Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Jeremiah 15:16, “Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.”
Many years ago I began to learn the secret revealed in this verse.
After being a Christian for years, I came to a point where I felt dry, discouraged, and defeated.
I tried to overcome my failing self in many areas, but found I lacked the necessary strength.
At that time the Lord impressed me with Jeremiah 15:16.
Formerly, my time with the Lord in the Word was mainly an exercise of my eyes and my mind.
But when I discovered that the nature of God’s Word was food, I began to read the Word with a praying spirit.
The Bible became a new book in my hands.
It became a book of enjoyment, a book from which I could feed upon the living God.
I found myself reading and praying simultaneously and then taking up a verse or a phrase and beginning to fellowship with the Lord with the very words of Scripture.
I found I did not have to strive to find what to pray.
The Word of God itself became the content of my prayer.
While doing this I found a mysterious yet real supply spontaneously infusing my inner man.
No longer was I merely looking at black and white letters on a page or trying to mentally understand things, which had often left me spiritually deadened.
For the first time in my Christian life, I began to enjoy God Himself in the pages of the Bible.
Feeding upon the Word taught me experientially that my inner man requires food just as my physical body does.
The reason for my defeated Christian life, I discovered, was simply lack of nourishment.
In studying the Bible for years, it had become to me a book of theology, sermons, and outlines, rather than a book of enjoyment and supply.
I realized that the mere knowledge of the Bible could not change me.
It was only when the Bible was translated into food by my praying with and over the verses that it turned into enjoyment rather than mere thought.
I realized then, as I do today, that one of the secrets of spending time with the Lord is to feed upon the Word.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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