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TRY IT: Use your meals and food choices to help you connect with God.
1. Wait to eat until you are hungry. Eat healthy, fresh food and savor each bite. Allow your stomach, taste buds and food to point you towards their Creator. What does your meal teach you about God?
2. Pray and give thanks at each meal. Bless God for the provision of your food, and receive your food as a blessing from God’s hand.
3. Plan a feast to celebrate God’s abundance and the goodness of life. Cook special food or go to a special occasion restaurant and let the richness of the food speak to you about the majesty of God.
4. Choose to forgo some food to help you seek God more. Skip a regular component of your diet (ex. Meat, coffee) for a few days or a week. Choose to miss a meal and use the time to pray instead. Work up to a day or more of fasting. (Note: Check with your doctor if you have health issues.)
5. Use food to help you identify with the poor. Eat a basic meal (ex: rice and beans) and spend some time praying for those who are hungry and oppressed. Donate the money you would have spent on better food- or going out- to a ministry that feeds the hungry.
6. Grab some bread and wine or juice and celebrate communion with your dinner this week. Read Matthew 26:26-29 and thank God for the Bread of Life who loved us and sacrificed His life for us.
LEARN MORE:
· Celebration of Discipline, chapter 4, by Richard Foster
· Soul Feast, chapter 5, by Marjorie Thompson
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