It Will Satisfy
Your Hunger!
Jeanne Alcott
There was a young boy with his mother standing at the counter of a fast-food restaurant trying to order their food. They had been there a while because the boy was having a hard time deciding what would satisfy his hunger. The mother kept going through the items that were on the menu but he did not seem to want any of them.
Finally out of frustration she said, “Well, what do you want?” It was embarrassing because people were standing behind them waiting. Everyone was becoming somewhat anxious and impatient, but the boy didn’t know what to do so he just said, “Mommy, I know I don’t want a ‘cheesyburg and fwies.’ And I know I don’t want a ‘shicken sanwich.’ And, I know I don’t want something with ‘fishes’ in it. I know I want something, Mommy. I just can’t tell you what!”
That was it for her. She just turned to the person waiting on them and said, “Just give him a hamburger with everything on it.” Then she took his hand and dragged him over to where they could get their drinks. As they were walking off, the boy viewed the menu one more time just in case he might see something there. But there was nothing there. He just shrugged his shoulders and went with his mother.
Isn’t it frustrating to be at the place where that boy was? We know that we want something to eat. So we start our trek to find what will satisfy us. We go to the fridge and nothing works. Then it’s to the cabinet, the pantry, and maybe to a place where treats are hidden for special times. Nothing works. So we start back through all of them again. Until finally we decide we have to eat something and so we take whatever is easiest, but it certainly does not satisfy us. We were seeking to satisfy our hunger.
The spiritual hunger within you.
God puts within us a spiritual hunger that can only be satisfied with Him. We may seek other things, and even go back to the same things over and over to try to get satisfaction. As that boy, we know what we don’t want, but we can’t find what will hit the spot.
Well, you have a spot inside your spirit. God put it there. And He is the only One who can hit the spot just right and satisfy you. Jesus said in Luke 6:21, Blessed are you who hunger and seek with eager desire now, for you shall be filled and completely satisfied!
You can be filled and entirely satisfied, but the key is this: the scripture said you have to hunger and seek before you can be satisfied. How can you receive the greatest fulfillment of your spiritual hunger? You must SEEK SATISFACTION!
Go after God as though nothing else could possibly meet your need. Which is true. Nothing can make you happy and keep you happy except for more of God. There is nothing you can go after which can meet the hunger inside you. When you seek for satisfaction with God, you will be satisfied. Don’t keep searching and trying different things that give you temporary happiness.
I’m not talking about forsaking the good things of life. There’s nothing wrong with being happy to be with your friends or enjoying a good meal or some decent entertainment. Those things are there to uplift us. But if we become hungry for those and seek to be satisfied through them, we’re going to be bouncing from one thing to the next trying to be happy. Then it will come to the day when we know we don’t want “a hamburger or chicken sandwich or a fish sandwich” so to speak, but we don’t know what we want. Dissatisfaction will set in.
Fill it with God.
God wants us to stir up the spiritual hunger He put within us and have an eager desire to fill it with Him. He promises we will be completely satisfied if we do. It will be with something good.
Psalm 34 tells us there is no want when we hunger after God. He will fill us. Young lions are going to need food and suffer hunger, but they who seek the Lord shall not lack any beneficial thing. (Ref. Psalm 34:9, 10.)
Now lions can usually find their prey and keep themselves satisfied. They pretty much rule the jungle. But their source for being satisfied does not even come near to what you have available to you. When you seek God, you’re seeking for satisfaction, and He will not disappoint. You won’t like any beneficial thing.
“But Jeanne, that’s hard to see happen. Because I know there are a lot of beneficial things I need. The money to pay off a school loan, the funds I need to fix this car or to make that investment. I don’t have the benefit of a caring and compassionate spouse. I need help in my work. We need greater unity in the group in which I’m involved. I don’t see my desires come to pass and my health is in need. I’m not fulfilled.”
Usually when we have needs such as those and hundreds of others that we can encounter, we start seeking for them to be met. We try to find the answers or what we can do to see them fulfilled. That’s a normal process.
But God is saying to us that as we seek Him uppermost, He will satisfy our spiritual hunger which is the most important thing, and He will meet our needs.
All the beneficial things will come.
Seek Him first and these things will be added to you. We want His ways and His righteousness. We’re looking to Him to fill us. He is the most important thing to us, and because of that, our needs are the most important thing to God. He sees our eager desire for Him, and according to His Word when we hunger and seek that way, we shall be filled and completely satisfied. Not halfway or in a small amount. But when God says the word satisfy, He means in a big way.
You won’t be standing at the counter going through the menu trying to find something that will fill your hunger and satisfy you. God knows how to hit the spot. Meet that desire. He serves the meal that doesn’t send you away hungry and discontent.
You know how sometimes you can go somewhere to eat, but you walk away from there still hungry. It can happen when you’re invited to a dinner party and you think it’s going to be a full meal. But once you arrive you realize that it’s just a get together, and all they have are a few finger foods and that’s about it. You are so hungry, but you can’t go over and start scarfing down all the finger foods.
How many times can you go back to the food trays and fill up that tiny plate they give you that doesn’t hold much before people start staring at you? You went there thinking you were getting a full meal. So you’re trying to control yourself and act as though you aren’t very hungry. All the while you are thinking that as soon as you get out of there, you’re going straight to a restaurant and get some real food.
God isn’t serving finger food.
Hey, when God says He’s going to satisfy your hunger, He isn’t talking about finger food. That’s not what He serves. When He invites you to seek Him to fill your spiritual hunger, He says…
“I’ll pour out on you so much you can’t contain it (Malachi 3:10).
“I’ll fill you to good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over (Luke 6:38). You will eat until you are satisfied. Your needs will be met.
“You can enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows) (John 10:10).
“I don’t give you a tiny plate to fill with a few things that don’t fill your hunger. But when you seek satisfaction from Me, and you have an eager desire for Me, you hunger for My presence and My Word and My ways, then you shall be filled by Me to overflowing.
“I’m a rewarder of those who diligently seek Me (Hebrews 11:6). I have a reward for you as you hunger for Me and allow Me to be the One who fills you.”
That’s all in God’s Word, His promise to you. No one can satisfy as He can. But He has to see that eager desire for Him, your hunger for His presence, His Word, and His ways. You seek satisfaction from Him.
I have just come near.
I love the story of how a missionary saw this happen. He was serving in Paraguay among the Maka Indians. There was one Indian by the name of Rafael who came to this missionary’s house one day and just sat on the porch. The missionary was eating his dinner, so he stopped and went out on the porch to see what Rafael wanted. But he answered in his language, “Ham, henek met.” Those words meant, “I don’t want anything; I have just come near.”
Well, the missionary understood what he said, but he didn't comprehend the meaning of why he said it. So he asked him again what he wanted, but Rafael just kept repeating “Ham, henek met.” Then finally, he went home.
After a few days, this missionary was talking to another missionary about what had happened and the meaning of it. So this other missionary explained that the man was saying that the reason he just sat on his porch in his presence was because he found satisfaction just being near him.
The only way to be satisfied was to be near his missionary friend. That’s the only way you can find satisfaction. Hunger to be near your Lord. He’s the One who can fill that spiritual hunger deep within you. And as you seek Him, He rewards you with satisfaction.
We want to believe with you to lack no beneficial thing!
I tell you when we seek God, He responds. He wants us to go to Him to be satisfied. That’s when He can release His goodness for our sakes.
Let’s go to Him together and believe for you to lack no beneficial thing as He satisfies your hunger. I encourage you to contact us to tell us about your needs. We’re going to seek God with our faith. I believe we will see Him respond. He says He’s a rewarder of those who seek Him.
So contact us soon, because after we pray, we want to send you a note that will have the Word of God in it for you. Can’t wait to hear from you. Just click here now and what you share will come directly to us. Jeanne Alcott
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