Lake Hazel Bible Church

2010 FALL BIBLE CONFERENCE
Bob Carvajal
Missionary Evangelist with American Missionary Fellowship

Man’s Greatest Need and How To Fill It

Want is ______________________________________________
Need is ______________________________________________
A person’s greatest need is ___________.
The opposite of love is not ______________ or ______________
The opposite of love is __________________________________
People believe that if you love someone you should ___________ them, but love is always doing ____________________________
We fulfill our need to be loved through 2 ways: ______________ and ________________.
We 1st look to our _______________ to fill our need to be loved.
When that doesn’t work we look toward our _________________
When that doesn’t work we look for that ________ ___________
People don’t fill our need to be loved for 2 reasons: 1)_________
__________________ 2) ________________________________
We also use _______________ to fill our need to be loved. They don’t, but they make one _______the same ___________if you were loved.
The only thing that will fill our need to be loved is ____________
I John 4:7-12.
God is ______. If you don’t know God, you don’t know ______.
God loved us so much that He gave __________________ for us.
John 15:13, “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend”.
John 10:11, I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep”.
It is not that we __________ God, but that He ____________ us.
_______ is the only one that will fill our need to be __________.
Once filled, then and only then, are we able to _________ others.
An empty glass cannot share ____________.
But if your glass is filled and over flowing, it is easy to share __________.
You cannot ___________ unless your need to be __________ is fulfilled first.
If you know _______ and _____ is filling your need to be ______
then you should be the one to ________ other people.

*My Personal Evaluation
As Bob was sharing, did you see that a lot of things you do, that you would say were loving, are really selfish or self seeking acts?
List some examples:

Who do you look toward to fill your need to be loved:

What things do you use to fill your need to be loved:

Check the answer or answers that fit you:

[ ] I know more about God than I know God personally.
[ ] I seem to spend most of my time following God’s rules than following God.
[ ] I know God loves me in my head but not in my heart.
[ ] I know God loves me but I really don’t feel it.
[ ] When you look at my life and see all that I have done, it is hard to believe that God still loves me.
[ ] Most of the relationships in my life are there because I need their love, and not because I actually love them.
[ ] I tend to put expectations on others on how I think they should show their love to me.
[ ] My friends would say that I am always hurt because of something someone did to me.
[ ] I know and feel that God loves me.
[ ] I try not to need others, just God.
[ ] I love people the way they are without trying to change them.