Prayer 2021 - August 2 - Praying for Our Food pt 1

Scripture For Today:

2 Timothy 1:3

“I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.”

Praying for Our Food pt 1

We’ve been talking about following scriptural instructions that the Apostle Paul has given to the Church – which means he, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, has given to us as well.

In addition to praying for those in authority and to rightly divide New Testament scriptures, Paul also told us how to sanctify our food. Paul was talking about prayer. Let’s read the entire context and find out exactly what he was saying concerning sanctifying our food.

We can read this in 1 Timothy 4:1-5:

“Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 2 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, 3 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.”

In verse 1, Paul was talking here about people who had been in the Faith, but who had departed from the Faith. He was not talking about sinners or heathen because he said, “Now, the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the later times, some will depart from the Faith, devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and the teaching of demons.”

Those who teach doctrines of devils teach believers that they are not to marry and that must abstain from eating meat and all sorts of weird stuff. Have you ever come into contact with anyone who told you that you cannot eat any meat? I guess we all have at some point in time.

I’m not talking about someone who makes an individual choice not to eat meat. I’m talking about someone who says you will go to hell if you eat meat. That type of person.

Notice here, the Apostle Paul emphasizes his point. He says, “…the Spirit speaks EXPRESSLY…” In other words, Paul is saying that this what the Holy Spirit is saying to us. So Paul is saying he is speaking under the authority of the Holy Spirit. 

A few folks have said, “Oh, that’s just Paul speaking about his own feelings about this stuff.” But, when they say things like that, they are really saying that Paul’s statement is NOT inspired by the Holy Spirit. Which puts them at odds with the entire Bible.

Why? Because the Word says, in 2 Timothy 3:16, that “ALL scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”

So, when you look at like that, it is really the devil who promotes and inspires that kind of thinking. And he does it to lead people astray and get them off course from following the Bible.

We will continue this discussion tomorrow. Amen!

Let’s Pray!

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