7.28.2012 DO YOU SPEND SECRET TIME WITH GOD EVERY DAY?

ARE YOU SPENDING SET ASIDE TIME BEFORE HIM TO TALK AND COMMUNE WITH HIM? ARE YOU FEEDING YOUR SPIRIT HIS WORD?

psalm 27.4 'one thing have i desired of the Lord
that will i seek after
that i may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life
to behold the beauty of the Lord and
to inquire in His temple.'

exodus 16.21 says 'and they gathered it (manna) morning by morning, every man as much as he should eat; but when the sun grew hot, it would melt. manna (hebrew 'what is it') was  sent from God like the dew to feed the more than 2 million israelites in the desert. for 40 years this was about the only food they had.

this was an old testament symbol of the life giving power of Jesus. in john 6, after He had broken some bread and fed 5000 people, He said to them,
'truly , I say to you, you seek Me, not because by saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the son of man shall give to you, for on Him the Father, even God, has set His seal', v26-7...

truly, truly, I say to you, it is not moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven. for the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.' v32-2

I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE; HE WHO COMES TO ME SHALL NOT HUNGER, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. v35

I am the bread of life. your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. this is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread also which I shall give for the life of the world is My flesh'. v48-51

and Jesus answered and said to him, 'man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God'. luke 4.4