Daily Bible Verse

Want, Need, Desire, Wish

WANT

Deficiency; defect; the absence of that which is necessary or useful;

Need; necessity; the effect of deficiency.

¹¹ Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

¹² I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

¹³ I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

NEED:

Want; occasion for something; necessity;

a state that requires supply or relief.

Philippians 4:19

But my God shall supply all your need according to hisriches in glory by Christ Jesus.

DESIRE

An emotion or excitement of the mind, directed to the attainment or possession of an object from which pleasure, sensual, intellectual or spiritual, is expected

A wish to possess some gratification or source of happiness which is supposed to be obtainable

Mark 11:22-24

²² And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

²³ For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

²⁴ Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Psalms 145: 16

¹⁶ Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

WISH

To have a desire, or strong desire, either for what is or is not supposed to be obtainable

3 John 1:2

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosperand be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

Everything Paul wished for was that people would be saved