Soul Food Jeremiah 15:16 Psalms 119:92 Isaiah 66:2 Psalms 119:9-11 Matthew 4:4 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Colossians 3:16 Hebrews 4:12 Psalms 119:165 01.04.16

SOUL FOOD

BREAD

16 When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight, for I bear your name, O Lord God Almighty.   Jeremiah 15:16 (NIV)

92 If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.   Psalms 119:92 (NIV)

“This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.”  Isaiah 66:2 (NIV)

9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. 10 I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. 11 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.  Psalms 119:9-11 (NIV)

4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”   Matthew 4:4 (NIV)

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.  2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.   Colossians 3:16 (NIV)

12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.   Hebrews 4:12 (NIV)

165 Great peace have they who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.  Psalms 119:165 (NIV)

BUTTER

“The rabbis spoke of the text being like a gem with seventy faces, and each time you turn the gem, the light refracts differently, giving you a reflection you haven’t seen before.  And so we turn the text again and again because we keep seeing things we missed before.  When you embrace the text as living and active, when you enter its story, when you keep turning the gem, you never come to the end.  Inspired words have a way of getting under our skin and taking on a life of their own.  They work on us.  We started out reading them, but they end up reading us.”   Rob Bell  

“For years I hid the inadequacy I felt as a counselor behind a professional demeanor, technical jargon, and sound psychological methods of treatment.  Recently I’ve made a truly liberating discovery.  I am inadequate.  My sense of inadequacy is not the effect of deficient intellect or poor training, nor is it a symptom of emotional disorder.  It is the painful admission of what is true.  On my own, I can make nothing of importance happen.  I can help no one.  But if I abide in Christ, if I present myself before God’s Spirit for searching and filling, if I study and ponder the Scriptures and live my life in brokenness before a grace-dispensing community, I can transcend my inadequacy, I can find myself as I worship.  I can struggle on behalf of others with the energy of Christ powerfully working in me.”   Larry Crabb

“Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact, God’s Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine authority over men.”   John Stott

“Memorization of Scripture isn’t for the saints who have made it. It’s for the sinners who want to make it.  Memorization is like learning to say your name, like learning where north is, like knowing your phone number home — it’s knowing who you are, where you are, Who He is. What the heart knows by heart is what the heart knows — how else can we know who we are? Memorization is 24/7 soul orientation.”   Ann Voskamp

“Take heed that you do not glory in your graces, but let all your glorying and confidence be in Christ and His strength, for this is the only way you can be kept from falling.  Pray more often.  Spend longer periods of time in holy adoration.  Read the Scriptures more earnestly and constantly.  Watch your lives more carefully.  Live nearer to God.  Take the best examples for your pattern.  Let your conversation emit the fragrance of heaven.  Let your hearts be perfumed with affection for the souls of others.  So live that others may recognize that you have been with Jesus, and have learned of Him…On, Christian, with care and caution!  On, with holy fear and trembling!  On, with faith and confidence in Jesus alone, and let your constant petition be, ‘Sustain me according to your promise.’  He, and He alone, is able ‘to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy.’”  Charles H. Spurgeon  

“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.”   Charles H. Spurgeon

“Keep your constant hours every day with God.  Begin the day with God, visit God in the morning before you make any other visit; wind up your hearts towards heaven in the morning and they will go the better all the day after!  Oh turn your closets into temples; read the Scriptures.  The two Testaments are the two lips by which God speaks to us; this will make you wise unto salvation.  Besiege heaven every day with your prayer, thus perfume your houses.”   Thomas Watson 

HEART SAVOR

• All Scripture is God breathed and is exceedingly profitable for my soul.
• One never outgrows Scripture – it is inexhaustible.
• The Word of Christ is to dwell in me richly for what comes out of my mouth is straight from my heart.  I am to store its treasures in my heart so as to leave the aroma of Jesus in my every encounter.