Putting Demands on God
Baby Girl,
For a few weeks now you’ve been asking Me to talk to you about what you keep hearing pastors say: that you should put a demand on your faith; put a demand on God or command God to act.
There’s a good reason why you feel such a strong pushback in your spirit when you hear this: you are not so arrogant that you would dare to put a demand on Me or command Me to do anything.
I am not a genie in a bottle and I am also not a man that I should lie. My Word is trustworthy and you can stand confidently on My Word. You can look it up, but it’s more nuanced than that…
Arrogant = having an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities
Demand = to ask authoritatively or brusquely; an insistent and peremptory request, made as if by right
Command = give an authoritative order or dominate from a superior height
Trustworthy = Able to be relied on as honest or truthful
Confidently = in a way that expresses little or no doubt about something
Nuanced = having or characterized by subtle and often appealingly complex qualities, aspects, or distinctions
Listen, I understand what preachers and teachers are saying, but there is a difference - a fine line between having confidence in Me and demanding that I do something based on YOUR LIMITED understanding of My Word.
Look to My Word, seek understanding, and form convictions in your heart about who you believe My Word says I am. I AM who I say I AM.
Come boldly to My throne and lay your requests before Me, but DON’T YOU DARE instruct anyone to DEMAND anything of Me.
Introduce them to who I am and encourage them to have unwavering faith in My character. Teach them to rest in My identity more than their perception of whether I am living up to My character. Whether it appears by human standards and circumstances that I am or not, I can never and will never violate My character.
I AM Infinite. I am not a created being. I have no origin and I have no end.
I AM Immutable. I never change. People change. Circumstances change. I do not.
I AM Self-Sufficient. I lack nothing and have need of nothing. I don’t need your help but I delight in your willingness.
I AM Omnipotent. I am all-powerful. I am able to do anything.
I AM Omniscient. I am all-knowing. When My response to your prayer does not match your expectation, assume I know something you do not.
I AM Omnipresent. I am always everywhere. As My child, there is no where you can go to escape My presence. You are never alone.
I AM Wise. My ways are unfathomable. Draw near to Holy Spirit. He has access to My wisdom and can provide you with access to that wisdom.
Unfathomable = incapable of being fully explored or understood
I AM Faithful.
Faithful = remaining loyal and steadfast
Steadfast = resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering
I AM Good. I am morally right; righteous. I cannot sin.
I AM Just. I am often accused as being unfair. That would make Me unjust, and I cannot act in opposition to who I am.
Just = based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair
I AM Merciful. When a prayer is not answered in the way you desire, it is often an act of mercy. Do you remember all the times you begged Me to give you peace to leave your marriage but I refused? That was mercy. Imagine what your life would look like now had I given into your request based on your hard-heartedness at the time.
Merciful = showing or exercising mercy
Mercy = compassion or forgiveness toward someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm
I AM Gracious.
Gracious = showing divine grace
Grace = the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowing of blessings
I AM LOVING. Don’t look to the dictionary on this one. I don’t love like the world does. You’re curious… okay, look it up.
Loving = feeling or showing great love or care
Love = an intense feeling of deep affection.
See what I mean? That does not even BEGIN to describe My nature as a LOVING Father. I am to the extreme the definition of LOVE in 1 Corinthians 13:
- I am patient. 2 Peter 3:8-10a
- I am kind. Titus 3:4-7
- I do not envy. Exodus 20:5-6 says that I am a jealous God. Envy is different. To envy is to desire to possess what belongs to someone else. As My child, I don’t envy anyone. By your own choice, you belong to Me. I am jealous.
Jealous = fiercely protective or vigilant of one’s rights or possessions.
- I do not boast, but you are to boast in Me. 2 Corinthians 10:17
Boast = to talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one’s achievements, possessions, or abilities
- I am not proud. Philippians 2:7-8
- I do not dishonor others. John 12:26
- I am not self-seeking. Romans 5:8
- I am not easily angered. Psalms 145:8-9
- I keep no records of wrongs. Jeremiah 31:34
- I do not delight in evil but rejoice with the truth. Ezekiel 18:32
- I always protect. 2 Thessalonians 3:3
- I always trust. Romans 8:31
- I always hope. Hebrews 13:6
- I always persevere. 2 Timothy 4:18
- I never fail. Romans 8:28
I AM Holy. Teach people to bring their requests to Me with joy and thanksgiving knowing that I will answer not according to their demands or expectations, but according to My Holiness.
Holy = exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness
Don’t teach people to place demands on Me but teach them to recklessly abandon self and become holy as I am Holy, devoting both themselves and their desires to My will. When you give yourself to Me with reckless abandon, My will becomes your will, and you will see My Hand, both in the expressly expected answers to your prayers and in the waiting.
It’s time to get back to sleep, Little One.
LOVE you,
Daddy
Exodus 3:14
