HUNGER FOR GOD

« As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for you o God, my soul thirsts for the living God, when shall I come and appear before God ? » (Ps 42v1-2)
In the life of a man, there is nothing that brings satisfaction and refreshing like the abiding and the awesome presence of the Almighty God.
In the year that God has promised us the ultimate breakthrough or the very best, the danger or mistake Will could make is to loose focus and the pursuit of God for breakthroughs or His promises. To receive the very best is for you to make your need and desire for Him the utmost goal every moment of your life. As the deer depends on water for existence in the desert, so your life depends on God for total deliverance and restoration of fullness of life. As water is essential for physical life, so God and His presence are essential for satisfaction and wholeness of life.
God desire that you hunger and thirst for Him, His grace, blessing and supernatural activity in your life. To stop thirsting and hunger for God is to die spiritually. Hunger for God is foundational requirement for all godly living. God desires we hunger for Him in order for us to have or gain a new experience of Him that will move us to the next level of progress, success, glory etc…
Moses cried to God for a new experience “if you are please with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favour with you, Lord show me your glory” (Exo 33v13, 18)
The Psalmist in 42v2, 6 make his longing and desire to God known and what resulted was a call from the deep.
David had a deep longing in his heart for God. The longing that can only be satisfied by an intimate relationship with Him. (Ps 63v1). Paul’s prayer to god was that He may know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering even been made conformable to His death. (Phil3v10).
Your spiritual and physical conditions through life will depend on your hunger and thirst for:
a) The presence of God- you are to seek the Lord your God with all your soul and with all your mind (Deut 4v29)
b) The word of god, cultivate the habit of regular reading, studying and meditation on the Word of God (Ps119)
c) Long for the communion of Christ; shun all that will not allow you to study at the feet of Jesus always. (Phil 3v8-10)
d) The fellowship of the spirit; Jesus Christ emphasis the need to cry, pray and strongly desire the continuous flow of the river of the Holy Spirit into us and through us; so that He can constantly make the things of God known to us, empower us for effective service in the kingdom.
e) Righteousness- God is righteous, to measure up to God’s righteousness we need to be imputed with Christ’ righteousness which makes the flow of the anointing of Holy Spirit through us unhindered.
f) When we hunger for God, the kingdom power is imputed of God demonstrated in our lives, and assemblies. That God’s kingdom come in the mighty power of the Holy Spirit to save sinners, to destroy the demonic, heal the sick and to magnify the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Matt 6v33)
g) The return of the Lord- Jesus Christ is coming back again, your hunger for God will qualify you to meet with Him at His second appearance.”…when He is revealed we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has His hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure” (1 John 3v2-3)
There are things that can destroy your hunger for God and the things of God which the Holy Spirit will like to help you deal with.
1- Worldly anxiety and the deceitfulness of wealth, and life achievement. (Matt 13v22)
2- Inordinate desire for things that is having an insatiable appetite for things, no godliness and contentment, (Matt 4v19, 1 Tim 6v6).
3- Desire for life pleasure. (Luke 8v14)
4- Failure to remain or abide in Christ. (Jn 15v4)
5- Counting or relying on yesterday success or failure.
You must not allow anything to diminish your intense desire for God and the things of God. As you yearn for a greater manifestation of His presence, you may experience delay; continue to hunger and seek God. The Lord promises to bless those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. (Matt 5v6).
Do not settle for less than His full blessing, in the midst of God’s silence, press to know God and experience a greater measure of the Holy Spirit. (Hosea 6v1-3, Acts 2v38-39)
Prayer Points:
1- That your longing for God’s presence might strengthened
2- Let my love for the full manifestation of the Holy Spirit be greater in Jesus’ name
3- My passion to see the fullness of Christ’ kingdom and righteousness might be deepened.
Cry out to Him day and night in a heartfelt thirst, even as the deer pants for streams of times of drought.

SHALOM

Pastor Bamikole Isaac