God's Power...Not our Own...

Many people talk about willpower when it comes to losing weight...they say that is all you need...if you had it...you would not be overweight...

Now this might just be the case for people that do not have an issue with food...or that keep weight off very easily since willpower is quite easy when things are going good and easy...but what about for those people that keeping weight off is hard??? Well let me tell ya...willpower is NOT enough..since when things are hard or difficult...willpower goes down the drain...

So what do we need, you might ask...we need to look to God and his word for that answer...

John 15:5 tells us that "...for apart from me you can do nothing."

Apart from Christ our efforts are unfruitful...we just cant do it! When we try to do it alone or by the help of someone else instead of going to God...he is going to let us see for ourselves what will happen...and what will happen is that we will fail! We have to come to understand the scripture at Psalm 127:1 that says "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted..."
What that means is that unless we go to God for the help of his Holy Spirit...our efforts and time is a waste...it wont last...that is why diets DONT work! They may work for a time...but for LASTING benifits...we must have God's help and direction...only then will we have a house (body) worthy of housing the Holy Spirit of God in!

So look to God and ask him for his Holy Spirit to help keep you strong and to help guide you in the ways that will work for LASTING benifits...
Just remember the scripture at 1 John 5:15 that reads "And we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for."
So we can be confident in our prayers to God that he will listen and when we ask for anything in line with his will for us...he will answer us!