Yes, it is Tuesday and yes I weighed this morning, God has taken off 24lbs as of today. Still going with an even stronger desire to please God than when I started, with each passing day I am losing weight, feeling better, all while growing closer to the Lord.
Decided this week to start reading the New Testament from beginning to end. I am learning so much. I know when you read the word God opens it up to you for understanding. I love learning more about the Lord and what he wants for my life. It has also keeps me straight on this narrow path of obedience. I feel the closeness growing everyday. I feel I have been a toddler in Christ for awhile and it is time for me to mature. I thank the Weigh Down Workshop and the Lord for opening my eyes to this!!
I really wish more people would try this! We need to know Food is not bad, Food is not the problem, God created Food for us to enjoy as long as we are hungry and do not overeat. Other diets focus on changing the food and deprivation but the desire to overeat is still there and the diet food leaves us wanting. We have to change our hearts desires, God made all food clean but we need to clean up our hearts, not the food. What better way to lose weight than to be able to eat what you want without thinking about diet food, all while growing closer to the Lord, and being set free from the bondage of overeating!!
1 Timothy 4 1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
Just thought of a few things I have realized that are man made rules, not God's rules. Thought I would share.
1. You must eat breakfast to lose weight? Man's Answer: Yes God's Answer: No. Are we going to trust what man says or what God says? God gave us internal mechanisms to let us know when we are hungry. When we are truly physically hungry our stomach's will Growl, this lets us know we are out to fuel and it is time to eat. If our stomach's are not growling we still have fuel in our system that needs to be burned before eating again. Think of it this way, does a baby eat just to be eating? Or do they eat when their bodies are telling them they are hungry? It is time to trust God! We trust him with our babies because he lets them know when its time to eat, so why do we have problems trusting him with our own bodies? Have you ever known anyone to never ever have a stomach growl and literally die because they never realized they were hungry? NO! Some people may chose to ignore it and die because they refused to eat, or some people starve because they have no food but ALL people get the feeling of true hunger. Truth of the matter is if you consume less food you will lose weight no matter what time of day you are eating. We have to forget what we have been taught by man made rules and learn to trust God!!
2. I have to clean my plate because it's wrong to leave food because there are starving people all over the world. Man's Answer: Yes God's Answer: No 1st of all you don't have to leave food you can always take your left over's home and eat them later. 2nd How are you helping anyone by eating too much and gaining weight? 3rd I realized for me to overeat is Greedy, yes there are starving children all over the world but how is eating more than my share helping them? Is taking more than God has for me helping those children? No! In fact I feel ashamed for doing that for so long. I just thank the Lord for opening my eyes!
3. God doesn't care how much I eat! Man's Answer: God has bigger things to do than worry about your eating habits. God's Answer: Do not put anything before me! Why do we eat if we are not physically hungry?
There are lots of reasons, here are just a few:
(A) Because it tastes Good! Yes, but that comes from the Desires of Our Hearts and our hearts should belong to God not other things like Food!
(B) I had a bad day and I need comfort! That comes from the want and need of feeling good, we should be running to God for that feeling not Food. God can give us love and comfort in return, all overeating does is makes us Fat and feel guilty and makes us want to eat more. Think about it what has overeating ever gave you that was good for you? Weight problems, heartburn, feeling sleepy, guilt, depression, those things are not something anyone would want are they?
(C) Because I love to eat! We have to stop loving false idols and start giving our whole heart to the Lord. We have to stop bowing down to the refrigerater and bow down to God alone! We have to stop our love affair and obsession with food, and give our love to Christ!
4. We have to only eat diet foods to lose weight and cut out all the things people say are bad for us? Man's Answer: Yes God's Answer: NO The bible tells us that all food is now clean in the eyes of the Lord, God does not want us to stop eating, or only eat certain foods, he allows us to eat all foods he just wants us to trust him with our bodies, and stop taking more than our share. He wants us to know he will provide our next meal so we don't have to worry that we won't get more.
Just touching on a few revelations I've had thru reading the Bible and The Weigh Down workshop, my goal in this is to help as many people as I can. God is setting me free from bondage to food, even after years of being enslaved, and thru him you can be set free too!!!!!
Well I am alittle behind on my posts but I have been extremely busy this week. I've had several sessions, lots of editing, medical billing, and got to take a trip to the mountains with our friends. As of last Monday, weigh day, God had taken off 22 lbs. The best part is having a few of my clients (who haven't seen me in awhile) tell me as soon as they saw me that they noticed I have lost weight. I am already feeling like a new person because God is freeing me from worrying about weight and food. I cannot thank him enough for showing me his way and what he desires from me.
I have been reading the bible alot this week and have learned alot of new things. I read thru the book of James, Revelations, Acts, and started on Romans last night. I feel like God has opened my eyes in alot of ways and even though I have read those books before he is always opening my eyes to new things. It is so wonderful how he shows us things as individuals.
With each passing day I am learning to put my trust more in the Lord, not only with my body and my food, but with other things too. He has to be the #1 focus in our lives, what we live for! I pray for more and more closeness with him and also that he will mold me into the person I need to be for him.
I will be weighing again Monday and hopefully I will be posting and updating on that day!
Proverbs 16:20
Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers, and blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD
God has taken 19lbs off of me as of today! I am still determined and still going strong, although I have felt a little bit of testing over the last week. I know you have to go thru the desert of testing to get to the promised land and I am not turning back! Most days have been great, a couple of days I ate very little and only got to eat once a day. That was kind of hard for me but I prayed and got in the word and made it through. I know I have alot of stored up food on my body so I won't get to eat as often as most people but that will continue to get better over time. I can do this, with Jesus I can do anything. What makes me happy about it all is doing what is pleasing to the Lord and not what is pleasing to me. I know God is working on me and we have to be tested to get to be who he wants us to be. I just thank him for showing me the way!!
James 1:2-4 2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Well today is Monday and it has been 15 days since I started and God has taken 16 lbs off already.
It is such an awesome feeling to get on the scales and see the results, but I have to let go of being a slave to the scales too. For years I have gotten on the scales faithfully every single day. I am addicted to that too and I must not be in any form of bondage anymore. So I weighed this morning and will not get on the scales again until next Monday. Monday will be my day for now and if God shows me that is even too much I will obey. I must sumbit to his will and get my will out of the way. It is all about him!!!
Romans 9:5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
