My God is Bigger!!

A little over a week ago we had a Wednesday night prayer meeting at our church. It was amazing. One of those rare, fleeting moments where God is right there. You can feel Him all around, His spirit at work. We were singing a song, 'Jesus your all I need.' And the first time through that refrain, as I sung those words, He whispered softly to me, 'Really?'

Sure! Of course!

No...
If I'm honest,.. No.

I need food. I need shelter. I need to pay my bills and buy diapers for my kids. I need friendship and love. I need security. I need my debt to be gone and my income to match my expenses. I need a college fund for my kids so they don't end up in debt for school like I am. I need a retirement fund.

'No,' He said. 'I am all you need.'

But, I MUST focus on these things! I have to feed my kids and keep them clothed and cared for, and I need to pay my bills!

Here's the thing, if Jesus is truly all we need, then we are trusting Him for all those things. Sure we need to work and take care of our children, but with the understanding that if it isn't enough, it doesn't matter. Jesus is all we truly need! If I can't pay my bills (which happens) and my kids have no diapers (which thankfully hasn't happened yet) and I have no food (that's happened too) God provides! He always has. I have been without food, but never gone hungry. I have been without clothes and always had something to wear. I have had no money for rent and never spent a night without a roof over my head. God is faithful to His word, and His word says this:

Do Not Worry25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.Matthew 6:25-34

God laid a question on my heart that night and another this evening. So all I want to do is pass those questions on to you and ask that you earnestly take them to heart. The first is this:

'What could we (the church) accomplish if Jesus was really all we need?'

Imagine the power we would walk in if our full attention was His, trusting He would provide the rest, seeking first the Kingdom of God.

And today He is asking me this:

'How big is your God?'

I know people struggling with illness, financial difficulties. I have friends and relatives battling cancer. My neighbor on the left has no kidneys and can't get a transplant. My neighbor on the right just found out her husband has cancer and has been told he has less than a year to live. How big is your God!? I want to scream it from the rooftops. HOW BIG IS MY GOD!? Is he bigger than debt? Is he bigger than illness? Is he bigger than the troubles of this world?

The answer is a resounding 'Yes!' My God is bigger!!