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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James McLemore
... so he lives through sleepless nights and restless days. His stomach is full; his heart is hurting, from this hunger, this never ending hunger. It is a hunger that cannot be satisfied. Let me give you another true life illustration. An old man rocks in his rocking ... It took God's word to make you, and it takes God's word to keep you, and without God's word you will have this hunger in your life that cannot be satisfied. Second, you must recognize that the famine is not on God's part. It is on our part. It ...
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King Duncan
... became house parents at the Bethesda Home for Boys in Savannah, Georgia, one of the oldest orphanages in the U.S. They were put in charge of one of seven cottages. It was in following the example of Jesus that Hamilton Whaley and his family found the answer to their hunger. As he says, “Now I'm where God wants me to be, in a life that began, instead of ending, with my obituary.” (7) If you have found new life in Jesus, then you know how he can meet your deepest needs. And I hope you are looking for ways ...
3. A Holy Hunger
Jeremiah 30:1--31:40
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Carl Hoefler
... the most favorite food will not be enticing to a body that is already stuffed full of junk-food. What makes Holy Communion "holy" is hunger. If we come to the Lord's table full of hatred, or greed, or jealousy, or envy, or just full of our own self- ... all week long; then, no amount of rightly performed ritual is going to make communion "holy." The hungry heart is what makes communion holy. Hunger of the stomach or of the heart is not a matter of the will. Sometimes, we can entice people to want to eat by ...
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Alex Gondola
... thing. Tossing and turning sleepless, at night, wondering who we are and where we're going, is a good thing. Finding ourselves curled up, fetal position, in a corner, wracked by tears and fears is a good thing. If we come to realize that what we are really hungering and thirsting for is a "right relationship" with God. Augustine was right when he said, "Our hearts will be restless, O God, until they find their rest in Thee." It's true that, as it has been said, there is a "God-shaped blank in every person ...
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J. Howard Olds
... calmly replied, “Teaching you a lesson. You come to me seeking spiritual fulfillment, but you are already full. There is simply no room for anything else. Go home and empty yourself. Then come back with a heart that has room for God.” Jesus said: “Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Woe to you who are well fed now for you will go hungry.” What was our Lord trying to teach us? Let me form the sermon in two questions. I. What Are We Full Of? I know that is poor English, but ...
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J. Howard Olds
... . Have Americans made gluttony an unpardonable sin? Is that where we have come to in this world? There is in this story a COMMENT that I think is as important as the COMMAND. The comment is in Verse 42: “They all ate and were satisfied." Is there a hunger that food will not satisfy? Jesus, tempted in the wilderness to turn stones to bread, replies to Satan: “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God." The sin of gluttony is not about size, or style, not even ...
7. Hunger and Politics
Matthew 14:13-21
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Wayne Brouwer
... in writing the gospel. Those of us who did not originally stand with Jesus in that ancient wilderness are no less hungry than they were. We are all looking for meaning in our lives. To a person we are searchers on a quest for purpose or identity. The hunger is in every belly, and each of us finds ourselves in strange wilderness places as we look and seek. But what will we find? And how will it become visible to us? Where will we see the smile between God and us? However it will happen, according to Matthew ...
8. Soul Hunger
John 6:24-35
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Lori Wagner
... . Jesus advises them to seek the food that endures, not the food that perishes. Here, as in many passages of scripture, we see the endless patience that Jesus has with us as aimless human beings. His time in human form has given him insight into the “hungers” that plague our hurting hearts. He too remembers his own time of temptation when he spent 40 days in the wilderness yearning for an easy way out. Yet he prevailed. Now he is trying to teach that lesson to those around him. The lesson? Seek the ...
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... little work and almost no food. This young African worker looked into the faces of his aging and sick parents with an intensity he had never felt before. Time passed and all three members of this family began to feel the pain and to show the signs of hunger and starvation. Aba thought of killing his parents and himself. At times he thought this would be the most merciful way to cope with approaching starvation. He hung on. Every day he went out into the village where he had been reared and where he had many ...
10. Understanding Hunger
Matthew 14:13-21
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Todd Weir
... people who will donate canned goods for the food pantry and make donations to the Heifer Project and Oxfam. But it is hard for them (and myself) to truly comprehend what it is like to be hungry. Only then could we understand the potential panic of a crowd driven by hunger, or feel the disciples' reluctance and frustration at the problem. It would be interesting to ask if anyone in the congregation had gone without food for 24 or 48 hours, whether voluntarily fasting or they really were hungry.
11. A Hunger for God
John 6:51-58
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Alex Gondola
Someone has said that our model for living today is more like Madonna, the "material girl," than it is like Mother Teresa. Have we somehow confused our wants with our needs? So, we may be hungry not hungry for food, but hungry in another way. In one of her books, Mother Teresa writes: "The spiritual poverty of the Western world is much greater than the physical poverty of [Third World] people. You in the West have millions of people who suffer such terrible loneliness and emptiness. They feel unwanted and ...
12. The Great Hunger for Forgiveness
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Editor James S. Hewett
The story is told in Spain of a father and his teenage son who had a relationship that had become strained. So the son ran away from home. His father, however, began a journey in search of his rebellious son. Finally, in Madrid, in a last desperate effort to find him, the father put an ad in the newspaper. The ad read: "Dear Paco, meet me in front of the newspaper office at noon. All is forgiven. I love you. Your father." The next day at noon in front of the newspaper office 800 "Pacos" showed up. They ...
13. Faith or Hunger?
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Ellen Hammonds
My husband is a minister who conducts an expanded altar call at the end of his sermon. He asks those who wish to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, as well as those with prayers or other requests, to come forward. To the surprise and delight of the congregation our three-year-old daughter, without a word to me, got up and made her way forward. She waited patiently while the others ahead of her made a request. When her turn came, my husband leaned down to ask for her request. She ...
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John A. Terry
... and to thirst indicates an intense desire. It is like the expression, "I want it so bad I can taste it." But it does not mean we have achieved what we have set out to do. This is not saying, "Blessed are the righteous," but "blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness." It is like God saying to David "Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart" (1 Kings 8:18). It is like Robert Louis Stevenson's comment that "to travel hopefully is ...
15. The Righteous
Psalm 107:1-43
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John A. Terry
... and to thirst indicates an intense desire. It is like the expression, "I want it so bad I can taste it." But it does not mean we have achieved what we have set out to do. This is not saying, "Blessed are the righteous," but "blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness." It is like God saying to David "Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart" (1 Kings 8:18). It is like Robert Louis Stevenson's comment that "to travel hopefully is ...
16. Food for Faith
Matthew 14:13-21
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John R. Brokhoff
... loaves and fish, but in providing spiritual bread he performs the miracle of giving himself to us as the Bread of Life. He preached that he was the living bread from heaven. If anyone ate this bread, he would live forever. Jesus is the Bread and we satisfy our hunger and gain spiritual strength when we eat him. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, Jesus said, gets eternal life. How do you eat this Bread of life? How do you eat Jesus Christ? How do you digest the Son of God? One way is by maintaining ...
17. Prayer
Psalm 42:1-11
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Maxie Dunnam
... God can hear. When I finally pass through the valley of the shadow of death, I expect to pass through it in conversation with Him.” There is a lot in this; reread it slowly. Put that testimony of a great Christian disciple alongside the word from the psalmist whose hunger for God we encountered the first day of our prayer adventure: Psalm 63:1-8 O God, thou art my God, I seek thee, my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh faintst for thee, as in a dry and weary land where no water is. So, I have looked upon ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... and all the while we are neglecting their deep need for human love. From the time you are born until the day you die - and I don’t care who you are - you yearn, you long for those who are yours in love. You can never get beyond that hunger. But this desire to love and to be loved also has eternal significance. No matter how perfectly you love someone or they love you, there is still a central core within you that is UNsatisfied, that belongs to God alone. That isn’t theological - it’s a psychological ...
19. A Cat In a Tree
Matthew 14:13-21
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King Duncan
... are dying of starvation often must have food forced into their mouths because they have lost any interest in eating. (5) I recognize that many of us would just as soon not hear such dreary facts, but they are a harsh reality in much of the world today. This hunger persists in spite of the fact that we live in a bountiful world. The battle to feed the world’s people is not a hopeless one. God has given us the resources. And in some places in the world real progress is being made. For example, when we think ...
20. Epiphany 8
Mt 6:24-34 · 1 Cor 4:1-13 · Is 49:8-18 · Ps 131
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Russell F. Anderson
... her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget; yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands ..." (vv. 15-16a). Like a loving mother, God is attentive to the cries of his hungering and hurting children. God will never forget his children, their names are engraved on his hands. Verse 16 speaks powerfully to all those who have laid a loved one in a grave. We will carry that cherished person in our hearts as long as we live but in our ...
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James Merritt
... calories. When you are hungry it is because you are empty of that which you are hungry for. If you try to satisfy that emptiness with the wrong thing you will still be empty. We live in a hungry world. Every one of us in this room hunger for three things. We hunger for security. We want financial security. We don’t want to have to be dependent on anyone else. We want physical security. We want to be healthy so we can take care of ourselves. We want emotional security. We want to love and be loved. We also ...
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... hungry, although others have eaten and lie down full. Give me and I shall be grateful! I cry to thee, O God of my ancestors." As stewards and caretakers in God’s creation let’s consider: • what the Bible says about us and hunger; • what might be some of the basic reasons that hunger exists when some of us have so much; • what Jesus might have us do about the present situation. And then, I want to make witness to what some have seen with their own eyes. The Bible often speaks about the poor and the ...
23. The Rain Of Bread
Exodus 16:1-36
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... me; make me whole." Some of us want a change in life. "Lord, make me new; renew my life." We have come here seeking life, wanting to be nourished, to have peace of mind, to be successful, to be loved; all because we are hungry. But part of satisfying this hunger is not only telling God what we want, but also asking, "Lord, what do you want from me?" So often we say to ourselves, "If I just reach this point, if I just get this, everything will be all right." But will it? Hasn't it been your experience that ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... Jesus said, "The Father and I are one." He told Philip, "He who has seen me has seen the Father." Hear the Word and you have God in Christ speaking to you. We also need love to feed our souls. We cannot live abundantly without true love. Everyone has a hunger to be loved and to have someone to love. At the close of World War II, an American soldier on Christmas morning completed sentry duty at his post outside London. It was his custom to go to church on Christmas, but a church was too far away to walk to ...
25. Proper 13
Mt 14:13-21 · Rom 8:31-39 · Ex 12:1-14 · Ps 143
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John R. Brokhoff
... and retrieve it. While there he was admonished to thank God for it. And then she made him eat it. She insisted that he do so because she said that bread was a gift of life. One has to eat to live. Need of Distribution. The problem of world hunger is not in having the resources but of distribution of the food to the hungry. In 1990 Russia reported a banner harvest. However, the people are hungry because the stores are empty. There was a problem of getting to the fields to gather the harvest. In the same year ...
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