
What does "In want" mean?
The LORD is my shepherd I shall not want.
"In want" means something different than just "want"
"In want" means a motive of wanting to get, verses a motive of wanting to give.
Being in want causes despair, worry, discouragement, and feeling sorry for one's self. Because it's focusing on what you believe you lack (which is a lie from the devil).
It then causes you to try and get what you think you are lacking. Which causes you to be controlling, greedy, using others for personal gain, discouraged, resentful, blaming, angry, or depressed.
Being in want makes you self-centered and unhappy. It steals your joy.
You can't be in want (motive of getting) and be grateful at the same time.
This is what happened in the garden at the fall of mankind.
Eve was deceived and went from being content, complete, and full of God's love and provision.
She bought the lie of "lack". That she wasn't good enough (lacking knowledge).
She went from content to worry (fear) and believing the lie from the devil (sales 101: sell problem/fear, then sell the fake solution). Then she gave to her husband and he followed suit. And boom, they were dead in their hearts (love went out the window). God's Spirit of Love was gone from them. They chose to separate from the love of God, and be about Self-first, Self-gratification, and a heart (motive) of getting.
Their hearts became hard and selfish. Love does not want for self. Love does not seek her own.
Love is self-giving, not self-getting.
But God knew that He would send His only begotten Son (Jesus Christ) to pay the price of death, rise again, and send His holy Spirit to live in our heart, mind, body, and spirit, so that we could have life, and love Him and one another. To be born again, Born of God, Born of the Spirit of Love.
God created us to live in us and love through us. So we would know His amazing love and GIVE this amazing love to one another.
Ask yourself this question; Do I want to Give? or Do I want to Get?
There is only two Motives:
1. Wanting to Give.
2. Wanting to Get.
Love or Selfishness
Giving or Getting
Which heart would you rather live out for your life?
Love:
1. Love suffereth long
2. Love is kind
3. Love envieth not
4. Love vaunteth not it self
5. Love is not puffed up
6. Love does not behave itself unseemly
7. Love seeketh not her own
8. Love is not easily provoked
9. Love thinketh no evil
10. Love rejoiceth not in inequity, but rejoiceth in the truth
11. Love beareth all things
12. Love believeth all things
13. Love hopeth all things
14. Love endureth all things
Love never faileth (1st Corinthians 13:4-8)
(Love = Charity)
Selfishness (self-first, self-gratification, self-pity, self-centered, motive of getting)
I am anxious
I am cruel or mean
I am envious (want what doesn’t belong to me)
I am boastful (wanting attention or popularity)
I am prideful (fear to admit my wrong)
I am dishonoring or disrespectful
I am self-seeking (me ahead of others, getting motive)
I anger easily (hot tempered, easily provoked)
I hold resentment (blame, bitter, hold grudges)
I’m dishonest (deceitful, not accountable)
I’m harsh (harmful, abusive, controlling, critical)
I’m distrusting of others (and doubt God)
I’m negative and pessimistic (glass ½ empty, in lack)
I’m a quitter (give up, don’t believe, excuses)
These are all rooted in fear. Love casts out fear. Love has no fear.
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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness;
God is Love. This is who God created you to be. And who He rescued you to be in Christ Jesus.
John 17:26 Jesus said, I came Father so that the love you have for me would be in them and I in them.
Ephesians 1:13 When you believed, you were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise.
1 Colossians 1:26-28, Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:.
Jesus came to put love back in our hearts, so we would give that love to God and each other, especially husband and wife.
Jesus came to change our hearts, from Getter to Giver, from self-first, to God first and others ahead of our self. Love = Life. No love = sin and death. God didn't want us to die, so God became a man and died for us and rose again on the third day. When he died so did we. We died to sin. When he rose to life so did we. We arose to life (forever). God's Spirit lives in our heart, body, and spirit, since we Believed in Jesus.
Genesis 3:22 and John 3:16 are essentially saying the same thing.
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Luke 10:25-28 also shows what having eternal life is about.
And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
It's Giving Love that Gives Life.
Giving is Living
(getting is dying)
I encourage you to say out loud three times per day:
I am Patient
I am Kind
I am Content and Grateful
I am Humble, I have Humility
I am Honoring, to God and others
I am Self-Giving, I love God 1st and others ahead me
I have a Sound-mind and I’m Peaceful
I am Forgiving
I am Honest & Truthful
I always Protect
I always Trust
I always Hope
I always Persevere (or, I endure all things)
As Born of God we are of Him. God is love. We are of Love. It's who we are.
I'm God's son (or daughter). I am not in want.
The only want (motive of heart) that I have is that others know the love of God from my heart, attitude and actions, so they know how valuable and special they are. So they know the love of God through me.
"My want" is to Give others the love God gives me.

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