We are to be thankful and hunger for more of GOD!
If we are thankful without hungering for more, then we will become complacent in our walk.
The majority of church denominations began out of a revelation and/or move of GOD. Many became religious once the power was no longer sought after thus no longer present in their services. Their services became routine, and The Holy Spirit was quenched.
If you are hungry but not thankful, you can’t be trusted with more. You will then become frustrated and anxious.
Physical obedience brings spiritual release. The more we are led by The Holy Spirit, the more spiritual release will manifest in our lives. Everything Jesus did, revealed our inheritance, what is available to every Born-again believer.
King David recorded by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 27:
4 One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the Presence of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His Temple.
David’s temple had not yet been built. He spoke of being surrounded with GOD’S Presence, enclosed and encircled with Holiness. This is also my desire, above all. You and I were born to host the Presence of GOD.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 3:
23 for we all have sinned and are in need of the glory of God.
24 Yet through His powerful declaration of acquittal, God freely gives away His righteousness. His gift of Love and favor now cascades over us, all because Jesus, the Anointed One, has liberated us from the guilt, punishment, and power of sin!
Since sin has been dealt with by Jesus once and for all, we are able to be in HIS Presence, the Glory of GOD. Our trust in the finished work of Christ, makes us right with GOD.
When we were created IN HIS Image, we were created to live in, dwell in, and cooperated to the manifested Presence of GOD ALMIGHTY. Jesus was revealed as Emmanuel, GOD with us. Having GOD with us, makes us different than anyone else on the planet earth. It is not our talents; it is WHO is with us that matters.
Moses recorded by The Holy Spirit in Exodus chapter 33:
7 Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the LORD went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp.
8 So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle.
9 And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.
The more you set your heart to seek THE LORD, the more you will have to leave the crowd to do it. It is our individual passion that takes us into our greatest places of breakthrough.
11 So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
Do you want to be known as a friend of GOD? Notice that Joshua was also a man who desire the Presence of GOD. This prepared him to become a leader of the people after Moses.
12 Then Moses said to the LORD, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My Sight.’
13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your Sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”
14 And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
15 Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.
16 For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.”
17 So the LORD said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”
The people knew the acts of GOD, but Moses knew HIS Ways. As we walk in the Presence of GOD, we too will know HIS Ways, not just HIS acts.