Not to long ago my wife was getting ready to fix a nice meal for me, so I went outside to mow until supper was ready. I remember thinking that I had not worked very hard physically that day, so I needed to do some hard work to deserve the nice meal.

Years ago when I used to workout, my thinking was that if I did not workout I did not need as many calories or nutrients, which is true. As I was mowing the Lord began to speak to me about this. Let me say that the messages are to me first and maybe this is also for the Body of Christ!

As I look within myself and at the Body of Christ, at the American Church and our church I wonder about our diet and exercise. I wonder that if hard work and physical exercise stimulates our physical appetite then does spiritual work and exercise stimulate our spiritual hunger to hear The Living Word of God.

I know when you have totally spent yourself and come home to eat, you go to the refrigerator and gobble everything up, and you have a ravenous appetite. So in the same measure when you pour yourself out, you exercise your faith and good works, (as in faith with works). Shouldn’t we have a hunger for The Words of the Father? Coming in from the battle, shouldn’t we have a ravenous appetite?

Have you ever noticed that when you haven’t done much during the day and you’re not really hungry? But you find yourself at the table or standing in front of the refrigerator not really knowing what you want and nothing sounds good! No matter what is offered, it doesn’t sound good. We just eat because its dinnertime, but we aren’t even hungry. We don’t need the calories we just eat anyway. No exercise. No hunger.

Could it be that we are spiritually obese? Could it be that we hear the word, store it, and never pour out what we have been given? James 1:22 says, “Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” I think that is why a good many ’Christians’ have become critics. We are overfed and under exercised. We hear the message but we are not hungry, we don’t know what we want, but it’s not that… Nothing sounds good. Remember folks this is for me, or maybe for you; take a look inside.

We know that without physical exercise we do not grow or get stronger or develop endurance. We are not vibrant. Even if we eat, none of these will take place without exercise. Are we growing in faith? Are we running the race with endurance? Or are we ready to give up? “I have come that they may have life and have it the full.” This means we should be vibrant.

Oswald Chambers writes, “Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already”.

Matthew 7:24 “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man or built his house on the rock.”

Could this be the cause? To the church in Ephesus: Revelations 2:4 “Yet I hold this against you. You have forsaken your first love.” “Remember the height from which you have fallen!” “Repent and do the things you did at first.”

I know there is going to be a wedding very soon. The bride is to be making herself ready. Jesus has given so much for this wedding for His bride. I want to be all He wants me to be. Lord God, Restore unto us the joy of our salvation.