Fresh Bread

Day 86
In order to keep everything from getting to you, you have to get to Me! Other things, and people, will catch you and tag you and say, "Ha! You're it!" -- and you will be caught, obligated to them, unless you run straight to the safe base and make your home there. Every morning you've got to run to home base and linger there until you are filled up and equipped, ready with the game plan for the day. You can't live on yesterday's manna -- it's already stale. There is new bread and new wine for each new day.

You can't have control over other people -- nor should you want to. But you can have influence. The best way to have the right kind of influence over others is to be more and more influenced by the Holy Spirit yourself. Stale manna is also not going to work when you offer it to others. They need fresh bread -- the bread I have given you today. Your spirit must be fed every day, or it will be undernourished.

But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man [John 2:24-25].

Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed [Mark 1:35].

It was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God [Luke 6:12].

As often as possible Jesus withdrew to out-of-the-way places for prayer [Luke 5:16].

Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, Moses didn’t give you bread from heaven. My Father did. And now he offers you the true bread from heaven. The true bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” “Sir,” they said, “give us that bread every day” [John 6:32-34].