| The experience is intense longing.
"In the first place, though the sense of want is acute and even painful, yet the mere wanting is felt to be somehow a delight. Other desires are felt as pleasures only if satisfaction is expected in the near future: Hunger is pleasant only while we know (or believe) that we are soon to eat. But this desire, even when there is no hope of possible satisfaction, continues to be prized, and even to be preferred to anything else in the world, by those who have once felt it. This hunger is better than any other fullness; this poverty better than all other wealth. And thus it comes about, "That if the desire is long absent, it may be itself desired, and that new desiring becomes a new instance of the original desire, though the subject may not at once recognize the fact and thus cries out for his lost youth of soul at the very moment in which he is being rejuvenated. This sounds complicated but it is simple when we live it. 'Oh to feel as I did then!' we cry, not noticing that even while we say the words the very feeling whose loss we lament is rising again in all its old bitter-sweetness. For this sweet Desire cuts across our ordinary distinctions between wanting and having, to have it is, by definition, a want: To want it, we find, is to have it."
- C.S. Lewis
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| From "Rewards of Fasting" by Mike Bickle and Dana Candler
"Radical obedience is disruptive to our flesh, but it causes our spirit to soar in God. It confronts and reorders the way we spend time and money, the way we talk and entertain ourselves, and the way we express our sexuality and pursue success or honor. It is not a casual reality. It touches EVERY area of our lives."
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