Hunger for God: Be Dissatisfied with Your Present Satisfaction || Apostle Johnson Suleman

One of the greatest hindrances to spiritual growth and revival in the church today is complacency—a state of being satisfied with where we are spiritually while ignoring the call to deeper intimacy with God. The words spoken in the sermon “Hunger for God” powerfully echo the need to become dissatisfied with our current satisfaction. It’s time to awaken from spiritual slumber and pursue God with uncommon passion!

The Nature of Spiritual Hunger

In the natural world, hunger diminishes when we eat. However, spiritual hunger operates on an entirely different principle. The more of God we encounter, the more we desire Him. The deeper we delve into His presence, the more our spirits cry out for greater revelations of His glory.

Jesus spoke of this in Matthew 5:6 (KJV):
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”

This kind of hunger is not just a fleeting feeling—it is a passionate, relentless pursuit of God that refuses to settle for less. It is an intense desire that drives us to seek the Lord continually, knowing that there is always more to experience and more to receive from Him.

The Tragedy of Spiritual Satisfaction

One of the preacher’s profound points was that the church has become a generation of satisfied people—a generation content with the ordinary when the extraordinary is within reach. How tragic it is when believers no longer cry out for revival, no longer feel the burden to intercede, and no longer have a yearning for deeper fellowship with God.

We see in today’s church a people who have settled into routine prayers, mechanical worship, and predictable spiritual practices. But when life puts pressure on you, you must put pressure on God! Instead of resigning to fate when the storms of life rage, we must be stirred to seek God more fervently, refusing to accept defeat or spiritual dormancy.

Nehemiah: An Example of Uncommon Passion

Here are compelling parallel from the life of Nehemiah. In Nehemiah 1:4 (NIV), he declares:
“When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.”

When Nehemiah heard that the walls of Jerusalem were broken down and the gates burned with fire, he did not respond with apathy. While others heard the same news and moved on, Nehemiah’s heart broke, and he could not remain passive. He wept, fasted, and cried out to God for intervention.

Nehemiah took common information with uncommon passion. How often do we hear distressing news, receive bad reports, or see spiritual decline and remain unmoved? Nehemiah’s response challenges us to refuse complacency and allow holy dissatisfaction to drive us into deeper prayer and action.

Waiting on God and the Comfort of the Lord

The meaning behind Nehemiah’s name and his father’s name, as explained by the preacher, is profound.

• Nehemiah means “comfort of the Lord”.
• Hachaliah (his father) means “wait on the Lord”.

This profound connection reveals a spiritual truth:
Those who wait on the Lord will experience His comfort.
In times of trials, pressures, and spiritual drought, waiting on God births supernatural comfort and strength. Nehemiah’s passion and burden led to one of the most remarkable rebuilding projects recorded in Scripture. He became an agent of restoration because he refused to be satisfied with the broken state of Jerusalem.

A Holy Dissatisfaction

What would happen if believers everywhere embraced holy dissatisfaction with their current spiritual states? What if we refused to be at ease when the enemy wreaks havoc on our families, communities, and nations? What if we began to cry out for revival with the same hunger and desperation that marked the early church and mighty men of God like Nehemiah?

We must become dissatisfied with spiritual mediocrity and long for a genuine move of God that transforms lives and shapes destinies.

A Call to Awaken

It is time to rise from the ashes of complacency and allow a fresh hunger for God to consume our hearts. Like Nehemiah, let our response to troubling situations be one of prayer, fasting, and passionate pursuit of God’s intervention. Let us refuse to be satisfied with the status quo and instead press into the deeper things of God.

If we dare to awaken our spiritual hunger, we will experience the filling of God’s Spirit, the comfort of His presence, and the power to rebuild broken walls in our lives and communities. God is calling His church to a higher level of intimacy and power—but it begins with hunger.

Will you be one of those who awaken to this call? Will you become dissatisfied with spiritual complacency and pursue God with relentless passion?
Hunger for God, and watch Him fill your life with His glorious presence and power!
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