“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Matthew 5:3-6

What Does it Mean to Hunger and Thirst?

It’s part of the human experience.

Why is there happiness in being hungry and thirsty?

• It’s a sign of life
• It’s a sign of health. People who are sick and dying will not be hungry
• We should be hungry to be right with God

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

Psalms 42:1‭-‬2

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

Psalms 63:1

“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 2:13

Memory Verses

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Matthew 5:6

but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

John 4:14

Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

John 6:35

A prayer To Hunger And Thirst

“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. am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; /

long to be filled with

longing; I thirst to be made

more thirsty still.”

A.W. Tozer