“Breakfast gives energy to play and to learn better.”

I eat my breakfast every morning and have done so for many years. It has become a habit. Maybe I don’t eat enough in the morning and ought to eat more! Sometimes I get hungry before lunch is on the table.

Our physical bodies require a certain amount of  food every day. What else do they require? They require sunshine and exercise.

But the Bible teaches that “man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4.

Just as our physical  bodies need nourishment, our spiritual lives also require nourishment. The nourishment for our souls is the BIBLE, the word of the Living God. Our spiritual lives need food every day of our Christian lives, not spasmodically.

And just as I feed my body every morning, I feed my soul every morning.

I attended a Bible school in Germany and we had a good number of guest speakers. I remember one guest speaker teaching about “THE QUIET TIME ” and saying that just as a hunter takes hold of his weapon before he goes hunting we must take hold of the armour of God every morning, before we go into the battle every day.

We are reading about THE ARMOUR OF GOD in Ephesians 6:10-20. We are reading there about the “belt of truth” , the “breastplate of righteousness”, the “shield of faith”, the “helmet of salvation”, and the “sword of the Spirit” (the word of God).

We are reading in the Bible about people, who had their Morning Devotion:

ABRAHAM:

Genesis 19:27

DAVID

Psalm 5:3; Psalm 57:8

JACOB

Genesis 28:16-18

SAMUEL’S PARENTS

First Samuel 1:19

HEZEKIAH

Second Chronicles 29:20

JESUS

Mark 1:35:

“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, JESUS got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place,where he prayed.”

“BREAKFAST EATERS  (THE MORNING QUIET TIME) HAVE IT BETTER.”

“When charging any shaver for the first time, put on charge for a full 24 hours.”

 I am doing that just now, the green indicator light is going on and off and the 24 hours are almost up.

When I bought the shaver, (Remington)  I did not only receive a USE & CARE INSTRUCTION MANUAL, but also a list with all the AUTHORISED REPAIR CENTRES.

All the Authorised Repair Centres in Australia and New Zealand are listed. I live in New Zealand in Kaitaia in the north of the country and the nearest Authorised Repair Centre is in Whangarei. That is more than 150 km away , but  that is the place where I go for repairs!

I don’t need to tell you why.

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Where do you go with your anxieties? (First Peter 5:7)

Where do you go with your requests? (Philippians 4:6)

Where do you go with your needs? (Isaiah 58:11; Philippians 4:19)

Where do you go for counselling? (Psalm 16:7)

With my anxieties, my requests, my needs and when I need counselling  I go to the LORD JESUS CHRIST!

I don’t need to tell you why.

Romans 3:10

Intr.:

“As it is written:

1.  ‘There is no one righteous, not even one;

2.  there is no one who understands,

3.  no one who seeks God.

4.  All have turned away,

5.  they have together become worthless;

6.  there is no one who does good, not even one.’

Psalm 14:103; Psalm 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20

7. ‘Their throats are open graves;

8.  their tongues practice deceit.’

Psalm 5:9

9.  ‘The poison of vipers is on their lips.’

Psalm 140:3

10.  ‘Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.’

Psalm 10:7

11.  ‘Their feet are swift to shed blood;

12.  ruin and misery mark their ways, and

13.  the way of peace they do not know.’ 

Isaiah 59:7,8

14.  ‘There is no fear of God before their eyes.’

Isaiah 59:7,8

End:

Look for illustrations in the daily papers!

THE BIBLE SAYS:

“….., IN QUIETNESS…………IS YOUR STRENGTH, …….” -

Isaiah 30:15