More Than a Need-Based God

The Secret Place

By William M. Self, Sr.

 

The Most High is more than a need-based God

Enter His presence for who He is

Then your needs will be met

More Than a Need-Based God

Bill Murray plays Bob Wiley, a neurotic

New Yorker struggling with a whirlwind

of paralyzing phobias in the comedy

 “What about Bob”.

An alternative title is…

What’s the matter with Bob?

In one scene, Bob is stalking

his therapist and he cries out…

“Gimme, Gimme, Gimme,

 I need, I need, I need !”

We all have needs and those needs

can become very overwhelming.

Those needs can overtake our thoughts,

emotions and our prayer life.

The Psalmist in Psalms 91 is very

aware of fear and the terror…

The traps and snares, deadly

pestilence and physical affliction,

arrows, battles and wars.

The threats to life can keep us

from rest day and the night.

 

The Psalmist deals with all these

threats to life by saying…

“If you make the Most High your dwelling —

even the Lord, who is my refuge — 

 then no harm will befall you”

Dwelling with God.

The Most High reigns over a kingdom

of Righteousness, Peace and Joy.

Psalm 100 says…

“Enter his gates with thanksgiving

and his courts with praise;

give thanks to him and praise his name.

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;

his faithfulness continues through all generations.”

Many of us come to God saying…

I need, I need, I need.

We bring God all of our needs and problems,

 but never enter His presence.

When you concern yourself with the

presence of God, all your other

concerns will be taken care of.

Seek ye first His Kingdom and everything

else will be added to you. Matthew 6:33

He is more than a need-based God.

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Scripture Reading

 Psalm 91:1-10 NIV

91 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High

will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 

2 I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge

and my fortress,

my God, in whom I trust."

3 Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare

and from the deadly pestilence.

4 He will cover you with his feathers,

and under his wings you will find refuge;

his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

5 You will not fear the terror of night,

nor the arrow that flies by day,

6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,

nor the plague that destroys at midday.

7 A thousand may fall at your side,

ten thousand at your right hand,

but it will not come near you.

8 You will only observe with your eyes

and see the punishment of the wicked.

9 If you make the Most High your dwelling —

even the Lord, who is my refuge — 

10 then no harm will befall you,

no disaster will come near your tent.

11 For he will command his angels concerning you

to guard you in all your ways;

12 they will lift you up in their hands,

so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

13 You will tread upon the lion and the cobra;

you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

14 "Because he loves me," says the Lord, "I will rescue him;

I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.

15 He will call upon me, and I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble,

I will deliver him and honor him.

16 With long life will I satisfy him

and show him my salvation."