My God is more than enough
He can supply all my needs
He is my El Shaddai
He always looks out for me
Jehovah Jirah he is my God
All of the earth is His
And the fullness there of
He's everything that I need
You can be sure of
Jehovah Jirah he is my God.

          When I used to listen to these words and sing with them on countless occasions whether in a church service or on my own time I always related the word "needs" to material things. If I took it a step farther from that into the intangibles I found myself stopping at my salvation. I had always heard it preached over the pulpit and taught in my home that God could give his children everything that they were in need of, from the tangible to the intangible, from money needed to make the overdue house payment to the peace and joy that we may be lacking in our lives. With all of this around me I may have missed the full meaning of the words "My God is MORE than ENOUGH, He can supply ALL my NEEDS, ALL of the EARTH is his and the FULLNESS thereof, He's EVERYTHING that I NEED, You can be SURE of, JEHOVAH JIRAH HE IS MY GOD." Notice I pointed the words, MORE, ENOUGH, ALL, NEEDS, FULLNESS, EVERYTHING. I recently realized that as obvious as the meanings of those words are I failed to believe it. You see I had the knowledge of it but I failed to tap into an understanding of those words. To know something is just to have the knowledge of it whereas to understand something is to experience it. I recently applied this concept to my life when I came to my knees in desperation of the sacrifice God had required of me. It was something that He has been requiring of me for sometime, and I've always had a hard time letting it go, giving proof that is was a sacrifice to give up. While in this point of prayer I got frustrated and asked God, "Why do you always require things of me that you can't replace?" I couldn't believe the words that had just came out my mouth. God? The Almighty? The creator of my very being not being able to fill a void in my life! You see God required of me the one thing that I would look to this world to fulfill, the one thing that I would go in circles trying to find a replacement for after every temporary attempt to fill that void failed. I had taken the words to the song I previously wrote and placed them in a box limiting them to only certain areas of my life. I couldn't seem to bring those words into the intangible part of who I was but rather I had them focused on the physical. What I lacked in receiving at one point in time of my life I sought to attain with the tools of the flesh, when all the while God was telling me, " Let me fulfill what your lacking of, let me fill that void that's in your life." You see it's so easy to talk about God filling the void of the life of a sinner, someone without God, but when it comes to filling the void of the life of a born again Christian it becomes a whole new ballgame. Some would ask, "Why does a Christian, a child of God, need fulfilled? What void does he/she have if they have God in their lives already?" My answer to this comes from the example of the life of any child of God called into the furthering of His kingdom and placed at a crossroads of decision where God requires of them things that only HE wants to fulfill. The sinner NEEDS the salvation to find that real genuine fulfillment in their lives, but when it comes to the called Christian, God tests them by challenging them to lean on "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," for fulfillment. God desires a WANTING of the Higher call, a desiring, so much that we are willing to push aside the frame of stability in the flesh of whatever it is he requires of us, and trade it for the frame of stability in the spirit (cant see it, touch it) One could call it the third birth. The first being in the natural, the second the spirit and the third a baptizing into His will and out of ours. This is the place I had come to but never realized it, it was a place where first I had to recognize what I was really holding onto, second understand why I was holding onto it, and thirdly letting it go in the flesh and grasping onto in the spirit. I found that, yes I can find a substitute in this world but to walk into my calling and into my promise I had to WILLINGLY let it go and WANT God to fulfill it. It doesn't stop at the wanting though, for just cause you want something doesn't mean you believe it can happen. I had to take God out of the box I had created for Him in supplying my physical needs and to let Him loose into my spiritual needs.  With this letting loose comes the UNDERSTADING, not the KNOWLEDGE, but understanding that my God can supply all my needs! Everything that I need you can be sure of! JEHOVAH JIRAH (THE LORD WILL PROVIDE) HE IS MY GOD!  I don't know how much I can stress that, EVERYTHING! Everything, he can supply. With supplying our every need He is FAITHFUL in doing it. What does that mean? All the fulfillment we found in the flesh to fill our intangible voids were temporary and left us wanting but not only does God fulfill, but He's FAITHFUL in His Fulfillment! That means love, joy, peace, affection, comfort, not just for a season but at ALL TIMES! Notice with me now, anything tangible in the words I just said previously? Obviously the answer is no, cause I'm not promoting a message of prosperity here or blessing, I'm promoting a message of stop looking at the outside of your struggle to attaining your promise and start looking into it. In other words stop looking at the "WHAT" your fighting and understand the "WHY" your fighting. If your struggling past that road block in front of the door of your promise I can say without vain words but rather with words of understanding that you just got to have faith in the intangible fulfillment of a faithful God.