UNNATURALLY NOURISHED // S04E01
God nourishes us in ways the world can’t understand! This season, we’re diving deep into the ways in which we can count of the Lord to provide for us in the best, worst and most mundane times—if we let Him! When we follow God’s will for our lives by following His Word, no shortage of resources can stop us because God’s always got a provision plan. We pray this season encourages you to be bolder, dig deeper into the Word, and love radically as living proof of Jesus Christ.
- Are you connected to the bread of life?
- What is spiritual nourishment?
- How to abide in Christ?
VERSES IN UNNATURALLY NOURISHED
Psalms 1-6, Peter 1:5-11
QUOTES FROM UNNATURALLY NOURISHED
Michelle:
“We have to be connected to the root. You know, that’s vital, literally for it to work. If you don’t have access to the nutrition, that’s in the soil that comes by way of the water. Then you literally burn up and dry out from the sun”.
Michelle Watson, The Pantry Podcast S04E01: Unnaturally Nourished
“You know the pantry, the pantry podcast, where did it start? It started in the kitchen. It started with this idea of storing up spiritual nutrition. And I’ll tell you what it has been a good 2020. And my heart goes out to all of the people who’ve gone through things and you know, suffered or had had loss. But we’ve kept God at the front. And because we’ve kept that, natural nutrition, right. We’ve been able to get through. We’ve been able to overcome, we’ve been to see victory and move forward.”
Shea Watson, The Pantry Podcast S04E01: Unnaturally Nourished
ANNOTATED TRANSCRIPT
Shea: Hey, I’m Shea.
Michelle: And I’m Michelle. And this is The Pantry Podcast and you’re listening to an episode from Season Four, Unnaturally Nourished, where we’re talking about how God nourishes us in ways that the world just can’t understand.
Shea: Shout-out to Warcry Network,
Michelle: The Christian Podcasters Association,
Shea: Eternity Ready Radio,
Michelle: And the Spark Collective. Check out ThePantryPodcast.com to support us by buying our awesome Merch, sending in prayer requests, and figuring out how you can connect with us and some of our awesome guests.
Shea: It’s 2020. Whoa.
Michelle: Give him a head. I love this man.
Shea: Oh, that’s like my favorite word.
Michelle: Happy new year, y’all. No matter what’s…what’s going down in your town.
Shea: What’s going down in your town all around. I don’t know, whatever. I’m not a rapper. I mean, yo, I’m a podcaster slash I don’t know. Cause it’s 2021, you know, and God willing we’ve made it. We’ve made it. Cause this is definitely being recorded early.
Michelle: Oh yeah. Like there’s no way that I was going to start editing during all the holidays. There’s just
Shea: No, so Hey, here we are though. And man, here we go—excited.
Michelle: I mean, you have to hit, you have to kick off your year with Shea being excited. It’s a bad omen otherwise. Okay.
Shea: It really is. I really—look, I get to sit. I get to see this one every day.
Michelle: Right. This is like the one time Shea says he’s excited is during the podcast, the rest of the time I get really nerded out and excited and he’s like the cool, calm, collected. I’m like, why are you like, not reacting? It’s it’s here and with Calia. He’s holding it all for y’all and I know I keep accidentally rhyming. That’s just my skill set, I guess.
Shea: Oh my goodness. Should I be by no first season?
Michelle: No, I mean, I just think it can’t be planned. It just has to be organic.
Shea: Yeah. And, and organic is, is what this is all about. You know, again, the pantry, the pantry podcast, where did it start? It started in the kitchen. It started with this idea of storing up spiritual nutrition. And I’ll tell you what it has been a good 2020. And my heart goes out to all of the people who’ve gone through things and you know, software or law had loss. But we’ve kept God at the front. And because we’ve kept that, natural nutrition, right. We’ve been able to get through. We’ve been able to overcome, we’ve been to see victory and, and move forward. We’ve had the momentum to keep going. And I think 2021 is a very intentional year. I think that we have to shift these gears and really start to focus on ministry. Start focus on people, start focus on prayer, focus on God, you know, really make him something intentional and realize if anything, 2020 showed me is he has to, okay.
I mean, I’ve had this for awhile cause okay. But, but just to reinforce the practice that was going on before 2020, that has to be my, my focus. It has to be the front. And so when I’m thinking of that, you know, our new season unnaturally nourished, and what we’re focusing on the season is this nourishment that comes from above, that comes from the spiritual, that, that brings us through adversity, diversity and everything else that we throw that we’ve gone through and that we’ve experienced. And when we, when I started thinking of this, I started thinking of what does that really mean? And in Psalms one through six, I’m only going to read the first three though, but I want people to go out there and read the whole thing. Yeah. Challenge read it. I want to challenge people. I mean, obviously that’s part of our goal kind of what I do, but I challenged myself at the same time.
It’s like, okay, be better, Shea. Okay. Yeah. You know, you’re right. I need to be better. How am I going to be better eighth? I try for 40 something years in myself didn’t work, but Jesus is making me better. Bless it. As the man who walks, not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord. And in his law, he meditates day and night, he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither and whatever he does shall prosper. What’s being shown here is a contrast between the righteous and the uncommonly, or how about this in a Christian and a believers round, right? There’s these contrast believe between those who root themselves next to living water and those who don’t, you know, we flourish, we are nourished the other way. We struggle.
Michelle: It only took us four seasons to have a season that are full of titles that I think will probably be the closest we’ll ever get to like the name of our podcast because each of these episodes bring in the theme of food, nutrition and things like that. But one of the things that really clicked for me in 2020 was this idea that you are invincible when you are in God’s plan. The only thing that can derail that invincibility is yourself because God honors your free will. But if you want to do God’s will, and you are following him and honoring him and pursuing him, then even if there’s these quick trip-ups falls, pauses, whatever, nothing will prosper against you. It’s only God’s will the moves forward. And this season is about that unnatural nourishment, right? Because of course, God made everything. So you can, you know, me and Shay were having this conversation like to clear it up, you know, you can have the conversation and say, well, God is the natural.
And it’s actually the way people are acting outside of Christ. That’s unnatural. And we hear you. And yes, we agree, right? But the other way you can look at it as he’s supernatural. And that the natural that we’re currently residing in is the flesh, the sin nature, and our physical bodies require these physical nutrition sources. But God tends to provide nourishment on a spiritual and a physical level in ways that the world can’t understand. And so we are going to dig into that, us with our awesome guests. So excited about these awesome guests with one another with y’all, we’re going to challenge you this year to engage with us, engage with other podcasters you’re listening to as well. It is worth it because there’s that nourishment that happens back and forth when you’re in fellowship. But that’s kind of the idea of this season is we’re going to talk about the ways in which God can nourish you.
When the chips are down, when the money’s low, when the government fails you, when you feel trapped, he’s the one that brings Ravens to feed you. He’s the one that will send a hoard of quails out of nowhere to die for you to eat. He’s the one that reigns manna from heaven. He’s the one that overflows oil jar after oil jar, as long as you’ve got an empty jar to give he’s the one that brings the dead back to life. He is the bread of life. He has food. We know not of. So we have to walk in that faith that, that crazy to the world sound and stuff.
Shea: Sometimes that requires supplements, supplements, look, flu season, cold season, everything comes along, right? People get flu shots, but there’s people also, you know, that don’t double up on stuff. You know, like vitamin C packets and like elderberry elderberry fan. I mean, it has been solid for this kid, but that’s not what this episode is about. That’s not the supplements, but what I
Michelle: Sharing our testimony. Y’all I, it, but
Shea: God, I’m not going to lower him to call him a supplement that we think of. Cause that’s just an addition, right? He is everything. But see I’m saying supplement because when you read second Peter, one, five through 11, it’s definitely a word that’s used. And I love this word and view of all of this. Make every effort to respond to God’s promises, supplement your faith—*car rumbles past our house*—Sorry.
Michelle: No, you know what? It’s fine. Cars drive by our house.
Shea: In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises, supplement your faith with a generous portion of right moral excellence, with knowledge, knowledge with self-control that’s temperance self-control with patient endurance, patient endurance, with godliness godliness, with brotherly affection, burly affection with love for everyone. Study this, take it to the Greek. Look at what the words mean. Look at the power behind this. It’s a progression. It shows us how to live and see, when we jumped down to verse eight, it says, the more you grow like this, this is a growth. We are bringing God into our lives. We are bringing the supernatural, the spiritual into our lives to grow us, to heal us, to carry us, to guide us. Right? Look, the more you grow like this verse eight, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of Lord Jesus Christ.
That usefulness will make you productive in the world. Because as you’re more knowledgeable in the Lord, Jesus Christ, you become more productive system to society. You become more Christ centered in your position towards society, right? Verse nine, for whoever lacks these qualities, right? There’s always that one forever legs. I love that. Thank you Lord, because this, these are the challenges, even for me, right? It’s right. For whoever lacks. These qualities is so near sighted that he is blind. Having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins, verse 10 brothers and sisters work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen do these things and you will never fall away. And that’s not far away lose your salvation. Y’all fall away from the relationship. Fall away from the power source, fall away from the strength that you dig into and turn to, yeah. Unplug your iPhone four week. Yo, you ain’t gonna have it unplugged from God. You’re not gonna know how to use it. And so learn how to use it.
Michelle: Yeah, you, we have to be intentional, intentional as our personal word of the year. Right. That’s kind of guiding the focus. But I think this is no time to dilly dally and be malnourished in the spirit, right? There’s really, there’s never unexcused good enough for not pursuing that relationship with Christ, right? You might be conjuring up reasons why you can’t pursue that relationship in a certain way. That’s common and well known and encouraged, but there’s always a way to pursue the relationship. He makes a way where there is no way. So there’s always a way for you to pursue. I read something last year that was talking about how God often met women in their work because of just how often they were having to work. Lots of spinning plates, raising children, you know, all the things that they were doing. And so often God is meeting women in the middle of something, rather than calling them to drop all their work and go find him somewhere. He often met the women in the midst of their work. What does that tell us now that he has a way to meet you? He is willing, he is open. He wants to nourish you. And it’s our decision, our intentional decision to eat, to accept that nourishment. That is all it takes on our end. The openhandedness is what it takes on our end. And he takes care of the rest.
Shea: Right, right. That willingness. And this is the season. Yeah. This is again, there’s no promises. God never made a promise that everything would just be copacetic. In fact, he kind of promised, contradicts that promise is the opposite. I want to live in joy and peace though. It was, it was a tough season. So to hold on to that, but without God, I don’t know where I would have been. And so I was constantly looking for that nourishment, that a natural nourishment, I was constantly trying to fill my pantry. And it has been blessings in it and there’s been trials in it. There’s been some blessing and look, there’s been loss in it where we’re not sitting. We’d had loss as well in our family. And so the best thing that we learned was the tapping tap into the living water. Yeah.
Tap into the bread of life. Yeah. Tap into something. That’s going to give us the joy of peace and you know what? I can walk out of the, I could, you know what? I walk out of 2020. Okay, good. Actually, and I don’t think if I, if I wasn’t in this position with God, I don’t think I would have, I know my lifestyle back then. And I know the dark holes that I was driven into, but I never got there this year challenges. Yeah. Okay, fine. I got it. I got it. But you know, I want to buy it in him. Right. I wanna buy it in him. We can’t bear fruit by ourselves. We’re just, you know, this branch, we can’t bear this fruit without him. Unless we have bite in him. We got to have that.
Michelle: Yeah. We have to be connected to the root. You know, that’s vital literally for it to work. If you don’t have access to the nutrition, that’s in the soil that comes by way of the water. Then you literally burn up and dry out from the sun. So unless you’re an air plant,
Shea: I don’t care if they die.
Michelle: I know. I know because guys don’t ever get me an air plant, get me a succulent. I’m good with those.
Shea: Actually air plants took a lot more work. If you think about it, it was like, you have to, you have to still water them because they still need nutrients. Yeah. Yeah. They just call it air plant. It’s a fancy word for saying a plant that you got to work double on so that she could keep it alive. But, but that’s true.
Michelle: Oh no. Anyone that’s kept them alive indefinitely. Hey, writers, writers, and like take a picture so I can be happy for your air plant. Cause ours are now plastic so that they never die.
Shea: But it’s, it’s like a bunch of flowers. Yeah. The minute you cut them from the source. I mean that’s, that’s it. Yeah, that’s it. Don’t be cut from the source is what we’re trying to say. And we’re going to show you a bunch of stories. This season of people who didn’t, didn’t get cut from the source. In fact, they plugged in and really rooted in and it changed their lives. And so, Hey man, we’re excited. We’re excited to, to be here again. We’re excited to do more episodes. Sit here in front of Michelle and just talk with my wife. I mean, that’s why I always say I’m excited.
Michelle: So this podcast has unnaturally nourished us. And this podcast is because of Christ. And so we are praying that it is unnaturally nourishing you as well. It has been an honor to kick off this new year with y’all. So remember as always send us prayer requests for the ones who are like one day, no, send it,
Shea: I’ll send it. We got some new stuff, Tom.
Michelle: Yeah. We’ve got some exciting stuff. We’re going to be doing live streams this year with fellow podcasters. Some guests we’ve had before that we just love so much. We’re bringing them back. We really just love talking to people. Love sharing the word, talking about the word. And we’re just using that and pushing out more. So remember you can sign up for our newsletter to get reminders. We will not bother you a lot and you can connect with us on all the social media handles all that fun stuff and we have new merge. So go check our site to see what it looks like and let us know if you think it’s cool. So until next time.
Shea: Bye.
Michelle: Bye.
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