Topic: Spiritual hunger

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Why would a child eat the erasers off pencils and the rubber pedal off a bicycle?

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In other words, I read in the paper some time ago, where a little boy—little boy ate the rubbers off of eraser, erasers off of pencils, rather. And he ate the rubber pedal off of a bicycle. Well, they couldn’t understand. They taken him to the doctor, and they sent him to the clinic, and the little...

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What does a craving in the body prove about the thing it craves?

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Some time ago I read a—a little article in a newspaper, that said a little boy had a—was eating erasers off the pencils. And he ate the rubber pedal off of a bicycle. So the doctors examined his body, and they come to find out, the little fellow was—was lacking something in his body, and that was su...

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What does it mean when deep calls unto deep?

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You usually get just what you’re expecting. You come to the meeting to criticize, the devil will show you plenty to criticize. If you come to a meeting to be blessed, God will give you a blessing. Whatever you expect, that’s what you’re going to find. Simeon was expecting to see the Lord. And God le...

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What does David mean by the deep calling to the deep?

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And as the—David said, “When the deep is calling to the deep…” If there’s a call in my heart calling for a deep, calling in here, there’s got to be a deep to respond to it, isn’t there? In other words, as many times have I said, “Before there was a fin on a fish’s back, there had to be a water, firs...

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What does 'the deep calling to the deep' mean?

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And as long as there’s something on the inside’s telling you that it will do it, there’s bound to be something there to respond to it: The deep calling to the deep. As I’ve often said: “Before the fin was on the fish’s back, there’s a water, first, for him to swim in, or he wouldn’t have had that fi...

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What does 'deep calleth unto deep' mean?

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Now look, David said, “When the deep calleth to the deep,” if there’s a deep calling to a deep, there’s got to be a deep to respond to that call. Here, as I’ve often used the illustration: Before a fin was on a fish’s back, there had to be a water first for him to swim in, or he wouldn’t have had no...

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What does 'a deep calling to the deep' mean?

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Listen, let me tell you something now. If there’s a deep calling…Here not long ago, when the church begin to cool off and get formal through the great Wesley revival, the people begin to hunger for more of God; if you hunger for more of God, there’s bound to be more of God to respond to it somewhere...

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Is a person blessed just for hungering after righteousness?

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Now, when this meeting’s closed, you’ll go out somewhere, and somebody say, “Well, I’ll tell you. I got that figured out. See? Now, that was a mind reading. That was this, that, or the other.” And the devil will rob everything away from you that God has given you. What you do when you got it in your...

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What does a longing in the human heart for more of God indicate?

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Here, before there was a—a fin on a fish’s back…You here you have much fish that gets along these bays here. Look, before there was a fin on a fish’s back there had to be a water first for him to swim in, or he wouldn’t have had that fin. See, God put that fin on him to swim in the water, so there h...

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What does 'the deep calleth to the deep' mean?

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Now, the Bible said…I believe David said, “When the deep calleth to the deep…” Now, if there’s a—a deep a calling, there’s a deep to respond to it somewhere. Do you believe that? In other words like this, as I’ve often said, “Before there was a fin on a fish’s back, there had to be a water first for...