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APPETITE


Text: Psalms 42:1.


 *As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.* 


One of the major signs of life is appetite. On a norms,  a long-term loss of appetite needs a medical attention. 


Appetite is the desire for food and water. Just as this desire is important for life in the natural, so it is in the Spirit also.

1Peter 2:2 says As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:


Only the dead has ceased from hunger. Anyone who cannot feel hunger for food anymore is either dead or having cancerous disease. If anyone is suffering from such disease,  I pray that the healing power of God makes you whole now in Jesus name.


A new born baby needs not be taught on how to desire food. It's  an inborn thing, a reflex action that occurs naturally. 


Jesus said, *blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.* Matthew 5:6.

From this, you can see that only those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are blessed.  


Anyone who has lost appetite for God and His righteousness is sick spiritually and needs spiritual attention. 


*What you hunger and thirst for, is the determinant of the nature that you carry-Carnal or Christlike nature.* A lion hungers after flesh and blood because it is a carnivorous animal, A sheep hungers for pasture because it's a herbivorous animal. A deer pants after the water brooks. What are you hungry for?


So many children of God no longer have appetite for God and His things- righteousness. 


The way out of this deplorable state is first and foremost acknowledgement. You must be sincere enough with yourself to know if your appetite for God had really diminished or if  it's outrightly dead.

2 Corinthians  13:5 says *Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?* 


Beloved,  examine yourself today so you'll not be examined by the heaven's court when it will be too late.


Note that it takes someone who had tasted of the spiritual things to lose appetite for such, if you have never being born in the Spirit,  your case is not loss of appetite,  you must first and foremost be born again.


Secondly,  you must cry out to God to revive your love (appetite) for Him. Tell Him to revive and boost your appetite all over again. 



 *PRAYER FOCUS* 


1. Ask the Lord to stir up a fresh hunger and thirst for His righteousness in your heart. 


Bible Reading : 


Isaiah 55:1-3.



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