouse teenagers on a Saturday morning! He consistently healed people on the Sabbath, which extremely irritated the religious leaders (Matthew 13:10-17).
God’s unexpected provisions often come through unpredictable people, places, and things for His glory. He is going to hit a home run for us, but He might use a toothpick to do it! What is your takeaway? See additional free spiritual growth resources for Christians.
God has empowered me to write His Power for Your Weakness—260 Steps Toward Spiritual Strength. It’s a free, evangelistic, devotional, and discipleship e-book. Pastors have used it in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia to lead 6,090 people to Christ and teach the basics of Christianity to 15,150 people. I invite you to explore and use it in your setting. https://www.christiangrowthresources.com/his-power-for-your-weakness
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