Your Soul Won't Grow Without Food - Geoff Thomas

This 14th verse:

To make every effort;

to be diligent He says.

Be diligent.

And in what direction?

Well, you've got to seek
food for your souls.

You've got to get away...

to a conference;

travel a long distance to be here.

Drive 15 hours.

Drive through the night.

Drive just to be here.

And search for things that can nourish you

and build up your knowledge

and your graciousness.

You don't want to be unfruitful

and static, but there's a dynamism,

and a maturing, and a beauty;

and a fragrance,

and a loveliness about your life.

You're seeking for
truths that will do that;

that will produce love,

and joy, and peace,

and long-suffering, and gentleness,

and goodness, and faithfulness,

and meekness, and self-control.

You've got to fall in love with the Bible.

You've got to search it.

You've got to ransack it.

You've got to sit under the best ministry

you can on a Sunday.

You've got to read the best books.

You've got to sit and listen

to older Christians as they talk together

and they reminisce

about how God has dealt
with them over the years.

And learn from them
the mysterious influence

that one Christian can have over another.

You seek good fellowship

with other Christians,

and you hunger after truth.

You want the Word of God to come

not in word only,

but in power and the Holy Spirit

and much assurance.

Fall in love.

Meditate upon Scripture.

And, praying Scripture.

So you read a verse like this,

"But grow in the grace and knowledge

of our Lord and Savior," and you say,

"Lord, me too. I want to grow.

I want to grow.

This week, I've got a special time here;

special privileges.

Help me to grow

in the grace and knowledge of my Savior,

Jesus Christ."

Because your souls won't grow

without food.

And there's no food for the soul

like the Word of God.

There's no place to be better

than before the face of Jesus Christ.

Taken from the 2018 Fellowship Conference.