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Person. It is not hard. Even a newborn babe can do it. Aren’t you glad? I did it
when I was a newborn babe. As soon as I got regenerated, the brothers taught
me how to contact the nourishment in the word of God.
The Guileless Milk Being Conveyed in the Word of God to Nourish Our
Inner Man through the Understanding of Our Rational Mind and Being
Assimilated by Our Mental Faculties
The guileless milk is conveyed in the word of God to nourish our inner
man through the understanding of our rational mind and is assimilated by
our mental faculties. This may surprise you, because it seems like this point
is emphasizing our mind. I have just said that we must exercise our spirit
to pray. But we are praying over words and words have meanings. Hence
the words must pass through our understanding so that we know what God
is saying. In this verse, God is saying that we are supposed to taste Him.
He is saying that He is food. He is saying that He is life to man. This is an
apprehension, an understanding in the mind that comes from the exercise of
our spirit to contact Him. Can you see this? We do not merely use our spirit
and not our mind. This is why we should not pray-read by merely repeating
the words. Rather, some understanding and some enlightenment should come
to our mind. While our spirit is being nourished with the word of God, at the
same time our mind is being enlightened and renewed by the divine thoughts,
by the divine concept in the word of God.
Although the Nourishing Milk of the Word Is for the Soul through the
Mind, It Eventually Nourishing the Spirit, Making Us Not Soulish but
Spiritual, Suitable for Being Built Up as a Spiritual House of God

Although the nourishing milk of the word is for the soul through the
mind, it eventually nourishes the spirit, making us not soulish but spiritual,
suitable for being built up as a spiritual house of God. This is how we will be
transformed from clay to stone. The milk has minerals, and those minerals
will transform you into a stone.
In Order To Enjoy the Milk of the Word—to Taste God with His Goodness
in the Word—Our Needing to Receive His Word by Means of All Prayer
and Muse on His Word
In order to enjoy the milk of the word, to taste God with His goodness
in the word, we must receive His word by means of all prayer and muse on