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What does true hunger feel like?
I have never been a successful fast-er, although I know it is proven to be great for your health. I think it is best to look at fasting as denying myself what I want for periods of time.
For me that would be a snack and Amazon fast.
I would probably all that extra weight in a month if I chose to go without the extra bite, extra piece, little tastes and drinks.
Its the same with money. Five bucks a day for a month is $150., 10 bucks a day for month is $300, add and extra $3. and you have just rounded off the little extras a day to $540. a month (coffee, Amazon, extra's as you grocery shop, stuff that ends up in the garage collecting dust) you could easily be at $600 a month. If you were to put that amount of money in savings for 10 years at a only a 1% earning you would have $80,000., and a size lower in jeans.
Its the same with money. Five bucks a day for a month is $150., 10 bucks a day for month is $300, add and extra $3. and you have just rounded off the little extras a day to $540. a month (coffee, Amazon, extra's as you grocery shop, stuff that ends up in the garage collecting dust) you could easily be at $600 a month. If you were to put that amount of money in savings for 10 years at a only a 1% earning you would have $80,000., and a size lower in jeans.
My point isn't to give everything up. That's the kind of thinking that puts us on the diet, budget teeter totter, leaving us feeling confused and defeated.
My point is to be more aware of how often we don't think about our choices.
I won't let bad habits choose my life.
I don't want to be fighting the same battles I was 10 years ago. I won't listen to the lie that says I have changed, when I know all I have done is shift my comfort habits.
That whole tortoise and hare story is making a whole lot more sense the older I get. Moving forward in the right direction, is better than not moving at all.
My goal this week is to make choices, to snack-fast and spend-fast for longer periods of time.
I want to choose, notice, be present, and watch those little choices add up to big results over time.
That whole tortoise and hare story is making a whole lot more sense the older I get. Moving forward in the right direction, is better than not moving at all.
My goal this week is to make choices, to snack-fast and spend-fast for longer periods of time.
I want to choose, notice, be present, and watch those little choices add up to big results over time.
My ammunition verses: 2 Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself
up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
James 4:1-10 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us[b]? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”[c]
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
but shows favor to the humble.”[c]
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Hope Wirta
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