Never really been hungry?

Our problem is that we have never really been hungry.
We have allowed the things of this realm to satisfy our lives and satiate our hunger.
We have come to God week after week, year after year, just to have him fill in the little empty spaces.
I tell you, that GOd is tired of being "second place" to everything else in our lives.
He is even tired of being second to the church program and church life.
Everything good, including the things that the church does, from feeding the poor, to counselling, to teaching kids in Sunday school classes- should flow from the presence of God.
Our primary motivating factor should be," We do it becos of Him and becos it is His heart." But if we're not careful, we can get so caught up in doing things for Him that we forget about HIM.

Good things have become the enemy of best things.
He must be your first and greatest hunger.
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: For they will be filled" (matt 5:6)

You can get so caught up in being "religious" that u never become spiritual. i don't care how much you know about the bible, or what you noe about Him. I'm asking you, 'do you know HIM?" Have we stifled our hunger for His presence by doing things for Him?
Too often we live on a lower plane than what God intended for us, so when He unexpectedly shows up in HIs power, we are shocked. Most of us are simply not prepared to see "His train fill the temple."

Let's allow Him to fan that flickering flame.
Lord we just want your presence. We are so hungry.


Excerpt taken from...."The God Chasers"- by Tommy Tenney

"My soul follows hard after thee" -King David