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it’s more than that. He said what you eat is sanctified. What does the Word say? I will bless what
you eat and drink. If we ever lived in a day when what we eat and drink needs to be blessed, it
would be now. There are enough germs in most things we eat and drink to cause us to be sick
and hurt many times over. But does God have power? Can He sanctify? Can He bless what we
eat and drink, and deliver us from ill effect? In fact, the Bible says if you eat any deadly thing, it
won’t hurt you. (Mark 16:18) He can quicken it to you so that you are nourished and
strengthened by it. When you begin to think right, your prayer is not just a routine “saying
grace.”
You know, some people are just religious and mean about it. “Oh, you didn’t say grace!” That’s
all that their kids know. “Oh, no you can’t eat! You didn’t say grace!” They don’t have a clue
why
they’re doing it; it’s just being religious. We want to be thankful that we have plenty to eat
and drink, and then we want it to be sanctified. We’re going to call that steak and potato into the
ministry, into God’s service. We might as well get it sanctified because it’s coming into the
ministry. Let’s get it sanctified and blessed. We’re going to use the energy we get out of it to
serve the Lord, and the health we have to serve Him all of our days.
In Today’s English Version, He said, “Worship the Lord your God, and His blessing will be on
your food and your water. I will take away sickness from among you, all your sicknesses.”
(Exodus 23:25)
Are we reading the Bible? What did God say? “I will take away sickness from among you.” He’s
talking about the whole nation. He’s talking about millions of people. Did He do it? He did it.
Psalm 105:37 says, “He brought them forth [His people] with silver and with gold: and there was
not one feeble person among all their tribes.” We’re talking about millions of people. That was
the will of God. Could He do it again? Certainly He could. Could He keep a whole church
healthy? Could He keep a whole nation healthy?
You might say, “I wish He would do it for my nation.” Well, there are a vast number of people in
the world who don’t even believe in God. They’re not in the covenant, and they’re not keeping
the covenant. We have people who worship all kinds of things. In the United States of America,
we’re supposed to be one nation under God—that’s God’s will and call for us—but we are not.
We have people who worship the devil.
People say, “Well, all these others are just different names for the same God.” No, they are not.
In fact, that’s what He said in Exodus 23:24. “Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve
them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their
images.”
If God’s perfect will was done, there wouldn’t be worship of any other kind anywhere. Period.
Some say, “That’s politically incorrect. We’re supposed to be tolerant of other religions.” If
you’re a real Christian, you cannot be. A real Christian cannot acknowledge any other God or
that there is any other way to God except by Jesus. If you do, you’re not a Christian.
We can’t control everybody, but we sure can control ourselves. We can honor God, and we can
hold fast to what He has committed to us. He told us if we would serve Him, we would qualify