Megan's prayer: Charlie Hall's "All We Need"

God I want You more
Than anything that glitters in this world

I struggle with this everyday. What my heart needs, and wants, is different than what my mind things I need sometimes.

This idea has been presented to me plenty of times - that I don't need material things to be happy. In fact, I have probably even been a advocate for this idea, and yet I find myself struggling with it.

How exactly do we break away from that feeling of needing materialistic things? How do I wrap my mind around the fact that God is all I need?

Just some questions I am wondering.

Chris' prayer: Charlie Hall's "All We Need"

I remember struggling through my financial accounting class in college. No matter how much time I spent on the homework, no matter how long we went over the homework in class, I just couldn't wrap my head around it. It simply didn't make sense to me. All semester long I struggled, keeping my grade afloat merely with completion and participation points, and doing "just well enough" on the tests and quizzes.

The class final was quickly approaching, and needless to say, I was quite nervous, as it would have a large effect on my grade. Shortly before the test, something miraculous happened. But repeating my assignments over and over again, the basic principles started to make sense. And once I got the basic principles down, the rest of it started to come to me, too. All this just a day or so before the test.

I ended up acing the final exam and walking out of the class with an A.

Today's song is similar to that experience for me. I am being reminded, over and over, one simple thing: that all I need is Him. And once I'm able to grasp that simple concept, I'll be able to experience my faith more fully, just as I was able to tackle the more difficult concepts in accounting once I accepted the simple ones.


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Erinnicole's Prayer: Charlie Hall's "All We Need"

All we need is You

This is so true!! All we need to survive is simply God because what do we have, even as Earthly possessions, that God didn't give us anyway?? God is the source of all life, all happiness, all comfort, all joy. What more could we need? Even better, what more could we want? Isn't that why we own possessions at all? To make us happy or fill a gap that is there. But with God, there are no gaps. No empty spaces, nothing missing...because He is everything. He fills all spots that need to be and fills us with love and joy and everything we need and want. perhaps this was a little redundant but I am so filled with joy at realizing that all I will ever need...is something I already have. God, unlike so many things in the world, will never let me down. He is something I will always need and something I can always have. Should I choose to listen and accept Him. My prayer today is to do just that!

Marie's Prayer: Charlie Hall's "All We Need"

You can have all my hands can hold
My heart, mind, strength and soul

I am constantly trying to strengthen my mind, I read almost constantly. I recently finished an amazing novel by John Greene called Paper Towns. This book was funny, but also got me thinking about the way I see things. Anywho, I give up so much of my time widening the capacity of my brain by reading, but I should also start widening the capacity of my soul and heart by praying. I have trouble with this because I like being able to read off things or write them down myself, but praying for me is just saying what's on my mind. I find it hard to read or write down precisely what I want from prayer and that really bugs me. I need to just set time aside and talk, and then listen. I like listening because it is hard for me to voice my opinion. It is easier for me to listen, but I have to remember to ask to, for help when I really need it.

Catie's prayer: Charlie Hall's "All We Need"

We have all we need in You
And all we need is You
All we need is You

I love how this line repeats so many times in this song. Many times I try to go my own way, do my own thing, and forget that God's plan is so much better than anything I could ever think of. I forget that all I need is him, he knows the desires of my heart and what makes me happy and that if I follow his plan for my life my life will be that much better.