Do you crave Jesus the way you crave your favorite meal?

We instinctively know what satisfies our physical hunger—a perfectly cooked steak, a go-to Mediterranean bowl, that one comfort food that never misses. We're experts at feeding our bodies. But when it comes to desiring Jesus, many of us are still learning how to hunger for Him.

In this week's teaching, we explore why craving God's presence doesn't always come naturally—especially in the ordinary, everyday moments. Drawing from Jesus' confrontation with the Pharisees about fasting, we reframe this ancient practice not as religious performance or spiritual pressure, but as a way to realign our hearts with the intimacy we already have in Christ.

If you've ever wanted to desire Jesus more deeply—not just in moments of crisis, but in the mundane—this message will challenge and invite you to cultivate a hunger for Him that surpasses every other craving.

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Mark 2:18-22

18 Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" 19 And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins."