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1. The Beliefs That Keep You Overweight and How to Overcome Them

If you are unhappy with your weight, you probably have negative beliefs that are keeping you stuck there. Your beliefs determine how you look at situations and respond to them. Did you know that up to 95 ...

Created on 10 February 2017

2. Don't Take the Cake: Avoid the Return to Binge Eating

Many of you know how I used to eat whole Pepperidge Farm coconut cakes. It was my binge food of choice. The other day, I received a thoughtful question about my past binging behavior: "Our group ... is ...

Created on 09 February 2017

3. How You Can Eliminate an All-or-Nothing-Type Attitude About Weight Loss

On Sunday, I messed up with my eating. My husband, Mike, and I were driving home from church, and I was hungry. Now usually, I will put an apple or banana in my purse so that I can eat it on the way home. ...

Created on 07 February 2017

4. Securing Your Emotions in a Godly Way

The Lord dropped this word into my spirit recently: "The Word of the Lord will remain standing long after your circumstances have passed. It will be here long after you have passed from this Earth. What ...

Created on 03 February 2017

5. What God Says It Takes for You to Be Happy

Are you a happy person? Do you have pleasure, enjoyment or contentment with your life today? If you'd like to increase your happiness, this devotion explores eight Bible verses about what God says it takes ...

Created on 01 February 2017

6. How You Can Achieve Faster Fitness Results

I don't know anyone who, when attempting to lose weight and get healthy, doesn't want to get results as fast as possible. While I can't promise that you will lose 30 pounds in 30 days, I can say that if ...

Created on 31 January 2017

7. Why Spiritual Foundation Issues Can Affect Your Physical Health

Recently, our pastor preached an impactful message that relates to so much of what we are doing with Take Back Your Temple. The message was based upon Psalm 11:3: "If the foundations are broken, what can ...

Created on 26 January 2017

8. 5 Radical but Effective Depression Cures

I read a disturbing statistic in U.S. News and World Report the other day: Anti-depressant drugs are the most widely prescribed class of drugs in the U.S. now, with prescription rates almost doubling between ...

Created on 19 January 2017

9. A Prayer for Body Restoration

The word of the Lord in my heart now is "restoration." The body of Christ has lost so much because of deception. We have listened to the wrong voices for far too long. Listening to wrong voices lead to ...

Created on 17 January 2017

10. My Problem With Traditional Diets

"What do you think about Weight Watchers?" I received that same question twice via email on the very day I posted the "My Problem with Overeaters Anonymous" article. When I saw the question, I thought. ...

Created on 13 January 2017

11. This Passage From Joshua Could Turn Your Life Around Dramatically

I woke one morning with the word "fellowship" on my mind along with the following Scripture: "Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? ...

Created on 10 January 2017

12. My Problem With Overeaters Anonymous

"How you see yourself determines what you do." I don't remember where I read this quote, but it sums up a problem I have with Overeaters Anonymous (OA). Why am I writing about OA? I've received emails ...

Created on 09 January 2017

13. Where Your Weight-Loss Journey Is Won or Lost

Where is your weight-loss journey won or lost? It occurs in your ordinary, day-to-day life, the same place the battle is fought! Step 2 of the Take Back Your Temple (TBYT) program is "renew your mind," ...

Created on 03 January 2017

14. How You Can Help Defeat the Spirit of Heaviness

You must lift weight off your spirit before you can release it off your body. When I weighed 240 pounds, I felt as if I had the weight of the world on my shoulders. It was as if the mental weight I felt ...

Created on 27 December 2016

15. Confronting the Demon of Gluttony

Do you know what Sodom's sins were? You probably just thought about a particular sexual sin. While that is true, it is not the complete story. When speaking of Jerusalem's idolatry, the prophet Ezekiel ...

Created on 22 December 2016

16. One of the Best Ways to Overcome Your Emotional Storms

When I woke up one morning, a weird word was on my mind: "barometer." I didn't know what it meant, although I've seen the word used in weather reports. I felt the Spirit compelling me to look up the meaning. ...

Created on 19 December 2016

17. Rebuking the Spirit of Rejection

Until a few years ago, a spirit of rejection haunted me. Growing up, I hated my tendency to be quiet. I used to grit my teeth when people would say to my mother, "She's so quiet." Here's an example I will ...

Created on 16 December 2016

18. Breaking Through When Ministering to Someone With a Hard Heart

I attended a conference on healing and deliverance recently, and one of the things I saw is how the enemy uses a person's wounding and past hurts to persuade them to harden their hearts. Like a person ...

Created on 14 December 2016

19. Little-Known Secrets for Increasing Your Metabolism

In the past, I went to the American College of Sports Medicine conference and attended a workshop called 'The Great Burn: How to Maximize Your Metabolism.' I've got some tips to share with you. But first, ...

Created on 14 December 2016

20. Resisting the Enemy's Tempting Opportunities

Whenever you decide to do something good in life, something is always going to happen to test you on your resolve. That is the basis for Step 5 of the Take Back Your Temple process: "Expect Tests and Be ...

Created on 12 December 2016