He knows how many hairs we have on our heads. He knows how many trillions of cells we have in our bodies. And he is intimately aware of every detail of our lives, but he longs to work with us and help us to do things his way. Yeah. Like, as I said, I've been eating really healthy all my life, pretty much. But I haven't always let him make the choices. God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promise outpouring.
We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Bus. And I'm Sharon Bus. Welcome to the podcast today. You know, we've been talking a lot in the last three episodes about the things that God is wanting to do with us in changing our lifestyle and making us more and more connected to him, spirit, soul and body. So we have a question for you today. Does Jesus dine with you? Thank you so much for joining us today. We are really excited about this episode.
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It's going to be very easy to get to whether you drive or whether you fly. And it's going to be life changing. So we just really encourage you to plan to come. It's going to be glorious. We'll get more information on our website soon. It's not there yet, but it will be. It will be. We just have to get some other things in line first. So the first thing in line is record this podcast. This is something that as I was getting ready this morning, I was getting ready to have my devotions.
And I heard in my spirit the scripture from Revelation 320. Philip, would you read that? Behold, I stand at the door and dock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him and will sup with him and he with me. So I got to thinking about now, what does that really mean sup? Because we really grew up on King James version. And that's what was in my head because that's what I've been putting in all these years. And I wanted to find out now, what does that really mean?
So I went to find some other things. I went to Biblehub.com or is it Biblehub.org or whichever it is. I do it on my app on my phone. So when I went there, I found that the New International version says, here I am. I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person and they with me. So what else do we have? The Christian Standard Bible says, see, I stand at the door and knock.
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and eat with him and he with me. And the Holman Christian Standard Bible says, listen, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and have dinner with him and he with me. And the Aramaic Bible in plain English, behold, I stand at the door and I shall knock. If a man listens to my voice, he will open the door. I also shall come in and have supper with him and he with me.
I think the word sup comes from supper. Yeah, I looked it up in the dictionary and it also means like the main meal of the evening. So supper, dinner, whatever you want to call it. That's what supping. So Jesus wants to have the main meal with us. Exactly. So the contemporary English version says, listen, I'm standing and knocking at your door. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and we will eat together.
And the literal standard version, behold, I have stood at the door and I knock. If anyone may hear my voice and may open the door, I will come into him and will dine with him and he with me. The Amplified Classic says, behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears and listens to and heeds my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and will eat with him and he will eat with me. Now when I got the Passion translation, I decided to add the next couple of verses.
Philip, would you read that please? Behold, I'm standing at the door knocking. If your heart is open to hear my voice and you open the door within, I will come into you and feast with you and you will feast with me. And to the one who conquers, I will give the privilege of sitting with me on my throne, just as I conquered and sat down with my father on his throne. The one whose heart is open, let him listen carefully to what the Spirit is saying now to the churches. So I love that.
That's good, isn't it? Yeah. The things that we glean from the Passion translation and they have amazing footnotes. So I just want to go back into that passage and read some of the footnotes because it will give us some deeper understanding. So where it says here, I'm standing at the door knocking, the footnote says, the Aramaic can be translated, I have been standing at the door knocking. Jesus knocking on the door points us to the process of an ancient Jewish wedding invitation.
In the days of Jesus, a bridegroom and his father would come to the door of the bride to be carrying the betrothal cup of wine and the bride price. Standing outside, they would knock. If she fully opened the door, she was saying, yes, I will be your bride. Jesus and his father in the same way are knocking on the doors of our hearts, inviting us to be the bride of Christ. Isn't that beautiful? I remember seeing that as a video out there on the Galilee wedding.
Yes. And it gives a whole new understanding. Yeah. Things that the 10 virgins, the five wise and the unwise. Right. And I don't know how you'd find that, but we'll see if we can find a link to put in the show notes. Yeah. It opens the door to what this really, really is. Yeah. It's about having a relationship with Jesus that we're going to live together. Yeah. That we're going to live together. We're going to eat together. We're going to do everything together.
Now, the second footnote that I want to bring out is it says, if your heart is open to hear my voice and you open the door within, I will come into you and feast with you and you will feast with me. So the footnote here says, this is likely taken from the song of Solomon five, chapter five, verses one and two, where the King knocks on the door of the heart of the Shulamite longing to come in and feast with her.
Remember that's probably where she's still in bed and she doesn't want to get out of bed. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes we're just too fleshly to respond to the call of the King. And this is part of what this podcast is about is learning to listen to his voice, learning to yearn. Yeah. And that we're longing for him, that we're hungry for him, that we want to eat with him, that we want to live with him.
Yes. So the third footnote I want to read is from verse 21 and to the one who conquers, I will give the privilege of sitting with me on my throne, each of the seven churches. So this is the church of Laodicea that Jesus is writing to through John in the book of Revelation. He's already written to the book of Ephesus and Smyrna and all the other six churches right before this one is the church of Philadelphia.
But it says each of the seven churches is given a wonderful promise to the one who conquers or overcomes or is victorious. The Greek verb tense in each of the seven instances is one who continually, repeatedly and habitually conquers. Wow. Wow. That's walking with God. That reminds me of our episode recently about walking with God. Habitually. Habitually. Habit. Habit. Habit.
Yes. The seven churches, continuing with the footnote, the seven churches at seven locations indicates that believers are at that stage in their growth as overcomers. Now I'm not going to take time to read all of the other ones, but if you have a Passion Translation, you can read the footnote yourself that goes into all those details. If you don't have it, go to Lifebible.com. Lifebible.com has many different translations that you can read from, and the Passion Translation is one of them.
And the thing I love about this app is that you can also have it read to you. There's a British man's voice that even though this is a computer generated voice, it does a pretty good job. So you can listen to the Passion Translation there too. So what I wanted to add about this footnote, because I'm not going to take time about all the other churches, but what it says about Laodicea, Laodicea means people's rights. So it's really all about surrendering our rights to Him.
This is almost like the third installment of give your body to God. I didn't really want to call it part three because I didn't want it to be too much of a series, but I think there's some things that we really need to focus on, things that I wanted to focus on on the other two parts, but didn't get around to it.
And I just felt like we were not quite complete because maybe, maybe some of our listeners, maybe you, maybe the Holy Spirit is convicting you about your lifestyle, but you don't know where to start. I know that it's been convicting for me and I've been trying to eat healthy pretty much all my life. I remember when I was 18, the first health food store came to our town. It's a long time ago, but I went in there and I'm thinking, what is health food? What is this stuff?
And I bought something that tasted a little bit like cardboard, but I made up my mind. It's good for me. I'm going to eat it. If it's good for me, I'm going to choose to like it. And it was like an inner vow that I have lived with all of my life. And it's really helped me like you get on the mission field and you're offered some things to eat that, well, they might not even be good for you, but you kind of have to eat some things that people are offering you.
Have you ever noticed that when you ask someone to bring you something to eat, they will bring you something that they like? It's fascinating to me. They never pay attention to what you like. And I'll just say it this way. I remember Philip one time when we used to eat all of our meals together with our whole Christian community. We don't have a cook right now, so we're not able to do that.
But I remember one time I was going through to get you a salad and I'm thinking, I have never paid attention to what he puts on his salad. You're right beside me in the line. And all I'm thinking about is what do I want in my salad? So I'm not saying that because everybody else does this. I'm saying it because I did it. But I remember that moment. It was like, I don't even know what he wants on his salad. We've been married for years. How weird.
Anyway, my point is this, that our Father wants to be integrated into every part of our lives, every single detail. He designed us to work with him. He designed us with a place for me and a place for you in him. And he designed you and me with a place for him in us. That if you really, really want everything to go right, you need to get that piece right where we let him have the preeminence. He is the Almighty God, the Almighty God. The Almighty God. He's everything. Everything comes from him.
And he designed us that he would be involved in all of the details of our lives. He knows how many hairs we have on our heads. He knows how many trillions of cells we have in our bodies. And he is intimately aware of every detail of our lives. But he longs to work with us and help us to do things his way. Like as I said, I've been eating really healthy all my life, pretty much. But I haven't always let him make the choices. You know what I mean? So here's some starters.
All right, listener, because Philip and I have both been, you were raised on health food. Tell us a little about that. I remember as a kid, you know, I was embarrassed to have friends over for like Saturday morning if they spent the night and mom would make these hockey puck pancakes, you know, because they used 100% whole wheat, you know, no white flour, you know, and then it's kind of stiff and all that, you know, and like, oh, wow, you know, that was embarrassing.
And even when I go to school, you know, sometimes people would trade their sandwiches or something. But I'd always have this real healthy dark bread and, you know, old fashioned peanut butter. It's the kind you have to stir. It's the best kind for you because there's no, what do you call it? hydrogenated oils. No hydrogenated oils in it and all that. So it's a whole lot better for you. And nobody wanted my sandwich.
But I did discover, you know, because I remember back, you get these little half pint or a full pint of milk or chocolate milk and always chose the chocolate milk. And I can never finish my sandwich until I found out one day it's because I was drinking chocolate milk. You know, and then when I quit drinking that and you started drinking regular milk, I could finish the whole sandwich because of the sugar in the chocolate milk.
Yeah. It would make your blood sugar go up and you would lose your appetite. Yeah. But it's empty carbs, empty carbs. Yeah. Well, let's talk about sugar for a minute because we all love it. Yeah. Why does it make everything taste so good? We've been programmed that way. I remember meeting a guy that was so into healthy eating that he had never introduced his son to sugar. His son had never had anything that had sugar in it ever.
So he's old enough now to go over to the neighbor's house and play with the neighbor kid. Right. And the neighbor kid offers him some candy. And he sticks it in his mouth and he immediately takes it out of his mouth. He says, this is burning my mouth. Oh, wow. Because he never tasted it before. He wasn't accustomed to it. Wow. So, you know, we've been hoodwinked kind of, you know, our society has been just drawn into a deception that this is good. It tastes good, but it isn't good for you.
It only tastes good because you've gotten accustomed to it. Right. Yeah. And you tell your doughnut story. Oh, that's so good. OK. So at one point, Philip and I went on a completely vegetarian diet. We were really going to be healthy. Right. And that's what was introduced to us as the healthy thing to do. So we were on this real straightforward vegetarian. It wasn't vegan, but it was vegetarian. And after we had been on it for some months. Now, our founder, Sister Gwen Shaw, she had a...
On restrict. Oh, I guess you could say on restrict. She was. Yeah, that's a good way to say it. We'll just leave it there. So somebody had brought her a box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts that she loved. She loved them. One of my least favorite. And so I happened to come into her house and here's all these ladies sitting around the table enjoying Krispy Kreme doughnuts. And Sister Gwen says to me, Sharon, have a doughnut. And the way she said it, it was like, this is an order. Can you do it?
So I thought, OK, I'll just obey orders and see how it goes, because it's not going to kill me, you know? But it was definitely not on the diet that we had been on. And I took one bite and it was like, mmm, like, man, I haven't had one of these in a really long time. I've missed this. I don't know if I was really thinking I missed this, but it was like, this is a flavor that, mmm, this is good. And then I took the second bite and it was like, eh, maybe not quite so good.
Were you having coffee with it? No, I wasn't having coffee. That would have helped. Maybe so. Something about coffee and a good cake doughnut. These are the yeast doughnuts. These are those yeasts, yeah. You don't like those, but I do. Well, I mean, I'll eat one, but I'll rather have the other. So by the time I got to the third bite, I'm thinking, what did I ever see in this? Because it was so out of my system.
And even today, if I'm at some kind of a smorgasbord, kind of a place where you can eat all you want of all the different things they have to offer you, I might take a teaspoon of a few of the desserts just to taste them. But I could never eat like a whole piece of pie or cake or something. It's like, I'm just not this good in that department. Something about cheesecake. Well, I know you love cheesecake. Carrot cake. Yeah, those are tasty. But remember a few months ago.
Yeah, well, we started carnivore and it was June of last year, I think it was. Yeah. So we did carnivore all winter long. It didn't have a sore throat, a runny nose, a cough. People around us were dealing with all kinds of stuff and neither one of us, you know, just eating carnivore. Didn't get sick at all. Which is that's just all meat products or all animal products, animal products, you know, eggs, eggs are great, you know, cheese, just not too much maybe.
But yeah, so it was a celebration, somebody's birthday, I think. And I had a piece of carrot cake. I was a big one with ice cream. And then we were having guests that night. So they sent extra cake home with us. Yeah, I remember I preached that night. I remember that. And then I had an extra piece of that. So I had two big pieces, a lot of sugar and all that. Yeah, I think it was actually Hawaiian wedding cake. Yeah, Hawaiian wedding. Yeah. Hawaiian wedding cake. Oh, man.
And the next day, I woke up feeling just a little strange, you know, just a little funny. But then we had to go down outside, do some work. And I came back and I started taking some vitamin C and some oregano, but it was too late. My system had already been compromised. And I came down with a... Some kind of respiratory thing.
Well, the respiratory thing that because the sugar just, it weakens your immune system and people that are repeatedly, you know, having problems, sore throat, sick, runny nose, things like that, especially in a household of kids and stuff. Right. You know, the sugar will run your resistance down faster than anything else. It's true. Even if you're taking nutritional stuff, too much sugar, your body has to get dumped it out. And that's one way it does it.
Yeah. And if you have a regular Western or American diet that is if you're eating processed foods, you know, what they do to make processed foods is they take out the nutrients that would cause the food to spoil. What they're trying to do is increase the shelf life so that they can make more money off of it. Okay. The longer it sits on the shelf, the more opportunity there is for people to buy it. So if it has a longer shelf life, you're going to make more money off of that.
So they take the nutrients out, then they enrich the flour. Okay. They take the nutrients out and then they put some artificial ones back in. Yeah. And then there's this thing called hydrogenated oils where they shoot the oils full of hydrogen or partially hydrogenated oils. Especially in, look at your peanut butters. Yeah. And your vegetable oils. Vegetable oils. And they hydrogenate them. What that does is it increases the volume of the oil.
And it changes the molecular structure of it and your body has a hard time dealing with it. Yeah. So by increasing the volume, by shooting hydrogen into it, you can sell more of less of the product. I mean, you start out with a smaller amount of product, you shoot it full of hydrogen and that increases the volume of the product so you can make more money.
You know, America is the, we have the most medical equipment of any country in the world and we're the sickest nation on the face of the earth. Per Kappa, Americans are sicker than anybody else and why? It has to do a lot, not entirely, but a lot of it has to do with our food. Food. So if we're really given our body to God, we need to ask the Holy Spirit, what do you want me to eat? Yeah, that's good. Now I started to say earlier about there's a plant-based diet. Now we've got a carnivore diet.
There's somewhere in between with a keto diet where you decrease your carbohydrates, which is what turns into sugar in your body. And that's something I never knew. You look at label sugars, okay, but carbohydrates, okay. Yeah. But not realizing they turn to sugars in your body. Exactly. They turn into sugars in your bloodstream.
And remember in our last episode, we talked about the mitochondria that are producing the fuel for our bodies and one molecule of sugar produces two of this molecule of ATP, which is our fuel. But if you have one molecule of fat, it will produce something like a hundred to 120 molecules of ATP, which is what your body needs to run on. So a lot of our foods, we've been told that fat is bad for us because fat will make you fat, but it's not true. It's not true.
If you look back at previous generations, they ate all the fat they wanted to, but they didn't. Especially on a farm. Yeah. But they didn't have all these processed foods that were full of carbohydrates and sugars. You know, carbohydrates, to simplify, carbohydrates are the things like starches, like rice and potatoes. Yes. Now, if you're going to eat a baked potato. Eat a sweet potato, right? A sweet potato is actually better for you than a baked potato.
But if you want to eat a baked potato, just pile the butter and the sour cream on it. Make sure that it's good butter and good sour cream. Don't use margarine. Margarine has fats in it that are not natural to the body. They're not natural to the animal kingdom. So our bodies don't know what to do with it. We were told margarine is better for you. We were told, don't eat fat. It's bad for you.
You're substituting all of these chemically created things to substitute for fat, which our bodies don't know what to do with. And you know, because last summer I was having a lot of brain fog. I mean, we were spending a couple hundred dollars a month more maybe on nutritionals. Yeah, like supplements. Supplements made out of this and that fruit. But good stuff. Yeah, it was good. The good stuff. I was having all kinds of memory issues and I could feel it.
You know, like you can't remember it and it's just like, what do I have to take to get my brain back in? And I was having a lot of extra dizzy stuff since, you know, I had a wreck. I deal with some balance stuff, but I was having more and more even in my brain. It's just like my eyes would lose their focus and I could feel it in my brain. I mean, I could actually feel it in the front of my brain when my eyes would start to lose focus.
And all at once I just dropped to the floor, you know, had me a chair there because I just totally lost balance. It wasn't like I got a little dizzy and fell down. I mean, I just totally lost balance standing there and I just flopped. It was scary. And when we started, you know, reading up, we looked at hours of, you know, the carnivore diet on YouTube, because I'm, you know, desperate to what am I going to do here?
And what I saw in people that went on this, some of the main things was they got rid of anxiety. They got rid of depression, brain issues, you know, all the stuff you do with your brain, Alzheimer's, you know, what happens in Alzheimer's? Your brain shrinks because it doesn't have fat because we've been told the last 60 years stay off of fat. You got your low fat, this low fat yogurt, low fat, that and all that.
So we started in the carnivore, eating a lot of fat, eating a lot of butter, all that. And all my extra dizziness stuff went away. I got my brain, my thinking back and I went on to take my ham radio tests. I did my amateur and then I did a general. That's your first two classes of her. And you know, each test pool has like 400 questions in each one. And then the week for the test, I was looking at 800 questions a day, you know, and they picked 35 out of each one. You know, and I did the test.
I missed four on the first test and three on the second one. I never could have done that the way my brain was. So fat works. We're not here trying to push something, you know, but we're just telling you our experience because what we've seen with people on our own staff when they went on carnivore, especially if you're dealing with sugar issues. Like diabetes. Diabetes. It's called the sugar, even see with our grandkids, you know, they're like, they gotta have sugar and what you're doing.
You're burning your pancreas out early because you're overworking it, you know, all the time trying to produce too much insulin. Yeah. Our body wasn't designed for that. Right. And so what happens when it burns out? You have to take the artificial stuff, right? But that only works for a while. Yeah. Well, the bottom line is let's just roll it back to have dinner with Jesus. Yeah. What does Jesus want to eat? Because he lives in your temple.
Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which I mean, it's Jesus, it's the Holy Spirit, it's the father. All three of them are living inside of you because they're one. So if you want to start doing something to improve your diet, first of all, you have to think in terms of this is a lifestyle change. Like people go on a diet and lose weight, but then they go back to their way of eating.
Yeah. And if you're going to do the same old way of eating, you're going to put all that same weight back on and probably more. Yeah. And the one thing that I just want to put in one more plug for a carnivore, the thing that I love is that you eat until you're comfortably full and then you don't eat until you're hungry. So it's not about portion control. Eat till you're comfortably full, comfortably stuffed, I think they even say. And if you're dealing with low blood sugar, that's what you had.
I had to eat like every two and a half hours. Yes. And lots of times I would eat a whole plate full of food and get up from the table and I'm still hungry. But when I get up from the table after eating this dense nutrition of meat and fat, I'm satisfied and I don't want to eat until I'm hungry again. It's wonderful. It's amazing. And it's not portion control. So you don't have to feel like, oh, I can only eat this much and I have to wait for another so many hours. Eat till you feel good.
It's the most amazing thing. Even egg, you know, we do our eggs in the morning, we'll do three eggs with a lot of butter and we do neat things with eggs. You know, we use curry, cumin powder, we use rosemary and za'atar, which is hyssop. You get that from Israel and experiment. So they're not boring. But so three eggs and I put three big slabs of butter on it. You know, and now when you say slabs, it's not like a whole stick.
No, no, no. But you know, the better part of a tablespoon, not quite a whole tablespoon, maybe. Yeah. And then I put some olive oil too. And that carries me over about five hours, four to five hours. It's wonderful. Yeah. It's wonderful. And lose weight. Yeah, Philip lost all kinds of weight. I've kept my weight down. Not that I've had to, but it's just my body is, it just likes what I'm doing. You've got more energy too, haven't you? Yeah. Yeah. Because we drive hours.
I mean, sometimes we get in the car, we'll go for 10 hours and we'll buy what's the healthiest chips. There aren't any. There isn't any. And we buy all kinds of kinds of nuts and stuff. And I was eating different nuts and I was breaking out in rashes because I was eating a little too much. But when you're in the car, you just start munching, you know. And so we don't even buy snacks anymore. And all we do is dehydrate. We make beef jerky.
Yeah. Just slice it, you know, quarter inch dehydrated, got to dehydrate it for Christmas. And she'll just dip some of that butter going down the road. And we'll do that in lunch. And you don't feel like snacking. And you don't feel like snacking. You know, you have a couple of hamburger patties. We'll do that. So it's easy. It's a very easy diet. But for what we have to do with the line of work we do, the way we have to travel, we have to eat healthy where our bodies are.
We're not going to age so fast. Right. Right. And I think Jesus likes that too. Well, how about Derek Prince? Do you remember what the Lord spoke to Derek Prince? I've said this before and I'll just say it again. The Lord spoke to Derek Prince and said, I have lots of things for you to do, but if you don't change the way you eat and the way you exercise, your body will not be able to keep up to do all of these things that I have for you.
Wow. And that's why I think Catherine Kuhlman, she went home early. She had heart issues because her breakfast was coffee and donuts. Yes. And the Lord sent somebody to her and gave her the word of the Lord. You've got to stop eating that way. But she didn't. But anyway, the point is eat with Jesus. Now we're not saying that you need to become a carnivore. We're saying that you need to listen to what the Holy Spirit says. But here's a few tips.
Like if you are a drinker of carbonated drinks, stop, stop carbonated drinks and drink water. Even just that one change will make a difference in your health. Just changing just that one thing. Yeah, one can of Pepsi or Coke has what like how many? Oh, many teaspoons of sugar. Teaspoons and teaspoons of sugar. It's loaded with it. It's loaded with sugar. So it's compromising your immune system. Yeah. The more sugar you take in, the more you're compromising your immune system.
Now I will say this, that as you are getting off of sugar, you may go through some withdrawals. Some withdrawals. So, you know, even if you want to do it slowly. Like if you're used to drinking three sodas a day, just cut back to two, then cut back to one, but add water because the water is going to help to rinse out. Yeah, flush out whatever toxins you've been maintaining because of all this sugar that you're taking in. Stop eating bad fats. Stop eating processed foods.
Pay attention to what is on the labels of things. If you can't pronounce it, if there's a whole bunch of things that you can't pronounce, it's probably not natural. Yeah. You know, we were in, it was Sam's Club, I think it was. They had a box of frozen hamburgers. They're not cooked yet. You know, it was like 32 hamburgers for $29. And I saw, look at the ingredients, 100% beef. It didn't have anything else. Hallelujah. You know, that's great. So we bought a box and let's continue buying them.
Yes. So there's some simple things you can do. If you're used to drinking milk and you drink low fat milk, start drinking whole milk. You can start drinking whole milk instead. Because you need the fat that's in the milk. If you get raw milk, that's even better because your body knows how to process it better.
Pasteurized milk that is pasteurized with heat is probably not a bad thing, but that which has been pasteurized by some chemical is probably changing the molecular structure of the milk and it's not going to be as good. Yeah. And it's like the yogurt you make. Oh yeah. It takes 24 hours. Yeah. I incubate it for 24 hours. Incubate it. And it's kind of just overnight like they recommend. And that gets all the extra lactose out of it. Yeah. Yeah. Which is a carbohydrate.
It's a kind of a carbohydrate. So you're reducing your carbohydrates and you're increasing your probiotics by making your own. And if you're interested, just send me an email at feedback at globaloutpouring.org and I'll give you my recipe for homemade yogurt. It's really simple. Yeah. And meat. We've been told red meat is bad for you. Yeah. I only ate meat twice, about twice a week. Yeah. And I was suffering because we were only eating. And I was gaining weight.
Yeah. You know, eating good bread. I mean, we go to the health food store, get Ezekiel bread or, and of course I loved, you know, getting Dave's killer bread at Walmart. Yeah, that was a good one. That's good. You know, it's just, it's got a lot of good stuff. Of course, you know, put butter on it. And I didn't put a lot of butter on it. Yeah. You thought that fat was bad for you. Yeah. And I was just trying to eat even good grains.
But, but when we went on the road, our last trip, we were gone for three and a half weeks. I gained back probably five, maybe five, six, seven, eight pounds. Because you weren't being careful. No, I'm being careful. And sometimes you can't. Sometimes you can't cause we, we have a thing. We eat what's put before us. Right. Somebody puts a piece of pie in front of me. Okay. I'll leave it. Thank you, Jesus. You know, I try to say no, thank you.
Yeah. But when we get home, get off the buns, you know, cause usually you get in a hamburger or something that's on a white flour bun. That's doesn't have any nutrition in it at all. Right. You know, the, but just eliminate. So I eliminate all that stuff and I go back down to my 132 is where I'm sitting at. Skinny guy. Skinny guy. Yeah. But I wanted to say that we've been told that red meat is bad for you and it is not. No, it's not. It is not bad for you. It is very good for you.
It's very dense nutrition and it will stick with you. If I eat a rib eye steak, which doesn't happen very often, but I love it when it does. If I eat a rib eye steak, I can go six, seven hours without getting hungry because of the dense nutrition of the meat and the fat or brisket. It's great stuff. Lots of fat. It's good for you. If you go to golden Corral, you know, they have brisket. We could just make a meal on that. It's great. Wherever.
So, you know, if you're going to eat bread, eat good bread, eat bread that least has the whole grain. Whole grain. And I'll just say if your mother had learned this trick about the hockey pucks, you know, the hockey puck pancakes, I learned when we were using grains that if you mix half whole wheat and half oatmeal, oatmeal is also a whole grain. The oatmeal lightens it up and it makes it very nice. If you're going to do baked goods, pay attention to what you're doing.
Make sure that you do good stuff and use lots of butter. Lots and lots of butter. It's good for you. The two of us will do about a stick a day. Yeah, we were going through a stick a day. Now some carnivores are eating a whole stick by themselves. Individual, we're not quite like that, but we're just trying to encourage you of things that you can do to increase your health. So another thing we have to think about is exercise.
And that doesn't mean that you have to go and get a membership at a gym. Doesn't mean you have to do calisthenics. It doesn't mean you have to pump iron, you know, lifting weights. But what it does mean is pay attention to what the Holy Spirit is saying. One of the best things you can do is walk. Just walking. Well, some of these Fitbit watches, I don't have one. I don't want to wear one of those things because I don't think it's good to have those on your body. But that's a personal viewpoint.
But it'll measure your steps so that you get in enough steps in the day for your body to have a good amount of exercise. And one of the things that's real good for you is to get one of those little trampolines. Yes, we have. A rebounder. And that works your lymphatic system. Right. Because we've seen the difference in that. You know, looking at live blood under a microscope. You know, that's one of the things that they would recommend.
They can look at your live blood, which doctors don't do, and they can see how much oxygen what's in your blood. The cells are all stuck together because they're robbed of oxygen. But when you do a helping with a rebounder that works all the lymphatic because you have more lymphatic fluid in your body than you do blood. What you're doing is circulating it. When you're moving your muscles, you're circulating your lymphatic system.
So walking, like I said, is one of the best things that you can do. And consider prayer walking. Consider, okay, I can walk and pray at the same time. So you're getting bodily exercise while you're communing with the Lord. So this is all about becoming one with Him, spirit, soul, and body. So you're engaging your spirit while you're walking and your body is going to get in the swing of things.
Another thing you can do, what I did when we were getting ready to go to Tibet a number of years ago, I knew I had to get in shape, but I didn't have time to do a bunch of exercise. I didn't have time to go for walks. Her lifestyle wasn't that way that I could do that. So I mean, I was a young mother at the time and it just didn't work.
So I had a leading from the Holy Spirit, I believe that whenever I had to go upstairs, wherever I was, whether it was in our house or whether I was in the office or wherever I was, if I had to go to the next floor, I would go up, but I would go up and down and up and down and up. So then when I was going to go back down, I would go down and up and down and up and down.
So I was getting those extra motions and extra building of my legs so that I would have the strength to be able to walk when I got to Tibet. And everything is steep in Tibet. Everything. There's at least two kinds of stairs in Tibet. There's steep wooden steps and steep stone steps, but they're all steep. It's like climbing a ladder. So I was better prepared because I had done that because the Holy Spirit led me. This is the whole point. Walk with God. Let the Holy Spirit help you.
So when you're working on walking, I don't know about you, but posture is an issue for me. I've spent way too many years sitting at a desk, bending over towards my computer and I'm working on my posture. And one of the things that I've learned about your posture is get your ears over your shoulders and then get your ribs over your hips and then get your hips over your heels. Get your ears over your shoulders. That's like tucking your chin back. It's not like tipping your head back.
It's about tucking back with your chin. So you get your ears over your shoulders, get your ribs over your hips, and then get your hips over your heels and then go for a walk. I'm constantly having to correct myself as I'm walking, but I'm trying to work on this. And I feel so good when I get my head up and get, because really what I felt like I was doing is because you're putting your ears over your shoulders, you're not leading with your head. Well, that'll preach, won't it?
You're really leading with your heart. Your heart is going out there ahead of you instead of your head. So that's one of the things I've been working on. I've never told you that, but. And there's lots of help on YouTube for finding exercises that fit your age group. Okay. So we're over 55. We can look at the ones that are for over 55. Actually, we're over 65, but don't tell anybody. And we feel really young.
So there are appropriate exercises for different age groups and everybody can improve wherever they are. There's always something that you can do that will help to improve. Stretching is even one of the things that you can do stretching your various kinds of muscles. And there's exercises you can find on YouTube for that. But I do want to say this. There's a lot of things out there pushing chair yoga.
Now, you might be able to get in shape sitting in a chair by doing exercises in a chair, but if it's connected to yoga, do not go there. That's right. Because if you sit there, you're meditating on nothing. You're opening your spirit up and something is going to come in. If you open it up. That's true. That's true. And all of this chair yoga, any kind of yoga, please avoid yoga because it's rooted in Hinduism, which is rooted in demons.
And when your spirit guide, which they tell you to get, that's a, it's not the Holy Spirit. No, no, no, no. But you want to be guided by your spirit guide, which is the Holy Spirit. And don't let anybody tell you different. Stay away from yoga. Amen. So the third thing that is critical is rest. Remember what Dean Braxton said three episodes ago about how he didn't take the time to rest and it compromised his health and he wound up almost losing his life again. Was very, very serious.
And the Lord said to him, you gave me your spirit and you've given me your soul and your working on it, but you never gave me your body. And that's what this is all about. That we will so become one in our spirit, soul and body, one with the Holy Spirit, one with Jesus, that he can do anything through us, in us, by us, to us, you know, we're all still growing. We're all still in the process of becoming more like him, but that's what walking with God is really all about.
So whatever you do, do all things unto the Lord. Now one thing I've learned about lack of sleep and I've learned it from personal experience. You can gain weight if you don't get enough sleep because for me, you know, confessions here, I usually have had this terrible habit of procrastination and putting things off until the last minute. And then you got to work all night to get it done. You know, that was a habit I started when I was in high school. And I've improved. Yes, you have.
I have improved. I've tried and especially the last few years, I've really been convicted about getting enough rest. So we've been doing much better about that, but you can gain weight very easily if you're working extra hours instead of sleeping. Because if you don't sleep, you got to eat. You eat to stay awake. You eat to stay awake. You're up in the middle of the night and you get hungry. You wouldn't get hungry if you were sleeping. Probably. I mean, you might.
Some people have to get up in the middle of the night and have a snack. But my point is we pay attention to getting enough rest. You've got to get enough rest. So Matthew 11, 28 to 30 is what we're going to close here with. Philip, would you read that from the Passion? Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Come to me, I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis. Simply join your life with mine. Go in my ways and you'll discover that I'm gentle, humble, easy to please.
You will find refreshment and rest in me, for all that I require of you will be pleasant and easy to bear. Amen. And I just want to add the footnotes to that where it says, are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? The footnote on that says, many times Jesus said, come after me or follow me. But only here does he say, come to me. Isn't that beautiful? Come weary, come to him. I always try to, as I close my eyes, as I get my head on the pillow, I just give myself to him.
You know, I just begin to breathe in his presence, breathe in his love, because oxygen is his love. And just breathing in his presence just gets me ready to rest and I wake up more refreshed as a result. So the second footnote is that for I am your oasis is translated from the Aramaic. The Aramaic gives this idea of an oasis. So picture yourself in a desert. And here's this place with palm trees and water in the middle of the desert. That is what Jesus is to us.
He is that place where we can rest. Where it says, simply join your life with mine. The footnote says, or bend your neck to my yoke. The metaphor of a yoke is that it joins two animals to work as one. It is not simply work or toil that is the focus here, but union with Christ. So as we become one with him, we get into the yoke with him.
And you know, if you look at two animals that are yoked together to pull a plow or to pull a wagon or something, they're doing it together and it's lighter than if either one of them had to do it by themselves. So our union with Jesus, becoming one with him, letting him come in to dine with us, letting him come in to be our bridegroom. I want to live with you, Jesus, all the rest of my life. Yes. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So are you listening for his voice? Is he knocking on your door?
Is there a door in you? Is there a door inside of you that you've welcomed him in? Maybe he's in the foyer. Maybe he's in the living room. But have you let him in that closet? He wants to get into that closet too. He wants to get into that little store room where you just throw things that somebody's coming over. I've got to do something with this mess. And you open the door to the store room and it all goes in there and sooner or later. You've got to deal with it.
Well, it's time to let Jesus in that door. It's time to let him in to all of these things. He's standing at the door and knocking and he wants to be bridegroom to us. He wants to be the one that will live with all of eternity. Yeah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Invite him into supper and learn what he likes to eat. Hallelujah. Holy Spirit, we just thank you for leading us and guiding us. Lord, we thank you for opening up our hearts.
Lord, that longing, that hunger to be with you, that hunger to spend more time with you, that hunger to be more ruled by you, that hunger for your presence. Lord, we thank you for increasing that in each one of us, Lord. And we thank you, Father, that you are doing things in us that are making us more like you so that we can arise and shine in these days as you're about to pour out your spirit in a greater way than this planet has ever seen before. Lord, thank you that you are equipping us.
Yes, Father. So that you will have a people ready to rise and shine in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe, rate, and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your review helps the podcasting platform suggest this podcast to other listeners who are also looking for a great move of the Holy Spirit. Check out our website at globaloutpouring.org to find out more information, read our blogs, connect with us, and donate.
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