STUDY IT FOR YOURSELF! Have the attitude of the Bereans… … take what you are taught and search the Scriptures each day to see if what was taught is what the Word of God says [Acts 17:11]! Have the attitude of the Bereans…

REMEMBERING GOD’S GREATEST ANSWER TO PRAYER

Part 11: Learning to CRAVE God as YOUR PORTION! PRAYER with FASTING Part 11: Learning to CRAVE God as YOUR PORTION!

WHAT’S Your PASSION What DO You Crave

HOW MUCH Do You WANT as YOUR PORTION

LEARNING to DESIRE GOD as YOUR PORTION!

Exodus 16:1-36 [1] Then they set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the FIFTEENTH DAY of the SECOND MONTH AFTER THEIR DEPARTURE from the land of Egypt.

Ancient Jewish Calendar ~60 days after Egypt Nisan (or Abib) the FIRST of months and the month of departure from Egypt Sivan the SECOND month after DEPARTURE

Exodus 16:1-36 [2] And THE WHOLE CONGREGATION of the sons of Israel GRUMBLED AGAINST Moses and Aaron IN THE WILDERNESS.

Exodus 16:1-36 [3] And the sons of Israel said to them, “WOULD THAT WE HAD DIED by the LORD’S hand IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, WHEN we sat by the pots of meat, WHEN we ATE bread TO THE FULL;…”

FOR WHAT DO YOU HUNGER! Exodus 16:1-36 [3] … for YOU HAVE BROUGHT US OUT into this wilderness TO KILL this whole assembly with HUNGER.” FOR WHAT DO YOU HUNGER!

Exodus 16:1-36 [4] THEN THE LORD SAID to Moses, “BEHOLD, I WILL RAIN BREAD FROM HEAVEN for you; and THE PEOPLE SHALL GO OUT AND GATHER A DAY’S PORTION, THAT I MAY TEST THEM, WHETHER OR NOT THEY WILL WALK IN MY INSTRUCTION.”

Exodus 16:1-36 [5] “And it will come about ON THE SIXTH DAY, WHEN THEY PREPARE what they bring in, it will be TWICE AS MUCH as they gather daily.”

Exodus 16:1-36 [21] And they GATHERED it MORNING by MORNING… [26] “Six days you shall gather it, BUT ON the SEVENTH DAY, THE SABBATH, there will be none.?

TWICE AS MUCH ON THE SIXTH DAY! Exodus 16:1-36 GATHER A DAY’S PORTION! TWICE AS MUCH ON THE SIXTH DAY! WHY?

Lessons from Psalm 78

Lessons from Psalm 78 [1] LISTEN, O my people, to my INSTRUCTION; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. [2] I will open my mouth in a PARABLE… [5] FOR He ESTABLISHED a TESTIMONY … that they SHOULD TEACH them to their children,

Lessons from Psalm 78 [6] THAT the GENERATION to come MIGHT KNOW, … … THAT they may arise AND TELL them to their children,

Lessons from Psalm 78 AND NOT FORGET the WORKS of GOD, [7] THAT they SHOULD PUT THEIR CONFIDENCE IN GOD, AND NOT FORGET the WORKS of GOD, BUT KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS,

Lessons from Psalm 78 A STUBBORN and REBELLIOUS generation, [8] And NOT BE LIKE their fathers, A STUBBORN and REBELLIOUS generation, A generation that DID NOT PREPARE its HEART, And whose SPIRIT WAS NOT FAITHFUL TO GOD.

Lessons from Psalm 78 [11] And they FORGOT His DEEDS, And His miracles (lit – WONDERS) that He had shown them. [13] He DIVIDED the SEA, and caused them to pass through; And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

Lessons from Psalm 78 [14] Then HE LED them with the cloud by day, And all the night with a light of fire. [15] He SPLIT the ROCKS in the wilderness, And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

Lessons from Psalm 78 [17] YET they STILL CONTINUED TO SIN against Him, To REBEL against the Most High in the desert.

BY ASKING FOOD ACCORDING TO THEIR DESIRE. Lessons from Psalm 78 [18] AND IN THEIR HEART THEY PUT GOD TO THE TEST BY ASKING FOOD ACCORDING TO THEIR DESIRE.

Lessons from Psalm 78 AND DID NOT TRUST IN HIS SALVATION. [19] THEN they SPOKE AGAINST GOD; They said, “CAN GOD prepare a table in the wilderness? [22] BECAUSE they DID NOT BELIEVE IN GOD, AND DID NOT TRUST IN HIS SALVATION.

Lessons from Psalm 78 AND DID NOT BELIEVE in His WONDERFUL WORKS. [32] IN SPITE of ALL THIS they still SINNED, AND DID NOT BELIEVE in His WONDERFUL WORKS.

Lessons from Psalm 78 [42] They DID NOT REMEMBER His POWER, The day WHEN He REDEEMED (delivered) them FROM the ADVERSARY (enemy),

A LESSON for TODAY! BE ON the ALERT. 1 Peter 5:8-10 [8] BE OF SOBER SPIRIT, BE ON the ALERT. YOUR ADVERSARY, the DEVIL, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

A LESSON for TODAY! 1 Peter 5:8-10 [9] BUT RESIST him, FIRM in your FAITH, KNOWING that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world.

A LESSON for TODAY! WILL HIMSELF PERFECT, CONFIRM, 1 Peter 5:8-10 [10] And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, Who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, WILL HIMSELF PERFECT, CONFIRM,

A LESSON for TODAY! WILL HIMSELF PERFECT, CONFIRM, STRENGTHEN 1 Peter 5:8-10 [10] And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, Who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, WILL HIMSELF PERFECT, CONFIRM, STRENGTHEN and ESTABLISH you.

LEARN the LESSONS of the MANNA!

Deuteronomy 8:3 “And He HUMBLED YOU and let you be hungry, AND FED YOU with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, THAT He MIGHT MAKE you UNDERSTAND that man DOES NOT LIVE by bread alone,…”

Deuteronomy 8:3 “… but man LIVES BY EVERYTHING (lit - ALL) that PROCEEDS OUT OF the MOUTH of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 8:16 THAT He might HUMBLE YOU and “In the WILDERNESS He FED YOU manna which your fathers did not know, THAT He might HUMBLE YOU and THAT He might TEST (PROVE) YOU, TO DO GOOD FOR YOU in the end.”

The LORD – My PORTION Psalm 73:25-26 [25] WHOM have I in heaven BUT THEE? And BESIDES THEE, I DESIRE NOTHING on earth.

The LORD – My PORTION Psalm 73:25-26 [26] My flesh and my heart may fail, BUT GOD is the STRENGTH of my HEART and my PORTION FOREVER.

The LORD – My PORTION Psalm 119:57 The LORD is my PORTION; I HAVE PROMISED to KEEP Thy words.

The LORD – My PORTION Lamentations 3:24 “The LORD is my PORTION,” says my soul, “THEREFORE I HAVE HOPE IN Him.”

WHAT’S Your PASSION What DO You Crave

Look at the words spoken to Daniel “But as for you, go your way to the end; THEN YOU WILL ENTER INTO REST and RISE AGAIN FOR YOUR ALLOTTED PORTION at the end of the age.”

“Hear what the Spirit says…” Revelation 2:17 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him WHO OVERCOMES, to him I WILL GIVE some of the HIDDEN MANNA, …”

“Hear what the Spirit says…” Revelation 2:17 “… and I WILL GIVE him a WHITE STONE, and a NEW NAME written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.”

Here is YOUR Invitation to Begin, in a greater way, to DESIRE GOD as YOUR PORTION!