Praying Over Food

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.

He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes. — read the full passage →

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one. — read the full passage →

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — read the full passage →

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?”

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Pray without ceasing.

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →

When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving. — read the full passage →

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

Give us today our daily bread.

He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. — read the full passage →

Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. — read the full passage →

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you. — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, — read the full passage →

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

“When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Seven.”

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties.

For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. — read the full passage →