What Do You Need? – The Presidential Prayer Team

God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 4:19

NASA has studied what will be necessary to sustain human life on the moon or on Mars. The agency stated, “Human beings have certain basic needs. We must have food, water, air, and shelter to survive. If any of these basic needs is not met, then humans cannot survive.“ They have discovered how to meet these needs for astronauts aboard the International Space Station in Earth orbit. In the process, they have discovered many other needs as well. There is a need for human attachment, the security of consistency, the need to avoid pain and secure pleasure, and the need for a sense of one’s self.

In creation, God put all of these needs into humankind, not just the physical needs, but the emotional-social needs. In addition, He established spiritual hunger in each soul. As Psalm 42:2 states, “My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.”

What is it that you need today? Be it physical, emotional, or spiritual, God’s promise is to provide for all of them, not just a few, from the storehouse of His more than ample supply. He discerns your wants from your needs but He often supplies those desires as well. Pray today for legislators across the country and particularly in Washington to put the needs of the people they govern ahead of their wants and for God’s wisdom to know the difference.

Today’s Verse: Philippians 4:19

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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Recommended for further reading: Isaiah 55:1-3; Matthew 7:7-11

“Come, everyone who thirsts,
    come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
    come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
    without money and without price.
²Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
    and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
    and delight yourselves in rich food.
³Incline your ear, and come to me;
    hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
    my steadfast, sure love for David.

⁷“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ⁸For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. ⁹Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? ¹¹If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!