Twenty-Four Hours A Day We Fight the battle with what are we going to eat. Twenty-Four Hours A Day We Fight the spiritual battle of overcoming our desires... the flesh... Its the same war with different tools. Spiritually we use the word of God, the Spirit of God, Fellowship and the things we have been taught by our spiritual leaders.
The battle with food requires the same tools with a few adjustments that specifically target the mind and the body that drives us to eat...
One of the tools that has helped me the most is the Twenty-Four Hours a Day meditation book. I find it helps me each day get a mind set to fight. To be prepared for the tricks of the mind and the potential road blocks we may face.
My most common road blocks are 1) My Feelings Got Hurt ( a co worker, a friend, anyone who says anything that I don't agree with or they don't agree with me or they say something out of pocket can set me off. I will sulk and then turn to a cookie for comfort. However I am learning instead to reach out and read something that will give me strength like the word of God or something else that deals with my issues like the Twenty-Four Hours a Day Book.
Let me give you an example: Today's Thought for the Day is:
If we get up in a meeting and tell something about ourselves in order to help the other person, we feel a whole lot better. It's the old law of the more you give the more yo get. Witnessing and confession are part of keeping sober [free from sin or eating addictive]. You never know when you may help somebody. Helping others is one of the best ways to stay sober [free from strongholds like eating addictive] yourself. And the satisfaction you get out of helping a fellow human being is one of the finest experiences you can have. Am I helping others?
Today, I had to face the hard fact that I broke my abstinence when I went to New Mexico and until today I was binging... Today I scraped myself up and got back up because I know that if I keep going on the road I am on I will put the weight back on and my life will fall apart.
Why did I do it? Just my will. I had a desire to eat a certain food at Papadeaux's and I did it. I can see how the thought came in my mind, the emotions were formed that remembered how good I felt doing this act of eating and I was powerless to stop it once I got it concieved in my mind. The will ...the desires must be controlled ...that is the fight I face each day.
So what about you? Are you honestly fighting? Or like me do you let your will and your mind have the reigns?
Step Three in AA is Turning Your Will Over To God... Thats Where I am... and my Prayer is Lord help me to turn my will over and give a complete surender. Give me the grace, power and deisres to do what I know is right to do each day in every area of my life.
Its the only way things will get better and I can have the happiness God desires for me.
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Juls, the Lord has done great things for you and at times we can not see that it is right in front of us even if it bite us in the nose. However you have come a long ways, and the Lord is there to comfort you and is asking for us to open our hands so that he can put something in it, however at times we take our will back and close our hand into a fist. Can we keep them open to see the blessing?
ReplyDeleteThanks Marshua,
ReplyDeleteI know it is hard to tell a friend the truth at times but you are so right. The Lord really has done a great thing for me and I don't really know why I am struggling a this point and going backwards...
Why I run from his will and his comfort... I don't know... but please keep me in your prayers.
I was really encouraged last night in Vallejo when they spoke about reading and someone had asked how do you fall in love with Jesus. The answer was to read and fall in love with the word. AND they said that the spirit and the people can comfort you.
Ahhhh
I did read until 3 am last night and got up and read again today but may I am battling the devil and my will....aahhhhh
Well I got to go to a fellowship now.
Love You and Thanks soooo Much for the encouragement...
I am really in need right now.
Smooches
Juls
ReplyDeleteYou are not alone. I broke my abstinent Thursday and now I have to refocus and find another sponsor. However I am determined to beat this so you are not alone with your struggles. Not everyone has the battle however there are some of us who use food for comfort.
We will need to turn to Jesus for comfort at all times. How to Blend in Christ that is a good message that we heard in UC from B Michael and it will hold us if we lean on the word and spirit to guide us to make the right choices.
So we just got to pick ourselves up and encourage one another and start over.
Is it my destiny to be overweight? Yes, but I can definitely fight it. It is a battle EVERY day. No matter what I know, I am still fighting. My dad died at an early age(44) because of heart disease/high blood pressure. The path I am leading myself to has sprang up on me.
ReplyDeleteOh, I WILL get it together! Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
Wow Renea, Well said... endurance...patient continuance...
ReplyDeleteIt was once told to me that we have to build a strong house. The foundation we lay, the walls we put up and the things in our house are our choices.
When we make good choices we are building a strong house and when we make poor choices we are tearing it down.
The same applies to our spiritual life as well as our natural life. Are we being steadfast in our commitments? Are we putting up the right things in our house?
These are questions we must consider every time we want to take a bite of the wrong things or do the wrong things.
Additionally I recently went to a time management seminar at GAC and it helped me to remember my goals and what is really important to me. Those are the things I must make time for like cooking a healthy meal and buying the right food. Reading, praying and having positive fellowship will keep my mind on the right things.
When the TV turns to a food commercial, click the channel, when the bring donuts to work leave the room, when your mind wants to trick you into doing wrong fight back.
We can get through this together. We have each other, the word and the spirit for comfort. Together we can endure. Together we can turn into gold and glory.