Freedom House Church and Healing Centre

Filled and Satisfied

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled! (Matt. 5:6 NIV)

 

Hello Saints,

We leak! Like a wine skin with a tiny hole, we are carried around by life not even realizing that the wine is running out. Or…maybe you prefer the analogy of a smoldering candle, whose wick is just about to go out. As the darkness increases, the candle is reduced to a small glowing ember, soon to be but a puff of smoke in the night. Maybe this is the way you have felt for the last few months, even years. Looking at the condition of our world can bring one down, even discourage one to the point of wanting to throw in the towel and quit the fight. Maybe, just maybe, this state of hopelessness is a necessary step to create the desire for change.

You pray; you fast; you cry out to God. And suddenly after many tears and much complaining, the despair is replaced with a hunger for the things of God – a desire to see our King rise up and do something. Unexpectedly, you stop seeing the glass half empty, and you start seeing it half full! Pessimism is replaced by optimism. You fix your eyes, not on the problems of the world, but on what God is doing. You hear in your spirit, “For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?” (Isa. 43:19 NLT) Abruptly, with surprise, you have new eyes to see what God is doing? Do you see The Chosen, a television series on Jesus and His disciples available for free online. And you hear about how people are watching the series and being transformed. Do you see the Asbury Revival that turned a small university in Kentucky into a tabernacle for the presence of God, and how Holy Spirit is changing lives and igniting the fires of revival across the world? Do you see the Jesus Revolution movie in theatres encouraging saints that what God did with a lost generation of “hippies” in the ‘70s, He can do again with our young people struggling with drugs, mental illness, and hopelessness. Open our eyes Lord!

Read it again: “Blessed and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous (in that state in which the born-again child of God enjoys His favor and salvation) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God), for they shall be completely satisfied!” (Matt. 5:6 AMP). Did you see it? If you are hungry for God, you’re blessed! If you are thirsty for the Kingdom to manifest, you’re blessed! You are about to be filled! Revival is coming to you! You will be satisfied! Even King David was where many of us are now – hungry and thirsty… in the wilderness. He writes what we may be feeling: “O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water.” (Psa. 63:1) If you take time to read psalm 63, you will see that David gets to a place of rejoicing in the Lord. Not by focusing on the “dry and weary land”, but rather by focusing on God, and what He is doing: “Because you are my helper, I sing for joy in the shadow of your wings” (Vs. 7).

You say, but we are to hunger and thirst for righteousness. You are right! Righteousness is found in Christ – He is the King of Righteousness (Heb. 7). We are told to, “seek first His kingdom and His righteousness” (Matt. 6:33). We are reminded that, “the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Rom. 14:17). To seek the Kingdom is to seek the King! To hunger and thirst for righteousness is to desire Jesus – that He would totally consume us and be are all in all, our very life.

Friends, God is moving! Let’s look and see and be encouraged! Jesus is the one who provides living water (John 4), and Holy Spirit is the One who can fill us to over flowing so that living waters flow out of us (John 7). The river of God is flowing and it’s time for us to get in and see where God will lead us. He wants to fill us to overflowing! The world needs a church fully alive, filled and satisfied with Jesus because He is what the world needs. Revival is a return to Jesus as our first love. Revival is to let His life be our life – in Him we live and move and have our being! Let’s let Jesus fill our wine skin and plug the leaks. Let’s let Jesus be the only One who satisfies the longings of our heart. Let’s allow Holy Spirit to flow through us into the world and ignite fires of revival everywhere we set our foot. Then the broken, hurting, outcasts, religious, and desperate can also discover that Jesus is the only One who fills and satisfies.

Have a fruitful week!

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