When we are properly watered & fed we will grow healthy in the Lord. This is by reading the word of God and prayer. When we eat healthy we grow healthy, When we eat junk food we grow unhealthy, sickly. We are what we eat .The physical & spiritual are parallel.
New Living Translation (NLT) John 1:1
In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and
the Word was God.
Reading the bible & praying is eating and drinking spiritually
John 15:1-5 “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. 3 You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.
Amplified Bible (AMP) Philippians 3:10
[For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [[b]which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]
Galatians 5:21-23
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
This is the fruit of the spirit, not the fruit of me. The fruit of the spirit that flows through is for others.
Luke 10:27
The man answered, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
