thanks Karyn!...Blessings !

Good morning My OH Family!!  I hope you slept as good as I did!  Thank you God for 5 hours of sound sleep.  Makes ya feel GOOD to sleep so sound.  My Father....He's my REST (Matthew 11:28)


Our challenge for today goes with yesterday's challenge on our weight loss journey.  If you have lost your focus, get it back.  Today, our challenge is to stop eating things you shouldn't.  Sure, you had weight loss surgery and didn't die (as I have heard it said) but, if you start those old habits, I have found by my own experience, you will pick them back up.  If you play around a muddy river long enough, you will fall in.  Stop those old habits you have picked up.  Lay them back down and walk away.  Get the junk food out of your house.  Hard to do with kids in the house, but you don't have to take them in your BODY/HOUSE.  Watch what you put in your mouth.  IF you have to, make a diary of your daily eating.  Write it down at night, then go back and look at it at the end of the day.  Do you like what you ate?  If not, only you can control that.  Habits are hard to break, but they are breakable.  FOCUS ON WHAT YOU ARE EATING!  I know you can do this!  I have faith in US!  I'm doing this.  Who is with me?

So, who's up this morning?  What cha sippin' on?  Me?  I'm loving some awesome Trader Joe's Organic Coffee this morning.  Sure is good too.  Thanks Dayner D!  Gotta love it! 

Y'all have a wonderful day as you watch what you are eating!!

Keeping you in prayer. Keep looking to the Lord no one knows you like He does and no one will be their for you like He is. May God bless you and keep you.

In Christ
Karyn

Life Plan Devotion #116

Psalm 119:65 "Do good to your servant according to your word, O LORD" (NIV).

     Of the 7 basic conditions to answered prayer, we have looked at the first five:
1) Pray in the Name of Jesus.
2) Pray with praise and thanksgiving.
3) Pray without known (unconfessed) sin in your life.
4) Pray with the right motive, which is God's glory.
5) Pray from the place of right relationship.
     Today we will look at the sixth condition to answered prayer: 6) Pray according to the Word of God. If you want an absolute "Yes!" to your prayer, pray a promise or precedence from God's Word. When you back up your petition with God's "quick, powerful Word" (Hebrews 4:12, KJV), God is obligated to hear and answer.
     Romans 10:17 tells us that "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (NKJV). It is the Word of God that produces faith, the faith that makes prayer dynamic.
     Is there a "rock" in front of you? Hear what the LORD declares, "Is not my word like fire...and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?" (Jeremiah 23:29, NIV). Find out what God's Word has to say about your situation, pray that Word, claiming it with absolute faith, and you will see that "rock" crumble!
     Paul reminds us that "everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope" (Romans 15:4, NIV). That hope is far from an "I hope it will happen." The Greek word for "hope" is ĕlpis (el-pece'), which means "anticipation, expectation, confidence." When your hope is centered in God's Word, you are confident when you pray, and you expect and anticipate that the answer will manifest.
     What is your level of commitment to praying God's Word? The psalmist says, "I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word. My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promises" (Psalm 119:147-148, NIV).
     Each of us has experienced someone making a promise and not following through or saying something that was, in actuality, a lie. Meditate on the fact and give thanks that "God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?" (Numbers 23:19, NIV). Praise God that He does what He says, and He fulfills every promise.
     Beloved, read the Book, know the Book, believe the Book, act on the Book, and pray the Book! Listen to the God-breathed words and echo what the psalmist prayed so long ago, "You are my portion, O LORD; I have promised to obey your words. I have sought your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise" (Psalm 119:57-58, NIV).

What this has to do with weight loss: How often, when referring to your weight-loss journey, do you say, "I hope __________"? Do you know what God's Word has to say about food, health, patience, endurance, etc.? Find a verse to stand on, for your weight-loss journey, meditate on it, claim it, pray it, and watch God fulfill it in your life and body.

Confession:
I search God's Word for what He has to say about my situation, and when I pray, I pray the powerful Word of God, confident that God, Who never lies, is true to His Word, and His Word will be fulfilled in my cir****tances.

Blessings,
Mary

Thank You Mary...God bless!