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Posted by Fit For Jesus! on September 26, 2009
Here are some spiritual principles to think about, pray about, and contemplate for successful Christian weight loss!
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Realize your value. Read Psalm 139:13-16 and truly discover in your heart how much God thinks about you, loves you, and cares for you.
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Realize God’s sacrifice. Read John 3:16 again. And then read it again. He did that for YOU. He loves YOU!
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Love yourself. “Love your neighbor as yourself” originated from God, was repeated often by Jesus, and reinforced by Paul.
Think about it: it not only means that we are supposed to love others, but that we are supposed to ALREADY love ourselves! GOD said so!
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Forgive yourself: others have messed up before you. Moses murdered. David committed adultery and sent a husband to his death. Matthew was a thieving tax collector. Paul persecuted and killed. Thomas doubted. Peter denied Jesus in His very presence.
Last I checked, they all turned out ok. You can, too, if you’ll just ask for God’s forgiveness and realize that He has forgotten about it, already.
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Move on. Eating yourself to death because of the past is not forgiveness (either of yourself or others), and it is a horrible, ungodly coping mechanism.
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Forgive others. Bitterness is stressful. Chronic stress increases cortisol. Cortisol leads specifically to increased abdominal fat and inflammation. Abdominal fat and inflammation lead to heart attacks that kill prematurely.
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Seek Him first. Face it. Life will be a struggle. Stop seeking the world and seek Him, first. “His yoke is easy, and His burden is light.”
It is a lot easier, and it becomes automatic to take care of your body (the temple of the Holy Spirit!) when you realize that you are valuable, God loves you, you are forgiven, you can forgive others, you can forgive yourself, you can move on, and you can love yourself as God commanded!
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This is great! I was browsing through youtube when I found these vids. Our lives were given to us to steward well from Christ and I believe that health and fitness is a part of stewarding our lives well.
Being Christian, it has helped me in my journey to lose weight because I pray to God and ask him for help as I have been so unhealthy and used to a lazy life for too many years.
Keep up the good work! Do not be discouraged!
It’s a great thing your doing here!
The body(temple) and the spirit both need exercise and thank God your ministry brings that to the table.
My name is Joshua and my wife Deanna and I own a health club marketing company.
http://www.fitness360online.com/
We also are in the ministry and have just started a website for it
http://visionquestnow.com/ (It just went up so I still am adding to it)
Would you like to be a guess writer on my site?
You know, fitness tips and the WORD for Vision Quest and Tips for personal train to help their business and God encouragement for Fitness360…
We can team up for Jesus, the lost and for business.
Be Blessed and keep up the GOOD work.
Joshua
Joshua, send me an email to info [AT] FitForJesus [DOT] com. Thank you for the invitation, and we’ll talk soon!
Jeremy Nelms
I like this! It kind of made me cringe a bit, seeing that the focus is entirely on oneself… But then I realized, weight-loss is about oneself! And also, I think #7 should be #1… It is a really good point no matter where it is in the line-up though!… And I am glad you included it
Thanks!
I, too, have struggled with the “self” concept. But, in all reality, all that we are asking people to realize is that each and every one of us have tremendous value in God’s eyes because of how much God LOVES us!
So many people are walking around with horrible, sabotaging thoughts that make taking care of their body next to impossible. It is those negative thoughts of self-worth and personal value that I am trying to get rid of for everyone!
God bless you, and thank you for commenting.
Jeremy