Why did God limit food for the Israelites (manna and quail) while they were in the wilderness? Because this was a time of testing. Nothing tests us quite like a restriction on our dietary intake. Take fasting, as the perfect example. When we fast for the Lord, we go through many phases, and depending on the length of the fast, we will go in and out of these phases. I’m sure there are others you could think of to add…
This post has been re-titled and transferred to my book, Food for the Table: Christ our Real Food. The book will be released mid to late January 2023, and you will find the links to purchase on ‘My Books’ page. Food for the Table: Christ our Real Food is a collection of some of the best posts from Drawing From the Well, spanning from 2014 to end 2022. The idea behind it is to provide the reader with some tasty…
A really vital truth and reminder of that truth……please read on… By T. Austin-Sparks from: God’s Supreme Interest in Man – Chapter 3 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. (Colossians 3:9,10 NIV) Christ Himself, when He was here, never failed to let people know that when they entered that door, or…
Being a follower of Christ is all about a surrendered life, and there are costs involved we never even knew of. Sometimes I sense the Lord doing something in me, and I can’t even tell what it is. Often I’m experiencing some discomfort, pain or suffering in a way that I can’t put into words. It’s not necessarily that my external circumstances have changed; by anyone’s account, my life appears to be going along just swimmingly. But there is an apprehension that something…
Well, I went to see the movie “Everest” last week and in 3D. Wow. I really recommend the 3D version on the big screen. It’s the true story of a team of hikers on their trek to the summit of Mount Everest. Pretty soon into the film, I began to see and hear the Lord in it and this progressed throughout the film. For us believers, Christ is our summit. Like the summit of Mount Everest to these hikers, Christ is our ultimate,…
Dear brother or sister, Firstly, let me say; in this post, I am not condoning war, killing, or racism, and I am not pro any country over another or offering my opinion on military service. Having said that, I recently went and watched American Sniper; what a movie; what a story. In a nutshell and be it right or wrong, it is the true story of Chris Kyle who signed up to serve his country with a deep heart conviction that…
Just yesterday I began to see one of the most important stages in my Christian growth that I’ve not understood until now, through Andrew Murray’s book “Absolute Surrender”. I have understood the point we as believers get to, when we share with Paul’s cry “oh wretched man that I am, who will save me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:24). I thought even getting to this point was a spiritual leap of some significance atleast. What I didn’t understand…