Spirit Hunger Workbook

In this six-session small group Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), Spirit Hunger, Gari Meacham peels back the layers of lesser loves we use to fill our true ‘hunger’ for a relationship with God. It’s often tempting to stay safe with God. Do your prayers reflect the desire you have to communicate with God? Do you listen for God, or talk right over him? What would happen if you truly abandoned yourself to experience an adventure with God? Gari invites you to get gutsy with God. In Spirit Hunger, she journeys with you to the raw places of desiring God and discovering a faith-filled way of praying and believing the God we adore. Spirit Hunger unwraps our heart’s desire to engage God, even when we cover that desire with lesser loves. Meacham writes, “With the authenticity of my own life stories—marriage to a professional baseball player, struggles with severe food bondage, and a father who was a quadriplegic—I came to the crisp realization that my prayer life and the belief needed to match. Spirit Hunger provides a clear path towards matching these heart cries—leading away from crumbs and counterfeit, to a hungering for God.” Relatable and relative, Gari addresses the following topics in Spirit Hunger: Longing and Numbing: Are these sighs of a hungry spirit? Believing: Is our prayer life really a worry life? Travailing and Shouldering: Do we understand how to pray with an intensity and intimacy? Questioning: What about the outcomes we can’t reason with or explain? Sessions include: Hiding, Controlling, and Mocha Lattes Engaging God: From Longing to Prayer Whispers and Screams: How Do We Pray? The Guts to Believe Listening Postures Who’s in Charge? Designed for use with the Spirit Hunger Video Study (sold separately). When used together, they provide users with practical tools that transform their faith.

We all have a desperate need for God – not just for following him or being committed to him, but to be intimately connected to him. We long for purpose, for affirmation, for attention, for nurture. But Gari Meacham writes that we fall short of being desperate for God, or we miss the longed-for romance with God we hear about in scripture. We’re uncertain how to distinguish our longings from our fears. When, says Meacham, did our longings turn to hauntings? And when did we buy into the counterfeit yearnings for control, and the insecurity, perfectionism and other attitudes that quench Spirit Hunger? The answer to Spirit Hunger is to engage God like never before. In this book Meacham shows through her story and the stories of others how to turn worry into belief, problems and heartaches into a life of intimate prayer, and sighs for intimacy into closeness with God. She discusses her discoveries about prayer including why asking is sometimes hard, how we can notice and track God’s movements as we seek his answers, and why it’s sometimes such a struggle to believe after we’ve prayed. Meacham writes, “With the authenticity of my own life stories—marriage to a professional baseball player, struggles with severe food bondage, and a father who was a quadriplegic—I came to the crisp realization that my prayer life and my belief needed to match. Spirit Hunger provides a clear path towards matching these heart cries—leading away from crumbs and counterfeit, to a hungering for God.”

A wrenchingly honest, eloquent memoir “about true nourishment that comes not from [eating] but from engaging on a spiritual path."—Los Angeles Times In this brave and perceptive account of compulsion and the healing process, Bullitt-Jonas describes a childhood darkened by the repressive shadows of her alcoholic father and her emotionally reclusive mother, whose demands for excellence, poise, and self-control drove Bullitt-Jonas to develop an insatiable hunger. What began with pilfering extra slices of bread at her parents' dinner table turned into binges with cream pies and pancakes, sometimes gaining as much as eleven pounds in four days. When the family urged her father into treatment, the author recognized her own addiction and embarked on the path to recovery by discovering the spiritual hunger beneath her craving for food.

Human hunger for God is intense and universal. Even if suppressed or denied, it cries out silently from the depths. Such hunger is not a wish to know about God, but rather a quest to encounter Him. People want to touch, experience, and feel the divine – not just discover facets about God. - Dr. Jon L. Dybdahl Humans have tried since the beginning of their creation to fill the hunger, or empty space, inside of themselves with all that they can find on their own. The desire for money, homes, cars and various material possessions continues to fill our credit cards without filling our longing for "something." Dr. Jon Dybdahl brings his passion for teaching into this second edition of his successful book, Hunger: Satisfying the Longing of your Soul. Whether you are a seminary professor, a small group leader with 3-12 students or someone who seeks to move closer in your relationship to God, your Savior and Creator, you will find entrees which are biblically grounded to study and that are savory and healthy for your spiritual body.

Adi is an ordinary student with an extraordinary talent. All around her, she sees wild animals-monkeys on people's shoulders, tigers walking by their sides. When her visions turn into terrifying nightmares, Adi fears for her sanity. Honi is a young Mekui'te Native American, studying law to help his people. He has long ago come to terms with his gift. When he meets Adi, he's drawn to her against his will. He knows his purpose in life and has no time for a skinny German girl with bad dress sense. But when he witnesses the damage her visions cause, he knows that without his help, she won't survive the next few weeks. Can the two head-strong individuals stop fighting long enough to save each other? Or will Honi suffer the same fate Adi is headed for?

A practical, exercise-filled companion to A Hunger for Healing that puts into practice the Christian principles of healing and growth For many thousands of people, the Twelve Steps have become the spiritual discipline for a new decade, a way to turn to God and begin a pilgrimage toward wholeness as well as a journey out of addiction. Relating each of the Steps to biblical teaching, J. Keith Miller takes the reader inside the Steps, actually working through each one. Each section of A Hunger for Healing Workbook begins with one of the Twelve Steps, followed by a biblical quote that touches upon the theme, a suggested reading in A Hunger for Healing, and a concise explanation of the Step and how it relates to spiritual growth. Built on solid biblical principles, the exercises and inventories provided will promote introspection, reflection, and action -- a clear pathway out of compulsion and pain into a world of serenity and healthy interaction with God and others. Step by Step, this life-transforming program helps readers to Acknowledge their need for God's healing power Surrender to God's care Let God remove character defects Reconcile themselves with God and others Use prayer to enrich the life of the spirit Heal broken lives and relationships

Based on the premise that overeating is linked to emotional and spiritual deprivations, Love Hunger uses a relationship inventory to help you understand how disappointments with your family, spouse, or self can result in obesity. It provides a comprehensive program to help identify whether you are using food as a substitute for fulfillment.

In this companion workbook to What’s So Spiritual About Your Gifts, you won’t encounter any of the "spiritual gift inventories" that have been popular among Christians in recent years. Nor will you find exercises or methods to help you identify once and for all the "gifts" that you can assume to be your own for the rest of your life. Instead, what you’ll find is: careful teaching, reflective questions, and stimulating exercises to help you discover essential truths about spiritual gifts and to help you understand life in the Spirit in a fresh, biblical way—so you can better fulfill God’s dynamic calling upon your life. What Exactly Have You Been Given? Surprises are in the making when you explore biblically what spiritual gifts really are, how they fit with your natural strengths and talents, and how they match your calling and purpose in God. In a seven-week format, the Blackabys focus on key concepts drawn from their book What’s So Spiritual About Your Gifts? Designed for personal Bible study or for use in small groups, each lesson includes questions and exercises to promote discussion. You’ll also find a helpful Leader’s Guide in the back. This book will help restore the Holy Spirit to the center of your understanding and practice of spiritual gifts, and set you free to serve God as never before. Story Behind the Book In an effort to help the readers of What’s So Spiritual About Your Gifts? Henry and Mel Blackaby created an easy-to-use guide that will change the way many people view spiritual gifts. They’ll learn how the Holy Spirit Himself is the gift.