Daily Bible Reading - Sunday Jan. 4th

It’s it just amazing how our readings started the first few days off with discipline.  Makes me think of if I had started my very first diet off with discipline where I would have gone from there, but we can’t look back can we?  We have to move forward learning from the past.   It’s been amazing to how Genesis, Matthew, Psalms and Proverbs sort of all started off on the same note yet different.  God certainly knew what he was doing when He wrote the word. 

 Like Bec said, it’s awesome how things WE caused ourselves, eating to much, causing ourselves to be unhealthy etc. God is ALWAYS there to deliver us from our sins.  He truly is faithful and just to forgive us and always to start over.  Sometimes I get to thinking “how many times can God forgive me of eating wrong or doing something wrong"  well let me tell ya,  God WILL forgive us and let us start over as many times as it takes,  He said he would forgive us 70 x 7 and over and over again.  Wow,  that in itself gives me comfort that there really is a chance I can finally be what God wants me to be.  In my own life I can’t count how many times I’ve needed forgiveness and deliverance from something, praise God he’s a God of second, third, fourth etc. chances.  I think a lot of us started this journey of wls on the same boat, thinking and possibly knowing this was our last chance.  I know I did.

Like Peggy pointed out, Satan comes to us when we are the weakest and trust me, satan knows when we are at the lowest point, that’s when he seems to be at his strongest, but praise God satans strongest still isn’t strong enough to keep us down, God is and always will be stronger and mightier then satan and satan knows it.  I guess it all comes back to being disciplined, that really is funny how these passages are doing that right now, bringing it all back to discipline.  Makes you really think how important it is to do our best in every area of our lives to be disciplined, not just in our eating but in every area.  I know when I start to lose discipline in one area of my life it affects other areas and it becomes like domino’s. 

I’ve peeked at today’s reading and it just gets better and better.  I’ve come to see that we aren’t just reading a book or just reading about history but we are reading a story, a true story.  The bible to me has come to life, its almost like I was right there when this all happened, its got me so excited that sometimes I don’t want to put it down, I want to see what’s going to happen next.  God has so much in store for us this year.  I can’t wait to see what He has in store for us next.

***Bec*** Thank you for being you and sharing your thoughts with us.  I’ve come to see that each of us has different thoughts about the same passages, it really blesses me to no end when I can get something different out of what others have read.  Thank you so much.  God has so much in store for us I just can’t wait to get further into this year and see what surprises are head.

***Peggy*** Doesn’t His word just amaze you when these entire passages just click right together? I love it, I simply love it.  I also just love it how we all get see just a slightly different view of each passage then we bring it all together to the table and it just explodes, wow!!

***Janet*** Don’t give up on finding the right church for you and your family.  God has the right place, the right pastor, the right congregation out there for you some where.  It’s probably at a church right under your nose that would never expect Him to have you go.  Susan and I had always attended a more charismatic type church where the music was lively but at the same time brought you into worship in a way that you felt the presence of God every time.  Back where we moved from (Ironton, MO) for some reason we started attending this little out of the way church that was filled with nothing but older folks that had been there since the church was founded.  I told Susan, nah this isn’t where we need to go, so we went to other church’s where there were younger folks, more lively and such but God kept having us go back to that little out of the way church. The had just installed a new pastor so  when we finally started going to that little church we were blessed beyond belief.  Today that little church has grown a bit but more importantly that church has life and the spirit of God flows so strong there,  not that we had anything to do with bring life back to that church, it actually brought life into us.  We got so involved in that church,  I lead the worship there for the last 2 years or so which I would of never done going to a bigger church.    Leaving that church was the hardest thing for us to do, we cried that last service like we had never cried but we had peace, such peace about moving to Cedarcreek next to Jan.  The church we go to now is almost like our church in Ironton, its really hard for me to get started in a new church tho I’m shy when it comes to meeting new people and it takes me awhile to warm up to folks but we are so blessed by the church we attend now and are getting involved more and more each time we go.  I dunno why I went into that again but just know God has a special place for you and your family Janet, you have so much to offer and so much wisdom to bring to people that you will find a place, just hang in there and keep asking God to show you where to go, He will, He really will. 

Thanks again everyone for sharing and caring,  It is such a blessing to be able to study the bible with others, its truly helping me get area’s of my life back on track,  thank you!!

Today’s Readings

Genesis 8:1-10:32
Matthew 4:12-25
Psalm 4:1-8
Proverbs 1:20-23

Daily Devotional for Dieters

1 Corinthians 6:19
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

As Christians, we believe that God dwells within us. Our bodies become His home, and it makes sense that we should try to make His surroundings as nice as possible. The temple of God in Israel was kept immaculately clean and pure. Only the most clean and holy of men were allowed to enter it. It was revered by all. The temple was the most holy and special place of all. When we are told that our bodies are the temple of God, it is not an option whether or not we will take care of it; it is a duty. When we care for our physical being, we are making God's temple a holy and special place.

Today's thought: We diet not only for ourselves, but for God!

I pray everyone has a blessed Sunday, stay warm.

Andy

you know we have said that it is amazing how these different scriptures seem to fit together , what is more amazing is the fact that they were written by different men and in different times...and so we KNOW that the scriptures are the divine word and works of God....plain ordinary men could not have written such things to mean so much to so many and to mean different things to you at different times that you read it.

The Daily Devotion really hit me hard between the eyes...!!!! how many times have i read that verse? how many times have i said that our bodies are the temple of God? numerous but !!!! not only what we eat but what we read, watch on tv, listen to on the radio!!!! ???? YES all of that and even more. So how could we as Christians have done to our bodies what we did ? Satan really knows how to get to us doesnt he? and God also knows how to forgive. Now to forgive ourselves and to go from here .....we diet not only for ourselves but for God  how profound....