SaraLee
July 5th, 2006, 04:58 PM
Hi everyone,
I joined First Place quite a number of months ago with a local group and for the first time in a long time am reading scripture and learning the word of God and I'm excited about that. But I was finding losing weight to be a slow process. I lost a few pounds and gained them back again and was feeling a bit discouraged about that and not sure why I was having such a hard time. I wondered what was missing. I knew that learning about Jesus was first and for most yet I also wanted to see changes in my weight as well.
Then, several weeks ago our trusted facilitator decided to share the responsibility of facilitating each week and we will now be taking turns going over the chapters. This week is my turn and I have to say that having this responsibility has greatly helped me to look deeply into the readings and the Bible. As I studied the information and read my Bible during the week I found out how much of a slacker I had been the previous weeks/months. Yes I had been reading the chapters and yes I read the scriptures and wrote down my answers and attempted to follow the 9 commitments as best I could but knowing I was going to facilitate this week and taking this opportunity to heart, I saw just how much I was missing by breezing through the weekly study with only half a heart. I am so very grateful to see how much I missed before hand and it has spurred me on to take each verse, each paragraph and really delve into them so the message becomes imprinted into the heart. I encourage everyone to read the material and read the scriptures with much enthusiasm and allow it to sink deeply in the heart each and every day. It has become a prayerful event for me to open my Bible and mediate and give thought to what God is saying to me. I will not take God's word or the First Place studies for granted anymore. And with that I also am sure I will see my life change for the better in all areas.
SaraLee
:)
I joined First Place quite a number of months ago with a local group and for the first time in a long time am reading scripture and learning the word of God and I'm excited about that. But I was finding losing weight to be a slow process. I lost a few pounds and gained them back again and was feeling a bit discouraged about that and not sure why I was having such a hard time. I wondered what was missing. I knew that learning about Jesus was first and for most yet I also wanted to see changes in my weight as well.
Then, several weeks ago our trusted facilitator decided to share the responsibility of facilitating each week and we will now be taking turns going over the chapters. This week is my turn and I have to say that having this responsibility has greatly helped me to look deeply into the readings and the Bible. As I studied the information and read my Bible during the week I found out how much of a slacker I had been the previous weeks/months. Yes I had been reading the chapters and yes I read the scriptures and wrote down my answers and attempted to follow the 9 commitments as best I could but knowing I was going to facilitate this week and taking this opportunity to heart, I saw just how much I was missing by breezing through the weekly study with only half a heart. I am so very grateful to see how much I missed before hand and it has spurred me on to take each verse, each paragraph and really delve into them so the message becomes imprinted into the heart. I encourage everyone to read the material and read the scriptures with much enthusiasm and allow it to sink deeply in the heart each and every day. It has become a prayerful event for me to open my Bible and mediate and give thought to what God is saying to me. I will not take God's word or the First Place studies for granted anymore. And with that I also am sure I will see my life change for the better in all areas.
SaraLee
:)