Lately, I’ve been inwardly wondering why I’ve been staying at about the same weight. It’s more of a range between 174-177 and it’s been getting me frustrated! I’ve even noticed myself saying that “I’m not losing any weight.” (**bonk to the forehead**) No wonder I haven’t been losing much weight lately!! I let it come out of my mouth. I honestly believed it and that’s what happened. There is power in the tongue and it’s extremely evident in my case.
I’ve also been wondering what needs to happen in order for me to continue to lose weight. I’m tired of seeing the 170’s and I’m ready to master the 160’s. For quite some time now, I’ve been asking myself what I need to do in order to keep making the numbers go down like they did when I was doing P90X.
Yesterday, at church, my pastor did his message on the tongue and how powerful it is. While he was preaching, I was thinking to myself, “I’ve heard this already and I’ve even taught others about it. What else could I learn today?” Well, folks, I learned a LOT!! I think it hit me the way that it did because I was looking for an answer!! This was my answer!! I hadn’t been speaking anything except negative things about my weight. I’d been talking about how I wasn’t losing any weight and that, in turn, made me lose very little or no weight! It’s a simple equation and for some reason I just didn’t “get” it until yesterday!
Here are a few scriptures about how powerful the tongue is:
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. -Proverbs 18:21
We all make many mistakes, and if any one makes no mistakes in what he says he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. If we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Look at the ships also; though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So the tongue is a little member and boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! -James 3:2-5
The way I’ve been speaking about my body is making my body go in that direction. I may be exercising and eating right but I’ve been speaking destruction into my own life and that’s what I’ve gotten. (Maybe not destruction, per se, but negative things.) It’s just the same with everything else. If you say that you are always sick, what should you expect: sickness. If you say that you are going to have a bad day, what do you think you will get: a bad day. Even though our tongue is just a tiny member of our whole body, James says that it’s like a rudder to the ship. Think about the Titantic! That was a HUGE ship! Yet, it was steered by the rudders, which are SIGNIFICANTLY smaller than the ship itself! Think about it, it makes sense and since it says so it the Bible, it would be wrong of me not to believe it.
So, as a way to make my body get back on the track that it needs to be on, I have decided that I am going to make some cards with positive things to say about myself and my entire weight loss journey. I’m going to write them out and put them on my fridge so that every time I go into the kitchen I can say what the card says. I’m going to put encouraging words and positive words in my bathroom above the scale, by my bed, and practically anywhere I can think of that I will see. I am going to SEE and SAY! And, as I say, my body will follow! I’m excited!
Who wants to join me?!
Signing Out,
It’s Possible!!
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