Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Satan hates God and God’s law. That is what got him kicked out of heaven. Once the earth and man were created, he had a whole new playground. He targeted the apple of God’s eye: the human race. Then he seized upon the weakest link. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, taught the physiology of the stomach in simple, but detailed, terms. It shows why 3 to 4 hours are needed for food to be completely processed. (Read more below.)
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Words of Encouragement
Deuteronomy 28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Psalm 45:2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
He deceived Eve into sinning. She then enticed Adam into directly disobeying God’s dietary law and breaking the first commandment: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3). Satan’s lies, then and now, include those surrounding the diet and self-esteem: “Ye shall not surely die”; and “Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” His lies were successful then and now, even though the Bible clearly says otherwise. Such lies perpetuate spiritualism and atheism.
He is also successful in deceiving the masses into believing that God was unnecessarily harsh in expelling Adam and Eve from Eden. “They only ate a piece of fruit” is the complaint. Yet, the fact is they had everything and more than they could have ever needed or wanted. The fact is God only asked that they leave one tree alone: one tree. It was an easy test. And they failed it.
They failed because of Satan’s well-tested method: the same one used to cause the fall of one-third of the angels in heaven. He still uses the same methods to hook people into sinning against their one true love: God. Satan employs the portals to our heart and mind: hearing, sight, touch, smell and taste. Eve listened and looked when she should have turned away. But because she lingered, she touched the fruit, then ate it. Of course, you cannot taste without smelling. She was mercilessly hooked.
1 Timothy 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Proverbs 13:17 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Isaiah 48:22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
Immediately they lost their divine garment of light. Immediately, they began to reap the consequences of disobedience. Immediately, they began to experience fear–for the first time. With the whole earth under the curse of sin, there was no hope for them in sight.
Revelation 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil has come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
But stay tuned for the rest of the story.
(Meanwhile, read the entire chapter of Genesis 3 and Psalm 104:2.)
For Health’s Sake…
The stomach, which links the esophagus to the first part of the small intestine, is the hub of chemical digestion. This is where the gastric juices, mainly pepsin, are secreted to primarily digest protein. The secretion of these juices are controlled by both the nerves and hormones.
Stimuli in the brain, stomach and small intestine activate or inhibit gastric juice production.
The brain controls gastric juices in the following ways:
It increases gastric juice production at the thought, sight or smell of food or when food is tasted. It inhibits gastric juice production when there is a loss of appetite or depression.
The stomach controls gastric juice production in the following ways:
It increases gastric juice production when the stomach becomes distended by the presence of food or when the contents have a higher pH (more alkaline). The stomach inhibits gastric juice production when the contents are more acidic and when there is emotional distress.
The small intestine controls gastric juice production in the following ways:
It increases gastric juice production when there is partially digested foods in the deodenum as the stomach empties. It decreases gastric juice production as the deodenum gets stretched or is distended with partially digested food.
Poor dietary habits can hurt the stomach. These include the following: overeating, eating between meals, drinking with meals, eating fruits with vegetables, chewing gum and candy, and not waiting five hours between meals. Poor dietary habits over an extended period can lead to certain death. Yes. You can surely die.