Charbar-I also do not agree 100% with all of the teachings from TLT however, having said that I think of it as a half hour bible study that does bring me closer to God and Christ and presents me with some interesting truths. I have not lost any weight since starting and have also failed at the fasting part. Don't be too hard on yourself! I thank you for recommending the site to all of us.

Tracy

Gwyn.........the story about your walk. All I can say is BEAUTIFUL!!!

Gwyn, you are WOWing us Girl! How wonderful. Keep up the good walks!
Trust - Trust - Trust - Trust , Oh will we of little faith EVER get it!
Praise God - He loves us and He is Wooing us to Himself; to spend time with Him Daily; to talk with Him Daily, continually without ceasing, really;to repent - that is to turn away from our sins and turn to Him; to feed and drink" from Him Daily. Jesus - Jesus - Jesus- Jesus - Trust - Jesus - Trust - Jesus - Trust Jesus !!!!!!

Hi all,
Just read this entire thread... relating to many, crying with you, praising God with you...!!! This is a wonderful thread!

I just joined 3FC today, and didn't know anyting about TLT till now... Gwyn! You ROCK! You go Girl! Thank you for stating that TLT was finaically free.... I'll take time now to check it out and read their statements first (I'm careful about that nowadays...)
I am so encouraged to have just read your posts.... thank you all ladies for being open & honest. I think God has lead me here to get back into a more deeper, meaningful relationship with HIM again... And it's time now to address this weight problem.... couldn't think of a better way to deal with soemthing that is so sensitive than to take it to HIM, our Lord & Savior, who KNOWS what we're feeling, HE understands... and ACCEPTS US AND LOCES US ANYWAY!!! Amen!!
Not sure how often I can post, but will when I can. I work F/T plus... (office manager/and everything else...)
Hugs to you all.... PE

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AND LOVES US ANYWAY!!

Amen!

carolr3639: Thank you and To GOD BE THE GLORY GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE!!!
If I had listend to me, myself and I, well it would not have happend at all! Praise God through whom all blessings flow! He is "The wonderful counsoler who is my wonderful encourager!

elizbennet: THank you so much Dear, but really it is Jesus you are reading. If you only knew me from before Jesus, you could see!
Really see! That it is all His doing, anything that is good in me, that is. I love you so much elizbennet! I can't wait until the day we all get to meet face to face!

linoleum: Sorry I haven't did that sooner, I have had a lot on my plate lately and it isn't food! Hope you keep coming back. I promise you will be loved here! In Christ!

Amyhank you for your kindness and prayers too. It is very, very hard to see your chlldren hurt and suffer. Adam is still talking about you know what. He is very stubborn and so GOD is going to have to pin him down and break his hard heart.
I have not given into that old slave driver of sin!
Thanks again for your love!

purple eggplant: THANK YOU TOO! But again I have to take that praise and deflect it right up to heaven onto the real ROCK! He is the one who has made me who I am and I am so glad for who's I am! For if it were not for Jesus, surly I would not even be alive to speak. He saved me from ME!!!
I was **** bent on my own destruction, but THANK GOD MERCY SAID "NO!"
I am so thankful that you are here Purple eggplant! So happy you have joined us and how wonderful that you took the time and effort to read all of our posts. I am long winded sometimes and so you will have to bear with me in that. I don't get out much yet, I still am recovering from a long illness and spend a lot of my time home. But if I know my Jesus, and I do. He is about to change all of that, for that is what he does, He is in the changing bussiness! He is GOD and He changes not! But we are His Children and he changes us from glory to glory!

Also Hello to Tracy and anyone else I may have forgotten. I am sorry if I missed someone.
I am under a lot of pressure right now and might have forgotten someone. Forgive me if I did.
I love you all my sisters in Christ and We are One in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord!
In Christ, Gwyn

I need your help!

I have been really praying about this and don't know what to do. This is totally off the subject of 'food'.

I have had 4 miscarriages but I have 2 wonderful girls that God has blessed me with. This past year has been very difficult. I don't really believe in birth control so my husband and I have learned to be careful, this worked for 6 years and I never got pregnant, but this year I have gotten pregnant twice on accident. It was hard to accept at first but then it doesn't take long to be excited and start planning. I trust God's decisions and just planned on having these babies. With the first one I m/c at 17 weeks, then hemorrhaged and ended up in the hospital very weak, it took along time to get better. What a surprise to have a repeat. My husband just switched jobs we had no insurance but as soon as I got the positive test, I knew God was still in control. About a month ago I m/c again at 15 weeks, had to call the ambulance because I blacked out ended up in the hospital hemorrhaging had a d & c and a transfusion. I won't lie it has been physically, emotionally and spiritually difficult. I know God has been with me through everything but it is really hard to understand why I got pregnant just to have 2 difficult m/c. I realize I do not even have the right to ask 'why?' God has been my comfort and strength through all of this.

This is the decision we are trying to make. I really want my husband to get a vasectomy and he is okay with doing it. On the other hand, is that taking things into my own hands??? Our body is the temple of the Lord! I'm scared to death of getting pregnant again and my husband is scared he is going to lose me. I know fear does not come from God. What should I do? Please pray about this it really is a big decision for us.

Sorry this is so long. I appreciate you all!
Amy

I don't do TLT. I looked at it once but after years of fasting and also having a chronic illness for which I take prednisone, I finally gave up on fasting. Not that I think it is bad, I just can't seem to do it anymore. But I would like to post and let you know what is going on in my weight loss life. I have been a Christian since I was 22 and am now 58. I have 10 children and have had sarcoidosis since I was 28. 2 yr. ago I had a relapse. Just lately we got an eliptical machine and so far I really like it.

Amy-First let me start off by saying how sorry I am for your losses. I don't have any answers for that but trust that the Father has a plan for you which may not be clear yet. I will be praying for you. I can't imagine the emotional and spiritual pain you and your family must be feeling but know you have the love and support of your friends here! I only have one child and that is by our choice (my husband and mine). He was 40 when our daughter was born and we felt at that point it was a little late to be having babies so after some thought we decided together he would get a vasectomy. I think we both feel we made the right decision and we were comfortable with it. Keep praying and I will pray for you too.

Blessings, prayers and hugs to you.

Tracy

I hope everyone is doing GREAT! I have had a great week. Thanks and glory be to God.

Tracy- Thank you for the advice. I am still praying about what God wants us to do. Honestly it is hard to say that we are done making a family but we have always talked about adopting and are actually on a list with a battered womens home. I think this is the route I would like to go.

Gwyn- How is your son doing? Better I hope. He has been in my prayers!

To all the newbies WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME! Feel free to post anytime!

Amy
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My Dear Sister Amy,
I am so sorry for not getting to a reply sooner. I just wanted time to pray and think. just as Tracy said, I can not make a choice for you, and I am sure that is not what you are asking. but I will encourage you to keep praying, keep knocking, keep seeking, keep asking and if you have not already done so, pray the prayer of Jabez...
9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, [a] saying, "I gave birth to him in pain." 10 Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request. 1 Chronicles 4:9-10
That is what I felt God would have me say to you.
I have always heard about it but never read the little book or prayed the prayer and I have just started to do last night in fact. Lets do it and see what our Great and Mighty God will do!
I love you Amy and I am so happy that you have chosen to come to the Lord's Table and I will be in agreement with that prayer for you and your husband. In Jesus Name.
Adam is still here and still spouting off threats but I know that God is going to make a way where there seems to be no way! I know that he has a plan for Adams life and a defined purpose for him and that God hears this Mothers cry's for her son Adam! Thank you so much for asking and for praying for him. He has been told through pycological evaluations while in drug rehab in a hospital that he has boarderline personality disorder, post tramactic stress disorder, bi-polar disorder and A.D.D. He is angry and thinks nothing at venting that anger. I know Jesus can heal him and I will keep praying and believeing that God has the cure.
I am still doing the 40 days for 40 years and the Lords Table. In them both I am blessed.
I love you all in Jesus Name! will post more later.
I still haven't gotten to go to the hospital to get weighed yet. Hopefully soon.
I got to spend Memorial Day at my Mom's and in the pool all afternoon with my 2 grandchildren and my 2 daughter's in law. We had a wonderful day and I ate very modestly. I felt real, real good about that too! Even though I knew I would be fasting for an extended period of time, I still was very blessed in my eating. I give the GLORY TO GOD!!!! He is so worthy of my Praise!

Love in Chirst, your forever friend, Gwyn

Gwyn- Thank you so much for your words. I will have to read, 'The Prayer of Jabez.' Like you I have never read it even though you could find it everywhere for awhile. I really appreciate your prayers. I know that it is something that can't be decided for me, too bad! I am such an indecisive person.

I've still been praying for Adam. My God is a healer and nothing is impossible with him. I often hear of these awesome stories through a ministry called, 'Teen Challenge'. These men that have been into drugs or have all of these problems and they give their lives to the Lord and sometimes go into the ministry themselves. Hang in there, God has a plan!

My love,

Amy
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Amy, You are a strong Christian and you and your husband have a wonderful attitude of wanting God's will. You both have suffered pain and distress over the miscarriages and yet you have turned to God as your refuge and your help. As I shared before,I have gone through a miscarriage and know of the pain on all levels that it brings. You asked if it would be taking things into your own hands to take measures where you as a couple could not get preg. I know there are strong opinions on both side of that question. Like Gwyn, I would tell you to go back to God's word. I don't think there is a specific instruction on this, so when you and your husband come to a decision and God gives His peace on that decision, I think that is the answer for the two of you as a couple. (For another couple the answer may be different. Like Tracy 37 said, they had to make a decision and God gave them peace with it.)
Psalm 40:1 says, "I waited patiently for the Lord;he turned to me and heard my cry." You know that He hears your cries too. Trust Him, seek Him and you will come up with the right answer.
I'm praying for you and your sweet little family.

Hello all! Sorry about being absent for so long... and sorry in advance that I will be absent for a long time again.
Thank you for the welcome!
Amyy, I don't know if I have an answer for you.. but I do have some experience/information. Before I even tried, my doctor told me it would be unlikely that I would be able to carry a baby to term. In fact, the <sarcasm> delicate </sarcasm> way that the doc brought it up to me was by saying "you didn't ever want to have any children, did you?"
Years later I married a wonderful man. My husband had a vasectomy before he met me or God. Potential reversal is not a topic we bring up. He often refers to it as "the best surgery he has ever had" ... and me getting pregnant (if it happened at all) would most likely only result in a m/c and physical and emotional damage to me. Analytically speaking, it really is for the best that he has been fixed.
But it does weigh on my soul. I wonder if we are taking our hands something that should only be in God's.
My consolation is that God WILL do whatever He wants. As effective as vasectomies are, we all know somebody who got pregnant after one. If God really did want me to have my husband's baby no mere vasectomy would stop that life from sparking in my womb.

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Now to explain for myself. I've been absent because my father-in-law recently passed away. Yesterday was the funeral. My husband and I are pretty much the youngest/most able-bodied family members around. We inherited the house which is filled with 80+ years of "treasure" which we have been working on steadily so that we can move in with our 10+ years worth of treasure and move out of this apartment by the end of June. The good news, that's lots of excersize! and I've lost 10 pounds in the past 2 weeks. Yay!

Linoleum
I thought your post was great! Great advice and very well written. I am sorry for your loss of your Father in Law, but I am sure you will see him on the other side! So it isn't really a loss is it. To live is Christ, to die is gain. amen to that.
Great job on the losing 10 pounds!
And thank you for checking in on us, I was worried you had quit the Lords Table. He is so good! IF you happend to miss some days because of the funeral just pick right up where you left off. Don't let the liar get you to give up. I am telling you GOD IS IN IT 100%!!!
Glad you got blessed with a houseThat is so cool!
Well you take care and come back when you can!

Amy
I love you sooo sooo much girl!
I too have had a miscarriage and I remember it being very painful and tramatic. I still believe you and your husband will benifit by praying the prayer of Jabez.
Amy May the Peace that Transends all understanding be upon your heart and life in Jesus Name Amen.

Love to all else!
hey I wanted to tell you all to check out my thead on this faith based forum called I have a long weigh to go!
I have posted my true story about when I was almost drowned in a RIP TIDE out in San Diego , California. It is a good story, a true story and well worth your time in reading it, because God gets all the GLORY AND PRAISE!
Love you all in Jesus, your sister and friend, Gwyn