Oh taste and see that the Lord is good. Yes! You can eat in my room. #abalancedspiritualdiet

 As a Christian who doesn’t frequent Sunday services, it is easy to fall from the grace of a healthy spiritual diet. Your spiritual diet includes the intangible things you consume daily. Things like, social media posts, celebrity gossip, work gossip, school gossip, literally any gossip, tv shows, books, conversations and so on. They are the things you entertain and allow your minds to be fixated on. Many new babes in Christ struggle with maintaining a balanced spiritual diet, because our mindsets are typically focused on our own will power and personal capabilities, rather than the power of God’s words. We may say things like “my mind is more powerful than that” or “I know the things of the Lord” or “I am not easily deceived”. I personally, thought that I could read the bible twice or even three times a week and that would suffice, but that was a lie from the pit of hell. You must actively seek God.

The word says “Give us this day, our daily bread”, which means, we need the bread of life, which is the word of God every single day. Each day you skip a meal, you are starving your spirit. And what happens when you starve something? It dies. Which is why the bible says the wages, meaning the price you pay for sin, is death.  Now your spirit may not literally die, but certain areas in your life such as your finances, mental and psychological state, or even your health will diminish, ultimately leading to the physical death of the  flesh, and that is the plan of the enemy. The cost you pay for sin in this instance, is the health and the strength of your spirit man, and when your spirit man becomes weak, your distorted, ignorant, lustful, prideful, and destructive flesh overpowers your entire being which includes, your body, spirit and soul. This is when you become dead inside, you become hopeless, fearful, tired, frustrated, lost and broken. Hopeless, because your flesh is incapable of nourishing your  faith, but had you tasted the word of God your healthy spirit would take control and remind your flesh that “ if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will tell this mountain move from here to there and it will move”  Tired because you didn’t consume the word that, says “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest” lost because you skipped the meal where the lord said “ thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path” and the list goes on a on.

You see what we listen to, what we look at and what we focus on holds its place in our minds and by this we make memories. However, this is also a gateway for demonic strongholds enter into our lives. For example, when a person experiences a certain trauma, the demonic stronghold behind that trauma often makes its home in the memories of that person’s mind for years and years.   If the individual isn’t mindful of their spiritual diet, they will eventually adopt the lies of these demons and act in their modus operandi versus that of the Most High God. See a child that was bullied may grow up to internalize the lies of being, worthless, ugly, fat, unwanted etc. In their adult years he/she may be timid, hopeless, insecure and discouraged. Once in this state, he/she cannot come into the manifestation of the glory of God for their lives and that’s the unhealthy state the enemy wants you to stay in.

But if that person, changes their spiritual diet, their perspectives, thought processes and behaviors will change. Prolonged maintenance of this diet will begin to transform their entire lives revealing graces and favors they had never thought or imagined would be their portion in this lifetime. See the word of God can act as fiber. It pushes out all those wasteful ideas planted in your mind by the enemy. The word of God is also like vitamins, it helps you to develop new thought processes and replenishes your mind. It strengthens your spiritual bones like calcium, so you may begin to grow in understanding, it regulates the spirit to act in its God given power and to cast down all those thoughts and imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God.

Today say the Lord’s prayer – Matthew 6: 9-13

…Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name

Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven

Gives us this day our daily bread

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors

And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, for ever. Amen

I pray that you will taste and see that the Lord is good! Remember to read a scripture today!  God bless you.