Demanding

   Who are you, oh man, to tell the Most High what I should do in your life? Who are you to demand you will have this or that? Do you not know I can remove every good thing you have in an instant? Do you forget Who you pray to?

   Know My children that although I love you without end, you will not make demands of Me. You did not create the world in which you live and you shall not decree how I will run it. Those who try to do this are presumptuous and in great danger of judgment.

   I will have your reverence and respect. I will have your worship. You will not demand of Me anything, lest I remind you I am God.

   You would do well to remember this. I am God and there is no other.

   You can remind Me of My Holy Word. You can petition and request, but your demands will bring a bad result in your life.

   Repent, lest I judge you now.

Job 38:3-5

³ Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

⁴ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

⁵ Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

Job 38:17-18

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

¹⁸ Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

Job 40:2

² Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

Job 40:8-9

⁸ Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

⁹ Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Jeremiah 18:6

⁶ O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.