Power Of Fast Food

Key Scripture: "The eyes of all look expectantly to You, and You give them their food in their season."
Power Point:

We've all heard how bad "fast food" can be for us.  It's usually not nutritious or good, it's just fast, which means it's easy to get.  It doesn't have the right ingredients to make us healthy. It just fills up the space until we can get something better.

Some people are attracted to FAST food, simply because its FAST.  We want it NOW!  We want to feed our emptiness quickly, not necessarily wisely.  Of course FAST food also has negative long term results as well. You can eat an occasional "MacDonalds"   if you want, but your body will probably go "EWWW!"  I'll never forget when my husband was having a blood procedure done.  The man in the bed next to him had just come from enjoying a Big Mac.  You could see the blood siphoning through the tubes and it had big yellow clumps in it. Fat. EWWW! If we continually eat fast foods and never add the good foods, the nutritious foods, our bodies will suffer as a result. You might not notice it at first. In fact, our bodies are so beautifully made that they suffer in silence until they are desperate for the "good" not the "fast".  They fight to maintain health even when we don't offer them any help. Now that's a real miracle!

     Some of us believe that a steady diet of spiritual "Fast Food", is all that's necessary to maintain our spiritual passion and health.  We "drive through" quickly, eager to get something to satisfy that "urgent hunger" inside us without ever going in and sitting down and taking time to absorb the long term, vital effects that God's word has for us.

     When problems arise, we don't have a solid nutritional base.  There's nothing for us to stand on. We have not taken the time to build a solid foundation and when the storms come, we will not have the wisdom or the endurance we need to withstand the winds and the rain.

My Favorite!

     In the natural, eating healthy foods is a WISE thing.  It will take some thought, some planning.  You will have to study to know what is the best source of fuel for your body.  You'll have to shop for good quality, organic, carefully produced foods that will nourish you, and not fill you with pesticides.  In the spiritual kingdom, eating healthy will also require time and effort. We have the luxury of knowing the Wisest Person ever.  He knows exactly how to prepare us for all the eventualities in our lives.  He has the best word for us, the wisest wisdom, and the ability to help us stand strong. If your spiritual diet is only "fast", it won't necessarily be "good". If you're zipping through the "quiet time" drive-through each morning to get just enough to get by, you're missing a grand opportunity. The Holy Spirit is compared to "new wine". Wine needs to be savored, doesn't it? 

     In other words, a healthy spiritual life will not come without time well spent.  We will never be able to have the nutrients we need for a blessed and happy life unless we spend time with our Father.  We need to take time to make time for all the good seeds He gives us to grow deep inside us so that all the good plans He has for us can "sprout UP"!

     You can't survive on just fast food in the natural and you certainly can't survive on just "fast food"in the spiritual.

Power thought:

Fast food is not lasting food.