Food for the hungry.

[MoreCoffee]

In my experience food tastes especially good when one is hungry. The degree of hunger seems to improve the taste and pleasure one feels when satiating one's hunger. The same may be true of hunger for God. Hunger for truth. And hunger for the safety one feels in communion with Jesus Christ.

I am cooking my dinner as I write. It is late at night and I haven't eaten anything today. I had a cup of coffee and a small bottle of ginger beer. But now I am very hungry.

I prayed this morning and again at noon. I prayed at what ought to be normal dinner time and I am praying now. I wonder that it seems easier to satiate spiritual hunger today than is usually the case for physical hunger.

 

[Lamb]

Do you think that those coming from churches where they are spiritually starved enjoy being fed on God's Word when they join a congregation where it's preached more than those who eat it daily?

 

[MoreCoffee]

Do you think that those coming from churches where they are spiritually starved enjoy being fed on God's Word when they join a congregation where it's preached more than those who eat it daily?

Perhaps they do. Do you think it may be so?

 

[psalms 91]

I think there is to much social preaching and not enough deeper things of God being preached and taught in many churchs. I believe that there are those who long for the deeper things and then there are the many who wish to remain where they are and stay with one foot in the world.

 

[Lamb]

Perhaps they do. Do you think it may be so?

I think that God allows people to starve themselves so that He can show them how well fed on His word they can be once He draws them near Then the feast has begun!

 

[MoreCoffee]

I think there is to much social preaching and not enough deeper things of God being preached and taught in many churchs. I believe that there are those who long for the deeper things and then there are the many who wish to remain where they are and stay with one foot in the world.

There are so many good books available that it is hard to understand how anybody who is willing to read for themselves can miss out on the things of God deep and not so deep.

 

[psalms 91]

There are so many good books available that it is hard to understand how anybody who is willing to read for themselves can miss out on the things of God deep and not so deep.

You need to study for yourself and hear what the spirit is teaching and showing, otherwise you are trusting that a man has got it right and also have not had the experience so hard to have conviction about that which you have not experienced

 

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You need to study for yourself and hear what the spirit is teaching and showing, otherwise you are trusting that a man has got it right and also have not had the experience so hard to have conviction about that which you have not experienced

Yet God speaks to and through men in the holy scriptures and today. The Spirit has always communicated to the faithful through prophets, priests, kings, seers, sages, and holy men & women. He's always led the people of God by choosing a leader from among humanity to lead the people. In a way the Lord Jesus Christ was one such. God chose to become a man to lead men back to himself. He was born a helpless babe and grew as all men (and women) do until he reached maturity and began the ministry of reconciliation and salvation. And we learn all this from books, the books of the holy scriptures.

Other books also teach the faithful about the life of faith, some of those books are in the holy scriptures and some are outside of it. Books like The imitation of Christ (also known as Following Christ) have taught millions about walking the walk of faith in this world. So I think well of books that can lead one to know Christ better and help one to be his faithful servant as well as holy brother (or sister) for the benefit of others.

 

[psalms 91]

I agree but it is that personal relationship God longs for and what we as believers need to learn and grow. You cannot talk of things you have not experienced or at least you cant with absolute certainty. I dont want to hear manna from the 1600's, I want to know what God is saying and experiemce what He is doing today

 

[Rens]

Good thread.
I'm never hungry cause I eat poison, nicotin. When someone accidentaly has food for me it tastes yum though.
Hmm maybe thats why my spiritual hunger is gone.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I agree but it is that personal relationship God longs for and what we as believers need to learn and grow. You cannot talk of things you have not experienced or at least you cant with absolute certainty. I dont want to hear manna from the 1600's, I want to know what God is saying and experiemce what He is doing today

Yes, it is a personal relationship but at the same time a relationship with all the rest of the body because Jesus chose to become a man so that men may become like God only this time the way is not by eating a fruit - which led to corruption and death - but by eating Christ - which leads to eternal life - and becoming his body. We come to Christ together, never alone. Heaven's gate is not narrow because only one may enter at a time; it is narrow because only one man, Jesus Christ, enters and we all enter in him or we do not enter at all. So the faithful hear the voice of Jesus in the voices of his people. That is how it has always been. So the faithful are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through them. They beseech each of us on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For the sake of the faithful God made Jesus to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him the faithful might become the righteousness of God. [SUP]2 Corinthians 5:20-21[/SUP]

 

[Rens]

Yes, it is a personal relationship but at the same time a relationship with all the rest of the body because Jesus chose to become a man so that men may become like God only this time the way is not by eating a fruit - which led to corruption and death - but by eating Christ - which leads to eternal life - and becoming his body. We come to Christ together, never alone. Heaven's gate is not narrow because only one may enter at a time; it is narrow because only one man, Jesus Christ, enters and we all enter in him or we do not enter at all. So the faithful hear the voice of Jesus in the voices of his people. That is how it has always been. So the faithful are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through them. They beseech each of us on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For the sake of the faithful God made Jesus to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him the faithful might become the righteousness of God. [SUP]2 Corinthians 5:20-21[/SUP]

Alone good luck!
I hardly pray or read Bible anymore. Our church stopped.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Alone good luck!
I hardly pray or read Bible anymore. Our church stopped.

become a nun

you could pray with your sisters

 

[Rens]

become a nun

you could pray with your sisters

Lol think I'll go to my mom's church sunday but it's 2 hours with the train. Haven't been in church for more than a month.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Lol think I'll go to my mom's church sunday but it's 2 hours with the train. Haven't been in church for more than a month.

Yes, go to church, it is good for the soul.

But you ought to become a nun

 

[Lamb]

Lol think I'll go to my mom's church sunday but it's 2 hours with the train. Haven't been in church for more than a month.

That beats out my long commute to church! Do the kids like to go there?

 

[Rens]

That beats out my long commute to church! Do the kids like to go there?

Yes. There's just nothing here. I watched one preaching from a church nearby, well 5 mins. Feel good nonsense. Blah. It's a 10 min bike but too much effort. If the food's good people will do an effort to come.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Yes. There's just nothing here. I watched one preaching from a church nearby, well 5 mins. Feel good nonsense. Blah. It's a 10 min bike but too much effort. If the food's good people will do an effort to come.

Visit your local Catholic Church. The preaching may not be good but the liturgy ought to more than make up for it.

 

[atpollard]

Yes, go to church, it is good for the soul.

But you ought to become a nun

I am not sure the world is ready for an Order of Pentecostal Nuns.

 

[Rens]

Visit your local Catholic Church. The preaching may not be good but the liturgy ought to more than make up for it.

ha!
What's liturgy?
Oh preaching lol.
They are a bit loud I hope and don't mind loud kids running around? I'll go there and tell them you sent me.