Here is what I opened to this morning, I love it when God makes it clear what my purpose in life (in all our lives really). Freedom has come through learning that life is not about me!
Jeremiah 15:19-22 (New International Version)
19 Therefore this is what the LORD says:
"If you repent, I will restore you
that you may serve me;
if you utter worthy, not worthless, words,
you will be my spokesman.
Let this people turn to you,
but you must not turn to them.
20 I will make you a wall to this people,
a fortified wall of bronze;
they will fight against you
but will not overcome you,
for I am with you
to rescue and save you,"
declares the LORD.
21 "I will save you from the hands of the wicked
and redeem you from the grasp of the cruel."
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
This day
It should be a typical Tuesday. Shower taken, bills paid, kids will wake up, we'll get them ready, take them to the babysitter, go to work, take a lunch, go back to work, go home, sleep....and other variations of this scenario exist. However, what if it gets changed up? If one little detail is left out, if God that today, I don't wake up, or that I didn't have job anymore? Would I be okay with the plan for the day? And if I was okay, would I be content, would I have the best attitude? The point is, life is primarily beyond our control. Our reaction to life is where we get to see who we truly are. I would not have any perspective, any inkling of peace without the Weigh Down Workshop. This isn't a commercial, it's simply a chance to share how one man found true peace, how one man found new life. If you are hopeless, there is hope. www.weighdown.com
Monday, February 22, 2010
Build the Wall
Awesome and amazing weekend in Chicago. A message of love and encouragement charged a crowd of 500 or so people on towards purity and a passionate relationship with God. I am praising God for the message of the 4 soils. Do you know where your seed lies? Is it on rich, fertile soil? You can tell by the fruit of your life and the fruit of your churches life. I praise God for Weigh Down and the truth it pours out on a daily basis. If you haven't already, check it out. www.weighdown.com
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Oh happy day
Praise God for this new day! I am a blessed man to be up and running this morning. Rebuilding the Wall is this weekend and I can't wait to hear another life-changing message of truth. Please, if you haven't already, sign up! Or at least check out what set me free and showed me that there was SO much more to life! www.weighdown.com
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Peace
This peace has only came through refinement, through suffering, through hardship and through much perseverance. IT IS ALL WORTH IT!!!! Ultimately, peace is all that anyone wants. Love is beginning, peace comes next. I didn't know where to find it, and I searched, and searched, and searched. I looked at other religions, i looked at no religions, I looked to drugs, I looked to food, I looked to women, everything that the world could offer....but alas, it's all empty. The real God, the true God is out there, He just wants us to seek. Let me share with you how I found God. www.weighdown.com I started with just one of the hang ups I had in my heart, overeating. But soon, it showed me so much more. Love to you all, check it out.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Temporary
This life is temporary, so much more is out there to be seen and experienced. I was a slave to this life, a slave to myself, a slave to a closed mind and a closed heart. This world will try to convince us to indulge in the "now", to live for yourself and more is better than less. I challenge myself and all of you, please just try the opposite. Trust that living for God is more rewarding, more filling and altogether peaceful. I didn't know about this until I found it in the most unlikely of place, a weight loss program. Weigh Down introduced me to a personal and real relationship with God....He's not just some mythical force in the sky, He's very personal...each day is now a wonderful adventure.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Thankful
God is so good. His mercies are new every morning. He has done everything for me and I feel like I should constantly do more for Him. Praise you God, please continue to lead and guide us, not my will, but yours be done.
Monday, February 8, 2010
New heart, new mind
I am truly praising God that this day has come. It's been a very tough past couple of weeks, but today is new. All that I have is now. That's all any of us have. Frankly, I am tired. Tired of doing the same things, listening to the same lies and stumbling in the same areas. Before God, I have gotten this right and now I want to glorify His name by living this out daily. I want to choose with every step, to walk in the paths of Christ. Christ came to show us how to live, how to surrender my own will and to see that it really wasn't burdensome, it just takes some trust :) Father, please guide this life, lead me where you want and how you want, it is truly yours, in Jesus Name, Amen.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Learning
I hope everyone is doing good this week. For me, this has been a doozy of a week! Lots of testing, lots of opportunities to cry out to God. I can tell you today, that this testing, this refinement has only brought me closer to Him. If you are feeling that you can't get this, that you are different, that it's just not for you, please (as I have learned) take your eyes off of your own situation and off of yourself, and step back for a moment, and put them on God. What does God want? What does God expect of us? God, how can we please You? Some days it takes completely stopping in the middle of the testing to realize our position. We are called to serve something, it's just our choice now, ourselves or God. From personal experience, serving myself has only led to more pain, more heartache, more loneliness, etc. There have been times where I thought that I knew the outcome and that the plan I had, would surely work, but God has shown me otherwise. I love God more than anything and am committed to Him. He is so good, we must merely let go and trust.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
The new day ahead
With parenthood, living to be a righteous husband, work, school and life in general, there is plenty of opportunity to pray. If I didn't, I would crumble. God is my strength, He gives me the hope to press on. If I take my eyes off of Him, that's when the roof caves in and everything seems overwhelming. In His perspective, they are all temporal. The "worries" of the world will pass :)
Matthew 6:33-34 (New International Version)
33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:33-34 (New International Version)
33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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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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