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God fills with good things is your soul hungry. Do you hunger for more of God?

Do you desire crave more of God? According to Psalm 107 verse 9, this is the key to

satisfaction in your soul. This is the key to your soul, your heart, your mind, your life

being filled with good things. God satisfies the longing soul. God fills with

good things, the hungry soul. And I just want to encourage you today to cultivate

this kind of soul, this kind of heart before God. It's hungry for him. You say, well, how do I,

how do I make my heart hungry for him? And the answer to that question is by feasting on him.

I've used illustration many times before of when I first went over to my wife Heather's house,

we were just getting to know each other at that point. And I grew up in a family where we never

ate seafood. And my dad didn't like seafoods. We just never ate it. But when I got over there,

that night, her family was having seafood. And even the smell of seafood I didn't even like,

I guess just because of the influence of my dad. But I sat down and this seafood feast was placed

in front of me. And I ate every bite and said how much I loved it. As I wanted to make a good

impression on my girlfriend's family. And the problem is they believed me, which meant in subsequent

times I would eat with her family. And they'd be like, hey, we're making seafood since you love

seafood. I started going on vacations with her family. And we'd go to seafood restaurants. They'd be

like, what's your favorite seafood restaurant? And I'm like, ah, I don't know. They're all so good.

Like the reality is I knew where the burger restaurants were, but not the seafood restaurants.

But the end of that story is today, I love seafood. Why? Because I had to eat seafood in order to

get my wife. And I say that jokingly, but my taste buds changed as I ate more seafood. And it's

not a perfect illustration. And I'm certainly not saying just feast on God, even if it doesn't taste

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