This year I want to be all I can be for Jesus. I want to do all I can for others. Only with God's guidance and strength can I do anything. Lord give me ears to hear you and lips that constantly praise you and a mind that focuses on you and a heart that obeys you.

On  The Road Home With Others

Lord I need your wisdom for every area of life.

Lord I need to hear and obey you that I may be delivered from strife.

Lord I need your guidance all day long.

Lord help me to cling to what's right and turn away from what's wrong.

I ask not just for me.

But for those whose hand I take.

Lord as you can see.

I  come not alone but I bring others that they may partake.

Because I'm not alone and I love them so,

Lord keep hold of me and don't let go.

 Good Food, Good Health

If  I am left to my own preferences I will eat lots of meats and sweets and nothing else. This in turn would put me on the road to poor health. On the other hand if  I gave into my really healthy side I would eat just, fruits, vegetables and grains; and I would eat them raw! I would still nutritionally be off and headed for poor health. There is no doubt about it healthy eating comes from a proper  balance of  a variety of  foods. Because I am the cook in my home I want to try to serve healthy meals. In my daily walk with God, I need to be careful of what I eat spiritually to maintain good spiritual health. I need a good balanced diet of prayer, praise, bible, and fellowship. Even when I feast on God's word I need to make sure I get a good balanced diet. If  I dwell to much in the milk type scriptures (do unto others as you would have them do unto you), I don't grow. Milk scriptures are ones I should know by now like the ten commandments and the one I mentioned earlier. If  I dwell  just on the meaty scriptures I grow but not as healthy as I could. meaty scriptures are ones where I really have to dig for the meaning and application like the beatitudes or things in revelation.  I especially see the need for proper spiritual diet when I go to feed others. If  I eat too much meat of  the word I get so spiritually minded that I am no help to others. If  I eat too much milk I don't have any meat to feed others so they can grow strong. With out enough prayer time I am too weak to help anyone. With out enough praise time I  the salty flavor that makes others thirst for more. Without fellowship I lack the all kinds of spiritual vitamins; like  love, understanding, mercy, and more. With the proper balance of  prayer, praise, bible, and fellowship I can grow strong. But then I need proper spiritual exercise and that is another story. Here's a clue to my spiritual work out loving others, helping others, telling others about Jesus in my life, praying with others to name a few exercises. Faith builds strength too.

I fed you with milk and not solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 1 Corinthians 3:2 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe, Hebrews 5:13 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Hebrews 5:14

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