DON'T LET YOUR NEED OVERCOME YOUR PURPOSE
God did not humble the children of Israel through poverty or sickness. He tested them through their needs. Most people do not fulfill their purpose because their needs over power their purpose. All of us have the need to be loved and to be used; to have a ministry and to be recognized, but God tests us that we might know what is in our hearts. No one knows what is in his or her heart. The Bible says in Jeremiah 17:9-10, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
In Russia there were stories of men who had been locked up in prison with a lack of food. They had to be locked up separately because they were ready to eat their own children. They were in extreme need, and it tested them to show what was really in them.
Society in its drives is almost animalistic. Men are portrayed as predators who are like animals going for anything they see, too weak to overcome their needs and driven to fulfill those needs. Women are filled with such longings that they override the purpose of their lives. Our churches are full of needs, and God is bringing us into the wilderness, which means, that God is going to stop fulfilling our needs. He is going to humble us to bring us into a realm where man shall not live by needs alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God. Sure, God can fulfill our needs, but our needs have become like a devourer, and we are not able to humble our selves. Our needs have been our slave masters and have terrorized us. They are over stimulated, over developed and we think we cannot live without satisfying them.
The church is in a place where we need to decrease that God can increase in us. Men and women are frustrated running back and forth to hear every preacher; to be in every move; to laugh and to cry and to be slain in the Spirit. His blessing has been upon us, but He is testing us in these things that we have experience. We have gone out, but we have not tested ourselves to express who Christ is, and God has humbled us in the desert and allowed us to hunger.
In His Love,
Sigi
Devotions
Posted: May 2007