Eat Until Your Full!

Hello all you wonderful people out there. I just added another message to our website and thought I would include it here on the blog. By the way we are at 17 passengers for the Bus trip to Safford, and growing. Praise God!. Please pray for the Bus. We really need it.

I hope you enjoy this new Message:

“Eat Until Your Full”

One of the things we all most do to stay alive, is eat. Some of us eat just enough to satisfy our hunger and just enough to keep our bodies from gaining or losing weight. Some will eat not enough, thinking they will lose weight and look better, and others will eat more than enough and spend a lot of their time at the store shopping for larger clothes.

What a lot of people do not realize, is that not only do we need to feed our flesh, but we also need to feed our spirit, to really stay alive. If we feed our spirit just enough, we will not grow in God’s word like it says in 2Peter 3:18 “Grow in the Grace and Knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”. Then if we feed our spirit not enough, we will deprive ourselves of what we need to fight off the attacks of Satan, and become weak. With a weak spirit, Satan can cause confusion, as it says in the 2nd part of Proverbs 27:7. “To the hungry even what is bitter taste sweet”, - or – what is wrong seems right and what is right seems wrong. Don’t let Satan get you confused by having a weak and hungry spirit. Now, if we feed our spirit all it can eat, we will grow in wisdom, knowledge and strength. We will grow truth in our life and by being a Christian we have the spirit of truth inside us. We just need to feed it.

You want to build a strong foundation for your life. By feeding your spirit, you will build that strong foundation and you will be able to ride out the storms that Satan brings your way. Just like the wise man who built his house on the rock in Matthew 7:25. “The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against his house; yet it did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock”. But if you do not feed your spirit, then you will be like the foolish man who built his houses foundation on sand and it will not have the strength to ride out the storms of Satan. Matthew 7:27. “The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against his house, and it fell with a great crash”. So whatever you do, feed your spirit and build that strong foundation on the rock.

A good fed spirit will also help you grow stronger faith. It will give you the strength to put on the amour of God and be able to block the fiery arrows that Satan shoots at you, as in Ephesians 6:16. As Christians we all have faith because we believe in something that we have never seen. We believe God is the creator of Heaven and Earth. We believe that He came to earth as Man, by the Virgin Birth of Jesus. And we believe that Jesus Died on the Cross for all of our sins and rose again. But is your faith as strong as the faith of the people we read about in the Bible that actually experienced the miracles that Jesus performed? It is easier to believe in something that you can actually see, but strong faith believes in something from your heart and not your sight.

I have had some people before come to me and ask me how come some of their prayers have not been answered by God. I explained to them that God hears all their requests, but a lot of times, people do not have the faith it takes to receive their answer. They begin to have doubt and doubt takes away the blessings. To have strong faith and receive from God you can not have any doubt. As example, let’s look at a couple of people from the Bible that has received or heard from God, based on the strength of their Faith.

1. Moses: He led God’s people out of Egypt, through the desert and to the Red Sea. When it seemed like they were trapped with the Red Sea on one side and Pharaoh and his army on the other side wanting to kill them, Moses called on his strong faith in God. In Exodus 14:13, he told God’s people “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still”. Moses cried out to God and had the strong faith that God would answer. He had No Doubt.

2. Centurion: In Matthew 8:5 it tells us that a Centurion (Roman Military Officer) came to Jesus and asked Him to heal his servant. Matthew 8:5-8 “A centurion came to him, asking for help. Lord, he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed and in terrible suffering.” Jesus said to him, “I will go and heal him.” The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. Matthew 8:13, Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! It will be done just as you believed it would.” Although the centurion said he was not fit to have Jesus come to his house, he had a strong enough faith in Jesus that he could heal his servant, just by speaking the Word. He also had No Doubt.

3. Woman: In Matthew 9:20 it tells us where a Woman who’s faith was so strong, that she knew if she could only touch the clothes of Jesus, then she would be healed. Matthew 9:20-22, Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the edge of his cloak. She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.” Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed you.” She also had No Doubt.

To me this is really amazing. Usually when Jesus was seen he had a large crowd of people around him. I can just picture this woman fighting her way through the crowd and had been bleeding for twelve years. I can imagine her saying no matter what anyone says, I am taking my case to the higher court, I am getting victory, I am getting healed and all by only touching His cloak. Wow, that is some strong faith.

All three of these people had something in common. They all cried out to God and had strong Faith. To cry out means that when you are really desperate or really miserable, then you cry out from your heart and spirit. There are many things we have allowed in our life that can not be changed, unless we cry out to God. When you get tired or miserable enough of being (1) Broke, (2) Depressed, (3) Worrying, (4) Not have enough money or (5) having a problem marriage, the crying out to God needs to be done. You don’t have to be miserable in anything. Just cry out to God and keep feeding your spirit.

You might ask how and what do I feed my spirit? You feed your spirit with God’s Word daily. The more you feed it, the stronger your spirit gets, your faith grows stronger and the Word gets stored up inside you. To feed your spirit, you need to read, study and meditate on God’s Word daily, If you will spend more time feeding your spirit, you will stay out of some of the troubles that come your way. Another way to feed your spirit is by focusing and fellowshipping with other believers. It says in 2 Corinthians 6:14-15, “Don not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial (Hebrew for Satan)? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever”? Please do not get me wrong. We are not to stay away from unbelievers, but do not allow them to feed your spirit for you. Everyone reading this message should have dedicated time set each day for the Lord. You Need To Feed Your Spirit!

Take your Bible and lift it into the air: Say – “This is my Bible, Words from God. If I let my eyes see it, if I let me ears hear it, and if I let my mouth speak it, my life will change and I will never be the same in Jesus name”. Amen!

Eat Until Your Full!

Fresh Start Fellowship

Scottsdale, Arizona

www.FreshStartFellowship.com