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| Lean Lent Day 21; For Dieters | |
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Day 21 Scripture: James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.Application: I believe that in yesterday’s devotion I let it all hang out about being a complainer about my diet and those who never have to. This is humbling when I am known instead as an one who encourages. Yet, this is exactly what Scripture commands us to do before we (!) so that our healing might take place. I need this body healed of the abuse and neglect I have punished it with for the past four years. And it is being restored to a normal healthy temple of God, but that nevertheless doesn’t diminish one’s need to confess their sins, past or current, to one another, that we might help one another to be healed of the same things. We are told that the righteous person’s prayers are powerful and effective. If I hide my sin God will not prosper me. If we are not succeeding in our quest to lose weight, could it be that we are being less than honest in confessing our sins to one another? So many times people say, “I am following my diet perfectly”, and yet they forgot to mention the little piece of cake they had, the taste to see if the dish they cooked was perfect, the quick handful or two of chips for energy, the couple of cookie bites offered to them by their child, and the fact that they don’t use a measuring cup to measure a 4 ounce serving because surely by now they would know this by sight. When we examine ourselves, others will not have to. The results, or lack of results are plain for all to see. We might call this a case of being honest, but when we are not, God calls it sin.Prayer: Oh, Lord, I am so tempted to say, “So, I cheated a little today,” but Your Word and Your nature teach me to be truthful before You and others. I defeat my own weight loss efforts which is going against all the things I have prayed to You about in regards to helping me to lose weight. I am not only shorting myself, but blocking the answers to my prayers. Help, me Lord, to be without guile so that my prayers may be powerful and effective, in Jesus’ name. Amen My Commitment Today: |
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for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.



2:35 PM Jul 11