Text: Genesis 1:28-31
Memory text:
“For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭6‬:‭20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Feeding on or breaking your fast with junk is like purifying water only to pour dirt back into the cup. It’s like locking your door for safety and giving a thief the key.
Fasting benefits your body in three ways. Firstly, it purges and awakens you spiritually. Secondly, it sharpens your mind, making you alert. Thirdly, it detoxifies your body of toxins and restores your health.
God forbade certain fatty foods in the Scripture, mainly to protect His people’s health, purity, and longevity. For example, God forbade eating animal fats (Lev 3:16-17). These are the exact fats modern medicine calls dangerous (visceral fat, organ fat, tallow).
God gave natural foods like grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, and sparingly, clean meats.“I have given you every seed-bearing plant ..fruit trees for your food.” (Gen 1:29 NLT).
No wonder Daniel became healthier than those who ate rich, fatty foods.
Junk foods are foods that are high in sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats; low in nutrients, fiber, vitamins, and minerals; highly processed; and usually flavoured to be addictive and eaten in excess. Examples are soft drinks, energy drinks, and sweet snacks (cakes, candy, doughnuts, chin chin, puff puffs, pancakes). They also include fast food (burgers, fries, pizzas), packaged snacks (chips, biscuits), instant noodles, sugary cereals, deep-fried foods and excessively salty foods. They fill the stomach but don’t nourish the body; comfort the palate but punish the body. Every bite of it is a vote for the kind of life you want to live.
Junk foods contradict God’s feeding plan. God designed food to nourish, heal, energize, and sustain life (Ecc. 10:17). Junk foods do the opposite. They deplete energy, damage the body, cause inflammation, create addiction, and conducive for disease growth. They harm the temple through excess sugars, unhealthy fats, chemicals, preservatives and artificial colours, flavours, and gluttony(1 Cor 6:19-20). Our bodies are designed to glorify God, but junk foods work against the purpose of the temple. Junk foods break down and weaken the same body God instructs us to build up. You cannot honour the Creator while abusing His creation, that is, your body.
Friends, don’t lose the strength God gives you through fasting by eating carelessly. You can’t seek spiritual purity while feeding your body pollution. Healthy fasting begins with wise feasting.

Prayer points
1. I break every addiction to junk foods by the power of the Spirit; I receive grace to control my appetite and to eat wisely, in Jesus’ name.
2. I refuse to pollute my life after I have been cleansed and to lose the strength God gives me through fasting, in Jesus’ name.

Today’s declarations
1. I will not abuse my body by feeding on junk foods, but I will honour it and glorify God by eating wisely.
2. I won’t feed the fast that feeds my spirit with food that fights my body. I eat foods that energize my body, not weaken it.