How To Find Your Hunger Lesson 3 Series

“And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13).

A. INTRODUCTION: NOT ALL SEEK WITH ALL THEIR HEART

1. Story Song of Solomon, maiden not responsive. “I have taken off my robe; how can I put it on again? I have washed my feet; how can I defile them?” (Song of Solomon 5:3, NKJV). Result, “He was gone” (v. 4). If you do not respond to God, you will miss Him. Who in Scripture missed God’s presence?

2. Invitation to food and fellowship. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me” (Revelation 3:20, NKJV). What is Jesus’ promise? I will eat with Him.

3. Why be hungry for God? Hunger is an action state that motivates you to desire/eat food to satisfy the emptiness and gnawing pain in your stomach. The hungrier you become, the more you want to gratify your desire/motivate to eat/satisfy your empty feeling/pain. When you eat/satisfies your appetite/need for food your pain turns to satisfaction and your emptiness to strength.

4. Do you want to be used of God? To feel the excitement of His presence/to experience the inner peace of God? To know and experience the confidence of being in God’s will? It’s found in God’s presence.

B. WAYS TO STIR UP YOUR HUNGER

1. Pray for spiritual hunger. “Blessed are those who hunger … they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6).

2. Fast for it. “They ministered to the Lord and fasted the Holy Spirit said” (Acts 13:2).

3. Remember and record it. God brought His people out of Egypt and told them, “Remember this day” (Exodus 13:3).

4. Catch it. Spiritual hunger is contagious, when you get around hungry people, you get hungry. When you get around people with a desire for God – what happens? “Remember when God worked in you? “Remember O Lord, Your compassion, and Your unfailing love” (Psalm 25:6, NLT). “Do not remember the rebellious sins of my youth” (Psalm 25:7, NLT).

5. Hear it (in your memory, iPhone, etc.). Let praise and worship of the past speak to you.

6. Act on it. “Taste and see that the Lord is good.”

a. The Bible, “Sweet are Thy words to my taste” (Psalm 119:103).

b. Never taste death. “Shall not taste death” (Matthew 16:20).

If you have never really accepted Jesus as your personal Savior, would you do it right now? Do not delay or put it off. If you would like to receive Christ by faith, pray this simple prayer in your heart:

Dear Lord, I acknowledge that I am a sinner. I believe Jesus died for my sins on the cross, and rose again the third day. I repent of my sins. By faith I receive the Lord Jesus as my Savior. You promised to save me, and I believe You, because You are God and cannot lie. I believe right now that the Lord Jesus is my personal Savior, and that all my sins are forgiven through His precious blood. I thank You, dear Lord, for saving me. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

If you prayed that prayer, God heard you and saved you. I personally want to welcome you to the family of God and rejoice with you.

Dr. Towns’ email is eltowns@liberty.edu.

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