Looking for Christian friends and support

I have been down this weight loss path a number of times, and more recently decided that the journey was not mine alone to take. That the greatest path to power and success was with me all along but I decided to carry the burden myself anyway. I have spent a lot of time in prayer and scripture, and what I discovered is this. We ask God for strength, but God already gave us strength. We ask God for wisdom, but God already gave us wisdom. We ask God for healing, but He has already healed us. Don't waste your time asking for things that are already yours, that you have already inherited when Christ died on the cross for you. Spend your time believing in and receiving the blessings guaranteed to you by our covenant with God. I no longer ask God for strength, I thank Him for making me strong. I know longer ask Him for success, I thank Him for victory.

Wake up each new day with an unrelenting positive expectation of good and rest in the knowledge that God has already delivered you. Stop fighting a battle that has already been won and just claim victory. Don't allow the great deceiver to distract you, tell you that you can't do it, or trick you into believing that you are not good enough. Have a verse (or two, or three, or four, or...) that you can use when the dark one attacks. There's more power in the Word than you can even imagine and it is THE greatest weapon you have against guilt, doubt, and shame.

I would wish you luck, but you do not need it. You have the grace and mercy of the Father. Just believe it and receive it (Matthew 21:22).

Here are a few verses that may help you:

1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

2 Timothy 1:7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Yes!!! Thank you Jesus--I'm home! Now this is the kind of forum I am happy to support.

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