Hi Scrapbookin,
You are in the right place if your looking for support and encouragement... If you go to the Christian encouragers thread you will find a lot of sweet brothers and sisters that truly care about you. I am fairly new to posting and they have been so supportive.
It sounds like you are a Christian, so I will tell you what I have learned about failing on your diet in my many years of dieting... You will fail...
In your flesh.
It is only through Him that we can be truly set free from Satan's lies... How can you be a loser when Jesus only chooses winners!
I will ask you the same question Jesus asked almost every single person He Healed. DO you want to be healed?
Read
Mark 6:1-6 Then He went out from there and came to His own country, and His disciples followed Him. 2 And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, "Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands! 3 Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?" So they were offended at Him.
4 But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house." 5 Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6 And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.
Notice the scripture above where it says "He could do no mighty work"
Wow look at that.. I couldn't believe this when I ran across it...
We limit God's power by our unbelief.
At a later time, a man asked Jesus' disciples to pray for healing for his son from a demon... and the healing didn't come... I couldn't figure out why? So I prayed, because I could relate to this man. I have also been praying for many years to be healed of my overeating, but here I was still over weight... then God showed me through His Word...
Praying, Singing, Praising, Fasting, bolsters our faith, it fan's it into flame.
God doesn’t need us to fast, or sing or praise, to perform the miracle but rather it’s for our benefit. The disciples could not exorcise the demon because the father didn’t have enough faith. The power was there, but they couldn’t apply it. We actually limit God’s power with our unbelief.
So how do you get more faith... Well that is the million dollar question. You can do what this father did and ask Jesus to help your unbelief... It make take some time... You may have to search for it. Or God could heal you immediately. Jesus told His disciples when they asked why their prayer hadn't healed the boy, He told them, sometimes you have to pray and fast. Again not to help God in the healing or to make Him listen to your prayers more, but to build your faith...
It doesn't matter what diet you are on, as long as you remember to put God first... I don't think loosing weight is a matter finding the right diet and then finally loosing the weight, I think it's finding that, yes you will fall, but then getting back up again through the power of Jesus. When you are tempted find a place to pray... beg God for His strength... Do like Jesus did when He was tempted, the only thing He used was His confidence in the mighty Word of the Everlasting God.
I have to tell you, I was one of the ones who had to search for it, but when I finally found the treasure, I found the true treasure was in the hunt for it... I praise God with all my heart for making me overweight... It brought me to my knees, and made me search for answers. I found friends like the ones on the encourager's thread...
Praise God you are here and I hope to see you on the encourager's thread.
Kelli
Hey im new and need your prayers and support
scrapbookin4him! You've come to a great place to help you NOT fail. God led me here and this is the first time I've found success at becoming healthy and losing the weight. Like Gary and Kelli said, Christian Encouragers (CE) is a great place to visit, get support, and meet new people who are doing the same thing you are-getting healthier. But, the whole 3fc site is full of knowledge and support for all of us. We're all afraid of failing, but with God who can fail? He is our rock and fortress and will guide us along the way. We will mess up (for me at times it's daily, you know, like last night when the bag of dark chocolate kisses was screaming my name
), but, we just get back on our plan and work a little harder and pray for better wisdom in making choices. Keep coming back! Hope to see you in CE!
I want to echo what the others have said. Come join us on the CE thread!
thanks to all
