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Eat the Word (1)
'...open your ears to the words of his mouth...' Jeremiah 9:20
It may have been a sad day in the school canteen the hour Jamie Oliver declared war on your favourite turkey twizzlers...but here's the thing, he was doing it for your own benefit. We need to be careful what we digest. It's not just our stomachs either, we need to watch what we feed our brains. Our fave mags may give us the lowdown on what's hot and what's not, but there's not enough substance their to sustain us. Our spiritual lives need a good dose of iron and all the right ingredients. We need to tuck into our Bibles for a healthy feed. It's a diet of
a) POWER. Read Luke 4 to understand the power of Jesus' Word. It's a healthy tale of forces submitting to God's Word
b) FORCE. '...by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed...' (2 Peter 3:5 NIV).
God didn't call in the builders when He made the world, His Word alone was enough to create all that exists
c) LIFE. 'The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life' (John 6:63 NIV). When you eat the Word of God, it can't just sit there and do nothing, it comes to life. It gets to work in you and starts to produce results. So don't just sit there drooling, tuck in, feed your face with the Word.
written by Bob Gass
'...open your ears to the words of his mouth...' Jeremiah 9:20
It may have been a sad day in the school canteen the hour Jamie Oliver declared war on your favourite turkey twizzlers...but here's the thing, he was doing it for your own benefit. We need to be careful what we digest. It's not just our stomachs either, we need to watch what we feed our brains. Our fave mags may give us the lowdown on what's hot and what's not, but there's not enough substance their to sustain us. Our spiritual lives need a good dose of iron and all the right ingredients. We need to tuck into our Bibles for a healthy feed. It's a diet of
a) POWER. Read Luke 4 to understand the power of Jesus' Word. It's a healthy tale of forces submitting to God's Word
b) FORCE. '...by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed...' (2 Peter 3:5 NIV).
God didn't call in the builders when He made the world, His Word alone was enough to create all that exists
c) LIFE. 'The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life' (John 6:63 NIV). When you eat the Word of God, it can't just sit there and do nothing, it comes to life. It gets to work in you and starts to produce results. So don't just sit there drooling, tuck in, feed your face with the Word.
written by Bob Gass
