1. Because You Answered: The Secret of Satisfaction
Matthew 5:6

2. “In India – people are dying of physical starvation
“In India – people are dying of physical starvation. In America – people are dying of emotional starvation.”

3. Matthew 5:3-6 (NASB)
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
5 “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

4. Three Step Questionnaire Based on Matthew 5:6
1. What does the word “Satisfy” mean to me?

5. Satisfied: To be fulfilled in life

6. Three Step Questionnaire Based on Matthew 5:6
1. What does the word “Satisfy” mean to me?
2. Do I have the right source for my satisfaction?

7. Hungering and thirsting:
Awareness and consciousness of a deep and desperate need, to the point where we experience deep and soulful pain.

8. Wrong Sources:
Fame

9. Wrong Sources:
Success
Fame

10. Wrong Sources:
Power
Success
Fame

11. Wrong Sources:
Power
Success
Fame
Sex

12. The Right Source: Righteousness
Matthew 5:6 (NASB)
6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

13. Three Step Questionnaire Based on Matthew 5:6
1. What does the word “Satisfy” mean to me?
2. Do I have the right source form my satisfaction?
3. What is Righteousness?

14. Righteousness is being in right relationship
Romans 5:17 (NASB)
17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
Righteousness is being in right relationship

15. Psalm 63:1-5 (NASB)
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.

16. How do we get there?
1. REPENTANCE
2. REDIRECTION

17. Psalm 1:3 (NASB)
3 He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers.

18. Reasons People Do Not Pursue
1. Lack of knowledge
2 Corinthians 5:10 (NASB)
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

19. Reasons People Do Not Pursue
1. Lack of knowledge
2. Fear of inability
John 6:37 (NASB)
37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.

20. Reasons People Do Not Pursue
1. Lack of knowledge
2. Fear of inability
3. Think they are not ready
James 4:14 (NASB)
14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.