{"id":3299,"date":"2014-08-11T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2014-08-05T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T12:20:30","slug":"cultivate-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2014\/08\/11\/cultivate-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivate Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018When I remember You on my bed,\u2028I meditate on You in the night watches.My soul follows close behind You;\u2028Your right hand upholds me\u2019 <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/114\/psa.63.6,8.nkjv\" target=\"_blank\">Ps.63:6 &amp; 8 [NKJV]<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don\u2019t be satisfied with knowing a friend of God. Don\u2019t be satisfied that your husband or wife is a friend of God. Stir up a craving within you, a craving to pursue real friendship with God. I had an experience some years ago; I was on a flight that almost crashed. The aircraft was in free fall for at least thirty seconds. We were going through what the pilot described as a field of lightening mines. People sitting by the window could literally see the lightening tearing <!--more-->through the sky. Any one of those lightning bolts could strike the aircraft. A friend of mine said his younger brother was on the same flight. He said his brother said he was watching me, when every one was shouting, I did not shout. He said I just closed my eyes and opened them and then remained calm. And that he said to himself, this guy is on this flight so it cannot crash. I did not even see his brother. I am not saying it was because I was on that flight that the plane did not crash. But I was saying to my friend won\u2019t it have been lovely if that were a milestone of friendship with God. That someone can look at you and say this plane will not crash because you are here. Wouldn\u2019t it have been lovely for him to be able to say about himself because I am in this plane it will not crash. God wants us to pursue friendship with Him by ourselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018So as David stood there among his brothers, Samuel took the flask of olive oil he had brought and anointed David with the oil. And the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David from that day on\u2019 <\/em><a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/116\/1sa.16.13.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">1Sam.16:13<\/a>. The same people that mocked you will celebrate you; they will not have a choice. The key to being celebrated lies in pursuing a relationship with God. David said, \u2018<em>Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies<\/em>\u2019 because for years they fought David. \u2018<em>thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over<\/em>\u2019. This can be your story today. You too can say \u2018<em>Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me<\/em>\u2019. You need to know this God by yourself. It\u2019s not enough that your mother is a prayer warrior or that God has a plan for you. You have to draw near to God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prayer<\/strong> [song]: Draw me close to you.\u00a0Never let me go.\u00a0I lay it all down again.\u00a0To hear you say that I&#8217;m your friend.\u00a0You are my desire\u2026\u00a0 You&#8217;re all I want.\u00a0You&#8217;re all I&#8217;ve ever needed.\u00a0You&#8217;re all I want.\u00a0Help me know you are near.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018When I remember You on my bed,\u2028I meditate on You in the night watches.My soul follows close behind You;\u2028Your right hand upholds me\u2019 Ps.63:6 &amp; 8 [NKJV]. &nbsp; Don\u2019t be satisfied with knowing a friend of God. Don\u2019t be satisfied that your husband or wife is a friend of God. Stir up a craving within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,70,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunger","category-intimacy","category-relationship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}