Does scripture discribe a hungry heart?

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Blain

Blain

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So for quite a while I kept this to myself but I am having a sort of season that Is kind of difficult for me. I always have had a greedy heart for the lord, but for quite a while it has been kind of unfed. I literally am spiritually starved for him, I crave so much more of him and crave such a deeper relationship with him. And I constantly am praying for the hunger to be filled but the prayer is still being delayed.
I don't know if anyone knows what it feels like to be spiritually starved and hungry but it's a strange feeling. I know that he is going to answer I just don't know when and when I ask him how long I have to wait he does not answer. I was wondering if anyone knows scripture that describes this and am hoping maybe it can keep me going. The only one that comes to memory for me is the one about hungering and thirsting for righteousness.
 
zone

zone

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Blain said:
So for quite a while I kept this to myself but I am having a sort of season that Is kind of difficult for me. I always have had a greedy heart for the lord, but for quite a while it has been kind of unfed. I literally am spiritually starved for him, I crave so much more of him and crave such a deeper relationship with him. And I constantly am praying for the hunger to be filled but the prayer is still being delayed.
I don't know if anyone knows what it feels like to be spiritually starved and hungry but it's a strange feeling. I know that he is going to answer I just don't know when and when I ask him how long I have to wait he does not answer. I was wondering if anyone knows scripture that describes this and am hoping maybe it can keep me going. The only one that comes to memory for me is the one about hungering and thirsting for righteousness.
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you could find a concordance or use a search engine, find the passage in the BIBLE, and memorize it.
then you repeat the process.

reading it as a narrative, His Story, is a good way to be fed.

Matthew 4:4
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

waiting for a feeling or experience will not help your faith or hunger.
you must eat.
 
tribesman

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zone said:
you could find a concordance or use a search engine, find the passage in the BIBLE, and memorize it.
then you repeat the process.

reading it as a narrative, His Story, is a good way to be fed.

Matthew 4:4
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

waiting for a feeling or experience will not help your faith or hunger.
you must eat.
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Yeah. Isn't that something? What about the Bible, for a change?
 
Blain

Blain

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zone said:
you could find a concordance or use a search engine, find the passage in the BIBLE, and memorize it.
then you repeat the process.

reading it as a narrative, His Story, is a good way to be fed.

Matthew 4:4
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

waiting for a feeling or experience will not help your faith or hunger.
you must eat.
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I have been reading the Bible but I never thought of looking up scripture online, I can't believe I didn't think of that. I feel dumb:/
 
Blain

Blain

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zone said:
you could find a concordance or use a search engine, find the passage in the BIBLE, and memorize it.
then you repeat the process.

reading it as a narrative, His Story, is a good way to be fed.

Matthew 4:4
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

waiting for a feeling or experience will not help your faith or hunger.
you must eat.
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And I am not waiting for a certain feeling, I am waiting for the answer to my prayers. Not everything that has to do with hunger or thirst is about a mere feeling. If you love someone enough the hunger for God grows beyond feelings, true that spiritual hunger may seem like a feeling but feelings come and Go but the hunger for the lord keeps strong
 
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Immerse yourself in the word.......
John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

Ask others to pray with you and for you...............
Matthew 18:
19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.


Isaiah 28:10
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said , This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest ; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

May it be so that God gives you the answer to your prayers in the name of Yahoshua (Jesus) Christ. Even so let it be Good Father Abba El oi
 
zone

zone

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Blain said:
I have been reading the Bible but I never thought of looking up scripture online, I can't believe I didn't think of that. I feel dumb:/
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don't feel dumb:)

EXAMPLE:

Bible Hub: Search, Read, Study the Bible in Many Languages < click

open that.

you'll see a white search window near the top.

just enter the portion you think of, as close to the Biblical passage as you can recall, like this:

"The only one that comes to memory for me is the one about hungering and thirsting for righteousness."

type that in and see what comes up.

or just use Google and add + Bible in your search.

you'll get the hang of it.
there are probably better online sources than that one, but i find it easiest (i'm lazy).

practice it Blain. you'll be surprised.
your feelings are not a good gauge of your relationship with the Lord.
what He promised is your foundation
love zone.
 
zone

zone

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Blain said:
And I am not waiting for a certain feeling, I am waiting for the answer to my prayers. Not everything that has to do with hunger or thirst is about a mere feeling. If you love someone enough the hunger for God grows beyond feelings, true that spiritual hunger may seem like a feeling but feelings come and Go but the hunger for the lord keeps strong
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yes, i understand.

are you waiting for a "Second Baptism"/"Baptism with the Holy Ghost"? (i apologize if not you, i do recall one young person saying that was their fervent prayer).
 
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