How Hungry Are You?

BY ALLY CAWTHORN

One of the most important questions I want to pose to leaders and believers is this: How hungry are you for the outpouring that we are prophesying over our nation? May I share some things about being hungry.

• Hungry people position themselves to receive. One of the most important things for us as leaders and believers, is if we really, really do want to see an outpouring, is to begin to stir up, honour and steward our spiritual hunger for it. To keep on being filled, you have to pursue it.

• Hunger is an indicator of health.

Hunger is an indicator of health. If we use this as a marker of your spiritual health, how healthy is your spirit? Hungry Christians are healthy Christians. The level of hunger in you or your congregation indicates the level of your health. The great thing is that there is always more!

• Be full and hungry.

We have to learn how to be full and hungry. It's not a contradiction, because the more full of the Spirit you are, the more hungry you are because of all you've tasted. The more fervently you cry out, ‘let there be an outpouring because I'm not I'm not full enough yet’.

• Nurture your spiritual hunger.

Our hunger is a gift from God; He wants us to have it more than we do. We can eat all we want but the limit to the outpouring depends on you being satisfied.

• We need to eat to stay hungry

This is one of the greatest paradoxes of the Kingdom. In the natural, you become hungry by not eating, but in the Kingdom, you get hungry through eating. The more full of the Holy Spirit you get, the more hungry you get!

So how do you taste and see that the Lord is good? Discover that and do more of it. Engage with some spiritual practices that open you to Christ in a different way.