Everything. God's got everything to do with it. Even when we think he is not concerned he is. I am learning that God wants to be involved in everything I do, and I mean everything even the none important stuff.
I have always been big. A big girl growing up and now an even bigger woman. Well, at the end of January I finally decided to come up with a weight loss plan that would get me down from (O Lord!) 236lbs to 150lbs. Well, guess what? When I was done putting together my plan, I realised that the Holy Spirit within me was grieved. I began to pray and ask him what had grieved him and he revealed to me that my plans had been made in the flesh. God wanted me to lose weight and he was glad I was finally getting pro-active about it, but what was up with me leaving him out of the plan. I realised that in a lot of my plans, I just go ahead and make them then ask him to bless them so they actually give the desired result.
But what if God wants to accelerate my plans so that I acheive more quicker? What if he has a better, struggle free plan? That threw me for a loop. So I started to pray for a God plan instead of my plan. The Lord said to me "This year you need to come out of the flesh and do all things supernaturally." The following are the steps he took me through:
a) Binding the strong man - You cannot have success unless you bind the strong man so you can spoil his goods. For me the strong man was a crazy menatality that I was supposed to be fat all my life, and also the spirit of Gluttony.
b) He led me through a prayer in which I commanded each and every cell, organ, body part to be made whole and to perform in the perfection for which it was created.c)
c)I made prophetic declarations over my body which included commanding all the excess weight to leave my body, speaking out the weight I wanted to become and declaring that from then on, I only eat when trully hungry.
Then he gave me a very simple plan. He said:
a) Drink lots of water
b) Eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full
c) Walk everywhere instead of driving (of course within reason)
Guess what? In three weeks I have lost 11 lbs effortlessly. I have not had to struggle and sweat and starve myself to death. And I feel great. Now he has said that I will have to lift weights and do other things as we progress, but I will share all this with you on "Skinny Friday"
I will chronicle my progress and if you have any questions please feel free to ask and I will do my best to assist. I'm loving the progress made and I can't wait to take off all the weight.
Bottom line is, we need to let God be God of all areas of our lives including eating. I will discuss all this with you as we go on. In the meantime... Have a skinny day won't you?
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