Several years ago a friend of mine was seeking some advice regarding financial issues he and his family were going through.  Some would say his first problem is that he was asking me advice, his second problem was definitely asking me for financial advice.  As I thought through my own experiences and any Scriptures that came to mind the best thing I could come up with to tell him was that God always provides.  But that just sounded so cliche, then I got it!  How could I tell him the same truth but make it more emphatic?  I looked at him and told him “God has never not provided for my needs.”  Yes, that’s right I used the dreaded double negative.  But there was something about the double negative that clicked for him, he told me he had never thought of it that way.  He then began to think back on his life and realized that though he and his family often worried, God had never not provided for their needs.  There’s something about looking at a classic truth from the other direction that helps us to grab it in a new way.  This is what I want to share with you this week.  God has never not provided.  Think back on your life, have you ever not had your needs met?  Not your wants, your needs.  I’d be willing to venture a guess that each of you have some need right now that you’re wondering how it will be met.  Where am I going to go to school next year? Where am I going to work this summer?  Will I ever meet that special someone?  What am I going to do after I graduate?  What am I going to do with the car that is sitting in an auto cocoon in my front yard?  As Jesus is teaching the crowds on the Mount of Olives he tells them “Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?” (Mt. 6.26-27)  Friends, God has never not provided.  If you have a need, ask the God who provides.