How To Hunger For God – Part 1 | Discover the Book Ministries

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Triumphant living in the 21st century involves cultivating a growing hunger for God.

How are you doing in the Total Yielding of your life to Christ? Most of us would say as we look around at our life and others, that we are all right.

But Jesus gave a different test. He said don’t look around at others, look inside. He asks, “Does your hungering after God cause you to choose to abstain from food?” This practice is called fasting.

Fasting, or voluntary abstinence from food, is a spiritual discipline, which has fallen upon hard times in modern Christianity. In fact, a look at the Library of congress’s computerized list of all books known to be published in America shows that not one Christian book on fasting was published from the 1860s or Civil War era to the start of the Space Age in the late 50s! That is a Century in the English-speaking world that neglected entirely the discipline Christ said would characterize His Church’s hunger after God.

Isn’t it amazing that perhaps the greatest tool to grow intimate with God, and dispel spiritual apathy is so neglected?

Isn’t it tragic that what may be the key to seeing wayward children and grandchildren come back to God, is so neglected?

Isn’t it hard to believe that God’s described way to see Him move upon oppressed and afflicted in a liberating way is so neglected?

Probably we don’t think about fasting, hear about fasting or practice fasting because we are indulging ourselves in America as no nation has ever done in the history of the planet earth! And that is the very reason we need to fast.

Jesus warned of an end times church that would think they were rich (materially) and forget that they were impoverished (spiritually). Is this idea Jesus presents in Mark 2 relevant? You decide as we think about 21st Century America!

One gifted writer has described our society’s problem as OVERLOAD. See if you can see what he meant. And then think with me where you show up on a diagnostic test that detects this deadly condition called overload. Do you have any of these symptoms?