March 2009. my family is going through financial crisis, and I have suffered hunger, and God sent a verse about it. We have been losing weight even though we have food most of the time, which is a good thing, I think (an answer to prayer). During this time we are haing to trust in the Lord a LOT more, which is also an answer to prayer, although this is not quite what I had in mind. :-) after going through this for a while and doing a lot of praying for weeks wondering why God wasn't coming through all the time or sometimes not at all, I was doing my daily Bible going-thru-the-Bible-reading-a-chapter-a-day and this verse (3) practically jumped off the page: Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. *8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
If this can help anyone else, here it is.

2008-2009. This verse keeps coming to the forefront of my mind. Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Clarke's commentary on this verse is especially interesting:

Matthew 6:33: Verse 33. But seek ye first the kingdom of God] Mt 3:7.
His righteousness] That holiness of heart and purity of life which God requires of those who profess to be subjects of that spiritual kingdom mentioned above. Mt 5:20.

The seventh reason against these worldly cares and fears is-because the business of our salvation ought to engross us entirely: hither all our desires, cares, and inquiries ought to tend. Grace is the way to glory-holiness the way to happiness. If men be not righteous, there is no heaven to be had: if they be, they shall have heaven and earth too; for godliness has the promise of both lives. 1Ti 6:3.

All these things shall be added unto you.] The very blunt note of old Mr. Trapp, on this passage, is worthy of serious attention.
All things shall be added. "They shall be cast in as an overplus, or as small advantages to the main bargain; as paper and pack-thread are given where we buy spice and fruit, or an inch of measure to an ell of cloth." This was a very common saying among the Jews: "Seek that, to which other things are necessarily connected."
"A king said to his particular friend, 'Ask what thou wilt, and I will give it unto thee.' He thought within himself, 'If I ask to be made a general I shall readily obtain it. I will ask something to which all these things shall be added:' he therefore said, 'Give me thy daughter to wife.' This he did knowing that all the dignities of the kingdom should be added unto this gift." See in Schoettgen.

To this verse, probably, belong the following words, quoted often by Clement, Origen, and \@Eusebius, as the words of Christ:\@
αιτειτεταμεγαλακαιταμικραυμινπροστεθησεται \~kai aiteite\~ ταεπουρανιακαιταεπιγειαπροστεθησεταιυμιν. "Ask great things, and little things shall be added unto you; ask heavenly things, and earthly things shall be added unto you."

May 2009: take no thought for your life...

this phrase is repeated several times in the sermon on the mount, and therefore that means we should be payiong attention!
Matthew 6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Matthew 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Matthew 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Matthew 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Matthew 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

and a set of related scriptures that ministered to me were (also in the sermon on the mount):

Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Matthew 7:8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Matthew 7:9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Matthew 7:10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?