Quail with Manna Bread

Quail with Manna Bread
Psalm 78:1-22
March 2-3, 2025

This Psalm was written by Asaph. Now, many Bible scholars believe that there were two authors of the Psalms by the name of Asaph. Now, the first one we met last week, he was one of maybe David's greatest worship leader, and choir director. He would take the Psalms that David would write and he would give them to Asaph. He would write them into the orchestra, in the choir, and teach them, "Oh, worship and praise" filled the city of Jerusalem.

The second Asaph, no doubt, was named after him as mothers would commonly do, naming their children after great figures of history. Likely, that's what happened here. He's named Asaph. He lived much later in the history of Israel. Likely during the time that Israel was defeated by the Babylonians. The nation of Israel at that time had endured one tragedy after another because of their unfaithfulness the result of which brought about the tragedy of that nation, the weak, defeated of that nation.

He wrote this Psalm as a word of instruction, but also, as an inspiration of their faith. Israel needed a revival. They were in great need of revival. They had turned their back on God and the result was disaster, so they needed a revival and He meant to stir up their faith during revival by writing this Psalm. I tell you, it is a Psalm for today because we need revival today. It is a messed up world, and we need revival.

He's reminding them in this Psalm of the faithfulness of God over the history of Israel. O, the steadfast faithfulness of God. He reminded them that God intended to give to them that land of Israel. He intended to be that land for them to be a place of blessing and abundant favor, land flowing with milk and honey. God wanted that place to be that place where they would thrive in their faith, in their relationship to God. It tells us that God gave them that beautiful heritage.

If only they would walk steadfastly in the ways of God that He said before them. He gave them a testimony that they would teach their children and then generation after generation, they would be reminded of the wonderful works that God had done for Israel, so that the intended point was that then generation after generation, they would learn to put their confidence in God. That is what revival is. When faith arises to trust God, to believe in the Almighty, and that know that His glory abounds with them.

He says, "Along with that reminder of the promises of God and the wonder of his glory, He gave them a warning but do not be like that stubborn, rebellious generation that came out of Egypt." That was the foundation of the attitude of rebelliousness and stubbornness before God. It says, "That generation did not keep their soul right before God and whose spirit was unfaithful." Now, that warning that He gives to Israel in that Psalm is a word for us today. In fact, interestingly, Paul writing in 1 Corinthians 10, said a very similar word really applied to us.

Speaking of that very same generation, he said, "I do not want you to be unaware brethren, that our Fathers, again, that generation, our Fathers were all under the cloud and passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food. They all drink the same spiritual drink for they were drinking from a spiritual rock, which followed them, and that rock was Christ." That is an amazing declaration right there. It was a spiritual understanding.

God was doing a spiritual thing. It says, "Nevertheless, with most of them, God was not well pleased. For they were laid low in the wilderness." Now, these things happen to them as an example and they were written for our instruction upon whom all the ends of the ages have come." Asaph in the Psalm reminded them of that time, "Do not be like that generation that people who became," it says, "Like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the Lord. Don't be like that," he says. Adversity has tested the faith of many people.

Adversity has shipwrecked the faith of many people. Well, what did God expect from Israel? Well, God expected them to walk through the wilderness, the desert, the time of adversity with endurance, with faith, believing and trusting that God was with them and to look back and be thankful that they had been set free from the oppression and slavery in Egypt. To be thankful that God had provided miraculously for them in bringing water to quench their thirst, and managed to sustain them on the way.

I. We Must Learn to Master Adversity

God wanted them to be victorious in the adversity of the wilderness and God wants us to endure adversity as well. This is a trouble-filled world with a trouble-filled life, filled with adversity and don't allow your faith to be shipwrecked, but strengthen your faith in the storm and know that God will use these things in your life. God was taking Israel through a wilderness to get to the land of promise that there is a destination. Right there, I will bring you to that land where there is a future and the hope. He's bringing them through the adversity to a destination.

If they would just stand firm and be faithful and remember all the wonderful things that God had done and not to complain of adversity in the hearing of the Lord, God would bring them to that place, come through the wilderness where there's a destination in it. It really applies to our lives as well. We're going through a troubled adversity-filled world, but there's a destination. God Has a place, there is a hope. God Has meaning and purpose for the journey and He is with us all along the way.

All right, Psalm 78. It's a very long Psalm, but we're only going to read one section from it and then we'll look at the other verses, of course, around that at the Wednesday verse-by-verse, chapter by chapter service Psalm 78:1, "Listen all my people to my instruction, incline your ears to the words of my mouth, for I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known and our Fathers have told us.

We will not conceal them from our children, but we will tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and His strength and His wondrous works that He has done for He established a testimony in Jacob. He appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our Fathers, that they should teach them to their children. That the generation to come might know even the children yet to be born, that they might arise and tell them to their children so that they should put their confidence in God."

That is what revival is, that is the very point of that. To arise in your faith, to trust, to put your confidence in God and not forget the works of God, but to keep his commandments. Move down to verse 8, "And do not be like their Fathers. That was a stubborn and rebellious generation. A generation that did not prepare their heart or set their hearts right and whose spirit was not faithful to God." Moved to verse 11. "And they forgot His works and His miracles.

Literally, wonderful works that He had shown them for He wonders before their Fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan, that's the capital of Egypt There. He divided the sea and caused them to pass through. He made the water stand up like a heap. Then He led them with the cloud by day, and all the night with the light of fire. He split the rocks in the wilderness. He gave them abundant drink like ocean depths. He brought forth streams also from the rock, and he caused waters to run down like rivers. Yet they still continued to sin against Him, to rebel against the most high there in the desert. In their heart," verse 18, "And in their heart, they put God to the test." Now you put God to the test when you say, "God, prove it. You say you do wonders, prove it." He says, "They put God to the test by asking food according to their desires," their greedy desires literally, "Then they spoke against God.

They said, 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?" "Behold, yes, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out and streams were overflowing, yes, but can He get bread and will He provide meat for his people? We want meat.” Therefore, the Lord heard that and was full of wrath, and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger mounted against Israel because they did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation."

All right. These are the verses that we want to look at really much for us to apply to our lives today starting with this, we must learn to master adversity. Verse 11, "They forgot the deeds there, the miracles that He had shown them." Verse 12, "For He did wonders there before their fathers in the land of Egypt. He divided the sea, caused them to pass through, led them with cloud by day, fire by night." Now, it's not that God expected them to somehow defeat the desert to somehow reduce the heat.

That's not what He means, to somehow make the desert green. No, He expected them to walk through that adversity. The desert's always going to be a desert. To walk through that wilderness victoriously by remembering, never forgetting. Remembering all the wonderful things that God Has done. God Has proven Himself. Over and over and over He proved Himself. Remember that so that you would be victorious, so that you will learn to master the wilderness, or the wilderness will master you.

Learn to endure victoriously, to learn to suffer through adversity well. Pastor, I was thinking of it as the illustration. Pastor Sean and I some years ago, we were in Africa teaching pastors conferences, and both of us were struck by what we saw there. The people are going through adversity. You want to talk about difficulty of life, right, but the joy of the Lord, oh my. You go to a church service there, and I'm telling you, those people know how to worship. The joy of the Lord fills that house.

They hang on to every word that is taught to them by the Word of God and they are celebrating and joy. They have the joy of the Lord, and they're going through troubles. If you and I went through that, we wouldn't know what to do. They're walking in the joy of the Lord. They have learned to go through adversity well with strong faith. Now, Israel had God, and God promised that His presence would be with them through that wilderness. He would be with them on the journey and that His glory and His presence would be enough.

Now, the desert heat, yes, it's always going to be a desert. It's always going to be hot. It's dry. It's difficult. I don't know if you've ever had to work outside in the summertime. That unrelenting heat, the sun doesn't stop beating down and you get so irritated. It's irritating in the flesh. It stands ready to complain when you're going through such a difficult time. It tells us, "No, you must learn to master adversity." You must learn to master the wilderness or it will master you. Now, they would not be ready, in other words, for the land of milk and honey, the land of abundant blessing, until they had learned faith. Until they had learned to master the wilderness.

You know what's interesting is that their attitude in adversity made their journey much longer than it needed to be. It was their attitude in the adversity that made their journey way longer. They didn't need to be in the desert for 40 years. Literally, when they left Egypt, they could have been there in a matter of months. 40 years? No, it was their attitude in the adversity that made the adversity way longer. There's a great lesson right there in life. The attitude.

God wants us to be victorious. See, it's only when you learn that God is with you in it, in that wilderness, in the adversity, that you are ready for the blessing that will come to your life after. To God's presence, His glory is the key to enduring well, the adversities of life. To suffering well, the adversities of life. His presence is the key to being content of soul, whether it be adversity or abundance. Now, I'll give you an illustration. Many of you know my story, much trouble in my life early, but I had friends.

I had friends growing up that had every advantage of life. At least that is the way it appeared to me. They had wealthy parents. They had a nice home. There was peace in their house. There was that dysfunctioning chaos in their house. No, they were nurtured and encouraged all along the way. That is a great advantage in life, no doubt. Somewhere, somehow they're going to have to learn to endure adversity. Somewhere, somehow they're going to have to learn how to suffer well notoriously in God.

Now, others like me lived in poverty, had an abusive alcoholic father. Now, later, of course, he came to the Lord. Those days were days of dysfunction and chaos and difficulty. Here's my point, suffering itself does not teach one to suffer well. Just because you are going through a time of adversity does not teach you how to go through it well. No. Such hardships have shipwrecked many lives.

No, here's the key. It's only when you come to discover that God has proven Himself to you. It's only when you discover that God's presence is enough, that He is with you in the adversity. That He's with you on the way in the journey. That is when the joy of the Lord becomes your strength and that is when you'll learn to endure adversity with the victorious spirit of the Lord. Amen? Can we give the Lord praise and glory? Amen. That's what He writes to Psalm to stir them up.

A. Discontent is dangerous

Do not be like that generation that did not know that. No. They became like those who complained of adversity in the hearing of the Lord. See, the root of complaining is discontent and discontent is dangerous. I submit that not only is discontent dangerous, but discontent is also contagious. See, here's what I mean. It tells us that people that came out of Egypt, that they were a mixed multitude, that there was rabble among them. It says the rabble among them had greedy desires and they are the one who influenced the others.

Notice King James says in Exodus 12:38, "A mixed multitude also went up with them along with flocks and herds in a very large number of livestock." These are people. What is the mixed multitude? These are people who came out of Egypt with the children of Israel, but they were not Jews. Maybe they were slaves of other countries and saw an opportunity. Maybe they were Egyptians who saw an opportunity, but they didn't have the same relationship to God that Israel did, and they were led by greedy desires.

Now, the problem is that the mixed multitude, or the rabble among them, influenced everyone else. It's never good when those with a bad attitude become the influencers of the group. It's never good when the influencers are the ones with the bad attitudes. By the way, that word influencer is an interesting word. I never even heard that word I don't think until our modern internet day of social media. Now, influencer is a thing in our days of modern social media. I looked up the definition of influencer on my artificial intelligence search engine, which probably influenced by results. It told me that influencers are those who have a massive following on social media. Thus they influence them because of their mass following. Their attitude is on display for everyone to see. Mega millions influencing the generation.

When I submit to you that God gave a testimony, God gave the Word of God and the Spirit of God and the influence of the glory of God upon their soul. In other words, the glory of God is the greatest influencer that the world has ever known. Amen. Can we give a little praise for that? The glory of God. That's what he meant when he wrote the Psalm. He reminded them one generation after the other should influence the next generation by reminding them of the wonderful things that God had done.

B. Remembering is the key to faith

Influence them so that they will never forget because, here's the point, remembering is the key to faith. Remembering is the key to faith. God wanted one generation to teach the next, to influence them because of the glory of God that they would put their confidence, oh, we want the next generation to arise in their faith, to put their confidence in God and never forget. It says in verse seven, but Israel complained there. Interesting. When they were there complaining, "We want needs."

Well, what happened was, instead of remembering all the wonders that God had done, they started remembering their time in Egypt quite creatively. "Oh, don't you remember the good old days when we were in Egypt?" Numbers 11:6. "Oh, we remember, oh, the fish. Oh, we used to eat free. Oh, fried fish. Oh, it was so glorious. Don't you remember the good old days when we were slaves in Egypt? Don't you remember? You remember, right? Oh, fish, free in Egypt, cucumbers. Oh melons, onions, garlic. Oh, don't you remember the good old days?"

Man, they made it sound like there was a regular home of faith there in Egypt and everything was roses and light. That wasn't the way it was. Did they forget the tears, the bitterness of slavery? Did they forget the impression and the hardship? Did they forget that they were the ones crying out to God, "Send a deliver, and help us, God?" Did they forget? Interestingly, every year at Passover, when they are to partake of the Passover meal, now part of the Passover meal is bitter herbs, which they are to eat, but first they must dip them in the salt water, the bitter herbs.

A reminder every year, never forget the bitterness that you endured. Then the salt water, the tears that you cried out. Did you forget? No, He wants them to remember. Now, some people do that today. Some people do the same thing when they creatively remember their time back when they were in the world. Oh, don't you remember the good old days when we were in the world? Oh, the parties. Oh, we had such parties. Oh man, it was just amazing, right? Oh, we had so much fun. Oh, man, we were silly, but oh, we had such great times in the world.

Really? Did you forget the lostness, the loneliness, the emptiness, the stupidity of those days? Show of hands, how many look back on their time when they were in the world and say, "Man, I did some dumb things when I was in the world. Oh, I'm glad I'm not alone. Oh, we did some dumb things." Creative remembering is dangerous to your faith. Oh, look back. Look back and all that God has done. Oh God, I'm so thankful that you took me out of that mess.

I'm so glad that you brought me out. My soul was sick. I was so unhappy and discouraged and despair. God, I'm so thankful that you took me out of that, that you forgave my sin. That you set my life on a rock, that you rebuilt my life in glory, that you brought me into a relationship to God, the Almighty. Oh God, I'm so thankful. Remember what God has done. Never forget. When you remember that God has proven himself and all that he has done, your faith is strengthened. Notice when he goes next into Psalm, no, they tested God.

C. Testing God is never good

Testing God is never good. Testing God is never a good idea. Verse 18 says, "They rebelled against the most high there in the desert, and in their heart, they put God to the test by asking God for food according to their desire." Now, as I say people test God when they demand that God prove Himself by doing thus and so. People do it today, people will say, "God, you say you love me, well then prove it." Then they'll tell God what He has to do to prove it. If you don't do what I demand that you do to prove it, then I don't know that you love me.

Really? "Yes, prove it. You say you love me and then do this and that for me because if you don't do that, then you didn't prove it." Well, they said, "God, you say you do wonders. Sure. You split the sea that we would walk through it. Yes, but can you bring meat? Prove it. Prove that you can do wonders. We want meat. We want meat." Says Numbers 11:6, "Now our appetite is gone and there's nothing at all to look at but this manna."

Now, you might remember manna was a miracle, a provision every morning they would come out in the morning and manna would settle outside the camp like dew would settle upon the ground and they could go and get manna. They would make various things from it. Manna pancakes and banana bread. They would have all these different things they could eat with it. Did they forget that manna was a miracle every day? A miracle every day. How do you feed two million people in a desert wasteland for 40 years?

No, it was a miracle every day. It was amazing and it was good. Scripture tells us it tasted good. It was sweet. Tasted like coriander seed with honey. I like to say it's like a Krispy Kreme doughnut, but healthy, and you can have it every day. It was good. More than that, it was a miracle. It was a miraculous provision. It was what God provided that they would be sustained for 40 years. If they weren't satisfied with the manna, and since it was God's provision, then they weren't satisfied with God either.

God gave them what they wanted. "Me want meat. I want meat. Prove it. Me want meat." God gave them what they wanted. You want meat? I'll give you meat. Now, I submit to you that it's a bad day when God gives you what your flesh wants, it's never going to end well. Oh, you really want that? You insist. You must have it, then have it, and it's not going to end well for you. It's never a good day because up to that point, you see, God was resisting by His Holy Spirit. He was trying to hold you back.

He was trying to hold you back, hold you back, hold you back. Finally, He comes to the point, "Okay, you really want it? You really got to have it. Then have it." The rest is bad. Notice Romans 1:24-25. Paul writes a similar word. "Therefore, God gave them over to the lusts of their hearts, to that impurity." That you really wanted, and give them over to it. "So that their bodies would be dishonored among them for they exchange the truth of God for a lie. God gave them what they wanted. "Me want meat." He gave them quail. Now for 1 day, not 2 days, not 5 days, not 10 days, not 20 days, 30 days. They weren't satisfied with the quail either. They went after it was such greed, they ate so much of it that it came out their noses. Now, how do you get quail to come out your nose? I'm glad you asked. They ate so much of it. They ate it so greedily, they engorged themself by eating it so greedily that they got sick of it and threw it up, and therefore it came out their noses.

That's how you get quail at your nose. I know you're going to have lunch soon, so think of that when you have lunch. Reminds me of the story I read in Farm & Ranch magazine, a great magazine you got to read it. About this farmer who had a dog with a bad habit. The dog ate and killed chickens. He took one of the dead chickens tied it around his neck until it rotted, and that dog never ate chickens again. That's the idea, right? You're going to get sick, you're going to get so much of it, you're going to get sick of it.

You really want this thing, you're going to have so much of it that you're going to get sick from it. See, that's the point. God gave them their request, but it came in a great price and the price was on the soul. It made the soul sick. The soul is the most important aspect of who we are. Made the soul sick. Notice in Psalm 106:13-15 where he speaks of the same thing. He said, "They soon forgot his works. They did not wait for his counsel, but lusted exceedingly there in the wilderness and tested God in the desert."

He gave them their request but sent leanness of soul. They called that place Kibroth Hattaavah which means literally the graves of greed. See, here's the problem. You can't have both. You cannot have both either the flesh will be the master or the soul, and the spirit within won't be there, but you can't have both. See, there comes a time in life to decide where is the bearing of life to be found? Where is the bearing of life to be found? Where will you find life?

You can't have both. For if the flesh becomes the master, the soul will become sick. Oh, if you've ever had a soul within you that is just sick, the soul is just yucky, you're just disturbed. You can't hardly sleep because that thing within you just won't go away and it's sick. Anybody ever been in the world enough to know what I'm talking about? Oh, it's a terrible day when your soul is sick within you.

When the soul is made alive, when the soul is strong in the Lord, when you have spiritual strength for victory, and when the glory of God is poured out and God is doing that which is beautiful, the peace and the joy, and the overflowing love of God and balance in the soul, all then every blessing of God will flow through it. I'll tell you what though if God is pointing out His glory and there's an overflowing joy of the Lord and the peace of God, the overflowing love of God, because you've been dwelling in the nearness of God, that itself is a blessing.

II. Keep Your Soul Satisfied in God

Just to have your soul alive is a blessing for if your soul is alive, you are truly alive. Amen. See, that's the point. Jesus said this in John 6:27 "Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you." There is the point it has to do with the soul. Keep your soul satisfied in God. That's what He's stirring up in them. Notice verse 14, "He led them by cloud and by fire. He split the rocks and He gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths."

What a beautiful picture is that He gave them there in the desert abundant drink-like ocean depths. See, it reminds us of what Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 10, right? That rock was Christ. It's a spiritual truth, a spiritual drink. God was doing a spiritual work. See, I love it the way David wrote in Psalm 36:8-9. These are becoming some of my favorite verses because it's so beautiful. They drink their fill of the abundance of your house, Lord, and you give them to drink of the river of your delights.

For with you is the fountain of life." We come to a place where we decide where is the bearing of life to be found? Where will you find from what well will you drink that you'll find life? Oh, I love that right there. Oh, you give them the drink of the river of your delights. Notice the word delight. Ah, there are so many places where it describes great men and women of God. Oh, they delight in the Almighty. Their souls delight in God. You drink their fill.

See, interestingly, about the same time Moses was feeling weighted down and burdened by that troublesome and difficult children of Israel. God gave Moses 70 elders, men of Israel to help shoulder the burden. Here's my point, when he gathered these 70 elders together he pointed out upon them the Spirit of God, and there it says, something amazing happened. The Spirit of God was poured out on this group of 70 and they begin to prophesy, begin to speak out of the glory that God was pouring out upon them and glory came out, prophecy came out, praises and glory.

That's what it means. What an amazing contrast, right? God moves by His Holy Spirit and men are filled with power and with strength and with glory. When they're driven by their fleshly desires and they complain of adversity in the hearing of the Lord, they're weak and they're defeated. Oh, what a contrast is that. See, He's bringing them to the place of revival. Never forget the wonders being reminded again of the wonders of God.

A. Never forget who you are in Christ

The same is true, there's a modern application for us because our relationship to God is made possible through His Son Jesus Christ. Therefore, never forget who you are in Christ. Never forget what God did for you through His Son Jesus Christ. Oh, there's so much to say. Israel forgot all the wonders that God had done for them. They forgot that God saved them from slavery, from oppression, that part of the sea that they might be rescued from the Egyptian army, that he turned to bitter water sweet.

That He brought water out of rock, that He gave them manna every day. They forgot the wonders of God. See, the problem was they had manna every day and it wasn't exciting enough. We need some onions and leeks and some meat and some spices. The rabble amongst them said I was thinking of a modern illustration. There are churches today that try to appeal to the mixed multitude and come up with every imaginable spiritual fad in order to try to stay exciting. We got to make it more exciting.

In other words, they feed people spiritual quail with worldly spice. I say what we need here is the Word of God. Because God will send forth his word in power and He will send forth his word by the Holy Spirit and He will pour out his glory on the church. What we need is manna every morning, manna every evening, and manna at every service. Amen.

The Word of God. Jesus said it this way in John 6:32-35, Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven but it is my Father who gives the true brand out of heaven for the bread of God is that when she comes down out of heaven and gives life to the soul," God, to decide where is the bearing of life? Jesus said, "My Father gives that brand that brings life to the soul." They said to Him, "Lord, give us this bread." He said, "I am that bread. I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not hunger, and who believes in me will never thirst." Oh, spiritual food, the man of heaven, the life of the living God that satisfies the soul, the living water, drinking from the river of God's delight, that makes the soul filled with glory. God sent His Son to be that bread, that living water that you would never be discontented and long for the leaks in the galaxy of the world.

Always remember all that God has done for you through Christ, and God wants to do. Oh, there is so much more that God wants to do in your life. What does the Scripture say? No, I have seen, no ear has heard. No mind has conceived that which God has in store for those who love Him. In other words, you have no idea. Oh, God has so much more that God wants to do in your life, He's just getting started. There is greater places of glory, deeper places to walk, beautiful glory to understand.

Notice this, the way Peter writes it in 2nd Peter 1:3-9. His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness. "He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them, you may become partakers of the divine nature." What does that mean? It does not mean at all that you will become little gods. No. What it means is that God will pour out the very presence of the living God upon your soul, that you would partake because His glory is filling and abounding, that you have the peace that passes understanding, the joy of the Lord, the very love of the living God abounding in glory.

B. The joy of the Lord is your strength

That is God pouring out the nature of God upon you he says. Notice, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by loss. We escaped Egypt, you might say. For this very reason, applying all diligence in your faith, supply moral excellence. When God pours His glory, and that peace surpasses understanding, and the joy of the Lord, the ever-flowing love of God, it will transform your moral burying of life. The excellence of God's character will be seen more and more and more as you drink from the river of his delight.

There you will find that He has transformed you. God will do it. God will do it. You drink from the river, God will do it. That's why and just to summarize, to conclude, the joy of the Lord is our strength. There's where victory comes from. See, the answer to a discontent soul is to be wholly satisfied in God, to be filled with the Spirit of the Living God, to be held, God's glory abounding in the soul. Notice Galatians 5:60, "But I say to you, you walk in the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh."

No, you will have victory. The spirit is power and life. See, there comes a time to decide. From where will you find life? Because you cannot have both. It does not work. You cannot have both. See, the flesh is not satisfied with the spiritual diet. The Spirit does not like a spiritual diet, but I say to you, but the Spirit will most certainly not be satisfied with the fleshly diet either. Oh no, the spirit needs more. The soul that has been filled with God's glory wants more than that.

Once you have tasted and seen how good God is, once you have drunk a drink from the river of God's delight, and seen the delight of the Lord, the joy of the Lord, then the fleshly diet won't do it anymore. That doesn't do it. That doesn't satisfy what my soul needs. My soul has tasted how good God's glory is. I want that. I want that. I want that glory. I want that joy. I want that victory. That's what my soul wants. Because I have found where life comes from. I know where life comes from.

It comes from the bread of life. It comes from the living water. It comes from the soul that delights in the Almighty. I want that glory. Let's pray. Father, thank you so much. Oh, we are so blessed because you've shown us how beautiful you are, and the wonderful things that you've done. Oh, we remember how you took our lives out of a mess, set our feet on a rock, brought us into a relationship to the Almighty, forgave our sins, gave us hope, eternal life, and then poured out your glory to fill the soul.

Oh, we remember. God, we say to you that nothing will satisfy, but the bread of life that comes down out of heaven. Nothing will satisfy, but the living water the river of God's delight. God, that is what our soul desires. That is my hunger, that is my thirst. Church, how many would declare that to the Lord? Would you just raise your hand as a way of declaring that God this is my hunger, this is what I thirst. I know God that there is nothing else that will satisfy what my soul needs.

I hunger and thirst for more of God. Thank you, Lord, for pointing out your life upon us, for meeting us here in this place, for showing us your glory. We give you praise and glory and honor for it in Jesus's name. Everyone says, Amen. Can we give the Lord praise? He's worthy. Amen.