January 20 a PURPOSE for DIETING
Ephesians 4: 1 and 2 and 11 and 12..... and 13......
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,
with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,
And He Himself gave some [to be] apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
How often do I forget....
God can get a good Romans 8:28 PURPOSE out of anything that I dedicate to Him.
Even my dieting.
Dieting is a small way to honor Him... to "walk worthy of" His calling.
"Longsuffering" in dieting is assuredly nothing compared to what many have sufferedbecause they honored the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.
Teaching.......
by my example, what TEACHING can God use me to share with others? -- to
"equip" others with faith that God DOES answer prayers...
even prayers for delivery from temptations to self-centeredness.....
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Ephesians 4: 12, LORD GOD, I pray:
Use me to "edify" -- to build up -- the Body of Christ, .... Ephesians 4: 13 on:
till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ-- from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
