Battling the Enemy: Spiritual Warfare in Weight Loss
The way to secure your emotions with the truth is to order your life so that you give God space to enter in. Pray and ask Him:
“Open my spiritual eyes so that I may see what is driving me to act this way. I am weak in this area, Lord, so I need You to fill me with strength so that I can take the escape route You have created for me.”
You see, in 1 Corinthians 10:13, God give you a promise to practice for every temptation:
“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, and He will not permit you to be tempted above what you can endure, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.”
Meditate on this and be determined to submit to God in this area. Pray for all of your Christian sisters and brothers who are engaged in battle also.
You have a promise of victory:
Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you” (James 4:7).
Living the big story of life is recognizing what is at stake in this spiritual battle. Submission means “under the mission.” Your life does not belong to you. In making Jesus as your Savior, you have made Him Lord.
That means His mission is now your mission. Because God’s mission is your mission, then you resist the devil’s mission!
Your time on Earth is limited. So you don’t have time to waste days and even years indulging in things that distract from your mission. The apostle Paul exhorts us in 2 Timothy 2:1-4:
“So you, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Share the things that you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses with faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Endure hard times as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No soldier on active duty entangles himself with civilian affairs, that he may please the enlisting officer”
