Here, is a topic about reading the word of God extract, edited, adapted from a book entitled, ''Everyday with Jesus''
People always say you are what you eat which is rather true! Jesus and Moses, being human, were verbivores. Their food is the word of God and they are word-digesting beings. When the devil, aka serpent tempted Jesus to use His power as the Son of God to turn the stones into bread, Jesus quoted:
Deuteronomy 8:3 (New King James Version)
3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.
Our Lord defeated the devil three times by saying ' it is written' and all three quotes are from the book of Deuteronomy.
Something more than physical nourishment like chicken essence, bird nest is needed if we are to really live. We need the spiritual sustenance which can be found in the words that come out from God.
So often it is the 'word' of men, not the Word of God is taken to heart by us and it becomes the power that changes our thinking about all things. The shape of our soul is largely determined by what 'word' we accepted, we believe and we trust. If God's word does not have pride of place in our souls then our souls cannot be develop or function like how it was designed originally!
Prayer for this message: Dear heavenly Father, Through this message here, I come to realise, I come to see and understand that my soul was made for Your word, by Your word and through Your word. It is just like how you make bird to be flying in the air, fish to be in the sea. Lord, please help me to open myself more to Your word, allow me to be shaped by Your word in just how You want it to be and not shaped by other words to be what you don't want my soul to be shaped in. In Jesus name I pray, Amen!
