# 7 Pillars Of Christian Spirituality Pt.23

An episode of [Prophet Isaac Love Pappoe](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1508539654), 27 Jul 2025, 1 h 03 min.

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In this episode, prophet teaches on spiritual hunger under which expounds on the four kinds of appetite as well as the twokinds of hunger. Kindly listen and be blessed.

## Transcript

[0:01] Thank you. My heart is grateful.
[0:08] Every fiber of my being is grateful.
[0:13] Thank you. Thank you Yahweh.
[0:18] Thank you Yeshua. Thank you, Jesus.
[0:23] Thank you. Thank you so much.
[0:27] Thank you. You've done so much.
[0:33] Thank you, thank you, thank you. We bless you Lord, in Jesus
[0:43] name, Amen. Please be seated.
[1:07] Thank you Holy Spirit, thank you.
[1:16] You're welcome to our second service, empowerment service.
[1:23] I believe that this morning you'll be so empowered with the
[1:26] word of God and you will never be the same again.
[1:28] Amen. Your Amen is so weak, you will
[1:31] never be the same again. So we continue with our series
[1:36] that we titled The Seven Pillars of Christian Spirituality.
[1:43] If you have followed our teachings for for a while now,
[1:47] by now you should understand what it means to be spiritual
[1:55] and what spirituality means. We have explained so many
[1:59] things, and I may not have enough time to go back to the
[2:03] foundations that we laid because there's so much to cover.
[2:07] I'm sure this teaching can last till the end of the year, but I
[2:10] still have some very important truths to teach you.
[2:12] So we may have to be very fast at it.
[2:15] So we started with the pillars, and we set the first pillar of
[2:20] Christian spirituality is spiritual warfare.
[2:23] Your understanding of spiritual warfare #2 is your understanding
[2:29] of spiritual laws. We explain that just like there
[2:32] are laws that govern the physical world, there are also
[2:35] laws that govern the spiritual world.
[2:37] And when people violate those spiritual laws, they begin to
[2:40] experience problems #4 is what we call spiritual exercise #5 is
[2:47] spiritual gifts. Number six is spiritual fruits
[2:51] and #7 is spiritual authority. So last week we began with the
[2:56] third pillar of Christian spirituality and we said it is
[3:01] what spiritual hunger. Now the reason why spiritual
[3:06] hunger is a pillar and every Christian must understand is
[3:14] because spiritual hunger is a weapon in the hands of God.
[3:20] I'm going to be opening your eyes as time permits me.
[3:24] And I believe that as we go through the Word of God, your
[3:27] life will never be the same again.
[3:29] If you believe that, say you're loud as Amen.
[3:33] We explained last week that spiritual hunger is a deep
[3:37] longing or desire for a deeper connection with God.
[3:43] Spiritual hunger is a deep longing or desire for a deeper
[3:49] connection with God, to seek God or to do the lost will.
[3:56] Now before I continue, I want us to understand that deep within,
[4:00] inside of everyone is a desire for a Maker.
[4:07] Don't believe what atheists say. Atheists don't understand what
[4:11] they say. Anyone who says she doesn't
[4:14] believe in God, it's a liar. Because when God created you,
[4:18] there was something He placed inside you.
[4:21] That will one day seek his face. Are you here with me?
[4:25] So we explained that spiritual hunger is a certain desire.
[4:31] It's a longing to have an experience of God or to seek the
[4:35] face of God or to have a connection with God.
[4:39] We also said that spiritual hunger is a yearning and a
[4:44] driving force that moves man to. Seek the Lord and to do His
[4:49] will. Maybe for the purpose of those
[4:53] who are making some notes, I repeat that again.
[4:54] Spiritual hunger is a yearning and a driving force that moves a
[5:01] man to seek the Lord and do His will.
[5:07] There are several scriptures in the Bible that speaks about
[5:10] spiritual hunger. When you read the book of Psalm
[5:13] 42, the verse one David. Cried.
[5:16] In his prayer. He says as the heart or the deer
[5:21] panted after the water, Brooks so panted my soul after Dee.
[5:27] Oh God. In the book of Psalm 63 from the
[5:31] verse one, David also cried again.
[5:35] He says, Oh God, down at my God, only will I seek thee.
[5:40] My soul fasts for thee, my flesh longer for thee, in a dry and a
[5:48] thirsty land. Where?
[5:49] No water is in the book of first Peter chapter 2, the verse 2
[5:58] Peter said as newborn babes desire the CCM milk of the word.
[6:03] The word desire there is to crave.
[6:06] You will notice that when a baby wants to eat or drink breast
[6:10] milk, there's a way the child cries for your attention.
[6:13] And the Bible is saying that when we get born again, we are
[6:16] born as spiritual babes. But the Bible says that we must
[6:20] desire the sincere milk that we may grow, which means spiritual
[6:25] hunger is very necessary for spiritual growth.
[6:30] Spiritual hunger is a necessity for spiritual growth.
[6:34] In other words, without a hunger for God, you cannot grow as a
[6:39] charm of God. Now we said that God put
[6:44] everything. In fact, let me give you the 10
[6:46] definition for spiritual hunger. Spiritual hunger is man's strong
[6:50] appetite for the deep things of God.
[6:55] Spiritual hunger is a man's word.
[7:00] What is a man's strong appetite for the deep things of God.
[7:10] Now last week we said that God put in every living thing
[7:15] something called hunger for the purpose of growth and
[7:20] continuation of life. So every living thing gets
[7:26] hungry and tasty animals get hungry and tasty.
[7:31] Birds, lions, fowls, goats, God put it there so that there can
[7:44] be continuation of life and so that there can be growth.
[7:47] Are you here with me? So we said something very
[7:50] important, that hunger is a proof of two things.
[7:54] We are using physical hunger to explain spiritual hunger.
[7:58] Hunger is a proof of how many things Two things number one, we
[8:02] said hunger is a proof of what life is, a proof that you are
[8:05] alive. Dead men don't get hungry.
[8:10] It's a. Proof of life.
[8:14] If you're hungry, you are alive #2 We said hunger is a proof
[8:19] what that you are healthy. It's a proof of health.
[8:24] One of the ways we can test that a man is sick is by checking his
[8:29] appetite for food. A young man who who, who eats
[8:33] probably 3 bowls of kinky, suddenly you give him four bowls
[8:36] of kinky and then he puts his hand in it and then he just puts
[8:39] the food back. He doesn't want to eat.
[8:42] That's a sign that the person is sick.
[8:46] Because anytime you are sick, you lose appetite.
[8:49] Are you? Are you getting this?
[8:50] So now this is to explain what spiritual anger proves.
[8:54] Spiritual hunger in the life of a believer is a proof that he's
[8:58] truly born again, and #2 it's a proof that he's spiritually
[9:03] healthy. Are you here with me?
[9:06] So as a Christian, if there is no yearning to know God, there
[9:11] is no desire to read your Bible. Nothing pushes you for one
[9:16] month, one week, 3 days, 5 days. You feel so comfortable about
[9:21] your experience, you just go to work.
[9:23] You dress up, you go to work, you come back in the evening,
[9:26] you sleep. You wake up again, you go to
[9:29] work, you make money, you come back, you sleep.
[9:32] There is no yearning for God. It's a proof that something has
[9:35] affected your hunger for God. It's also a proof that you have
[9:40] a spiritual health. Problem are you here with me?
[9:45] So look. Every physical reality has a
[9:49] spiritual connotation. If there is sickness in the
[9:53] physical, there is sickness in. If there is death in a physical,
[10:00] there is death in. Remember God said to Adam in the
[10:03] day you eat of the food you so sure you die.
[10:05] Did Adam die instantly? But he died what?
[10:08] That was that spiritual death. So likewise, there is physical
[10:17] hunger and very spiritual hunger, and spiritual hunger in
[10:20] the life of a believer is a sign that he is what healthy.
[10:26] Now today I want to teach you on the four kinds of appetites that
[10:30] is in every man. I'm teaching you about you.
[10:37] There are 4 appetites in every man.
[10:44] And by explanation, the knowledge of these 4 appetites
[10:47] will guide you on how to function as a child of God.
[10:54] The first appetite is what we call the food Appetite hidden
[11:01] inside everybody is what we call.
[11:04] Food appetite. That is why you get hungry for
[11:07] food. No matter how much you delay in
[11:10] eating, there is a hunger that will hit you that will make you
[11:13] look for food because God put it inside you.
[11:16] It is a natural thing that God put in everybody.
[11:20] Are you here with me? So food appetite is an appetite
[11:24] that God put in man for him to desire for food and water.
[11:36] Are we learning #2 The second appetite is what we call the
[11:44] greed appetite now. The greed appetite happened
[11:49] after the fall. The greed appetite came after
[11:55] the fall and is a human selfishness and self
[11:59] centeredness is an appetite in man that craves for more even
[12:08] when he has enough. It's an appetite in man that
[12:14] makes him look at himself first, at the detriment of others.
[12:24] And I'm going to be explaining something very important for us
[12:26] this morning, the greed appetite.
[12:29] Have you noticed that when God spoke to man and said to him, of
[12:32] all the trees, you don't touch any of them, You don't eat any
[12:35] of them, Sorry. You can eat of every fruit.
[12:40] In the gardening of every tree, but there's one you should not
[12:43] eat from, which is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
[12:46] The moment man ate, what happened?
[12:50] He became, he became one conscious of his, of his
[12:58] nakedness. So all along man was walking
[13:02] naked and he was not aware, which means his heart was so
[13:07] much in tune with God that he lost consciousness of self.
[13:13] Are you following that? So observe this.
[13:16] The first thing that happened to man when he fell was self.
[13:22] So he noticed he was naked and tried to look for fig leaves to
[13:25] cover his nakedness. So man now became conscious of
[13:29] himself. The effect of that is what we
[13:32] have selfishness and greed. Look, look at me.
[13:36] Every sin is rooted in greed. And selfishness, everything you
[13:42] can name everything in the Bible, everything going on now
[13:46] is rooted in selfishness, stealing selfishness.
[13:53] You're not content what you have, you want what has have
[13:56] Jealousy, envy, selfishness. Why should she be beautiful and
[14:01] I'm not? Self centeredness, anger.
[14:06] You could not control emotions. Self as well as every other
[14:15] thing is with himself. So look, the more selfless you
[14:18] become, the more perfect you become, which is why in the book
[14:23] of John 3 John said I must decrease and he must increase,
[14:28] which means the more Christ increases in your life, the more
[14:33] self decreases. And that is what we call
[14:36] spiritual growth. Is the amount of Christ that has
[14:39] amplified in you? That's spiritual growth.
[14:47] Are we learning? So look, one of the traits of
[14:51] carnality is selfishness. Self.
[14:58] Now, have you observed that when you take a group photo and they
[15:02] send your photo to you, who do you watch first, please?
[15:05] Do you watch the other people in their pictures?
[15:07] I've never seen anybody. Even if you take with three
[15:09] people and they send you the picture, the first person you
[15:12] focus on is. There was a time I took a
[15:16] picture with my wife and when I looked at it, my wife said it's
[15:19] not nice, delete it. I said it's nice.
[15:21] I was looking at myself. I said I won't delete it.
[15:25] He said I'm not. Looking so she looked at
[15:27] herself. I also looked at myself.
[15:32] Are you following? Have you noticed when?
[15:35] Food is served for five people and you are asked to pick one.
[15:40] You check the one with the big chicken.
[15:43] You check the one that has more rice in it.
[15:46] Right? That is selfishness because when
[15:51] you are truly growing in Christ and you are told to select, you
[15:54] tell them, come and pick. I'll pick last.
[16:01] I don't think what I'm saying. You understand me, soon I will
[16:13] earn something today, so the desire to be first without
[16:19] caring who you offend is part of self the desire to win.
[16:23] So you may win the whole thing, but at the end of the day you
[16:26] have offended too many people at the top.
[16:29] It's. All self.
[16:32] So this is when the the the second appetite is which we call
[16:35] greed. Appetite is in everybody.
[16:38] Look, there is an amount of greed inside you.
[16:40] You have controlled yours and there are some of you.
[16:42] It is under control because you don't have money.
[16:50] The opportunity hasn't come. You know some of you are like,
[16:52] hey, the government officials are corrupt, they are corrupt.
[16:55] They are corrupt. The day one of you is appointed,
[17:01] the day one of you is appointed to be the commissioner or
[17:04] something, or indeed you Commission things, you will
[17:09] truly Commission things. Then we come to the third
[17:16] appetite, which we call the sex appetite.
[17:28] The sex appetite, Now this was a very innocent definition I'm
[17:33] giving to you because when I said sex appetite, everybody's
[17:35] thinking wild. Sex appetite is something God
[17:39] put in every man. So sex is not evil.
[17:43] Are you here with me? It's not evil.
[17:45] It is how it is administered. That's where the problem comes.
[17:52] So sex, appetite is something God.
[17:54] So it's a hunger and an appetite and a desire in everyone for the
[17:59] purpose of two main things, for the purpose of pleasure and
[18:04] procreation. Why God puts the desire in sex
[18:11] for man? It's for the purpose of pleasure
[18:13] and what progression within the confinement of marriage.
[18:24] Are we learning So check this out before I give you the 4th
[18:32] appetite. Learn something today.
[18:37] Satan's goal is to ensure that the. 1st. 3 appetites I just
[18:44] mentioned is perverted and is abused and becomes a tool he can
[18:50] use to destroy you. Are you following me?
[18:53] Are you following me? So now God put the desire to eat
[18:56] in every man, but Satan will inspire you to eat everything
[19:00] anyhow, anytime, any day and overeat and get problems.
[19:11] Are you with me? Look, every overeating habit is
[19:15] an attack. I'm telling you, you can go and
[19:19] do your study. Diabetes, most of the sickness
[19:24] people, it first begins with the kind of food you've been eating.
[19:29] Are you with me? There are some of you know some
[19:31] foods will not help you. Even the time you eat, we see
[19:40] sometimes when you're young, you will never understand certain
[19:42] things. Let eating kills.
[19:46] Let eating. I'm telling you, I can't give
[19:49] you scriptures, but it kills. Go to meet at 11:00 PM, Kebab at
[19:58] 10:00 PM, Samosa, shawarma, Shabama.
[20:14] What's the final one? You know, so all these things in
[20:30] over eating, eating all kinds of things, eating all kinds of
[20:33] foods. God put the desire to eat in us,
[20:37] but God wants us to control them.
[20:39] I'm going to be teaching you. Why fasting?
[20:41] Isn't a key. Because right now, even doctors
[20:45] are now using fasting. To heal their patients.
[20:48] Wait, check it. Let's not go spiritual if once a
[20:53] week. You put this stomach down
[20:57] without eating for 24 hours. It is more powerful than any
[21:01] drug. Fasting is medicine.
[21:03] Fasting is is a century without a knife.
[21:08] You are doing your body well. You.
[21:10] You are restoring dead cells in your body when you just allow
[21:14] your body to live without food for some time.
[21:18] And of course you drink a lot of water.
[21:21] Please, are you here with me? They are.
[21:24] See, Do you know that there's some foods you ate two years ago
[21:27] is still inside you? Oh, you don't know they are
[21:31] still trapped in your stomach liners.
[21:34] So anytime you are on a fast, what happens is that the body
[21:41] finds a way of eating and because no food is coming, the
[21:46] body now has to go and feed on some of the leftover foods that
[21:49] you kept in your body. And by that it makes you
[21:52] healthy, I hear. So when we call for fasting, you
[21:56] keep running because even in the exact 50 years, when you go
[22:01] home, read it, he says your healing will rise speedily.
[22:07] There are some constant headaches and stuff when you
[22:09] start drinking water and you start fasting at least once a
[22:13] week. I'm not talking about.
[22:15] Church declaration of fasting, you become more healthier.
[22:22] So Satan wants to perfect it. People are eating all.
[22:25] Kinds of things. The second is a great appetite.
[22:31] You see how Satan has increased greed.
[22:33] French between friends, you can imagine somebody goes to work.
[22:38] In the ministries. There's a position that has come
[22:42] somebody. Applied for the.
[22:43] Position the person was picked up, you were not picked up.
[22:46] You go to juju that they should kill this man so you can take
[22:49] that position. How many years will he be in
[22:52] power? After 10 years, 15 years you
[22:55] will leave the seat. But remember there is blood on
[22:58] your head. So certain manipulates people to
[23:02] be so greedy that they are never content with what they have.
[23:07] Are you with me? So these things are perfected
[23:09] even in sex. Satan has perverted sex and made
[23:15] sin. Out of it.
[23:18] Now people have abused it. Now there is appetite for all
[23:22] kinds of fornication, all times of all kinds of adultery, even
[23:26] threesome. So just think about it, how did
[23:32] how did this come about that three people can have sex?
[23:39] Look at the perversion. This is devilish.
[23:46] A husband gets married. Now they they, they, they are.
[23:49] They are eldest of an Orthodox Church.
[23:53] I won't mention the name of the church.
[23:56] They got married after some time and one day their wife said she
[24:03] has a fantasy. What's a fantasy?
[24:07] They the wife said probably she wants to go to Aqua safari and
[24:12] have sex with the husband on the beach on a birthday and the
[24:16] husband says no problem I'll do that for you.
[24:20] He did that on close to the husband's birthday.
[24:24] The husband also said I have a fantasy true story.
[24:35] What's my fantasy? I want to have sex with you and
[24:39] another woman at the same time. Elders of a church.
[24:45] And because he did it for her, she has to do it.
[24:47] And guess who was the second partner?
[24:50] Her kid sister. You see how the perversions
[24:57] begin? So the same thing that was meant
[24:59] for pleasure and progression is now so abuse and perfected.
[25:03] Now it becomes problems. And for your information, sex is
[25:08] highly spiritual. If you check history during
[25:13] those times, all the idol worshippers had prostitutes
[25:16] sitting on the temples. All of them.
[25:20] They had prostitutes sitting on a temple.
[25:21] And you cannot do any transaction with an idol without
[25:24] sleeping with a temple prostitute because that's how
[25:27] covenants are sealed. Are you following my taking?
[25:34] SO it's happened that she convinced the kids sister and
[25:41] added a certain token to read and it happened.
[25:45] Since that day they have not recovered again.
[25:49] The guilt, the condemnation. And guess what?
[25:52] That family is ruined. If God has to intervene because
[25:55] they have laid a foundation, their children will grow and do
[25:59] the same thing. I tell you, sin is not
[26:04] individual, sin is generational. The reason why you must control
[26:12] yourself is because if you don't stop a habit, your DNA registers
[26:18] it. Any seed you bring out will
[26:19] follow your life if the person does not.
[26:22] Have the help of God. I'm teaching you there, no
[26:30] matter how much there's a temptation for sex, never sleep
[26:34] with a prostitute. There was a banker who was about
[26:40] getting married and his friends kept convincing him at The
[26:43] Bachelorette. I don't know who brought
[26:45] Bachelorette sister, rent and all these things that before you
[26:48] do your wedding you have to meet girls, girls and do.
[26:51] I don't know where all these things came.
[26:53] A lot of problems have come out of them.
[26:55] Bachelorette party and all his friends came and they dared him.
[26:59] They dared him. They say you're not about to get
[27:00] married. You have to do your last la popo
[27:02] before you see her. Because after you get married to
[27:04] your wife, that means that no other.
[27:06] A woman will come. So do your last.
[27:08] Do your last. And we're daring him.
[27:09] And they brought a woman who was a stripper.
[27:14] The woman started dancing like this.
[27:20] Guess what? This guy slept with this woman.
[27:28] Are you ready for this? He had HIV AIDS.
[27:36] Look up on something and the baby you up on something and the
[27:41] baby didn't know. Honeymoon afterwarding had sex
[27:50] with a wife. The wife became HIV positive.
[27:54] What problem is this? What problem is this?
[28:07] Look, when we are teaching like this is for your soul, it's your
[28:13] safety. There was one man I was handling
[28:20] a case. He just felt forsake.
[28:22] He knew what to do and he went to circle and slept with a
[28:24] prostitute. Since that day, he sees the
[28:26] woman in his dream every day sleeping with him spiritually.
[28:30] Everything he has done, everything has crashed.
[28:33] Since that day. Took him to Deliverance.
[28:45] So Satan has abused this thing into homosexuality and now it's
[28:49] almost been accepted. When you watch our movies, you
[28:52] see they can make the Blue Man is the Blue Man, they call it.
[28:57] They can make the Blue Man gay. So you cannot watch the movie,
[29:00] you cannot admire the Blue Man without admiring the activity
[29:03] the Blue Man is doing. Now almost every season movie
[29:07] has lesbians and guess what? Now our conscience has not been
[29:12] desensitized and we have almost lived by it.
[29:15] We are not getting used to it. Do you know the agenda?
[29:18] We watch a cartoon and a cartoon.
[29:20] Hannah lesbians in the cartoons. What are they selling for our
[29:25] children? I've told you several times,
[29:29] Hollywood is not made to entertain you.
[29:32] You are being received. Hollywood was made to educate
[29:35] you. Every movie they are showing.
[29:37] Look at the Indian movies. What Indians are serious?
[29:41] They taught us why they do movies.
[29:43] Indians sell their culture in their movie and part of their
[29:48] culture in worshipping of spirits is dancing and singing.
[29:51] That's why in every song they'll find a way of putting 5 minutes.
[30:01] Then all of them they are telling you this our culture.
[30:04] So they have added it in a movie so that when you accept the
[30:07] movie, you accept their culture, say yeah, yeah.
[30:17] And sometimes when I get there, it's so boring and annoying.
[30:20] I say, what is that? But you have to watch it,
[30:23] especially if you're some, somebody's house, you can't
[30:24] forward it. You have to watch it.
[30:29] So you realize that everything, the Indian man will just sit and
[30:31] cross his leg behind Buddha and then he's saying something to
[30:34] Buddha, and then Buddha will just give him some power that
[30:36] you will fight. Then you win.
[30:38] What is he telling me? He's saying Buddha is my God.
[30:40] He's selling Buddha to you. Why do Christians are Christian
[30:46] movies? They are telling you there's
[30:47] power in our God, so we are selling our God to you.
[30:51] So Hollywood has an agenda. Are you following me?
[30:57] So look, watch movies with your spiritual guards on.
[31:01] Be alert. You can watch a movie in a
[31:06] spirit of fornication and daughter will enter you.
[31:15] So all these problems cause pain, cause hate, cause
[31:22] affliction, cause broken homes, cause bitterness, cause
[31:28] unforgiveness. Out of the perventions of sex,
[31:32] it has never brought anything good.
[31:34] Perverted sex has never brought any good in the family.
[31:37] It has never brought anything good in the home.
[31:39] It has only brought from either, only brought problems.
[31:46] But the fourth kind of hunger is what the teaching is focused on,
[31:50] on what we call spiritual hunger.
[31:56] Oh thank you Jesus. Spiritual hunger is the hunger
[32:03] and the appetite in man to desire for God and the things of
[32:09] God. Spiritual hunger is the hunger
[32:23] and the appetite and the desire to what to desire for God and
[32:31] the things of God. I will learn in today.
[32:40] Now here's the thing very important things to note.
[32:45] I mentioned how many appetites for right?
[32:49] The truth about these 4 appetites is that they can be
[32:53] trained and natured. They can be trained and natured.
[33:03] So you'll notice there are there are some people.
[33:06] Whose appetite for food is more than others.
[33:13] It's a training. I know a man who can never eat,
[33:17] be beyond one small bowl of banking.
[33:19] He can't eat beyond it not I haven't had money.
[33:21] He just can't eat. You know why he suffered when he
[33:24] was young. So even when you give him banku
[33:28] with chicken, you eat the banku without the chicken, then later
[33:31] you bite the bit and leave the chicken.
[33:32] The pain of hunger he went through trained.
[33:36] Him that now there's no appetite for food again.
[33:41] But there are some also. My goodness, I went for a
[33:46] wedding and I saw the buffet. The buffet.
[33:48] There's one guy who took a bow. The bowl was meant for those who
[33:53] are eating for food. He brought it for those who are
[33:55] eating rice and filled the bowl. And I was watching him.
[33:57] I said this guy won't go find life.
[34:05] So there are some whose appetite, whose great appetite
[34:09] is more because look, anything you practice for a while, it's a
[34:13] trading or giving to strengthen it.
[34:16] So if you keep eating, eating, eating in life, you become a
[34:20] foodie. And and according to Philippians
[34:22] chapter 3, the verse 19. Very soon your belly will be
[34:26] your God. Look, this thing called stomach
[34:38] is a God, is a God, he says, whose end is distraction.
[34:44] Whose God is their What belly? There are people whose God is
[34:48] their belly. Anytime their belly cries for
[34:51] food, it's as though they have stroke.
[34:55] See, I'm telling you, hunger doesn't kill until after 40
[35:01] days. This body was created to live
[35:05] without food. Look, there are four most
[35:08] important things. Number one is air #2 is water.
[35:14] Sorry. One is air #2 is water #3 is
[35:18] sleep. Number 4 is food.
[35:20] According to the order of importance, if I hold your
[35:24] breath in less than two minutes, you die.
[35:29] If I refuse to give you water for 14 days, you die If I refuse
[35:38] you to. If I refuse sleep from you for
[35:41] the next 14 to 21 days, you also die.
[35:46] In fact, it's a strategy to torture people when they want
[35:49] information from them, they keep them from sleeping.
[35:51] If they want to sleep, they hit them.
[35:52] It's one of the ways of killing a man.
[35:56] So Can you imagine? Even food is not the most
[35:58] important thing a man needs to survive.
[36:01] The 1st is air, which is breath. Breath number 2 is water #3 is
[36:07] sleep and #4 is food. So a man can live without food
[36:11] for 40 days. I'm speaking my experience also.
[36:15] It's not just something I've read.
[36:16] I have fasted for 40 days on water and coconut water three
[36:19] times. I didn't die.
[36:26] I was watching one of my videos on Bed and Heart.
[36:28] You can go and check it. When I looked at myself, I was
[36:30] like, my goodness, I was like this.
[36:35] When I came back, I must ask, when I'm preaching, you could
[36:40] see the members, some some of you were crying for me, say.
[36:42] Papa, what at all is he looking for from God?
[36:46] This is what we're looking for, and God has done it.
[36:53] So you can live without food for 40 days.
[37:01] Any serious person, very serious people hardly take breakfast.
[37:08] Except you're growing old. If you're growing old, you need
[37:10] it. If you're a student, you don't
[37:14] eat before you write exams. You how?
[37:18] Look, do you know your brain functions far better on an empty
[37:23] stomach? You are writing exams.
[37:28] You have eaten. Watching you enter the exam
[37:31] room, you'll be confused. You don't remember anything
[37:32] you've learned. I'm teaching you guys some
[37:34] serious stuff. You don't eat before you go for
[37:37] lectures. Some of you eat cocoa buffaloes.
[37:39] You enter lecture or you asleep. No, I'm teaching you how to be
[37:44] serious in life. Some of you is like you don't
[37:47] joke with your food, you don't joke with your food.
[37:49] Anybody that tempers your food, you'll be angry.
[37:51] You kiss the person. You can live without food.
[37:59] Please hear me. It's a trick.
[38:00] Your brain is tricking you. Some of you are so used to
[38:02] sugar. Sugar.
[38:03] You've eaten sugar so much that now that you are adrenaline,
[38:07] there's something in your hormone that has adapted to the
[38:10] fact that you cannot eat beyond a certain time.
[38:13] You have to eat. At that time.
[38:15] It's a lie, it's a lie. Control your food appetite.
[38:21] Now I'm coming to this point. We mentioned the food appetite
[38:27] #1 #2 greed appetite #3 sex appetite #4 spiritual appetite.
[38:33] Remember we said that these appetites can be what trained
[38:37] and what natured? So now here's the deal.
[38:40] Are you ready for this? Are you ready?
[38:44] The truth is that when your appetite for God's spiritual
[38:48] appetite begins to increase, the rest of the appetite repair
[38:53] themselves. When your spiritual appetite
[38:59] begins to increase, the rest of the appetite begin to repair
[39:03] themselves. Look, when you start yearning
[39:08] for God, nobody tells you to fast something you would try to
[39:12] fast. Apostle Paul, what scripture did
[39:14] he have about fasting? David who taught him fasting
[39:19] because they began to yearn for God.
[39:21] They just knew that the attempts food makes you lose
[39:26] concentration in the Prince of God.
[39:27] Look, not only Christians, there are other spiritual people who
[39:30] fast. Muslims fast, don't they?
[39:32] Fast, Yes. Why do?
[39:34] You think they do that because fasting is a requirement for
[39:39] spiritual things? I'm telling you, you cannot do
[39:44] spiritual things on an empty stomach on on a full stomach.
[39:49] Try eating 4 bottles of cake and let's go for a 2 hour prayer
[39:51] meeting. You realize that all your
[40:06] prayers have changed, you'll be dosing off and you change your
[40:11] prayer topic. Instead of saying Lord, I bless
[40:12] you, Lord, you say Lord, he was dosing of the Lord.
[40:22] You are my God. He says I'm your God, praise
[40:32] God. So the more you increase your
[40:36] spiritual appetite, what happens?
[40:39] Greed appetite repairs itself. Food appetite is what repairs
[40:45] itself. Sex appetite that's what repairs
[40:49] itself. It may take time, but they will
[40:52] repair. Please are you learning
[40:56] something? So I tell people, look, can I
[41:01] share this with you? If you want to destroy an
[41:04] addiction, the focus must not be on the addiction.
[41:07] The focus is increasing your appetite for God.
[41:11] Because every addiction you are in right now is actually an
[41:14] appetite you are expressing is an appetite you're expressing.
[41:20] Every sin is an appetite. So the more your appetite for
[41:25] God begins to increase, your yearning, your desire for God
[41:29] keeps increasing and appreciating what happens is
[41:33] that that appetite for God begins to swallow up on godly
[41:38] appetites. Am I teaching good here?
[41:40] Because look, we swallow hunger with hunger.
[41:48] We swallow hunger with hunger. So, so many people are rather
[41:51] focus more on the addiction than on the their desire and appetite
[41:59] for God. Because the more you increase
[42:03] appetite for God, the yearning of God begins to increase.
[42:06] You begin to hear the voice of God giving you instructions on
[42:09] what to do. You take your Bible.
[42:11] You plan to read 3 chapters before you realize the Holy
[42:13] Ghost says continue. It becomes 6 chapters.
[42:17] You plan to pray 30 minutes. The Holy Ghost says continue.
[42:19] Do it two hours. You don't know how it's going to
[42:22] happen, but God is going to start to teach you.
[42:24] Look, there is no in as much as their guideline principles on
[42:28] destroying addictions. There is one aspect of the
[42:31] instruction that comes from the Holy Ghost that is unique to you
[42:34] are. You here with me?
[42:37] So some of you are believing God to end addiction.
[42:40] Maybe somebody fasted and the person got addiction broken.
[42:44] But you when you fast, you actually do it more.
[42:48] So now you have to believe the Holy Spirit God.
[42:50] Sometimes the Holy Ghost would rather tell you that you should
[42:52] rather give. Meanwhile you're dealing with
[42:54] addiction. What has addiction got to do
[42:56] with giving? Please, are you learning?
[43:04] Hallelujah. Come on, Hallelujah.
[43:07] All right, so we have 5 minutes. Let's do something out of it.
[43:10] Now. There are two kinds of hunger.
[43:14] There are two kinds of hunger. Are you ready?
[43:20] The first hunger or #1 is the hunger to find God.
[43:27] Is the hunger to find God? Is the hunger to work?
[43:36] Find God? Now this hunger is the hunger
[43:39] inside every believer, sorry, every unbeliever.
[43:48] And guess what? It is this hunger.
[43:51] Like, remember I told you that? Now there's a technology that
[43:55] has come where you can get a tracking device.
[43:59] For example, if you have a motorbike, you can get a
[44:01] tracking device in it, right? If you have a car, you can get a
[44:03] tracking device. So if the car is lost, you can
[44:07] use the tracking device. To do what?
[44:09] Find God. Spiritual hunger is God's
[44:11] tracker He kept inside you so they can be able to find him.
[44:17] Are you here? So now this first kind of
[44:22] hunger, because people didn't find the true God, many have now
[44:27] entered into occultism, witchcraft.
[44:31] Yoga practices because of that desire in there to look for God.
[44:36] Look, every human being has seated in him accepting hunger
[44:40] to operate in a supernatural world.
[44:45] But you must find the true God. Are you listening?
[44:52] So the first hunger that is hidden inside everybody is the
[44:56] hunger to find God. And guess what?
[45:02] That hunger is satisfied. When you believe in Jesus
[45:05] Christ, how do I know? Give me the book of John chapter
[45:10] 6 verse 35. Now look, the Bible says and
[45:17] Jesus said to them, Oh I love this one, I am there, I am
[45:24] there. Oh, this class is too weak, I am
[45:27] there. You are almost coming.
[45:29] I am there, bread of life. He that cometh to me shall
[45:32] never, and he that believeth to me shall never.
[45:38] This is very simple. When you believe in Jesus, this
[45:43] first hangar to find God is satisfied instantly.
[45:56] The moment you believe in Jesus Christ, you have found God.
[46:01] He that cometh to me shall never hanger.
[46:04] Once you come to Him, that hunger is fulfilled.
[46:08] He that believed me shall never test.
[46:12] That's like a lot of rich people, wealthy people,
[46:15] influential musicians and all that.
[46:17] They accomplished everything without God.
[46:20] By the time they got to 60, they realized that is it all.
[46:23] Is it about the money? They have all the properties,
[46:25] they have the cars, but they still don't have peace.
[46:27] Some of them killed themselves. They are comedians who make
[46:30] people laugh but kill themselves.
[46:34] There are some rich men, influential people, presenters.
[46:38] In the past in Europe. They accomplished everything,
[46:42] swept awards. They killed themselves.
[46:46] You know why? Because they couldn't find God.
[46:48] That was a missing piece inside their heart.
[46:50] They had everything, but it was a missing piece.
[46:53] God. But when a man believes Jesus,
[46:57] that hunger is satisfied, Hallelujah.
[47:02] So look, if you have found Jesus, the hunger to find God is
[47:07] over. That's why there are times you
[47:11] don't have money, but you have peace.
[47:14] Because Minya, we are senior men.
[47:16] Ninara now misru yesua mashwa de Gina.
[47:52] Miwo, Miwo Yeshua, come on, sing it boldly.
[47:57] Miwo, are you proud about the badge of Christ You have Miwo
[48:02] Yesua, come on, I have everything.
[48:04] Miwo. Dingina Yesu, come on, sing it.
[48:11] Ohemi Yesu or sumbo chena di one more time.
[48:18] Miwo. Miwo.
[48:27] Yes, there's this one done by Judy Key.
[48:50] Is this more than gold? More than gold, I have something
[48:56] more than gold tell. It to the.
[49:01] World Jesus is more than gold. One more time.
[49:05] More than gold, More than gold. I have something that is more
[49:09] than gold. Something more than gold.
[49:12] I'll tell it to the world. I'll tell it to the world.
[49:16] My Jesus is more. Than for the last time, more
[49:20] than gold. More than gold, More than gold.
[49:24] I have. What money cannot give, I've
[49:25] got. Something more than gold.
[49:29] I'll tell it to the world. Jesus is more than gold.
[49:37] You are the one that is shy about Christ and what you have
[49:45] is more than gold. Are you here with me?
[49:53] I appreciate that thing inside you.
[49:56] That person, that person called Christ, is more than enough.
[50:06] Can we appreciate Mr. and Mrs. Annan Mensah?
[50:14] I know, I know the song that I'm singing today, Mr. Annan Mason
[50:22] will not appreciate that song because he has found more than
[50:24] gold. So I know that is gold.
[50:33] We appreciate. You look very good.
[50:35] You look very powerful. You look very nice.
[50:38] Hallelujah. You're welcome.
[50:44] So the first hangar is hangar for is hangar to to find God.
[50:51] Has that hunger satisfied you find Jesus.
[50:57] If you find Jesus, you have found God.
[51:01] I'm the way, the truth and the life, whoever comes through me
[51:05] will get to the Father. So Jesus is not a way, He is the
[51:13] way. There are not many ways to God.
[51:17] There's only one way to God. Jesus, he's got a bit flush.
[51:28] The second hunger, I love this one.
[51:31] Are you ready? It's the hunger to know God.
[51:39] So there is a big difference. The first hunger is the hunger
[51:46] to find God, that is for the unbeliever.
[51:49] The second hunger is the hunger to know God.
[51:53] So now that believer has found God, but he does not know God.
[51:59] So he finds God, now pursues to know God.
[52:04] Are you with me? AW told us, said something.
[52:07] He said to have found God and to still pursue Him is the source
[52:12] paradox of love. We found Him all, but we are
[52:17] still following Him. We found him and are still
[52:20] looking for Him. This time, this looking for Him
[52:24] is actually knowing Him. We call that second hunger, the
[52:28] pursuit of God. Is there hunger that makes you
[52:34] pursue God? You are found that God, but you
[52:37] are not exploring the God. You are not desiring to know
[52:40] Him. The first hunger is to find Him.
[52:42] I'm looking for God. Now you find.
[52:44] You find this God in Christ. Now you now begin to pursue Him,
[52:48] to know Him. And look, the first hunger is
[52:54] satisfied instantly when you believe Jesus, but the second
[52:58] hunger is progressive. Just like you have to eat every
[53:02] day, every day you get hungry. This hunger is constant.
[53:07] The more you know God, the more you want to know Him.
[53:09] After 30 years of exploring God, Apostle Paul still prayed and
[53:12] said that I may know him, which means you cannot finish
[53:15] exploring God. So if you have not started, I
[53:19] beat you. Are we learning something?
[53:31] So the first hunger is to make you born again.
[53:38] The second hunger is to make you grow and utilize the resources
[53:44] in heaven. Are you learning?
[53:50] So next week when I come, we're going to explore the killers of
[53:56] spiritual hunger and the boosters of spiritual hunger.
[54:01] I have a lot to share with you. And next week you're going to
[54:03] learn more. Someone says, man of God,
[54:04] there's always something you want.
[54:06] There's always something you talk.
[54:07] That's it. There's so much in God to talk
[54:09] about. Next week we're going to
[54:11] continue and your life will never be the same.
[54:14] God bless everybody. There's a simple prayer you want
[54:22] to pray. I just want to be where you are
[54:28] dwelling daily in your presence. I don't want no worship for my
[54:36] fire. I just want to be with you.
[54:46] I just want to be where you are dwelling daily.
[54:50] Come on, sing it, dwelling daily in your presence.
[54:58] I don't want no worship for all my fire.
[55:02] Come on, I just want to be with you.
[55:10] I want to be where you are, dwelling in your presence,
[55:17] feasting at your table, feasting at your table, surrounded by
[55:24] your glory in your presence. That's where I always long to
[55:34] be. I just want to be.
[55:42] I just want to be with you. I just want.
[55:51] To be I just want to be with you.
[56:00] Can you humbly rise up on your feet?
[56:02] We want to spend 5 minutes in prayer.
[56:08] We want to pour on our hearts to Jesus.
[56:11] You are praying a very simple prayer.
[56:12] You are saying, Lord, I want to know you, I have found you, but
[56:16] I want to still know you and every heart that prays.
[56:19] This prayer will never be denied by God.
[56:22] You will stretch your friend by opening your mouth and saying,
[56:25] Jesus, I want to know you. You may not have the means, you
[56:28] may not know how to start, but you are just a prayer away.
[56:32] You want to talk to God and tell him.
[56:34] Lord help me. Just close your eyes.
[56:37] Pray this prayer in the next 3 minutes, raise your voice and
[56:40] pray. Lord, I want to know you.
[56:43] Lord, I want to know you. Teach me your ways, teach me
[56:48] your ways. Teach me your ways, Teach me
[56:54] your ways. Teach me your ways.
[57:02] Teach me a ways, Lord. Teach me a ways.
[57:07] Teach me your ways, Lord, I want to know you.
[57:11] I want to know you. Lord, I want to know you, Lord,
[57:15] coming, I want to know you. Lord, I want to know you.
[57:21] Jesus, I want to know you. Help me to know you.
[57:26] It's all about you. You have one minute, 30 seconds.
[57:32] I'm sorry, Lord, for the thing of me.
[57:38] The Lord is listening to you. If you're watching on Facebook,
[57:42] if you're watching on YouTube, pray the prayer with us.
[57:46] Everybody focus on Jesus and pray this prayer.
[57:50] To the heart of world where it's all about you.
[57:57] It's all about you, Jesus. Thank you.
[58:07] Father, today our hearts are before you.
[58:12] Please place your right hand on your heart.
[58:17] Anybody here who has struggled with a spiritual life, You take
[58:27] your Bible, you are sleeping, you're dozing.
[58:31] Sometimes you want to pray, but you realize you find yourself
[58:34] not praying. You, you, you just be lying in
[58:36] bed and be praying your head. You just can't open your mouth.
[58:39] You can't find words. If you're that man, that woman,
[58:43] I'm praying for you today. You've made attempts, but
[58:47] something is stifling you. Something is is blocking you,
[58:53] you become dried up spiritually. You're looking for an outfall.
[58:58] You want God to to come through for you and and open avenues for
[59:04] you to know him. I'm praying for you today,
[59:08] humbly, humbly. That person that has lost his
[59:15] faith, that person that has given up on church, that person
[59:22] that said it's too difficult to serve God.
[59:25] I'm not going to church again. That that person that finds it
[59:29] difficult to execute business with God.
[59:37] You open your Bible, you are confused.
[59:40] There is something inside you that doesn't want to go to God.
[59:44] I'm praying for you Father, restore hunger, restore hunger
[59:52] and thirst this afternoon. Feel every heart that is open to
[59:59] you this afternoon. Your word declares as such of
[1:00:04] the 55, he says law come all who test, come buy wine without
[1:00:11] money. Lord, we don't have money, we
[1:00:16] have our hearts. And we bring and present our
[1:00:21] hearts before you, that you pour your rain upon us.
[1:00:27] Pour your rain upon us, Lord. Send help, send help.
[1:00:34] Stir up a new desire in US, and new hunger and new thirst in US.
[1:00:45] Fill our hearts with your power. Enable us to know You Lord, and
[1:00:54] all the glory shall be given back unto You.
[1:00:58] Anytime we want to accomplish anything by our strength, You
[1:01:02] said we shall not prevail, but anytime we lean on You, anytime
[1:01:08] we cry to you. You said horses and Chariots are
[1:01:11] ready for war, but God giveth a victory.
[1:01:15] Lord, we don't have the strength.
[1:01:18] We cry for mercy, he said. Let us come boldly before the
[1:01:22] throne of grace and find help and obtain grace in time of
[1:01:29] need. Lord, we're in need this
[1:01:32] afternoon and the need is you, Lord, beyond cast, beyond a new
[1:01:41] job with, beyond marriage, beyond having children, beyond
[1:01:45] owning houses, beyond owning properties.
[1:01:50] Our spiritual destinies where our spirit man is going to spend
[1:01:54] eternity is what we earn for Lord, because everything that we
[1:01:59] work for, we will leave it down here on this earth and we will
[1:02:05] come and meet you as a maker. May we not appear before you are
[1:02:08] shamed. Give us strength to seek your
[1:02:13] face. Let us not leave this earth
[1:02:17] without doing your will. Let us not leave this earth
[1:02:21] without serving you. Let us not leave this earth
[1:02:25] without knowing you. Show us mercy, show us mercy,
[1:02:33] show us mercy and help us from today.
[1:02:39] As your people go back home, stir up a new yearning and a new
[1:02:44] desire within them. We bless your name and we give
[1:02:47] you praise in Jesus name.

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