As a child, did you ever go to bed hungry? If you did, you know what it's like to have a gnawing sense of being unsatisfied haunt you throughout the night. But when you received physical food, did you still feel like you hadn't had enough? Were you ever satisfied?

Tonight, let's address another kind of hunger and thirst that many of you may have faced...the hunger and thirst for God. This, too, can gnaw at you in the night. The question is, how do you become filled? Can this hunger for God ever be satisfied?

One reason many of you may be feeling dissatisfied in your spirit is from filling yourselves with the wrong things. Entertainment, overeating, overdrinking, overwork, new relationships and material possessions have all been used to try to fill inner emptiness...but they will never work, for Jesus said:

"Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:13-14, NKJV).

The water which will make us continually thirst is the "water" of the world. Nothing derived from the physical world, self or Satan can ever truly satisfy our spiritual man...only the Spirit of God can do that.

Start tonight to spend the time to eat and drink of Him in His Word...and rest contentedly with your spirit filled - and be satisfied!

Heavenly Father, thank you that, in You, I can be truly filled and satisfied...I can see an end to my inner restlessness, dissatisfaction and hunger! No longer will I lust after things that cannot truly fill me. Teach me to drink deeply of You, so that I, too, can become a fountain of living water. In Jesus' Name, Amen.