Sanctifying Your Food
For every
creature of God is good and nothing to be refused. If it be received with
thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. -1 Timothy
4:4-5
This Scripture
tells us that when our food is sanctified by the Word and prayer, we can eat
anything without harm if we partake of it with thanksgiving.
After eating
some food back in the bush country, I can tell you from personal experience
that this verse is true! I didn’t know what we were eating, and I decided it
was better not to ask! Janet and I just ate the unfamiliar food in faith and
didn’t suffer any kind of ill effects from it.
We haven’t
experienced any problems from eating unknown foods in other countries. We’ve
always walked in divine health. Why? Because every time we sit down to a meal,
we say, “Thank You, Father that this food is sanctified by Your Word and
prayer.” The food can’t harm us then. We also frequently travel on the road.
When I think of some of the restaurants we’ve eaten at along the way, I’m glad
that particular prayer has worked there too!
The only way
you could experience a stomach problem after that kind of prayer is by opening
the door to the enemy through fear or worry. The solution to that problem is
found further on in 2 Timothy 1:7: “For God has not given us the spirit of
fear, but of power and of love, and of a sound mind.” That’s a good verse for
preventing stomach problems!
If people would
continually confess, “Thank God, He has not given me a spirit of fear, but of
power and love and a sound mind,” they’d stop getting sick. Fear is always the
key that opens the door to the enemy. And when it comes to the food we eat, we
never have to fear, because God has given us a way to eat safely in faith!
CONFESSION:
When I pray
over my food, it’s sanctified by God’s Word and prayer: I’ve been redeemed from
the curse of the law. That includes every sickness and disease known to man.
The Word created life within me. I walk in health!
From: A
Devotional for Divine Health Prescription for a Miracle, Mark Brazee, 1999
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