God's needs

[Tatie]

After posting in the Praise section how God must be dessolate without his children just how I have been after my son went to college, I promissed to "visit" my Father more often and spend more time with Him. I started thinking: What else God needs from us? I KNOW he wants us to have faith in Him. Does any know anything else God needs us to do for Him. After all, this is a relationship.

[Dad Ernie]

After posting in the Praise section how God must be dessolate without his children just how I have been after my son went to college, I promissed to "visit" my Father more often and spend more time with Him. I started thinking: What else God needs from us? I KNOW he wants us to have faith in Him. Does any know anything else God needs us to do for Him. After all, this is a relationship.

Greetings Tatie,

The ONLY "need" that God asks of us is "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God & His righteousness". We are promised that "He is a reward of those who DILIGENTLY seek Him." We do this through prayer & praise, Bible study and "taking up our cross and following Christ daily". Your life and ALL lives are His to do with as He pleases. There is NOTHING that we or anyone can do but to humbly comply to His wishes/commandments.

But these things you should already know, so I won't go any further.

Blessings,

Dad Ernie

[Tatie]

So, He asks us to put Him first, to have faith in Him (but without faith it is impossible to please God), and obide by His law? I don't know everything. I just started thinking about it when my son came home from college for vacation and how happy I became compared with the dessolation I felt without him. So I started thinking about God, how much time I spend with him. Oh, yea, didn't He say to pray seaslessly?

[Guest ChosenOne]

God desires for us to love Him. He wants fellowship and communion with us. He longs for us to express our love and adoration to Him. He likes it when we just want to be with Him. He loves to meet our needs but He loves it when we come to Him and just want to sit in His lap.

God bless.

[Tatie]

How do you do that?

[peaches]

How do you do that?

i am waiting for some responses too

[Matthitjah]

Bless you all,

He desires mercy and not sacrifice!

If you knew what this meant you would feed the hungry, clothe the naked, oppress not the widow, etc....

1Pe

[eric]

Eccl'12:13.Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter; Fear God and keep His commandnents: for this the whole duty of man.

Have a nice day.

eric.

[Hvnly1Rose]

How do you do that? 

Tatie,

In my exprience with sitting on God's lap...as much as it is not a litteral thing, I think it is more of an emotional and spiritual feeling. The closer you get to God through his word, and especially through prayer, looking on Him as a true Abba (Daddy) Father like a child. A father that is invincible, that has grace when you are bad, that NEVER breaks a promise, that is always around when you need Him, and you can tell Him anything without fear. I truely believe that it is a matter of how you look at Him when you pray. If you are praying to Him with the attitude that He is unreachable then that is what He will be, but if you pray to Him as though He were right in the room next to you with His arms around you, you can truely feel His presence.

As a mother, how did it make you feel when your son came over to you as a little boy, climbed up into your lap and nuzzled up to your chest? You instintively put your arms around him. It's the same way with God. Now try and think back to when you were a child and did the same to your father or mother, what feeling did you have climbing up there and stuffing you head into their chest? How did you feel when they wrapped their arms around you and squeezed?

We are very emotional creatures, God made us that way and we need to look upon Him with the same emotions as we do with those we love around us.

Hope this helps.

[Guest Unworthy Servant]

God looks for a personal relationship with us

Greetings in the name of Christ Jesus: Whjen I happened by this series of posts I could not help myself but to respond to it. We for so long a time have tried to have a relationship that has been built upon our needs as mankind with Our heavenly Father without ever asking ourselves the question of "What does God need from us?'

The fact is that God does have needs that we can fulfill in His heart if we will only allow it to happen. Actually we were created to fill those needs in God's heart to have someone who He could trust and be family to Him that He could walk and talk with , and there by fellowship with just like He had started to do with Adam and Eve, and before that with Lucifer before mankind was ever created.

In creating mankind God desired a relationship of love and caring that would last for all eternity. He created us in His own image so that it would be possible for us to have and to understand that relationship from the start because it would be a love relationship that would involve much of the things that we hold so dear in a relationship with one another.

That includes truth, honesty, faithfulness, and of course love which then would be wrapped up in a total comittment to one another. God then proceeded to show forth His personal comittment to us through what He did to assure us of salvation from the most horrid of mistakes that mankind could make by sinning against Him. When God did provide us with the opportunity for redemption He put forth His greatest comittment for us by taking away the power of sin that had separated us from Him. It was that sin that held us back from having any ability to seek out a relationship personally with God.

When sin had been defeated God then gave us a way back to finding a relationship with Him through building that through the growth of His Spirit and the teachings of His perfected Son. What He asks us to do then is to seek Him with our whole heart , mind and strength. In that seeking of God we will find the relationship with Him that is perfected in truth. It will be both the kind of relationship that we have sought as perfect from one another, and the kind of communion that God has sought from mankind from the beginning. We can learn what it is to really have a complete relationship not only with God , but with one another by patterning the qualities that we find in our relationship with God to that which we can have with one another.

It actually comes down to those things first mentioned in this post; Truth, Honesty, faithfulness, and of course true love for one another. The love of a Father for His children and the unmistakeable love and comittment of a child who is reared by a loving parent given back to a Father who is worthy of it.

May you richly bless God through your life in Him;

The Unworthy Servant