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As a believer in the Lord Jesus what does it mean to you to live on every Word that proceeds out from?

... the mouth of God?

How has eating God's Word nourish, cherish, sustain, inoculate, your spirit and soul day by day?

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  • 7 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    It means you're wasting your life.

  • 7 years ago

    Just as the food we eat everyday of our lives. If we eat and drink correctly we live a more healty life. The same with our spiritual lives, if we eat and drink the spiritual food correctly then we also live a very healthly spiritual life. When I speak of "spiritual food correctly" I mean that which is directly from the Bible, not a man made interpretation of his word. This would be equal to "Junk Food" which is not health foods for our bodies. Junk food taken in modaration (discerment) is OK, same way with words outside the Bible that helps us understand the Bible. We must discern them also, question those words and make sure they follow the Bible, just as the Boreans did in the past.

    How has eating God's Word nourish, cherish, sustain, inoculate, your spirit and soul day by day?

    Just as eating the proper food gives the body proper Nourishment and keeps your body healthy and happy. The proper spiritual food is Nourishment for the spirit and soul and keeps you spiritually healthy and happy, but let us not forget "Saved"

  • Nguyen
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    To live by what the bible say's and not what the world say's.

    God's word gives comfort/conviction to the lonely,broken,king,queen,all and shows that this world will fade away. This body will fade an was meant to fade but what is to come is so much more than all the wealth/fame/material items one could have.

    Every billionaire will leave every penny/pound/mark/yen on this world. The man will be forgotten.

  • 7 years ago

    It means that I strive to see the truth in every situation. It means I question my pastors, my leaders, and my self on a daily basis. We are all human and we all sin, the best we can do is try to live the way Jesus wants us to.

    I try to read the word a couple times a week and apply it to my own life. If I read something that bothers me or seems contradictory to the golden rule (love others as you would yourself) then I brush up on the historical context, translate the original text, and most importantly pray for clarity and understanding.

    To live in the Word means, to me, to live according to Jesus' parables. I am constantly asking for clarity and understanding. I want to not only listen, but to hear. Not only see, but to understand.

    Because we are flawed that is difficult, but to live in the Word is to keep trying.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Life

    peace

    joy of the Lord

    walking on Faith and not fears controlling me

    not belonging to the devil

    freedom from bad habits and sins

    and belonging to Jesus the author and finisher of my faith

    ((Alabaster))

    Source(s): Camille living for Jesus who died for my sins
  • CB
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    Spiritual Food Day by Day

    Our prayer for daily bread should also remind us of our need for daily spiritual food. Although very hungry after a long fast, Jesus resisted Satan’s temptation to turn stones into bread, saying: “It is written, ‘Man must live, not on bread alone, but on every utterance coming forth through God’s mouth.’” (Matthew 4:4) Jesus here quoted the prophet Moses, who told the Israelites: “[God] humbled you and let you go hungry and fed you with the manna, which neither you had known nor your fathers had known; in order to make you know that not by bread alone does man live but by every expression of God’s mouth does man live.” (Deuteronomy 8:3) The way in which God supplied the manna provided the Israelites not only with physical food but also with spiritual lessons. For one thing, they were to “pick up each his amount day for day.” If they gathered more than enough for the day, the remainder began to smell and breed worms. (Exodus 16:4, 20) Yet, this did not occur on the sixth day when they had to gather double the daily amount to cover their needs for the Sabbath. (Exodus 16:5, 23, 24) So the manna impressed upon their minds that they had to be obedient and that their lives depended not just on bread but on “every expression of God’s mouth.”

    We likewise need to feed daily on spiritual food provided by God through his Son. To this end, Jesus has appointed a “faithful and discreet slave” to provide “food at the proper time” for the household of faith. (Matthew 24:45) That faithful slave class not only supplies an abundance of spiritual food in the form of Bible study aids but also encourages us to do daily Bible reading. (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1:1-3) Like Jesus, we too can obtain spiritual sustenance by daily putting forth effort to learn about and to do Jehovah’s will.—John 4:34.

    The Book of Books

    OH GIVE me that Book! At any price give me that Book of God. Here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be a man of one Book.” That one book, the greatest of all books that John Wesley so desired, is God’s Word the Bible. Men in all ages, of all nationalities and in all walks of life have sung the praises of the Book of books.

    George Washington, the first president of the United States, hailed the Bible in these words: “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. He is worse than an infidel who does not read his Bible and acknowledge his obligation to God.”

    President John Adams called the Bible “the best Book in the world.” President Thomas Jefferson had this to say: “I have always said and always will say that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, better husbands . . . The Bible makes the best people in the world.”

    President Abraham Lincoln considered time studying the Bible well spent: “I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man.”

    President Theodore Roosevelt remarked: “To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.” President Woodrow Wilson closely linked the destiny of America with the daily study of the Bible. “I have a very simple thing to ask of you,” he said. “I ask every man and woman in this audience that from this day on they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great Book.”

    President John Quincy Adams saw in the Bible a storehouse of wisdom, knowledge and virtue. Of himself he said: “My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day . . . It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.” General Douglas MacArthur prefers to do his reading before going to bed: “Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.” Daniel Webster, statesman, lawyer and student of literature, recalled: “From the time that, at my mother’s feet or on my father’s knee, I first learned to lisp the verses from the sacred writings, they have been my daily study and vigilant contemplation.”

    Ralph Waldo Emerson called the Bible “the most original book in the world.” The Scottish national poet Robert Burns said: “I have taken tooth and nail to the Bible and am got through the Five Books of Moses and halfway in Joshua; it is really a glorious book.” The Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle called the book of Job “one of the grandest things ever written with pen.” The English poet and prose writer Walter Savage Landor declared that the Bible “contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.” Sir Isaac Newton, natural philosopher and mathematician, stated: “I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.”

    The American educator William Lyon Phelps once said: “I thoroughly believe in a university education for men and women, but I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible.” And ex-President Herbert Hoover stated: “The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.”

    The Bible is much more. “The Scriptures contain a declaration of the mind and will of God . . . They ought also to be read, believed and fulfilled in our day. We accept them as the words of God Himself,” said William Penn. Merchant John Wanamaker had this to say: “I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study—more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and women are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than upon the eternal principles laid down by God Himself.”

    American statesman, scientist and philosopher Benjamin Franklin advised: “Cultivate an acquaintance with a firm belief in the Holy Scriptures. This is your certain interest.” William E. Gladstone, statesman, recognized that the Bible builds real men. “I have known ninety-five great men of the world in my time,” he said, “and of these, eighty-seven were all followers of the Bible.”

    The Bible’s Author gave this counsel: “This book of the law should not depart from your mouth and you must in an undertone read in it day and night in order that you may take care to do according to all that is written in it, for then you will make your way successful and then you will act wisely.”—Josh. 1:8, NW.

    A psalmist praised the wisdom of this counsel: “Oh how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day. Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, because I have kept thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might observe thy word. I have not turned aside from thine ordinances; for thou hast taught me.”—Ps. 119:97-102, AS.

    A prophet and king, Jesus Christ, hailed the words of God as truth: “Your word is truth.” He said that “every utterance coming forth through Jehovah’s mouth” was necessary for life.—John 17:17; Matt. 4:4, NW.

    The apostles of Jesus Christ also praised the Word of God. Paul declared: “All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.” And Peter added: “The word spoken by Jehovah endures forever.”—2 Tim. 3:16, 17; 1 Pet. 1:25.

    Source(s): Bible/JW.org
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