"WANTING to Hear versus NEEDING to Hear from GOD!"

"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them and they follow Me."

                                                       (John 10:27)

There is a profound difference between "needing" to hear from God and "wanting" to hear from God.

"Needing" to hear from God is a reactionary response, in most instances, to an adverse situation in one's life. Perhaps it involved injury, loss of a job, sickness, debt or loss of life. It is not the desire of the individual to seek God but, in fact, he/she is seeking and "answer" (or more specifically a solution to his/her problem). In essence, the Presence of God or the relationship has very little or nothing to do with this petition. Needing to hear from God has a definitive time limit assigned to it for a response.

Conversely, "wanting" to hear from God does not require an answer or remedy from Him. The encounter has no time limit assigned to it and is solely motivated by the individual making himself/herself "available" to hear from God whenever He decides to make the visitation. Wanting denotes the existence of a relationship between God and the individual. Intimacy, reverence, fear and love motivate the Believer into wanting to be in the Presence of God eternally. Selah...