What is Hungering For God?

We are continuing our study of a fascinating area of God's Word - BIBLICAL FASTING. To best understand fasting in God's Word we may need another way to describe biblical fasting, and that would be to ask:

'How is your Hunger for God?' or 'How are you doing in the total yielding of your life to Christ this morning?'

Most of us would say, as we look around at our lives and others', that we are all right. But Jesus gave a different test. He said don't look around at others; look inside. He asks, 'Does your hungering after Jesus Christ, His Word, His way, His coming, His righteousness, His will, and His supremacy in your life cause you to choose joyfully and willingly to abstain from food?'