Good morning! This has been such a blessed Thanksgiving and holiday season. Year after year before, I would overeat, I would be selfish with gifts and gift giving, but now everything has changed! I see the beauty is less being more, I see how blessed it truly is to give, than receive. None of this would even be a thought without God's leading and change in my life. His ways truly are perfect, and beautifully and uniquely peaceful. This peace surpasses my understanding, all I ever sought out was peace of mind, whether through drugs or different cultures, but they all wound up on the same muddied road. Praise God for the truth.
Deuteronomy 32:4 (New International Version)
4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Thanks
Thanks to God for all He has given me
Thanks to God for the ways my life has changed for the better
Thanks to God for a message of truth, that has to be lived out to daily
Thanks to God for a spiritual family that holds me accountable and truly cares for God's Kingdom
All glory to God in these dark days, may we never settle for 99 %, but daily strive to give God all we have, all we are.
Love,
Andy Sorrells
Thanks to God for the ways my life has changed for the better
Thanks to God for a message of truth, that has to be lived out to daily
Thanks to God for a spiritual family that holds me accountable and truly cares for God's Kingdom
All glory to God in these dark days, may we never settle for 99 %, but daily strive to give God all we have, all we are.
Love,
Andy Sorrells
Friday, November 20, 2009
Life is good
It's a popular slogan and a nifty bumper sticker. But, can you really say this? Is life good? Is it without conflict day in and day out? Is it without some kind of drama or tension? Okay, even if it isn't, are you happy? Is there quiet peace as you lay down your head at night? For me, I was in torment in my soul until I found a true relationship with God. I find this in the most unlikely of places, the Weigh Down Workshop. It started just for weight loss, but I soon realized that every area of my life would be affected, that everything, every worry, every piece of drama, every conflict, every lack of peace, could be made right. I need only surrender, then trust and obey. It is that easy. I am letting go of these things, I am letting go of this world and it's desires, I have to trust and see that God is better, and He is!!!!!!! I praise God for the truth that is being poured out through Weigh Down (www.weighdown.com) and the Remnant Fellowship Church (www.remnantfellowship.org) As has been said by it's founder, Gwen Shamblin, this is an "experiential faith," in other words, test God in this, try Him, surrender, kick back and trust and obey, you will see Him work in your life, you will develop a real, lasting relationship with God!!!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Warm
As the cold weather sets in, I am constantly praying. Whether at work, at home, in the car, wherever, I need God. I need Him to stay warm, to stay focused, to stay pure! Years ago, I wouldn't have felt this way (being so big, I was never cold) and would have just been (and was) a bitter, angry young man. I complained so much and held no hope for a brighter day. Praise God for a new life! I now am grateful for each moment. I have learned to run to God for everything, to give it all up for Him, and my life has been SO blessed by putting this into practice. God truly is my everything!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Minute by minute
I am praising God for a new day. I get to live "all in" for God this day. Right now, I have the privilege and honor to listen to a podcast featuring Mr. Marcus Francis and Mrs. Marayet Francis. Mr. Marcus passed from this world yesterday (11-16) and I am honored to have met such a man. Marcus is and was a modern day Job. He persevered through years of brain cancer and shined his light for God brighter than anyone that I have known to have gone through such. He is an inspiration as he as followed in the footsteps of Christ. May we follow these footsteps this day, this minute.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Who am I?
For years, I wondered what my place was on this earth. I have pondered, questioned, asked professional help, taken drugs that "expand your mind", everything that I thought would help me find the answers. Time and time again, they failed. They left me empty with more questions. I went to churches, and found the people on the inside living the same as the people on the outside. The peace I have found came in the most unlikely packages, a weight loss program. The Weigh Down Workshop showed me how to transfer my addiction to food, to a relationship with God. This wasn't the God I thought I knew, this God was and is personal. I didn't know what answered prayers were, but not, after learning how to give everything over to Him, I do. It's taken a fight, it's taken staying surrounded by others who love God, who are backing up their relationship, their proclamation of this faith, with heart, soul, mind and strength. I am so thankful for what He has done in my life, and I praise God for the Remnant Fellowship Church that has been a city on a hill. I am choosing this day, this moment, to live for God.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
God morning
It surely is a God morning. He woke me up bright and early this morning! I've been in His Word, just praying about His lead for he day. More and more I see that my agenda and my expectations for the day will fail, if He is not the center of it all. And of course, this makes sense, He is the Creator, the organizer, the ruler of it all, why wouldn't I allow Him to take the lead? Forgive me God of ever not letting you lead, Your ways are truly higher than mine, Your ways are perfect God, please lead this life, in Jesus Name, Amen.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Words
Life is a constant opportunity to change. I am learning to be a righteous man with everything I do. I am learning that the tongue is a mighty weapon, good or bad. Yes, we do have control over it! Our words can build up or with one false word, it can ruin everything. Praise God that we can even speak at all, I just pray that I am honoring Him in all that I spew forth!
As I read this morning:
Habakkuk 2
20 But the LORD is in his holy temple;
let all the earth be silent before him."
As I read this morning:
Habakkuk 2
20 But the LORD is in his holy temple;
let all the earth be silent before him."
Friday, November 6, 2009
New Day
It looks like everyone is starting to get healthy in our house! Praise God! God had us all slow down for about 2 weeks in the household. It has been a refining and great time to find out more about God in our lives. We are spurred on to keep running this race for God! School is going well, as another semester comes near close to ending, I can't believe it's time to register for spring classes. Time is fleeting and I want to be sure that not a moment is wasted, it is so easy to get distracted, may God be my focus! I praise God for every opportunity to live for Him and give testimony to His greatness! I praise God for Weigh Down and all the encouragement from everyone involved with the program, thank you! We are living a blessed life that would not be possible without God's authority line!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Grateful for this day
God has definetily been refining our family. We are learning more and more what it is to have a true and lasting relationship with Him. OUr babies have been sick for over a week now, we have just been taking care of them and meeting needs. I am longing to be completely free of myself and discover this new life daily. So far, so good. I am finding the truth through God's Word and through the Weigh Down Workshop which is solely pointing me to His Word. There sure isn't a lot of light left in the world, I am praising God for this beacon in the dark.
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How Weigh Down Helped Me Lose Over 250 Pounds!
I was always the biggest and tallest kid in school. I weighed close to 11 pounds at birth and just went up from there! By the high school years, I had become very anti-social, very angry, and generally depressed. Even though I went to church growing up, all that I knew to do was to eat. My first year of college, I dropped out and was diagnosed as manic depressive. 
I started taking a variety of prescriptions to help me overcome this. I also began experimenting with numerous illegal drugs because frankly the doctor prescribed medications weren’t helping. On top of this, I was SO deluded in my own selfish pride that I thought everyone else was the problem. I thought they should change and I should be accepted for who I was. My life was quickly spiraling down,with seemingly no hope for the future. On September11th, 2001, I finally got fear. I realized that life was short and that I seriously needed to makesome changes. I met Maggie in 2000, and we were married in August of 2002. She had read Rise Above and done Weigh Down at Home and had had great success. Unfortunately, she gained some ofthe weight back while we had dated. At the end of 2002, she called the Weigh Down offices and got into a Weigh Down Advanced class. I watched her change emotionally, spiritually and physically. We joined Remnant Fellowship Church in February of 2003, and I took a Weigh Down Advanced class myself. Within 18 months, I had lost all of my weight, down 257 pounds!!!! I had also come off anti-depressants and the illegal drugs and am now full of joy and hope!!!!! - Andy
Weigh Down Helped Me Lose 300 Pounds
I want to praise God for the truth that has come from the Weigh Down Workshop. It is the only program that has ever loved me enough to tell me the WHOLE truth! I was raised up in the church and was thought to be a "good Christian girl,"but what does that mean? Well, I can tell you what it doesn’t mean. I was spoiled. I grabbed and got what I wanted when I wanted, never knowing that it is so detestable to God. I was very greedy for food, that got me to 440 pounds. I also would cut myself with a razor blade from my wrist to my elbows. I would steal and lie. I had sexual sins that make me want to throw up just remembering. I had 20 credit cards and owed over 20 thousand dollars in credit card debt alone.
I never knew until Weigh Down's teachings from the Bible, just how spoiled I was. It was so deeply rooted in my heart, that I still pray that God will scrape my heart so bare that nothing but love and devotion to him remains. It truly disgusts me to see that spoiled nature try to come up; never do I want to miss his spirit again. I used to be convicted of something days after it happened, but never enough to change. Now I want to change and never do it again. Praise God!! Praise God, I don't have to destroy his temple like I used to do again. Praise God for removing 300 pounds from my morbidly obese body!! A miracle!
Praise God he continues to teach me to be led by his spirit with the money he has blessed our family with. I praise God for being taught how to be a wife and a mother, and that he has blessed me with a godly husband and a beautiful son and daughter and true friends that tell me the truth and help when I have a need. Thank you God for Weigh Down, for this freedom, for all your blessings and for this true relationship with you!
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