Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Have you ever tried to drive a car when the emergency brake was on? If
so, you understand what it’s like to keep praying for the Lord to
give you spiritual victories while you keep breaking His holy laws of
health.

Selfish indulging appetite is sometimes described as the “first
sin” in Eden; it’s pathetic even today, almost everywhere in the world. You
may pray ever so earnestly for the Holy Spirit to enlighten your mind and
heart, and He may be totally willing to answer your prayer, but He is
hindered against His will from making His answer clear to you. He would
love to pour out upon you a heart-warming spiritual blessing, but if
you are over-eating or indulging an intemperate use of desserts or
sweets, your mind will certainly be clogged.

An excess of milk and sugar products tends to stupefy the mind, and the
poor Holy Spirit is just frustrated in His earnest efforts to bless
you. All He can do is to remind you of what the Lord Jesus says to you
and me: “Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down
[overcharged, KJV], . . . and that day come upon you unexpectedly”
(Luke 21:34).

Jesus said that the very first work of the Holy Spirit is to bring us a
“conviction of sin” (John 16:8). If cigarettes are your problem, He
will not let you indulge without reminding you, “This is wrong!” Or
if alcohol is your problem, He will not let you take the glass to your
lips without convicting you that it is sin.

Does He also convict us when we’re tempted to eat too much? O Lord,
forgive us for the many times we have trampled on the Holy Spirit!
Forgive us for our foolishness! Now let us thank God that we have
another day of probation; choose to respond to Him today. Let the Holy
Spirit tell us what to do and what not to do. Choose to die before you
beat back the Holy Spirit. Yes!

Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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