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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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1426. Holy Quail!

Exodus 16:1-36, Numbers 11:4-35

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Lori Wagner

... way, they become poisonous. In a sense, this metaphor describes our journey too with God. When we travel “with” God in the way of Jesus….we are made whole and healthy. But when we divert and go backwards by allowing our cravings and desires to rule us, our spirit is “poisoned.” In actual quail, the term is “coturnism.” They are poisonous during their migration north in spring, and in the fall when they migrate south. Which direction were they going during the Israelites journey? We don’t ...

1427. The Writing on the Wall

2 Samuel 11:1-27, 2 Samuel 12:1-31, John 7:25-44, John 7:45--8:11

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Lori Wagner

... in a sense wearing the signature clothing of God, stamped with the insignia, “Made by God!” However, in the absence of God’s “signature” heart-tattoo, we tend to engrave upon our hearts whatever our eye beholds! And left to our own devices, our hearts will desire all kinds of things, when we do not “know” God. If we look at our neighbor’s house and perceive it to be bigger than ours, we may decide, ours is not good enough. Our eyes get fixated more and more on our neighbor’s house until ...

1428. Run Away Bride

Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 22:1-14, Hosea 1:1-2:1

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Lori Wagner

... grower. And his gift of feasting is free, if only one will love Him. “Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and eat.” (Isaiah 55:1). The only response God desires is a contrite heart….a loving heart. However, the scriptures are also riddled with times when our bodies are soiled by our spirits, when they have eaten “toxic food” instead of the food of the Lord’s table. I saw an article this week about a fish ...

1429. Tale of the Tares

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 9:35-38

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Lori Wagner

... who have prevailed no matter what the obstacles, or the temptations, or the ways of the world, and who have in their entanglements with evil, impregnated the bad with seeds of good! Jesus is a messiah of great hope! And against all logic, all reason, all our desires to judge, to sentence, to pronounce upon others –Jesus tells us ‘no!” All God’s children deserve a chance! Let them grow together with you! They cannot poison one true to God. But you who have faith that can move a mountain and uproot it ...

1430. Caring for the Vineyard We Did Not Plant

Matthew 20:1-16, Joshua 24:1-27

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Lori Wagner

... the covenant way back then in Shechem. “You can’t be fickle,” he warns. You need to stand by God and be strong in your faith to live in this land of vineyards that you did not plant! It’s going to be hard toil, wearisome work that requires dedication, desire, and the dream of creating a “home” anew and afresh with the Light of God within it. It may not be easy, but we can do the hard work together. If you accept God’s contract to build a new world out there, it may take years until you see ...

1431. Living a Jesus Powered Life

Genesis 9:1-17, Genesis 6:1-8:22, Matthew 28:16-20

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Lori Wagner

... you live in relationship with God and Me!” Sound familiar? By darn, it’s that same covenant instruction, just reworded for a first century people! God’s purpose and presence in our lives has never changed. God desires that all the world know about how to live a garden life with God. God desires that all of God’s people, bearing God’s image, should dwell in a place of peace and wholeness, joy and fulfillment. The ruach creates the nuach. The Spirit of Creator God creates within us His everlasting ...

1432. The Alabaster Jar

Mark 14:27-31, Mark 14:12-26, Mark 14:1-11

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Lori Wagner

... the harps make you glad. The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir. Listen, O daughter, observe and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house, and the king will desire your beauty; bow to him, for he is your lord. The daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; men of wealth will seek your favor. All glorious is the princess in her chamber, her gown embroidered with gold. In colorful garments she is led to the ...

1433. The Flock Paradox

2 Samuel 5:1-5, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Jeremiah 33:1-26

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Lori Wagner

... by any number of that person’s friends. The gifts one child receives are immediately coveted by their sister or brother. Shopping for a gift for others, we often find things we desire for ourselves as well! We like to have what others have. We like to do what others do. Some call it “keeping up with the Joneses.” Scientists call it the “flock syndrome.” It’s the crowd instinct we all have to imitate and copy. We all have two strong drives ...

1434. A Spooky Kind of Love

1 Samuel 28:1-25, Matthew 28:11-15

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Lori Wagner

... was feeling unsure how things would go, because God was not answering him. He had petitioned, and prayed, pleaded and pested. But God would give no definitive answer. Or rather, God would not assure his victory over the Philistines. So Saul was sweating arrows. Saul desired to be a righteous and upright King. He wanted to rule a tight ship of a country in God’s name. To that end he expelled all of the mediums and spiritualists from the land of Israel. He was ferocious in his “righteousness.” And all ...

1435. Serpentine Soul

Numbers 21:4-9

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Lori Wagner

... that God has already declared victory over it! As Martin Luther proclaimed, “sin boldly!” We are not to be bold in our sin. But bold in our recognition of our sin. Be brazen in your willingness to pursue God’s mercy. Be brazen in your desire to obtain God’s salvation. Be relentlessly brazen in your belief in God’s unrelenting love. Only a brazen faith can recognize a serpentine soul. Only a brazenly loving God could heal a bitingly bitter spirit. Praise God. We can have both! Praise Jesus. We ...

1436. The Next Big Thing

1 Samuel 16:1-13

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Lori Wagner

... was abusing the power and position that God gave to him. He was ignoring his anointing and going his own way. God tries to work with Saul, to make him see, but Saul is having none of it. He is anchored in his own goals, his own dreams, his own desires, his own reality. So, God decides, it’s time for a change. God realizes, it’s time to choose a new king, someone whose heart is rooted in God. Not a decorated warrior, bent on leading with his own will and his own dreams of glory and prestige. But someone ...

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Aldous Huxley

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against it want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it...

Blaise Pascal

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

C. S. Lewis

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived; less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

Daniel J. Boorstin

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.

Elizabeth Fishel

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Epictetus

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Francis Bacon

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

George Washington

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

Goethe

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

Showing 1426 to 1450 of 4959 results

1426. Holy Quail!

Exodus 16:1-36, Numbers 11:4-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1427. The Writing on the Wall

2 Samuel 11:1-27, 2 Samuel 12:1-31, John 7:25-44, John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1428. Run Away Bride

Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 22:1-14, Hosea 1:1-2:1

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1429. Tale of the Tares

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1430. Caring for the Vineyard We Did Not Plant

Matthew 20:1-16, Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1431. Living a Jesus Powered Life

Genesis 9:1-17, Genesis 6:1-8:22, Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1432. The Alabaster Jar

Mark 14:27-31, Mark 14:12-26, Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1433. The Flock Paradox

2 Samuel 5:1-5, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1434. A Spooky Kind of Love

1 Samuel 28:1-25, Matthew 28:11-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1435. Serpentine Soul

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1436. The Next Big Thing

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Aldous Huxley

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

Blaise Pascal

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

C. S. Lewis

Daniel J. Boorstin

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

Elizabeth Fishel

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Epictetus

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Francis Bacon

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

George Washington

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

Goethe

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