Comments on: Renew, then Transform

By: Brenda Miller

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:45:50 +0000

Thank you to each one for writing in and sharing your heart on this wonderful devotional; I, too, can deeply relate and am greatly touched by Julie’s words. As I give my heart more and more to Christ and trust in His unconditional love and acceptance of me, I find that I am able to turn to Him in a deeper way for comfort, and need the comfort of food and other behaviours, such as eating, less and less. Truly, the Lord is renewing my mind, and I have never known such peace in my life. I pray for each one of you: Joanne, Linda, Betty, BC, Pam, Nancy, Rosanne, Kahu, E, and Julie that the Lord blesses you deep in your soul and gives you that special gift of being still and knowing beyond the shadow of a doubt that He is God in every aspect of your lives, so that you may turn over all to Him. May you be set free from every bondage, and may you walk free in the glorious Light of Christ’s love all the days of your life. I pray these things in Jesus’ holy and precious name. Amen.

Thank you, Julie, for such a beautiful, honest, and refreshing article. I so appreciate you!

By: E

Mon, 14 May 2012 14:31:39 +0000

This is so me…and something I personally am battling too. Thank you for reminding me how God is ever present — whether we are on the mountain or in the valley. I pray this date he will transform me and take away my desire for “comfort foods” during times of stress which are just making me more obese. I appreciate the honesty & courage of Ms. Cosgrove with this devotional.

By: kahu

kahu — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:57:14 +0000

I can relate to this article. My situation was similiar and somewhere in all this I had to change and I knew this change wasn’t going to be as easy as putting the weight on. I prayed long and hard on this and when the answer did come I had to get my mind in line first to start to accomplish this goal of weight loss. I ask the Lord to give me strength to go through this and keep me focused to take on the task. I had to take baby steps at first because I needed to resists certain cravings and sacrefice my favorite foods. I did lose about twenty pounds in about three months. that was easy. However, keeping it off and trying to balance that weight was hardest. I met a dietician that prayed with me, she told me that some people have a hard time maintaining weight loss because it is sometimes used as a need for comfort, and some are like just like food. So, I have found that in this weight loss regime for me is a life changing addiction and I have to eat healthy for the rest of my life. I’m still struggling to keep the wieght off, I still continue to pray until something happens, and I am still continuing on the task of weight loss inch by inch. this is what works for me. I pray that those who take that good look in the mirror will pray until something happens and once your mind is set to do just do it a little at a time.
thanks

By: Rosanne

Rosanne — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:14:39 +0000

I too find this timely… I am very accomplished and I have a great job that uses all that I have learned throughout all my degrees, nevertheless, there are many times where I feel like I’m a failure. There are people who make an effort to make me out a failure, but that really shouldn’t bother me. At times, though, it does. I know everything that I have accomplished is all the Lord & I praise him always for what He has given me. I just need that self-confidence in myself that I am worthy of the gifts that He has given me.

By: nancy

nancy — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:13:45 +0000

So well written. Thanks for the encouragement.

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:28:01 +0000

You know those moments in church when you feel that the pastor must know your whole life story because it feels like he’s speaking directly to you? This would be one of those moments. I have the same struggle… yet I refuse to give control over to God. With each child, more weight has stayed settled on my middle, and instead of letting God renew me, mind, spirit, and BODY, I cling to my bad eating habits for comfort instead of turning to Him. Thank you for this moment of revelation and clarity.

By: BC

BC — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:46:47 +0000

Dear Julie, Very good devotional! Thank you for opening up and sharing one of your struggles with us. Not to many people are willing to open up and share their problem areas like gluttony to others. It gets the best of many of us, but with the Holy Spirits help we can overcome whatever we are over indulging in.

I too was over weight when I was young then I went to the opposite spectrum and ended up extremely under-weight…finding a healthy balance in this area of food, healthy eating and moderate exercise is worth every effort we put into it along with God’s help so we can present our bodies to Him as healthy and unblemished as is possible.

Have I arrived yet at this healthy balance???? No! But at least I am not where I used to be and headed in the right direction with the renewal of my mind and then the body follows.

By: Betty

Betty — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:31:16 +0000

These are such good words of encouragement. I feel as if I fail at so many important things in my life – my weight, my fiances, my family. I pray – In Jesus Name – that He help me to let go of these things that I cling to so tightly and transform me, renew my mind so I can be more like You, Father.

By: Linda Mc

Linda Mc — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:06:39 +0000

wonderful reminder that God is our court and desiring us to Renew our mind. Blessings

By: Joanne

Joanne — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:03:02 +0000

Thank you Julie for such an encouraging devotional today. Made me even shed some tears. So very true that God is with us through all our hard times but turning truly to Him and renewing our minds is where we need to go.
Thanks