Hungry for God

Since many days, for me coming to Church , doing the work given to me. Everything is happening.
I was finishing my daily reading , I was finishing my prayer. My family prayer.

Until one day recenty, God put in my heart.
Why are you doing what you do as tasks to compete.
It was like  checking of the boxes.
This task is done.

Prayer is done.
Church is done.
Reading is done.

It's becoming a like every day tasks to complete.

I have to sit down and confess and ask God for a hunger and thirst of the Lord.

Hunger : the definition of hunger is a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food and coupled with desire to eat.

In physical terms  whenever we are hungry, now that we are doing fasting, there is a weakness because there is no food.

And there is a desire to eat food.

Hunger = Weakness + Desire to eat.

If any person does not have this hunger there is something wrong in his body.

Our bell rings exactly for breakfast , lunch. Dinner and to add to that we keep eating snacks in case we get hungry.

But when it comes to the presence of God.

We neither feel weak nor the desire to eat is there.

We do many things but that feeling of weakness doesn't come because there was no food nor that desire to eat is not there.

Spiritually, sometimes this weakness could be

Just loneliness.
An empty feeling.
Nobody cares for me.
I have everything but am not satisfied.
Everything looks vain.

These kind of things could be the weakness in an hunger for God.

But when we have this weakness , we try to eat junk food.

Suppose lonely, then let's do some chatting in social media. Junk

Moses said in Exodus 33
Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with  us, do not bring us up from here. For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.”
Exodus 33:15‭-‬16 NKJV

Lord if your presence does not go, please don't take from here.

His reason was how will people know what's the difference between them and worldly people.

Many times we want to be identified with other people but Moses wants to be separated from others and the separation is only possible with Stamp of the Presence of God.
Nobody in the camp of Israel asked for it, only Moses.
Because He has that hunger for God.

Job

Job was a man who had everything in his life.
He was a blessed man.
He was a rich man, family man,
He had properties . He had everything that a man could ask for in life.

But when tragedy struck in his life, he could still overcome .
Because his life was not wrapped in the blessing that he got.
His life was not wrapped in his money, properties or not even in family.

But His life was wrapped in the presence of God.
Every morning his desire was to go to presence of God.

Job 23:12
I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth More than my necessary food.

Job says that He treasured
The God's Word more than His daily portion of food.

That's quite a statement of faith.

Genesis 25:32 NKJV
This is the exact opposite statement of what Esau said.
And Esau said, “Look, I am about to die; so what is this birthright to me?”

For any person in this world,

True there are many things that are important, money is important, love is important, but finally it boils down to one thing that is his daily portion of food.

Esau said what benefit is birthright , he preferred food over God's Word.

But Job says I treasure for God's Word more than daily food.

There is hunger in Job for God's Word and that is what has sustained him in trials.

Dry and Parched land.

O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water.
Psalms 63:1 NKJV

My soul thirsts for you.
My flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.

This world is a dry and thirsty land ,
Everything this world gives is a contrast to what God gives.

Jesus says I give you peace , not the peace that world gives.

This is a dry and thirsty land
So psalmist says I will look towards your sanctuary,
V5 my soul shall be satisfied with marrow and fatness.

For the psalmist there is this hunger, not a ritualistic activity of looking towards sanctuary.

But just like a dry and parched land is lack of water.

Hungry and Thirsty for God.

Deuteronomy 8:3 NKJV

So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord .

The  reason why God allowed people of Israel to hunger and then fed them with manna.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but man lives by every Word that comes from Lord.

Many in our Church might be hungry today and waiting for Word of God.

God gives this manna so that we will know we live by every Word of God.

New born baby
Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,


How to have this hunger

Isaiah 55:1 NKJV

“Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.
Why do you spend money for what  is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what  is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
Isaiah 55:2 NKJV

We spend lot of money on what is not bread.
We think we will be satisfied with this dress, with this new phone, with this house, with this car.

But we never got satisfied and that evaporates very soon.

This Word says no money,no price, but all you need is to sacrifice. Leave of the things that is not bread.

Come to the bread of heaven.
Come to the Living waters.

Revelation 21:6 NKJV

And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.

A new born baby
1PETER .2.1-2.

Apostle Peter says lay aside all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy and evil speaking.
If you want the hunger for God in you.
First we need to put aside, you
Cannot seek God without putting these aside and then desire for God's Word.

Just like new born in our churches, desire for God's Word.
Then you will grow.
Growth is based on your hunger



Did you lose your appetite? Once upon a time you were hungry for God? Now you lose that fire.
You dont feel weakness when there is no presence of God?
Or even if you are weak, are you feeding on Junk food?

Desire for His Presence , more than your daily food.
We spend lots of money on what we think are food but not actually bread.

Lord Jesus says in John 6:35

35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst

37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will[f]by no means cast out.