What Are You Hungry and Thirsty For? Are You Allowing Your Fleshly Appetite To Override Your Appetite For Righteousness?

What are you choosing to do first?   Are you choosing to please God first or are you choosing to fulfill the appetite of your flesh?    Understand, your flesh has an appetite just as our Spirit does.   The Bible tells us that we are to hunger and thirst after righteousness.    You have to know what it means to hunger and to thirst.   When you are hungry for something, you have a strong desire or craving for it.   There are times when you are so hungry that your stomach will growl or make noises that indicate that it wants to be fed.   Usually a growling sound is associated with anger or unpleasantness.    

It’s the same with being thirsty.   When you are thirsty for something.    You feel a need to drink.   Thirst can bring on desperation.   When you are really thirsty, you become desperate for something that will quench your thirst.    Understand, God wants us to be hungry and thirsty for righteousness.   

So my question today is what are you hungry and what are you thirsty for?   Are you hungry and thirsty for God and the things of God or are You allowing your appetite to fulfill your fleshly desires override your desire for God?  In the world we live in today there are a lot of people who are trying to live healthier so they focus on what they put in their body physically but they fail to focus on what they are letting into their lives spiritually.   It’s not just about having a physical healthy body because you can be physically healthy and still die spiritually.    That is why it is important that we hunger and thirst after righteousness.   It is important that we fill ourselves up with God’s Word so that we can have something to draw from when we feel weak.   It is just like our body storing away extra calories in fat reserves.   The stored fat fuels our body when food is scarce.   We have to make sure we are taking care of ourselves physically and spiritually and that means having what we need stored up for our time of need.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

Psalm 119:11 

King James Version (KJV)

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Are The Situations That Are Happening In Your Life Right Now Testing The Words You Have Spoken In Faith?

Not everybody knows what you have been through in life.   Not everybody understands what you are going through in your life right now but God knows.   He knows what you have been through, He knows what you are going through, and He knows what the future holds for you.   You just have to trust Him.   You have to trust that He will take care of You and make a way for You because He knows.  

The faith walk is not an easy walk.   You can say with your mouth that you trust God but there will be situations in your life that will test whether or not your actions follow up with what you said.    You can say you trust God to heal you but when the symptoms get worse, will you still be walking in faith expecting God to honor His Word or will your words of doubt override what you said you trust God to do.     You can say out of your mouth that God is your provider but will you wait on Him or run to others to try to get your needs met.   Faith is not easy.   In order to truly walk in faith, you have to believe and trust God even when your eyes see your situation and your mind is trying to fill up with doubt.

God is faithful and He will honor His Word.    Even when things don’t work out the way You planned, you have to remember that God has a plan and you have to keep your trust in His plan and not your own.    You have to lay down your life humbly before Him and You have to invite Him in.    You have to look at every situation in your life through eyes of faith and You have to believe that God is working together everything in your life for your good and His glory.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Romans 8:28

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.”

What Are You Looking For In Life? Understand, You Are A Child Of THE KING and Everything You Have Need Of Can Be Found In God!

What is it that you are looking for in life?   Are you looking for a big job opportunity?   Are you looking for a windfall of cash so that you can buy the home or car you want?   Are you looking to standout and for people to recognize your talents, skills, and abilities?   What is it that YOU are looking for in life?  

Are you looking for God?   He said if we seek Him, we will find Him.   Are you looking to Him for help and for healing?   He said that He is our source and He said that He is the Lord God that heals us.   Are you looking for strength because you feel weak?   He said that the joy of the Lord is our strength.    Are you looking for monetary gain?   He said that He knows the things we have need of in life and that He is faithful and just to provide us with those things.    Are you looking for love?   The Bible tells us that God is love!

So whatever it is you need in life, make sure you are looking for and to God for it.     There is no way around God because He is the Giver.   He is the Creator of all things.   He is the only One who can do for us, in us, and through us whatever needs to be done.      Don’t be distracted by the world and the world’s way of doing things.   Don’t think that you have to do and accomplish things the way the world does.   You are a child of THE KING.  You have been adopted into the Kingdom of God.    Everything that you need in life can be found in God.     Stay spiritually aware.   When you are aware of something, you know that something exists.   Know that the power of God exists and know that God Himself is working everything in your life together for your good and His glory.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Revelation 3:3 

King James Version (KJV)

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.