You Are What You Eat

​Are you feeding or starving your spirit?
​We’re quick to evaluate our physical health when something feels off — bloating, fatigue, sickness — and we often trace it back to what we’ve been eating. But few of us take the time to assess the diet of our soul.
The truth is: You are what you eat — body, mind, and spirit.
And many believers are spiritually malnourished, not because God isn’t feeding, but because they’re eating from the wrong table.

Matthew 4:4, Proverbs 4:23

​🍽️ You Can’t Be Full of God and Fed by the World 
You can’t feast on lust, pride, gossip, fear, and rebellion — and expect to walk in power, peace, and discernment. The spirit man is shaped by what we allow through our eye gates, ear gates, and heart. Everything you consume affects you — physically and spiritually. There is no such thing as "neutral content." It either edifies or erodes. We binge shows full of sexual sin, music dripping with profanity, and spend hours around voices that tear down instead of build up. Just as sugar and processed food lead to physical disease, sin and carnal distractions lead to spiritual decay.
Then we wonder why we feel spiritually dry.
Why our prayers lack fire.
Why we can’t hear God clearly.
It’s not a mystery. It’s a diet problem.
 
🛑 Not All Tables Are for You 
Corinthians 10:21 says: “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.”

Some of us are still trying to sit at two tables — eating from culture and then running to church hoping for a detox. This leads to confusion, spiritual dullness, and compromise. But you can’t live off spiritual fast food and expect Kingdom results.
Your appetite reveals your allegiance.
What you crave is what you’re committed to.

🧠 Detox Starts with Discipline 
Just like the flesh resists clean eating, your spirit man will have to fight against carnal cravings. But holiness is not a suggestion — it’s the standard.
 
“Be holy, for I am holy.” — 1 Peter 1:16 

Discipline your spirit. Turn off the noise.
Fast. Pray. Saturate yourself in the Word.
Feed yourself truth — even when it offends your flesh. Especially then.
Because spiritual maturity doesn’t come from being comfortable.
It comes from being consecrated.
Your eyes and ears are gates to the soul. What you feed on becomes what you reflect.
Watch your gates: What you see, hear and say matters!
👁️ Watch What You Watch
👂 Filter What You Hear
🗣️ Test the Voices You Allow In
 
“Take heed how you hear.” — Luke 8:18 

What you consume isn’t just entertainment — it’s spiritual agreement.
You can’t afford to make casual what God calls consecrated.
Your spiritual gates are sacred. Protect them like your life depends on it — because it does.

🕊️ The Holy Spirit Has a Diet 
The Holy Spirit is not entertained by what entertains the world.
He’s not dwelling in the latest trending sounds or following your favorite influencer’s half-true theology.
The Spirit feeds on the Word.
On truth.
On obedience.
On reverence.
On a heart that’s hungry for righteousness.
 
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” — Matthew 5:6

If you want to walk in power, feed your soul the same food the Spirit feasts on.
You Are What You Eat. So Choose Wisely. 
The next time you feel spiritually heavy, confused, or empty — check your plate.
Not your physical one. Your spiritual one.
And ask yourself:
What have I been feeding on?
What have I been feeding others?
And what’s been feeding on me?
You can’t serve God and snack on sin.
Spiritual detox starts with spiritual discipline.
It may hurt to delete, block, turn off, or walk away — but whatever is killing your appetite for God must go.
Clean your table. Purge the pantry.
Sit at the Lord’s table — and never be hungry again.
 
“Taste and see that the Lord is good.” — Psalm 34:8

Ask Yourself:

1. What is one form of “spiritual junk food” you’ve been consuming that’s been weakening your walk with God?
2. How can you become more intentional about guarding your spiritual gates?
3. What practical steps can you take to reshape your spiritual appetite this week?
4. When have you experienced the difference between being spiritually full vs. spiritually starved?
5. Who do you sit at the table with — and how do they influence your diet?

 
Challenge:

• Remove one toxic influence (music, media, person, habit)
• Replace it with a spiritual meal (scripture, worship, sermon, prayer)
• Journal daily “What did I feed my spirit today?”
• Partner up with someone for accountability.

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Lord, purify my appetite. Help me crave what brings life and reject what brings death. Teach me to feed on Your truth, to guard my gates, and to sit only at Your table. Fill me until I overflow. In Jesus' name, Amen