What does it look like??

[Winniesue]

Hi. I am curious what it looks like for you. Maybe I can relate, I am not sure. When the Lord says that he will meet all our needs, not necessaily phyisical needs in this sense, but emotional needs. What does that look like. Is is through other ppl, is it soley in the Word? The reason I am asking is b/c I am looking for the Lord to meet my communication needs, need for great and deep friendships, the need to feel accepted, I am not sure really. But my question is, How have you experienced God meeting all of your emotional needs, so that out of that place, everything else is a bonus? In this also, not depending on ppl to meet the needs we have in ourselves. I love Jesus so mcuh, I just wanted to open a discussion to see if there were some things I can learn from and relate to. Thanks for listening, and I look foward to learning how God is in your lives.

Winniesue

[Afal]

I think that this is a tremendous question to ask. I believe that there are many Christians out there (myself included) who are struggling with physical, emotional or financial needs etc and find it difficult to relate to this statement. I believe that God is my all in all in theory, but in practice, I must be doing something wrong because I still have needs that are not being met.

I look forward to reading what other people write in response to your question because one day, I want to be able to say in all honesty that God meets all of my needs.

[Joelle]

I was thinking about what to reply, and in fact I was thinking almost the same thing as Afal. So I don't really have an answer to your question Winnie but I will try to give it a shot.

I'm far from being able to say that God met ALL my needs (but I have actually met people who claimed it, some of them I've always wondered if they were telling the truth) but your topic made me remember lots of things about how the Lord has blessed me so far. Financially for example, it feels now like a miracle how my husband and I made it through last year and yet we did. We have just enough money to be able to survive, but that already is a lot, in fact it's just what we need right now! And it goes on the same way for my other needs too, the Lord gives just the right amount for me to be able to humbly thank Him.

Now when it comes to our emotional needs like love and friendship and stuff, it's much more complicated I believe. As for me, I don't even know what I really want, or what it would mean for me to have all my emotional needs met. But one thing I can say is that emotionally speaking I am much happier now than I was last year at the same time, and that means my emotional needs are actually being met!

I don't have time to go into any more details right now because it's time for me to go to bed, but I'm really willing to share this topic in more depth with anyone who's interested, and mostly with you WinnieSue.

[jackie d]

I sure don't have a complete answer for you either. But I can tell you that when I am in emotional need I talk to Jesus a lot. Driving, taking a shower, cleaing the house...everywhere. I'm not praying in the traditional sense, I'm just talking to Him and I talk and talk. It is a phenominon that it works too. If I just keep talking, crying, laughing whatever after a day or two I begin to feel linked to someone and not so alone and don't feel such a desire to reach out to people to meet my emotional needs.

Now the hard part is that I often forget to do this too and then I find I have run into a brick wall if I try to take my emotional needs to people. Not because people don't care but 9 times out of 10 they speak to me and try to give me advice, plus they are incapable of filling the space in my heart that hurts.. The thing about Jesus is that He doesn't give advice or anything else, He just lends His ear and healing to my heart and soul. I have grown to find this completely sufficient, when I remember to do it, in this area.

[ladypeartree]

I think the key word is NEEDS not wants ....God does answer all our prayers but not necessarily the way we think He is going to do so. God also meets all our other needs but we have to trust in Him and if we really need comfort and help it can always be found by reading our bible and TALKING to God ...too often we cry out to Him to give us what we think we need ( our wants ) but He knows what is best. Maybe we need to endure times of "alone ness " in order to stop focusing on ourselves and turn our focus to Him. NOT an easy thing to do and we often "suffer" during lessons when we find them hard to learn but they are amazingly worth while once we have learnt and can focus on the praise and thanks instead of the wants and needs that we normally focus our attention on....there was an amazing thread on "dieing to self " on another board I will have to try to get permission ( and the know how ) to reproduce it here .

[desi2007]

Hi. I am curious what it looks like for you. Maybe I can relate, I am not sure. When the Lord says that he will meet all our needs, not necessaily phyisical needs in this sense, but emotional needs. What does that look like. Is is through other ppl, is it soley in the Word? The reason I am asking is b/c I am looking for the Lord to meet my communication needs, need for great and deep friendships, the need to feel accepted, I am not sure really. But my question is, How have you experienced God meeting all of your emotional needs, so that out of that place, everything else is a bonus? In this also, not depending on ppl to meet the needs we have in ourselves. I love Jesus so mcuh, I just wanted to open a discussion to see if there were some things I can learn from and relate to. Thanks for listening, and I look foward to learning how God is in your lives.

Winniesue

Hello Winniesue,

I think sometimes we are hard on ourselves but we would grow faster if we relaxed more and learned to live by Gods Word and not by how we feel. His word states that as long as we believe, He is working in us.

I had a long and interesting journey before I learned that waiting is part of our walk with God. An intimate relationship with God is maintaining daily attention. Let Him know that you desire to have His presence in your life and as you seek Him each day with right motives He will be pleased and He will bless you with His presence and you will start having peace inside.

God Bless you,

desi

[redwing]

Hi. I am curious what it looks like for you. Maybe I can relate, I am not sure. When the Lord says that he will meet all our needs, not necessaily phyisical needs in this sense, but emotional needs. What does that look like. Is is through other ppl, is it soley in the Word? The reason I am asking is b/c I am looking for the Lord to meet my communication needs, need for great and deep friendships, the need to feel accepted, I am not sure really. But my question is, How have you experienced God meeting all of your emotional needs, so that out of that place, everything else is a bonus? In this also, not depending on ppl to meet the needs we have in ourselves. I love Jesus so mcuh, I just wanted to open a discussion to see if there were some things I can learn from and relate to. Thanks for listening, and I look foward to learning how God is in your lives.

Winniesue

the following solves all my "want's and need's" :

Matthew 6:5-15 (21st Century King James Version)

21st Century King James Version (KJ21)

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[stan4257]

Hi. I am curious what it looks like for you. Maybe I can relate, I am not sure. When the Lord says that he will meet all our needs, not necessaily phyisical needs in this sense, but emotional needs. What does that look like. Is is through other ppl, is it soley in the Word? The reason I am asking is b/c I am looking for the Lord to meet my communication needs, need for great and deep friendships, the need to feel accepted, I am not sure really. But my question is, How have you experienced God meeting all of your emotional needs, so that out of that place, everything else is a bonus? In this also, not depending on ppl to meet the needs we have in ourselves. I love Jesus so mcuh, I just wanted to open a discussion to see if there were some things I can learn from and relate to. Thanks for listening, and I look foward to learning how God is in your lives.

You are asking hard questions, Winniesue, because for everybody the answer is different, as you will notice from those who have replied. But there are some common factors, and as an older battle scarred Christian who has been through the mill, screaming for help at times and overwhelmed with God's love at others, my experience may strike a chord with you.

The first thing, and it takes dull brains like mine years and years to discover, is that I have survived, when in many situations I should not have, and that is a basic need. Thank God. I have survived out of times of absolute despair into the happiest and most peaceful days of my life. That surely adds up to my loving Heavenly Father meeting the most basic need of any life.

Secondly, during those hard times it eventually became obvious that even with absolutely nothing except what I stood up in, that was all I needed at the time and in the circumstances in which I was placed, so once more my need was being met. Not only that, but with that realisation came the security of knowing that however little I had, the love of Jesus Christ was still real and tangible, more so even than in my proud and affluent moments.

The third truth that becomes clear in times when one has no resources with which to meet an overwhelming need, is the assurance in Christ that the need will be met, sometimes in what seems a miraculous way.

A short story here will explain what I mean.

I took a small group of young Christians once from a country town to the red light district of a large city to show them the reality of Jesus Christ. We went by overnight train and were sitting on the ground outside a post office, with no idea of where we were going to stay or how we were going to live in the week we had allocated for our mission, when a guy walked by. I remembered his face from a previous time I had been in that city. "Hi there, Stan!" he called out. "Where are you staying?"

"No idea." I replied.

Whereupon he tossed a bunch of keys at my feet. Called out the address of a unit he occupied, said it was big enough to accommodate us all and to use it while we were in town, and left.

So those are just three basic experiences of mine which may help answer your questions. I hope they do.

Oh, and the clue to it all is to obey the instructions that 'in everything give thanks'. It is amazing what happens when we start thanking God for what he is about to do for us, even before we know what it is going to be, because it will always be exactly what we need.

[tah]

I am so glad you found the "He is all I need" thread ..

Psa 27:7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me!

Psa 27:8 You have said, "Seek my face." My heart says to you, "Your face, LORD, do I seek."

[Afal]

Oh, and the clue to it all is to obey the instructions that 'in everything give thanks'. It is amazing what happens when we start thanking God for what he is about to do for us, even before we know what it is going to be, because it will always be exactly what we need.

This is something that I have never heard before in such a way. My human mind says 'Will it work? It seems so easy!' My spiritual mind says 'Trust God!'

Thank you for this gem!