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Words to live by



John 6 (NKJV)
57 As the living Father sent Me (Jesus), and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me (spiritually) will live because of Me. 


God's Holy Spirit feeds your spirit like bread feeds your body. 


Jesus was using bread to illustrate spiritual things. 




58 This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”



Jesus  taught that he existed in heaven before His physical birth. 





59 These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.





60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?”



His disciples thought Jesus was saying to eat his flesh like bread;therefore, they were offended.  




Jesus wasn't talking about eating His flesh.  He was talking about digesting His words to feed our spirits like bread. 




61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you? 




62 What then if you should see the Son of Man (Jesus) ascend where He was before?


Jesus taught that He would physically return to heaven, and many of His  disciples would witness it which they did.  



63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. 



The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.  

  




Words operate in the spiritual realm like food operate in the physical realm.  




Jesus's words are life giving to your spirit like food is to your the body.






God speaks to your spirit through His Holy Spirit if you'll just listen. 




Then, it comes up through your spirit to your mind, and your brain helps you to express it.  






We can't get God's full blessings when we substitute God's thoughts for our own. 



We must be yielded to God's Holy Spirit speaking to us into our born again human spirit. 




The words that I (Jesus) speak to you are spirit, and they are life. 




Keith Moore, Faith Life Church

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