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How God Helped Me Do What I Didn’t Want to Do
One of the first concepts I learned when I started my lifestyle change journey was that instead of going on another diet to lose weight, I needed to learn how to change my habits. I needed to choose one bad habit to stop and one good habit to start. It was when I...
What Is My Value to God?
For most of my life, I have struggled with identifying my purpose in God’s Kingdom. As such I have been a doer and achiever always trying to get things done for God because I wanted Him to value me. This is the same issue that Martha had with Mary. If you remember the...
Holy Spirit, I Trust You
As children, if we think we don’t matter to the people who matter the most to us, it can set up a stronghold in us of “I don’t matter to God,” which can make us not trust the Holy Spirit, who lives inside us. I felt that way about my mother. She had an emotional...
Tearing Down the Stronghold of Fear
Fear is a stronghold the devil loves to set up in us. All he has to do is move all the players in place to set up circumstances that cause us to feel we are all alone. This leads us to believe no one, not even God is there to protect us. When this happens, we either...
Make-up and Shorts Won’t Keep Us Out of Heaven
When I was five years old, I was convinced Mom was the most beautiful woman in the world. I remember sitting in the only bathroom in our house watching her put on makeup complete with red lipstick. I was mesmerized. She had acne scars from when she was a child, so...
God Doesn’t Condemn Me
For most of my life, I felt like a failure. Part of that is because words of affirmation are my love language. If you have people in your life who regularly affirm you, then you feel like a success. But if there are even a few who give negative words, you remember...
Turning Impossible Into Possible
I overheard Mom and Grandma talking about the clothes I had in my tiny closet. It was the middle of the school year. We didn’t buy clothes except at the beginning of school, but I couldn’t wear any of my dresses and my shoes were hurting my toes. She and Grandma were...
Everything Starts With Surrender
Losing an extreme amount of weight isn’t just a physical issue. I’ve lost 250 pounds so I can say this at least about my journey. It was and still is a very spiritual issue. I wanted to lose weight, eat healthily and exercise but no matter what diet I went on, even if...
Real Strength
I was sitting at the kitchen table in our small two-bedroom apartment. My husband had just left for work. The sun was streaming through the east-facing picture window. My Bible was open to the book of Matthew. My journal was ready and my pen was in my hand. Then, I...
Finding Truth
What is truth? Where can we find it? I love words. So I went to the dictionary to find out what truth means to people. It tells me that truth is five things. It is 1. the body of real things, events, and facts, 2. the state of being the case, 3. a judgment,...