Diet! Lose Weight! Feel Great!

Ever get tired of all the blinking neon signs, crazy commercials, and confusing books on the latest diet fad screaming in your ear?

Coffee is toxic....

Coffee is good for you...

Eggs are high in cholesterol....

Eggs are good for you...

High protein diet is bad for you....

High protein diet is good for you...

With all these mixed messages and different resources to choose from, who dare not be confused? "Diet" should be nothing more than a way of balanced, healthy, eating. Now I'm not talking about the "diet" informercials that encourages you to intoxicate the body with pills, drugs, and fads. I'm talking about the foods that God himself created for us to enjoy.

In today's society, it is TABOO to look anything less than Lindsay Lohan, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford or Gisele Bundchen. Our minds are inundated with "worldly" views. Today I encourage you to take a few minutes and ask the Lord how you should eat to make you a better YOU! (Let's not get sucked into what the worldly magazines and commercials tell us we should look like).

I have a friend who battled diabetes for several years. It came to the point where she was literally lying in her death bed. After differing opinions from doctors, friends, and family members, she decided to consult with the omniscient, omnipotent, all-knowing, all-powerful God. In short, God revealed to her what is the healthiest "diet" for her and I am happy to report that today she is walking in freedom. She is free of sickness and disease. And in the process, she lost weight, looks great, and feels great!

Now, my NO MEANS, have I conquered this vicious ongoing cycle of the "on again, off again" diet regimen. But this I know for sure, I will no longer "buy" into the lies of all the commercials and latest diet fads. I choose to consult the all-knowing, all-powerful mind of Christ for healthier living and a healthier me!

How about you? Where do you stand today? Are you obsessed with food, weight, or image? I encourage you to take inventory and let us seek the mind of Christ together for a healthier walk and a healthier way with HIM.

GOD, Do You Hear Me?

I wonder how many of us have cried out to God during our deepest times of despair?

You know the kind. The kind where there is a wailing that is pushed out for the deepest part of your soul. From the terrorizing anguish of your heart. You cry...you pray...you hope.

Nothing.

Silence.

Crickets.

You hear not a word.

You feel hopeless...disappointed....distraught.

You're not alone. We have all been there at one time or another. Where life just seems too much to bear and you have nowhere to turn.

Beloved, do not be deceived by the silence. He is there...

Listening.

Watching.

Waiting.

He is speaking to you. Yes, even through the silence. Albeit through the crashing waves of the sea, through the birds tending to their chicks in their nest, or through the cool breeze brushing through your hair - as if to whisper...

"Everything is going to be all right."

Do not mistake His silence for rejection. Nor His delay for abandonment. Even in your despair, He is preparing you...arming you. For something greater. Something bigger. Something extraordinary.

Esther waited 13 years to become the Queen that would save the Jewish nation.

David waited 15 years to become the King of Israel.

Jesus waited 30 years to begin his ministry and become the KING of God's chosen people.

So do not lose heart beloved. His ear is attentive towards you...it is not all for not. He knows the plans He has for you. He is listening, He is watching, He is waiting...to perform the perfect destiny purposed for you and through you.