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Psalm 63:5
As God
"satisfies" your soul, your physical body will also be satisfied
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| Psalm 63:5
My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing
lips my mouth will praise you.
This verse has really been speaking to me and I knew it correlated our physical appetites with the spiritual and the light bulb went on for me this morning because God has done this exact thing in my life.! As He satisfies our souls, as with the richest of foods, our flesh also becomes so satisfied that our mouth stops craving rich foods and with our mouths we sing praise to our Lord. Yes, He CAN satisfy our fleshly desires as He fills us with His presence. When I focus my praise on Him, He takes away my desire to eat those bad foods that are just filling up the empty emotional spots. We often times eat with our emotions, eating to just eat, because there's an empty space in our soul that needs to be revealed to us so we can let God fill it up with His light, His satisfying presence that makes food pale in comparison Your comments are always welcome, please E-mail them to us.Click on E-mail if you would like to receive new devotionals via E-mail as they are posted to the website. Here are some comments we have received on this devotional : Tamie's comments:
I wanted to comment on the
Devotional. I especially like the part where you said "When I
focus my praise on Him" and I wanted to point out the importance
of making a conscious choice to focus. We think we can just
throw up a quick prayer and that God just magically changes our
hearts and minds. Yes, He will surely help us but it is
important to choose to change the behavior to that of
praise. That is the truth in so many areas of our lives. He
would love to help us but we expect Him to do all the work.
Love, Tamie
Your first devotional really
hit home. I was eating chocolate chip cookies for breakfast
when I should have been reading my bible. You caught me in
the act. Tomorrow will be different. Thanks, Linda
You might want to add to this
devotional Ps. 103:4-5.
It goes right along with what you said.
Psalm 103:4-5 who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. Love, Sharon
Yes, this does
go right along with Psalm 63:5, our Redeemer fills us with
love and compassion (seals up those emotional & physical
hurts) and HE satisfies us with good things! When we are
renewed like eagle's we soar! Nothing can hold us down..
let's start each day with the Lord and let Him fill us up to
overflowing, satisfying ALL of our needs.
This
next one is from Julie, it may look like a lot to read, but
it is very well worth your time. I really encourage
you to take a few minutes and "ingest" these great thoughts
so God can "satisfy your soul"..... and "energize" your
body!
Loved Tamie's
comments too (posted at bottom of this email with the
original devotion we are referring to). This is the
difference between an obligatory/shallow prayer and one
right from our heart and soul. Real communication with the
desire to work as a team (asking God to work through us) as
opposed to asking our puppet God to makes our dreams come
true for the day just because WE think that's what we need
or want.
A little ironic
to have re-read your original devotional after being sick
Tuesday. As I told you, I was too sick to even speak a word
out loud and had to ask God to honor my prayers in my head
between moaning and vomiting. When I was finally feeling
strong enough to speak out loud, I asked Him to bind the
enemy and give me rest and He was faithful within a very
short time after that.. (6 hours still seemed like an
eternity, but like childbirth, it eventually has an end and
the remembrance gets easier the more that time passes! :).
It was a beautiful sleep (after the storm) and GOOD food
never tastes as good as when we are TRULY hungry - after
an episode where we can't even keep water down (water was
like heaven) or after an intense workout where our body
actually craves WHAT IT NEEDS - not something we would
normally associate with tasting good. The garbage stuff we
might "treat" ourselves to on a "normal" day when we're
feeling well is NOT the food we want after being sick or
having done a great exercise-type marathon. This proves
that our needs are healthy, but our desires can
mess us up. Similarly (and since you like metaphors), God's
word tastes so much sweeter when we are feeling weak and
really understanding that we NEED him or just desperatley
want to understand and live for Him because our light
bulb of deep love for him has been turned on. When we are
reading His word simpy to fulfill some oblgation we've made
with ourselves, it often doesn't have that same spark or
depth.....that same delightful "taste", not does it satisfy
as deeply. Maybe motivation for eating food and reading
the Word need to be the same - more pure.
More "food for
thought"......
Fix your thoughts on what is
true and honorable and right. Think about things that are
pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are
excellent and worthy of praise.
Philippians 4:8 NLT
No one would allow garbage at his table, but many allow it served into their minds.
Fulton John Sheen
In regard to our diet.....if we ate only fast foods and unhealthy snacks high in sugar and fats, we would expect our physical health to (naturally) be a unhealhty product of this junk. It is the same in the spirit. :) Our culture is saturated with unhealthy spiritual food—from the lusts of the flesh, to the ego-maniacal selfihness/business, corrupt and deceptive worldviews and philosophies woven into the fabric of society, etc TV, newspapers and endless cyberspace images and, yes E-MAILS, compete for our attention daily. We lose track of time and get "lost" in them at times (eh-hem, Julie). And much of what we feed on is unhealthy, if even in just being too negative (drawing away our focus) or too much of too much!! (Speaking for myself here). In our pursuit of wisdom and/or the desire to "connect', our minds are really often hungering for genuine nutrition. Again, after all the time is spent, we still aren't satisfied - in fact, I'm often upset that I've invested all the time in (at least somewhat) useless avenues fooling myself into feeling that I've been "productive" in the moments I've actually wasted. It's only in hindsight that I realize that that wasn't the mind food I was looking for. So, "You are what you eat" applies in the spiritual world just as much as the physical.. Of course God does call us to watch our diets and it pleases Him when we care for His temple. But it pleases HIm even more when we protect and nurture our minds. Our thought life is where His Spirit most prefers to work, shaping uncluttered and open hearts and bringing wisdom to asking minds. My prayer is for Him to guide us in nourishing our minds AND bodies in a package deal!
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