The Ultimate Treasure: Cultivating a Deep-Seated and Ever-Present Hunger for God

Book excerpt: The system of the world is deliberately set up to retard the genuine life of faith and sincere love for God an extremely difficult or utterly impossible adventure. An undying passion and hunger for God must be deliberately cultivated in order to be able to withstand the onslaught of the enemy of our souls. He is a prince of the power of the air that makes the world system so hostile to genuine faith. Learn how not to become a victims of the deceitfulness of sin and the enticing pleasures of this present world. Learn how to consciously deepen your desires for the Ultimate Treasure which is the treasure of the Kingdom of God, peace, joy, power and the presence of God. Your appetite for the things of God will increase so that nothing will be able to assuage your thirsts or satisfy your hunger until you have been filled with all the fullness of God. God and all He offers will be your new ultimate and the desire for all others will now be where they belong; secondary.