Revelation 3.20 “Here I am. I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with Me.” Another invitation to draw near to God “Before a sinful man can think a right thought of God, there must have been a work of enlightenment done within him.” -- A.W. Tozier Psalms 42.2-4 The only way we can create and maintain a hunger for God is to protect our soul by choosing what we fill it with. Proverbs 27.7 “A satisfied soul loathes the honey comb.” The Laodicean church’s issue was not material things, but they had allowed the material things to satisfy their souls. Hunger is the key element to whether or not we pursue intimacy with God. Hunger is your spiritual thermometer. Backsliding begins when we are indifferent to the Scriptures and things of God, and become more excited about natural things than the things of God. Isaiah 42.3 “Smoking flax He will not quench” Psalms 107.9 “For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness”