The quarterly Ministers’ Conference and Restoration Seminar by the Revival Promotion Partners (RPP) was held in June this year. Participants came from several states of the nation, and it was an awesome time. After the meeting, two of the partners were reminiscing about the meeting. The two of them happen to be members of our local assembly in Lagos. One asked the other why God’s word and presence are stronger at the conferences than during our typical Sunday worship. The other answered that it is all about hunger. Whereas members of our local assembly hear me often and may have become familiar, participants at the conferences who hear me occasionally come with hunger and expectation. It is that hunger in the hearts of people that makes the difference.

“The problem with today’s crop of believers is the neglect of our privileges in God.”

I love quoting F.B. Meyer on our privilege as Christians. “Pentecost was meant to be the specimen and type of all the days of the years of this present age, and we have fallen far below this blessed level, not because of any failure on God’s part, but because the Church has neglected its privilege”. The problem with today’s crop of believers is the neglect of our privileges in God. We are not hungry. Hunger is a medium of exchange in God’s Kingdom. Through the prophet Isaiah, God invited us to come and buy without money. With what do we buy? With longing and hunger. This hunger stirs us to call on His name. In the Beatitudes, Jesus said that blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (and other things of God we might add), for they shall be filled. This condition still applies today.