Breached Fasting

 Today is day 2 of our monthly fast, and we're continuing our study of  nutrition  in relation to our spiritual walk. We began with a nutritional assessment of our spiritual journey. And with that knowledge let's address the core of our not so nutritionally dense choices.  For example let's think about physical nutrition for a moment. All foods are permissible, in that the body is capable of digesting different foods. Yet not all foods are nutritiously dense and beneficial to our overall health. Some foods are recommended for daily consumption, others we should have on occasion and some foods omission is best all together. Now let's jump back into the spiritual sphere. Consider some of your main desires, coping mechanisms or things you have noticed you gravitate to in times of despair, crisis, frustration and the like. Would you consider them nutritiously dense. As in are these choices helping to pattern you after the heart of God? Our appetites will always deceive u...

Today is day 1 of our monthly fast, and next month's theme is nutrition. Nutrition plays a vital role in the cellular energy of every human being and is essential to the bodies functionality and living an optimal life. This knowledge then begs the question of how can someone apply this physical concept of nutrition in a spiritual sense. To begin the same way nutrition is the source of energy for each human, the Word of God is our spiritual nutritional source. 1 Peter 2:2 reads  "like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation." Consider the dependency of a newborn child. They expect every need to be supplied by their parent. Their only responsibility is to consume milk that they may grow.  The Word of  God is a vital component in our spiritual growth and development. Even in the midst of difficulty it should inform our heart posture. Job in the midst of his despair said " I have not departed f...