Day 6 Review  First Things First

When Moses climbed the mountain to be with God he entered the covenant first, then he received the Ten Commandments. Often we forget this and think that the commandments came before the covenant. People who live in covenant with God serve only Him, they revere His name, they remember to keep a day set aside for only Him, they honor their parents, they don't kill, they keep their marriage pure, they don't steal or lie, they do not envy. It is a lifestyle, not a set of rules.
In the same manner, when you enter into the covenant with God regarding your healthy eating style focus on your responsibility to God not on your rules.
A covenant with God is not like a contract between 2 people who have to live up to a bargain. Rather it is a relationship with God in which he is the sole provider. He is the giver, we are the takers. Remember His terms are not so difficult that we can't live up to them, they only require that we live in obedience. Notice the only! There is nothing to negotiate, we either accept them or we don't. Choose life or death, obedience or disobedience.

Notebook:

1. Write out your covenant with God regarding your healthy eating plan. If you can incorporate bible verses into the covenant then it will become a very powerful reminder of the Word when you review it each week.
2. How do you think a covenant will affect your eating habits?
3. How will you change?
4. What decision will you make now about your covenant relationship with God?
5. What does each of the following statements mean to you?

• Positive change is a matter of relationship.
  
• What God is asking of me is not too hard or out of reach.
  
• My weight or eating problems require a walk of obedience.
  
• God offers me, not body-altering, but life-changing choices.
  
• God is calling me to accept a new heart to be obedient.

Review

1. Goals for the week that I realized
2. Goals that were only partially realized
3. Goals I will carry over to next week
4. Goals that I will drop
5. The most important thing I learned from this week's lesson
6. I am surrendering to God:
7. I am choosing to be more obedient to God in:
8. My average calorie intake during the week was: This is above or below my recommended intake from Day 1. Therefore I need to change what?

From now on, caloric intake will not be counted unless that is the plan you are on. This week was to show you that your body usually needs more than the diet books say in order to be healthy and have enough energy to get through the day without sending your metabolism into starvation mode. It was also to point out the eating healthy does not mean starving.