Keys: Part 4

Keys to the Good Life
Part 4
Satisfy Yourself with God

What does the good life look like? Is it houses, cars, yachts, clothes, or vacations? How about health, peace with God, prosperity or purpose? Most don’t’ have the first clue of what the good life really is. The only way you’re going to live the good life is by being part of the Family of God and receiving the keys legitimately. In this message, we’ve covered 3 parts of those who are blessed:
1. stop playing God;
2. be real and mourn the state of your true condition
3. are meek, submitting to God

Try satisfying yourself in God. God can’t make the good life happen for you until you completely trust Him. Only then can God become 100% obligated to what happens to you.

1. God blesses those who crave to be right with Him. Craving will become more focused.
“Hunger and thirst” = the awareness of the craving to be right with God, and to do right by Him.
To be “filled” is to be saturated. Every person on the face of this planet was born with the craving to know God. You cannot ignore the senses of hunger or thirst and live. Consequently, those who live by ignoring God cannot survive. These physical warning sensors were given to preserve your life. If you’ve ever been truly hungry, you cannot turn it off! The senses of hunger or thirst occur several times every single day. Same thing spiritually; you don’t eat only once. People who don’t know they’re hungry or thirsty -- physically or spiritually -- are sick.
Psalm 42:1, 2 – there are those “religiously minded” who attempt to stay close to God by filling up on the equivalent of water. The relationship is what God seeks, not what He can provide or what He has. You can only be satisfied by having Him. God’s righteousness (exchange for Law, commandment, or Word) is for your protection against the thief trying to destroy you. God must be faithful to His Word. How can you blame God when He gave you choice? Looking at the reverse of Matthew 5:6: “Cursed are those full of self-righteousness, for they are wasting their energy.”

2. Satisfaction comes from knowing the difference between physical and spiritual cravings. Knowing the difference will cause you to be satisfied.
Isaiah 55: 1-3 – the Bible is clear, you can only deceive yourself. God wants to know if you will own up to the truth. God wants to know why you choose to spend money eating “junk food” or the equivalent of empty calories.
Matthew 4:4 – Jesus tells us that man cannot live by eating alone. A good meal is not what you need right now. Have you made the Word of God your priority? Use your hunger and thirst to be saturated with the Word. The Word of God always produces faith, which comes by hearing. Faith always produces all of God’s provision (Hebrews 6:11), spirit, soul and body.

3. God only expects us to believe in Jesus. Christ needs your loyalty, allegiance and dedication as theonly objective.
John 6:26-29, 35 – the disciples sought Jesus after He fed the masses with fish and bread. But their objective was wrong. Jesus warned them against seeking Him not because they believed He was the Son of God, but for the stuff He could provide. Are you seeking Jesus’ presence or His presents?