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Hello Everyone. I am currently in Texas for a wedding. I will return home on Aug 22, 2010. I do want to bless the body of believers with something. John 15:1-19
1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
9As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
12This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
16Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17These things I command you, that ye love one another.
18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
To be honest, I have not been writing down everything I have been eating, but i have been trying to stay within my RDI. When I return on Aug 23, 2010 I will be exercising in the morning and writing down everything I put in my mouth. I bought some clothes for myself on friday Aug 13th at Lane Bryant. I shopped for this trip and for work. Reality really sit in when I had to buy size 26-28. I felt like a short round ball. Even things that fit accentuated the negative. I am meeting my husband's ex-wife for the first time and I am 160 lbs overweight. Oh, I had to get a seatbelt extension on the plan but was relieved that they did not require me to buy another seat. There's the silver lining. LOL!
God has been so good to me. The word says he chose me and ordained me to do a good work that his joy would remain and that my joy may be full. So while on this journey, i give my weightloss problem to God and go forth in the work that God has called me to. People are living in hell and then dying and going to hell right around me while I languish over my weight. The Apostle Paul had an affliction in his flesh that he asked God to take away and God said no, and he wrote more than half the Bible. I know the plans God has for me, plans to prosper and to keep me and not to harm me. And with that knowledge I go forth to honor the call on my life beginning with my own children then the children and families in the communities where I am assigned. Because only what you do for Christ will last.
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