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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Donald B. Strobe
... love. Prayer, rather, opens up the avenues through which that love may be released in our lives. But I want to come back to an earlier phrase of Weatherhead’s. When he prays “through Jesus Christ our Lord,” he says, “What I want to do is to strain my desires as through a sieve, the sieve being what God sees as best or wise or possible.” Is it possible there are things which God cannot do? Perhaps a story will help us to answer that question. In a book I read many years ago titled A Touch of God ...
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Eric Ritz
... cannot be tempted with evil and He himself tempts no one; but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his OWN desires." Even when we pray in our Lord''s prayer that phrase, "Lead us not into temptation--but deliver us from evil"--what it really means ... temptation. The Bible says that there is a power at work in the world whose work and mission is not of God''s design or desire. You may call it the Devil, Satan, the Serpent or simply evil, but whatever you call it, it''s real. Even Jesus had to ...
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Leonard Sweet
... ourselves imitate. Unfortunately "love" has also become one of the most maudlin and meaningless words in our vocabulary. The American Heritage Dictionary defines love in terms of sex and sports: an "intense affection and warm feeling for another person; strong sexual desire for another person) a strong fondness or enthusiasm; or a zero score in tennis." The sacrificial, incarnational nature of Christ-like love has been lost amid our claims that we "love" our favorite soft drink, baseball team, or partner-of ...
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Leonard Sweet
... on behalf of the oppressed and the marginalized? *Would you like it to be said of you that ‘love possessed, inspired, and permeated every thought and every action?’” If your answer is ‘yes’ to all of these questions or even to most of them then your inner desires are in harmony with the will of God, and the Jesus Prayer of 2000 years ago is being answered in your life this morning. If your answer is “yes” to these questions, you are ready to “GO”—to Go Forth to be “in” the world not ...
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J. Howard Olds
... home and wonder what you can do? Do you ever watch friends or family stressed out over some life situation or suffering from some disease and feel inadequate to help? Such concerns of life are a call to prayer. Richard Foster says, “If we truly love people we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this will lead us to prayer." In the gospels, there is a tender story of a father who brings his epileptic son to Jesus for healing. The kid has suffered with the disease all ...
106. Proper 13, Pentecost 11, Ordinary Time 18
Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21, Isaiah 55:1-5, Matthew 14:13-21, Romans 9:1-5
Bulletin Aid
Amy C. Schifrin
... in our hearts; and so we ask for your Holy Spirit to come to us now, that all that we do, and all that we are, would honor, bless, and glorify your holy name — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: All: You open wide your hand and satisfy the desire of every living creature. Amen. Post-Communion Blessing Leader: More than we could ask for, more than we could ever pay, you have given us everything we need to live. All: Amen. Benediction Leader: May every meal that you receive this coming week be a reminder of this ...
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Derl G. Keefer
... part of you." All I know is that God put it within my heart to read his word, and if I were going to try and encourage somebody to read the Bible, I would ask them to pray for the desire to read the word. I think only God can put that desire in the heart of a human being, and put the desire in that heart so deeply, that he or she will truly be hungry and thirsty for it. Only then does it take on meaning. You have to seek that. You have to want it. And I guess be­yond ...
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King Duncan
... . We were made in God’s image. But when we wander too far from God, when we follow our own reckless and self-centered desires down a path of destruction, we one day reach a place where we lose touch completely with the person we were created to be. ... you speak and justified when you judge. 5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. 6 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. 7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me ...
Understanding Series
Gordon D. Fee
... . “Don’t you be ashamed of the gospel or of me, Christ’s prisoner (v. 8). Some have (v. 15), but not Onesiphorus (vv. 16–17); so be like him.” 1:18 Having already entreated mercy for his household (v. 16a), presumably because of their loss, Paul now desires (again in the form of a wish-prayer) for Onesiphorus himself: may the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! On that day, as in verse 12, can only refer to the Second Advent. Thus it is hard to escape the implication that ...
Understanding Series
Gordon D. Fee
... a sober realist, and the mention of those “captured alive” by Satan to do his will launches him into a final indictment of the false teachers themselves (3:1–9). Additional Notes 2:22 For a full presentation of the position taken here on the evil desires of youth, see W. Metzger, “Die neōterikai epithymioi in 2 Tim. 2,22,” ThZ 33 (1977), pp. 129–36. Cf. Kelly. The prepositional phrase, along with those who call on the Lord, is ambiguously placed, so that it could mean that Timothy is to pursue ...
Understanding Series
Norman Hillyer
... . Michael was left in peace to bury Moses’ body. A forensic plea similar to Michael’s appears in v. 2 of Zech. 3, a chapter quoted again later by Jude (vv. 22–23). The Greek verb for rebuke (epitimēsai) is in the optative mood, used to express a desire. The term archangel (archangelos) occurs in the NT only here and in 1 Thess. 4:16. Elsewhere archangelos is used of the most senior angels, numbering four (1 Enoch 40:9) or seven (1 Enoch 20:7; cf. Rev. 8:2) and also called “the angel of the [divine ...
112. Where Has Your Lover Gone
Song of Songs 6:1-13
Understanding Series
Elizabeth Huwiler
... nut orchard. Both the speaker and the sense of 6:12 is unclear. The next verse (6:13) contains an exchange about the Shulammite (apparently the central woman). There follows another descriptive motif about her, which develops into a poem of admiration and desire and is concluded by her interruption. Another version of the mutual possession formula follows, this one reminiscent of (and contrasting with) Genesis 3:16. The woman then issues an invitation to the man to go out to the countryside for a night of ...
Understanding Series
Elizabeth Achtemeier
... sin. The Israelites think that God does not remember their evil deeds of the past, but God says, they are always before me, 7:2. Thus, in this short pericope, we find God regretfully lamenting the fact that Israel will not let him carry out his fond desire to forgive and restore them to his fellowship. The thieves and bandits of verse 1 refer not to robbers of goods, but to the priests who gain their own lavish lifestyle from numerous sacrifices to Baal (4:8) and who murder those who are opposed to them ...
114. Personal Accountability
Ezekiel 18:1-32, Ezekiel 19:1-14
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... . 9, 17, 19), and does what is just and right (compare v. 5), the past will be erased: “None of the offenses he has committed will be remembered against him. Because of the righteous things he has done, he will live” (v. 22). This, indeed, is God’s desire for everyone: “Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?” (v. 23). 18:24–26 Of course, the message that one’s past need not determine one ...
Teach the Text
C. Marvin Pate
... received by the Roman Christians whom she serves in an authoritative office of the church. Phoebe also was a patron of Paul and others (16:2b). So she was a woman of the upper class who used her resources to benefit Paul and others. Third, the desired action that Paul and Phoebe intended was that the believers in Rome give her a gracious Christian welcome and provide her with whatever assistance she needed as she (and later Paul upon his arrival in Rome) ministered to the Roman church and prepared for Paul ...
Teach the Text
Preben Vang
... crown” translates into something like “we must accept that things can be hard before they become good.” To Paul, the Christian message and lifestyle bring a 180-degree correction to secular understandings of success. The cross calls for his willingness to crucify personal desires (1 Cor. 9:19–22) and wait for the crown till Christ calls him home (2 Tim. 4:8). Illustrating the Text The Bible is not a treasure trove of unrelated sayings to be used however we find convenient. Anecdote: A familiar story ...
Teach the Text
Daniel J. Estes
... close to trying to put God in a box, as we also sometimes attempt to do by the promises or threats we make to him. In the end, God is not compelled by Job’s strategy but remains free to do what he has sovereignly determined, despite what Job may desire or expect. We, too, must allow God to be God in our lives, rather than trying to dictate to him what he must do, how he must do it, and when our deadline is for his action. Illustrating the Text For a person of integrity, there is no disconnect between ...
118. The Fall
Genesis 3:1-24
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... being, not a coequal with God. The serpent’s first tack is to suggest to Eve that God is sinister, that in fact God is abusing her. This is the force of his question in verse 1. “Would God let you see and touch these trees (i.e., raise the desire), but not let you eat any of them? A God who would do something like that certainly does not love you.” Eve responds with a little hyperbole of her own (“you must not touch it,” 3:2) in her defense of God. The serpent’s second tack is to deny ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... solved through understanding God’s message found in the Bible. At the same time I also found that my thirst for alcohol was replaced by a thirst for God’s Word. My thirst for the living water of God’s presence and His word has overcome my desire for alcohol. I have experienced peace and a renewed enthusiasm for life. I am truly grateful for the opportunity to be a witness for the Lord.” Only one power can break the chains of addiction – the power of God. If you are struggling with addiction, know ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... , and God, human failure to acknowledge God leads not to an evolution of something better, but to a devolution of something worse. In each case God’s response to human refusal is the same: three times Paul says, “God gave them over to” the wretchedness they desired (vv. 24, 26, 28). This refrain falls like so many blows of the ax, severing the ropes by which humanity could pull itself back to God. 1:18 The wickedness of men is now contrasted with the “righteousness of God” in 1:17. The Greek word ...
121. The Surrogate
Matthew 1:1-17
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Lori Wagner
... dead husband, and now her God too, led her into a new place, where she would be offered the “first fruits”–a new betrothal—to be consummated in a new life with Boaz and with the Jewish people. [Tell the story of Ruth here in more detail if desired or needed.] When Boaz and Ruth unite for the first time on the “threshing floor,” Boaz leaves Ruth with an “arrabon,” a promise of the consummation of the promise of marriage and a new identity and security with him and his people. The arrabon is 6 ...
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Lori Wagner
... , and declared his identity as the Son of God. Jesus saw faith. He saw four men creating space for something new and beautiful and astounding to happen. They dug their way through, knowing in their hearts that Jesus would be Life for their friend. And the desire for Life outweighed anything else. Faith is what allows us to handle the unexpected, not to fear change, and to come out of our shells and face God, even in our wretchedness. Faith is what drives us forward in passion to seek the Lord, even when ...
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Lori Wagner
... the soil, he is also attached to the land in a way that his brother is now. He is a creature of the earth, the ground. And he is closer to his human-like, earth-like state than Abel.* To acquire is also a symptom of envy and jealousy. The desire to acquire is strong. Kayin is a “fruit” of the soil. As at tiller of the soil, he is close to the ground that defines him. He is more concerned with attainment than with the fruits of the spirit. Abel (hevel) however means spirit or breath. He exemplifies the ...
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King Duncan
... will that any of His children perish but that all might have eternal life! No clearer message is found in the Bible than this: God desires fellowship with all His children. It is said that humanity has an insatiable hunger for God. This is part of the greatness of man, we ... we are and what we are about. But there is one thing more to be said. If it is God’s most earnest dream and desire to have His children come home to Him, and if it is the church’s main task to be His witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... calls.” No wonder Matthew included this hurtful question from the religious leaders in the story of his calling. He wanted his readers to understand the gracious love of God that calls us as we are, from where we are, being who we are. That declaration “I desire mercy, not sacrifice,” is a quote from the prophet Hosea, whose ministry centered around speaking words of warning and hope to the northern kingdom of Israel more than 700 years before Jesus’ birth. The full quote from Hosea reads, “For I ...
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