FAITH CAPSULE: Focusing on God is enough to gain needs.

Exodus 16

Full attention before God is trust and hope to receive fully from God.
Trust and hope in God is complete to arrive at the plans and promises of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 records, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.”  
Trusting God without having hope in God shall result in no blessing. Trusting God and having hope will rest on God and not be rebellious.  
The Israelites repeatedly demonstrate trust in God but with no hope in God. 
The Israelites trusted God to bring them out of bondage but could not hope for God to meet their needs.
Like the Israelites, are you seeking after want rather than after needs?
The Psalmist confessed, “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1).
Philippians 4:19 reminds all, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” 
Get to know and understand that it is not always about what you want but gaining needs from God.
Having faith is to trust and hope for what He has for all. 
During the wilderness journey, the children of Israel wanted what they left behind in Egypt instead of trusting and hoping for God to meet their needs. (Numbers 11:5)
The wants of the Israelites were overriding the provision of their needs for the journey. 
For the Israelites, without trust and hope in God resulted in a complaint. 
Are you focusing on what you want more than how the need has never ceased?
Complaining instead of complementing God for His provision is a very act of rebellion. 
Complaining is a destiny terminator, and it will deny all to receive the promise and plans of God that are in place for all.
Are you a conversant complainer before God, with no character of complimenting God on every breath of God-given?
The Israelites craved a pot of meat and bread instead of accepting the provision of God that was enough to meet their needs. 
God had a plan to meet the need of the Israelites, not their wants,
Exodus 16:16 records, “…Let every man gather it according to each one’s need, one omer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.”  
In the direction of God, there was enough to meet the needs of the Israelites.
However, some went above and beyond the word of God to take more than the need. 
As a result of not following the direction of God, all the children who took more eventually lost all. (Exodus 16:18-21). 
The children of Israel lost as they desired for wants, and they could not recognize the needs provided by God. 
Trusting and hoping in God is enough to gain needs. 
Be patient, look up to God, and know that the provision of God is always on time to meet needs. 
Paul confirms, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to trust and hope to wait on God.