A Hunger for God: Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer
[Pages:208]"A Hunger for God applied fasting to my everyday life. It's not just for mystics and the monastics, but for every Christian. Fasting is not about us, nor is it about our devotion to God, as so many prescribe. We are a culture of abundance that indulges and abuses--fasting is a means of God's grace to embrace someone greater than our appetites. This book radically changed, simplified, and drew me nearer to Christ."
Keyan Soltani
"A Hunger for God came to me in a time in my life when pain and heartache brought about a thirst that only our Savior can fill! I am always hungry and thirsty for more of him. In these pages I felt God's extravagant love at each turn. What a treasure!"
Amy Kneen
"Few books have had such an impact on my life as A Hunger for God. While trying to understand how God could use fasting in my life, I was overwhelmed by my need for Christ, homesickness for heaven, and longing to take the light of Christ to the world. John Piper shows clearly with Scripture God's purpose and view of our fasting for the joy of our soul and the glory of his name. This book has helped me cherish the Giver rather than the gift."
Octavio S?nchez
"In the most desperate time of my Christian life, this book taught me to see God as all fulfilling. As I turned to God, I found joy in the midst of suffering. No longer did I see this season in my life as destruction but as a time of providential guidance toward seeing God as the longed-for object and fulfillment of my soul. A Hunger for God helped turn my desperation into affection."
Rudy Rackley
"I came to the United States hungry for money, success, and the American dream. I did not know that God was going to chase me away from worshiping these and draw me to worship him. The Spirit used A Hunger for God mightily in my life. I came to grasp with what it means to renounce all things for the sake of Christ, to tear down strongholds in obedience to him, and to rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Bread was made so that I can worship God through my enjoyment of him in eating it--not by glorifying it or by glorifying myself for providing it. I'm encouraged that this book is being rereleased, and may God use it to show himself greater than all gifts to a whole new generation of men and women throughout the world."
Victor Chininin Buele
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A SELECTION OF CROSSWAY TITLES BY JOHN PIPER
Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian, 2011
Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God, 2010
A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God, 2010
Spectacular Sins: And Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ, 2008
When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God--and Joy, 2007
What Jesus Demands from the World, 2006
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die, 2006
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, 2004
When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy, 2004
Don't Waste Your Life, 2003
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A
HUNGER
for
GOD
Desiring God through Fasting and Prayer
JOHN PIPER
FOREWORD BY DAVID PLATT AND FRANCIS CHAN
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WHEATON, ILLINOIS
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A Hunger for God: Desiring God through Fasting and Prayer
Copyright ? 1997, 2013 by Desiring God Foundation
Published by Crossway 1300 Crescent Street Wheaton, Illinois 60187
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.
Cover design: Erik Maldre
First printing 1997
First printing redesign 2013
Printed in the United States of America
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the ESV? Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version?), copyright ? 2001 by Crossway. 2011 Text Edition. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations marked at are the author's translation.
Scripture quotations marked kjv are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Scripture references marked rsv are from The Revised Standard Version. Copyright ?1946, 1952, 1971, 1973 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
All emphases in Scripture quotations have been added by the author.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Piper, John, 1946?
A hunger for God : desiring God through fasting and prayer / John
Piper ; foreword by David Platt and Francis Chan.
p. cm
Originally published: Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, c1997. Includes
bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4335-3726-4
1. Fasting--Religious aspects--Christianity. 2. Prayer--Christianity.
3. Desire for God. I. Title.
BV5055.P57 2013
248.4'7--dc23
2012043970
Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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To the elders of Bethlehem Baptist Church,
with whom I hungered for the fullness of God, and feasted at the table of grace.
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CONTENTS
Foreword by Francis Chan and David Platt
9
Preface
13
Introduction: A Homesickness for God
17
1 IS FASTING CHRISTIAN?
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New Fasting for the New Wine
2 MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE
51
The Desert Feast of Fasting
3 FASTING FOR THE REWARD OF THE FATHER
65
Jesus' Radical God-Orientation in Fasting
4 FASTING FOR THE KING'S COMING
79
How Much Do We Miss Him?
5 FASTING AND THE COURSE OF HISTORY
93
A Call for Discernment and Desire
6 FINDING GOD IN THE GARDEN OF PAIN
115
A Different Fast for the Sake of the Poor
7 FASTING FOR THE LITTLE ONES
141
Abortion and the Sovereignty of God Over False Worldviews
Conclusion: Why Does God Reward Fasting?
157
Appendix: Quotes and Experiences
165
Bibliography
181
Notes
183
Scripture Index
191
Person Index
197
Subject Index
199
Desiring God: A Note on Resources
203
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