This morning is especially hard. I am so hungry and thinking of cravings! Earlier this morning, I came close to making a spin through Hardee's drive-through while I was out doing errands.
But, I turned the wheel to the left instead of the right. I almost caved in. In the book, "As A Man Thinketh" by James Allen, he emphasized that to have good results, you must sacrifice but to have the best results, you must sacrifice much.
I am choosing good results for now. Raw vegan during the five to eight hour time is best results. I'm not there yet. It's just too much for now, but I do want to eventually get there.
Still, sacrifice is pain either way. You must give up what you love in order to have or to do what is right and good.
I have an hour and a quarter to go before I can break today's fast. I'll be doing cleaning until then.
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Monday, November 16, 2015
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
Since August 26, I've been more motivated than ever to lose weight and get my health back and indeed, better than it's ever been. Never before have I had such ability to resist a drive-through fast-food lunch or breakfast.
I feel as though I'm very strong in resisting the worst sweets, cheeses, peanut buttery things and breads with yeast. These are the main things I was told by an alternative doctor that my body is having trouble with now and to eliminate them from my diet. (yeast in the blood) I've been doing pretty good on this, though not perfect.
But I'm going to dare to say here, Satan has sent to me in the church office where I work, two very nice Christian gentlemen with gooey sweets just for me. This has never happened before! Ever. This is why I say "Satan" is behind it. I didn't want the Hostess chocolate-dipped mini-cake with creamy filling. I didn't want the soft fresh donut. I really didn't. But, to be polite, I ate them anyway. I didn't really want them, I just ate them. I saw sheep, but they were really wolves in this case.
But, now, looking back, I can see what I should have done - trashed those pastries. Those gentlemen would have never known. They left soon after giving them to me, so God gave me a way of escape and I didn't recognize it.
This is just the evidence I need to know that it's true that when you're just at the point you are truly trying more than ever before to stop a bad habitual sin, Satan will bring exactly what will get you off the track.
The solution? Reading more in the word of God. The closer we are to God, the more the devil runs away. I have to admit, I've not been reading as much as I should. That, and decline the gifts.
This is Sunday and my 24-hour fast time. The time I stopped eating today was 3:30, so that is when I'll be able to eat again tomorrow. I'm working my way to real cleansing of the body and healing of anything gone wrong in there.
I feel as though I'm very strong in resisting the worst sweets, cheeses, peanut buttery things and breads with yeast. These are the main things I was told by an alternative doctor that my body is having trouble with now and to eliminate them from my diet. (yeast in the blood) I've been doing pretty good on this, though not perfect.
But I'm going to dare to say here, Satan has sent to me in the church office where I work, two very nice Christian gentlemen with gooey sweets just for me. This has never happened before! Ever. This is why I say "Satan" is behind it. I didn't want the Hostess chocolate-dipped mini-cake with creamy filling. I didn't want the soft fresh donut. I really didn't. But, to be polite, I ate them anyway. I didn't really want them, I just ate them. I saw sheep, but they were really wolves in this case.
But, now, looking back, I can see what I should have done - trashed those pastries. Those gentlemen would have never known. They left soon after giving them to me, so God gave me a way of escape and I didn't recognize it.
This is just the evidence I need to know that it's true that when you're just at the point you are truly trying more than ever before to stop a bad habitual sin, Satan will bring exactly what will get you off the track.
The solution? Reading more in the word of God. The closer we are to God, the more the devil runs away. I have to admit, I've not been reading as much as I should. That, and decline the gifts.
This is Sunday and my 24-hour fast time. The time I stopped eating today was 3:30, so that is when I'll be able to eat again tomorrow. I'm working my way to real cleansing of the body and healing of anything gone wrong in there.
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