Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on
Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation
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401. Wrestling With God
Genesis 32:22-32
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King Duncan
... Haran, the home of his uncle Laban. On the way at a place called Bethel Jacob has a dream of a ladder which rises into the heavens. There Jacob makes a Yuppi type deal with God. "Oh God, if you will be with me and give me the things I desire: a classy home, a fashionable car, a beautiful wife, bright and healthy children, a VCR and 100 shares of IBM stock, then you can be my God." That was not the exact wording, but you get the idea. Jacob was still striving, still competing, still determined to be number 1 ...
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King Duncan
... end. Nor do I really know myself. And the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe, dear Father, that the desire to please You does in fact please You, and I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And so I believe that if I do this, You will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore, I will trust You always: though I may seem ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... ourselves firmly to that which will not sink. We find it in our unity with one another, but even more so, in our unity with God. But Jesus has one more prayer for us. HE PRAYS FOR OUR FINAL UNITY WITH HIM IN GLORY. Listen to his prayer: "Father, I desire that they may also...may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me...." I take that to be in Heaven. We don't talk about Heaven much in the church anymore, except perhaps at funerals. I'm reminded ...
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King Duncan
... of neglect. But we need to see that this is not only true of athletes. People with advanced training and ability of any kind enjoy this same kind of freedom. Some people spend their whole lives in one job and can't change no matter how much they may desire to because that is all they are trained to do. Others, on the other hand, have worked hard in school, and they've kept growing after leaving school, and they can choose from a great many jobs at a superior level of pay. Young people! Stay in school! Go ...
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Siegfried S. Johnson
... down. Formless. Undone . . . I know. I've been on it. It's rough. It's a spiritual slump, a famine. The fire goes out . . . We drift downward. Downward into the foggy valley of question, the misty lowland of discouragement. Motivation wanes. Desire is distant. Responsibilities are depressing. "Passion? It slips out the door . . . Enthusiasm? Are you kidding? . . . Anvil time . . . "Brought face to face with God out of the utter realization that we have nowhere else to go. Jesus in the garden. Peter with ...
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King Duncan
... for themselves. But it was not until they were old men that they sealed the bond between themselves as twins. And that happens in life, doesn’t it? It takes a real commitment to make a marriage work. It takes a willingness to yield to another’s desire. It takes a common dream. It takes parents who do not use their children as pawns in their own marital conflicts. The best that can be said for Isaac and Rebekah is that they survived. When they died, they were buried beside Abraham and Sarah. Mediocre ...
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King Duncan
... him, I Corinthians 5:1. With much dignity he turned to those at the grave side and read: "It is reported commonly that there are fornicators among you!" Pastor Hartwig doesn't tell us what happened after that. (4) We all like to impress people. We all desire status in the community. We all have our heads turned by flattery. However, if we get stuck on any of the mid-range of needs--material comfort, status, power, etc.--and believe that this is the ultimate goal of life, we miss the true joy of living ...
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King Duncan
... THE LORD WHO HAS CALLED US IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, WILL HOLD OUR HAND, AND WILL KEEP US. Truman Burbank of The Truman Show is not the only person who is under 24-hour inspection. Our lives are an open book to God--not out of a desire to keep us in line, but out of a desire that our feet shall never stumble. A beautiful story is told of Ernest Freemont Tittle when he was pastor in Evanston, Illinois. One of Dr. Tittle's young laymen lost his wife--the mother of his small children. Dr. Tittle saw this man walk out ...
409. Choices
Mark 1:9-13
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King Duncan
... yet was without sin." (Hebrews 4:15, NIV) Make no mistake about it. You and I face a thousand small and large temptations every day. At the center of every temptation is the same crucial question: will we choose to follow Christ's example or our own desires? Will we face up to the challenge, or will we give in to our weakness? Pastor Tommy Barnett tells a revealing story of an encounter with rock-and-roll icon Elvis Presley many years ago. Elvis was in the congregation at a church where Barnett was speaking ...
410. Money Matters
Amos 5:18-27
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King Duncan
... is teaching and suddenly a young man comes running up to him and kneels down before him in the dust and asks, "Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" There is no question about the young man's sincerity, his good intentions. He desires to be a part of the coming kingdom. There is little question about that. He is a sincere young man. Jesus admonished him about using that term "Good" too easily. But then he says to him, "You know the commandments, 'Do not commit adultery, do not kill ...
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King Duncan
... of water. Indeed, there have been times when we have filled our cups to overflowing. And so we come here expectantly. "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near." Some years ago a novel came out named THE GREATEST DESIRE. In it a young writer was gathering material for his book by that same title. In his quest, he plied people with one question: "What do you want?" And he would not let anyone take refuge in proximate answers. If someone answered, "I want to be an engineer ...
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King Duncan
... . (4) We are aware that something like that could happen to us. We are aware of our own worm nature. But is it yet possible for us to be butterflies? That is the important question. In Philippians 3:19 Paul speaks of those whose god is their bodily desires. The Bible is very candid about the struggle to overcome the earthly side of our nature. And that struggle goes on within the hearts of even the best men and women. In the Old Testament, for example, in II Samuel, we read how King David was smitten with ...
413. MONEY MATTERS
Amos 5:18-27
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Edward Inabinet
... is teaching and suddenly a young man comes running up to him and kneels down before him in the dust and asks, "Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" There is no question about the young man''s sincerity, his good intentions. He desires to be a part of the coming kingdom. There is little question about that. He is a sincere young man. Jesus admonished him about using that term "Good" too easily. But then he says to him, "You know the commandments, `Do not commit adultery, do not kill ...
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Edward Inabinet
... would bring. If your life is not centered in God through Jesus Christ, then your life is centered in yourself, in your passions, in your desires. It's centered in your goals, it's centered in the idols that you make the center of your life, it's centered in your ... the Gospel or of the Savior and you're tired because your life just doesn't have the purpose and the joy and peace that you desire. I plead with you now to hear the offer of the Savior, to hear him when he says, "Behold I make all things new. Yes, ...
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Edward Inabinet
... Christ. He says we are dead in our trespasses and sins. We follow the prince of the power of the air--Satan. He is managing director. He is really the God in our lives. Paul goes on to say that we live in the passions of the flesh, following the desires ofmind and of body, and so we are by nature children of wrath, like the rest of creation. According to Paul, we are in a hopeless state, we''re under the condemnation, the absolute condemnation of God. We are doomed and we are damned, and we have no hope ...
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Eric Ritz
... story of Joseph and Potiphar''s wife. He resisted her advances and God honored it. Then in I and II Samuel we read the all too familiar story of David and Bathsheba. David''s great failure lied in the fact he gave attention to a force and desire that deserved no attention. Those who follow the crowd soon get lost in the crowd. Eighteen-year-old Jonathan Edwards wrote in his journal, "Resolved that all men should live to the Glory of God. Resolved secondly, that whether or not anyone else does--I will." That ...
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Eric Ritz
... did not bother to rest or eat all day. In fact, the farther he went, the more fertile the land became and the greater his desire to possess. He was so enthralled by what he was doing that he failed to notice the progress of the sun. It was the middle ... head back to the starting point. All of a sudden, a great anxiety came over him. What if he had gone too far? What if his desire to gain so much would end up causing him to lose it all? This created an inner panic that caused him to push his body unmercifully ...
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Eric Ritz
... Paul sets the stage for us today when he states in verse 6 that "without faith it is impossible to please God." If we were honest, how many here today would whisper secretly in the ear of Jesus, "Lord, INCREASE MY FAITH!" Are we not here today because we also desire to please God and to grow in the faith and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ? Or perhaps some of you here today because you want to die to sin and to live by faith in Christ; you want to begin your journey. I believe I can safely say that ...
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David G. Rogne
... still sensitive to right and wrong, goodness and evil, or else they wouldn't be worrying. And if they are sensitive, they are not blind to the light. It is this very awareness that we are not all that we could be, that our conduct leaves something to be desired, that leads to our salvation, to our right relationship with God. This awareness is a sense of sin, and it is a healthy thing to have. It doesn't have to be the conviction that one is the worst person who ever lived, or that one is utterly unlovable ...
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Curtis Lewis
... . Both David and Nathan failed to realize that sometimes dreams and ideas are from God, and sometimes they are not. Even you and I often have friends who will encourage us to go for something which is our dream, our plan, our agenda, yet it may not be God's desire for us at all. Advent comes to remind us that God had a plan for our world. This plan was divine, and God himself would dwell in a human temple, cradled in the arms of a mother, held by a nervous father, doted on by loving relatives. In God's ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... will be like gods," says the serpent. This appealed to pride, power, and prestige is the most dangerous aspect of evil. "Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad" with pride." (Fetter, p. 50) But not only does sin get at us by appealing to legitimate human desires and urges, sin gets at us by making exciting promises. In a Garden of Eden, those promises were two-fold: "You will not die and you shall have knowledge which will make you as God." "So, standing before the forbidden tree, fenced in as it were ...
422. East Of Eden
Genesis 3:1-24
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Maxie Dunnam
... to "be like God." After their sin and expulsion from the garden, death made its first relentless assault on the race. There was "brother trouble" when Cain killed his brother Abel. In Genesis 4: 7, we have this stark warning: "Sin is crouching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it." So, the story is simply told, but packed with profound universal truth -- truth that defines who we are. The catechetical rhyme is like a punch in the stomach: In Adam's Fall, we sinned all. But not only ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... role in our lives. A lot of the "if only" experiences with which we're preoccupied are connected with a relationship that went sour. Someone did us wrong. We were hurt deeply. Though we may not be willing to admit it, and certainly not be willing to name it, the desire to get even is a part of what shapes our responses to life. A man at a party walked over to a woman and said, "You're wearing one of the most beautiful diamond rings I have ever seen." She responded, "It's the Chapman diamond, and a curse ...
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King Duncan
... for the wrong thing. Christ has no problem with people who are ambitious. God created us to dream, to aspire, to strive for the best. That is how the world advances, through ambitious people. Christ has no problem with the desire to be CEO, the desire to be recognized among your peers, even the desire to have nice things. The question Christ would ask us is, is that it? Is that the extent of your dreams? After all, these things are fleeting. Who will be living in your nice home a 100 years from now ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... if you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live” (Romans 8:13). Stating it another way he says, “You have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God…put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly; fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed.” (Colo. 3:3,5). He could have gone on, listing those sins with which we may be currently struggling. Holiness is a joint venture. The Holy Spirit enables, but I must act. The Holy Spirit’s refining power coupled with my obedience in ...
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