He is Faithful
Posted on the WDW Encouragement Board
by Melissa in FL
March , 1998
Hi all! I just wanted to share with you something the Lord is doing for me right now. How He is faithful, even when we persist in being unfaithful. He hangs in there and waits for us to come back and "get it" again! I hope it blesses you!
I am on week 3 with my WD class, and this time, I am doing much better than last time. Last time I really petered out with my Quiet times with the Lord, and this time I have gotten back on track with Him. He gives me the time to do it now, and I am getting thirstier and thirstier for Him. Isn't that great?
I personally have been plateaued since last Sept. and even gained back about 5 pounds. I was working so hard! But it was all my own effort, and it WASN'T WORKING! In the second set of tapes, Gwen does a study of the book of Galations, and it is wonderful. One thing she says on the tapes that really hit me is, "As long as you give God the controls, this works, as soon as you take back over the controls again, it will not work for you!" That hit me like a ton of bricks! I had taken back over the controls last Sept, gradually, and then completely. Even though I could pretty much control weight GAIN, I had completely stopped losing. I was obeying hunger, but only somewhat obeying full, and would eat those last couple of bites every time. And an extra bite here and there when I was not hungry became OK. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!
These last two weeks, I have been relying more and more on the Spirit's signals to stop eating, not MY signals, and it has meant even less food. Gwen says on the first set of tapes somewhere that if you are not losing weight you are not giving up enough food. I simply did now want to believe that! Surely I was giving up enough as it was! Couldn't God see how little I was eating compared to before??? And yet, that still small voice was saying, "You have to give up more." I couldn't do it! I saw my ugly will rear its head again! I still was making food an idol I was not willing to give up! Now that I am looking for the Spirit to help me, stopping the first time He says to has become easy!
Some examples? How's this? Last week I got my kids their Pizza Hut Book-it pizzas and ordered a supreme personal pan pizza for myself. Do you know I could not eat more than one slice per meal???? I mean LITERALLY could NOT eat more than that!! I was amazed! The Spirit would whisper, "That is enough, you don't need any more than that." and I could not continue! And I would lose my hunger sensation altogether right then! It took 4 meals to eat one personal pan pizza!!! I didn't even eat that little the first session when I lost 25 pounds! And today, one meal was one slice of bread with peanut butter on it. That's all! And I was VERY hungry when I started eating! But He stopped me at that! And tonight I had a doughnut for desert after a small serving of chow mein, and left the last bite, even though I WANTED it. He said, "Leave it! " and I could, and did! And I don't want it now! I lost 3 pounds this week! And I DON'T mourn the smaller amounts of food this time! PTL!!!
I am thankful that He has again begun showing me what it means to obey out of love, and that it is EASY when we are relying on Him, and VERY HARD when we do it ourselves. I lift you up in prayer that He will give you all blessings upon blessings as you too reach out and trust in Him!
Love to you all!!!
~ Melissa
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