After the first day of knit camp… she tells her mom… I don’t want to do this three days… Didn’t you like learning to knit…? Yes… but three days isn’t long enough… can I do it next week too… After eighteen months of reading through… journeying through the Bible in three years… I say… This next week…… Continue reading the blessing of hungry for more…
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. Psalm 61:1 ESV I find myself hungry… in the middle of the afternoon… Hungry for quiet… Hungry for time with Him… Hungry to…… Continue reading hungry…
When you try to watch your weight… and maintain a restricted diet… there are times you find yourself hungry… Hunger usually drives us to fill up… but it seems what I seek to fill… only makes me crave more… and to eat every time hunger makes itself known… leads to feeding the flesh… more… and……… Continue reading hungry…
A new read… sees every day needs… routines… as metaphors for spiritual needs…When it comes to eating for everyday nourishment… she says our daily spiritual nourishment is found in Christ through Communion and the Word…Christ is our bread and gives us bread. He is the gift and the giver. God gives us every meal we…… Continue reading daily Bread…
A gracious… beautiful… sister in Christ…one coming to the study being birthed…looked at me… tear-stained face… and said…Thank you… for spending so much time in God’s Word…and your hours of study…My answer came so quick… it even stunned me…Don’t thank me… it’s pure selfishness…!My time in God’s Word is purely selfish…I want Him… I want…… Continue reading selfish…
This evening… after a day of intentional intercession… I find myself full and hungry… at the same time…Full of the sense of His presence…Hungry for more…Glimpses of truth…bring desire for more…more to see it…more to know it…more to live it…An odd feeling… full… hungry…Satisfied… yet… insatiable…feeling like I’m going to burst…but panting for more…For he…… Continue reading full… hungry…
Jesus answered, “It is written:’Man does not live on bread alone,but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'”Matthew 4:4There is only one way to live full and it is “by every word that comes from the mouth of God.”—Ann Voskamp, “Dark Grace”, in One Thousand Gifts DevotionalAnd who doesn’t want to live full…?…… Continue reading filling a hunger…
