Scripture for Food Temptation & Shame

Recently I was reading in Matthew about when Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness & I had a revelation that the method Jesus used is the same method that I teach women to use when I do nutrition coaching. It boils down to scripture & the power of the Holy Spirit to combat Satan & his temptations.

To be clear, the temptation of Jesus was not only about food, but it was about the temptation to give in to physical comfort, pride, our identity as God’s children & the ability to remember God’s truth in our hard.

For those of us who have ever dealt with or currently deal with some form of food bondage that could range anywhere from emotional eating, binge eating, food cravings, nighttime over-snacking, or secret eating, remembering God’s truth in the middle of those moments will require us to have weapons for our war.

Matthew 4 specifically shows us that Jesus was following the leading of the Holy Spirit & in doing so, the devil came to Him to tempt Him. And with every temptation, Jesus fought off the devil with scripture! When you read the story of Jesus’ temptation, you realize He so kindly went through this experience so that we would have the foundation of how to fight off Satan as well. Remembering that Satan is the tempter, but Jesus is the one who provides our way out, helps us rightly place our focus on our situation.

This is what I teach my clients, SCRIPTURE WORKS. God’s word is not only for the salvation we need to go to heaven someday but also for us to overcome & experience abundant life today, even in food & nutrition.

So here are some scriptures you can use in your journey to find food freedom.

When you are faced with food temptation, remember that because of Christ:

You have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16)
You are led by God (Isaiah 48:17)
You have access to a God who understands you (Hebrews 4:15-16)
You have been given a way out of temptation (1 Corinthians 10:13)
You can do all things through Christ, who is your strength (Philippians 4:13)
You have power through faith in Christ (Matthew 17:20)
You are satisfied in Christ (John 6:35)

 When you feel guilt, shame, or condemnation because of food choices, remember that because of Christ:

You are completely forgiven (Colossians 1:13-14)
You are redeemed (Isaiah 44:22)
You are reconciled to God (Romans 5:11)
You are not condemned by God (Romans 8:1)
You are righteous through Christ (Romans 5:19)
You are free because the Spirit of the Lord lives in you (2 Corinthians 3:17-18)
You are covered by the grace of Jesus (2 Corinthians 12:9)

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Creating a Mantra (Meditation) for Your Health

The word mantra may be new to you or seem like a weird mystic thing. But a mantra is simply a phrase that guides you like a meditation. It is born from a desire to move forward in a goal or a way of life.

Typically, a mantra involves the repetition of a particular phrase or word as a part of a meditation. A mantra, or a meditation, both involve frequently repeating a phrase & thinking about that phrase.

This can be done with scripture, which is always truth, but it can also be done with a statement that you write for yourself which defines the direction you are going or want to go in life & is based on the truth of what God says about you.

Things that should be included in your mantra are a declaration of your identity, a release of control, an invitation for the peace & presence of God in your health, and a statement about your desire for the outcome of your actions.

An example of a mantra about your health would be something like:

I am a beloved daughter of God. I know I have the power of the Spirit to have self-control in the area of food & strength to make choices that are beneficial to my health. I will invite the Holy Spirit on this journey with me to empower me. I know that my choices will lead to a healthier version of myself so that I can love & serve others in my life.

To help guide you in writing your own mantra or meditation, here are 4 questions to answer:

1.     What do I believe my identity is under the Father?

2.     Where am I holding on to control that I need to release to God?

3.     How can I invite the peace & presence of God into my health?

4.     What do I want my end result to be?

Once you have answered these 4 questions, you can combine them into one complete statement that can be a guiding mantra/meditation for you.

Reading & speaking your own personal statement audibly several times a day will help ingrain it into your heart & mind, thereby making it easier to keep walking the direction you want to go.

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All the Excuses

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.  In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.  For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.  Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.  When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “do you want to be made well?”  The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”  Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.”  And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked…  {John 5:1-9}

When I was little, we sang a song in Sunday school that had a line which said, “excuses, excuses, you hear them every day, the devil will supply if from church you’ll stay away…”

Excuses are one the biggest chains the devil wants to put around your feet.  If he can shackle you to believing even just one excuse, then he can keep you stuck in an unhealthy cycle.  Excuses keep us from taking responsibility for our health. Ultimately when we believe excuses about our health, we are handing our victory to the enemy.

Excuses could include things like:

•      I have no will power

•      I can’t lose weight because I don’t have time

•      I can’t afford a gym membership

•      My family really needs me right now

•      I’m too busy at work to fit in cooking healthy meals

•      I’ll start when my schedule slows down

 This man that we read about in John 5 (above) gave Jesus an excuse for why he hadn’t been able to get well in 38 years! 

This guy literally could not walk himself to the healing water, but his reasoning sounds a lot like that of someone putting off health. He blamed others. He claimed that someone always got in his way, when he tried to get to the water.

That mindset of passing blame kept him sitting in the same place, day after day, month after month, year after year, just wishing things were different. 

I used to go to a private trainer and on the wall of her gym was the saying, “Excuses or results, but not both.”  

The thing about excuses is that they always lead us to procrastination. 

Excuses manifest into procrastination through things like fear, anxiety, blame, shame, guilt, time, money, ability…the list can go on and on, but every single excuse keeps us stuck in a trap of bondage. 

Excuses and procrastination leave us feeling powerless because we hand power over to the excuse instead of drawing power from God Who can give us the ability to overcome any circumstance.  

Sometimes our excuses actually grow out of valid reasons, but when we allow our circumstances to keep us bound to living in a way that isn’t God’s best for us, then we are allowing the enemy to have more power in our life than we are giving to God.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God… {2 Corinthians 3:5}

Corinthians tells us that in Jesus we have the power to take responsibility for our actions.  Jesus is our sufficiency and when we focus on Him and believe that He will help us, He will give us His strength to accomplish living lives in which we make healthy choices and use the self-control He promised He would give us. Included in that is the choice to squash excuse making habits and procrastination.

Our direction not our intention gets us where we want to be.  We can have good intentions all day long.  We can make a meal plan, join a gym and get a nutrition coach, but until we take responsibility for our actions and put ourselves in action, all our intention is just wishful thinking.

Setting ourselves in a direction toward good health is what will get us to a point of good health.  It doesn’t matter how many times we “fall off the wagon”, consistent choices over a long period of time will bring consistent results.  When you are consistent with your choices, time is on your side.

For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity.  {Proverbs 24:16}

 When the man we read about in the book of John decided to take his eyes off his excuses for not getting to the water and put his eyes on Jesus, he found healing.  The same will be true for you. When you decide to take your eyes off of your circumstances and place them on Jesus, He will help you accomplish your goal of healthy living. 

 God can break strongholds that have held you for years.  Hand him all your excuses today.  Let Him move you forward, out of procrastination and into a new path.

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Improving your body image

We demolish arguments and every
pretense that sets itself up 
against the knowledge of God,
and we take captive every
thought to make it obedient to Christ. 
2 Corinthians 10:5

I spent years thinking my feet were so ugly & so big that I wouldn’t wear sandals or open toed shoes ever!  You might think this is crazy & wonder what in the world it has to do with body image, but feet are part of the body too.  

Most of us have spent so many years seeing images from the world that tell us our bodies should look a certain way that we constantly criticize ourselves.  This influx of visual stimulation makes it hard to get over feelings of inadequacy about our own body.  

The problem with all those images is they leave us covered in thoughts of comparison.  When we compare our body to the body God has given someone else, we begin to believe that the shape & size of their body must dictate their level of happiness & we want that happiness too.  We believe if we could have the body we see on someone else then all our problems would disappear.  

But truthfully, a different shaped body would not diminish or eliminate any other issues in your life.

God wants you to see your body as He sees it.

            Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in our image…” {Genesis 1:26}

We are made in God’s image.  How in the world could we dislike that? God not only made us in His own image, but He also created a space within our body to carry His living Spirit!  Our bodies are an intricate working of cells, muscles, organs, bones & skin that have the ability to live & work in a way, which honors & glorifies God Himself.

So does that mean we completely ignore our earthly body?  No, but there is a balance in keeping our body healthy, not hyper focusing on what we perceive as flaws & living in a way that honors the Lord.

Our body is indispensable.  We need this body to be able to live on earth.  We also need to live on earth to our greatest ability to serve others & serve the Lord.  It doesn’t mean we can’t care about how we look, it means we can’t let the way we look be our focus.

Body image becomes a problem when it affects our self-worth.  When we start to focus a certain part of our body that doesn’t look a certain way or we don’t fit into a certain size in clothing, then our self-body image is a problem.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be a healthy weight, exercise, dress nicely or any other body care process, but we must filter all of that through our value & worth in Christ.  

The bible says we are a whole being made up of body & soul. {1 Thessalonians 5:23} While we are on this earth, we are confined to our body in order to live so we must treat our body with a healthy respect.  

The parts of us {body & soul} are all interconnected, so being negligent to one part of it is just as bad as paying too much attention to one part of it.  

We’ve spent so much time believing we should look a certain way that changing that thought process won’t be easy.  We need God to help us find balance in our lives.  

Here are 4 thoughts on overcoming body image issues:

·      Value the body God gave you – Imagine for just a moment you lost the ability to walk, had a chronic illness or suffered in continual pain.  You would be left with a deep yearning for that part or ability back & you wouldn’t be so focused on what it looked like. If we live with appreciation for how our body works, we won’t focus as much on what it looks like.

·      Realize your body gives you the ability to completely live out your life in God’s fullness – Romans 12:1 tells us that our bodies are a living sacrifice to God & we actually worship Him with them.  If you didn’t have the body God gave you, you couldn’t worship Him fully.  

·      Thank God for the body He gave you & discipline yourself to be thankful for it – Instead of looking in the mirror & criticizing the part of your body you don’t really like, look in the mirror, directly into your own eyes & proclaim God’s truth about yourself.  Tell yourself you are fully loved, completely forgiven & completely able to complete the task He has called you to. 

·      Don’t let talk with friends be directed by how much you dislike your body – Conversations often head down the road of how much we dislike certain body parts or how certain styles don’t work for us because of our body shape.  We end up bashing our bodies.  Don’t let yourself do this in conversations.  In fact, tell your friends your goal of improving your body image & ask for their help to make sure conversations stay positive in relation to body image.

The more we focus on our lives in the light of God’s view of us, the more we forget the images the world tries to shape us into.  

Let’s choose to live fully satisfied with who we are & how much we are valued by the One Who created us.  

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God's Letter to Your Body

Remember the last time a friend said something to you like, "I'm so fat." Or, "my legs are so ugly." I'm sure your response wasn't, "Yeah, you're right," but instead likely took on a tone of encouragement of how your friend's body was beautiful.

But what about the last time you had those thoughts about yourself. You know the ones that come right after you get out of the shower & catch a glimpse of yourself from the "wrong" angle. Or the thoughts you have when you wear a shirt to hide your perceived imperfections & then all you think about the whole day is how every other person you see has a flatter belly than you do?

Negative thoughts about our bodies, are like seeds that plant roots in our heads, & they can quickly grow from a passing assessment of ourselves to an all-consuming stronghold that leads us to believe that our body is somehow gross, disgusting, or unworthy.

Those thoughts then forge their way into believing that if we could just fix our body, we would be happier, accepted & more loved.

But this way of thinking comes straight from the devil himself & he uses it to our detriment. {1 Peter 5:8}

Instead, God wants us to take our thoughts captive & redirect them toward Him. {2 Corinthians 10:5} This concept can be challenging to grasp, but if we can do this, then we can not only change our minds, but we can also change our physical reality. {James 4:7}

By infiltrating our minds with spiritual truth, we will realize that our health is largely tied to what we believe. And guess what?

What we believe directly impacts our identity & our identity directly impacts how we choose to treat our body. 

But how do we do this with all the noise that comes at us every single day about our body? Social media, television ads, comments from others & even our own thoughts are all so hard to silence. 

Taking control of this noise can happen if we take a moment to sit with the one truth that never changes. This is how we can hear what really needs to be said.

You see the Bible, a note written to us directly from our Father that reminds us of His secure love. A love that will never fail. A love that is faithful. A love that comes running when we cry for help & lifts us when we are down. His love rejoices with us when we are happy. He sent us a note in His Word so that we would take it & hide it in our heart & never forget how much He loves us.

And if we apply that note to our body image, here is what God would say to us.

Dear Child of Mine,

I want you to know how wide and how deep My love is for you. {Ephesians 3:18} I have made you royalty through Jesus. {1 Peter 2:9}

I created you in My own image {Genesis 1:27}, which by the way, is beautiful. When you condemn your own body or let the world's noise condemn it, you make a mockery of what I created. {Galatians 6:7-9}

I want your entire being to be healthy & whole. I want you to understand that the way you look has no bearing on whether you are loved & accepted. {Ephesians 1:3-6}

Though My desire for you is to fill your body with foods I created, what you eat & drink has no bearing on whether or not you are good or bad. In Me, nothing you do can bring condemnation on yourself. {Romans 8:1} 

I have given you my Spirit so that you may have power over temptation. {1 Corinthians 10:13} This includes the temptation to criticize your body or destroy your body physically by withholding healthy food. {Galatians 5:16-17}

If you bring your anxieties over your body image to Me, you will see that I love you deeply. {1 Peter 5:7} I can be your hiding place. {Psalm 32:7} I will help you take all these wild thoughts captive {2 Corinthians 10:5} & I can show you how to concentrate on the good about your body. {Philippians 4:4-8}

I know from your human perspective, the situation you are facing seems impossible, but trust in Me because I make all things possible. {Matthew 19:26} I understand you are worn out from living life for so long, trying to attain a particular physical image. Keep going & renew yourself in Me {2 Corinthians 4:16} & I will show you how to become the healthiest version of yourself. {Ephesians 5:29}

I have given you a spirit of power & love {2 Timothy 1:7} not just to show it to the world but also to show it to yourself. You can be all I created you to be & you can do it with a healthy mindset & a healthy body. {Proverbs 4:20-22}

Move forward with confidence that I am in the middle of every part of your life, including your health. {Jeremiah 33:6} I look at you every day & rejoice over you with singing because of your beauty. {Zephaniah 3:17}

I have really great plans for your life {Jeremiah 29:11}. I have always loved you & I always will {1 John 4:10}.  

Love, Your Father

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3 scriptures to pray over your body image

“Sticks & stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.”

This cute little children’s saying is one of the biggest lies ever told.

The truth is, words do hurt & the problem with words is that they spin around in your head until you are dizzy with the things people have said to you.

This is especially true when it comes to our body image.  If anyone has ever made a comment about any part of your body, then you know how that comment can grow & swell until it’s all you can think about.  

Our culture doesn’t help because the constant images displayed to us tell us that we need to look a certain way to be loved & accepted.  

We begin to become insecure about parts of our body & then we wear those insecurities like jewelry.  The enemy uses these things to cause us to believe we are not as good as someone else because of what he wants us to believe is a flaw. 

Satan wants our insecurities to hold us back but we have the power of the Word of God to combat negative self-talk about our body.

God has created each of us uniquely & perfectly for His plan.  Our bodies are amazing & we often forget to appreciate that aspect. We are infinitely loved by our Father & He gives us truth to silence the voice of the enemy.

If you struggle with body image or even just negative talk surrounding a certain part of your body, try using these scriptures to help you overcome this issue.

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God created your inmost being & you are fearfully & wonderfully made; His thoughts toward you are too many to count & they outnumber the grains of sand on the earth. {Psalm 139:13-18} ~ You are created perfectly & God thinks about you constantly.  That alone should cause us to stop & contemplate that His love for us should override our ridicule of own body, which is ultimately His creation.   

For we are God’s masterpiece.  He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago. {Ephesians 2:10} ~ You were created for a purpose.  God made you for a specific reason & He made your body specifically how it needs to function & look for that reason.  

For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.  {1 Samuel 16:7} ~ You are more than your body.  You may not like how a certain part of you looks, but are you comparing your body to photo shopped images that aren’t realistic?  God doesn’t look at you & see flaws; He looks at you & sees His own Son who lives in you.

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You are a beautiful, masterpiece, which God wants you to be uniquely different than anyone else in the world. Hold tight to the truth that God loves you & meditate on these scriptures to reshape how you think about yourself. 

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5 Scriptures to Pray for Weight Loss

May your whole spirit, soul & body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
{1 Thessalonians 5:23}

God cares more about your soul & your health than He does your weight.  

The bible does however tell us that we are one complete being made up of a spirit, soul & body.  We cannot have one without the other.  In fact, in order to walk on this earth, each part must sustain the other. 

While caring for the soul & growing in our spiritual walk is vital, our body is what holds those other parts of us.  So neglecting it’s health is as bad as neglecting our spiritual health.  

There is a fine line of being careful not to seek a certain weight to conform to an image the world says we should meet, while having a balance of a healthy weight.  

 As a nutrition coach who feels called by God to help women find freedom from body image issues, talking about weight is something I actually like to avoid.  

 This is because I know the weight charts that are available in mainstream society are typically way off for what most people should strive for.  In fact, many of them are absolutely unreasonable.  You can be completely healthy & still be at a weight that is considered overweight on the charts.   This is because we have a creative God who doesn’t like to make people from a mold.  He likes to create people unique, in personality, in passions & in body shape.

There does however come a time in which some people need to seek a weight loss plan for health reasons, for physical reasons & even for spiritual reasons, because as Christians sometimes extra weight is a symptom of a deeper issue.  

So if you are on a weight loss journey, I want to give you some scriptures to use in your prayer life as you seek the healthy weight God created you to be.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, who you have from God & that you are not your own?  For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.  {1 Corinthians 6:19-20} … this verse sounds cliché because we have heard it too often regarding things like body piercings or tattoos, but the reality is that your body houses the Holy Spirit.  You cannot accomplish the calling & purpose He has for your life without your body!  What you eat, how you take care of yourself & everything about your body matters to God!

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind.  And god is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.  But when you are tempted He will also provide a way out so you can endure it.  {1 Corinthians 10:13} … if you are truly on a weight loss journey for health, it will require self-control & discipline.  This will inevitably bring temptation.  You will want the extra cookie or bowl of ice cream.  But if your weight loss journey is focused on health & you determine to move that direction in order to more faithfully serve God & love others, then God will help you with the temptations you face.  God will provide a way out for you, simply ask & look.  

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.  {1 Corinthians 10:31} … if you are seeking weight loss for any reason other than the glory of God, then you might as well stop.  You might achieve a goal on the scale temporarily but you will be left with a longing for something more.  We were created to serve & worship God & if we are seeking anything outside of those reasons, we will never be satisfied.  You were made for more than selfish ambitions or the approval of man.  So ask yourself, “why do I want to lose weight?”  Determine that answer between you & God so that your journey can be for His glory.  

Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings or of God?  Or am I trying to please people?  If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.  {Galatians 1:10} … as I mentioned in the last point, selfish ambitions or seeking the approval of others will leave you empty.  The comparison game is a real trap.  Unfortunately what we often seek is not reality.  It’s an airbrushed, edited image of unrealistic bodies or the highlight reels of the lives of others.  You are created as an individual by God.  You were meant to live a life in the body He gave you, in self-control, yes, but not because you want to achieve what the world says is good, because we want to walk in the righteous ways of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, & self-control; against such things there is no law.  {Galatians 5:22-23} … self-control is probably the hardest one of all of these & it is likely the driving factor behind all of the others as well.  It is hard to control what our flesh wants.  We are a people who like for our physical desires to be satisfied.  But there are in fact times in which we need to exhibit self-control.  Weight loss is dependent on it.  We must make the choice to do things our natural self does not want, such as choose lettuce over chocolate or working out over watching television.

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What's your Why for health?

READ MATTHEW 6:19-34, JOHN 10:1-10

Why do you want to be healthy?   

We are all motivated by something & I would offer that all motivation falls into one of two categories:  FEAR or LOVE.

We worry so much about our physical looks that we don’t trust in Jesus & our thoughts of worry are wrapped up in lies that we believe from the outside world which stems from fear.

The “thief” who has come to steal, kill & destroy has done so by plastering images of perfect bodies all over magazines & social media.  He has told us that if we could just lose a little bit of weight, we would be happy, healthy & more liked by those around us

Out of fear, we are chasing a “desirable” body that we’ve seen on someone else because that “perfect” body somehow makes us think that the life lived in it is perfect too.

While there are actually great reasons to manage our body weight, eat healthy & be active, if we believe these things are the solution to all our problems, then we are wrong.

Jesus is the solution to all our problems.  Our level of health will either help us live for Him or not.

If we are healthy {eating well, sleeping well, minimizing stress & being active} we will be able to serve our Father, our family, our friends, our church & our community.  Eating whole, unprocessed foods will give us the energy we need to be able to sustain this service for a long period of time.  Choosing to work on our health will allow us to enjoy life more. 

These motivations come from a place of love.  Loving God, loving ourselves & loving the people we are given. 

One of the greatest offerings of love we could ever give to God is to live a life of self-control & offer Him our healthiest self for His service.  Respectively, it’s the greatest gift we could give the people in our lives as well - the healthiest version of our self.

But choosing to diet only to lose weight is going to leave us feeling defeated & unsuccessful.  Our motivation is wrong when we simply choose to lose weight instead of getting healthy.

Health involves way more than our weight, the food we eat or the way we look. 

Our health ultimately involves truth.  What truth do we believe & what lies do we believe? 

If our eye is the lamp of our body, then what we look at & focus on will have our attention.  In the same respect, what we listen to {the Shepherd or the thief} will have our audible focus. 

So in other words, what we focus on will become the biggest thing in our lives. 

If I am focused on Jesus, then I increase my ability to show goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and self-control over my life & my body, but if I give my attention to the body image that the world {again the thief, Satan} wants me to see then I will become more fearful, thus focusing on how I need to perform or behave to gain significance.  

If I ask you to think of 6th grade you immediately have an image in your head because you were there & you experienced it. 

If in turn, I ask you to think of your identity in Christ, do you immediately have an image in your heart, mind & soul of what that is?

How much of our attention are we giving to the perfect body image & our restrictive diets to obtain what we believe will give us distinction in this world when all the images we are trying to emulate aren’t even real? 

Instead, let’s focus on the real image of Jesus, who showed us exactly how to live & then sacrificially gave us the Holy Spirit to help us walk in those ways. 

As believers, we have to detox ourselves from the ways of the world in order to go into the world.  We do this by making Jesus our biggest focus & letting Him guide us into living a life that seeks to glorify Him. 

How can you change your focus from what the world calls healthy to the truth of what God says about your health?

Today ask Jesus to help you focus on Him in the area of your health instead of believing lies about a stereotype you should fit into.

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The Root of Disordered Eating

PLEASE READ JOHN 8:1-12 

In the beginning, God created the heavens & the earth.  He took 6 days to form the ground we walk on, the waters we swim in, the flowers we smell, the trees & animals we enjoy.   He also created man & woman.

Everything was perfect.  The earth & all that was in it functioned beautifully.  The man & woman had an entire garden to eat from.  They could eat anything they wanted, as much as they wanted, anytime they wanted.

There was only one guardrail God placed around this freedom of eating.  They weren’t to eat of the one tree in the middle of the garden.  The tree of the knowledge of good & evil {Genesis 2:17} was off limits. 

But, as I’m sure you know the story, Eve fell for the trick of Satan as he questioned her identity & the voice of God in her life, then Adam did the same.  They became ashamed of their food choice & of their bodies in a turn of events theologians like to call the “fall of man”. 

But what does this biblical history from thousands of years ago have to do with us today?  The day Adam & Eve chose to listen to the voice of the enemy a domino effect was set in motion. 

Among other things, the voice of the enemy questioned the identity God had given them; he made them doubt that they could trust God & he caused them to be ashamed of their bodies.  And thus, throughout human history, the world has distorted our view of foods as “good & bad”, caused us to judge our bodies & most disappointing, doubt the God who created us actually loves us the way He says He does.

If you, like me, have ever eaten & then felt guilty, made diet resolutions to start over & “be good” with your eating or felt like you are separated from God because of your food or body choices, then the enemy has gotten a hold of your heart the same way he did Adam & Eve & the same way he did mine.  It’s an unfortunate ongoing world cycle that was set in motion in the beginning of time but was also set in motion somewhere in the cycle of your own life.

The single act of sin thousands of years ago in the garden, has led many to feel defeated in regards to food choices & body image today.  And likely all the feelings you & I have felt regarding food, the obsessions with thinking about it & arranging our lives around it, the multiple “diet restarts” & the guilt that ensues every time we “mess up” are truly a control issue.  

Somewhere in our life, something or someone caused us to question our body image, our identity & our self-worth.  For some reason we choose food as the control mechanism to make us feel better momentarily & then almost instantly we also self-condemn over that same food choice.

But at the start of it all, there is a heart issue.  Our hearts were led astray by the enemy who made us believe we aren’t good enough to be loved & accepted by God & that we can’t trust our Father to have our best interest at heart. 

But God loved us so much that He sent Jesus & through Jesus we are fully loved & accepted. 

“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.  He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world & men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”  John 3:17-19

 The first thing we must get straight before moving forward in food freedom is that we are not condemned by the God who loves us.  As children of God, He loves us & looks on us with the same love that He sees when He looks at His own Son, Jesus.

So while self-control is a real aspect of food issues, it’s not the first facet we need to examine.  The first is condemnation. 

You see, a lack of self-control is actually a sinful issue, but there is a BIG difference in sin & condemnation. 

We have to separate our sinfulness from condemnation.  Once we trust in Jesus as our Savior, our sins are forgiven.  Jesus took on Himself the condemnation we should’ve faced for our sin.  Any condemnation we feel comes directly from the accuser, Satan {Revelation 12:10}.

When Jesus was brought face to face with the woman accused of adultery in John 8:1-12, His direct words to her were “I don’t condemn you, go & sin no more”.  Jesus separated her sin from her guilt & told her she was free in Him to live uncondemned. 

Romans 8:1 furthers our understanding that as His children we are not condemned of our sin but instead are free to walk abundantly in Him.

Prayer for today:  God, when I feel guilt or condemnation especially surrounding food choices, help me to remember that You have completely cleared all my sin & that You are not the One condemning me.

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Self Control is not the Same as Dieting

PLEASE READ: MATTHEW 19:16-26  

Denying ourselves anything we want is never fun.  Self-control in regards to our eating habits isn’t always fun either but when the consequences for unadulterated indulgence lead to shame & guilt then we need to take a look at our self control issue from the perspective of discipline not from the context of control. 

In the story above from Matthew’s gospel, Jesus asked a rich, young man to give up all his worldly possessions to follow Him.  The thing about this request is that Jesus didn’t care anything about people being rich or having things, He cared about things having a person’s heart.  While you might be thinking... what the heck does this have to do with my food choices, stick with me for a minute. 

What if Jesus stood before you today & said, “If you give up ________, you will have the most abundant life I can give you.”  Fill in the blank…is it your favorite burger from the drive thru? The $5 latte you can’t do without every morning?  The bag of chocolate candy you have hidden in the pantry to indulge in when everyone else goes to bed?

What thing has your heart so tightly that if Jesus asked you to give it up, your anxiety level rises?  What food indulgence is keeping you bound to living life tied to that indulgence instead of walking in freedom?

All the time we’ve spent over the years in the form of calorie restriction on yo-yo diets, refraining from food to make up for an “eating mistake” or not eating properly in order to keep a certain waist size, isn’t really self-control, it’s “I’m in charge of my acceptance” control. 

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness & self-control... Galatians 5:22-23”

Self-control is listed as one of the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians.  It’s not listed as a fruit that comes from our own flesh working toward something we want.  Which means that self-control, without the help of the Spirit to grow & develop it in our lives, will never be sustainable. 

On our own, we are fickle people.  We change our minds & give in to whatever feels good to our flesh way too easily. 

With just a small shift in our thinking we can move from thoughts of “I could never give up ____{sugar, chips, etc}” to “I can enjoy all things in Christ at the right moment”.    Just like the rich, young man we talked about earlier, Jesus wants us to hand over whatever has our thoughts & our hearts so we can be free in Him. 

He isn’t necessarily asking you to give up foods that you may think are “bad”, but He is more likely asking you to learn to enjoy those things as a freedom contained in His restraint.

Practically, If I want a chocolate bar, I need to decide, is this a sudden craving that is happening because I am tired, emotional or I’ve fed my body poorly today?  Am I restricting my intake because I want to achieve a certain body image?  Can I ask the Lord to help me in this moment to put off a physical desire to gain a spiritual one? 

Maybe I need to utilize the self-control given to me by the Holy Spirit in this moment in order to enjoy the freedom given to me by Jesus at a later one. 

Paul told us that all things are completely accessible & free to us to enjoy but not all things are always beneficial to us at all times.  {1 Corinthians 6:12}

Simply put, a chocolate bar is completely within the scope of our freedom, but having one every day might not be beneficial for us.  Maybe we need boundaries in place that will keep us on track for healthy eating & then at a time that is appropriate we enjoy a dessert with a friend or family member.  Not hidden away in our pantry, shoveling it in our mouth before we get caught.

Healthy eaters, who have a healthy understanding of food, know it is meant to be a good thing in our lives. Healthy eaters will sometimes choose to enjoy something that may not be on the “perfect” spectrum of eating habits but they understand there shouldn’t be self-condemnation once it’s eaten. 

If condemnation comes after eating a food, then we can know without a doubt that this is something the enemy is using to draw our hearts & minds away from the Father’s love.

The enemy wants us to feel distant, unaccepted & ashamed in the presence of God.  The only way he can do this is to find the thing in your life that makes these emotions rise up in you.

It wouldn’t matter if it were alcohol, porn, sex or drugs.  Those same emotions rise up in people with these issues too.  The issue of food is just as strong & just as detrimental to our mental, physical & spiritual health as any other sin your mind can conjure up.  

Satan wants you to see an object you want {like a big piece of cake} & think how unfair it is that you can’t have it.  The problem isn’t the food that is enticing us, the problem is the vicious cycle of eating that we give in to that causes us to separate ourselves away from God & His perfect will & plan for our lives.

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Keep Your Eating Habits Focused On Jesus

PLEASE READ GALATIANS 4:8 – 9 TPT, GALATIANS 5:1 TPT & MATTHEW 15:32

Why is it so easy to return to the bondage of the past?  The lies we believe, the sins we think we have conquered & the performance cycle that keeps us striving? 

Why is it easy to start a new diet, lose weight, feel better & have more energy but then fall back into our old way of eating & go back to food guilt & body shame? 

The answer is found in the Law that was given in the Old Testament, which always left people short of the mark of righteousness.  You see the Law {10 commandments} was given as a standard of how people should live but the standard was so high, no one could obey it all the time.  It left people too concerned about rules & not concerned enough about their relationship with God.

Just like diets & the search for the perfect body leave us very concerned about following rules & achieving goals, but doesn’t teach us how to operate out of grace, love & even joy. 

The rules are performance.  Rules don’t work in real life because eventually something will “trip us up.”  But if we walk in grace, then we do the best we can & when we are weak, God fills in the rest & makes us strong.  The grace we experience by simply choosing to fill our “temple” with whole foods is love. 

We learn to love ourselves better, our family better & God better when we live in grace.  Because we will always be satisfied, full & energetic by eating whole foods, we won’t have the relapse of performing for strict rules .  Grace gives us restraint to keep us on a narrow path that leads to an abundant life.

Jesus knows our physical needs are as real as our spiritual needs.  Throughout His earthly ministry, He focused on both so people could be made completely whole.  We cannot ignore the physical & only focus on the spiritual & the opposite is true – we cannot ignore the spiritual  & only focus on the physical.  The balance between the 2 entities of our being is crucial.

Anything we seek {body image} apart from God will eventually fail.  This is why dieting always fails.  Diets are created to pull our focus toward restrictive rules & numbers.  A lifestyle of whole food eating knows that grace abounds.  There is plenty of food & we eat it to be nourished.  We enjoy it because God has given us the ability to taste & smell its goodness.  Enjoying food is not a sin. 

Seeking anything above God is a sin.  Once God is in the highest position of your pursuits, everything else will fall into place.   

What area of your health is out of balance in regards to your relationship with your heavenly Father?

Today, ask God to help you restore your pursuit of Him to its rightful place. 

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Just Because You Can

PLEASE READ JOHN 15:5, 1 CORINTHIANS 6:12, 19-20 & GALATIANS 5:22-23 

Machines are made to be busy; we are made to be fruitful.  Machines can work off of numbers & formulas because their parts & pieces are all the same.   In vast contradiction to parts & pieces, humans are each created individually.  Our bodies, though similar, all function quite uniquely.

 This is why simply counting calories & holding ourselves to a restricted diet that focuses on numbers for our food or numbers on a scale doesn’t work.  Nor do the rules of a diet ever work.  We don’t all need to eat the same amount of food or weigh the same.

If you lived in Corinth in Bible times, you would have had a clear understanding that a temple was a holy, sacred place.  Domed ceilings, intricate columns, exquisite woodwork overlaid with gold & silver would’ve been your immediate, vivid mind picture when you heard the word temple & you would’ve been a bit shocked to think of comparing your body to such.

I think as believers we passively overlook this, dare I say, overused passage.  If you grew up in the church, you probably heard this passage all your life, quoted by people who wanted to make a point of how you should dress, how you should eat or drink & whether or not you should subject your body to any long-standing changes of holes or ink.

But Paul wasn’t telling the Corinthians what they should wear or do to their bodies, he was trying to help them understand that our physical desires are not a pass toward self-focus. 

He wanted them to understand that giving in to indulgence, in the case of overeating, or self-deprivation as with restrictive dieting, would bind them to that behavior.  Thus it becomes sin, which would only enslave them to the things of this world once again.

But Jesus had already set them free from the things of the world.  He has also set us free.  The sin & shame that was ingrained in our DNA back in the garden surrounding food was taken away by the covering of grace given to us through Jesus’ resurrection.  And jointly with that covering of grace, we were given the Holy Spirit as a helper to give us self-control to restrain our human nature of indulgent choices. 

Enjoying a piece of cake isn’t wrong.  Eating healthy isn’t wrong. Our desires aren’t even wrong.  But like the Corinthians, what is wrong is our action towards always satisfying our flesh.  There is a time for enjoying some satisfaction for our desires & a time to constrain those desires.

We must use the Helper God gave us to exhibit the fruit of His Spirit in our lives.  By choosing His ways, the fruit grows & our lives become more full of goodness.  By abiding in Him, we are making a choice to attach ourselves to His presence in our lives.  

Friend, we must start living our lives like we are a temple of the Holy Spirit.  We are infinitely more valuable to Him than the most ornate earthly structure could ever be.  Our bodies, no matter our physical make up, are sacred places in which He is pleased to reside. 

God is more interested in what we do with our bodies & how we handle the treasure of health that He has entrusted to us, than whether we look a certain way or fit into a certain size of clothing.

What would happen if we walked around believing what Paul said about our bodies being a temple that carries the very Spirit of the Lord?

Today, ask your Father to help you learn to abide in Him in regards to your health & to view your “temple” the way He does.  Ask Him for self-control to make choices regarding all areas of your health in a way that honors Him.

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God Does Not Care How Much You Weigh

PLEASE READ JOSHUA 14:6 – 14

The enemy has fooled us into seeking lasting security in short-term pleasures.  Our bodies are a gift from God, to be used to serve Him & those around us.  We should feel strong & healthy; we should be able to say, just like Caleb did in Joshua 14, ‘I am as strong today as I was 40 years ago’. 

Unfortunately, in our modern times we have become overrun by processed foods, yo-yo dieting, Hollywood that constantly tells us what we should look like & a medical industry that is happy to help us achieve the perfect body.

How in the world could Caleb say, “I am as strong this day as on the day Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength”?

Caleb knew a formula for abundant physical living.  He followed the Lord with his whole heart, he ate what God gave him & he was continuously physically active.

Notice the order: 
Spiritual nourishment then physical nourishment. 

We can’t get these 2 things out of order.  The moment we begin to focus more on our bodies than we do on God, we have created an idol, which means we have fallen into sin.

God cares more about our overall health than he does our weight.  Our overall health includes our spiritual, mental & physical health.  Our bodies, soul & mind are one being & all the parts of us must be balanced.   When one part is off kilter, the rest of our life suffers. 

Our world focuses so much on the external part of our physicality that the internal part of our soul health & our mental health falls apart. 

We have been tricked into believing we need to look muscular, obtain a certain weight or have a specific body type to have an identity in this world. 

Aging is inevitable on this earth, but at 20, 40, 60 or 80, we should be as whole &  healthy as is possible within our human ability.  We have the ability to make choices in every area of life & our choices often dictate much of our health outcome.   Sustainable choices lead to a sustainable outcome.

What that means is that consistent positive health choices over a long period of time will lead to consistent results.

Our goal for eating healthy, working out  & nourishing our whole body should be to be able to serve God until the day He takes us from this earth , not to have a perfect body by swimsuit season . 

Being thin & muscular is not an indication of health.  And by the same standard, looking a bit “overweight” is not an indication of an unhealthy body.

Besides the basic things you would think of surrounding health like sleep, stress & food, we must consider the spiritual, mental & emotional health factors of our lives.

If our bodies are physically fit & our relationship with God is non-existent, or our relationships with people are crumbling, then we need to re-evaluate our overall health.

Achieving long-term balance is possible.  Of course, there are seasons in life that ebb & flow where one or more areas of health {spiritual, mental & emotional} are off, but when we look at the big picture of our lives, our focus on God will balance the years.  He can make the sum of our life greater than the length of all our days.

How can you move your focus of overall health to long-term thinking versus simply a short-term goal?

Today ask God to re-align your thoughts around your health to be able to live a balanced & abundantly sustainable healthy lifestyle.

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Food Isn't Your Problem

PLEASE READ ROMANS 8:1-11

Food itself is not bad. Unfortunately, in our society today, food has become increasingly complex, as have our feelings and emotions about it.

If we can understand that in Jesus, we are not condemned by our food choices and consumption, then we can move forward with working on our self-control regarding food. Often, we try to control our food by overeating, undereating, constant dieting, fixations on eating the “right foods,” or any other eating fixation that puts food at the center of our focus.

Think for a moment about your very first memory of food.

For me, it was the holiday in which my entire extended family had gathered together.  I remember a specific aunt who had brought this amazing layered dessert called Mississippi Mud. 

I fell in love with that desert.  After everyone had eaten & had dessert too, my cousin & I decided we would go back to that buffet & get some more of that yummy stuff.  Unfortunately, we got caught by an adult & were told we didn’t need any more sugar! 

But I couldn’t stop thinking about that layered, chocolate goodness.  So later that day, I snuck back in the dining room & got some dessert & ate it hidden away in a corner of the house all alone.

Little did I know this was the beginning of my journey of hiding out, binging on food.  It didn’t happen all at once, but slowly over time.  I went on my first diet at 9 years old, then a boy I in middle school told me I was fat, & having weigh-ins weekly for dance team in high school didn’t help my struggling body image.  Each of these events led me to look for ways to secretly eat the foods I loved & then spend days afterward feeling guilty for my choices & dieting to lose the few pounds of weight I might’ve gained in a day or two. 

What God has given me perspective on now is that during those binge & diet sessions, I gained hundreds of pounds of guilt & shame that I could never seem to get rid of, no matter how hard I tried. 

When I would eat this way, I would also feel like I was far from God & so I not only began a cycle of yo-yo dieting but I began a cycle of trying to work my way back into God’s favor.  I thought the condemnation was from Him.  So the only thing I could do was to “behave” long enough for Him to love me again. 

But one day, I read Romans 8 & the Holy Spirit shined a fresh light on it for me: 

I was not condemned because Jesus had given me His own Spirit as a way to have freedom & fullness in life.  My lack of self-control didn’t condemn me but instead His Spirit shined a light on the issue & made me realize I could ask Him for help. 

And just as Romans 8:5 says, I had fixed my mind on things of the flesh, thinking that somehow my food choices could both keep me in God’s favor or pull me out of it.  But we cannot separate truth & grace.   

Truth tells us the Son has set us free & grace tells us we are free {John 8:36}.  We must choose to accept the freedom & walk in the freedom.  Otherwise we let the condemnation of the enemy make us believe we are “bad” & the cycle of performance & our own goodness make us believe we could ever be “good”.

Prayer for today:  Father, help me to allow Your Spirit of life to free me from condemnation from myself & from the enemy.  Help me to depend completely on You for freedom & self-control through Your Spirit not through my own strength.

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Fighting Body Image Perfection

PLEASE READ GENESIS 2:8-3:13 & ROMANS 5:12-21

How often do you begin a casual conversation with someone only for it to end in the dreaded area of weight or body image?  Think about your most recent conversations with your girlfriends.  Maybe you said something like: I can’t wear that because it makes me look fat, that style doesn’t look good on my round little body, or my arms are too big for tank tops.

Or if you’re a guy, the conversations about your body are more internal ones you have with yourself, but they manifest in trying to out lift the other guys at the gym or attempts to look muscular.  Just because men’s body image struggles are less talked about than women’s doesn’t mean they don’t exist. 

We so often end up in conversations or thought patterns where we are bashing our own bodies.  Our culture has led us into a body obsession in all the wrong ways for all the wrong reasons.

Not only are we obsessed with our body but also we are obsessed with our food.  I’m not talking about a desire for eating healthy, sustainable, whole foods, I’m talking about obsessions over counting calories, restrictive diets & losing 10 pounds so you can be ready for your next big life event.

God gave Adam & Eve a garden full of good food.  This food represented their freedom, but along came the serpent & twisted the truth to make them believe the food represented bondage. 

Our body image problem began long before we were born.  It started in the garden when Adam & Eve decided to believe the lie that they didn’t already portray the image of God.  Once they realized their nakedness {which they previously had no problem with} they became ashamed.

Never once did God condemn them.  God gave a suitable & necessary consequence for the sin, but He didn’t condemn Adam & Eve.  The enemy’s lie & their own self-condemnation led them to want to cover their bodies.  In fact, in Genesis 3:21, God makes them clothing from animal skins as a representation that He would cover their shame & as a prophetic picture that Jesus would someday cover ours.

Satan wants to keep us in a cycle of performance.  If he can keep us there, then we are stuck in bondage.  Your whole life becomes about achieving, but God wants to meet us where we are right now & show us that our life is actually about receiving His goodness.

This lie of performance shows up in the world of, I want to look a certain way, weigh a certain amount & be perceived as having a certain body image.  There is NOTHING wrong with pursuing health, even physical health, but if that goal occupies more of our heart & mind space than the work of God does, then we are out of balance & unhealthy. 

Where do you struggle the most with your health?  {body image, making good choices, calorie restriction/indulgence}

Today, ask God what lies about your health, about food or about Him you believe.

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Your Food Choices Are Not a Sin

READ EPHESIANS 3:14-21 & 1 CORINTHIANS 10:13

 I can distinctly recall nights of choosing to eat junk food instead of a whole foods dinner.  Hiding away sweets to enjoy all alone or sneaking extra pieces of dessert while everyone else had scattered out of the kitchen after a meal.

 How often do I trade healthy food choices for a temporary satisfaction that ultimately leaves me feeling defeated?

More often than I like.  It’s a real sin cycle in my life.  But since the Spirit has given me the freedom to walk away from shame & condemnation, it happens less often because I know when & how to enjoy certain things & I know that the power of the Spirit will give me self-control & strength to combat shame.

I’ve learned over time to combat feelings of overwhelming cravings with prayer & scripture.  But I’ve also learned that if I decide to have an item that seems like a less than “perfect” food, I can thank God for the ability to taste & enjoy it & He in turn gives me satisfaction not to be gluttonous with that food choice.

Part of the reason we physically want to give in to unhealthy choices is because we have a space inside of us that needs to be filled with God & we often push Him aside to try to gain satisfaction of filling that hole with other things in the world. 

I’m sure we all at times have looked at someone who battles excessive drinking, overspending or depression & thought, “why don’t they just stop that destructive behavior”.  Unfortunately, its not that easy or we would all live perfect lives & frankly, we wouldn’t need a Savior as ransom for our sins.

Our human nature wants to control all that is within our visible reach.  For those of us who struggle with food & disordered eating habits, feelings of sadness, loneliness, exhaustion, or overwhelming circumstances can drive us to want something in our lives that feels like it can be controlled. 

As crazy as it seems, even uncontrolled eating & uncontrollable cravings are your body’s way of trying to control something.  

This is a manifestation of a yearning in our soul for that space inside of us to be filled with something that will satisfy.  By turning to food to meet our downfalls, we trade a long-term gain for a short-term satisfaction. 

We forget that if we would just live in the power of the Spirit we have been given to have self-control over our food choices then we would gain the ability to trust God with our hurts & our downfalls.

 If, when I am tired & I want to reach for a bag of chips, I would just take a minute to stop & acknowledge my physical craving to God, then I could move forward in His strength.  That doesn’t always mean restriction of that food.

 Maybe I’m exhausted & my body is craving unnecessary carbs.  If I simply say to God “I’m tired.  I want to eat this extra & unnecessary treat right now.  Could you fill me with Your ability to have control over the decisions I am going to make about my food & could You help me finish my work so I can get a little extra sleep tonight?” 

 In that situation, I might actually go ahead & eat something extra but I would acknowledge to God that He has given me the ability to control my portion size, taste the goodness of the food & make some choices to get myself to bed earlier that day so I can catch up on sleep & feel more balanced the next day.

Giving in to a food craving isn’t always a sin.  It only becomes a sin when we let it consume our mind, harm our bodies to the point of gluttony & push God’s power in our lives aside in exchange for a momentary pleasure. 

 The hollow guilt we feel when we make poor food choices could be completely averted if we simply trust God with our decisions.   

Maybe instead of eating chocolate I choose to eat some blueberries with pecans on top or a handful of raisins.   Then I am satisfying my carb craving with a whole food that will actually sustain my body & give me more energy.

Either choice is fine in the guardrails of God’s power to give us self-control. 

 Friend, you & I are not failures when it comes to our food choices.  We are loved children of God who have been given an inheritance to live this life in a power that is beyond ourselves.  The Holy Spirit is God’s gift to us & we can live in the self-control He gives us.

Prayer: Father help me understand & live in the Spirit to exhibit godly self-control over food choices.  Give me the ability to see Your way out of the cycle of temptation & guilt.  Help me make choices that lead to abundance in my physical life & in my spiritual life. 

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