Mission Venture Ministries

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. (Matthew 5:6)

God truly cares how we treat our soul and our body and He’s given us a free health plan to go by—the Bible! The Bible rates our well being right near the top of importance. A person’s mind, spiritual nature, and body are all interrelated and interdependent. What affects one affects the other. If the body is misused, the mind and the spiritual nature cannot become what God planned they should be—and we won’t be able to live an abundant life. Jesus said: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10).

God gave us health principles because He knows what is best for the human body. God, who made our bodies, has given us the perfect “operations manual,” which is the Bible. Ignoring God’s “manual” often results in disease, sickness, injury and even death.  However, if we follow God’s principles it will results in life – “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19).

We all understand that eating healthy nourishes our body. But what nourishes our soul?

God has given us spiritual food in abundance; He has revealed Himself to us through the Scriptures, which provides the spiritual food that our soul requires. In the same way that we need a healthy diet of physical food to nourish our body, we also need a healthy diet of spiritual food to nourish our soul.

We would not think of going without food for a week, because it is a necessity for physical life. Without food, we become weakened and eventually become ill and die. Lack of spiritual food produces the same results in our spiritual life.

Jesus said: “I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven” (John 6:48-51).

In the same way, the primary matter for believers to be healthy and grow in their spiritual life is to feed on God’s Word. Nothing is more important to our Christian life than being fed with the Word of God. God’s primary concern for us is that we should be living and growing by taking in the Word of God as our spiritual food. 

Therefore, to stay healthy we must nourish both our body and our mind. We can nourish our soul in a number of ways by: 

• Allowing the Holy Spirit to control and empower our daily life (Galatians 5:16-17)
• Listening to God in prayer daily (John 15:7)
• Obeying God moment by moment (John 14:21)
• Reading God’s Word daily (Acts 17:11)
• Trusting God for every detail of our life. (1 Peter 5:7)
• Witnessing for Christ by our actions and words (Matthew 4:19, John 15:8)

When we practice all of these, we become and remain spiritually healthy.

When we break spiritual and physical laws, we pay a price, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23).

The Bible says, “I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well” (3 John 1:2). Obviously, God is very interested in our spiritual health, but He does want us to be physically healthy as well, therefore, we should make it a habit to nourish both our soul and our body with what God has so graciously given us.

We should fill ourselves joyfully with the Word of God first thing when we awaken in the morning; and we should keep coming back for more all day. As Jesus said, “This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever” (John 6:58).

Remember: Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones, (Proverbs 3:7-8).

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