{"id":3177,"date":"2018-09-23T10:30:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T10:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2018-09-23T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T10:34:09","slug":"hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/?p=3177","title":{"rendered":"Hungry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3181 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/himmel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/himmel.jpg 642w, https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/himmel-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/himmel-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>a heavenly download&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>HUNGRY ??? &#8230; but for what ???<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 42: 1-2<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"text Ps-42-1\">For the director of music. A <i>maskil<\/i><sup class=\"footnote\">[<\/sup> of the Sons of Korah.<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p class=\"line\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em><strong><span class=\"text Ps-42-1\"><sup class=\"versenum\">1\u00a0<\/sup>As the deer pants for streams of water<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em><strong><span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"text Ps-42-1\">so my soul pants for you, my God.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080\"><em><strong><span id=\"en-NIV-14558\" class=\"text Ps-42-2\"><sup class=\"versenum\">2\u00a0<\/sup>My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em><strong><span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"text Ps-42-2\">When can I go and meet with God?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Through the comparisons of the thirst and panting the Psalmist shows his fervent desire to serve God in his temple.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 5 : 6<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span id=\"en-NIV-23241\" class=\"text Matt-5-6\"><span class=\"woj\">Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,<\/span><\/span><span class=\"indent-1\"> <span class=\"text Matt-5-6\"><span class=\"woj\">for they will be filled.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hunger and thirst is a basic natural desire. Without food and water your natural body cannot survive. But we as Christians&#8230; followers of Christ&#8230; not just a knowing that HE exists, we should develop another basic desire &#8211; the DESIRE to SERVE HIM.<\/p>\n<p>And live for Jesus Christ. Son of the living GOD. Our Savior &#8211; our Redeemer &#8211; our light &#8211; our love &#8211; our all !!!!<\/p>\n<p>I believe we all have needs and deep desires in our life&#8217;s &#8211; but to whom are we running for our fulfillment? &#8211; the bible says in<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 37 : 4<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong><span id=\"en-NIV-14455\" class=\"text Ps-37-4\">Take delight in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>, <\/span><span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"text Ps-37-4\">and he will give you the desires of your heart.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a heavenly download&#8230; HUNGRY ??? &#8230; but for what ??? Psalm 42: 1-2 For the director of music. A maskil[ of the Sons of Korah. 1\u00a0As the deer pants for streams of water\u00a0 so my soul pants for you, my God. 2\u00a0My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When can I go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lionchurch.lion-of-judah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}