consider the power of a being who needs nothing.

That's what God is like.

And it is that power that is the energizing power for all created life.

What does God need to live?

Absolutely nothing.

He doesn't need air, he doesn't need sunshine, he doesn't need water, he doesn't need sunshine. He doesn't need water. He doesn't need Medicare. He doesn't need

fellowship. He needs absolutely nothing. What could you possibly do to add to the fullness of God's being and sufficiency?

God doesn't need you, he doesn't need anything from you or anything about you, and he doesn't need

me. Sometimes we actually like to think that if it weren't for us, God's kingdom would perish,

and God himself would be deprived if somehow we did not do our thing.

Jonathan Edwards made a statement that the ministry that we give to those in need, to the hungry, to the naked, to the lonely, that God is pleased

that we do those things because the only appropriate way for us to show our

gratitude to God who needs nothing, who is all sufficient, is to take from our sufficiency and minister to those who do need something in his

name.

See? It's the whole impetus for ministry.

Not because we're giving it to God. He doesn't need it.

But he has been pleased that we give it to those who do. Now consider the power of a being who

needs nothing. That's what God is like.

And it is that power that is the energizing power for all created life.

And you know one of the titles of the Holy Spirit

is the word Dunumis,

the power of God, the dynamite of God.

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