A God In Need

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Does God Have Needs?

When we commit ourselves to a desire, we also surrender ourselves to the needs required to achieve that desire.

Do you desire a car? What do you need to achieve that car?
Do you desire a house? What do you need to achieve that house?
Do you desire a mate? What do you need to achieve that mate?

Does God have desires? Does God have needs?

What is God’s greatest desire? And what does God need to achieve that desire?
 

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Does God Have Needs?

When we commit ourselves to a desire, we also surrender ourselves to the needs required to achieve that desire.

Do you desire a car? What do you need to achieve that car?
Do you desire a house? What do you need to achieve that house?
Do you desire a mate? What do you need to achieve that mate?

Does God have desires? Does God have needs?

What is God’s greatest desire? And what does God need to achieve that desire?

Isaiah 5:4 anyone?
John 1:11 comes to mind.
Matt 23:37 is another one
 
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Does God Have Needs?

When we commit ourselves to a desire, we also surrender ourselves to the needs required to achieve that desire.

Do you desire a car? What do you need to achieve that car?
Do you desire a house? What do you need to achieve that house?
Do you desire a mate? What do you need to achieve that mate?

Does God have desires? Does God have needs?

What is God’s greatest desire? And what does God need to achieve that desire?


God has no physical needs which must be met, as we do.

It is the desire of God the Father to have a loving fellowship with mankind whom He created in His image of love.

1 John 4:16

And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

There is a difference between needs and desire.

This is His desire .... that we (mankind) be in complete loving harmony ... to be restored... us (and all of His perfect creations) as originally created (before the fall of mankind).

Acts 3:21

whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.

He desires humans have the same perfect loving relationship with Him that He has with His son Jesus.

“Jesus prayed, I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, father, are in me, and I in you.

and one day .... it will be so!


Pretty amazing!
 
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Does God Have Needs?

When we commit ourselves to a desire, we also surrender ourselves to the needs required to achieve that desire.

Do you desire a car? What do you need to achieve that car?
Do you desire a house? What do you need to achieve that house?
Do you desire a mate? What do you need to achieve that mate?

Does God have desires? Does God have needs?

What is God’s greatest desire? And what does God need to achieve that desire?

God desires that all men come to the full knowledge of truth and repent and be saved but He doesn’t need them to and all men actually won’t comply. So desires do not necessarily imply needs.
 
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I agree with all the above responses, and that there is a difference between desires and needs.

But as I said in the OP: When we commit ourselves to a desire, we also surrender ourselves to the needs required to achieve that desire.

If I desire a stone house, will I not need stone blocks to build that house?
If I desire a mate, will I not need her cooperation and support?

If God desires a spiritual house, will he not need spiritual stones?
If God desires a spiritual bride, will he not need her cooperation and support?
 
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