Mixing the Word with Faith compared to the digestion process:
Let's start from scratch.....
We have a head start on our ingredients because we have faith toward God as a new creation. Faith toward God is the water in which we live. It is the air that we, the new creation, breathe. It is our head start to receiving all that was accomplished for us on the Cross.
After the first ingredient, faith, let's add another, the Word of God.
You hear a verse of scripture, possibly for the first time. Faith connects to that verse and adds it to your spiritual pantry. For those who may not know what a pantry is, it is a closet or cupboard where food for nourishment is stored.
We can put it this way also. As you hear a scripture, it is like you are eating. Eating is the first step in digesting.
You have heard the Word and you have received it with faith. Now let's talk about further mixing to solidify and produce what you've heard.
In the natural, it is the process of digestion that causes the food that you take in to really become profitable to your body. So it is with the Word of God. Not just the initial taking in of it, but the actual process of digesting it thoroughly so that it becomes beneficial to your life.
We've talked about entering into the rest of God: Hebrews 4. This thorough mixing of the Word and faith produces that rest, just as the thorough mixing of your food with digestive juices produces what your body needs.