Learning to Feed Yourself is Messy
By John D. Bain
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Dr. John D. Bain has written a book to lead the aspiring believer in Jesus Christ on a journey toward spiritual growth, health, and maturity through enjoyable disciplines of personal responsibility. Learning to Feed Yourself is Messy presents a challenge to every Christian to grasp the tenets of a sound and solid devotional life that will result in a fully grown and well-rounded, Christlike Child of the Living God.
This work will teach you, step by step, how to have a rich and meaningful private and quiet time with God that will build you up in your faith and make you strong and healthy - just like taking food for physical nourishment. Learn what it means to nourish yourself spiritually, without having to rely entirely upon others. Develop a one-on-one relationship with God that will make you more capable to stand alone, but also more powerful when you stand with others.
John D. Bain
Dr. John D. Bain is a resident of Hartselle, Alabama. The son of John W. and Elizabeth Bain and the husband of Terri Evans Bain. He has two children and two grandchildren.He was ordained into the pastoral ministry in 1977 and has served as a Southern Baptist Pastor for thirty-seven years in seven SBC churches.He was graduated (National Honor Society) from the Morgan County High School in Hartselle, Alabama in 1974 (now Hartselle High School), from Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1979 (now Belmont University – Bachelor’s Degree ), from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, Tennessee in 1982 (Master’s of Divinity), and from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2012 (Doctor of Ministry).In 2006 he left the full time pastorate to serve in associational missions and as a bivocational pastor in smaller SBC churches.In 1990 he was introduced to the world of the Personal Computer – he incorporated the PC into his ministry and pastoral work and eventually gained expertise in their use, maintenance, and repair. Thus electronic books!
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Learning to Feed Yourself is Messy - John D. Bain
Learning to Feed Yourself is Messy
by John D. Bain
Copyright © 2014 by Other Little Ships
Smashwords Edition
Every one that requires being nursed is unskilful
in the word of righteousness:
because he is a baby. Hebrews 5:13
(Author’s paraphrase)
The spaghetti covered tyke on the cover is of my daughter
Terra Charise Bain Buel on her first birthday.
She is now 30 years old – and still feeds herself!
Introduction
God is our Source.
"My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from Him."
Psalm 62:5
"But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."
Philippians 4:19
"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you."
John 14:26
"But the anointing which ye have received of him abides in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."
I John 2:27
God has all that we need. God is all that we need.
It is not absolutely necessary that I live, breath, drink, eat, sit, walk, or stand – but the presence of God is essential in the life that I do have. He is something, someone that I cannot; I choose not to live without.
He is all that I need, to be whom and what He has created me to be on this earth. He is the purpose and the meaning of my existence. His very presence in me feeds, nourishes, and sustains me.
Before Jesus ascended from the earth to return to Heaven, he taught us (his disciples) that His departure had a unique purpose, and that it involved the initiation of a deeper relationship with all who believe in Him. Read John 14:16-20:
16) And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17) Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but ye know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.
18) I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19) Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20) At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Our Heavenly Father has blessed so many of us with wonderful family and friends. They fill our lives with love and joy. But they cannot be or provide all that we need in life. Nor can we be their greatest provider. We cannot be their source. The source of what they truly need.
Read these verses that describe humanity’s beginning with God, our Creator:
"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living soul."
Genesis 2:7
And then in verse 18 in the same chapter:
"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him a helper worthy of him."
Genesis 2:18
God had begun mankind upon a journey to discover that the only fulfilling and satisfying relationship that he could have – was with his Creator.
Do you see in the verses from Genesis that God created a human being in His own image and likeness? That the human was perfect and flawless, he had no troubles, no difficulties, and no obstacles of any kind between him and his Maker?
The human could commune with God, walk with God in the cool of the day, converse with Him and know him perfectly . . . and yet God describes him . . . as alone.
This diagnosis was not the opinion of a dissatisfied man, but of the God who created him.
God and man were together in the most intimate and exclusive of relationships, and yet it was as if man was completely alone. This was not God’s ultimate design