Moses said,

“Man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.”  Deuteronomy 8:3, NASB

When Moses spoke these words, he was teaching the people about manna — the commanded bread that fell from heaven every morning to feed God’s people in the wilderness.

In fact, he begins by telling them that God actually led them to the place where they would be humbled by their inability to provide food for themselves! So they would have to rely on God to be nourished.

It was always meant to be this way between us and God. We were created to live by the word of God.

Understand, I am not referring to having a gazillion Bible verses memorized. The Bible is an awesome gift to us, but it is only meant to point us to the voice of God, by which we are meant to live.

We are meant to be guided by His faithful Voice, to know him and walk with him. We are likewise meant to live upon the provision of all that Voice commands on our behalf. Jesus did this, and it was the secret of his life and strength as a man on the earth like us.

Two things I’d like you to take away from these thoughts:

First, when you pray, ask the Father to command your life as he wants to give it. In other words, to command you, AND to command His creation to release what you need today. You can be sure that it pleases God for you to acknowledge in this way that his Voice is faithful, it will provide all the sustenance of your life, and that you believe Him.

Second, when you walk out of your prayer place, you will go out into a world full of voices: voices of the media, your friends, family, even your books.

These voices may have some truth and love in them, but none of them will give you life. God won’t allow it. He is jealous over anything else you might “listen” to with your heart and depend upon for nourishment. Let all such voices to you be filtered through Him.

Let His Voice be the one you seek to hear, honor and value above all other voices.

This is how you were meant to live, and if you do, you will truly live.

Loving and trusting Him together with you,

Tonia