This message is taken from one of my mama's many journals of sermons. She passed away in July of 2015. Pearl Jeannette Holman was an Evangelist for over fifty years. I hope this will inspire you and draw you closer to the Lord Jesus. Her prayer was, Lord help me, so I can help others and Lord Jesus save my family...
Part I - Bread of Life!
We live in an age of quick fix.
We want instant truth along with instant breakfast cereal and instant car washes. When it comes to spiritual things, we want God to drop truth from heaven into our hearts without our having to bother studying.
Perhaps this in part explains the yen for alleged Spiritual revelations, words of wisdom and sudden impressions. Instead of laboriously searching scripture to find an inspired answer, people prefer to look to a Christian guru to pronounce instruction over them. They unwisely look to fallible people for God's plan for their future.
Others fail to grasp scripture meaning due to a lack of dependence on the Holy Spirit's enlightenment.
We are to hide God's word in our hearts...(the Psalmist said in Psalm 119:11) Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.
What is bread?
Wheat that is grown in the ground, crushed and fed to the face.
What do we need?
We need the bread of Life. Christ prayed in Matthew 6, Give us this day our daily bread. He prayed this even before he prayed for forgiveness. The physical need and the spiritual need. Both are vitally essential for life.
We must feed on the bread of life. The word of God, is, the bread of Life!
Only Christ Jesus can satisfy our needs...
Christ is our answer...Look at Jesus...He says, come!
Matthew 6:6 When you pray, enter into thy closet, and when you have shut the door, pray to thy father, which is in secret; and thy father which seeth in secret, shall reward you openly. (7) But when your pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do: For they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
When Jesus asked God to sanctify His followers through the truth, He added that God's Word constitutes truth.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: Thy Word is Truth.
God, it's inspirer, yearns to make and keep His children more holy.
God's word gives directions for the Christian to progress in the sanctified walk.
God's word enters our lives in sanctifying power.
A digested food with in our body somehow becomes nourishment, energy, health, renewal and growth, so the digested manna (the bread of life) of the scripture becomes our ongoing sanctification in the spirit which strengthens the body as well.
Matthew 4:4 Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
Scripture both informs us about continuing sanctification and supplies the means for such abundant living.
Reading fine Christian books can explain and reinforce what we read in scripture. But such reading must never substitute the Holy Word of God. We must ask God to manifest Himself to us through His Holy Word.
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