Are you in the land of self-provision?

Have you ever tried buying a gift for the person who has everything? When Christmas time comes around, how frustrating is it to have to go from store to store, hour after hour, day after day, just to find a present for that last difficult person on your list? Isn't it frustrating to know that you can't even buy one little present for someone you care very much about because they already have everything? When you ask that person what they want, they usually say, "Nothing, I don't need anything." ERRRRR! You want to give them a gift, but they won't let you.
God has the same problem with us; just like our gift shopper. God wants to bless us and provide for us. God wants to bless us with the little things in life. Unfortunately, we are so busy providing for ourselves, that we leave God out of the provision business. We don't even stop to think, "I wonder if God would put my need on some one's heart."
How can God provide for our needs and desires if we are constantly providing for ourselves? I am not saying that we should turn God into a genie. If I see I need this and immediately go and buy it, because, "I can", where is God? There is no dependence on God's workings. There is no need for Him to come through on your behalf. There is no need to pray, because essentially we are saying that we'll take care of it from here.
I say this because I believe without that dependence on God and without going to Him everyday for our needs, we lose that relationship God is desiring for us to have with Him. The daily prayers, the daily petitions. If you don't need God right now, warning, He will make you need Him. He doesn't want us to be in a self fulfilled state, He wants us to count on Him to provide our needs. In Deuteronomy God tells His people how much He loves to provide for their needs.
"Love the LORD your God and keep his...commands always. Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength... and so that you may live long in the land...a land flowing with milk and honey...So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul then I will send rain on your land in its season...(so) you will eat and be satisfied...If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways and to hold fast to him- then the LORD will drive out all these nations...larger and stronger than you.
Notice that we must first love, be faithful to obey, serve with all our heart and soul...then we receive the blessing. There isn't anything in there like, "maybe I will..." or "I may do..." No, His decree is if you are faithful in following Me then I will provide you with a long and rich life, I will send provisions to you in your time of need, I will rescue you from your problems. You see, He wants to be the provider of your needs, He wants to be your hero, He wants to be your strength. We have to let Him. We have to count on His provision and we have to know that He does provide for us.
I believe my wife and I are going through this season right now. God has a way of allowing: things to break, pipes to leak, vehicles to break down, and things that we count on for providing our comfort to not function, so that we are taken out of this self-made comfort zone and forced back into reliance on Him and Him alone. God is a jealous god and He won't allow us to stray too far into the land of self-provision. Praise God.