I'm Encouraged to See....

[Tammy Roesch]

I am encouraged to see so many of you posting on the benefits of a healthy diet.  So often on Christian forums, I find that Christians are less interested in healthy eating and taking care of their bodies that the Lord has given us, than are non-Christians....sadly, they have the mistaken idea that all we have to do is PRAY over it, and somehow, saying the blessing over our food CONVERTS UNHEALTHY FOOD into HEALTHY FOOD.   If you visit most any church today, there are as many sick members, percentage wise, as there are sick in the world.  People have forgotten that God has told us that ~ 

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Exo 15:26  And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

God wants His people, those who call themselves Christians TODAY, to be just as healthy as He intended His people in the Old Testament to be.  All we have to do is follow the Health Laws, and claim the Promise.  It is PRESUMPTION though, to claim the Promise while disregarding the Health Laws.
 

Edited August 10, 2021 by Tammy Roesch

[enoob57]

The body is not redeemed so why the fuss and focus upon that which passes away and will not be remembered?

[appy]

1 hour ago, Tammy Roesch said:

All we have to do is follow the Health Laws, and claim the Promise.  It is PRESUMPTION though, to claim the Promise while disregarding the Health Laws.

While I can agree, that it is good to eat healthy. And everything in moderation.  What we choose to eat, comes under the same freedom that one has regarding the sabbath.  And in this respect, scripture teaches us that there is freedom in Christ to choose what one wishes to eat or not eat.  And we should not judge or criticize those who do different from us. There are no food restrictions in the New Testament other than abstaining from eating blood.

Timothy 4:1-5
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.  Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.  They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.  For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,  because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

Romans 14:3-4
The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.  Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.

Romans 14:16
Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil.  For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,

Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean,

Romans 14:22
 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God.

 

[Sower]

3 hours ago, Tammy Roesch said:

I am encouraged to see so many of you posting on the benefits of a healthy diet.  So often on Christian forums, I find that Christians are less interested in healthy eating and taking care of their bodies that the Lord has given us, than are non-Christians....sadly, they have the mistaken idea that all we have to do is PRAY over it, and somehow, saying the blessing over our food CONVERTS UNHEALTHY FOOD into HEALTHY FOOD.   If you visit most any church today, there are as many sick members, percentage wise, as there are sick in the world.  People have forgotten that God has told us that ~ 

God wants His people, those who call themselves Christians TODAY, to be just as healthy as He intended His people in the Old Testament to be.  All we have to do is follow the Health Laws, and claim the Promise.  It is PRESUMPTION though, to claim the Promise while disregarding the Health Laws.
 

Whars the beef!..........

A more balanced diet, meat and vegetables....

 

[johnthebaptist]

10 hours ago, Tammy Roesch said:

I am encouraged to see so many of you posting on the benefits of a healthy diet.  So often on Christian forums, I find that Christians are less interested in healthy eating and taking care of their bodies that the Lord has given us, than are non-Christians....sadly, they have the mistaken idea that all we have to do is PRAY over it, and somehow, saying the blessing over our food CONVERTS UNHEALTHY FOOD into HEALTHY FOOD.   If you visit most any church today, there are as many sick members, percentage wise, as there are sick in the world.  People have forgotten that God has told us that ~ 

God wants His people, those who call themselves Christians TODAY, to be just as healthy as He intended His people in the Old Testament to be.  All we have to do is follow the Health Laws, and claim the Promise.  It is PRESUMPTION though, to claim the Promise while disregarding the Health Laws.
 

 

Are you saying I have to eat vegetables?

[walla299]

11 hours ago, Sower said:

Whars the beef!..........

< snip >

A more balanced diet, meat and vegetables....

 

That looks good. Bacon would make it better because everything's better with bacon! 

 

[walla299]

12 hours ago, appy said:

While I can agree, that it is good to eat healthy. And everything in moderation.  What we choose to eat, comes under the same freedom that one has regarding the sabbath.  And in this respect, scripture teaches us that there is freedom in Christ to choose what one wishes to eat or not eat.  And we should not judge or criticize those who do different from us. There are no food restrictions in the New Testament other than abstaining from eating blood.

Timothy 4:1-5
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.  Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.  They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.  For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,  because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

Romans 14:3-4
The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.  Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.

Romans 14:16
Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil.  For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,

Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean,

Romans 14:22
 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God.

 

Thanks for posting this. I'll add that in Acts the Jerusalem Council wrote a letter to Gentile believer of things they should avoid and do. It was thankfully a pretty short list.

 

 

[Sower]

2 hours ago, walla299 said:

That looks good. Bacon would make it better because everything's better with bacon! 

 

 It was ah, acquired for quality inspection, before picture could be taken....

[BeyondET]

17 hours ago, Tammy Roesch said:

saying the blessing over our food CONVERTS UNHEALTHY FOOD into HEALTHY FOOD.  

 

it is usually thanking God for food not to be changed from unhealthy to healthy, i have never heard a prayer for that. 

[teddyv]

17 hours ago, enoob57 said:

The body is not redeemed so why the fuss and focus upon that which passes away and will not be remembered?

That's a rather Platonic view.