Youth 18 May 2008
Spiritual Hunger and God’s Word

Spiritual Hunger

Hunger: to crave food, any craving or strong desire

Luke 6:21
Blessed are you who hunger now for you will be satisfied.

John 6:35
Jesus declared; “I am the bread of life, he who comes to Me will never go hungry, and he who believes in Me will not go thirsty.”

Question: What type of hunger is the Word of God talking about?

Answer: Spiritual Hunger

Spiritual hunger is a deep hunger or desire, a hunger for rightousness, to live good, humble and a right life like Jesus.
Like with anyone that we would like to become or be like in the future we need to get to know that person or find out what that person is about, isn’t that so?
So when we want to be like Jesus we need to get to know Jesus by reading the Word of God.

That brings me to the next point:

God’s Word

2 Timothy 3:16
All scripture is God - breathed, and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

The Bible is not a book of human ideas about God.
Through the Holy Spirit, God revealed His purpose and plan to certain believers who wrote down His message for His people.

Question: Is Gods word trustworthy?

Answer: Yes!!!!!
Gods word is trustworthy because God was in control of its writing. Its Gods breathe from beginning to end, to be used to teach and guide your conduct.

Last verses prove its alive:

Luke 24:1-9
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. ……..they found the body was gone…… remember He told you while He was still with you in Galilee; ‘The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’……


Luke 24:45
Then He opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them. “This is what is written: the Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, …..

The heard the Word without the understanding of God and the Holy Spirit in verses 1-9, so they expected to still find Jesus in the tomb, then when they didn’t find them they were shocked.

And so then later on we see That Jesus appeared to tem and with the Holy Spirit their minds were opened and they began to understand God’s Word.


That’s what we need to do when we cant understand what the word of God is saying to us, besides asking and consulting the people around us. We need to pray and ask the Holy Spirit to help us and open our minds to understand and put Gods Word in action so we can become more like Jesus.