You’ve tried Ezekiel Bread.

“Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself.” (Ezekiel 4:9).

You’ve tasted Genesis 1:29 Bread.

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

You’ve done the Daniel Diet, based on Daniel 1:8-16:

But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. Now God had caused the official to show favor and compassion to Daniel, but the official told Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you.”

Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.” So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.

At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.

And still, you’re dissatisfied. You don’t really feel any better. And you don’t really feel any closer to God.

Well we’ve got some good news! It’s what you’ve been waiting for all along. The thing you’ve been missing! What is it that will finally make you a good and healthy person?

Yes, you too can eat like a prophet of God, a man who prepared the way for the Lord. A man who was willing to die for his faith—and did. It is a simple diet. Uncomplicated–since there are only two things you can eat when you’re on the John the Baptist Diet:

1. Honey

2. Grasshoppers

His food was locusts and wild honey. (Matthew 3:4b)

While you’re at it, you probably are feeling as if you need to make other changes in your life. Perhaps you feel as if modern fashion is unbecoming and dishonoring to God. Well, we’ve got some more great news for you!

Yes, you too can dress like a prophet. Choose our most popular line, The John the Baptist Collection: It’s simple. Sturdy. Obviously the kind of clothing God likes, since one of his most faithful servants wore it.

John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. (Matthew 3:4a)

Another favorite is The Isaiah Three Year Line, a clothing choice that God actually demanded of his prophet. Isaiah was obedient. Will you be obedient, too?:

At that time the LORD spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot. (Isaiah 20:2)

Or, perhaps, just perhaps, you’ll decide that maybe all these weird diets, foods and clothing choices have nothing to do with what you should eat or what you should wear–or with your relationship with God. Perhaps, just perhaps, you’ll realize that Jesus really paid for all your sins and there’s nothing left that you have to do to get closer to God. You’ve got as much of the Spirit and as much of God as you can get.

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. (2 Peter 1:3-4)

You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? Have you experienced so much in vain—if it really was in vain? So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” (Galatinas 3:1-6)

Perhaps, just perhaps, you will realize that all the passages about food and clothing have been wrenched out of context and not one of them means “go and do thou likewise.”

And perhaps, just perhaps, you’ll take to heart the words of Paul:

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. (Ephesians 4:14)

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