Eat Up! Zero Calories…

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: Am 8:11

Lately my girls have been having this uneasy feeling and could never explain what it was. My youngest girl came to me the other day and told me that she had finally figured out what the problem was. After weeks of being agitated and ill at ease she realized her spirit was hungry. At one time in her younger years she was overweight and had to make some lifestyle changes to lose 89 pounds. During this time she experienced the feeling of true hunger. Most people in the US don’t experience the pangs and pain of true hunger they eat on a fairly regular basis whether they are hungry or not. My youngest daughter said that she had come to a point in her life where she was not making time for reading the word and prayer. She had been neglecting her spirit man when she began to read the word on a regular basis and pray this uneasy feeling in her would go away and she said the Lord had shown her that her spirit was hungry. She was hungry for hearing the word of God and had not even realized what the problem was. . Without even realizing it she had put her spirit man on a diet. After correcting this situation she is now spiritually fat and happy.

There are many in the church in the same condition as my daughter had been. They are uneasy and desiring something but they don’t know what, so they buy bigger houses, seek more extreme entertainment, they eat more food, spend more money, buy more toys, get divorced, get married, have a child, have an affair, anything to stop this restless and uneasy feeling, but it doesn’t work. What they are feeling is a spirit hunger; their spirits are literally starving to death and nothing will satisfy but the word of God.

Have you ever been hungry? I mean really hungry to the point where your stomach is growling, you feel like your stomach could eat your back bone and you begin to feel weak. Then finally you begin to eat and it is so refreshing to the flesh that you just can’t stop. You enjoy the taste, the texture, the smell; you love everything about the food. It’s the same way with spiritual food. If you will begin to eat the word, read, digest, meditate, pray and surround yourself with the word of God you will not be able to get enough you will want more and more. The sound of it, the feel of it, the inspiration of it, the faith it builds, the renewing of it, the power of it. If you catch the scent of it you will run towards it and that anxious, nervous, troubled, uncomfortable, on edge feeling will leave. You won’t seek after the things of this world to satisfy that spiritual hunger.

I must say if I knew there was a day coming when I could not have food to sustain my fleshly body I would make preparation. I would store up for the famine as Joseph did in Egypt. The verse above warns about a famine coming, a famine for the word of God. My advice, make preparation begin to hide Gods word in your heart begin to feed that spiritual man, store up oil for your lamps so that you will not be lacking of oil like the 7 foolish virgins. Portion size when feeding the spirit doesn’t matter the more the better, so eat up and store some spiritual fat for times of famine.