Are you hungry ? 27

I have to admit, I’m not much of a cook, but I’m thankful my wife is because the boys and I would be in trouble.  But if I had too, key word here is had, I would have to follow the recipe to the tee, and that’s for anybody trying to make a new dish.

You first have to make sure that you have all the ingredients, because if something is missing it’s not going to turn out the way it supposes to.  Now if you have followed everything that the recipe has called for, you will have the dish you desired, but then again sometimes it takes a couple of times to truly get the hang of it, and that my friends is how God works.  There is a recipe in following Him, and we have to make sure that we stick to the recipe at all times.  The Bible is the directions that we must follow in order to get the results we want, whatever they may be.  I can’t add anything on my own and expect the out come to be the same.  If I need deliverance, it’s in the book, if I need healing it’s in the book.  I need to love my enemies, there a recipe for that, or I need my faith to increase, there is a recipe for that.  My marriage is in trouble Lord, it’s in the Book, there’s a recipe for that, and Lord I need to be saved, truly there’s a recipe for that.  If we follow the instructions to the letter, we will have success in the things we ask of God.  Food for Thought, I hope you’re hungry.

 

Ps. There is also a recipe on how to be perfect in Christ, it’s there you just have to read it and apply it, and let Him do His work in you completely, and if let Jesus drive 100% all the time, perfection just wont be a word, but a reality in your life.

Are you hungry? 26

The wind is howling fiercely, as the heavens fill the air with the booming sound of thunder.  Lightning cracks the sky like a whip, as the rain fall beats upon the house.  Yet inside there is little movement as you sit up in your bed.  You glance at your significant other as they lay there fast asleep.  How are they doing it you wonder, as you jump at the latest boom that to you it seemed to shake the house.  So all you can do is pray Lord get me through the night.  Finally after awhile the storm passes and your nerves settle so that you finally get some rest.  You slowly get up in the morning as your spouse is already up refreshed and ready to go, and then you hear them say, “oh I see we got some rain last night,” and all you can do is shake your head.  In life storms come up all the time, the thing about them is how do we go about handling them.  There is only one sure way to get through a storm, and that is being anchored in Jesus.  Sure the wind my blow, and the thunder boom, but in Christ there is always that peace in the mist of the storm.  People may look and stare wondering how on earth are you so calm?  You just lost your job, you just lost a love one, or you just received a letter of foreclosure.  How are they still standing, and how are they still smiling?  Ah I tell you Jesus does nothing half way, and trusting in Him will surely get you through whatever storm you’re in.  Remember the disciples were panicking as the ship was caught in the storm, and they fought with all their might to try to stay alive.  But as they struggled where was Jesus?  He was laying there fast asleep.  So they go to wake Him up saying Master save us lest we parish, and we know He said peace be still, and the storm came to a halt.  You are powerless in a storm, there is nothing you can do, but trust in the own who control all things and let Him bring you through.   Food for thought, I hope you’re hungry.

Are you hungry? 25

If it’s one thing that travels fast, it’s news.  As soon as something happens, we’re hitting the phones, because we know something and it’s burning us up in the inside and we’ve just have to get it out.  So and so has last their job because they kept laying out of work.  I saw someone one the side of the road holding a sign asking for money to feed their family. What happened, the conversation goes, probably blew it doing bad stuff. And the next thing that comes out their mouth is…cause I heard.  I wont go any farther than that because the point is simple.  It’s so easy to talk about someone, but so hard to pray for someone.  We find it so easy to find fault, then to fall on my knees and say God help them please, you know their situation, deliver and set them free.  Believe me God saw it long before you did, but just maybe He allowed you to witness it so that you could pray for them, not see it and talk about them.  I’ve come to the conclusion that as Christians if we linger back and not walk closely to Christ as we should, our flesh will have us in a whole heap of trouble.  And we are going to make some very eye opening mistakes.  If by chance you are one to witness such an event, let prayer be the first thing to jump in your spirit, and not running to the phone. Believe me prayer will be the best thing for that person, and you never know someone may have been praying for you.   Food for thought, I hope you’re hungry.