How To Totally Depend On God

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Most brothers and sisters in church are people who failed in life. Then they came back to God. Or they came to God. Guys, this is a reality.

I used to be in the world. I had everything, but if you examine the world failed. Because if you were still popping, you would have never seen them. Now, maybe God used that to get them, but that's usually the case, not always. Usually.

Can God change that? Absolutely.

Can God shift that? Absolutely.

But here is the issue we are facing.

The issue is this.

We have not humbled ourselves to realize we don't even know what a shepherd is.

Because why would God say I am a shepherd over and over?

Because the shepherd takes care of his sheep, but God doesn't take care of us outside of himself.

I love a quote that senior prophet T.B. Joshua used to say. A man can be sick and be a friend of God. A man can be poor and be a friend of God. A man can be homeless and be a friend of God.

So, if our measurement of his care is our external life, we have desperately and miserably failed. It doesn't mean that God will not take care of us externally.

He will absolutely take care of us externally. He will.

But, our natural needs are loud because we have not found fulfillment in him. The question is this, is he my everything?

Or are your children your everything? Is your husband your everything?

Are your Is your wife your everything? Is your fiance your everything?

What is your everything? Is your job your everything?

Is your comfort your everything?

Making God first doesn't just mean he's number one on my list. He is the list. He's everything. That's what being number one means. It's not mean he He doesn't mean he's the first one on my list.

He's the center of everything in your life. The Bible says it is in him we move and have our being. If you have