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Intro:
If I were to poll our kids who are out here, and ask them what they wanted for lunch today.
I’m sure we would get a variety of answers.
In fact tell me what food are you hungry for?
Give time for answers
When you are hungry, where is the worst place for you to go? Grocery Shopping!
its because you will put things in your cart based on your current cravings.
When your hungry it can interfere with your mental processing and affect purchases.
It’s probably why Meggan would prefer to grocery shop without me, because you see I am always hungry, trying to put things in the cart that don’t need to be there.
Today we won’t be talking so much about food that we eat with utensils.
Today we are going to spend time talking about being hungry for spiritual food and how to be full!
There are 3 principles I want you to remember.
-Hunger is a survival instinct.
-When someone is hungry, they go looking for food.
-Not all food fills you up the same way, and not all food is nourishing.
Spiritual hunger works very much the same.
Before we go further, lets take a moment to pray.
I think many of you can relate with me, that often we exaggerate when we are hungry.
We use words like I am starving, when maybe we’ve missed just one meal, or maybe its just been a little longer wait for supper than normal.
I was watching a nature documentary recently that was following the life of a mother Grizzly bear and her two cubs wandering in Alaska.
Its clear from the start, the mother bear will do anything for her cubs.
She wards off predators, She wards of male bears, possibly even the father bear.
Finally she finds a stream where she can find some fish and she’s using up precious energy to get the fish.
She finds herself in a tough decision.
To give the first catches to the cubs or keep it and eat it herself.
It may seem selfish, but she ate the fisher herself first to regain strength, the mother bear knows if she isn’t strong her cubs won’t stand a chance.
Luckily in this scenario, she was able to catch more fish for the cubs to.
When you are starving, you do what you have to do to survive.
When I meet people that don’t keep Christ with them daily, or those whose personal spiritual life does not appear to be a priority.
I sometimes think you are starving, and you don’t even realize it.
Jesus was traveling and found himself in a little town in Samaria.
You read in the gospels, and it almost appears, he has found himself in this situation by chance.
He is famished from his journey, and takes an opportunity to ask a samaritan woman for a drink from the well..
She responds surprised that based on their class and nationality, that Jesus a jew would ask her a smaritan for water.
He proceeds to say:
If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
Not understanding, the woman is intrigued with the concept of living water!
Who is this man speaking to her?
13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.
The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
The woman, wondering if this is to good to be true, exclaims,
Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband.
What you have said is true.”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ).
When he comes, he will tell us all things.”
26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband.
What you have said is true.”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ).
When he comes, he will tell us all things.”
26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
I’m in my 3rd year working in this district.
I’ve had a few phone calls with people in a panic.
Some have called explaining the tough times they are currently in and need some financial assistance.
Some have been more desperate than others.
When I recieve those phone calls or face to face encounters, I do feel for them.
We handle these situations case by case, I talk to elders, and treasurers before making most decisions.
Of course we want to help every case, but God also called us to be good stewards, so we make decisions to help or not help financially after prayerful consideration.
But I remember one phone call, actually I have 3 more just like it.
But my phone rang and I answered, the gentleman answered, “yes who do I talk to get my utilities paid for?”
I admit, I was a little taken back.
I asked to whom am I speaking to, and are you calling for the church? the man replied, I’m so and so, listen I’m in a bit of a hurry, who do I talk to to get my utilities paid for?
I answered, sir I’m sorry, I don’t believe that is a service our church offers, can I pray with you about it?
He answered, no i’m good, and hung up.
I was a little taken back…I wanted to answer, sir our church offers so much more than help for utilities!
I was thinking if you knew what truth, and peace, we share you’d come see us this very Sabbath.
Like the woman at the well, this fellow was thinking about temporary relief.
The woman Jesus was talking to was living in sin but she had learned how to get by in life.
Jesus recognizes her as an example of many with the same problem, she was dying of starvation and thirst, and she didn’t even know it.
I get calls like that from time to time, but I’m waiting to get the call.
I’m looking to be introduced to the savior Jesus, could you tell me how I might go about doing that?
If people only knew that what they hunger and thirst for to survive is Jesus Christ plain and simple.
If only they knew, its not whats in their bank accounts, its drugs or alcohol, its not in lustful cravings, what satisfaction they are seeking only comes from Christ.
One day when I was 9, I was angry at my father for something silly, I decided I would hide from my parents.
I hid inside the house.
I was a good hider.
Without me knowing my parents had discovered where I was hiding so they stopped searching.
I was a little confused as to why they weren’t scouring the house for me.
I decided I would teach them a lesson for not caring and I would wait until someone came and found me.
Then I heard my mom say “dinner’s ready, come get lasagna kids!” my brother and sister ran in, my dad came in and they sat down with out me!
I had to choose between my pride and my hunger.
Eventually hunger won, when I heard my brother said, “can I have ross’s piece?”
I came running out then you better believe it.
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