“HUNGER” by talented Nigerian gospel singer Ruth Okechukwu, who features another Nigerian prolific preacher, worship leader and songwriter Dunsin Oyekan.
It’s a yearning for God as a dedicated child of God and according to the songwriter, “Hunger is a sign of life, whether physically and spiritually. Dead people don’t feel hunger, and the same is true spiritually.
When there’s no hunger for God, it indicates spiritual sickness or death.
Just as physical hunger shows that the body is alive and needs food, spiritual hunger shows the spirit is alive and is seeking God.
A person dead in spirit feels no desire for God or spiritual things.
When you stop feeling hungry physically or spiritually, it could mean you’re either full, sick, or dead. But unlike physical hunger, God satisfies us with more hunger. His presence fills us yet creates a deeper longing. His satisfaction never leads to complacency.
Hunger is a driving force. People will go to any length to satisfy physical hunger. In the same way, spiritual hunger drives us to pray, fast, study, and pursue God relentlessly. David said, “I will not give sleep to my eyes… until I find a dwelling place for the Lord” (Psalm 132:4-5). That’s the power of hunger.
The danger in losing this hunger is it leads to numbness and disconnection from God, even while physically alive, so what’s the point of being physically alive but disconnected from the source of life.
No matter how dead or numb you feel, God can revive you (Ezekiel 37). If you desire it, cry out for Him to stir spiritual hunger in you. He won’t force it, you must ask Him to empty you of worldly satisfaction and awaken your thirst for Him (Matthew 5:6).
Spiritual hunger is not optional, it’s essential. It drives you into God’s presence and keeps you pursuing Him. Discipline alone won’t sustain you, Discipline without hunger becomes a burden and empty religion.
Hunger is the fuel of spiritual pursuit, hunger is a blessing.” Remain forever blessed…
