Nutrition Health

Naturally Healthy Foods

There are many philosophies on what is healthy and what is not.  Even those considered to be “nutritional experts” differ greatly, depending on which school of thought they were trained.  Once you have found a way of eating (not a fad diet) that works for you, follow it.  Just don’t make it a doctrine under the banner of “salvation,” and don’t let the enemy use you to condemn others because of it.

Just as spiritual food is to nourish the Body of Christ so that we may grow up into Him in all things, physical food is meant to grow healthy bodies, not simply to please the taste buds (that’s being ruled by our senses).

To help empower you along your walk to a healthy body, we have gathered together some of the scriptures that deal directly with the natural foods we should eat.  To learn what the Bible has to say about certain foods simply choose a category from the menu.  We pray that these resources help you to build a healthy body and temple for Christ.

      

1. Whole Grains  

Isaiah 28:26-29 “…Grain for bread is crushed. Indeed, he
does not continue to thresh it forever.
Because the wheel of his cart and his
horses eventually damage it, he does not
thresh it longer…” (NASB)
Psalm 81:16 “He should have fed them also with the
finest of the wheat…”
Ezekiel 4:9 “But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans,
lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one
vessel and make them into bread for
yourself” (NASB)
Exodus 16:15, 31 “It is manna... This is the bread which the
LORD hath given you to eat…it was like
coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.”

 

2. Seeds and Nuts
 

Genesis 1:11-12 “Then God said, ‘Let the earth sprout
vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit
trees on the earth bearing fruit after their
kind with seed in them and it was so…and
God saw that it was good.” (NASB)
Genesis 43:11 “take some of the best products of the
land…a little balm and a little honey
aromatic gum and myrrh, pistachio nuts
and almonds.” (NASB)
Matthew 3:4 “clothing was woven from camel’s hair
and he wore a leather belt; his food was
locusts and wild honey.” (LB) (Locusts
were supposedly carob pods; carob is a
member of the legume family).

 
 

3. Fruits  

Numbers 13:23 “And they came unto the brook of Eshcol,
and cut down from thence a branch with
one cluster of grapes, and they bare it
between two upon a staff and they brought
of the pomegranates, and of the figs.”
Numbers 13:27 “they told him, and said, We came unto
the land whither thou sentest us, and
surely it floweth with milk and honey; and
this is the fruit of it.”
I Samuel 30:12 “They gave him a piece of fig cake and
two clusters of raisins, and he ate; then
his spirit revived” (NASB)
Fruit has always been used in the Bible to
describe something very good.
Revelation 22:2 “In the midst of the street of it, and on
either side of the river, was there the tree
of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits,
and yielded her fruit every month: and the
leaves of the tree were for the healing of
the nations.”
Ezekiel 47:12 “And by the river…shall grow all trees for
meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither
shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it
shall bring forth new fruit according to his
months, because their waters they issued
out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof
shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for
medicine.”
Psalm 1:3 “And he shall be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit
in his season; his leaf also shall not
wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall
prosper.”
John 15:16 “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen
you, and ordained you, that ye should go
and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit
should remain…”


 

4. Vegetables  

Daniel 1:12-16 “Please test your servants for ten days,
and let us be given some vegetables to eat
(pulse in KJV) and water to drink (NASB).
…And at the end of ten days their
countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat
the portion of the king’s meat.”


 

5. Herbs   Psalm 104: 14-15 “He causeth the grass to grow for the
cattle, and herb for the service of man:
that he may bring forth food out of the
earth…and oil to make his face to shine,
and bread which strengtheneth man’s
heart.”
 
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Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. - Matthew 18:18 (King James Version)