S: 1 Corinthians 10:13-14 (AMP) 13 For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently. 14 Therefore, my dearly beloved, shun (keep clear away from, avoid by flight if need be) any sort of idolatry (of loving or venerating anything more than God)."
O: 1)No temptation is beyond my resistance 2) BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL not to allow temptations beyond my ability to resist. 3 Therefore avoid at any cost any sort of idolatry) 4)Idolatry = venerating anything more than God.
A: I have been ruled by anxiety especially the last 2 weeks. To control this … I have used overeating to calm my mind. I have asked God for comfort, but when I haven't felt comforted fast enough, or to the degree I wanted, I have run to food. I have venerated food more than God. I have allowed food again to become my idol. Now I'm telling myself that this temptation is hopeless. I cannot be freed from it. I need to pray about this today, repenting, asking for God to change my heart, asking for wisdom and guidance, and self-control.
P: Lord, I thank you so much that you are the God of all mercies. That you are faithful. That you forgive us and cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness. Lord, I confess again that I've fallen into the gluttony trap. When anxieties multiply in me, I always fall. Sometimes this sin seems hopeless to me. Sometimes I feel it is beyond my ability to endure. But you have promised that it isn't. I ask you Lord now, to deliver me from this sin. Change my heart toward food. Help me to see you as my comforter as well as your spirit as the source of self-control. Show me Lord what I can do practically to walk out of this trap (even today). Help me to see gluttony as a form of idolatry and to take it seriously. Lord, as I spend additional time with you today, give me wisdom as to what to do: Just keep praying about it, start a new diet, fast? Lord, show me. The anxieties and uncertainties of the next few weeks are still there. Nothing has been resolved, so the temptation is just as great as before. Change me Lord. Only you can do that. I praise you that you mercies are new every morning. I need new mercies today. Amen
S: 1 Corinthians 10:13-14 (AMP) 13 For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently.
ReplyDelete14 Therefore, my dearly beloved, shun (keep clear away from, avoid by flight if need be) any sort of idolatry (of loving or venerating anything more than God)."
O: 1)No temptation is beyond my resistance 2) BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL not to allow temptations beyond my ability to resist. 3 Therefore avoid at any cost any sort of idolatry) 4)Idolatry = venerating anything more than God.
A: I have been ruled by anxiety especially the last 2 weeks. To control this … I have used overeating to calm my mind. I have asked God for comfort, but when I haven't felt comforted fast enough, or to the degree I wanted, I have run to food. I have venerated food more than God. I have allowed food again to become my idol. Now I'm telling myself that this temptation is hopeless. I cannot be freed from it. I need to pray about this today, repenting, asking for God to change my heart, asking for wisdom and guidance, and self-control.
P: Lord, I thank you so much that you are the God of all mercies. That you are faithful. That you forgive us and cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness. Lord, I confess again that I've fallen into the gluttony trap. When anxieties multiply in me, I always fall. Sometimes this sin seems hopeless to me. Sometimes I feel it is beyond my ability to endure. But you have promised that it isn't. I ask you Lord now, to deliver me from this sin. Change my heart toward food. Help me to see you as my comforter as well as your spirit as the source of self-control. Show me Lord what I can do practically to walk out of this trap (even today). Help me to see gluttony as a form of idolatry and to take it seriously. Lord, as I spend additional time with you today, give me wisdom as to what to do: Just keep praying about it, start a new diet, fast? Lord, show me. The anxieties and uncertainties of the next few weeks are still there. Nothing has been resolved, so the temptation is just as great as before. Change me Lord. Only you can do that. I praise you that you mercies are new every morning. I need new mercies today. Amen