For Periods of Need

God lives and works today, but maybe you don't feel that way right now because he hasn't given you something you wanted or needed. Today's meditation by Basilea Schlink has a helpful suggestion about what to do and why to do it. We all have to experience times when we do not have everything we need.

Or perhaps there have been times when we have lacked money to buy the things that we or our families need. Perhaps you don't have enough money to care for your children properly or to give them the necessary education. What type of prayer can remedy such situations? First, we should make certain that we're really faced with a situation of need, or whether we simply want to pray away something that God has ordained for our lives.

Perhaps, according to our desires, ambition, or will, we want to attain something that's not in God's plan for us. Therefore, the first thing we should do is pray that God will give us his light and his standards. He will show us what we really need and what we should pray for.

For many years now in our sisterhood, we've experienced situations of need. We have not asked people for help. We have been dependent upon the Heavenly Father.

We have brought him our childlike prayers, and he has never disappointed us. Rather, he has always given us more than we asked for and more than our imagination could grasp. That is, if we live according to his word, seek first his kingdom and his righteousness.

This means we should not want to have these things for ourselves, but rather we should work and spend ourselves for his kingdom. We should devote our last efforts and strength for that purpose. This may also include the willingness to give our brothers what they ask for, even if we do not have enough.

Of course, we should be mindful that our relationship to God and to our fellow men is in order. Then everything else which we need for our daily life will be ours as well, according to his promise. Yes, as children of God, we may approach him with thanksgiving, because he has already opened his hands for us.

Indeed, he never leaves unanswered a prayer for something his children really need, if we have removed all of the obstacles to prayer. He is loving, all-loving, a heart full of kindness, a heart of love and goodness, the heart of the Godhead, and I am his child. I come with my praises for a love which so amazes the hearts of his children, once full of their sin.

A heart full of kindness, a heart of love and goodness, the heart of the Godhead, our Father is he. You have been listening to a program written by Basilea Schlink of the Little Land of Canaan. To learn more about how God lives and works today, visit us at our website, www.canaan.org. If you contact us, we would be happy to send you a free inspirational booklet.

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