When I started the TTTT Series I made a list of the lies I used to tell myself with notes about the truth that I needed to hear. I’ve been posting one lie a week for the last FOUR MONTHS and I have finally finished the list. (Plus one post from a guest contributor, “Too Old to Change.”)
17 BIG LIES! I’m still shocked by how long the list
was. It’s proof of how hard I was
working to re-create my reality.
I tried to keep the posts short, direct, and practical
because that’s the nature of the truth.
In a few of the posts, I included relevant scriptures. I will probably circle back to a few writings
and elaborate more and/or offer more scriptural support, but I won’t be posting
weekly anymore.
For now, I wanted to share this list of scriptures and make
it available because I believe in the power of God’s Word! For those of you who want to make a change
but are struggling, I believe this list can give you the encouragement and
reinforcement that you need to take another step in the right direction.
The scriptures are organized into 7 categories relevant to
your health journey
1.
Temple + Self-Care
2.
Discipline + Endurance
3.
Addiction
4.
Truth vs. Lies
5.
Fasting
6.
Trusting God
7.
Generational Curses
As always, please let me know if there is anything that I
can do to encourage you in pursuit of your health!
Link to a PDF of the scriptures
Scriptural Support for Pursuing
Health
Body is a Temple + Self-Care
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 16 Do you not
know that you[c] are God's temple and
that God's Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone
destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and
you are that temple.
1 Corinthians 6: 19-20 19 Or do
you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you
have from God? You are not your own, 20 for
you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Romans 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers,[a] by the mercies of
God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and
acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.[b]
Jeremiah 30:17a
For I will restore health to you,
and your wounds I will heal,
declares the Lord,
Discipline + Endurance
Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great
a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which
clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that
is set before us,
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners
run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain
it. 25 Every athlete exercises self-control in
all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an
imperishable. 26 So I do not run aimlessly;
I do not box as one beating the air. 27 But
I discipline my body and keep it under control,[b] lest after preaching
to others I myself should be disqualified.
The story of Daniel (specifically chapters 1 and 6)- The book highlights Daniel’s discipline in
his diet and his prayer life. For both
he enters very extreme circumstances (life or death) and he chooses to be
disciplined and maintain his to commitment to living according to God’s
Word. And in both God rewards Daniel’s
discipline and faithfulness.
Philippians 3:13b-14 But one thing I do: forgetting
what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I
press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in
Christ Jesus.
Addiction
1 Corinthians 6:12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not
all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be
dominated by anything.
Galatians 5:1 For freedom Christ has set us
free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke
of slavery.
2 Corinthians 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare
are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy
strongholds.
2 Timothy 1:7 for God gave us a
spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Truth vs. Lies
2 Corinthians 10:5 We destroy arguments and every lofty
opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive
to obey Christ, (10:4
on addiction list)
Psalm 119:160
The sum of your word is truth,
and every one of your righteous rules endures
forever.
John 8:44b He was a murderer from the beginning,
and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in
him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar
and the father of lies.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way,
and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through me.
Romans 16:18 For such persons do not
serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites,[f] and by smooth
talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
Fasting
Exodus 16:12 “I have heard the
grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat
meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall
know that I am the Lord your God.’”
“Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed[b] go free,
and to break every yoke?
Countless Old Testament examples of fasting in conjunction
with an appeal to God.
Old Testament corporate fasts.
Matthew 6:16-18 gives specific directions for fasting. Not IF you fast, but WHEN you
fast.
Trusting God
Ephesians 3:20 20 Now to him who
is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according
to the power at work within us,
Isaiah 55:8-9
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares
the Lord, plans for welfare[b] and not for
evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Generational Curses
Story of King Josiah- Josiah’s father and grandfather were
both recorded as wicked kings, but Josiah brings reform to the entire nation of
Israel. What gave him the motivation
that he needed to change his family tree and an entire nation? A recovered copy
of scripture. That’s the power of God’s
Word! Read you Bible! 2 Kings 22 Link to a GotQuestions.org article on King Josiah
2 Timothy 3:16-17 16 All Scripture is
breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction,
and for training in righteousness, 17 that the
man of God[b] may be
complete, equipped for every good work.
Romans 5:18-21 18 Therefore, as one
trespass[f] led to condemnation
for all men, so one act of righteousness[g] leads to justification
and life for all men. 19 For as by the one
man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one
man's obedience the many will be made righteous. 20 Now the
law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace
abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin
reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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