Sunday, October 23, 2011

The wonders of Spiritual Hunger



Spiritual hunger - some people have His presence living in them and have Godliness in them but their spiritual hunger makes them feel absolutely famished, as though they have nothing at all. people with high metabolisms after a full meal, wait for them for an hour and they will say: i am totally famished. we must be famished for God or risk being content with lack and a deficient faith and deficient Christianity.

 It makes them feel empty inside. The hunger compels them to go out and break through in Faith for more. That how people come to the fullness of the presence of God and Godliness and faith in their lives. to be content with a measure of the holy spirit infilling is spiritual death and atrophy. hunger makes a person go out, seek out, stretch out, sacrifice and lay down all for more, until we are "filled with all the fullness of God".

There is a longing for the presence of God, a desperation that seeks Him out, a desperation that presses in for more - paul confesses: 'not that i have attained but i press on that I may know Him.' More faith, more courage, more virtue, more of God Himself manifesting in our lives, more of the obedience of Christ manifest in our lives.

When asked why His disciples do not fast, He said, because I am with them, but they will fast when I am taken away. When they were with Him they dwelt in His presence daily, they fed on Christ daily, but when the bride has her beloved her bridegroom, taken away, she starts to turn desperate for His love, (read the song of solomon for more on this) she grows faint with lack. And is revived and full of His prence, His person and glory when she goes out, seeks Him out, until she finds him. The bride in Song of Solomon says, "I will seek you out and not let go of you until I find you."

In the Song of Solomon, She learns to treasure His presence in her life through abuses, through pain, through the slackness of her former contentment. She has come back to abide in her first and only true love, the only love that will satisfy her heart by the end of the story. Let not lose our first love for Christ.

A marriage becomes slack and colorless without passion, likewise our passion for God and His presence cannot allowed be become slack let us press on for more of Him, to know Him.

Ephesians 3:18-19 "they you may know the height, depth, length and breadth of the love of Christ, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Luke 1:53 He has filled the hungry with good things
   but has sent the rich away empty.

Luke 5:35
35 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days."


Spiritual hunger - some people have His presence living in them and have Godliness in them but their spiritual hunger makes them feel absolutely famished, as though they have nothing at all. people with high metabolisms after a full meal, wait for them for an hour and they will say: i am totally famished. we must be famished for God or risk being content with lack and a deficient faith and deficient Christianity.

 It makes them feel empty inside. The hunger compels them to go out and break through in Faith for more. That how people come to the fullness of the presence of God and Godliness and faith in their lives. to be content with a measure of the holy spirit infilling is spiritual death and atrophy. hunger makes a person go out, seek out, stretch out, sacrifice and lay down all for more, until we are "filled with all the fullness of God".

There is a longing for the presence of God, a desperation that seeks Him out, a desperation that presses in for more - paul confesses: 'not that i have attained but i press on that I may know Him.' More faith, more courage, more virtue, more of God Himself manifesting in our lives, more of the obedience of Christ manifest in our lives.

When asked why His disciples do not fast, He said, because I am with them, but they will fast when I am taken away. When they were with Him they dwelt in His presence daily, they fed on Christ daily, but when the bride has her beloved her bridegroom, taken away, she starts to turn desperate for His love, (read the song of solomon for more on this) she grows faint with lack. And is revived and full of His prence, His person and glory when she goes out, seeks Him out, until she finds him. The bride in Song of Solomon says, "I will seek you out and not let go of you until I find you."

In the Song of Solomon, She learns to treasure His presence in her life through abuses, through pain, through the slackness of her former contentment. She has come back to abide in her first and only true love, the only love that will satisfy her heart by the end of the story. Let not lose our first love for Christ.

A marriage becomes slack and colorless without passion, likewise our passion for God and His presence cannot allowed be become slack let us press on for more of Him, to know Him.

Ephesians 3:18-19 "they you may know the height, depth, length and breadth of the love of Christ, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Luke 1:53 He has filled the hungry with good things
   but has sent the rich away empty.

Luke 5:35
35 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days."

Song of Solomon 3:4
Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

Phillippians 3:10-12
 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

 12Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

Jeremiah 29:13

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Proverbs 4:13

Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Song of Solomon 3:4
Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

Phillippians 3:10-12
 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

 12Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

Jeremiah 29:13
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Proverbs 4:13
Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

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