Around the holidays I know the last thing most of us want to talk about is the word diet, however, the diet that Hagin refers to has little to do with the Christmas cookies you have been consuming and everything to do with what your spirit has been feeding on. Wow! What an awesome recipe for love God has given us.
How many of us are seeking our own good? Most of us. When love does not rule, then the motives of life become distorted; conduct becomes abnormal, and the body rules the spirit — causing the mind to be brought into captivity of earthly things.
You must recongnize that the Bible teaches that because you are born of God, you are born of love; that you are made a partaker of the divine nature, God’s nature, which is love; and that you have it — a measure of it, at least. Then as you get ready to feed that love nature on the Word of God and put it into practice, you will begin spiritual development and growth. It won’t happen until then! - page 154
“Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth [or good].”
Diet for Feeding Your Love Nature
Let your diet in the Word be mainly made up of the Epistles as these were written to the church.
Focus on 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 (study, meditate, and feed)
Feed on all 5 chapters of First John! Let it transform you!
Study the plan of redemption. Find out what you are in Christ — and what Christ is in you!
Renew your mind daily
If every believer fed on this diet it wouldn’t be long before the quarreling in homes, families, and churches would disintegrate and we would begin to see the remedy of love at work against strife, envy, jealousy, hatred, and all of the enemy’s tricks and schemes.
Are you ready to continue to grow spiritually? Are you ready to step into a new year with the fruits of the spirit fully operating in your life? Be determined to grow daily in the knowledge of who you are in Christ and the instructions He has given your family for 2020. We will begin the new year with a 21 day fast — what an incredible opportunity to renew our minds in the Word and get focused and in position to hear from Him for this next season. Remember, we ware not making this a “fad diet” but a lifestyle of being led by the spirit. A daily choice to be renewed in His presence.
If you begin to see the characteristics of a spiritual baby pop back up in your life, let is serve as a wake up call to increase your spiritual diet on the Word and time in His presence. FEED! When crisis comes, you will not only be able to stand up against the enemy’s attacks but you will be able to fight back.
Get excited for 2020 and all God has in store.