Hello
I love those unexpected times where God will use differnt things and situation to make His Word come alive. I sit back today and really evalutate the goodness of God. How all of my life, He has guided me and protected me. I have truly been blessed beyond measure. Because of this fact, I feel like I have been so sheltered to a lot of the world's hardships. I thank God for that! Just recently I had the opportunity to experience one of the most humbling and convicting experiences in my life. This truly brought alive the hurt, need, and pain that the world is in. God opened my eyes and allowed me to see things from His prespective and it broke me. The hurt He feels when people chose to turn away from HIm. In the midst of all of this God showed me a BIG revelation.  I think about the verse:

Philippians 4:19
And my God shall supply all of my needs according to His riches and glory in Christ Jesus.

Do we even really know what are needs are? I think so often we call our wants and desires our "needs" and then when those "needs" aren't met we start questioning the faithfulness of God. God is not a man that He should lie. It says in Matthew that God know what we need in every situations even before we know we need it and He promised to supply that basic need. Psalms 37:25  says " I have been young and now old , never have I seen the righteous forsaken nor His seed begging bread." A need is " a lack of something wanted or deemed necessary." A want is "something desired, demanded, or required." So I encourage you to evaualate when you ask God for something is it truly a need or something that you want? God is faithful to His Word everytime. One final thought. As I reflect as a young child, before I went to school  I was made to recite Psalms 23.  The very first verse " The Lord is my shephard I shall not lack." in this case it is to be in need.  Reflecting back on life, I can confidentally say that up until this point of my life I have never been in lack of my basic needs. That is a testament to God's faithfulness.