The Kingdom-Minded (7 of 7)
Series: Church Without Walls
Lenny Ports
Psalm 107:9
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)
For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things. (Psalm 107:9)
There is a hunger in every human heart that cannot be satisfied with anything this world has to offer. We've been created by God (we didn't evolve over millions of years from an ape) and He made us all with a hole in our heart that only He can fill. I remember right before we came to the Lord in 1983, Gerri and I began to ask questions. We were searching. Our search was the result of two things: 1) we weren't satisfied in life (nothing could fill that hole in our hearts), and 2) we weren't really sure of our eternal destiny (we started wondering about life after death after my dad had a heart attack).
We didn't realize we were searching for God, but after we found Him, we knew it was Jesus that we were really searching for. Jesus, the Savior. We understood our need for a Savior. We acknowledged that we were lost and and empty and He found us and filled our hearts with His love. Everyone is searching. It just manifests itself in different ways. It is like the stories you hear of people that were adopted and when they get older they search for their biological parents. There is a longing in each of us to BELONG, to be LOVED, to be ACCEPTED. When we come to Jesus, we realize that He loved us all along and was drawing us into relationship with Him. He was just waiting for us to say YES. That's why the word SURRENDER is so powerful. Who do you surrender to? In war, it is someone who is defeating you. There is a realization that you can't fight it any longer, so you relinquish control and surrender it ALL to Jesus. Even as a Christian, we must continually cast our cares upon Him - giving it all to Him, our cares, our worries, our fears. ...
Series: Church Without Walls
Lenny Ports
Psalm 107:9
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)
For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things. (Psalm 107:9)
There is a hunger in every human heart that cannot be satisfied with anything this world has to offer. We've been created by God (we didn't evolve over millions of years from an ape) and He made us all with a hole in our heart that only He can fill. I remember right before we came to the Lord in 1983, Gerri and I began to ask questions. We were searching. Our search was the result of two things: 1) we weren't satisfied in life (nothing could fill that hole in our hearts), and 2) we weren't really sure of our eternal destiny (we started wondering about life after death after my dad had a heart attack).
We didn't realize we were searching for God, but after we found Him, we knew it was Jesus that we were really searching for. Jesus, the Savior. We understood our need for a Savior. We acknowledged that we were lost and and empty and He found us and filled our hearts with His love. Everyone is searching. It just manifests itself in different ways. It is like the stories you hear of people that were adopted and when they get older they search for their biological parents. There is a longing in each of us to BELONG, to be LOVED, to be ACCEPTED. When we come to Jesus, we realize that He loved us all along and was drawing us into relationship with Him. He was just waiting for us to say YES. That's why the word SURRENDER is so powerful. Who do you surrender to? In war, it is someone who is defeating you. There is a realization that you can't fight it any longer, so you relinquish control and surrender it ALL to Jesus. Even as a Christian, we must continually cast our cares upon Him - giving it all to Him, our cares, our worries, our fears. ...
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