The Watchtower, study edition, January, 2006. This article will be studied during the week of March 2nd through 8th.

Continue to satisfy your spiritual need.

Theme text. Are your text for 2006? Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need.

Matthew 5.3.

Song 97.

Life depends on God's word.

Focus.

How we can continue to benefit from the spiritual food, clothing, and shelter that Jehovah provides.

Paragraph 1 question. Jehovah has created us with what basic needs?

Jehovah has created humans with certain basic needs. For example, to sustain our life, we need food, clothing, and shelter.

If we lack any one of these necessities, even for a brief time, life becomes a trial.

In addition to creating us with a need for those material things,

Jehovah has also created us with a spiritual need.

Matthew 5.3 reads,

Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need, since the kingdom of the heavens belongs to them.

If we want to be truly happy, we have to be aware of that need and then continue to satisfy it.

Paragraph 2 question, how would you illustrate what it means to be conscious of your spiritual need?

What does it mean to be conscious of our spiritual need?

The original language expression conveys the idea of being a beggar for the spirit.

That phrase creates a powerful mental picture. Imagine a scraggly figure clothed in rags,

crouching on the corner of a city street. He is weak from a lack of food, shunned because of his

appearance, and exposed to the searing heat of day

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