Eve wasn't starving.She was standing in a garden filled with God's provision.Yet the serpent managed to redirect her attention from everything God had provided to the one thing God had restricted.That...  Read More

ScriptureGenesis 3:6 (KJV)“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes…she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat…”......  Read More

Father, thank You for understanding every need and desire within me. Give me wisdom to distinguish between legitimate needs and destructive appetites. When my flesh demands immediate satisfaction, giv...  Read More

My feelings are real, but they are not my commander. My desires are real, but they are not my authority. My appetite does not outrank my assignment.......  Read More

1. What appetite has been demanding most of my attention lately?2. Is the desire itself wrong, or am I considering the wrong way of satisfying it?3. Have I ever allowed a temporary desire to create a ...  Read More

Before satisfying a strong desire, ask:“Will satisfying this appetite strengthen my assignment—or interfere with it?”A temporary appetite should never be allowed to make a permanent decision for your ...  Read More

Jesus was hungry.That detail matters.His hunger wasn't imaginary. After forty days of fasting, His body legitimately needed food. Yet Satan attempted to take a legitimate appetite and use it to produc...  Read More

ScriptureMatthew 4:2–4 (KJV)“And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these s...  Read More