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I Love a Party Because of the Food
I love a party or any get-together where there is food. How about you? However, it is a big excuse many use for not losing weight. I had this excuse. It went something like this, “I can’t lose weight because I want to eat at family gatherings, parties, church carry-in...
I’ll Fail So Why Try?
“I might fail so I don’t even want to start trying.” “I’ve always been fat. I’ll always be fat. Nothing ever worked in the past so why try?” Ever had those kinds of excuses about trying to lose weight? Not failing is a huge topic on the minds of those who want to lose...
Abandon Your Cravings and Surrender to the Holy Spirit
What do you crave? Is it something God doesn’t want you to crave? Is it more important than God in your life? If you want it just because you want it, it may be because that is living by following your desires and cravings than by the power of the Holy Spirit. ...
Stop Procrastinating!
When we are procrastinating we are just making excuses for why we aren’t doing what we know we should be doing but are avoiding. To procrastinate is to delay or put off doing something. An excuse is coming up with a reason to put off doing something. Basically, it’s...
Why Excuses Don’t Work
Why do we have excuses? Excuses are dangerous to us because they keep us from doing what God wants us to do which is always the best for us. We must figure out how put them in our past and move forward with what we know God has in mind for us. An excuse is very...
Trusting God With Everything
May was thin, graceful Chinese freshman who lived in our dorm and was my friend. After a couple of months, she started having severe headaches. After flying to her aunt’s house in the states, my beautiful friend died of a brain aneurysm. Her death hit me hard. She was...
What Is My Destiny and How Do I Get There?
I grew up in a very missions-minded church. With this emphasis on missions and my desire to do something special in God’s Kingdom, it wasn’t unusual I went forward in several services over the years to volunteer to be a foreign missionary. I had my heart set on...
Scared to Speak?
It didn’t start out that way. I loved to honor Grandma by reciting poems for her church’s Christmas program. It made me happy to speak because it made her happy. Then came the year I was 12. Grandma decided since I did such a good job learning one poem a year, she...
Where Did You Learn Your Relationship with Food?
I was doing well on my weight loss journey until I saw the scales show that I weighed 199 pounds. I didn’t know why but my body did not want to go below 200 pounds. It wasn’t that I was eating anything wrong and I was still exercising. It just felt very much like a...
Miraculous Healings Come From Hanging On Tightly to Jesus
Growing up, I had one primary prayer request: My mother’s healing from her emotional illness. As early as I can remember this request topped every prayer list I ever made, the subject of every spoken and unspoken prayer request in church and Sunday School, the thing...