If you truly want to transform your body, you’ll first have to transform your spirit through the Word of God. Do you want to go from faith to fit? Great! Then here are eight keys to God’s wisdom concerning supernatural weight loss and higher fitness, and these principles are guaranteed to bring victory.

Key 1: Gain Knowledge.

If we want to have success in anything in life, we must  seek knowledge about that situation. And the most important knowledge is found in the Word of God.  To gain victory in the areas of weight loss and healthy eating, I had to find out what God said about those things, and here’s what I discovered: First, God showed me that healthy eating has always been His plan, according to Genesis 1:29. “And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”

That’s our recipe for healthy eating, right there in God’s Word—fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, and after the Flood, protein—things God created for us. Of course, that doesn’t mean we’re immediately going to crave a piece of fruit over a chocolate candy bar. That’s why we have to train our senses to enjoy healthy food. Research shows if you eat healthy foods for an extended period of time, you can actually train your senses to enjoy healthy foods. I had to do this early in my understanding of this revelation.

One night as I filled my dinner plate with small portions, the Lord revealed to me that I wasn’t eating less for the right reasons. I was eating a smaller dinner so I could have a low-fat fruit bar as my 8 p.m. treat, which I looked forward to all day. After further inspection of that so-called healthy treat, I discovered it was almost pure sugar. That’s why I craved it every night, because I had trained my senses and body to desire that nightly pick-me-up.

So, the Lord challenged me to fast that snack, sow it to the spirit and eat a piece of fruit instead, which I did for 30 days straight. At the end of that month I was proud of myself for sticking to it, so I thought I’d reward myself and have one of those low-fat treats (pretty smart, huh?). I opened the wrapper and bit into the fruit bar, and I could hardly believe it. It didn’t taste good at all! It wasn’t anything like I’d remembered. In fact, it tasted like chemicals. Do you know why? Because I had trained my sense of taste to prefer healthy, unprocessed food. You can do the same!

The same principle applies to exercise. We can train our bodies to crave the high that exercise produces. Deuteronomy 30:19 says, “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life….” Begin to choose life instead of sitting on the couch and eating a bag of chips. Choose life instead of overeating and a sedentary lifestyle. Choose life, and God will help you.

Over the next few posts, we’ll talk more about the other keys of wisdom concerning supernatural weight loss and higher fitness.