When Needs Become Demands

Undertaking a new project must include a list of priorities to ensure there will be the means for seeing the project through to completion. Each advancement should safeguard this objective. Human beings structure their lives around important needs, but our spiritual need to be connected with God should supersede all others.

Needs that are anchored in hope strive to be satisfied at some level. One thing parents have in their favor is children’s need to please their parents. On occasions, this need may produce conflict. However, if a need evolves into a demand, it's analogous to saying, "I have this need and you had better fulfill it!”

If a humble and prayerful petition to God becomes a demand, he may comply with that demand, but withhold his blessing so the demand becomes oppositional to what is needed. Jesus reminds us that God knows our needs before we ask, and he desires to fulfill our needs. What a wonderful blessing to trust and rest in that knowledge.  

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Your heavenly Father already knows perfectly well what you need, and he will [fulfill your needs] if you give him first place in your life and live as he wants you to.

~Matthew 6:32-33 The Living Bible

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