Charles Stanley Daily Devotional 14th August 2025 (In Touch) Thursday Message
TOPIC: A Hunger for God
SCRIPTURE: Psalms 63:1-5
1 O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water.
2 Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory.
3 Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips will praise You.
4 So I will bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
5 My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.
TODAY’S MESSAGE
The Lord created a spiritual hunger within our heart. David felt this yearning, and throughout the Psalms, we find him meditating on God and praising or crying out to Him. David’s greatest joy was to be with his heavenly Father in intimate communion.
Hungering for the Lord is a desire to know and draw closer to Him. Sadly, this yearning isn’t always central in believers’ lives. Modern society is filled with all sorts of things that vie for our interest and affections. These pleasures and pursuits compete with God for our attention, claiming our time and effort.
The good news is that a longing for God can be awakened if we are willing to change our priorities and pursuits. Although cultivating a desire for the Lord takes time, the joy we’ll experience is lasting—and the rewards are eternal (Psalms 16:9-11). We’ll always get more out of a relationship with God than we put in. And as our hunger for Him grows, He will open our heart and mind to understand and desire Him even more.
When we yearn for the Lord, He will satisfy us with contentment and a sense of completeness, while awakening an even deeper longing in our soul. Unlike physical hunger, a craving for Him is filled but paradoxically also leaves us hungry. The more we are satisfied in Christ, the more we want of Him.
Bible in One Year: Jeremiah 18-21
THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Those who earnestly seek the Lord will be satisfied and filled with unassailable joy.
Dr. Charles F. Stanley was the founder of In Touch Ministries and a New York Times best-selling author. Throughout his ministry, he demonstrated a keen awareness of people’s needs and provided Christ-centered biblically based principles for everyday life