Week 1
- Intro: Appetite
What is an appetite and why it is very powerful?
ap·pe·tite | ˈapəˌtīt |
noun
a natural desire to satisfy a bodily need, especially for food. However, it is not just merely about food but other physiological needs. Like obsessions, ambitions, and desires.
Our everyday walk includes satisfying these appetites without us obviously knowing about it. Examples are appetite to be important, appetite to successful, appetite to love and to be loved, appetite for happiness and satisfaction.
These appetites are not necessarily evil, but if it is consumed in a wrong way, it can destroy your life and future.
Take Esau for example. Because of his appetite, he traded his birthright including his inheritance and future.
We should be aware of these appetites so that we will not going to make a wrong trade of our God-given destiny.
We know more about the following:
Week 2
- What do you crave for?
For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.
1 John 2:16 NLT
Every creature in this world has a craving. We all have cravings and we crave for different things every single day. Some of us crave for ice cream, pizza or fried chicken. Some of us crave for success and fame. While some of us crave to earn a huge amount of money. Having cravings is not bad at all, in fact they drive us to move, to strive and work in order for us to get those cravings.
But the thing is, what do we crave for? What are the things that we are longing to get or have?
This is the question that we have to ask ourselves. The feeling of “craving” is not bad at all, because we are created that way. It’s natural in us, it’s innate in us. But we must be very careful of what we crave for.
The Bible, is very clear of the cravings that if we are not careful, will lead us to sin and death. These are:
1. The Craving for Physical Pleasure
2. The Craving for Everything we see
3. The Pride in our Achievements and Possessions
Though there are times, that it seems that we are about to give in to our cravings, I have a good news, you can control your cravings! Don’t let your cravings control you, control your cravings for God has given us a spirit of self-control (2 Tim. 1:7)
In this topic, we should evaluate ourselves. Does our cravings lead us to sin, or does our cravings lead us to God? Is the very thing that we crave for make us work to be better or does it lead us to distraction and misery? Does our cravings control us or do we control our cravings?
Week 3
- Are you satisfied?
Every person in the world wants to know what will make him or her happy. We’re all desperately seeking for the person, place, or thing that will meet our expectations, needs, and wants. What will truly satisfy the desires of our heart?
It is evident now in our society that our desires are unending. Whatever is the trending in the fashion world, the beauty standards, fame or popularity, travel and relationship goals and the list will go on. We want to have it all so that we will be satisfied and would fit-in in the society. But the reality here, when we come to our senses are we satisfied? Are we happy? temporarily yes, but it won't last long.
The Bible is full of glorious promises of satisfaction such as:
A. Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.” (John 6:35)
B. For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things. (Psalm 107:9)
No good thing is withheld from us and all things work together for our good. Living in light of these truths proclaims to a discontent world that Jesus is better than anything the world has to offer. As we look to Jesus to make us truly happy, we also proclaim to a world in need that only Christ can truly satisfy. (Desiring God, 2015)
Week 4
- Are you hungry for more?
After knowing that what the world offers can never satisfy us, we will never overcome our hunger. However, there is one exception; it is only through God that we can find the satisfaction that we need. The satisfaction we can receive from God can never be given by the world, but can only be found in Jesus.
Take for example the story of the Samaritan woman encountering Jesus. Before she met Jesus at the well, she was looking to be satisfied in the wrong places, until Jesus showed her that He was the life-giving water she needs.
We have to understand that Jesus is the life-giving water that can satisfy and through Him, we can be contented regardless of what the world is offering/serving us.
Jesus is our Satisfaction.
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