Study 1 Week 4 Day 6 Review

The New Approach

We started out with Isaiah 43:18-19, see I am doing a new thing, forget the past. Here are the 5 steps of this approach:
1. The goal is to please God: 2 Corinthians 5:1-10
We are not trying to please a diet guru, we are trying to please God. He doesn't care about the outside, he cares about the inside so we will be changing our attitudes.
2. Obedience: 1 Samuel 15:22
Sacrifice is empty if it is not done with obedience. Sacrificing a specific food is not good unless God has told you to do it.
3. It's not I but He who is working: Philippians 2:12-14
We are not responsible for the outcome ~ only for the obedience. He is working in me.
4. Not will power but His power: Philippians 3:20-21
Yielding and bending into His control of my life enables me to be obedient and for His plans to prosper
5. There's no hurry: Philippians 1:6
There is no deadline, God doesn't work like that. He is working on a lifetime change, not a party time change that won't last. It's not my body he's changing, it's me.

Comments on these points:
1. Which one will give you the greatest challenge and why?
2. Which one gives you the most hope?
3. How are the challenge and your hope related.
4. When you review your calorie limit andyour food choices in light of these points, how does your perspective change with regard to previous attempts at weight or overeating management?
5. Write your response to the idea of a longer, slower approach to change and weight or overeating management.

Important Bible Reading

Take out 3 translations of the Bible. Read Haggai 1:8, 2:3-9 as one reading in one version. Without reading any other version, write out your thoughts on the passage. Now do the same with each version so that you end up with 3 different comments on the passage. Then redo questions 4 and 5 in light of the Haggai Passage. Has anything in your thought processing changed? Why, why not?

6. What changes are you seeing take place in:
your attitudes?
your eating or good choices?
other aspects of your life that seem unrelated, yet are also being affected by this study?

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Weekly Evaluation

Goals for the week that I realized.

Goals that were set but only partially realized.

Goals I will carry over to next week.

Goals I will drop.

The most important thing I learned from this week's lesson?

A victory I would like to record:

I am surrendinger to God: _________

I am choosing to be more obedient to God in:___________


Congratulations you have made it a third of the way through the first Study.