FAITH CAPSULE: Are you focusing on what you want more than what the Lord has put in position for your needs?

Exodus 16

Without having trust and hope in God is not 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 in God makes man rest on God and not be rebellious.  
The Israelites trusted God to bring them out of bondage but stopped trusting that is moving without hope in God to meet their needs.
Are you seeking after want rather than after needs?
The Psalmist testifies, “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1). 
Having faith is to trust and hope for what He has for all. 
During the wilderness journey, the desire for want by the Israelites overtook their need.
One focusing on wants before God instead of gaining needs is set for self-destruction.
Are you focusing on what you want more than what the Lord has put in position for your needs?
The desires of the Israelites for wanting that lack turned them to the complaint before God.
Complaining instead of complementing God for His provision is an act of rebellion. 
Complaining is a destiny terminator, and it will deny one from receiving the promised plans of God that are in place for all.
Are you a vessel of complaining before God, or one with the character of complimenting God at every breath of life that He is giving you?
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.
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.”  
The direction of God to meet the need was enough, but the Israelites focused on wanting to violate the command of God by taking portions more than directed.
As a result of not following the direction of God, all the children who took more eventually lost all. (Exodus 16:18-21). 
The want of the Israelites more than their need could not help them but lost.
One with faith in God for His goodness, such will trust with hope in God to gain enough more than one wants. 
In all waiting to seek God, 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.