Fasting Impact - Weight Issues

Dear Pastor,

For several months, I have had a heavy heart about the state of my health. God has given me a nature of servanthood and I love helping others and loving on them but those two things I lack to do for myself a lot.

Weight has been an issue for me since childhood. A battle I've waged over and over.  Lately, I have felt just desperation and fear at times. Will I ever be able to have the body God wants for me? Why haven't I submitted this to Him fully? Like this thing has been so big and defining for me that I Literally felt stuck and unable to move towards healthier habits. That's all flesh and a lie of the deceiver I know. But it is how it felt. I knew God was bigger than all of this so what was holding me back? I just unleashed in prayer, asking God to help me with this because I didn't know how to help myself right now.

The fast was approaching and I had some anxiety about if I could do it with all the emotions I had been having with food. Feelings or not I moved forward  planning and asking God how to do the fast this year. Yet I still wasn't "feeling" it.

Day one of the fast was an incredible day. God gave me the ability to not only stick to food I had planned but I was satisfied, it really wasn't hard or a struggle at all. I really wasn't having ANY temptation for the wrong foods. I was even craving the good ones. Energy that was lost from me before to take time to prepare healthier meals was renewed in me. All of the above has been true each day of the fast ( except for coffee, my dirty flesh is still throwing fits on that one! Lol) It never ceases to amaze me how we forget how obviously He is bigger and willing to help those things that concern our heart if we would just give it to Him. In God's great mercy and grace, before I knew it,  He was working everything these last few months to just blow my mind this fast. To really show me that He overcomes all things! He is Lord over my body, Lord over my appetite! Im beginning to passionately love my weaknesses because then He can be strong in me. I get to witness His majesty and perfect work in me. His power is so much greater than my own!

I'm excited to see the weight I have lost during this time but already know and am content with how much real 'weight' He has already taken off me. Freedom is the best meal served by my Lord!

Thank you for reading and celebrating God's goodness, with me!

Blessings,

XX

Patrick NorrisComment