I Need Thee

One of my dear friend Greg Stevens' favorite songs captured this thought: "I Need Thee Every Hour."

We need God. It is not until we feel the depths of our souls utter poverty without Christ, our bankruptcy of any righteousness, the puny nature of our own strength, and self-sufficient planning, our indescribable loneliness when we are out of fellowship with God, the pathetic nature of our pride, that we know just how much we need God.

Every Hour I Need Thee!

Yes, we need to feel our need. Where real need is not felt, there is rarely any real praying. When Paul tells us to keep “praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication . . . for all the saints," it’s in the context of grasping the nature of the war we’re in, and our helplessness without God in the face of the overwhelming power of our enemy.

Desperation drove our forefathers to prayer, and it’s what drives us to prayer too. Our places of desperation are the places of God’s revelation of His power.

I Come to Thee!

When we feel deeply our need, we go to Christ. Friends, go to Christ asking, and seeking, and knocking. Keep going! Keep going! Never stop going to Him. When you lose that feeling of need, you've lost too much. In fact, you are lost.