The temple should give to the poor the rich should give to the temple God says bring the whole tithe into the store house that there may be food in my house then he will bless us the tithe is used to keep the doors open to the church where we can get true
food spiritual food that's the reason for the tithe we will always have the Poor amongst us Jesus will one day come back and leave for the finale time Come to Jesus while you still can
Not exact matches
Develop relationships, care for the sheep around you, feed those who are needing
spiritual food.
It doesn't always feel good, but it stretches and strengthens us, getting rid of
spiritual flab we've built up by consuming only
spiritual food we like.
Again, you need to do research about what I am saying and learn the bible, start with the Book of John, because starting with Genius will only bring you confusing when you don't have understanding, which the O.T. is strong
spiritual food for the grown
spiritual Christians.
Show them what good
spiritual food tastes like.
Christ would look for the weak, sick, poor, needy, tired, hungry, thirsty and offer them
food / drink / strength / healing /
spiritual riches so I will do the same.
If you can't find God while you're changing diapers or serving
food or hanging out with your friends, you won't find Him at the worship service or the
spiritual retreat or the regimented daily quiet times or the mission field.
So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the
food is so powerful that it transforms us into itself and out of fleshly, sinful mortal [s] makes
spiritual, holy, living [persons].»
We Christians often unwittingly adopt a Platonic view that assumes the
spiritual world only consists of the unseen — heaven, hell, angels, souls — while solid things like tech toys, asphalt and
food are unspiritual and disconnected from our Christian lives.
If the Eucharist is
spiritual nourishment for life, how much more is it
food for the final movement into the life to come?
While he gave up
food and money to minister to others, many «
spiritual fathers» today command their people to tithe 10 %, and some even go to the extent of demanding that people submit monthly financial records to show where their money is going.
The
spiritual test for the people is that they receive only a day's worth of
food at a time.
The whole concept of people sitting in a theatre style room and gleaning the teachings of one man week after week for
spiritual food seems crazy to me now.
* Poustinia is a Russian word for desert and it refers to a way of prayer that is more Eastern: silence, solitude, fasting and prayer with only the Scriptures as
spiritual food.
It is a breakthrough moment in one's life when he discovers that giving
spiritual food away does not lessen one's supply in a relationship of mutuality.
When, in the course of his remarks, he intimated that some parts of the Scripture were more truth - containing than others and admonished his hearers to feed their souls upon the best of the
spiritual food, James interrupted the Master, asking: «Would you be good enough, Master, to suggest to us how we may choose the better passages from the Scriptures for our personal edification?»
Before death, while we are still in mortal flesh, we eat the labors of our hands, we swallow with an effort the
food so gained; but after death, we shall begin eagerly to drink in the
spiritual life and finally, reunited to our bodies, and rejoicing in fullness of delight, we shall be refreshed with immortality.
I approach the Bible in all three connections as the communication of doctrine from God; as the instrument of Jesus Christ's personal authority over Christians (which is part of what I mean in calling it canonical; as the criterion of truth and error regarding God and godliness; as wisdom for the ordering of life and
food for
spiritual growth; and, thus, as the mystery - that is, the transcendent supernatural reahty - whereby encounter and fellowship with the Father and the Son become realities of experience.
You can bet after these roaming thoughts on worship all morning, I was going to dig into a generous helping of some
spiritual food before the service.
They had their own
spiritual food and drink in the manna and the water from the rock, which Paul does not hesitate to identify with Christ.
Through teaching, the pastor guides his flock to green pastures where they can eat healthy
spiritual food.
Divisions, fighting and selfishness occur because everyone is trying to get his or her fill of
spiritual food at the worship service.
When we fail to eat healthy spiritually speaking, no wonder it is easy to become edgy, irritable and critical when we finally get our hands on some
spiritual food in a once a week worship service.
But to us thou hast given
spiritual food and drink and eternal life through thy Servant.»
«Quite apart from any churchy or churchly considerations, the
spiritual dimension of a marriage is a source of
food for
spiritual growth and health....
As Templeton himself has said, «If even one - tenth of world research were focused on
spiritual realities, could benefits be even more vast than the benefits in the latest two centuries from research in
food, travel, medicine or electronics, and cosmology?»
The only scriptural reference to spiritalis / πυευμaτίκος is however in 1 Corinthians 10:3 where Paul refers to «
spiritual food».
Spiritual evolution is the
food of the human soul.
Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or
food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a
spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..
We can only hope that they find out that the mechanistic ritual of praying 5Xs per day, reciting verses that they do not understand (and indeed mean nothing), getting up at taxing hours of the morning and abstaining from
food and water until the sunset are not means to becoming more
spiritual, but are instruments to control their mind.
This was a
spiritual withdrawal, broken only occasionally by visits to the town for
food.
He can not see how physical
food can convey
spiritual strength, and how the unworthy receiving of the Eucharist can result in physical sickness and death (I Cor.
Yes, this is part of our
spiritual food.
Spiritual reading is like plant
food to the seedling of contemplative life, boosting its chances of developing in to a robust plant that will bear fruit.
At the same time, we saw ourselves as gentle guides... like
spiritual sherpas... showing our kids where the possible pitfalls and the safest pathways were, what
foods were good and what wasn't, and who and what to trust or not.
And while making the point about God's gifts to us, she sees the sacramental message that is written into creation itself: «
Food is and always will be a sign built into the order of creation, physical nourishment that illuminates and spiritual nourishment we receive in Holy Communion... the more we see food in that light — the more we see it as a perpetual sign of God's goodness and love — the more fully we can understand the Eucharist as a holy and tremendous sacrifice in which love and gift, grace and life are bound up together.&ra
Food is and always will be a sign built into the order of creation, physical nourishment that illuminates and
spiritual nourishment we receive in Holy Communion... the more we see
food in that light — the more we see it as a perpetual sign of God's goodness and love — the more fully we can understand the Eucharist as a holy and tremendous sacrifice in which love and gift, grace and life are bound up together.&ra
food in that light — the more we see it as a perpetual sign of God's goodness and love — the more fully we can understand the Eucharist as a holy and tremendous sacrifice in which love and gift, grace and life are bound up together.»
In marriage, a couple who receive Holy Communion regularly drink deeply from that source of sacrificial love: they renew once again their desire to give themselves to God through each other and the
spiritual food they eat gives them the strength and the will to die to themselves every day and give themselves utterly and irrevocably to their spouse.
And that reality is indelibly associated with the bread and wine which are used according to Christ's own action at the Last Supper, so that in receiving them we may say, as the Church has always said, that we receive «the
spiritual food of the body and blood of Christ,» and that we receive this «to our great and endless comfort,» or strengthening.
If this is meant to be
spiritual food it should be based on scripture and that scripture should be referenced.
With that in mind, I have noticed that many, if not most new converts can have, in all appearances, a genuine
spiritual experience before any high doctrine of «scriptural authority ever enters their head.Now, some may say that just how it works, first you crawl, then you walk... baby
food, then the meat, but this is my point... the world is full of «
spiritual meatheads»... there are so many believers who wdn't know an original thought, unless of course, they cd find the chapter and verse to unequivocally support it.Is it so difficult to comprehend how a collection of ancient documents may not be the final, complete and indisputable Word of God, but mere human artifacts, sometimes godly, sometimes not, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering.?
It provides the
spiritual food for communities of exploited people who examine «their experiences of suffering to death» in light of structural causes and the liberating example of Jesus Christ.
But a Christian would not be contributing his best, if he would not make manifest, in word and in deed, upon what
spiritual food he feeds, where he has found the springs of hope, of joy, and of strength.
They were all baptised into Moses in this cloud and in this sea; all ate the same
spiritual food and all drank the same
spiritual drink, since they all drank from the
spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ» (1 Cor 10:2 - 4).
On the bottom of the
spiritual food chain are the children, who are told to submit to their fathers in the annual Father's Day sermon, in Sunday School, in Care Group, in the home during «corrections» (spankings).
Throughout the scriptures, we see numerous examples of times when Christ and his disciples attended to
spiritual and practical needs, such as offering hope and
food in tandem.
And if so, then pastors should not feel upset or threatened if people go to other churches to receive different types of
spiritual food.
A little later my dad came in and sat down on the edge of the bed and said quietly that we should have a conversation about Sunday Mass, and probably I was now old enough to make my own decisions about attending Mass, that he and my mother did not think it right or fair to force that decision on us children, that we needed to find our own ways spiritually, and that while he and our mother very much hoped that we would walk in the many rewarding paths of the Church, the final decision there would be ours alone, each obeying his own conscience; that was only right and fair, and to decree attendance now would perhaps actually force us away from the very thing that he and my mother found to be the most nutritious
spiritual food; so perhaps you and I and your mother can sit and discuss this later this afternoon, he said, and come to some amicable agreement.
For a Christian ofcourse, fasting / abstinenece (not just
food) is a great way to remind oneself of the suffering of our Savior and a call to
spiritual discipline.
For a Christian of course, fasting / abstinence (not just
food) is a great way to remind oneself of the suffering of our Savior and a call to
spiritual discipline.
I can't begin to tell you how much I love that your space isn't only about
food, but that everything you write also provides some
spiritual nourishment.