We have peace and joy. The blessings promises of God flow into our life because they have been purchase for us not because of anything we have done, but by the righteousness of Christ. Seek Him and you will be filled! continuously aware that He is present in every aspect of our lives.

When we do, we will be satisfied. Are you hungering and thirsting for more of God? Tags: beatitudes filled hunger and thirst for righteousness satisfied sermon on mount.

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This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content Keys for Breakthrough 0. The setting is the Feast of Tabernacles, and one of the daily rituals of the feast was designed to point to the exodus of Israel from Egypt.

Water satisfies. It quenches thirst. It meets our deepest needs—and Jesus declares Himself to be the source of that ultimate satisfaction. Bill Crowder.

Large Print The Ultimate Satisfaction View Larger Image. Read: Isaiah —7 Bible in a Year: Proverbs 19—21; 2 Corinthians 7. Download MP3. I would be stupid to curse the car. It's not designed to run on water. Guess what? We aren't designed to run on the spiritual junk food that's offered to us every day.

It's a cheap substitute for living in an ongoing conversation with a holy, living God. Don't scream when you come to the end of yourself frustrated out of your mind.

Your attempt to fill your own life with junk will leave you feeling empty and lonely. We're not designed to live apart from God. Trying to run on water instead of the high-octane fuel that God has for us is a fool's journey.

When Jesus' disciples returned from going into town to buy food, they offered some to him, but he said, "I have food to eat of which you do not know" John Jesus had just offered living water to a Samaritan woman who came to draw water from a well.

When the woman discovered that Jesus was the Messiah, she got so excited that she left her water pot to tell others about Jesus.

Jesus said, "These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full" John In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled" Matthew There's an unimaginable joy and inner satisfaction that comes from walking with God.

If I put water in the gas tank of my car instead of gasoline, I'm going to be very disappointed with the results. I would be stupid to curse the car. It's not designed to run on water. Guess what? We aren't designed to run on the spiritual junk food that's offered to us every day.

It's a cheap substitute for living in an ongoing conversation with a holy, living God. Don't scream when you come to the end of yourself frustrated out of your mind.

Your attempt to fill your own life with junk will leave you feeling empty and lonely. We're not designed to live apart from God. Trying to run on water instead of the high-octane fuel that God has for us is a fool's journey.

When Jesus' disciples returned from going into town to buy food, they offered some to him, but he said, "I have food to eat of which you do not know" John Jesus had just offered living water to a Samaritan woman who came to draw water from a well. When the woman discovered that Jesus was the Messiah, she got so excited that she left her water pot to tell others about Jesus.

We all have the need to eat and drink, but we have a deeper need in our souls for reality. When we discover that Jesus is the reality who satisfies the thirst and hunger in our souls, it's easy to forget about our physical needs and a lot of other things.

Hungering for righteousness instead of anything temporary brings everything we are hoping for and more. The beautiful thing about this specific blessing and all the Beatitudes is that it comes from the One we love and He was teaching us through His words that He is the Word and that we will be blessed and satisfied through Him.

May this new year be a year where you hunger and thirst for righteousness and as you do, you hunger and thirst for Him. May this be a year where you see Him as He truly is, in His fullness, through reading His word!

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. Mental Health. Loving Kindness: MHAW New to faith? Rise School. Abide Students. Establish Work. Study Guides. Email Address. Mar 8. More Precious. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

When we have intense desire for righteousness more of Jesus we experience true satisfaction. We have peace and joy. The blessings promises of God flow into our life because they have been purchase for us not because of anything we have done, but by the righteousness of Christ.

Seek Him and you will be filled! continuously aware that He is present in every aspect of our lives. When we do, we will be satisfied.

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Skip to content Keys for Breakthrough 0. Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness — and be satisfied by Bruce Edwards · Published August 20, · Updated August 20, Blessed are Those who Hunger for Righteousness This fourth beatitude is a turning point. Hunger and Thirst After Righteousness?

What does Righteous Mean Righteousness speaks of being right with God. You Will be Filled — Satisfied Everyone wants to be satisfied. To hunger and thirst means that you lack something, but long for it. So why is Jesus saying that it is a blessing to lack something?

Do you feel happy when you are starving? So what does this mean? I bet some of the best meals you have ever experienced are when you worked up a hearty appetite.

Now, Jesus is speaking specifically about hungering and thirsting for righteousness, but I think this principle of hungering and thirsting for God actually is behind all of Christian life. We hunger and thirst after righteousness because we fundamentally hunger and thirst after God, and God is a righteous God.

Look with me for a moment at Psalm The psalmist here obviously finds himself in an interesting debacle: he has had God, but not enough to satiate his desire for God.

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still.

Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. So, in the beginning God made us in His image, meaning that we were made to reflect His character and nature. That was how God designed us, to be righteous , but in the Garden of Eden the serpent deceived Adam and Eve and convinced them that it was actually better to deviate from the design and sin, to be unrighteous.

And from that moment on, humanity has suffered under the weight of a broken world, shattered by the effects of sin. A Christian is someone who is both aware of their lack of righteousness, but also eagerly longing to become more righteous.

And in that longing, they begin to live more righteously, because they long to see and know more of God. In other words, we long to live holy lives, free from sin, pleasing to God, because our God is holy.

The promise is that when we hunger and thirst, we will be satisfied — so if we see a true hunger for God and His righteousness in our hearts, then Jesus has promised that fulfillment will replace lack, and what we desire will be given to us! That has an already application in the sense that if we truly desire to live holy lives, we will slowly and gradually see ourselves start to live more righteously, and thus will have joy and satisfaction.

But the main weight of the promise is the future not yet aspect, where we will one day see our God and upon seeing Him will be transformed into a perfectly righteous person.

One day, you shall see God, and you shall be made like Him! Perfectly resplendent in holiness and righteousness. That is the day we long for, that is what electrifies our souls. That is not Disney fantasy my friends, if you are in Christ, that is your destiny.

And that future fulfillment and satisfaction bleeds back into our present reality and mingles our sorrow over our current state with a deep joy, and helps fuel our fight to live righteously now.

Acting righteously is a tricky thing in the Bible. Sometimes it is talked about positively, and other times very negatively. This gives us a clue as to the wrong way to pursue righteousness, seeking to establish their own…. Now, these Jews most likely were not Biblically ignorant — they probably knew the Old Testament better than all of us.

So how do we live righteously? If it is an impossibly high standard, then what is the point? Here is the key: righteousness is first a gift that is given, before it is an action that is performed. How could that be?