And this morning, as I was so tempted by the smells of food all around me, the Lord reminded me of a passage of scripture.
"...Once when Jacob was boiling pottage, Esau said to Jacob, 'Let me eat some of that red pottage, for I am famished!' Jacob said, 'First sell me your birthright.' Esau said, 'I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?' ...so he sold his birthright to Jacob. ...Thus Esau despised his birthright."
Genesis 25.29-34
I don't want to fall prey to the heat of the moment, as far as hunger is concerned, to pass up the thing that the Lord has set aside for me during this time.
And no, I don't believe that God withholds from us based on performance. But I do believe the scripture that says:
"So He said to them, 'This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.'" Mark 9.29
I want to press in. To deny my flesh and drink deeply of the things of the Lord. I cannot afford to let this moment pass me by....
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